About a month later, the coffeehouse performance had arrived. Mitchie had spent a lot of time by herself. She had finished a song and she was ready to perform it for everybody. She hadn't spoken much to Shane. She really didn't want to with how nasty he had been acting towards her. His way towards her had quickly and progressively turned from the sweet perfect boyfriend to that indescribable rudey patooty. He even stopped referring to her by name. Well he stopped talking about or to her. Mitchie was pretty much torn.

Mitchie walked into music class and took her seat by Alex, Nate, and Miley. She listened attentively to the teacher, Ms. Boots. "Okay kiddies, I hope you have prepared for coffeehouse and your song presentation in this class. I don't know about most of you but I was really hoping that you all chose to play two songs, well because you are all amazing like that." Everybody laughed, "Okay now I have a surprise. Yay! Surprise! WE all LOVE surprises!" Everybody laughed again. Ms. Boots slid off the desk and said, "This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday is Coffeehouse! Yay! Okay so now your song test is this week." People started to groan, "Now, now. I told you guys in the beginning of the year so don't start whining. But that's not the surprise." Ms. Boots walked to the door and opened it revealing a bunch of seniors. "Here's the surprise! Every time a marking period ends, is your performance. All seniors are welcome to watch and any teacher who allows their students to come and watch are also welcome. So who wants to go first?"

Nobody raised their hands so Mitchie reluctantly raised hers, "I will, Ms. Boots." She grabbed her acoustic guitar and sat up on the wooden stool in front of the class room. A few of the tech guys were setting up the microphone while Mitchie was getting situated and the seniors were getting situated around the rest of the music students. Shane sat with Alex, Miley and Nate in the center front.

The tech guys gave Mitchie a thumbs up to start. Mitchie smiled to the crowd that had gathered in the room.

"Hi everybody, thanks for coming today. We all appreciate it I'm sure." As she finished that sentence she could see the expected look forming on Shane's face, the look that said, "Chyeah right." But before he finished his look Mitchie continued with a smile, "So, I wrote this song at the end of the summer before the last. It was the first summer that I had attended Camp Rock. It's a really fun camp where I made a lot of friends." She looked at Nate who had a knowing smile on his face. "I also met some people who made mistakes." Mitchie thought about Tess and what she pretended to be. "So, this song was inspired by them I guess." Mitchie started to strum her guitar and sing.

We're done, but it's not over. We'll start it again
After the end of the day, it keeps getting better
Don't be afraid, we'll do it together.

Come on, come on, you know
It's your time to move it's my time to move
Come on, come on, let go
Leave it all behind, your past and mine

Gone are the days of summer
We couldn't change it if we tried
Why would we want to, let's go where we got to
Out paths will cross again in time
It's never the same tomorrow,
And tomorrow is never clear

So come on, come on, you know
Our time, our time is here

We know, but we're not certain
How can we be, how can we see what's ahead
The road keeps on turning
And all we can do, is travel each day to the next

Come on, come on, you know
It's your time to move it's my time to move
Come on, come on let go,
Leave it all behind, your past and mine

Gone are the days of summer
We couldn't change it if we tried
Why would we want to, let's go where we got to
Our paths will cross again in time
It's never the same tomorrow,
And tomorrow is never clear

So come on, come on, you know
Our time, our time is here

Yeah

Gone are the days of summer
We couldn't change it if we tried
(If we tried)
So come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
So come on, come on you know
Our time...our time
Is here- yeah-oh

As Mitchie strummed the last chord, she thought about her and Shane's relationship that summer. How it blossomed so quickly in the end but somehow it had disappeared just as quickly as it had bloomed. She didn't bother to look for Shane's approval. The song was something that she had wrote so long ago. Something that she had shared with Tess, Peggy, Ella, and Caitlyn. Which reminded her that she had to call Peggy, Ella, and especially Caitlyn. She remembered where she was and quickly said thank you and slid off the wooden stool, sliding out of the spot light.

Ms. Boots yelled out loud, "HEY WHO WANTS TO GO NEXT!"

Nobody wanted to go after Mitchie, she was just so good.

Ms. Boots yelled out, "OKAY BUT IF NOBODY WANTS TO GO NOW, YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO GO LATER."

Alex got up and walked quickly to catch up with Mitchie who was walking out the door. Alex called Mitchie.

Mitchie turned her head so she could see Alex but she kept walking, "Alex, don't follow me."

Alex was concerned but kept on Mitchie's tail, "Mitchie, talk to me. What's wrong? Stop running."

Mitchie stopped and turned around causing Alex to almost run into her, "I don't need you to follow me. There's nothing wrong. I need to use the bathroom."

