Shane Gray smiled to himself as he stepped out of the school building. Summer had finally come, and school was out. He looked at the crumpled piece of paper in his hand and smiled even wider. He finally gotten the courage he needed to ask out the girl he'd been crushing on all year.
"Dude!" Kyle, one of Shane's best friends, clapped Shane on the shoulder.
"Didn't think you could do it man." His other friend, Mike, said.
"So, you got yourself a date with Cynthia." Kyle said, observing the piece of paper in Shane's hand.
"Yep. Party tomorrow night, you guys in?" Shane asked his friends, who nodded quickly.
"What about tonight?" Mike asked.
"Wait, what do you mean?" Shane replied, confused.
"The party tonight?" Mike said as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Oh, dude, can't. My uncle's coming down and I kind of promised I'd be there to see him." Shane said. He didn't get to see his uncle very often, so he wanted to at least spend a night catching up.
"That sucks." Kyle commented.
"Nah, not really. I haven't seen him in a while, plus, he said he's got some good news for me." Shane shrugged. His phone started beeping and he looked down, seeing a new message from his Mom saying that she was at the gates. "Oh, gotta run. See you tomorrow!" Shane called, running off to the school gates.
"Bye!" Kyle and Mike called after him.
Shane arrived home fifteen minutes later, to find his uncle sitting on the couch.
"Hey Uncle Brown." He greeted.
"Shane! How are you?" Brown Cesario asked looking up from his spot on the couch and going to hug his nephew.
"Great." Shane replied. "So what's this good news?"
"Ah, you know that music camp I've been trying to set up?" Brown began. Shane knew very well of the camp. His uncle had plans to open up a Summer camp called, 'Camp Rock' for musicians.
"Yeah…"
"Well, I've got enough applicants, and it's officially opened!" Brown exclaimed.
"That's great!" Shane congratulated him. "What does this have to do with me though?"
"Well, I was wondering if you'd wanna come and spend the summer at Camp Rock?"
Everyone who knew Shane knew he was crazy about his music. So, naturally he accepted his Uncle's offer.
"When does it start?"
"Well, we'd have to leave tomorrow."
Crap.
"Tomorrow? Can't we leave on Sunday instead?" Shane asked, his smile gone.
"Well, not really." Brown replied. Shane sighed. He wanted to go to Camp Rock so badly… But Cynthia…
"It's just that, I've got a date with a girl I've liked for the whole year. I don't want to cancel on her." Shane explained.
"Ah, don't worry mate. Move your date to tonight."
"You sure? I thought you wanted to catch up?"
"We'll have plenty of time to do that on the road."
Shane smiled as he ran towards his phone. "Thanks Uncle Brown!" He yelled from the kitchen. Brown just laughed.
The car trip was long, but Shane and Brown arrived at Camp Rock early Sunday morning.
"We're here." Brown said. Shane looked out the window admiring the parts of camp he could see.
He grabbed his stuff and threw it in the cabin he was staying in, and started walking around the camp. By that time, other campers had started to turn up. He walked around aimlessly, greeting other campers.
He heard music coming from the docks, so he decided to walk down there. He stopped short, seeing a boy, no older than thirteen playing guitar. Apparently, this camp had no age limit. The boy stopped and scribble something down on a piece of paper.
"It sounds pretty good." Shane commented walking over to the boy.
"Can't a guy get a little peace and quiet around here?" The boy snapped.
"Gee, sorry dude."
"Whatever."
"OK, I'm pretty sure that did not happen." Nate said interrupting Shane's story.
"It did." Shane said.
"Well, I'm sure I didn't say it like that."
"You're right it sounded more like –" Shane coughed and then spoke in a very high pitched voice. "Can't a guy get a little peace and quiet around here?"
Mitchie laughed. "Seriously?" She asked. Nate glared at her.
"My voice hadn't fully matured yet." Nate said.
"Doesn't matter. Point is, you said it and you said it like a girl." Shane said, waving his hand. He turned back to Mitchie before Nate could say something else. "Anyway…."
"Seriously though. You've got some real talent." Shane said.
"Thanks I guess." The boy said shrugging.
"I'm Shane, Shane Gray." He stuck out his hand for the boy to shake.
"Nathaniel Black. Everyone calls me Nate though." The boy, Nate, said shaking Shane's outstretched hand.
"Ha, we both have colors as our last names." Shane observed. Nate laughed a little. "How old are you anyway?" Shane asked, frowning a little now.
"Twelve." Nate responded. Shane's jaw dropped.
"Seriously? Wow…" He said.
"What about you?" Nate asked shrugging.
"Fifteen." Shane replied. They continued talking and somehow, Shane managed to convince Nate to play the song he was writing.
"Time for me to fly,
Time for me to soar,
Time for me to open up my heart and knock on heaven's door,
Time for me to live,
It's time for me to sing,
Time for me to lay down all my worries and I'll spread my wings,
Time for me to fly…"
Nate sung.
"Dude! That's awesome!" Shane said, clapping.
"Thanks, I've only got the chorus so far." Nate shrugged.
"Well it's great."
"Hey guys!" Another boy who looked a bit older than Shane came up to the two and smiled cheerfully.
"Hi…" Shane said hesitantly.
"What are your names?" The boy asked.
"Shane and Nate, you?" Nate asked.
"Jason White." The guy who they now knew as Jason replied.
"Look at that, we all have colors as our last names." Shane said.
"Yeah, and they are all different shades. Jason is White, you're Gray and I'm Black." Nate observed, laughing a bit.
"We should be friends then." Jason said sitting next to Nate and Shane. They look at each other and shrugged a little, laughing.
"And that's how we became friends." Shane said.
"OK… So… Now I wanna know what happened that summer at Camp Rock." Mitchie said eagerly.
"Really?" Shane groaned.
"Oh come on Shane!" Mitchie pouted.
"Stop." He said seriously. Mitchie then put on her best puppy eyes. "Oh, Mitch! No fair! You know I can't say no to your puppy eyes." Mitchie just continued staring at him. "Fine!" Shane said giving up.
"YES!" She yelled. Shane rolled his eyes.
"Well, after we met, we found out we were all in the same cabin…."
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