Chapter 13

That night Shane came over to my house at like 8 after we were done filming and ate dinner. There were two reasons that he was coming over, 1. We were trying to convince my mom to let me go into school late and 2. We were going to tell my mom we were going out. My mom made us meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans. When we got home my mom brought us inside and had us sit down at our table. It was just Shane, my mom, and I because Annie and Ashley had gone back to college. We prayed then started to eat.

"Mom, Shane and I have something to tell you and something to ask you." I said.

"Oh goodness. Just tell me first." She said.

"Well," Shane said "I asked Mitchie to go out with me and she said yes." He said taking my hand.

"Aw! My little baby is growing up!" My mom said getting up to hug me.

"Mom!" I said getting embarrassed.

"Sorry, I'm just so happy because I knew you two would end up together." She said

"Wait so you're not mad?" Shane asked

"Heavens no! Shane, you're like the son I never had." My mom said

"Well now that we have that settled, I was wondering if I could go into school late to introduce Shane to our principle." I said trying to sound innocent.

"You want to do what?" She asked me getting serious again.

"Well, Mrs. Torres, Mitchie thought a good way to get the word out about our movie would be to have a school assembly and introduce me to her school. But the only problem is, is that her principle doesn't believe her, so the only way to make that happen is to bring me to school." He explained.

"Well why do you need to go in late?" My mom asked.

"Mom, think about it, 500 and something girls coming into school then seeing Shane Gray? Not the best idea." I said.

"Ok, fine. But just this once." Mom said.

"Yay!" I said. After we finished dinner it was about 9o'clock. We we're watching American Idol. Miley Cyrus was the mentor and she was pitiful. While we were watching it Shane pulled out his video camera and pressed record. I didn't mention this but him and I have been filming parts of our experience together, for example he taped us hanging out with Connect 3, some of me acting, and us just chilling. He said he was going to put together a video for the pep rally. Anyway he pressed record and we talked about what we were doing the next day and our plan.

It came time for Shane to leave and I walked him out onto the front porch. We were just talking and then he said he had to go. He pulled out his video camera and kissed me goodnight and took a picture of our kiss.

"Goodnight." I said. He walked out to the car where Henry was and then drove off.

The next morning I was laying in bed so tired because I was up way to late on facebook. I heard someone come in my room and tap me to get up so I said

"Mom, five more minutes." And turned over.

"That's a little hard considering I'm not your mom." I heard Shane say. I suddenly felt wide awake and sat up when he sat down on my bed.

"What are you doing here and what time is it?" I asked him

"Your mom didn't have time to wake you up so she asked me to and it's about 7:30." He said.

"Oh," I realized what I was wearing and how my hair looked and I was completely embarrassed.

"Mitchie, trust me, you don't look bad. In fact.." He said pulling out his video camera, "Hello it's Shane once again here with Mitchie! Good Morning Mitchie how are you?" He asked me. I got annoyed and when he tilted the camera towards me I said

"Shane!" and pushed it away.

"Come on Mitchie you look great." He said tilting the camera back towards me.

"Fine. I'm fine, how are you Shane?" I asked him. We continued to have mini-talk show but then I had to get ready. We said good bye then I went and got my uniform on and we went outside to where Henry was waiting.

We arrived to school around 9:15 right in the middle of bell 2. It was perfect timing because it was still in the morning and everyone was too tired to come to the office. When Henry opened the door for me I got out and Shane walked around to where I was standing. His hood was up and he had sunglasses on. He took my hood and put it up for me.

"Why did you do that?" I asked him.

"Because if people see you with a mystery guy they will figure it out." He said. Henry locked the door and walked in with us. Shane was on my left holding my hand and me walking very close to him and Henry was on my right. The secretary let us in and we walked down the hall to the principal's office.

I knocked on the door and he told us to come in. The three of us slipped in and Henry stood in the back and Shane and I sat down in the two seats set for us. I took down my hood and so did Shane. Mr. Feeney looked shocked to see Shane. He stood up and shook his hand.

"Mitchie, I am so sorry I didn't believe you." Mr. Feeney said.

"It's ok." I said.

"We need your help." Shane said

"With what?"

"Well, Mitchie and I have been filming a movie lately and we wanted to get the word out through a pep rally here. What do you say?"

"I think that's a great idea. Don't you two worry, I will have it all put together and ready to go." He said. "Oh and Mitchie don't worry about going to class, I won't mark you as absent."

"Thanks." I said.

We planned the details of the pep rally the rest of our time together and everything was set. I would tell you all about it, but it's a surprise.