That same night, Caitlyn sat on her bed, thinking whether she should pay a visit to Mitchie.
Hmm, she left pretty upset. I hope she's writing a good song that she can sing—
Her thoughts were interrupted when the computer made a ping-noise. Caitlyn shot up from her bed and practically ran to her computer.
'You have one new Email'
From: Nate
To: Caity
Subject: heyy!
Heyy Caity!
I have some info for you. I don't know if you already told her, so I kept the title of this email very plain (in case Mitchie saw your inbox).
Well, the first concert for Mitchie will be tomorrow, the 12th of July, in Berlin. So I hope you can make the first one! I put the plane tickets as an attachment to this email, you just have to print them out and that's it. You'll be spending the nights in our tour bus, if that's okay with you guys and your parentals. Of course, that'll help Mitchie and Shane get together way sooner!
We'll pick you up from the airport with a limo. I've made sure Shane has some interview at that time, so he won't notice. After you've arrived, we need to get on stage very quickly, so we don't have much time after you've landed!
Well, hope to see you then!
xx Nate.
Caitlyn sat behind her computer screen, reading the mail over and over again with a huge grin on her face. She couldn't wait to see him either. But first, she had to tell Mitchie! Now she was definitely gonna pay a visit to Mitchie.
Caitlyn printed out the tickets and the email as well, grabbed them and ran out of the house towards Mitchie's.
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Mitchie just finished her song, titling it 'A Drop in the Ocean', when she heard the doorbell. She looked out of her window to see it was Caitlyn, looking particularly happy. She saw Caitlyn talking to her mother, again very happy. Suddenly, her mom got overexcited. Mitchie wondered why they were both soooo happy, but couldn't come up with any good reasons. Guess I just have to ask her.
She saw Caitlyn enter the house and walked out of her room and down the stairs to come face to face with the huge smile belonging to Caitlyn.
"Hey Mitchie" Caitlyn grinned.
"Hi… Cait…" Mitchie said, feeling like all the smiling is getting way too weird.
"Mitch, you need to come with me and your mom and dad to the living room. I have something to tell you all."
"Okay…" Mitchie answered suspiciously, though she had no idea what to be suspicious of. Also very curious, she immediately turned to go to the living room, following after Caitlyn. She saw her parents already sitting on the couch. Her mom was smiling like crazy, and her dad also looked like he had no idea whatsoever about what was gonna happen. Mitchie walked over to the comfy chair next to the couch and sat down, looking at Caitlyn who stood in front of the TV.
"I guess you are wondering why I asked you all to come sit over here, but I have something important and exciting to tell to Mitchie. But first I need approval from you, Mr. Torres." Caitlyn said, and walked over to Mitchie's dad. She whispered something in his ear, and he looked like he was thinking about something. Connie saw this and nudged him, "come on, it'll be fun for her!"
After another minute or so which her father took to think, he started talking.
"Okay, she's allowed to go. But we'll discuss the conditions after she heard the news."
Connie got excited, together with Caitlyn, and cheering bouncing up and down the couch. "Guys?" Mitchie asked, but nobody heard her, "Guys??" Again, no response.
"GUYS!!" Mitchie yelled, finally getting the wanted attention from her family and best friend. Finally!
"Would you mind sharing whatever is going on? Your celebrating something I'm part of, obviously, even though I have no idea what's it about!"
"OMG! I'm sorry! Well, why don't I just show you?" Caitlyn said, putting her hand in the front-pockets of her jeans, grabbing something out of it. Then she handed me two printed out plane tickets for Berlin on the 12th of July. Wait, that was tomorrow! Mitchie was very confused.
"Wow, thank you Cait I guess. But what am I gonna do with two plane tickets to Berlin which are due tomorrow?"
"Mitch, do you remember where Connect 3 is gonna be around this time?"
She had to think about that for a few seconds. "Yeah, they're in Europe… and they should be in Germany somewhere these days."
Her mom piped in, "And of which country is Berlin the capitol?"
"Uhm, if I remember correctly… That would be…" Before Mitchie answered the actual question, realisation hit her.
"OMG! No freakin' way!"
"Yes freakin' way! We're gonna tour with Connect three baby!!" Caitlyn screamed enthusiastically.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!" Mitchie yelled like she did when she heard she was going to Camp Rock. She shot up from the couch and ran over to Caitlyn and started jumping together with her.
After a minute or so, Mitchie's parents coughed in order to make them stop jumping and being over-enthusiastic.
"Sorry…" Both girls mumbled looking at her parents.
"Oh, before I forget to tell you Mitchie…" Caitlyn said and turned to whisper in her ear, "All of this has a little reason. C'mon, we should discuss this without your parents. Let's go to your room." Mitchie nodded and told her parents they'd be in her room if they needed one of them.
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"So, what is this little reason you were talking about?" Mitchie asked Caitlyn as soon as they were comfortably seated on Mitchie's bed.
"Well, it's has to do with a certain somebody" Caitlyn answered, a smile playing on her lips.
"Huh? I'm not getting it… Who is this certain somebody, and why are you being so sneaky?! It's starting to seriously irritate me!" Mitchie asked, being utterly confused and growing impatient.
"Shane" Caitlyn simply stated, now grinning like crazy.
"What's with Shane? Again, NOT following!" Mitchie said. When Caitlyn didn't answer and it grew silent for a few minutes, realization dawned on Mitchie. "Oh! I get it!"
"Wait, WHAT?! Are you trying to set me up? Is this some kind of joke? Shane's never gonna like me the way I like him. I'll only embarrass myself and loose a great friend because of it. Cait, I don't want him to reject me!" Mitchie whined, automatically thinking the worst.
"Honey, don't you worry! You're not gonna be rejected, I'm sure of that! And Nate and I knew you will never be bold enough to just say it to him, so we made you their opening act. Then you can tell him through your songs. Nothing can go wrong, and you certainly won't loose him over this!" Caitlyn comforted her and hopefully convinced her to go.
Mitchie sighed, "I don't know Cait. What if everyone thinks my songs are stupid? I don't want to make a fool out of myself."
Caitlyn hugged her, "Mitch, no one will hate you or your songs. You're awesome! And you'll always have at least 4 fans! Nate, Shane, Jase and me! And even if you don't want to let Shane know of your feelings, just think of it as a nice trip. Three months on the road with you best friends in the whole wide world. C'mon, please come! It'll be fun!"
What will be Mitchie's answer?? Will she go, or does she need someone else to convince her? You'll find out in the next chapter!