So I have been without an actual computer for about 5 months now. The only reason you guys are getting this is because I'm working on it at school. (QUICK NOTE! The internet at my school has been down for almost a week, and it's finally back up. I have no idea for how long, so I don't have time to go back and proof read this. Just let me know if I screw it up too badly, okay?) This author's note is going to be short and sweet. Thanks so much for the support guys; I can't believe I'm so close to 100 reviews. You guys are awesome.
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Here's chapter 8, love you guys!
Disclaimer: I do not own Camp Rock, Jonas Brothers, anything. Sucks, doesn't it?
"Shane, would you just calm down? Seriously, you're starting to piss me off again." Mitchie shook her head at her boyfriend as she said this. "Whatever you have against Joe, just drop it. You have no reason to be jealous of him."
"For the last time Mitch, I'm not jealous of the stupid pop star; he's jealous of me! You should've seen the looks he was giving me when he was up on stage."
Nate snorted. "Dude, if I remember correctly, you were glaring at him just as much as he was glaring out you."
"Nathaniel, that is completely besides the point. I don't like him." Shane was done with conversation. He flopped himself down on the coach and beckoned Mitchie to sit next to him. They had been waiting for the upside of twenty minutes for the Jonas Brothers to come and meet with them, and honestly, Shane was tired of waiting.
Mitchie flopped down next to Shane and leaned into him. "You really need to relax, babe."
"Alright, alright." He grabbed a hold of Mitchie's waist and pulled her into the coach with him. He could've fallen asleep there, the coach was that comfy. Just when he was about to fall asleep with Mitchie, five boys rushed through the door and slammed it shut.
"Dude, teenage girls are freaking insane!" yelled Brett as they struggled to keep the door shut long enough to lock it.
Mitchie pulled from Shane and smiled at the new group of people in the room. Turning back to look at Shane, she pecked him on the lips then jumped up to go greet the boys. Caitlyn joined her as she walked over to them.
"You boys are absolutely nuts, you know that? You're lucky I love you so much." Mitchie laughed as she and Caitlyn helped to lock the door.
"Thanks Mitch, I mean it. I didn't think we'd ever be able to shut that blasted thing." Jon laughed. "Now c'mere and give me a hug chickadee! I missed you babe!"
Mitchie rolled her eyes and dove into Jon's arms. God, she had missed these boys.
"Donal!" Caitlyn yelled and attacked the guy in question. "I've missed you so much dude, how've you been? Keeping the hair color funky?"
Donal smiled and hugged Caitlyn a little tighter. "Of course, Caity baby! You?"
She pulled back and flashed him the purple underside of her hair. "Always."
Nate cleared his throat by means of communication, the communication being, 'Hello, introduce us!'
"Oh, right, sorry guys. UO!E, meet our friends. This is my boyfriend, Nate, Mitchie's boyfriend, Shane, Jason, and Ella." Caitlyn introduced one side of the room, she figured Mitchie could do the other.
"Guys, this is Jon, Brett, Donal, Kevin, and Tyler." Mitchie was so happy they all finally got to meet.
"Sup?" Jon said rather loudly, popping the 'p' in the process.
"So, White Flower," Donal said, addressing Mitchie, "when are these JoBro dudes coming to meet us?"
"Donal....you know I said not to call me that." She couldn't keep the smile off of her face though because it reminded her so much of old times, before the boys were big, back when they used to come over to her house every Saturday night for dinner and music. "They'll be here soon, I guess."
"Ehem." Mitchie started at the sudden noise right behind her. She turned around, as did everyone else that wasn't facing the door and saw Joe Jonas standing there with his signature smirk on, the one that was very similar to Shane's. Behind him, Nick and Kevin stood smiling away, looking genuinely happy to be there.
Shane shot up and practically ran over to Mitchie, putting a protective arm around her. She shot him a look.
"Dude, calm down. It's not like we haven't met before or anything." Joe waved his hand nonchalantly at Shane. "How's Auntie doing?"
