AN - I'd like to thank the people that have been reviewing, they think my story is funny...(I think they're high! Shhhh, don't tell them!!) XD
Okay, anyways, I'm trying to update at least once a day, so I think I deserve a shiny metal...made out of sugar...hey! I can have dreams to! Aww stop laughing at me and get back to the Maitlyn!
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Chapter 4 - Shane's Gift
"Hey Tess." Mitchie greeted her blond friend as she sat down next to her at dinner.
"How's it been?" Caitlyn added as she sat down on Tess' other side.
"Actually, you'll never guess what happened!" She smiled brightly looking between the two.
"Shane asked you out, you said yes, blah blah blah..." Mitchie began, acting like it wasn't a big deal at all. Without even thinking about Mitchie began to play with the bracelet that was on her wrist. She felt guilty about wearing it, but she just couldn't take it off. Not yet. It was still...special to her.
"The point..." Caitlyn continued, "is that you really shouldn't have."
"Well, I'm sorry Mitchie, but it's Shane Gray! I'm gonna turn him down because you're jealous." She replied while playing idly with her food on the plate in front of her.
"Jealous? No. No! No way. This is about Shane's real reason for asking you out." Mitchie replied, while giving Caitlyn a look that said, we're about crash and die!
"Yeah, you should really know the truth, Tess." Caitlyn added.
"The truth?" Tess asked, still staring at her plate, stabbing at the food with a fork.
"Well, you see...Shane is kind of planning on using you to make me jealous." Mitchie quietly answered.
"It's true." Caitlyn agreed.
"You know what I think? I think the real truth is that you're jealous, and now you and your lesbian are trying to get back at me for what I did last summer." Tess spat while glaring at Mitchie.
"What? No! You can ask Nate and Jason, Shane told them everything!" Mitchie defended, anger boiling inside her. She looked past Tess to see Caitlyn staring off to the side, a sad and somewhat heart breaking expression on her face.
"No, I'm not falling for this. So you take your side-kick and you gays get out of my face." Tess retorted while standing up and walking away. Her words still stung even when she was no longer there.
"So much for the new Tess." Caitlyn sadly said to Mitchie as they stood to go find the others and inform them of their tragic failure.
"Why does she have to be like that?" Mitchie asked as they began the walk to the other end of the Mess Hall.
"She knows everything we told her is true. She's just too upset to deal with it right now. Maybe she'll do something about it tomorrow." Caitlyn optimistically answered.
"How'd it go?" Peggy asked as they sat down at the large table that was occupied by Nate, Jason, Ella, Peggy, Lola, Barry, and Sander.
"Let's just say we'll be needing some ice for the burns." Mitchie replied while secretly grabbing onto Caitlyn's hand from underneath the table.
"Ouch, that bad?" Nate asked after sipping on his soda.
"Yep, say hello to the old Tess, she's back and worse then ever." Caitlyn replied.
"Sounds like we need a new plan." Peggy commented.
"Plan? Why didn't we get invited to join in on whatever you guys are talking about?" Barry asked, pretending to be hurt.
"Do you mind destroying the dreams of Tess Tyler?" Mitchie asked in a joking tone.
"Not at all!" Lola answered while Barry and Sander smiled in agreement.
"Then welcome to the club." Jason said while giving Sander a hug. Everyone laughed as Sander tried to escape Jason's hug, and the rest of dinner went surprisingly smooth.
"Alright, so does anybody have any ideas for a plan b?" Nate asked as most of the campers began to leave the Mess Hall.
"Ooh! We should steal all her make-up!" Ella suggested.
"Okay, does anybody have a plan that doesn't involve stealing?" Nate asked with a smile.
"I say we just wait it out. I mean, what can we do until we know what Tess is gonna do?" Peggy asked.
"Yeah, she could be talking to Shane about all this right now." Lola added.
"And if she is, Shane will know that Mitchie knows it's all fake." Caitlyn continued.
"Which means he'll have no need to keep dating Tess." Nate continued.
"Which means he'll dump her!" Jason realized.
"Yep, and she'll realize we were right." Mitchie smiled. This was starting to sound good. I mean it was most likely what was going to happen. They were right, she shouldn't worry about it. But she couldn't help but still feel a little jealous about them dating...even it was fake.
"And then she'll come back from the dark side." Barry finished.
"But, guys, what's Shane gonna do when he's all alone?" Ella asked.
"What do you mean?" Sander asked.
"Well, his best friends..." She gestured to Jason and Nate, "and his girlfriend..." She nodded towards Mitchie, "are all on our side now. Once he looses Tess...he won't have anyone."
"Wow, Ella, that sounded really really smart!" Jason said in awe, making Ella blush with a big goofy smile on her face.
"She's right guys." Nate sighed. "Shane's going to be alone. I'd bet he leaves Camp Rock."
"But where's he gonna go?" Mitchie asked in a worried tone. Caitlyn gently squeezed her hand to comfort her.
Nate looked around at everyone, stopping at Mitchie, and then looking down at his empty plate. "I dunno. He's got the whole world to go to."
Everyone was silent after that. And one by one they got up and said their goodbyes and left to go back to their cabins. All until Mitchie, Caitlyn, and Nate were the last ones in the Mess Hall. The light was slowly fading away outside, the sunset was shining through the windows.
"So, how are you guys holding up?" Nate asked them after he chugged the rest of his drink.
Mitchie looked over at Caitlyn, they were still holding hands.
"Depends on what you mean." Caitlyn finally replied, looking away from Mitchie and to him.
"Well, it's just that there's a lot of rumors going around about you guys. I was just seeing if you were okay." Nate clarified.
