Shane slipped into his bath filled to the brim with warm water. Water was overflowing out of the top. Just as he was getting comfortable, there was a knock on the door, "Yeah, who is it?"

A muffled voice answered, "It's me, Mitchie." Shane tensed up.

"Mitchie, I'm kinda busy. Can you go hang out with Alex or something? I think she's with Nate."

There was silence at the door and Shane let out a sigh of relief. He thought she had gone. Until the door opened quickly and shut quickly with Mitchie now on the inside of the bathroom rather than the other side of the door, "Well, I didn't come to see Alex." Mitchie slowly undressed herself making sure that Shane's eyes were following her every move. Once she was completely undressed, she stepped into the bath with Shane. She slowly lowered herself on top of Shane's crotch and wiggled around to "get comfortable." Shane couldn't help it but he was becoming aroused. Mitchie wrapped her arms around Shane's neck and brought her face in closer to give him a kiss on the lips but Shane turned his head giving her cheek. She pulled away.

"What's wrong, Shane?" Mitchie truly sounded concerned.

"I can't have you on top of me like this."

"And why is that?"

"I'm not your boyfriend." Shane stressed the your.

"Are you trying to say that you have a girlfriend, Shane?" Mitchie sounded agitated.

Shane pushed Mitchie back, "Mitchie, you're dating Scott. You and him can do it as much as you want but I'm not doing you." Shane ran his wet fingers through his dry hair and let out a huff.

Mitchie was a bit offended and her eyes started to water up. Her voice was quiet and quavering, "Do you not love me anymore, Shane?"

Truth be told, Shane didn't know how much he loved her anymore. She'd changed so much since she started dating Scott. He'll always have a spot for her in his heart, how can he not? But at that point in time, it was just too hard to be happy with her knowing that she went back to Scott most nights and spent the rest of the days either at school or in Scott's bed.

Mitchie slapped Shane on the arm causing a loud skin to skin noise and a sting on Shane's arm, "Shane! Do you love me or not?" Mitchie started to sob. Almost as if she was waiting for him to console her, she continued to cry. Shane just sat in the tub with her on his lap and him propping his elbow up on the side of the tub and resting his chin on his closed fist.

Through clenched teeth, Shane finally said something, "If you want to spread your legs for another guy, Mitchie, don't think you can come to me and ask me to give you something because I'm not going to. 'm going to wait for that girl who's perfect for me... who hasn't wasted herself on a douche."

Through hiccups and tears, "You think I'm sleeping with Scott?"

Shane abruptly turned to face Mitchie and forcefullly asked, "Do you think I'm a fool?"

"I haven't gone all the way, stupid! Why do you think I come to you! Do you actually think I love Scott?"

Calmly Shane continued, "You can't possibily think that I would believe that you're still a virgin if you go over to his place almost every night. If you didn't love Scott, you definitely wouldn't be going out with him, you would be going out with me. But you're not, and that's fine." Shane stopped and Mitchie stared at him for the longest time before he said, "Listen, I need to get going. I have a date tonight."

Mitchie looked like somebody had just slapped her in the face. Shane slid her off of his legs leaving her in the bath tub as he got out. Mitchie was upset but she couldn't help watch his naked body exit the tub.

"Hey there cutie." Shane bent down and kissed Zoey on the cheek. She giggled and caressed his cheek as his lips lingered on her cheek. He sat down in his seat, "Sorry to keep you waiting, I had a minor obstacle to take care of."

Zoey watched Shane get situated, "It's okay, I wasn't waiting long."

Zoey looked very different than she used to. For about a year, Zoey was sent to New York to spend time with her mother who never was home because of her status as a successful and popular fashion designer. While she was there, her mother found out about Zoey's bad habits of smoking, drugs, drinking, stripping, and a bunch of other provocative things, and made her attend not only the top private school in New York but also her mother made her attend a charm school. Now, Zoey's skin had a healthy glow to it rather than the ashy gray it use to be. She didn't wear lingerie as outfits when she went out to dinner anymore. She used censored language instead of dropping the f bomb every other word. She didn't spread her legs the second she met a hot guy. She sat up straight, wore clothes in a trendy way rather than trashy, smiled instead of sneered, wore less makeup, she was really becoming a beautiful young lady.

"So, how's your mom?" Shane sounded genuinely curious.

"You're too sweet, Shane." Zoey grabbed Shane's open hand and continued as he held her hand, "She's fine. I think she's doing better now that she knows that I'm not doing anything terrible."

"She trusts you enough to just let you stay here by yourself?"

"Well, not really." Zoey giggled and used her free hand to tuck a piece of hair behind her ear. "She sent a nanny slash au pair to come stay with me and even though my dad and her are kinda estranged or whatever, she's asked him to stay at her house in the hills, the one I'm staying at."

Shane rubbed Zoey's hand with his thumb as he still had a hold of her hand. "I'm glad she let you come back, that long distance thing wasn't working for me."

Zoey sheepishly smiled, "I'm glad you called me while I was in New York. I was beginning to think we'd lost what we had."

Shane instinctively smiled when he saw Zoey's expression, "I think it's great we lost what we had. We really needed to just start over."

"When I was in New York, I felt like everybody had forgotten about me. Miley was my best friend and she didn't call me at all. She didn't even see me off the day I left. Nobody did."

"Yeah. You were just so distant from me. I probably would've came to see you off."

Zoey sweetly smiled but did not agree with Shane, "No, at that time, you were too into Mitchie to notice me."

Shane lifted her dainty hand and kissed it tenderly, "Well, I'm really sorry about that. Just know that now I'm going to make it up to you."

xoxo

So I know a lot of the people who have read this story really didn't like Zoey but I definitely like the new her as of right now. What do you guys think of her so far?

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