"Fine. How's Aunt Vi?"
"Good."
"Good."
Mitchie, well, everyone actually, looked between Shane and Joe as they exchanged the few, dry words to each other. She was the first to be able to ask the question that was on everyone's mind, besides the Grey's and the Jonas'. "Wait-do you guys know each other or something?"
"Or something. Our mom's are friends, unfortunately." Shane snorted.
Joe looked at Shane half with disgust, half with admiration. "Yeah, unfortunately is right. My mom and his mom were next door neighbors growing up, they've been best friends ever since."
Shane went to say something else which would no doubt start an argument, but Mitchie squeezed his hand. Hard.
He looked over at her with a slightly pained look before looking down quickly. Mitchie was shooting him a 'shut your mouth now' look. After, she looked over at the three non-Grey brothers with a smile.
"Well, nice to meet you. I'm Mitchie Torres," she smiled and shook each of their hands. She then turned to the rest of the people in the room and started introducing them. After each name was said, the three brothers would shake the person's hand, then moved on to the next.
When they got to the other band present in the room, they thanked them for opening for them on such short notice and started talking about music. Basically, this consisted of Jon and Joe talking about hair products and other insignificant things, Brett and Kevin (Jonas) talking about guitars, and Donal and Nick talking about the business aspect of music. The other Kevin and Tyler were speaking with Cait about their next CD and how she could help them out.
At that moment, Mitchie thought they she could never be happier. Surrounded by here best friends and family, as well as a band that she somehow adored, she felt at peace.
Of course, peace can never last for long in a small dressing room, especially when it's surrounded by screaming fans wanting a piece of every band member in the room. Plus, the teens locked in the room were beginning to become restless. They needed to get out and do something fun. Who knows? Maybe they'd even become friends with the poppy boy band.
Unanimously, they voted to go bowling far away from Los Angeles so that they could avoid as much paparazzi as possible. Publicity had it's perks at times, but right now was not one of them. Stealthily, Mitchie and Shane escaped to his Saleen, while Caitlyn and Nate escaped to his car. Jason and Ella went to their car, the Uh Oh boys escaped to their van, and the 'Jo Bros' slipped into Nick's Mustang. None of them knew how, but they made it away without anyone noticing.
Cerritos AMF Lanes was one of the best bowling alleys Mitchie had ever been to. Of course, growing up not too far from the place did make her a bit biased, but who cares.
They all went up and got there shoes and paid for two games; if they wanted to play more, they'd just send Jason up with their money to pay for more.
The rules were simple. Each team consisted of four people with the exception of Ella and Jason. They were bowling champs and bowled a 300 almost every time, so they were discluded from the tournament. How to divide the teams became the hardest part.
In the end, Team 1 consisted of Joe, Mitchie, Brett, and Jon. Team 2 was Nate, Nick, Donal, and Kevin. Finally, Team 3 was Shane, Caitlyn, Tyler, and Kevin J.
"Okay, here's how it's going to go." Mitchie started, "Each team is going to play to the best of it's ability and then add the four members score at the end. Whichever team has the highest total after ten frames wins."
"As for the losers," Caitlyn laughed maniacally, "the losers have to bow before the winning team and buy them dinner at their choice of restaurant."
"Any restaurant?" Jon asked with wide, saucer looking eyes.
Mitchie nodded her head with a smile. "Any restaurant."
"Yes, sweet, SCORE!" Jon yelled while jumping up and down in joy. "Boys, we're getting us some decent grub tonight! Sweet success."
Brett proceeded to do some insane happy dance that was a mix between the electric slide, the moon walk, and line dancing, all the while singing, "We're getting good food, we're getting good food."
Caitlyn shook her head and looked over at Nate. He gestured her over and gave her a small peck on the lips when she was close enough.
"Good Luck, Caity." He said as she started to walk away.
"You too. You're going to need it against us." She laughed haughtily. "Shane! Stop flirting with your girlfriend and get over here. We need to beat these guys cause I want to go to the pirate show for dinner!"
