Shane went to sit down at a different table - Nate, Alex, Miley, and Mitchie's table.

As he sat down, everybody looked up at him except for Mitchie who was continuously fiddling her thumbs.

Alex hit Nate's knee. Nate cleared his throat, "Shane, what brings you to our table? Don't you normally sit with the guys?"

"Uhh yeah. Why is it so weird that I want to sit with you guys?"

Miley snickered, "You haven't even sat here since the beginning of school. So I don't think we know what you're talking about."

Alex quickly threw her gaze away from Shane and down to the table top as he looked around at everyone's faces.

Mitchie really wanted to say something to Shane, something that was burning in her mind. But all she could manage to do was fiddle her thumbs.

Shane looked at Nate and said mockingly, "Then what? Has the tribal council decided on a verdict? Am I kicked off the island?"

Nate looked at all of the girls before saying anything. Miley started to talk, "YES BE GONE!"

Mitchie spoke up for the first time that Shane had been sitting there, "No, you can stay." Everybody at the table looked at Mitchie who was still looking down at her thumbs. Then Audrey came over.

"Hi guys! How's it going?" She asked like an over-excited freshman. She slid into the chair beside Nate and in front of Shane. She looked at the two boys and then at Mitchie who then cleared her throat.

Mitchie didn't catch wind of what Audrey was trying to say and then Audrey cleared her throat even louder and then kicked Mitchie causing Mitchie to shriek and grab her leg. All eyes darted toward Mitchie. Mitchie melted onto the table while her face turned red.

Annoyed, Audrey said, "MITCHIE! AHEM!"

Mitchie looked up from where she had placed her head in between her arms on the table, "Yes?"

Audrey tried one more time, "AHEM!" She pointed towards Nate and Shane.

Mitchie suddenly remembered, "OH!" She sat up and pointed at Nate, "That's Nate. Alex's boyfriend." Then she pointed at Shane, "That's Shane."

Audrey turned on her flirt, "Ah, well hello. I'm Audrey. I just moved here from D.C.."

Shane looked over at Audrey and smiled, "Ah, that sounds like a cool place. We were there not too long ago."

Audrey pretended to act stupid, "Oh really? For what?"

Shane smirked, "Oh for fun."

"You should really tell me about it some time." Audrey gave Shane a sweet smile and lightly slapped his arm.

Shane smiled back but replied to the entire table, "I think I need to be going now."

Miley made a fuss, "After this entire time of you making a huge deal about being able to stay for lunch you decide you want to go! You might as well not have asked in the first place. I mean-"

Shane interrupted before Miley could finish her rant, "Yeah, well bye friends. Mitchie." Shane got up and looked at Mitchie who was still staring at her thumbs. Shane walked around the seats to Mitchie and tousled her hair.

Mitchie's hands quickly went up to her hair and fixed it. Mitchie sat at the table for a few seconds still staring at her thumbs but then she quickly got up and quickly walked toward Shane. When she caught up to him, she reached out and grabbed his elbow, quietly she said, "Shane."

For a split moment, Shane melted inside and remembered the old days but just as soon as he had remembered, he snapped back out of it and remembered that he harbored hate towards her. He turned around and ripped his arm out of Mitchie's grip. He saw the hurt cross Mitchie's face but it disappeared quickly as Mitchie slowly placed her hand by her side again. When he saw what he did to Mitchie, cause her sadness, he just wanted to hold her until she didn't feel sad anymore. But she was the one who broke up with him and so he shouldn't be the one to suffer. It was her loss anyways.

Shane vehemently spit out, "What do you want?"

Mitchie retreated a step but she continued with what she wanted to say, shyly she asked, "Shane?"

Shane's facial expression and voice softened, "Yes?"

With the same shyness Mitchie answered, "I hope you remember that... I will always listen to you, if you need somebody to talk to... Always."

"Shaaaane." Mitchie gasped in ecstasy.

"Oh, Mitchie." Shane whispered in her ear.

She giggled and threw her head back as her back arched up and her body fit snugly into Shane's body. Shane quickly removed her shirt and threw it in a random direction.

He whispered, "Mitchie, you don't know how long I've been waiting for this."

Mitchie replied, "I love you Shane, and I know you love me back." Her fingers slipped into his pants and she...

Shane woke up in a cold sweat and panting. He quickly got out of bed and ran to the bathroom. He ran the cold water as he tore off his clothes quickly. Somebody knocked on the bathroom door and he quickly jumped into the shower.

