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With Nate's statement still hanging in the air, Shane angrily stormed from the cabin, taking off at a run through the very woods he and Priscilla had first become a couple. "Who does he think he is?" Shane grumbled as his breathing quickened. "Telling me how to feel! UGH! PRISCILLA!" He stopped short when he nearly ran into his blonde girl friend kissing Sander against a tree. "After all of the crap that's going on, you pull this? Priscilla we're done." He told her firmly, taking off before she could speak.
But as Shane was running, he felt like a weight was being lifted. He was single, he could focus on his music, his friends, he no longer had to consult with Priscilla every morning to ensure that no clashing would ensue between their outfits. He thought about Nate and felt bad for leaving on such an angry note. He slowed down to catch his breath and decided he would go and apologize. "Shane." A breathless voice caught his attention.
"Mitchie." He stared.
"How's your girlfriend?" She gave him a harsh look and Shane put his hands in his pockets.
"Gone. Broke up." He told her casually. Mitchie stepped backwards uncertainly as if she was preparing to run off. "Mitchie?" She looked up expectantly. "Why did you kiss Nate?"
"Can we talk?" He asked her quietly and Mitchie shook her head no before running off. "There's something I have to fix." Shane mumbled to himself before heading back to he and his band's cabin. "Nate?" He approached the curly haired guitar player. He hoped this conversation would go better than his and Mitchie's had. Nate looked up in surprise at his best friend's calm and even hesitant tone.
"What's up man?" He put down the guitar and faced him.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for blowing up at you..." Shane apologized quietly and Nate stared.
"Seriously? Mitchie kisses me, you yell, and now you're apologizing? Really?" Shane nodded. "Man don't worry about it. You had every reason to be upset. But you also had every reason to believe me." Nate added in at the end and Shane nodded. "We're cool." The two did that brotherly hug deal and Jason came in and really hugged them.
"Aw no more dissension in the band!" He exclaimed and both turned to look at him. "Word of the day" He recited, "Dissension: Difference in opinion or sentiment. Disagreement." He smiled proudly and they both laughed before tackling him. "Hey! Hey stop assailing me!" He exclaimed and both snorted in laughter.
"So er...how's Priscilla?" Jason asked uncomfortably and Shane reclined back in his chair.
"No longer my girlfriend." Shane shrugged off the question and his bandmates looked up incredulously.
"Seriously?" Nate asked and Shane nodded. "Dude I'm..." Was Nate really sorry? No, but he felt it was the appropriate response in the situation.
Shane cut him off, "Nate don't say you're sorry, because to be honest, I'm not even sorry." Joe mumbled and yawned. Nate promptly shut his mouth and turned to Jason, silently and secretly high fived him. Jason laughed excitedly.
"Why are we high fiving?" Jason whispered hurriedly but Nate was already flipping open his phone to text Caitlyn. Perilous Priscilla The Wannabe Popstar is GONE. He sent excitedly and Caitlyn could only reply with a grinning face of her own.
"Boys?" Brown walked in and the band looked up at him. "Are you all coming to the Karaoke jam tonight?" He asked in his accent and the three exchanged a confused look. "Oh come on I know you all haven't been here in a while but Karaoke Jam! You boys sang what was it...Ah yes, Hello, by The Barns Brothers." Connect 3 blushed as they remembered this all at once and laughed. "So I'll see you there?" The three nodded and Brown left.
"So think we should sing tonight?" Jason asked his friends and the two threw pillows at him.
"Mitchie I think we should go to the Karaoke Jam tonight." Caitlyn suggested, sitting on the end of Ella's bed with Mitchie. Ella stopped painting her nails and looked up in surprise.
"I thought you hate the karaoke jam." She muttered to her friend and Caitlyn gave her a quick knowing look. "Let's go to the Karakoke Jam!" Ella suddenly exclaimed and Caitlyn chortled.
"Is there something I should know about...?" Mitchie looked curiouisly between them but the other two sharply responded no! She continued writing in her song book but she couldn't help but feel like her two friends were smiling a little too excitedly.
"Come on try this on." Tess urged her and Mitchie looked at the bedazzled outfit incredulously. "It's so...okay well it's kind of me. But what about this?" She held up a green tunic and Mitchie grinned, taking it from her to put it on. "That looks great." Tess encouraged her. Peggy, Ella, Caitlyn, Mitchie, and Tess were grouped in one cabin, getting ready for the jam together. Jason had texted Tess begging her to be nice to Mitchie and the blonde had grudgingly obliged.
"Guys it's just karaoke jam, what's the big deal?" Mitchie laughed as Ella chose a lip gloss for her to apply.
"We're just having fun." Peggy assured her, helping her off the bed. The five girls laughed and walked out the door, chatting as they made their way across camp to the performance hall.
"Jason!" Tess exclaimed excitedly hobbling over to the Connect 3 member, the two of them hugging. The other girls smiled but continued meshing into the crowd of kids, some already lining up in front of the screen.
