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And I'm sorry this has taken so long to get out - the reason why is at the bottom :P

But heres chapter... 20!!!! =]

I wanted it to be good, so I re-wrote it a lot, and I hope you guys like it :)

Chapter 20

"I hate you."

Shane narrowed his eyes at Mitchie; "no you don't Mitch, you crave me!" He replied smugly shaking his head.

Mitchie blushed, "no I hate you and your stupid idea!" She groaned listening to Mr Geller yell angrily at Caitlyn from the study opposite where she was sitting with Nate and Shane.

"My idea wasn't so stupid this morning," he pointed out rolling his eyes. "Yeah well its stupid now! At least we had her back home, how the hell are we going get her back with him in the way?!"

Silence followed her remark, all three of them dim as they listened to Mr Geller's harsh voice, penetrating through the walls.

"... You still crave me," Shane muttered breaking the silence and folding his arms across his chest. "I do not!" She protested pushing him further away from her as if to prove her point.

"Yes you do! Only last night you asked me to leave my jumper so you could sleep with it cos it has my smell, you said you wanted to feel like I was sleeping with..."

"GUYS!" Nate cut in, grinding his teeth together angrily, "can you just shut up so I can hear what he's saying!"

Mitchie looked at Nate sympathetically, she knew him and Caitlyn had grown extremely close since she'd been staying with Mitchie. Something she never got round to asking Caitlyn about she thought suddenly.

"I need to visit the little girls room," she whispered subtly telling them she 'needed to pee' after a few minutes silence. Shane rolled his eyes and laughed softly, grasping her hand he turned to Nate, "come on, Nate will you be alright for a minute?" Shane asked standing up from his seat on the floor.

Nate barely noticed and nodded, murmuring something incoherent. Shrugging, Shane pulled on Mitchie's hand, "come on, let's go find 'the little girls' room," he winked at her causing her to blush slightly.

Mitchie squeezed Shane's hand letting him know she was about to talk. He turned his focus away from the expensive artifacts decorating the halls, back to Mitchie who had her head bent slightly down, her hair falling in her face.

"You okay?" he asked quickly before she had a chance to speak. Smiling as she heard the concern in his voice she looked back up at him, "I don't think this is going well Shane," she bit her lip resting her head briefly on his arm as they walked.

Shane sighed taking his hand out of her grasp and put his arm around her shoulder, pulling her closer. "I don't know, maybe talking will help," he shrugged not knowing what to say.

"They've been in there 2 hours, I think talking is actually making it worse.... where are we?" both of them paused and looked up and down the narrow hallway they found themselves standing in.

Shane looked back down at Mitchie puzzled, "uhh... Narnia?" he smirked turning to the nearest door and began to twist the handle when Mitchie put her hand over his, stopping him.

"You can't do that!" she hissed pulling the door closed as he began to open it. "Sure I can, I'm Shane Gray," he grinned kissing her quickly in attempts to distract her but failed miserably.

Mitchie pulled away and pulled his arm away from the door and back down the corridor, hoping she was going in the right direction.

"Can you believe Caitlyn lives in a castle?!" Mitchie muttered beginning to get extremely frustrated, "I can't believe she didn't tell me!" She said shaking her head then her eyes lit up, "urgh finally!" she sighed seeing the washroom was open and free to use.

When she emerged minutes later, Shane was leaning on the opposite wall surveying her critically. "What's wrong Mitch?" he asked in that 'I know somethings up so you better tell me' tone of his.

Mitchie shook her head, blinking back tears as she thought of this morning. "Nothing," she lied and began to walk away.

"Okay."

Hearing him give in so quickly she frowned, either he was playing mind games, or he just didn't care enough to pursue, and what scared her was she didn't know which one it was.

"Shane?"

"Yeah Mitch?" her stomach flipped as she felt his hand go round her waist and squeeze her side. "I think we should say something to Mr Geller," she stated but the option was out of there hands for as they rounded the corner they could hear Nate expressing himself in an extremely loud voice.

"She can't live here on her own!" He yelled, Shane closed his eyes and groaned, "great Nate, way to win him over," he muttered before picking up his pace to get to them faster before Nate said something they'd really regret...

"... She does live on her own! Because you ignore her day and night shutting yourself in your fucking room 24/7!"

Too late.