He yelled back, "Yeah?"

"Shane hurry up! I gotta pee!"

"Nate, can you wait?"

"No!" Nate burst into the bathroom, Shane had forgot to lock the door, and lifted the toilet seat and did his business. After he was done, he washed his hands and then began to complain, "Shane, don't take too long, you're going to use up all of the hot water!" After washing his hands, Nate stuck his hand under the shower water.

Shane protested, "Umm, excuse you but I'm trying to take a shower!"

Nate pulled his hand out from under the shower water, he understood why the water was cold, "Yeah, take your time. Who was it this time?" Nate put the toilet seat down and sat on it. Nate started to list off a bunch of girls who had been linked to Shane ever since Mitchie and him broke up, "Jaime, Mona, Dana, Abby, Meredith, Chloe, Kristin, Jen, Grace, Elizabeth..."

"OKAY! Shut up already."

"But I'm not done guessing yet."

"Nate!"

"Aw c'mon Shane. I normally guess right."

"It's none of those girls okay?"

"Where do you even find those girls anyways? I've never seen them around school."

"That's not really important. And besides, I can find girls outside of school!"

"Y'know what they wanna do with you is illegal. Most of them are able to drink legally."

"Nate! GET THE EFF OUT!"

Nate threw his hands up, even if Shane couldn't see him, "Okay, okay."

Mitchie walked into school by herself today. She insisted that Miley and Alex leave for school without her that morning. She walked into school wearing what she would've worn last year-skinny jeans, converse, and a band tee. She went to the usual place where the guys were standing.

Surprising things happened since the start of school, Nate and Shane haven't been standing in that group they used to last year. Nate and Alex spent a lot of time together, making Miley the next companion to hang out with. Which was also surprising, Miley was her friend and Miley spent every night at her house or Alex's house. She never went home, only a few times to get her clothes. Miley didn't have her parties anymore. Miley started wearing complete Juicy Couture sweats more often. Her parents and the Russo parents spent more time on vacation than in their own houses. Justin spent almost his entire time at his girlfriend Becky's house. Max spent a lot of his time at the skate park ever since he caught Justin and Becky in the act on the living room couch. Jackson remained the same, he took over the house as his own party ground play house. He had parties two times per week, how he did it, Mitchie couldn't figure it out. Robbie Ray was MIA like the rest of the parents but he was worse because it was like he fell off the face of the earth. The Gray parents were the best, they were always around when the kids needed them. The kids often had dinner at the Gray house just because there was food there and there were adult authorities watching over them. And the Gray parents didn't mind, even if it was a huge group of kids they had to care for. Little Frankie G was growing up and he was in a band and spent a lot of time with Max. Jason was still in college.

Mitchie gave Nate a hello hug and hesitated in front of Shane. She gave hellos to the rest of the guys in the circle but resisted from making eye contact with Shane for the rest of time she stood there. How could she possibly hold in what she has wanted to say to him for the past couple of days if she looked at him? She gave in.

"Shane? Can I talk to you? Over there?" Mitchie pointed to an empty classroom. Shane hesitated but said okay.

Once they got into the room, Mitchie shut the door and Shane became irritated, "What do you want Mitchie?"

Mitchie was a bit sad that Shane couldn't remain friends with her the way she wanted them to be. She was also really angry that he changed. She looked up at him and released her hand from around the door knob. She let her irritation get the best of her, "What the heck is wrong with you Shane?" Her arms went instinctively up to her chest and she crossed them. "Why are you so nasty all the time?"

Shane scoffed and was defensive, "I am not nasty."

"You are to me!"

Shane stood up off of the desk he was sitting on, "If all you wanted to do was to yell at me, then I think I'm done here."

"Sit down!" Mitchie was furious.

Shane was surprised by her forwardness, he sat back down.

"Why did you change? Especially towards me?" Shane opened his mouth to answer but Mitchie continued, "Why are you going around with girls and doing stupid things? Huh? You can get a girl pregnant? How stupid can you be Shane?" She unraveled her arms and slapped Shane on his arm.

He mockingly said, "Ow!" And grabbed where Mitchie hit him. As she was retreating her hand, Shane quickly grabbed it with the one he was holding his arm with.

Mitchie looked at her wrist that Shane was holding. She looked at Shane's eyes, they seemed dangerous. Mitchie, unsure of what was going on, asked "Shane? What are you doing?"