"Yeah, we're fine." Mitchie answered, looking over at him.
"And not to be too nosy, but have you told your parents about each other yet?" He asked while leaning back in his chair.
"Nate, I don't think it's been 24 hours yet." Caitlyn replied with a small laugh.
"Ah, so you admit to being a couple?" He asked smiling at his trickyness.
"Actually we're not a couple. Not yet, anyways." Mitchie replied.
"So, you're not dating, yet you can't keep you're eyes off each other?" Nate smiled.
"It's...complicated." Caitlyn answered.
"Listen..." He replied while leaning forward and placing his arms on the table. "Don't let the other campers scare you. You guys should be whatever you wanna be, no matter what anybody thinks of you. All that matters is what you think of yourself."
"Hey, Mister Smartypants, I don't think we're the ones that need love advice." Mitchie replied while laughing.
"And what's that suppose to mean?" Nate asked, laughing as well.
"Come on, do you hear yourself when you're talking about Tess? You so like her!" Mitchie answered while Caitlyn started laughing too.
"Okay, maybe, but you guys gotta keep it down. If Shane finds out he'll never let her go, just screw with me." Nate replied with a smile.
"Relax, rockstar, you're secret is safe with us." Caitlyn promised.
"Alright, well, I think I'm off to bed. Night guys." Nate said while standing up and walking towards the door.
"Night!" Mitchie and Caitlyn said at the same time, causing them to laugh. Once Nate had left the Mess Hall, Mitchie sighed and stood up, instantly regreting it because she was no longer holding hands with Caitlyn. She already missed the warmth.
"Bed time." Mitchie said while slowly walking towards the door, Caitlyn right by her side. A yawn escaped Mitchie, and she blinked back the stray tears that were coming to her eyes. She hated how yawning made her get all teary.
They reached their cabin laughing, from a joke that Caitlyn had just told, a few minutes later.
"Shhh! People might be sleeping." Mitchie whispered to Caitlyn through her giggles.
They slowly, and quietly, walked up the steps to their cabin but as they reached the door Mitchie stopped. The sound of someone talking was coming from inside the cabin.
"Wait, someone's in there." Mitchie whispered to Caitlyn, backing up from the door and grabbing Caitlyn's soft hand.
"In our cabin?" Caitlyn asked looking over at the number to make sure they were at the right one.
"Let's look in the window." Mitchie suggested before they got on their hands and knees and crawled over to the window. Slowly, they peaked inside.
"Shane, I'm serious, we should go." Tess said to Shane, who was walking away from Mitchie's bed and over to Caitlyn's. Was he looking for something?
"Hang on." He replied while opening up the drawers to the night stand by Caitlyn's bed.
"He's going through my stuff!" Caitlyn whispered in shock.
"Shane, come on! They'll be back any second! And you know the camp rule, no boys in the girls' cabin's after eight pm." Tess pleaded, her voice shaking.
"I just need to find it!" Shane exclaimed to her, his voice angry.
"Find what?" Mitchie whispered to Caitlyn.
"I say we bust them." Caitlyn whispered back.
"We can't, look at how mad he is." Mitchie whispered back.
"Who cares? It's not like he'd..." Caitlyn stopped talking when she saw Shane walk towards Tess.
"Where is it? I paid good money for that stupid thing!" He asked her.
"I don't know, it should be here, unless she's wearing it." Tess replied.
"Wearing what?" Caitlyn whispered while turning to look at Mitchie. Instantly she spotted what they were talking about. The charm bracelet that Shane had given her at the end of Camp last summer.
Mitchie couldn't help but blush.
"You're still wearing that?" Caitlyn asked, forgetting to whisper.
"What was that?" Tess asked Shane whipping around to look at the door to the cabin. "Let's go Shane, you can get it later." Tess pleaded. Mitchie had never heard Tess sound so desperate.
"Fine." He sighed while walking towards the door.
"Hide!" Mitchie whisperd while grabbing Caitlyn's shoulder and quickly pulling them off the cabin porch and behind some bushes.
From there they watched Tess and Shane exit the cabin and walk off along the trail.
"That was close." Mitchie said while letting out a nervous laugh, hoping Caitlyn had some how forgotten about the charm bracelet.
Caitlyn didn't reply, she walked past Mitchie and towards the cabin.
"Caitlyn, I can explain." Mitchie called behind her, hearing quite a bit of desperation in her own voice.
"Save it." She heard Caitlyn mutter as she walked inside the cabin, Mitchie following her.
"No, Caitlyn, I just..." She tried to defend herself, but she couldn't think of anything to say.
"You just what? Forgot about it?" Caitlyn asked, the hurt in her voice made Mitchie want to kick herself. How could she have made her this upset? Nothing was worse then seeing her like this. She had to do something. Anything.
"No, I just...I wasn't ready to take it off yet." She honestly replied.
"Is that suppose to mean you still wish you were with him?" She asked turning to look at Mitchie.
She was silent for awhile. That was exactly what she had been thinking before. But now...now was different. It still hurt that Shane had dumped her like he did, but did she still like him that way? After everything that has happened...no...she didn't...the thought of going back to Shane was...no...she didn't want Shane anymore. She wanted something entirely different. Something that meant the world to Mitchie.
"No. I don't want to be with Shane. I want to be with you." Mitchie said while slipping off the charm bracelet Shane had given her. She reached out and took Caitlyn's hand. She turned it palm side up and placed the bracelet on it. She closed her fingers over it and asked the question she'd been wanting to ask for, what now seemed like, forever.
"Will you be my girlfriend?"
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AN- Are you feeling the love yet? XD