Camp Fire Disaster
I threw the letter in my draw and went to shower worried about who knew because this was my secret, no one else's: they would think I'm crazy.
When I
came out of the shower Caitlyn was there pulling a brush threw her
hair.
"Ready for the jam?" She asked with a smile, I nodded,
"What's up, are you okay?"
"Just nervous, what did you do today?" I asked her looking back at my draw but then my eyes fell upon Mitchie's bed.
"Went to dance and singing class." She said, "you?"
"Singing
and that was it." I replied.
"I needed to practice for
tonight." I added.
"Yeah we all did." She said with a laugh.
"Where's
Mitchie?" I asked and Caitlyn shrugged.
"She's been a wall
all day! Probably sneaking around with Shane somewhere." She said
shrugging.
"Well I told Tess and the girls I'd meet them at
the camp fire, do you mind if I leave?" I Asked wanting to get out
of the cabin and into the fresh air.
She shook her head so I left.
I walked myself to the edge of the lake and peered in, my reflection stared back at me in wonder.
"I thought there wouldn't be anyone here." A voice came from behind. I spun around and found myself face to face with Nate.
"Well fine I'll just leave." I said walking past him and I noticed him staring at me.
"You're
singing tonight right?" He asked.
I nodded.
"Good luck, you're going to need it."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I Asked with my hands on my hips.
"I don't think you're good enough to be here at camp rock." He said with a shrug.
"And who are you? Some cocky little pop star who thinks he's better than everyone?" I asked irritated.
"You're run by a label, you have to do there stuff not your own, at least we get to do our own stuff!" I said and I stalked off and didn't look back.
I got to the camp fire and Caitlyn was already there, "Where've you been?" She asked curiously.
"Over there by Tess and the girls." I lied but she believed me.
"OKAY GUYS, THE FIRST SINGER UP TONIGHT IS…" She said pretending to rummage through her brain for the answer.
"KELLY
JAMES!" she said and the crowd cheered, I looked up and sighed and
breathed in.
"Good luck, you'll do fine!" Caitlyn reassured
me, but the thing that Nate had said was still lingering in my brain.
I walked onto the stage followed by tremendous applause. I breathed again and then I went over to the microphone and the music started.
"I am confident but I still have my moment's baby that's just me. I'm not a supermodel I still eat McDonalds baby, that's just me.
Well, some may say I need to be afraid of losing everything because of where I've, if I started where I made my name but everything's the same, in a la-la land machine.
Who said I can't wear my converse with my dress oh baby, that's just me.
And who said I can't be single, I have to go out and mingle, baby that's just me.
Some may say I need to be afraid of losing everything because of where I've, if I started where I made my name, but everything's the same, in a la-la land machine. Tell me do you feel the way I feel, cause nothing else is real in the la-la land machine."
I sang till the end and the crowd erupted with applause.
I walked off the stage, "That was the very talented Kelly James everyone, next is Mitchie Torres!"
I walked past Mitchie and smiled, she looked at me and nodded but walked on.
Shane saw me come off the stage and came towards me. I walked away pretending I didn't see him but he grabbed my arm.
"Whoa hold on a second." He said dragging me to a place where no one could hear us.
"You're my brother's pen pal!" He said with wide eyes.
"Wait what?" I Asked since I was very confused.
"Don't write to him Kelly. Do you know that for the past year your pen pal has been Nate Gray?" He asked and I looked shocked.
"What?
It was you that read my letter?" I asked with wide eyes too.
He
shook his head, "Mitchie read your letter, she told me about it.
I've known for a while he's been writing to you and I asked him,
but then I read your letter to him and Mitchie read his letter to
you." Shane informed me.
"Nate Gray is my pen pal?" I cried out in shock.
Shane looked at me, "You really didn't know?" He asked curiously.
"No I
didn't, I've been writing to him for a year and a half… I told
him my secrets." I said looking around for him.
"You have to
stop writing to him Kelly! His music is slacking because all he does
is I.M you or write you letters or emails and you guys are never
going to meet according to him." Shane said to me and I found Nate
standing in the crowd.
"But we have met we just didn't know that." I said quietly.
Shane took my shoulders with his hands and steered me towards him, "Stop writing to him! I'll tell him you're the pen pal otherwise, he doesn't like you very much." Shane said to me and I gave him a dirty look.
"Threatening
now are we?" I Asked and he smirked.
"What are you going to do
about it? I'm Shane Gray for crying out loud." Shane said with
the same smirk.
"I don't
like him much either. He can't be my pen pal." I said to him
Shane took something out of his pocket. I looked at it in
shock.
"Dear Sky-so-Gray?" He asked waving it in my face, I
grabbed it and scanned it. It was my exact letter I had written while
I was here at Camp Rock.
"Nate
Gray is my pen pal!" I said to myself more than Shane. Shane
watched me read it.
"Stop writing to him." Shane said before
walking away back to his brothers. I turned around with tears in my
eyes, was it pathetic that I was crying over a pen pal I hadn't
ever met? Or was I just scared of what Shane could do? I looked at
Mitchie who had just finished her song she walked over to Shane and
Caitlyn and the boys. Nate looked around and his eyes landed on me.
But I turned away and walked back to the cabin before he could see I
was about to cry. He would probably think his good luck thing had
worked.
When I got back to the cabin I knew everyone would probably be out late because Connect 3 still had to perform and Peggy
I dug into my draw and brought out the letters to see a sign any sign to show me that he was part of connect 3. That's when I saw his surname, sky-so-gray. Gray… Nate Gray.
I read through the first few letters and found what I was looking for in the third one, "I write songs and play guitar and the piano with my brothers." I read aloud.
"I'm trying to write a new song actually." I added.
I then went through another one, the recent ones, "I'm working. I'm teaching at some camp." I read again.
"I taught a class today." He taught my class that day. I said a little stunned by my own findings.
I read on finding little things that linked him to the Nate Gray. I opened my lap top and logged into Msn.
I read through old msn messages and found it.
"What's your name?" He asked.
"Kelly, yours?"
Sky-so-gray has logged off.
Everybody-Leaves has logged off
Sky-so-gray has logged on
"Sorry dc, my name's Nathan." He had said but I had logged off. I hadn't even bothered to look at the message.
"Every-body leaves has not gotten your message cause he/she is not online.
Sky-so-gray has logged off.
I shook my head in anger. I deleted the thread of messages. All of them.
I had to follow Shane's orders or else Nate would find out it was me and he clearly didn't like me from what he said to me before the camp fire jam. I was supposed to reply to a letter he had written but I couldn't. I wasn't aloud too it felt like I was under house arrest.
I took the bag of letters and walked out of the cabin and down to the giant rubbish bin.
I threw all of the letters in one by one and then went back to the cabin and climbed into bed. Tomorrow I had to face Mitchie, she had gone through my stuff without asking. She and Shane had broken my only good friendship bond I had.
I looked
out of the window in the other direction so my back was facing the
door. Mitchie and Caitlyn arrived home giggling and when they entered
they hushed up when they saw me.
"Is she sleeping?" Caitlyn
whispered.
"Yeah, sshh. We'll ask her how the camp fire jam
went tomorrow!" Mitchie replied and I rolled my eyes out of her
sight. Soon enough the cabin was filled with silence and darkness and
Caitlyn's heavy breathing and I fell into a not so good sleep.