Brett's eyes lit up. "Pirate show?! I love that place! Mitchie, Mitchie! Can we please go there if we win? Please?"
"Well," Mitchie pretended to think about it. Joe, Brett, and Jon all looked at her with pleading eyes. "I suppose so. But! You guys have to buy me frozen yogurt at Berry Sweet. Deal?"
"Mitchie, I will buy you the whole damn shop if you let us go to the pirate show." Joe said seriously.
Now it was Mitchie's turn for her eyes to light up. "Yes! I'm gonna get me some kiwi on pineapple dole whip stuff, and strawberries, and, and-"
"Okay, okay, calm down. None of that matters in comparison to the pirate show!" Brett yelled, still clearly excited.
"Oh, you're right. Those pirate guys are yummy."
"Can we please just start already?" Shane asked in frustration. Apparently, he didn't want his girlfriend thinking about hot pirates. Party pooper.
"Alright, our names are all in the systems. Team One, you're up." Nick announced to the group.
"We'd like to be called Team Awesome, if you don't mind too much Nicky-boy." Jon smiled cheesily.
"Party Team for three!" Tyler yelled.
Nick took note of the changes and put in 'Music' for Team Two.
They were going to play in team order. To explain further, Team Awesome would send up their first player to bowl. Immediately after, Music would send up their first person, and finally, Party Team would send up their first person. Then it would start over with Team Awesome sending up their second member. It would continue like that until all ten frames were played. (A/N If you've never actually done something like this, you really should. It's so much fun, especially during cosmic bowling times.)
Joe went up first for Team Awesome. He bowled a perfect strike, right down the middle. Mitchie, Jon, and Brett high-fived him as he sat done with a smug smirk. Take that, Shane.
Donal went up to the line. Looking completely serious and concentrated, he bowled two gutter balls in a row.
"No!!" Kevin yelled and fell to the floor. "Why, cruel world, why?"
He stood up and was over it in ten seconds.
Tyler stepped up to bowl next.
(A/N I'm not going to sit here and write every freaking frame because it would get boring. If you actually, genuinely care what everyone bowled, send me a pm and I'll send you all their scores. Just know, I'm going to put random, infinite numbers and not be completely serious.)
In the end, Team Awesome did wind up winning, and they did choose to go to the pirate dinner show over in Buena Park. Unfortunately, since it was a dinner show, they needed to have a reservation in order to go. Joe called and made the reservation, front row of course, for that next Tuesday at 4:00 pm.
This got Mitchie thinking. They graduated next week. How was that even possible? Where had the time gone? She would be going to New York soon, so would Caitlyn, but Shane? She had no idea. Would he want to go back to the Northeast? She couldn't blame him if he didn't want to, but she would miss him something fierce. Maybe staying close to home wouldn't be so bad. Maybe she could just go to a community college in the area, or a local university-
No. NYU was her dream, she couldn't give it up. Could she?
She was shook out of her musings when she realized that they were all getting in their respective cars to go back to the Grey's house, including the band boys. Another Guitar Hero tournament was to take place, as well as a pool tournament for whoever wanted to play.
Obviously, Mitchie and Caitlyn, as well as Jon and Brett, chose to play pool against each other. Girls versus boys.
Kevin J. and Jason teamed up on guitar hero, both going to Expert, and completely annihilated the previous high scores.
In order to beat this unstoppable force, Shane and Joe knew what they had to do. They were forced to put aside their differences and team up. This was just temporary of course. After the game, they would resume hating each other, but for now? Teamwork was key.
All the while, the teens playing pool were talking about something much different than games. Jon was a nineteen-year-old boy; he needed food! And Brett? He was a twenty-two-year-old bottomless pit. Food was always on their minds.
"Mitchie!" Brett whined after sinking a ball in one of the corner pockets. "I'm starving! I need food!"
"Call Austin, see if their having a barbeque over at someone's house. I don't feel like paying for a bunch of cheeseburgers for you guys."
"You call her!" He continued to whine.
