Chapter 10

Caitlyn POV

Before I walked in the view of everyone I got to see the crowd. There were so many people I couldn't even see the faces of the one's in the back. For some reason when I saw the crowd I didn't get nervous I just got really pumped up. It was still light outside so I didn't have a lot of colorful lights on me but I did have a spotlight. I smiled big and I ran out on the stage waving.

"Hello San Francisco! How are you doing tonight?" I said. The crowd screamed really loud. "I am Caitlyn Lake and this is Connect Three's Feeling Alive tour opening night!" The crowd went wild again. A lot of the people were holding posters about CT and Mitchie a couple said my name but not many. "I hope you are all doing well because we are going to have an awesome opening night. What do you say?" They all screamed again. Most of them were taking pictures. "Why don't I get our dancer's out here and we can get this party started!" I said. They crowd yelled and clapped. J-Man and KD walked out on stage and so did the backup singers. They went to their places and the music started. We started dancing to it and then we started singing. I looked out to the crowd and a lot of the people were up dancing. When I got the part when I said "Hey everybody on your feet" I stopped dancing and I point at the crowd and yelled "Come on!" I continued singing and dancing until I got the last verse. On the last verse I walked down the runway and touched the people's hands that were on the stage. They were all taking pictures. When the song ended everyone cheered.

"Now that was pretty good but I saw some people sitting down, come on! Wake up!" I said smiling. I looked over at J-Man and he nodded. "Hey J-Man, I know how we can get these people woken up."

"How do we do that, Caitlyn?" J-Man asked as if he didn't know.

"Well, first I need some volunteers from the audience." When I said this both of us looked out to the crowd, at the same time, and the crowd screamed. I looked out into the crowd and all the front people were jumping up and down. I pointed to one girl who had red hair and a cute black and white dress on. J-Man picked a guy. Both the people ran around backstage and appeared on stage. I went over to the girl first, "Hi, I'm Caitlyn what's your name?" She answered with

"Heidi." I went over to the guy and did the same and his name was Justin.

"Okay now I want you guys to help us out here. Have you guys heard the song It's On?" They both nodded yes. "Okay well we need you to help us out with the song. We need both of you and all of you out in the audience to play air guitar!" They smiled. "Now here's what you do." I put my hands up as if I were playing the guitar.

"Okay, hold your hands like this and pretend to strum it." They both started doing it. "Now when I say go your going to move the guitar as if you were pointing and its going to go left, right, left right, left, right left, right, up, down, up down, up, down, up, down, freestyle. And then you just repeat it. You guys ready to try?" I ask the audience. They cheered. "Hey Kyle give us a beat!" I said to the drummer. The beat started and I said, "5, 6, 7, 8" and we started doing it. They were getting into it. "Come on, ladies whip your hair, you have it for a reason." We did it for a little bit and Kyle stopped. "Thank you so much Heidi and Justin. I want you guys to stick around; we have a surprise for you." I said smiling and two security people escorted them off stage. "Now in just a little bit you are going to here the wonderful, Mitchie Torres!" They all screamed. "But before that, we put together a little show of Mitchie and Shane's movie. Enjoy!" I said running off stage. The behind the scenes footage and interviews came on from "Little Sister" When I got off stage someone handed me a bottle of water and took my microphone. I walked down the steps, back towards the dressing rooms and knocked on Mitchie's door. She opened it and said,

"Cat! You were amazing!" and then she gave me a hug.

"Aw thanks, but how did you know?" I asked. She pulled me inside and there was a TV with the concert stage on it. "That's so cool. But I actually have to go rest and eat. Good luck!" I said giving her a hug and leaving.

Mitchie POV

After Cat left I got really nervous. I had never performed for more than 200 people and now they're going to be 14,000-18,000 people. I looked at the clock and I still had about 10 minutes before I went on. I walk out of my dressing room and went to Shane's room. He opened the door.

"Mitch, you ready to be awesome?"

"Well, I'm really nervous." I said being honest.

"Mitchie your going to do great." He said smiling and pulling me into a hug. He kept me in the hug and said, "Whatever happens, just have fun and know I'm always here for you, okay?" I smiled and said,

"Thanks, it really means a lot." He kept his arms around me and the intercom system came on and said,

"Mitchie Torres and backup singers to the stage." I smiled and Shane I gave him a quick kiss and followed Henry through the hallways to the stage. When I got to the stage I caught a glimpse of the people. There were so many people, I got incredibly nervous. It had gotten darker so I would have light on me. The video that was on went off and I was ready to go on. I got up on the platform the moves out onto the stage, through the screen. I stood there waiting for the music for "Get Back" to start and tried to calm myself down. The music started and my head shot up. The screen split apart and the platform started moving forward. I started to sing the words and I saw the crowd. All I could hear was screams and everyone was jumping up and down. When the platform got to the point it stopped moving, I stepped off and started running around the stage.

"I wanna get back to the old days, when the phone would ring, and I knew it was you!" I walked down the runway and touched the people hands that were on the stage. I walked back up the stage and to my backup singers and sang with them. When the song ended I was in the middle of the stage. The crowd went wild.

"Thank you! How's everyone doing tonight?" I asked the crowd. They all screamed. "I hope you guys are having an awesome time because so far I am too. I just wanted to say this is my first concert, ever!" When I said this the whole room screamed. "Im going to take it a little slower for the next two songs," I said, one of the stage managers, who I think his name is Mark, brought my guitar out and handed to me, "Thank you, if you guys know the words, sing along." I said smiling. The music started for "Don't Forget" and after that was over it went right into "Catch Me." When I finished everyone cheered and I handed my guitar off stage. I had a water bottle on stage and I took a drink of it.

"Before I do my next song, let me see some of these signs you made." Everyone who had a sign that said Mitchie held it up. "These are some pretty awesome signs." I looked at more of them and one of them said "Mitchie I have a Muffin!" "I found my favorite, Muffin!" I said pointing to that sign. "How about I sing one of my personal favorites, Trainwreck?" everyone cheered. The music started and I sang. When the song was over everyone cheered. "I will be back shortly but until then watch some behind the scenes at our dance rehearsals." I said running off stage. I had about 3 minutes until the video was over and Cat and I would sing "Can't back down" I ran to my dressing room and changed clothes and Crystal was there trying to fix my hair quickly. After about 2 minutes I ran back up to stage and Cat and all the dancers were already there.

"Ready?" Mark said to us. We all nodded and ran out onto stage. The crowd screamed again and I said,

"Hello again! Now I don't know how many you know this but Caitlyn and I have been in dance rehearsals for this song and another one for 3 weeks before this. So you better like it!" I said laughing. The music started and we did "Can't Back Down." After it was over Cat said,

"Are you ready for Connect Three?" The crowd cheered louder than before. "Then give it up for Shane, Nate, and Shane Gray!" She said running off stage. The light went off and the music for "Feeling Alive" went on. Cat and I ran backstage and squealed.

"That was so much fun!" We both said. Then we both went into our dressing rooms to change for "It's On."