"Nate, I honestly didn't do anything, now would you calm down? Please?"

Nate exhaled sharply. He was kind of stressed out about the whole day, considering there was more than Mitchie involved.

Mitchie looked at him. She loved him but he was annoying sometimes, well most of the time. But maybe he would get better in time… more worth loving.

Nate gave Mitchie a look as cold as ice. She couldn't remember when they started fighting. But it had been a while. Again, the 'overprotective father' act appeared. But he didn't realize how unlovable he was acting.

"As long as it doesn't happen again" Nate walked into the other room, the room that they shared; although Mitchie hated to admit it.

"Yeah… sure" Mitchie said, more to herself than Nate. Her situation was hard to handle, Nate could do basically anything with her life. The thing that had been haunting her most was the fact that nothing felt like it was meant to.

Mitchie was having an internal battle; maybe Shane would feel differently if he knew that she and Nate were over, but she wouldn't risk anything at this point. Yet all she wanted from Nate was a place to live, and she and Nate weren't going to talk to each other, like really talk, and not yell, for a while.

Mitchie's thoughts were interrupted by her cell phone ringing. 'Shane',Mitchie threw the phone onto the couch.

"What does he want to talk to me about?" Mitchie asked, annoyed. She would normally pick up, but she didn't need anymore stress.

Mitchie tried to continue dealing with her swarm of thoughts. But she couldn't focus, she was still amazed that Shane called her, she wanted to know why, yet she didn't, and she didn't know how long it would be like this; and it was childish to think that he wanted to take her back. She fell back onto the couch and tried to forget it all. But trying and doing are two very different things; she was living with Nate, Nate's overprotective, she was in love with Shane, Shane loved her, yet Nate was the only thing standing in the way.

She looked at the clock 5:45, did they really fight for that long? Mitchie just wanted it all to end. The tears in her eyes just proved how much she wanted to go home, home to Shane, the one she really loved.

After about an hour of doing nothing, Nate came out and said: "I'm going out for the night, so I want you to stay in this house. Understand?" Mitchie thought about those words, she understood, but that didn't mean she wouldn't leave. And no one would have a clue.

"Yeah..." Mitchie didn't even turn to look at him.

"Kay, bye Mitch"

"Bye Nate"

Nate left Mitchie alone in the house. "5 minutes" she said quietly. 5 minutes until she would break Nate's rules.

She wondered what Nate was up to…

But maybe she didn't want to know that badly. It probably wasn't important anyway…

After about 5 minutes, Mitchie got off of the couch, brushed her hair, and headed out of the house.

Mitchie walked around the neighborhood, she felt good about it, and she wasn't going to be doing that very often anyway.

She happened to see two people sitting in the grass and they were making out, and she recognized one of them as Nate.

Mitchie stared at them, she couldn't help herself. But she couldn't look for very long before she turned away.

She was angry; it was obviously going to affect everything. Add one more problem to her list of issues. She took a deep breath and walked away, trying to stay calm.

Special thanks to maria08bernal and mikaylah wood (yes sis, the girl is you).