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Here is chapter 7, enjoy
"A canoe ride might do the trick."
Chapter 7:
"So what happened to you in the last three years?" Shane asked Mitchie while they were paddling to the middle of the lake.
"Well, I graduated from high school two years ago, and I'm studying music at state college. Still waiting to be discovered, but well, got to have a back up plan." She told him. "What about you? Anything the press doesn't know?"
"I wish." He joked. "I don't think I can tell you anything you don't already know."
"I don't think so either." Mitchie said as they reached the middle of the lake. "Have you practiced? Because we're not going into circle this time." She noticed.
"No, have you?" She shook her head. "Then I guess we're getting good at it."
Then they stayed silent for some time, just looking at their surroundings, the gleam of the moon on the lake, the lights coming from camp and remembering the summer they had spent together.
"I know I already told you but, I'm sorry." Shane said when he couldn't bear the silence anymore. It wasn't an awkward silence, but he couldn't hold his apologies in.
"It's okay. I got my canoe ride, you're forgiven." Mitchie told him, joking to lighten the mood. "Seriously, I'm not mad anymore. I'm just happy we can take things where we left off."
Shane felt the urge to lean in and kiss her but noises came from the shore, indicating that opening jam just ended and that they had to paddle back.
Shane helped Mitchie out of the canoe. "I had a great time, thanks." She told him and went back to her cabin, a big smile on her face.
With Nate and Caitlyn:
The mess hall was now empty, apart from Nate and Caitlyn. "So he finally remembers." Caitlyn started. "Finally I won't have to watch my mouth."
Nate looked at her funnily. "I tried not to talk about Shane." Caitlyn explained. "She might kill me for what I did tonight, but I guess it was worth it." She said getting up, and started to walk to the door.
"Caitlyn wait!" Nate called her back. She stopped and turned around. Nate got up and caught up with her. He had to tell her he liked her. Shane was right, it was obvious and everybody knew it. "I just wanted to say that ..." He started but stopped. Because of the nerves, his words were stuck in his throat. It was unbelievable how he could sing in front of girls and stay mute in front of only one, as special as she could be.
"You wanted to say..." Caitlyn encouraged him. He took a deep breath and started again.
"Well we've known each other for a long time now and I wanted to tell you: You are a really great friend." He could be so stupid. A really great friend? He couldn't believe he just told her that.
"Well you're a really great friend too, Nate." Caitlyn said laughing quietly. "Goodnight Nate." She told him and kissed him on the cheek before she left the mess hall, leaving a shocked Nate behind.
She just kissed him; he touched his cheek where Caitlyn's lips had been earlier. Was it all a dream? He didn't know, but if it was one he didn't want to wake up.
Mitchie and Caitlyn's cabin:
"So how was your canoe ride with Shane?" Caitlyn asked her best friend.
"How do you know about that? Were you watching us?" Mitchie asked her and Caitlyn laughed at how paranoid Mitchie could be. It was just logical, if Shane remembered about that summer it's what they'd have done. After all it was kind of their thing back then.
"No I wasn't watching you, I was way to busy watching Nate for that." She said and then cursed about what she had just said.
"You and Nate uh?" Mitchie said with a grin. She knew Caitlyn liked Nate too.
"Don't even try to change the subject Mitch. What have you talked about?" Caitlyn asked her.
Mitchie told her basically everything that had happened since she had left the mess hall. "Now your turn. What's happening between you and Nate?" She asked her friend once she was done.
"Nothing." Caitlyn told her, and Mitchie rolled her eyes. "No seriously there's nothing between us, at least for now." A grin appeared on Mitchie's face. "You should have seen his face earlier when I kissed him goodnight." Caitlyn laughed remembering Nate's face.
"You kissed him? But I thought there was nothing between you two." Mitchie said, no longer understanding what her friend was talking about.
"I kissed him on the cheek. I just wanted to see how he would react." Caitlyn explained and Mitchie nodded in understanding.
"We should probably go to bed now. We have a big day waiting for us tomorrow." Mitchie told Caitlyn, who agreed, and they both went to sleep.
Voice lesson the next morning:
"Alright campers!" Brown said when he entered the room followed by Mitchie. They all sat down in silence. "I'm gonna start my class like I start it every single year, except that this time it will be to separate you into two groups. One will stay here with me and the other will go with Mitchie." Brown explained.
"So who wants to sing?" Brown asked to the over excited campers. A lot of hands rose into the air, but about five or six of them stayed down. "Great, those who didn't rise their hand, you'll have your voice lessons with Mitchie." He told them and Mitchie motioned them to follow her outside and into another cabin.
"Okay, so first things first, I'm Mitchie and I'll be you voice teacher. If Brown put you in my class, it's because you're less confident or more shy, than the others." Mitchie told the five students.
One of the three girls raised her hand. "Will we have to sing today?" She asked, stressed out.
"What's your name?" Mitchie asked her. "Emily." The girl answered. "Well, Emily, it's a voice lesson so you'll have to sing, but no solo today, you can relax."
The rest of the lesson was mainly voice and respiration exercises, and by the end of the hour Mitchie knew all her students' name. There was Emily, Taylor, Kate, Tom and Damien. Everything went great and Mitchie loved teaching, she even considered becoming a music teacher if she wasn't discovered.
Nate and Jason's cabin, during the evening:
"So you told her?" Shane asked Nate after dinner.
"I tried last night, but I ended up telling her she was a great friend." He told his band mate who smacked his forehead with his hand in despair.
"If it was to tell her that you could have stayed silent. Nate, if you like a girl, the one thing not to do is to tell her she's a friend." It was becoming frustrating for Shane. Throughout the previous week, he had tried to convince Nate to tell Caitlyn his feelings for her. And when he finally managed to do this, Nate screwed everything up.
"What about you uh?" Nate said. "What did you tell Mitchie? Do you still love her like three years ago?" Shane knew that he was trying to turn the tables around.
"I think so but I don't want to rush things ..." Shane started only to be interrupted by Nate.
"See where I am now with Caitlyn?" He asked and Shane nodded. "I'm there because I didn't want to rush things."
"Well you're really not rushing. It's been three years! Even a turtle goes faster. Why can't you just tell her?" Shane said returning to the real topic.
"I can't, either I stay silent or I tell her something totally different. Do you want to date her?" Nate asked him.
"Date Caitlyn? Are you out of your mind ..." Shane said.
"I was talking about Mitchie, you idiot." Nate told him.
"Oh! Yeah, but I'm not sure she'd say yes." Shane said. He knew that Mitchie liked him too, but the fact that he forgot all about her was playing against him.
"Just tell her. You'll see what happens next." Nate advised.
"I'll tell her when you tell her Caitlyn." Shane retort.
"Fine we'll do it at the same time." Nate said. "Let's write a song. I'm sure I can manage to tell her with a song." They both took a seat and started to work on the song.
"What are you doing?" Jason asked when he came back from the mess hall.
"We just finished a song. We'll play it at pajama jam." Nate told him. "Let's hear how it sounds." The three boys practiced the song until Nate and Shane judged it perfect.