"Mitchie please don't lie to me."

"Alex, if you follow me, people are going to think that there's something wrong when there's not. I just drank too much water at lunch."

Alex grabbed Mitchie's shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes, "Mitchie, you didn't even eat your lunch. I am worr-"

Before Alex could finish, the door to the music class busted open and out stumbled Shane and Chelsea...attached at the lips.

Alex turned around to the noise and saw Shane and Chelsea. She turned back around to Mitchie who tried her best to seem unfazed, "A huh. So I got to go to the bathroom now Alex." Mitchie spun around and walked to the bathroom.

Mitchie stayed in the bathroom for a few minutes staring in the mirror. She flushed the toilet to make it seem like she was actually going. Then she washed her hands and dried them. She estimated the time that she'd been in there, and she hoped that Shane and Chelsea were done their little moment. She walked out of the bathroom and Alex was gone. Mitchie assumed she went back to class. As she got closer to the music room door, she heard giggling and grunts. She didn't really want to go investigate but if it was Shane, then she wanted to tell him something. She got into view of the couple. To no surprise it was Shane and Chelsea but what was surprising was there position. Once Mitchie figured it out she gasped and quickly shuffled away to the other music class door._

Nate drove Mitchie to the Gray house so he could lay down some tracks with her voice as back up. Mitchie dropped her stuff down and walked into the sound proof booth closing the door behind her. She sat down on the stool in front of the hanging microphone and placed some large headphones over her head. While Nate was toying around with some knobs, Mitchie decided to start a conversation, "So, Nate, why didn't you ask Alex to do this?"

Half distractedly, Nate replied, "Uhh, I haven't spent much time with you lately. So, I asked you to do backing."

"Hm," and Mitchie continued to fiddle with the curly wire coming out of the headphones.

After a few more seconds Nate interrupted Mitchie's empty thoughts, "Hey Mitch, ya ready?"

"Mmyeah." Mitchie harmonized with the playback of Nate's voice for his new song.

Shane came thumping down the stairs in a good mood unaware of who was with Nate.

"Hey Nate!" He slapped Nate's back in a greeting manner. "New song? Wow, who ever it is sounds awesome."

Nate was distracted but managed to mutter out, "Mmyeah, Mitchie's really good."

Shane froze, he hadn't realized it was Mitchie who was singing. He looked into the booth and saw Mitchie really into what she was singing. He unknowingly began to reminisce. He missed that about her. How she was so dedicated to the songs she sang, no matter what, even if the song was stupid. He missed singing duets with her, their voices meshed so well together. He missed the way that she would caress his face when they would kiss. He missed the way his hands fit on her hips. He missed the way their bodies moved together when they would slow dance under the setting sun and the rising moon. He missed a lot about them. But he soon realized that Nate and Mitchie were staring at him because he was staring at Mitchie.

Nervously Mitchie squeaked out, "Um hi Shane. How are you?"

Shane blew her off and gave Nate a pat on the back and walked out of the booth. Nate looked over at Mitchie who tried to quickly hide her face by looking down but Nate caught that. Nate caught her facial expression that said everything. She might have been playing it strong on the outside but on the inside she was hurting. She was hurting more than Nate has ever seen her hurt before.

Nate clicked on a button on the sound board and spoke to Mitchie through the microphone on his side, "Thanks Mitchie, that's all I need."

He watched as Mitchie wiped at her face and slowly raised her head to reveal her smiling and she replied, "Hey, it's no problem. Anytime you need somebody to do backing, I'm there for you."

Nate was concerned, he hadn't asked before, "Mitchie? Are you okay?"

Mitchie was just a bit irritated with everybody asking her and she didn't intend to let Nate know it. Calmly and steadily Mitchie answered with another question, "Nate, why is everybody asking me that?"

"Well Mitchie-"

"Do I make it seem like I'm troubled?"

"No Mitchie, it's just that-"

"Nate, tell me the truth. Please." Mitchie sounded kind of desperate now but she was still calm.

Nate stood up and walked into the sound proof booth and gave Mitchie a comforting hug as her eyes began to tear up but Mitchie refused to let anyone see her cry over this situation.

xoxoxo

I didn't mean to not post this earlier. I just didn't really feel like it :/ So yeah, reviews, comments, flames, they are all accepted and some well-liked by me. It means people actually wanted to spend time to critique your work because they thought it was nice or had potential to be nice. It's also been brought to my attention that I guess I update too often which makes it difficult for some people to keep up with this story because they haven't finished A Brand New Experience yet. So thoughts on that please?