"Mitchie, it's your song!" Ella exclaimed and Mitchie paused.
"What? Guys I don't..." This Is Me was suddenly floating from the large speakers, everyone turned to look at Mitchie and she faltered. "Uh-uh okay." Someone shoved a mic into her hands. "I've always been the kind of girl..." Mitchie softly began to sing and her friends beamed from a distance.
"It's now or never." Nate looked at his best friend and Caitlyn was suddenly at their sides.
"Are you doing this?" She put her hands on her hips, "Shane I've believed this stupid story about you not having a choice when it came to dating Priscilla. Step up to the plate." She handed him a microphone and Shane tried not to glare at her.
"You're the voice I hear inside my head, the reason that I'm singing, I need to find you." Shane looked at Mitchie and she shot him an angry look, trying to hand off her microphone to someone else but her friends made her walk towards him.
"No. I'm not doing this Shane." She told him finally, the mic hanging at her side and Shane wouldn't accept it. He kept on singing their song and Mitchie wanted to just run away. Whether Shane and Priscilla had broken up or not, Shane had broken a promise and singing a song they had shared the summer before wouldn't change that.
"This is me." Shane finished singing his side of the duet and stepped forward, doing what he should have done last summer when they sang. He kissed her angry mouth hard and Mitchie pushed at his chest but Shane wouldn't give in. "Mitchie." He pulled away and took her hand. "You are the only girl I want. And the only girl I've ever felt this strongly for. Please just listen to me." Mitchie's head wouldn't stop spinning, she thought she would surely be sick, "Please."
She looked at the Ella, the most innocent and naive of her friends, and the dark haired girl jerked her head towards the door, five minutes. She mouthed and Mitchie sighed. "Fine." Mitchie Torres looked at Shane Gray and silently followed him out.
"Ten bucks Shane screws it up." Caitlyn turned to the crowd with a business like tone. Ella scowled and she put up her hands. "Oh fine."
Outside, Shane was pacing. "Shane I did promise you five minutes and you've spent two of it pacing." Mitchie reminded him and Shane stopped.
"Oh sure, joke!" He nearly yelled.
"I'm not joking. I timed you, you've really spent two minutes just pacing back and forth." Mitchie continued but before she could speak again, Shane began to ramble.
"All during filming, I wondered what I would say to you when I first saw you after a year apart. I thought I'd run up to you, kiss you like you wouldn't believe, I'd beg and plead for you to be my girlfriend. I was planning to take you to premieres and exotic dates, record some music in the studio together. I had all of these plans. I had all of these ways to tell you that you're the most amazing girl I've ever met." Mitchie started to speak but Shane cut her off.
"You know I was gonna hire a sky writer? Or write your name in a song? Tell you on national television. I was gonna write, Dear Mitchie, I've never met a girl who I've been able to be so, normal with, I've never had a girl treat me like a normal person. You're incredible." He looked up at her. "But then I messed it all up when I agreed to pretend to date Priscilla. I screwed up everything with you."
Mitchie stared at him. "A sky writer?" She mumbled softly and Shane looked up at her.
"After all I just said, that's all you heard? A sky writer?" Shane laughed and Mitchie shrugged.
"It was...overwhelming." She admitted and Shane sat down beside her. They had arrived back at the canoes Shane had left Mitchie at last summer.
"You haven't hurt me yet. Or yelled, is that a good thing? Or is this the calm before the storm?" He pretended to cower but Mitchie only gazed at him.
"Why didn't you call? The whole summer you could have just explained to me what was happening before I saw you with your arm draped around her like some gross hollywood teen couple."
"I did call..." Shane tried to tell her but Mitchie wouldn't listen.
"You called after I had to watch Priscilla clinging to your side like a leech and you gaze at her like you were in love. It was a little too late. You could have texted me for crying out loud! But you didn't." Was Mitchie crying? She brushed the tears off her cheek.
Shane reached up and ran his thumb below her eye. "I'm sorry. I don't know why I could think about how to tell you I liked you, I just couldn't do it for real." Shane did truly look sorry, Mitchie had never seen him look this upset.
"But why did you ask her out for real? Why did you keep dating once you got here? This isn't her place." She murmured and Shane reached out to tuck her hair behind her ear with a delicate hand.
"When she showed up and you turned me down, I was lonely, I wanted someone to care. But I could never love her like I l-" Shane cut himself off. "Like I lo...." He couldn't choke out the word.
Mitchie turned and took his hand, putting her lips to his, the last of her tears mingling onto his skin. "Like you love me?" She asked and he nodded numbly. "I think I love you too, that must be why it hurt so badly when I saw Priscilla with you." She circled her thumb over his hand.
"So. Would you consider going out with me?" Shane asked her nervously.
"No." Mitchie told him simply, standing up and starting to walk away.
"WHAT!" Shane exclaimed angrily standing up and Mitchie turned with a grin.
"Come on Superstar," She held out her hand and he took it with a relaxed laugh.
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