Shane's Prov
"Did you see Brown's face?" Mitchie giggled as she hit on the lights for our night class.
We were still elevated at the fact our plan worked, both of us had heard the quiet whispers both in class and after it, that were discussing that maybe that first performance was a one time thing maybe we forgot who we were performing with so it was good but now we were aware of our partner and our music couldn't over come the hatred.
"Yeah, I bet he's regretting what he said to Dee yesterday." I smiled as I fell into Brown's leather seat and set my feet up on his desk.
"What did he say to her?" She asked popping herself up on the desk beside my feet.
"He was saying he sensed there was something between us." I smiled.
"If he only knew how right he is." She smiled resting her hand on my leg.
I rolled the seat closer to her before I took her hand and pulled her onto my lap. She sighed happily as she rested her head on my shoulder.
"I missed performing properly with you today." She said out of the blue. "It didn't feel right."
Something in her words brought back another thing Brown had said.
"Brown said something else yesterday." I said quickly in case I forgot.
She sat up so she could look at me, "What else did he say?"
"He was saying that if either of us performed that good solo that they would probably have been able to pick a winner out of us." I smiled crookedly; remembering that we used to be rivals was funny to me now when we were like this.
"So, you're like the missing piece of me." She giggled.
"Oh, I like that." I spoke my thoughts out loud as I got my phone out to write down the line, it would go well in the song I'd started the night Mitchie and I got together.
"Why are you writing that down?" She asked confusedly.
I instantly regretted speaking my thoughts, my song was supposed to be a surprise for her. "No reason." But even I heard the "I'm hiding something" tone in my voice.
"Don't give me that." She laughed sliding off my lap to stand in front of me so she was staring right into my eyes. "Tell me."
"I just liked it that's all." I tried to lie better this time.
"Please, tell me." She pleaded, her bottom lip jutting out in the cutest way.
I closed my eyes and shook my head, "It's a surprise."
"Go on tell me, please, please, please." She pleaded before trailing kisses across my jaw line in an attempt to break me.
"Nope." I said getting up to move away from her.
"Come on; just give me a little hint." She asked seductively, following me.
"No." I tried to say strongly but I felt my male hormones begin to chip at my will power.
"Just an itsy bitsy clue." She asked cutely jutting out her bottom lip and making her eyes slightly wider, to make them look full of innocence as she cornered me.
"Mitchie." I whined.
"I promise I won't tell anyone else." She smiled –sensing my weakness- as she pressed herself up against me.
"Fine." I sighed given into her and letting my arms wrap around her waist. "It's…"
Mitchie's Prov
Knock! Knock!
The knocks and the sound of the door handle being pushed down made us jump a part immediately.
"Hey." Caitlyn smiled brightly as she let herself, Ella and Shane's two friends in.
"Hi." I tried to say casually as I could, hoping the guilt didn't show on my face.
"What are you guys doing here?" Shane asked more composed than I was.
"Ella and I came down to ask you guys what the deal was with your performance this afternoon." Caitlyn answered.
I opened my mouth to tell her we had this conversation earlier but she held up her finger to interrupt me.
"I know we had this conversation Mitch but we heard those things people were saying about your first performance."
Oh crap, they knew we were performing badly on purpose…why did I have to have smart friends?
"And we feel left out." Ella finished.
"So could you guys perform again for us please and try to forget you's hate each other." Caitlyn pleaded.
"We actually weren't here for that, we were just making sure these two weren't trying to follow you's about but seeing you guys perform more enthusiastically than this afternoon sounds good." Nate commented.
"Guys, if we perform for you's now I doubt you will see much improvement from this afternoon…not while I'm partnered with her." Shane answered arrogantly.
"Unless Shane -by some miracle- has gotten some talent in the past couple of hours." I answered his arrogance with my own.
It was hard not to smile and give our act away.
"Please, Mitchie just try…for us." On Caitlyn's last word both she and Ella wore matching puppy dog expressions, enough to break anybody's heart. I swore Nate and Jason were looking for some way to consol them, if they only knew how many times they've pulled those faces before to get their own way.
"C'mon Shane." Jason smiled encouragingly.
I felt myself caving under their pleading looks, I hoped Shane wasn't caving just as easy I wasn't sure if I was able to perform badly twice in one day.
"We'll stop annoying you both if you's sing a little for us now." Nate offered.
I began shaking my head.
"Michelle Torres, we're your best friends." Caitlyn said frustratedly.
The volume in her voice was a big contrast to the puppy pout she was wearing, making Jason and Nate look at her in surprise.
"Fine." I finally crumpled.
I saw Shane shoot me a look from the corner of my eye, one that read "are you insane?" I'd apologise later for this.
Shane's Prov
"Yay." Caitlyn and Ella smiled excitedly.