"Nate!" Shane growled warningly, pulling hard on his friends arm, weary of the furious expression on Mr Geller's face, he was a big man and could easily over power the two young men.

"Sir you have to let her live with us!" Mitchie tried looking into his eyes pleadingly, "she's my daughter-" Mr Geller gritted his teeth, "and she's not leaving."

"No you can't!" Mitchie raced forwards grabbing his arm as he began to pull Caitlyn to him. As soon as she touched him he rounded on her, throwing back his arm with such force it knocked Mitchie to the ground.

She moaned painfully as he head collided with the wall. "MITCH!" Shane cried only adding to her headache, the next few moments were blurry for her. She could see Caitlyn crying and yelling as her father pushed her towards the stairs, telling her to go to her room. Nate yelling out holding onto Caitlyn's hand tightly. And then Shane.

Some protective instinct had obviously took over him as the next thing Mitchie knew, Mr Geller was clutching his nose and moaning painfully. Mitchie was hauled up into the air and slung easily over Shane's shoulder and Nate and Caitlyn were running ahead, the cold outdoor breeze hit Mitchie and she realized that they were heading for the car.

"We can't leave him," she whimpered feeling vaguely sorry for the man, even though her head was still aching badly she knew he was just lonely and needed his daughter. "We can't leave her there Mitch, you know that." Shane said softly, taking deep breaths as he ran for the car, her weight slowing him down slightly.

"My head hurts." Shane's jaw clenched as Mitchie murmured softly in his ear, he couldn't believe the anger that spread through his body when he saw Caitlyn's dad push her to the ground. He'd heard her head hit the wall with a sickening thud and snapped. As he gently put Mitchie in the car with the help of Nate, Shane grimaced as his sore knuckles brushed against the door.

Shane looked up at and saw Caitlyn glancing at his hand also, "sorry I hit your Dad, Cait," he apologized strapping Mitchie in before rushing round and jumping into the drivers seat. Caitlyn smiled sadly in the mirror and shook her head, "he hurt Mitchie, I probably would've done the same," she laughed, Shane gave her a small smile, noticing the tears running down her face all the while.

"I'm sorry Cait," he sighed starting the engine, glancing one more time at the castle he drove off down the road back where they came from.

"Me too."

Mitchie awoke to the loud cooing of an owl. Frowning she looked around sleepily, her eyes settling on Caitlyn first who was curled up next to her on the back seat of Shane's car. Next she saw Nate who was half in the back and front of the car, his body twisted so he was between the two front seats weirdly.

Finally she looked over at Shane who was watching her silently.

"How's your head?" he whispered holding up his head, he'd tilted his chair as far as it would go backwards so he was almost in a horizontal position. "Okay now," she smiled softly, then gently without waking Caitlyn she climbed up and over to Shane who moved to make room for her.

"I'm glad we're out of there," she whispered, Shane nodded reaching over and brushing the hair out of her face, "me too," he moved closer whilst pulling her into his body. "Caitlyn's going to have to call him," she said thinking back to the messy exit they'd made.

"Yeah." Shane nodded in agreement then yawned tiredly, "go to sleep Shane," Mitchie said, she had the idea he'd been struggling to stay awake just to make sure she was okay.

"HmmmMmm,"

Mitchie smiled softly, reaching over and brushing the hair back that had fallen in his eyes. "You're so cute," she whispered smiling as he fell into a slumber, "I lo-"

Woah! Did I just say...

Mitchie backed up a little off the chair, she couldn't believe the words that had tumbled out of her mouth, like word vomit, only this time she'd managed to stop herself. To say she was shocked with herself was a bit of an understatement. She'd always thought the words 'i love you' should be said only when they were truly meant. Exactly what she'd told Shane a while back when he'd uttered them.

So had she meant them? It'd only been, what 2 months? Surely you couldn't mean those words... but then he'd said them to her.

The fact that she'd stopped herself from saying those words pretty much showed she still wasn't ready. So Mitchie vowed she wouldn't think about it anymore, until the next time at least.

"Mitchie." Her head quickly snapped back up, her mouth dropping open when she saw Shane peering down at her once again. Praying desperately that he hadn't heard her slip of the tongue.

She breathed out slowly, "yeah?" Shane smiled moving closer, "Night." He grinned widely leaning forwards and kissing her softly.

