Holidays

Mitchie's Point of View

The next six weeks passed surprisingly fast. Before I knew it, I was at the airport waiting for Shane's flight to get in. The press was asking the three of us nonstop questions.

"Is it true that you're cheating on Shane?" someone asked me.

"What? No, of course not," I laughed.

"That's a relief," a familiar voice said behind me. I felt Shane's warm, strong arms wrap around my waist. "I missed you," he whispered into my hair. I turned so that I was facing him. He closed the distance between our faces. This kiss only lasted a second but that was all I needed. He pulled back, smiling.

"You got some sleep," I noticed, tracing the almost invisible shadows under his eyes. "And ate," I said, noticing he wasn't thin to the extreme any more. Shane laughed.

"Nate threatened to force feed me," he joked. When I laughed, he replied, "No, seriously."

"The first day I almost had to," Nate said from behind me. I'd been too busy with Shane to notice that Nate and Jason and joined Meghan and Kandi.

"Come on, let's get to the apartment," Shane sighed.

I couldn't stay for long because I had mountains of work for school. We all agreed to go to my house for Christmas.

When Christmas arrived, Meghan and Kandi came to my house to help set up.

"So that boy's coming over, is he?" Dad grumbled for the millionth time.

"Yes, Dad, Shane's going to be here any minute now," I sighed. As if on cue, the doorbell rang. I rushed to open it.

"Merry Christmas," Shane said as he stepped in. Nate and Jason followed him in.

"Merry Christmas to you too," I said and leaned in for a kiss. Before I could touch his lips, Dad cleared his throat behind us.

"Your mom would like your help in the kitchen, Mitchie," he said, never taking his glaring eyes off of Shane, who smiled sheepishly.

"Come on, Shane. I'm sure Mom wouldn't mind your help too." Shane followed me into the kitchen where Mom was busy cleaning up.

"Oh, hello you two. Could you finish cleaning up?" she asked. We nodded and got to work. We finished as Mom finished setting the table and called for dinner.

After dinner, we opened the gifts the boys brought us while Mom and Dad went to clean up the dishes. Nate got Meghan a pair of earrings and Jason got Kandi a charm bracelet. Now it was my turn. Dad walked in as Shane pulled a small package from his pocket. He glared and I knew that if Shane was silly enough to get a ring, Dad would skin him alive. I opened the small package and pulled out a jewelry box. Inside the box was the most beautiful diamond necklace that I'd ever seen. It was a small golden chain with a small diamond heart on the end.

"It's just something I saw in a store window when we were in New York," Shane said, taking the necklace from my hands and hooked it around my neck. I touched the heart lightly. He stroked my hair.

"I guess we should be going," Nate said an hour later. The boys got up to leave and promised to take the three of us out for dinner tomorrow night.

"We should be heading home too," Meghan said after the boys had left. "See you tomorrow."

"I don't like that boy," Dad said after everyone was out of earshot.

"What?" I asked.

"He's two years older than you," he complained. I rolled my eyes at him and went up to my room.

The next day I arrived at the apartment around 5:00.

"Hey," Shane said as I walked in the door. "Nice necklace," he teased.

"Thanks, my boyfriend gave it to me," I teased back.

Just then the doorbell rang. I looked around and saw that Meghan and Kandi were already here. Nate walked to open the door.

"Um, Shane, I think you should get that," he said after looking in the peep hole.

"Why?" Shane asked as he got up to answer the door. He froze as soon as he opened the door.

Shane's Point of View

He couldn't be here; we stopped talking to each other almost six years ago.

"Get out," I hissed and started to close the door. He stuck his foot in the way and forced the door open.

"That's Joey, the one Lindsey cheated on Shane with," I heard Nate whisper to Mitchie. Joey glanced at him.

"That was six years ago," he said.

"5 years, 10 months, and 13 days," I corrected. Everyone looked at me surprised and Mitchie looked a little hurt.

"Still, that was a long time ago," Joey said, breaking the silence.

"So have you come back here to steal another girlfriend from me," I growled.

"She kissed me, not the other way around," he yelled.

"Yeah, right," I said, fighting to remain calm. "I saw you two and you looked like you were enjoying yourself. Why don't you go back to Lindsey, or did she break up with you?"

"She did break up with me and I thought that you would for give me but I guess I was wrong," he said as he stomped out of the door.

"Damn right," I called after him. "I'll explain everything later," I muttered, knowing that Mitchie would be confused "But right now I just need to be alone," I said and headed up to my room. I just wish that my past would stop coming to haunt me.

I forgot to say this last chapter but JSS is now 2 chapters longer than TBH and there's still a lot more to go. Here are the suggestions that Alex (the first person to ever send me suggestions a few chapters ago) sent me;

you
found me by the fray, your guardian angel by the red jumpsuit apparatus, i
will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie, the last night by
skillet, you're not alone by saosin, the reason by hoobastank, and how to save
a life by the fray

the funny thing is that i listen to how to save a life by the fray alomst daily and i never thought of adding it and then when Alex suggested it i realize that it makes perfect sense.

this chapter would have been up sooner but i was in the middle of putting it up when my mom called me down to watch made of honor (it's an okay movie but i don't like it that much) with her and my sister.