I Wonder If I'll Ever See You Again

Author's Note: Another Mitchie-less chapter. She'll hopefully be in the next one so you can see what she's doing. I do have this entire story planned out I just don't know how I'm gonna put out the chapters since Mitchie and Shane will be living separate lives for a while. Anyway, hope you enjoy

"All of my life where have you been? I wonder if I'll ever see you again. And if that day comes I know we could win. I wonder if I'll ever see you again."

Chapter Two: Tunnel Vision

All I want, is all you got
Make me happy baby and I'll make it hot
I don't need no doctor to tell me what to do
'Cause I know I'm goin' straight ahead for you
I got that tunnel vision goin' through my head
I can't help myself all I see is red
Tunnel vision goin' through my head

(At Camp Rock)

TESS

"I've been looking all over for you…Oh my gosh. What's the matter, Tess?" Shane said as he rushed to her side. Tess had stopped singing and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

Tess had to admit, her plans had worked out even better than she had hoped. She'd gotten Shane and every one else to turn against Mitchie by revealing Mitchie's lie. And then by accusing Caitlyn and Mitchie of stealing her charm bracelet, she'd gotten rid of Mitchie all together. She'd really only wanted to make sure Shane didn't find out that Mitchie was his mystery girl. But when Mrs. Torres had said that Mitchie would be leaving, Tess saw how much better that would be. She'd immediately rushed off to pack up Mitchie's things. She'd grabbed all of Mitchie's "China" clothes and thrown them into her bag. She purposely left out Mitchie's notebook, knowing she'd need it to memorize Mitchie's song. When Mitchie arrived at her former cabin, she found all of her stuff unceremoniously dumped on the porch. Mitchie was too humiliated to make sure everything was there. Within the hour, Mitchie was off to the airport. Tess was sure she'd be out of her and Shane's lives for good.

After Mitchie's departure, Tess put her own plan into effect. She thought about performing the song at final jam, but realized that Ella and Peggy would know it wasn't hers. So she decided she'd sing it when only Shane was around. But then she'd need a reason for her not to sing it all to him. She had all the lyrics but she didn't know the tune except for the part Mitchie had sung in their cabin. She spent that night trying to come up with an excuse. She was about to give up for the night when she got a call from her mother.

"Mom? What's up?" She asked, excited that her mother was actually calling her.

"Oh Honey, I have some bad news." Her mother said, sounding upset.

"What's wrong?" Tess asked, somewhat concerned.

"You're grandfather passed away today. I'm at the hospital now." Her mother explained.

"Oh. I'm sorry mom." Tess said.

"The funeral is the day after tomorrow. I'm sending a car to get you." Her mother said.

"But mom. It's almost final jam. I can't just leave." Tess complained.

"Tess Tyler. He's your grandfather." Her mother stated.

"I know but it's not like we were even close. I haven't seen him in years." Tess whined.

"That's because you refused to see him." Her mother said.

"Well I didn't want to go to some nursing home and talk to an old man I never even liked." Tess argued.

"You are coming and that's final. If I hear another word from you I won't have you flown back after the funeral." Her mother said, angrily.

"Fine." Tess said before hanging up.

"What happened?" Peggy asked. She'd overheard the conversation and was curious.

"My grandfather died and I have to go to the funeral the day after tomorrow." Tess answered, distractedly. She was trying to think of a way to spin this situation in her favor.

"I guess you weren't close." Peggy said.

"No I haven't seen him in years. He's been sick for a long time and I hate nursing homes. Anyway, he wasn't exactly my best friend before he got sick anyway. He didn't care at all about music. He owned a store." Tess said.

If she wasn't so distracted she probably wouldn't have revealed that bit of information about her not so glamorous family background. As such, Peggy just smiled, thinking about the first day when Mitchie had mentioned her father owned a hardware store. She was sorry Mitchie had left. Of course she had lied to them, but Peggy was starting to see why she might have felt like it was necessary. Tess could make life horrible if she didn't like you. She could even make life horrible if she did like you…or pretended to like you. For the time being, Peggy was just happy that she wasn't on Tess' bad side.

It took Tess all of five minutes to come up with a perfect plan. She'd use her grandfather's death to explain why she couldn't sing all of the song to Shane. She'd just make sure he heard her when he thought she didn't know he was listening.

"Hm…I should work on my tears. Let's put all those acting classes to good use." Tess said to herself as she went into the bathroom to practice crying on cue. She'd used this particular act a few times. It had always worked like a charm.

The next morning Tess got up at the crack of dawn. She wanted to get this over with today since she would be leaving tomorrow morning for the funeral. She planned on hanging out outside of Shane's cabin to see if she could overhear his plans for the day. As fate would have it, she came along just in time to duck behind a tree as Brown was talking to Shane.

"Why don't you work on some music? You've been writing some good stuff recently. You should hold on to whatever is inspiring you." She heard Brown say.

"Yeah I'll write songs about being lied to…But that is a good idea. I'll go down to the lake and see if I can't think of something." Shane answered.

Tess smiled. Shane was still mad at Mitchie. "I'm glad he's not sorry to see her go." Tess watched as Shane walked into his cabin. She realized that this was her moment. "Obviously this is fate." She thought as she rushed to the spot by the lake that she knew Shane frequented. She sat down and waited until she could see Shane coming down the path. She worked up some tears and then began singing.

"This is real. This is me. I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be now. Gonna let the light shine on me."

Tess stopped and waited for Shane to come out into the open and express his joy at finding his mystery girl. Five seconds later, he did just that. She heard his voice saying, "I've been looking all over for you" before stepping in front of her. She put on her saddest face and willed more tears to fall when he looked down at her.

"Oh my gosh. What's the matter, Tess?" Shane said as he knelt down in front of her. Tess took this opportunity to exploit Shane's concern. She cried out "Oh Shane," before wrapping her arms around him and burying her face in his chest. She smiled to herself as Shane wrapped his arms around her and consoled her.