Why must she have a soft spot for the boy? He could be so damn annoying at times, but she loved him to pieces. Ultimately, she would do anything for him and he knew that. Freaking mooch.
"Fine." Mitchie sighed in exasperation. She hit a trick shot to sink the seven and handed her cue over to Caitlyn. "Take my shots for me, I'm going to call Austin, see if they're having a barbeque at TK's house or somewhere else."
"Good luck with that, babe." Caitlyn snorted and watched as Jon tried to hit the ten.
"Thanks." Mitchie grumbled and walked away, taking out her phone in process. Pressing one of her speed dials, she waited for Austin to answer. In the meantime, a TREOS song greeted her ears as a ring back tone. She was almost sad when Austin answered. Almost.
"Cello?"
"Hey oh-amazing-cousin-of-mine."
"What do you want?"
"Why do I have to want something to call you? Am I not allowed to just say hi?" She giggled.
"Coming from you? No way in hell. What do you want?" He deadpanned.
"Fine, fine. Are you guys having a barbeque anywhere tonight? We want food, but we don't want to pay an arm and a leg. We can bring a twelve pack if that counts as admission."
"Lemme ask TK real quick, hold on."
She heard muffled yells as Austin began to ask around. A minute or so later, he came back with a laugh.
"Yeah, since we're all here already, we're doing a big cookout then going in the pool. Cost of admission is a bottle of Jack."
"We can do that. We'll see you in a few. Love you!"
"Later."
"Yes!" She yelled and jumped in the air in triumph. "Guys, guys! Listen up! We're going out to eat after all!"
"How much is it going to cost? I don't have much on me." Nate said as he continued to hammer away on the plastic guitar.
"That's the thing," she smiled, "it's only going to cost us a trip to the market."
The look on her face was enough to make Caitlyn shake her head. "What's the price of admission?"
"A bottle of Jack."
"Seriously? Large or small?" Caitlyn was genuinely shocked. They usually had to find something hard to come by. There had to be a catch.
"Didn't specify. I think we're getting off really easily. It seems kind of….strange. I don't know, maybe they feel like being nice?" Just then, Mitchie decided to check her watch. She was astonished to see that it was almost three in the morning. Good thing she told her mother she'd be staying at the Grey's house for the night. (A/N To explain the time frame, think about it. The concert ended around 11:00, they went bowling which took about two hours, plus all the driving they did everywhere. That equates to around 3:00 am)
Watching Mitchie check her watch prompted Caitlyn to do the same. "Oh, that's why. Almost all of the markets are closed at this time of night. We're going to have to drive over to Long Beach to go to the all night liquor store. Lazy adults." Caitlyn groaned and hung her head. "I knew it wouldn't be this easy."
"Well, we better get going if we're ever going to get there for food. You know them, they've probably smoked a bowl by now and have the munchies." Mitchie sighed. She seemed to be doing that quite a lot lately, despite how uncharacteristically happy she had been.
Wrapping up all of the games they had been playing-pool, Guitar Hero, and Halo-they headed out (again) to their vehicles to get the specified substance needed for entry to the barbeque. Food was sounding freaking amazing to everyone by the time they arrived at TK's house.
The first person to come and great them when they arrived was Mitchie's aunt Meg and her fiancé, Josh.
"Mitchie baby!" The older woman yelled.
"Auntie Meg!" The other gushed and ran to the approaching couple, pulling them both into a bear hug. "It seems like I haven't seen you guys in forever!"
Josh pulled back to allow Mitchie and Meg to talk, and sauntered over to talk to Shane. For some reason, they really got along, even though they were complete opposites on almost everything.
Mitchie and Meg talked for a few minutes about everything they possibly could. Meg's mind kind of had a way of its own, wandering off to different topics every few seconds or so. Over the years, Mitchie had learned to, somehow, keep up with the ebbs and flow of their conversations. She really was a sweet woman, she just had the mentality of a five year old sometimes, making it easy for her to relate to her daughter, as well as Josh's.
