"Dude, she kissed you, she likes you. Thousands of girls dream about being your girlfriend, so why is it so hard for you to believe that a girl actually likes you? I mean, more of them are dreaming about being my girlfriend, but…"

Shane had been trying to convince me that Mitchie really did like me since I'd gotten back from our date. He made a good point, but I still wasn't sure.

"But she didn't kiss me when I took her back to her hotel. She would have if she liked me, right?"

"Maybe she was waiting for you to kiss her," Jason pointed out.

"Yeah, but you're too big of a bitch to," Shane added.

I rolled my eyes at him. "You really know how to make a guy feel better."

"I'm not trying to make you feel better," he replied. "I'm trying to make you feel like a bitch so you'll finally grow a pair and start telling her how you feel about her instead of telling us."

"What's the worst that can happen?" Jason asked. "She bruises your ego a little?"

I wasn't as worried about my ego anymore as I was my heart, but I decided to keep that to myself. They were giving me enough shit as it was.

"I tried to tell her last night, but she changed the subject," I told them. "She didn't want to hear it."

"Or maybe she didn't realize you were trying to tell her something important?" Shane pointed out. "It doesn't sound like you really pushed it."

I guess that was true. I could have made her listen if I really wanted to. I just wish I had a little more time.

"Would you guys mind staying an extra day?"

"Why?" they asked.

I sighed, preparing myself for the comments they were about to throw at me. "Mitchie's staying until Monday."

"Dude, seriously? Why are you acting like you're never going to see her again after we leave London? She lives in LA…we live in LA. She'll be at every industry party…so will we. It's not like she's dropping off the face of the earth," Shane reminded me.

"But she wants to 'break up' when we leave London, and then she never has to talk to me again if she doesn't want to. And if we're 'broken up,' we can't really be seen together without every tabloid writing about it."

Jason started laughing. I gave him an annoyed look, because I didn't really see what he could possibly think was so funny about this. Unless he just enjoyed watching me agonize over this. Actually, I wouldn't really have been surprised if that was the case. I mean, if the tables were turned, I would probably be enjoying this.

"Sorry," he said, but he didn't stop laughing. "Isn't it just ironic how this came around and bit you in the ass? Because this whole thing started so the tabloids would write about you."

Okay, that was a little funny. I would probably laugh about it later, but right now I wasn't in the mood.

"One more day," Shane agreed. "If you haven't told her by then…"

"I will, I will," I promised. "Thanks."

"And you have to introduce us to those girls in her band," Jason added.

"Deal," I nodded quickly.

"Hey, guys, I'm glad you're all here," our manager, Rick, said as he burst through the door.

Rick didn't get excited like that unless there he'd come up with a really good idea. Otherwise, he was pretty much the mellowest person I'd ever met in my life.

"What's up?" we all asked.

He sat down in a chair across from us with a huge grin across his face. "I just got off the phone with some of the reps from the label."

"And…?"

"And, what do you guys think about co-headlining the next tour with Blonde Get Up?"

"Seriously?" I said quickly. I wasn't sure I'd heard him right.

"Think about it," he replied. "The two hottest pop bands in the world right now, together? You'd sell out every venue in the world, guaranteed."

"That's probably true…" Shane nodded.

"And we'd get their fan base, too," Jason pointed out.

"And…" I would get to spend three months traveling around the world with Mitchie. "…it would be a blast."

"Did Mitchie say anything about this to you?" Jason asked me.

"She wouldn't have," Rick told him. "The reps just pitched it to me and I wanted to run it by you guys before I talked to their manager about it."

"I can see Nate planning the wedding in his head already..." Shane joked.

I punched him in the arm, but I was grinning. Three months with Mitchie would be awesome. Especially if she really did like me. I checked my watch – it was too late to go over there and tell her about it. But tomorrow, I would go over there in the morning to surprise her, take her out to breakfast, and tell her all about it. Hopefully, she'd be as excited as I was.

"So? You guys are interested?" Rick asked, pulling me out of my mental planning.

"Yeah, definitely," we all nodded.

"Great," Rick replied. "I'll give their manager a call in the morning to set up a meeting. You guys should get some sleep."

"Come on, Rick, we're on vacation," Jason whined.

"Fine, go out. But Monday morning, you're back in the studio," he conceded, standing up and walking towards the door.

"Oh, actually, dude, we're going to have to reschedule that. We're staying an extra day," Shane informed him.

Rick looked at him skeptically. We had a tendency to make decisions without telling him about them, which is probably one of his biggest pet peeves. "Excuse me?"

"Nate needs more time to woo his lady friend," Jason smirked.

Rick looked at me and I gave him a pathetic look. The one thing he hated more than when we changed plans was our ability to get him to agree to it.

"Fine," he sighed. "Tuesday morning, you're in the studio."

"Thanks, man," I said graciously.

"Well, repay me by convincing Mitchie to put a good word in with her manager about this idea," he replied.

"You got it."

A/N: Okay, I have a couple questions and I would really like everyone to review or PM me with your opinions. The next two chapters are finished, and a lot of the stuff that's been going on so far will get wrapped up, but I have no idea what will happen next. What do you want to see happen (other than Nate and Mitchie getting together, or not getting together, etc.)? Also, I don't know if I'm going to do anything with this yet, but I figured I'd ask and maybe it would help me generate some ideas: if Shane and/or Jason were to have love interests from Mitchie's band, who would you want to see them with? Trish, Caitlyn, or Ella? Someone else? Do you even care about the other characters?