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What the heck, Hannah?" Tess said angrily after our encounter with obnoxious and spiteful Mikayla and sweet, hot and incredibly cute Jake. Hannah looked at me guiltily. She explained, "I don't know what happened ... I guess my past relationship reflex came back." I frowned. Past relationship reflex? What in God's name was that? I directed the question to Hannah. She replied, "Okay, you may not know this but I dated Jake, like, for a year or so." Tess nodded and said, "Oh I knew. You told Jake you're sec -" Tess stopped mid-sentence as Hannah gave her a look. Hannah continued, "I think I've gotten over him but it just brings back old memories when I see him again."

"Why did you say you and Shane were an item?" Caitlyn interrupted, "Are you trying to win the break-up?" Hannah shook her head. She said, "No way. It's just that Mikayla's dating him now and I'm single. She's clearly gonna think I'm a loser."

"And being in a relationship makes you a winner?" I asked sarcastically. Hannah gave me a blank look and said, "Anyway, I'm not in to Shane Grey at all. So Mitchie can absolutely have him." I felt relieved. If celebrity girls were into him and they asked him out then there was a 99.9 % chance that he would choose them instead of me. Meanwhile I saw Shane talking to Nate who was looking at Tess and going all red in the face. I elbowed her on her ribs and Tess looked at me. I whispered, "Look at Nate." She did and giggled. I never giggle. There are some things I strongly oppose to and one of them is giggling.

Tess said, "Does he like me?" I nodded. "Why?" She asked. I shrugged my shoulders. How was I to why an adolescent boy would take a fancy to Tess? Hormones, I guess? "I don't really like him that much. Now if you told me it was Jake who liked me …"

"Why, do you like Jake Ryan?" I asked, raising my eyebrows. Tess looked around everywhere but at me. Then, in a high-pitched voice, she said, "No ... You like Jake. I like somebody else. There are other Jake's in the world. I was ... actually talking about ... uh ... Jake Gyllenhaal."

"As in the one in Brokeback Mountain?"

"Yes, the same one. I ... er ... totally ... have a crush on him."

"And, clearly are on first name terms with him ... it seems."

"Yeah ... whatever ... I like the weather today, it's so amazing."

"Uh huh. I'm sure the weather is what's on your mind right now." I said, not bothering to make the sarcasm subtle at all. Tess stared nervously at the ceiling for some time before she stomped off saying that she forgot her lip gloss. I was still grinning after five minutes of her departure. Shane had approached me by then. I smiled at him. He was holding something I saw. Was it his latest album? My eyeballs kept shifting from him to his package. Finally he handed it to me and said, "Open it." I tore off the wrap and saw a red box. I took the lid off and saw that it contained a bracelet. It was gold. I blinked at it.

"You like it?" He asked apprehensively. I kept the box containing the bracelet on a table and pulled him into a tight embrace. When I let go he was gasping for breath. "So I take that as a yes." He said. I laughed heartily. I put on the bracelet and examined my wrist from all angles. Lola who was passing me with Baron and Sander stopped and complimented it. "Wow. Lovely bracelet." Shane giggled like a little girl. Nate and Jason quickly joined us.

"So, did you give her the thing?" Nate asked exasperatedly. I nodded in response. He looked at my wrist and smiled. "So we're having a jam session in our cabin in the evening." Jason said, "Wanna join us?" "Totally" I replied, "Who else is coming?" Jason thought for a moment and then replied in his usual stupid way, "Hannah Montana, Jake Ryan and that Tess girl." He said that Tess girl as he looked at Nate. Shane said with a smirk, "I guess you know who voted that she should come." Nate gave Shane a look and said, "Shut up." I felt guilty. Nate really liked Tess while Tess liked Jake.

"Tess doesn't like you Nate!" I said. I cursed myself a million times for ever saying that. Nate looked crestfallen. "She doesn't like me?" He asked with a small voice. I shook my head. Nate looked like he was going to burst into tears. Shane patted his shoulder and Jason kept consoling him by saying stuff like, "Think about it Nate, now you can put the picture of Smokey, our dog instead of the photoshopped image of you and Tess holding hands (Nate's face was absolutely red in color)" and "You can write songs about heartbreaks since you experienced one right now." Shane elbowed him in 'just shut up' way. Suddenly Nate cocked his head and looked in the direction of Hannah. He said, "Is Hannah Montana seeing anybody?" But he didn't wait for me to answer. He strutted to her. They talked for a little while then ...

"Seriously dude, you never asked out a girl in your life. Why the hell did you decide to do the asking out so abruptly?" Shane questioned as he put another ice bag on Nate's left cheek. It was swollen and red. Shane, Jason, me and Nate were in Cabin Rock (the Grey brothers' cabin). Nate refused to say what he told Hannah when he attempted to ask her out. Obviously it was something very bad because Hannah had punched Nate really hard on the face. Nate had complained to Brown about Hannah but he just told him to not ask girls out when Camp had officially ended. That had made him pretty angry and he banged his head against the wall of the cabin which added bruises to his temple. Lucky for us, the damages weren't severe.

"Nate hasn't had a girlfriend ever?" I whispered to Shane. He nodded looking at Nate. It seemed incredulous to me - the fact that Nate Grey had not - how do I say this as gently as possible - scored a single girl in his 16 year old life. He was charming to look at and he was talented. No girlfriends for him? That was definitely weird. "He really doesn't get a chance. He's working on songs and going to movie premiers and stuff. He just doesn't find time to chase women."

"And have you had any girlfriends?" I asked the question I always wanted to ask. Shane looked at me as if I was crazy. He got up from Nate's bedside and took me to a corner. "Haven't you read about my very publicized break-up with Haley Jones?" I shook my head. "Why you really mean it when you say you don't read a lot of gossip magazines. Well, Haley and I met at her concert. We were involved for about two years. Then our work left us little time to be together. I wanted to be with her. I was ready to cancel our summer tour but she insisted that we shouldn't be together. We had a messy break-up. There was a lot of screaming, cursing, and alcohol splashing involved. We covered the ugly part up by saying that I ended it with her through a phone call. Anyway, I got really angry and I started to act up during recording and music-video shoots. That's why Connect 3 had to cancel their highly anticipated summer tour."

When he finished, I saw that his eyes were filling up with tears. I said, "She was the love of your life then?"

He wiped his eyes and looked at me. "Not anymore." I smiled at him. That was the first very personal thing he told me about himself. I felt great. Not for the fact that Shane had broken-up with someone but also because he shared something about himself with me.

A/N: Taylor Swift and Haley Jones are two different people in this fan fic. Don't confuse them. And this chapter is just an introduction to the various things that is gonna happen at Camp. Stay tuned for the rest and please please please please please please review. I only got 8 which isn't much. So ... could it enter the double-digit group?

Oh, I forgot I'll be updating my Why Didn't fan fic tomorrow. Not today. I'm really busy. I wrote this while I was watching How I Met Your Mother episodes (yup, I'm really busy :D)

-Sourjya :]

P.S. Please overlook the typos and errors. I didn't edit this chapter.