As if hearing her mental call, Lexi and Kenzie came running over and tackled Mitchie's legs.
"Mitchie moo!!" Redheaded Kenzie screamed in delight.
"Monkey!" Came the reply of the little blonde Lexi.
"We love you!" They yelled in unison.
Mitchie and Meg laughed at the two little girls that were clinging to Mitchie's legs for dear life. Ever so slowly, Mitchie began to walk towards the confused looking brothers who had no idea who anybody was. The two girls, she noticed, wouldn't let go which made her chuckle even more. She loved them too much to get them off.
"Joe, Nick, Kevin, calm down guys. It's not a big deal. This is my family and these are our friends. Just go and start talking to people, trust me, they won't care." She smiled, "They love meeting new people."
Joe nodded his head slowly and walked over to a blonde girl that was talking with Brett. Mitchie immediately winced when the girl turned around to respond. It was her cousin, and Austin's sister, Natalie. This was not going to go over well.
A volleyball player, as well as the valedictorian of her graduating high school class, Natalie was headstrong and not afraid of anyone. She was definitely not afraid to speak her mind, which was a good thing for most people….a definite bad thing for Joe. She hated poppy boy bands, and that's what they were in her mind; cookie-cutter popstar crap.
Mitchie shook her head and decided not to worry about it. The three brothers would get along fine without her. She hoped so anyways.
Shrugging her shoulders, she attempted to bend down and get the little leeches known as Lexi and Kenzie off of her legs.
"Girls, I need to go talk with Shane. You can say hi, but I don't want you guys to be attached to either of us, okay?"
"Okay!" Lexi said excitedly.
"Kissy, kissy, muah!" yelled Kenzie.
The girls broke into a fit of giggles and reluctantly let go of Mitchie's legs. She grabbed one of each of their hands and walked over to Shane, Josh, and Brett.
"Shaney!" The two little ones yelled and attacked Shane's legs.
Mitchie sighed and shook her head. Shane laughed and pried both of the girls off of his legs, picking them up in his arms in the process. "Hey girlies, how've you been?"
They giggled in response. The two girls loved Shane. Honestly, they pretty much thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. He took them wherever they wanted to go, as long as it was okay with their parents anyways. One time, he and Mitchie even picked them up early from school and took them to Disneyland.
Just as he was about to squeeze them tighter, Kenzie and Lexi started to squirm in his arms and he put them down. Laughing maniacally, something they had learned from Mitchie, they took off running towards their little friends Flora, Sky, and Rem.
Shane stood closer to Mitchie and slung his arm around her shoulders. The four of them stood there talking for awhile before the food was ready.
Six o'clock rolled around faster than anyone could've imagined. The younger kids fell asleep almost immediately after they ate. The older ones, the high schoolers anyways, were about to crash so they all packed into their cars and left. The two bands shook hands, said their thanks, and the ______ Brothers left as well. Mitchie was shocked that they lasted that long. Didn't they have bed times or something?
She laughed at the thought, causing Shane to look over at his girlfriend. They were almost back to his house and she randomly started to laugh at nothing. He sometimes questioned her sanity.
Tiredly, they dragged themselves up to Shane's bedroom and crashed for the night/day. It had been a seriously long day.
And that's it! I know it's really, really not all that great, but I'm finally out of my funk and this story just started flowing towards the end, the last four pages or so (it's seven pages in word). I know that I've probably lost a lot of readers, but I'm hoping that maybe I can redeem myself if I finish this before I go out to California this summer. I leave on June 11th, so the race is on! Haha, this story is probably only going to be five more chapters or so because there really isn't much of a plot to it. After I finish this story, I'm going to crank out Addiction (which I'm shocked so many of you love) and then I have about ten one shots I want to do. Plus some more stories. Oh, and I really want to rewrite my InuYasha fic. I have tons of things that I'm wanting to get out there, so look out for it; they'll (hopefully, if all goes well) be out soon. Please stick with me guys!
Yours truly,
Riley-the-Sadist848 a.k.a. Amanda