"Caitlyn seriously stop!" Mitchie snapped at her friend as they waited in the airport terminal for her Mom to arrive. Shane, who'd driven them to the airport was in the side store looking through magazines with Nate and Mrs Gray was sitting silently in the chairs.

"I can't help it, Mitchie I fell bad, I've like invaded her home whilst she's the other side of the world!" Caitlyn argued pacing up and down in front of Mitchie, who was on the verge of tears anyway. She looked down at her hands and wrung her wrists sadly.

"Aren't you excited?" Caitlyn questioned, forgetting her nervousness as she spotted the sad look on Mitchie's face. "What? Oh, yeah course I am," she smiled big, though dropped it once she knew Caitlyn had spotted the falsity of it.

"Its nothing," Mitchie reassured her not liking the raised eyebrow and suspicious look Caitlyn was throwing at her. "Okay," Caitlyn smiled putting her arm around Mitchie's shoulder.

"So..." Caitlyn began, taking a deep breath she muttered quickly, "Natekissedme."

Mitchie laughed, "what?" Caitlyn sighed and rolled her eyes, "I said, Nate kissed me," she repeated more calmly than before, but smirked once she saw Mitchie's jaw drop to the floor.

"Wh-"

"MITCHIE!" Connie screamed happily as she saw her daughter standing outside the terminal gate. "Mom!" Mitchie grinned, running forwards and throwing her arms around Connie's neck. "Hey Dad!" she grinned over Connie's shoulder as her Dad appeared by their side.

"Oh gosh I've missed you so much!" Connie cried tears sparkling in her eyes as she stood back to survey her daughter. "Well you don't look under-nourished," she stated smiling.

Mitchie rolled her eyes, "of course not, Mrs Gray has been feeding me up." Now it was the parents turn to greet each other and Mitchie noticed Caitlyn shrinking backwards, so grabbing her arm she pulled her forwards. "Stop being stupid," she laughed calling her Mom once again.

"Oh Caitlyn, it's good to see you! Though I suppose I'll be seeing you a lot not won't I?" Connie smiled as Caitlyn chewed her lip nervously, "I'm sorry for intruding Mrs Torres," she said quietly wishing Nate was standing beside her. Then as if reading her thoughts he appeared, his hands shoved into his jean pockets as he smiled at Connie.

"Hey Mrs T, how was Italy?" he grinned nudging Caitlyn slightly as she remained frozen still, feeling extremely out of place. She looked up at him and smiled gratefully, blushing ever so slightly. Then catching the sly grin on Mitchie's face she turned away.

Caitlyn turned her attention back to Connie who was gushing about her trip, "it was amazing! Simply amazing! And I have so wonderful news, but I'm saving that for dinner... we're all going out!" she exclaimed then as she bent down to pick up her bags she quickly looked back at Mitchie as if remembering something.

"Hey where's Shane?" Mitchie raised her eyebrows and shrugged, looking round the airport that was bustling with people she finally caught sight of him chatting to an extremely attractive girl. Don't get jealous! Mitchie warned herself turning away.

"I don't know," she lied not wanting to seem bothered by the fact her boyfriend wasn't standing with them when her Mom arrived. "He better get here fast though," she laughed hollowly, then hugged her Mom again. She caught her Mom smiling behind her and felt a hand on her waist, "miss me?" Shane breathed in her ear and his lips on her neck, his hands wandering around her front. She blushed as her she saw her Mom raise an eyebrow, suddenly embarrassed by Shane's disrespect and PDA in front of her parents, and his.

"Nope, get Mom's bags, please." She said briskly pulling away from him quickly, wondering why she suddenly felt so annoyed with him, its not like he isn't allowed to talk to other girls.

Oh God, I'm like one of those possessive fans... Mitchie rolled her eyes before looking back at Shane who was staring at her, his eyes slightly narrowed as he was trying to decipher her odd behavior. Then sensing the weird atmosphere he smiled shortly "I feel so used." He laughed picking up Connie's bags along with Nate and the two made their way towards the car.

"Well..." Mitchie bit her lip as she heard her Mom mutter under her breath. She was embarrassed at Shane's behavior, he didn't even acknowledge her Mom accept to complain about picking up her bags. "He's umm... ill," she found herself excusing his behavior becoming more and more angry at herself, her Mom however brought it and nodded, "yeah he did seem a little off," she nodded then pulled Mitchie back into a hug. "I've missed you kid."