"I've got my laptop right here." Caitlyn smiled swinging her bag off her shoulder and given it to Mitchie.
"Thanks, Caity." Mitchie seemed to say through her teeth as she took the bag over to Brown's desk to set up. If Caitlyn noticed she didn't seem to mind as she smiled brightly before dragging Ella down to some seats near them.
"Shane, would you like to help?" Mitchie asked from behind Caitlyn's laptop.
I rolled my eyes for show before I joined her.
She was bent over the keyboard so her head was hiding behind the screen and when I got to her side she reached for the bottom of my shirt and dragged me down too.
"What are we gonna do?" She whispered.
"I dunno this was your idea. You should have said "no"."
"Did you see the faces and hear the tone; there was no-way we were getting out of this." She hissed, her nervousness shining through clearly.
"O.k. breathe, Mitch." I smiled given her hand a quick reassuring squeeze.
"Are you guys ready yet?" Caitlyn asked impatiently.
"I'll never be ready." Mitchie moaned silently.
"Still looking for a song, you've loads here Caitlyn." I spoke over Mitchie so no-one heard her. Caitlyn seemed in shock and sort of annoyed I was addressing her personally but I couldn't spend time worrying about that now. "This is what we do." I spoke quietly into Mitchie's ear. "We pick a song, and sing a little more enthusiastically."
She looked at me confusedly, "Enthusiastically?"
"We look at each other every now and again, sing over each other a little less than this afternoon and shuffle a little…if necessary."
Mitchie's Prov
I nodded once before taking some deep breathes to calm myself, it wasn't right throwing all the pressure on him while I was busy freaking out.
"Let's just do this one." He sighed. "The sooner we start the sooner we finish."
I felt myself smile and nod in agreement at his choice it was a simple duet and wouldn't require any big production, before I hit play.
I know this isn't what I wanted
I never thought it'd come this far
Just thinking back to where we started
and how we lost all that we are
We were young and times were easy
But I could see it's not the same
I'm standing here but you don't see me
I'd give it all for that to change
And I don't want to lose her
I don't wanna let her go
Standing out in the rain
Need to know if it's over
'cause I will leave you alone
Flooded with all this pain,
Knowing that I'll never hold her,
Like I did before the storm
Before the Storm
With every strike of lightning
Comes a memory that lasts
Not a word is left unspoken,
as the thunder starts to crash
Maybe I should give up
I'm standing out in the rain,
I need to know if it's over,
cause I will leave you alone.
Flooded with all this pain,
Knowing that I'll never hold her,
Like I did before the storm
Trying to keep the light from going in
And the clouds from ripping out my broken heart.
We always say a heart is not whole without the one,
who gets you through the storm.
Standing out in the rain, knowing that it's really over
Please don't leave me alone, flooded with all this pain,
knowing that I'll never hold you, like I did before the storm
Yeah
Like I did before the storm
Our friends applauded as we finished looking at each other, both wearing lop-sided smiles.
"So?" I asked, breaking eye contact first and turning to my friends.
"That was good." Caitlyn smiled. "You's should sing over each other a little less, we know you's hate each other and all but come on it's our last year and I know you's want to win Final Jam." She added giggling.
"Yeah, we heard there was dancing in your first performance so I wanna see that at Final Jam too." Ella smiled.
"What? Shane danced?" Nate exploded as he and Jason went into a fit of laughter.
Shane tactfully ignored the question as he ushered his friends out, "You's got your show now, leave us alone to practice." He insisted
"Sure, but when you get back to the cabin you'll have to show us some of your moves." Jason teased as he moon walked out the door with Nate laughing behind him.
"Don't hurt him." Caitlyn whispered as she tucked her laptop under her arm and put her bag over her shoulder before following Ella to the door.
I threw them both a smile and waved before they shut the door behind them.
"I want to tell them." I exploded turning to face Shane when I heard their voices fade into the night.
"Tell them what?" Shane asked confusedly.
I rolled my eyes at him, "That Santa isn't real, what do you think? I want to tell them about us."
He smiled crookedly, "I'm ready whenever you are."
"We should ease them into it first."
"How do you mean?" He asked confusedly.
"Well, we'll stop with the "we hate each other" act, start talking around camp, then hang out a couple of times."
"Oh, well I can do that." He smiled suggestively wrapping his arms around my waist so he could kiss me.
"I meant all of us could hang out." I clarified. "Then when they're happy enough about our new found friendship we can tell them."
"And how long do you think all that will take?" He asked, a smile playing around the edge of his lips.
"A while, I mean did you see the look Caitlyn gave you when you talked to her earlier." I laughed. "Is that o.k.?" I asked suddenly in case he wanted to do it sooner.
"That's fine." He smiled. "I'm quite fond of having you to myself." He smiled suggestively making me giggle before he pulled me closer to him…