He gently pulled her in closer and her feet obeyed with no fuss. Their lips were inches away and he held on to her hand as his other hand cupped her cheek. He stared at her lips.

She whispered, "Shane, we can't do this."

Shane whispered, "And why not?" He came in closer.

Mitchie pulled away, "Shane, you know how I feel about you! And I know what you've been doing with all those other girls." Her tone changed, defeatedly she said, "Don't you ever think about me?" A tear rolled down her cheek. She quickly wiped it away before saying, "I gotta go," and she walked out the door.

The morning announcements were playing over the speakers, "Remember students, it's the beginning of a new school year which means that our first triannual coffeehouse night auditions are being held. So don't forget to drop by the arts department to audition."

Miley nudged Mitchie and Alex, "Girls! That's all us! We need to hurry up and choose a song to sing so that we can audition!"

Unenthusiasticly Alex replied, "Yeah, Miley. Can't wait."

"Aww c'mon Alex. You know that this is important to me! I've always wanted to sing back up."

A crease appeared between Alex's eyebrows, "Miley? All you want to do is sing back up? Why not go for the entire thing? Sing lead."

Miley really wanted to show off her chops but then she remembered that it would possibly expose her secret, "No, I really just imagined myself singing back up. I'm best that way anyways." Miley looked over at Mitchie, "Mitchie, what about you? I want to sing back up for Alex but you should totally sing a song of your own."

Mitchie shrugged, "Mmm maybe."

Miley was super excited and started to push Alex to pick a song while Mitchie sat unbothered to write a song by herself. The bell rang and the girls picked up their books to walk to their next class.

Mitchie bought lunch from the line and grabbed some utensils before sitting down at her table. Miley was already their munching on the potato chips that she got with her lunch from the line. Alex made Nate a sandwich today and they were sitting eating the sandwiches that Alex had made for them. As Mitchie was sliding into her seat, Audrey slipped into the seat beside Nate. (Nate sat beside Alex, Alex in front of Mitchie, Mitchie sat next to Miley who sat in front of Nate, and (when he comes) Shane sat next to Miley in front of Audrey.) She smiled brightly at Nate and said hello to the girls. Mitchie kindly said her hellos and Miley was buzzing about the coffeehouse auditions. Shane plopped down beside Miley and gave a winning smile to Audrey as she fawned over him.

Miley made a gagging noise, "Can you be wearing any more cologne?" Miley started to swat the air in front of her face.

Shane looked over at Miley, "What? You don't like the scent of sexy?"

Miley scoffed, "Mitchie, if you want me to, I will totally kick his butt outta here."

Mitchie was distracted, "Hmm?"

Shane smiled, "Looks like she doesn't really care Miley."

Audrey butted into Miley and Shane's (something bordering on) bantering, "It would be a shame if she kicked you outta here Shane, especially your butt."

Everybody looked over at Audrey except for Mitchie who was pushing the peas around on her lunch tray with a plastic fork.

Alex interrupted the stare down, "OOkaay then. Nate did you like the sandwich?"

Nate looked over at his girlfriend and put his arm around the back of her seat, "Yeah it was delicious." He leaned in and pecked his girlfriend on the lips causing her to giggle.

Audrey looked back at Shane and started to subtly flirt with him shamelessly, "Oh my goodness Shane! I didn't know a gun show was in town." She slapped his bicep.

Shane looked at his arm and said, "Oh yeah, hope you got your tickets." He smiled stupidly. Miley just rolled her eyes. She couldn't take it any more, she turned over to Mitchie and they started talking about the new movies out.

Audrey fiercely batted her eyes. Shane didn't ask what he wanted to-"What's wrong with your eyes?"-because he soon realized that she was trying to flirt with him.

The bell was about to ring, signaling the end of lunch, Shane quickly got up and said, "I'll catch you later Audrey. See ya Nate, Alex, Miley." And he walked away, he walked away without saying bye to Mitchie, he walked away without doing his usual hair tousle thing to Mitchie, he left without even acknowledging her.

xoxoxo

Okay so I like the idea of having longer chapters. I don't know why but I do. I noticed that I update really short chapters which means more chapters. I don't know. Maybe I'm just thinking crazy thoughts. Anyways tell me what you think about this chapter! Please? Reviews are great even if they're just saying "Blah" I mean feedback would be even better but yeah, tell me what's on your mind.