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Monday

Darren's POV

I woke up and went to work. Everyone was buzzing around and super excited. It was our last day of filming before we went back to Madison and we were all extremely happy to be going back. I talked to Lea and Chris about the swim meet thing and they said they would help me figure out the coach's contact info to find out where the swim meet would be so we could all go out to see it. Next I needed to figure out how to get Catie's parents' phone numbers to I could talk to them and let them know that I'd hopefully be coming to see their daughter in the meet next weekend. Lea told me she had that covered and made quick work of getting the numbers for me.

Everyone hit nearly every mark and cue and line perfectly so we actually got out a little earlier than expected. This gave us time to pack and hang out all together for a while. We had an interview the next day and we'd decided that we'd celebrate the end of filming in the city once we got to Madison. I called Catie's parents, with Lea's help, and they were very excited to hear that I was surprising her by coming back early and they gave me all the information I'd need to book a hotel room and see the swim meet. Chris and I called the hotel while Lea called Joey to make sure Catie would be coming with him to the airport tomorrow. We were lucky that the plane from Chicago and the one from LA would be arriving within minutes of one another.

Since we'd gotten back early enough I asked Chris if he would come over so that I could play the song I wanted to sing to Catie for him. I wasn't sure how much Catie was aware of it, since she hadn't said anything, but supporters and shippers of me and Mia had been a bit mean lately even though I had publically stated that Mia and I split because of an indiscretion on her part and that it had nothing to do with Catie. I wrote the song to hopefully show her that no matter what others may say we were still in love and that I loved her very much. I played the song for Chris and he had tears in his eyes when I was done. He told me that she'd love it and that he couldn't be happier for me. He helped me record it so that I could put it on a CD to give to Catie so she could listen to it anytime she wanted.

I watched some TV and texted Catie on an off all night before eventually going to bed. I was very tired and almost wrote that I'd see her the next day, but I caught myself just in time and told her I'd see her soon.

Catie's POV

Today was just like any other day minus the morning practice, thank God, but still very full. I texted Darren in between my first two classes knowing he'd be up and heading to work at that point. At lunch I got a reply asking how my day was going I answered and we sent a few more messages back and forth before he had to go back to filming. It was always nice on days like this to hear from Darren on and off throughout the day. I knew he was especially busy lately so the fact that he used what little break time he seemed to get to text or call me felt incredible. I felt bad for feeling so surprised that he would do things like that for me, and I obviously appreciated them I just hoped that I could make him feel the same way. He just made me feel so special all of the time without even saying it that, sometimes I felt inferior in that I wasn't sure I was returning the favor in the same way.

I covered one of my teammates lifeguarding shifts and there was a high school and middle school age swim team practicing during the shift. I had a lot of homework to do so I got there a little bit early, pulled out my laptop and put head phones in and started working.

After about ten minutes I felt like I was being watched; not in a creepy way, but like someone was looking at me. So I took one ear bud out and looked up. There was no one directly in front of me, but off to the side of the pool deck I could see a group of girls who looked to be about 7th to 9th graders looking at me and whispering. When I looked over they quickly looked away and giggled as a group. I had a pretty good feeling why they were acting that way at this point, but I didn't want to intimidate them by walking over and introducing myself. Darren had finished work by this point and I sent him a text letting him know that I wasn't exactly sure how to handle this situation and asking his opinion on what I should do. They were still quite early for their practice so he suggested that I go over and talk to them.

"They are normal people just like us, even though you are extraordinary. Go talk to them let them know how much we appreciate them as fans. And if you want I can call you can you can let them talk with me on speaker phone for a few minutes," Darren wrote.

"Hmm alright, I'll talk to them. I'll keep ya posted on the call, let me judge their reactions to meeting me first."

"Ok, babe. Either way call me when you're shift is done I wanna hear your voice before I get to bed and I have a busy day tomorrow so I'm turning in a little early tonight."

"Will do! 3 Love ya talk to you soon!"

After I sent that I walked over to the girls and said hi. Their coaches hadn't arrived yet so I asked if they needed anything; I didn't want to assume that they knew who I was or who I was dating.

They made it clear right away that they knew who I was saying, "Oh my god, are you Catie Randall? Darren's girlfriend? Oh my god we're all so jealous, but the two of you are so CUTE! We watched the interview about 5 times! And we think we know what Mia did, even though Darren won't say, and we want you to know we support both of you. And we ship you two SO. HARD!"

I wasn't really sure how to respond, this was the first time I'd really faced a situation like this even when Darren was in town. "Haha, well thank you. I really appreciate that and I know that Darren does too. I was actually just talking with Darren and we recently had a conversation about how important it is to him to make sure his fans know that he's their biggest fan as well. I want to thank you for being so kind and accepting of me. I can understand the draw to Darren because he really is an amazing person and I know it's not easy to just accept someone knew who all of a sudden becomes close to the person you're a fan of and it amazes me every day how well the majority of his fans treat me. I love reading the kind things said about Dare and even me. Speaking of which, do you girls have twitters? I'd love to give you a shout out! And I'm sure I could get Darren to give you one too."

They squealed and thanked me. Then they gave me their twitter handles and I tweeted a picture of them with me and I tagged Darren in the post. He replied immediately and then called me so he could say hi and thank them for making my first experience with fans so easy, sweet and fun. Then he asked if he could steal my attention away. They giggled and said of course, thanked us for talking with them and got ready for their practice. Dare and I had a pretty good laugh at the whole situation. Then we talked a little longer and he said goodnight. It seemed like he was a little bit off while we were talking, I couldn't seem to figure out what it was that was different, and when I asked he said he was just tired, so I accepted it. We said our goodbye's and then hung up and the rest of my evening consisted of homework, homework, and more homework. Oh and a little bit of missing my boyfriend, but only a little bit, obviously ;).

Darren's POV

I almost panicked when Catie asked me if something was up when we were speaking on the phone. I didn't want to lie to her, but I couldn't ruin the surprise! And I really was tired that just wasn't the major reason that I was acting and talking a little bit more guarded than usual. When we said our goodbyes she told me she missed me and that she'd see me soon. Little did she know that soon would be sooner than she thought. I had put the finishing touches on the song and if I did say so myself, it was perfect. Not as perfect as she was of course, but perfect all the same. I could not wait to get back to Hogwarts… I mean Madison. Hmm… Catie would have appreciated that, haha. I thought and went to bed.