So i wasnt entirely sure how this would pan out, I rewrote it like THIRTY times but i finally spun it how I liked it and I hope you readers like it too! Enjoy and obviously i dontt own like anything actually! lol oh and by the way ; i really do love reviews, it really brightens my day a teeny bit when I get one :) Yay for 2000 words!
Jason walked unsteadily down the bus to the t.v. set. Ella was sitting curled up on the couch, the t.v. lighting her face. The blanket slipped off her lap and onto the floor. Everyone else was asleep in their bunks. Jason had merely woken up to get a drink until he had seen the television on.
¨Hi Jason.¨ Ella looked at him and smiled. He picked up the blanket and laid it gently over her. ¨Thanks.¨ She kissed his cheek. He sat next to her on the moving bus, pulling her into his arms. She sighed and looked up at his glassy gaze at the t.v. ¨So what´s going happening tomorrow?¨
Jason looked at her. ¨Why would something be going on tomorrow? It´ll take the day to drive to South Carolina.¨ Ella moved so forcefully from his arms she nearly fell to the ground.
¨Forget it.¨ She ground out, pulling herself onto her bunk, yanking the curtain shut.
¨What did I do?¨ Jason put his head in his hands before heading back to bed, soon realizing he still hadn´t gotten his drink.
¨Morning Jason! So what´s planned for today?¨ Caitlyn greeted him that morning. Jason looked at her. ¨Oh, you know.¨ He babbled. Nate looked at him curiously and turned back to the game of checkers he was playing with Shane. Jason turned to the back of the bus to change out of his pajamas.
He sat on the couch and reclined and suddenly there was a knock on the door. ¨Can we come in?¨ Shane and Nate said in unison.
¨Yeah sure.¨ Jason muttered. They entered quickly and Shane sat opposite him on the couch, Nate sitting at their feet.
¨We talked to Mitchie and Caitlyn.¨ Nate told him and Jason shrugged. Shane quickly finished what Nate had started. ¨And today´s yours and Ella´s one year year anniversary.¨ Jason´s eyes bugged out.
¨T-t-today?¨ He stuttered. The two nodded. He ran his hands through his hair. ¨Dammit I can´t believe I forgot. Today´s the seventeenth?¨ They nodded once more. He stood up, pacing through the room. ¨I, uh I dunno what to do!¨ And his best friends stood up to help.
¨Wait here.¨ Nate told them, standing up and returning with Caitlyn who eyed him angrily. Shane left and came back in with Mitchie´s hand in his.
¨We need you two to help Jason figure out how to fix this.¨ Caitlyn and Mitchie both crossed their arms. ¨Please...¨ Nate kissed Caitlyn tenderly and she gave in.
¨Okay...¨She kissed his cheek and looked at Mitchie, ¨He really does need the help with this.¨
But Mitchie stayed firm. ¨He messed up he fixes it.¨ She left quickly and Shane followed her, his voice carrying back to them.
¨Mitchiee, Jason needs our help. OW.¨ Mitchie seemed to have slammed the bathroom door in his face. ¨Mitchie open up!¨ Shane banged on the door angrily.
Caitlyn closed the door and pulled her laptop out of her bag, ¨So do you have any ideas?¨ She asked after booting it up. And like magic Jason´s face lit up. He practically flew from the room and returned with his bag. He shooed the rest of them out and sat down with his materials.
OVER WITH ELLA
Ella was laying down with her face in her arms, her hair pooling on her pillow. She watched the landscape pass by through the tiny window, turning the pages of her book. ¨Ella? Are you okay?¨ Nate´s face was between the curtain and wall. She turned to face him.
¨Oh Nate, yeah I´m fine.¨ He reached out and pat her arm. ¨Come on, we´re watching a movie.¨ He smiled. She grinned halfheartedly and dropped out of her bunk. She plopped down between Mitchie and Ella, nibbling on a cookie.
By the time the opening music had begun Ella had slid onto the floor, leaving a little more room for her four friends, wishing Jason was next to her. She knew he was locking himself in the back room, trying to figure out a romantic solution to forgetting their anniversary.
She probably shouldn´t have stormed off so angrily last night, he is still a guy and can forget sometimes. She knew she had overreacted and felt bad for that. She wanted so much to join him back there and have him hold her in his arms around her and kiss her forehead, the one thing that signified that all was right between them.
She gazed at the t.v. screen and tried to ignore the few sounds coming from behind her until finally she got tired of concentrating so hard on the movie, her eyes hurt so she decided to read in her bed.
WITH JASON
Jason wiped the tiny beads of sweat from his forehead and sat back wearily. They were mostly from nerves, hoping he hadn´t done the worst job. He surveyed his work and thought he had done fine, but he was biased. He grinned a little to himself, Ella always accuses him of being biased when she asks how she looks.