"Hey Nate," Mitchie sighed walking into his bedroom, she'd missed her alone time with him. Ever since Caitlyn came she'd either been with her or Shane.

"Hey doll face," he grinned back pulling her into a quick hug, "everything okay?" He questioned as she fell backwards onto his bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Mitchie shook her head, "nope." She answered honestly blinking back the tears. "Going to tell me about it?" Nate smiled softly laying his head down next to hers. "I-" she cut off rolling onto her side, Nate frowned in concern as he saw a tear roll down her cheek.

"It's stupid," she said finally, burying her head into Nate's shoulder, wanting him to comfort her. She didn't want the comforting hug Shane offered when they got home - she was still upset with him. "Come on Mitch, I know it's not, you don't cry over something stupid," he pointed out rubbing his hand up and down her arm. "I cry over Shane," she let out a choked laugh shaking her head as Nate laughed amused.

"Yeah well, I guess you let it slip occasionally," he grinned then turned serious, "tell me," he prompted sitting up slightly and leaning against his wall.

Mitchie sighed sadly, "okay see, there's this old bracelet that's been in our family for generations. My Abuela gave it to my Mom, and she gave it to me... It's been tradition for like 5 generations. It's this priceless charmed bracelet with charms added from when my family first moved to the USA... It means so much-" she choked again, tears now pouring down her face as she looked up at Nate.

"And I lost it." She finished looking down ashamed. "I don't know how to tell Mom," she whispered laying back down on her back. "Mitch," Nate sighed he could see how upset she was and wasn't sure what he should say. He wasn't to good with things like this, normally he would just hug her to death but suddenly it seemed inappropriate now that she was dating his brother.

He stroked her arm again, "it's not your fault, she'll understand." He smiled reassuringly before resting his head beside hers again and closed his eyes. "I hope so," he heard her whisper snuggling up against him. Obviously she didn't think their closeness was inappropriate at all he mused drifting off to sleep.

Before he fell completely asleep Mitchie whispered, "oh and by the way Nate did you know your brothers an ass?"

"You know, it's good my self esteem is high and I'm extremely good looking and chilled, otherwise this could potentially bother me."

Mitchie opened one eye and peered up at Shane who was standing in Nate's doorway, his arms crossed across his chest and his eyebrows raised. "What?" she questioned sleepily, his words still sinking in. She looked down to see Nate's arm wrapped around her middle and her head resting on his chest.

Shane raised his eyebrows even higher, "yeah, this could definitely have the potential to bother me," he smiled, and though Mitchie knew he was joking she couldn't help but scowl. "Well you flirting with the airport girl could have the potential to bother me too!" She snapped, getting up quickly whilst trying not to wake Nate who was grumbling in his sleep.

Shane laughed but seeing she was actually serious he grabbed her arm before she could stalk out of the room. "Woah... what? Mitchie what're you talking about? I wasn't flirting!" He defended lifting up his hands. Mitchie nodded silently looking down at the ground. She didn't know if she believed him, and even if that was the case the way he acted in front of her Mom was reason to be mad enough in itself.

"What ever Shane," she mumbled pushing past him and out into the hallway but yet again he held her back. "Mitch I'm sorry," he said softly, brushing a strand of hair back behind her ear. Shrugging his off she sighed.

"I'm not the one you should be apologizing to," she stated before walking off to find Caitlyn. "I'll talk to you later then!" Shane called after her deflated, only now were his actions starting to sink in. "Man I should not drink 5 cups of coffee in the morning."

Okay so I do have an excuse as to why it took so long to update; here it is :P

My best friend Sam, (The guy that says stupid but funny stuff) turned up at my house a week ago and was like...

"We're going to Paris for a week tomorrow, and Matt (his brother) isn't going anymore, so I'm inviting you!" :)

So yeaah I went to Paris with Sam and his family for a week, it was awesome! But SO cold, like colder than England! And everyone spoke French (duhh haha) it was like... i want JUICE!... JUICE!

I don't know why I shouted, it doesn't make it any clearer to them haha

ANYWAY

Please Review! Let me know that you forgive me for the late update :P

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Happy Xmas Eve :)

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