Good evening everybody (at least it's evening for me)
So I know that I was supposed to update tomorrow night but we're going to Paris with my parents and the little boy we have for the summer and we'll be back really late so I prefer to update tonight. I'm sure you won't mind anyway.
Here is Chapter 10, hope you'll like it.
Someone came from behind her and put a jacket on her shoulders.
Chapter 10:
"She had what she wanted?" Nate asked Mitchie as he sat beside her. Mitchie simply nodded and Nate hugged her. Tears fell even harder than before. "Come on Mitchie lets get you back to your cabin." He told her and helped her up.
They made their way back to Mitchie's cabin silently. She was thankful that Nate didn't ask what happened with Shane even when it was obvious that her state had something to do with him.
When she got to the cabin, Caitlyn and Jason were waiting for them. Jason hugged her while Nate kissed Caitlyn goodnight. Then the guys went back to their cabin for the night.
Mitchie went into her bedroom after Caitlyn had hugged her and told her everything would be alright. She curled up into a ball under the covers and cried herself to sleep.
Thankfully her classes were over apart from her sessions with Tom for final jam, because she was in no shape to teach a class when she woke up the next morning.
"Do you want to tell me what happened?" Caitlyn asked when she entered the living room.
"He wants time to think about my lack of trust in him." Mitchie said and cried again, but only a few tears this time. Caitlyn got up from the couch and came to give her a tight hug.
Nate, Jason and Caitlyn all took turns to stay with Mitchie that day, not willing to leave her alone.
"Mitchie, be reasonable, you can't go looking like that." Caitlyn told her when it was time for Tom's lesson.
"Caitlyn, Shane gave his dance classes, I can help Tom practice, I'm not about to break down." She protested.
"Nate already filled in for you." Caitlyn said and pushed her back on the couch. Mitchie hadn't been able to leave the cabin that day and it was starting to get on her nerves.
"Let me at least take a walk across camp." She almost begged her friend. "You can come with me if you want." She added when she saw Caitlyn skepticism.
"Fine." Caitlyn agreed and they went for a walk. They saw Tess from afar and went in the opposite direction to be sure they wouldn't cross paths.
With Shane (hip hop class):
Shane wasn't really in the mood for dancing that day. He had watched Mitchie sitting on the pond till Nate came and got her inside, and he had spent most of the night tossing and turning.
Mitchie didn't show up for breakfast and it made him feel a little guilty. He knew that Tess and she weren't the best of friends, and he couldn't really blame her for not trusting Tess, but him? It kind of broke his heart knowing that she didn't trust him.
He made it through his classes trying to act as normal as possible, like nothing hap happened.
Tess came by at the end of one of his afternoon classes. "Hey, I just wanted to say sorry for yesterday." She told him, but somehow Shane thought she didn't look that sorry.
Students started to arrive and Tess left. Tom came rushing in when he was about to start the class. Mitchie had come out from her cabin, and Shane was glad. Maybe he'd be able to watch her at dinner.
Mess Hall:
Dinner time came around and Shane didn't see Mitchie. She had eaten in the kitchen before anyone came to have dinner and went back to her cabin.
Nate, Jason, Shane and Caitlyn sat at their usual table talking about nothing in particular but avoiding the topic of what had happened between Shane and Mitchie the previous day.
"Hey guys, can I sit with you?" Tess asked and earned a glare from all four of them. Even Shane was blaming her for what had happened. He had had a talk with his uncle and he never talked about a reunion with Tess.
Tess ignored their glare and sat beside Shane. Caitlyn balled her hands into fists and glared even more at her. "We never said you could sit with us." She said through clenched teeth.
"And I never said I would listen to your answer." Tess replied on the same tone.
Caitlyn got up and went by Tess, pulled her up and dragged her outside. "Now listen to me. You're wasting your time. Shane loves Mitchie and she loves him too. You can try as hard as you want to break them up it won't work." Caitlyn snapped at her.
"Oh you think that?" Tess asked her with a smirk. "I'm Tess Tyler, I always get what I want and right now what I want is Shane. And I think I'm doing a pretty good work, they haven't talked to each other today, have they?"
"Caitlyn leave it." Nate called from behind her. Obviously he had heard everything and was planning to tell Shane on the first occasion he'd have, and Tess knew that. She would make sure that the three of them wouldn't be with Shane long enough to tell him.
Mitchie and Caitlyn's cabin:
Once Nate had calmed Caitlyn down and that Jason had finished his dinner, they went back to the girls' cabin and found Mitchie in the living room with her guitar and her song book.
"Writing another song?" Caitlyn asked and sat beside her.
"Yeah, could you guys play with me? I want to see how it sounds." Mitchie asked Shane's band mates who accepted right away.
Final Jam:
"You can do it Tom. We've practiced, you're ready." Mitchie encouraged Tom before he went on stage. It's been two days since Shane and Mitchie had last spoken to each other.
Nate had had some time alone with Shane that afternoon and explained everything Tess had told Caitlyn the night before. Shane had wanted to talk to her just before final jam but Brown had called him over to the judges' table. "Campers, parents, please welcome on stage Tom Dice." Brown called from the stage. Tom took a last big breath and went on stage with his acoustic guitar.
People always say
Tom this has gone too far
But I'm not afraid to chase my dreams
Just me and my guitar.
And no one may ever know
The feelings inside my mind
Cause all of the lines I ever write are
Running out of time.
So maybe I should get a nine to five
But I don't wanna let it go
There's so much more to life.
Tell me that I got it wrong
Tell me everything will be okay
Before I fall
And tell me they will play my songs
Tell me they will wing the words I'll say
When darkness falls
Then all of the stars will see
Just me and my guitar.
I'm sure that I'll find my way
Cause I'm not afraid to try
But even a world of love and hope
Can't guarantee that price
So maybe I should get a nine to five
But I don't wanna let this go
There's so much more to life, no
Tell me that I got wrong
Tell me everything will be okay
Before I fall
No no
Tell me they will sing the words I'll say
When darkness falls
Then all of the stars will see
Just me and my guitar
Oh, oh
Me and my guitar.
Tom got up from the stool he had been sitting on and the crowd of parents and campers erupted in applause. Mitchie was really proud of him, probably just like Brown had been proud of her the first time she had sung at final jam.
Brown got back on the stage. "Alright everyone, this is the end of final jam. Our judges will go... well, judge and tell us who the winner of this year's final jam is." Everyone applauded once again.
The boys and Tess got up and went at the end of the catwalk to judge the campers' performance and Brown came back backstage.
"Brown would you mind if I sung one of my songs while they judge?" Mitchie asked him. She needed to get things off her chest.
"Sure puppet, but don't make it a habit to sing at the end of final jam each time Shane's here." He said and handed her the microphone.
"I have my lap top ready." Caitlyn said when she turned to her.
They both went on stage, all eyes focused on them. It felt like three years earlier all over again.