He looked out of the door and saw Shane affectionately caressing Mitchie´s shoulder with the very tips of his fingers, her head settled against his chest, a smile upon both their faces. Nate and Caitlyn were both sitting on the cushioned seat on one side of the kitchen table, Caitlyn´s keyboard clicking as she worked, her legs resting comfortably on Nate´s.
Nate would lift his arm from around her shoulder occasionally to point to something that would help her with whatever she was working on. And every time he helped she would tilt her head giving him a lingering kiss. Jason saw Ella nowhere in sight so he crept towards them.
¨Psst, Caitlyn, can you help me?¨ She nodded and reluctantly slid away from Nate who let his arm fall back down to his side, Caitlyn kissing his cheek and joining Jason in the back. Nate watched the closed door for a moment and then decided to join them.
¨Coming in!¨ He said quietly closing the door behind him. Caitlyn was leaning over her laptop bag, cords falling everywhere, a microphone balanced on her knee. Nate looked at the both of them quizzically and since Caitlyn was so preoccupied Jason handed him several pieces of paper, one; a lined piece of paper.
¨My Sincere Apology?¨ He read aloud. Jason nodded and began to play the song on his guitar. Caitlyn recording with everything. Forty-five minutes later Uncle Brown rapped his knuckles on the door. ¨Lunch!¨ He announced cheerily at first, his gaze becoming more confused as he eyed all the wires and cords.
The three shuffled out to the table and ate quickly, wanting to finish what they were so nearly done with. Once Nate had shoved the last bit of his b.l.t into his mouth, the trio just about flew to the back of the bus. Caitlyn handed him the finished product and he hugged her in thanks, tripping on his way back to his bunk, his bag bumping along behind him.
He swung himself up into his bunk and began to wrap everything carefully. He stayed there for another four hours, his body tense and stiff from hardly moving. At six o´clock he met Nate and Caitlyn to start getting prepared.
¨Brown! Can you come here?¨ Nate beckoned. Brown stood from the seat he was reading in. ¨Just wait here.¨ He pushed him into the mans own bedroom. He closed the door and hurried after Shane and Mitchie. ¨Just hang out here, anywhere, just not in the back room okay? please? Okay, good.¨
Caitlyn was sitting with Ella helping her pick out an outfit for her date with Jason that night. ¨What are we doing? Watching a movie or something?¨ She asked for the thirtieth time.
Jason applied the glue to the bottom of the vase and set it on the small table in the middle of the room. ¨It´s hard to plan a romantic anniversary on a moving bus.¨ He muttered to himself, looking around to check that everything was just about perfect.
Finally at eight Ella knocked on the door of the room and Jason opened it with a grin, he was wearing black jeans and a silk silver shirt. Ella smiled as he picked her up off of her feet and sat on the couch with her body splayed over his. He looked at her and smiled again; she was wearing a short turquoise dress and black leggings, her hair loose; how he loved it.
He sat up and gently set her next to him. ¨Look!¨ He pointed to the CD on the table in front of them. ¨What is it?¨ She leaned forward slightly to pick it up, her elbow bumping the vase and making it teeter and break. Jason dove toward it, trying to pick up the pieces; ¨I´m sorry, I thought it was more secure...¨ He began to mutter but she cut him off with a kiss, then looking at the case.
The cover was white and in the middle of it a white rose seemed to pop off the cover. She opened it and the CD fell out, landing at her feet. Ella picked it up delicately and popped it into the stereo next to them. It wouldn´t play... Jason feebly pushed buttons and tried to fix it but to no avail.
In an attempt to make right he picked up his guitar and began to play the song he had tried to hard to record all afternoon on Caitlyn´s computer. She swayed slightly to the melody and once he had finished she gave him a long kiss. ¨Jason that´s the most wonderful thing you could have ever done.¨ He kissed her, barely moving.
Once they had moved apart he held the pick in his hand. ¨I know it isn´t much...¨ And he slipped his lucky chain through the hole on the top of it and secured it around her neck.
¨Your lucky necklace?¨ She asked him quietly and he nodded.
¨I don´t need luck anymore, I have you, nothing can beat that.¨ He whispered and kissed her and she returned the kiss. Jason cradled her in his arms and kissed her roughly, his hands slipping along the edge of her dress. Once they had broken the kiss, Jason held her in his arms, his hands tracing circles on her arms.
¨Wait!¨ She exclaimed slipping through his embrace and running from the room, and coming back with a small book in her arms. He pulled her onto his lap and opened the book. It was a scrap book of them that past year, swimming at the lake at Camp Rock, going out on several dates, the little piece of paper Ella had handed him with her number on it so long ago; the edges frayed and torn.
Jason moved through the pages, his eyes soaking in each individual picture. ¨This is great Ella. Thank you.¨ He told her sincerely, slowly moving her so her back rested against his arm as he kissed her forehead. ¨I love you.¨ He finally said after a moments silence.
¨I love you too Jason.¨ She kissed him, slowly wrapping her arms around his neck as he smiled mischievously and pulled her closer to him.