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This one is Jason's chapter - for suburbs, because he's her favourite character and because her stories cheer me up immensly when I'm feeling down.
Thank you to everyone who read/reviewed the first chapter.
Jason Green
1. He hadn't always loved birds. In fact, until he was 10, he hated them because of the parrot that his Grandmother had that always nipped his finger too hard.
But after his Grandmother died, his parents didn't know what to do with the parrot and had decided they were going to give him away and Jason had run down the stairs and thrown his very first tantrum, demanding that they had to look after Beaky because that was what his Gran would have wanted. His parents, speechless, had just nodded. Ever since Beaky had moved into his house, his opinion of birds had changed.
2. He was lying when he said he didn't have a problem with Shane being a jerk. He was really annoyed with Shane for turning into a typical diva but not because it might cost them their contract.
He was annoyed because he was losing one of his best friends and he hated that Nate was using the contract to try to get him to change. Because, the contract wasn't everything to him, but his friends were.
3. Caitlyn Gellar was the funniest person he had ever met. Anything she said or did, he always found himself laughing with her, but he thought his friends didn't appreciate her enough. When Nate and Shane needed people to talk to, they usually went to Mitchie and Jason didn't ever understand that.
Because Mitchie was definitely a good listener, but if you were upset, surely you'd go to the person that would cheer you up?
4. He was more perceptive than people gave him credit for. No one ever told him who they liked but he knew that Mitchie liked Shane. He knew that Nate completely confused Caitlyn. He even knew that everyone thought Ella was perfect for him.
He completely disagreed with that one, and when Nate and Mitchie tried to set them up, he was really angry at them. He'd never tried to set them up with Caitlyn and Shane and he had been right about those.
5. Uncle Brown will always be Uncle Brown to him even thought they aren't really related. In Jason's book, an uncle is someone who you can always talk to and someone who cares for you and Uncle Brown fit those descriptions perfectly.
That was why, at his very first summer at Camp, after some of the kids had been teasing him about crying after he had heard Beaky had died, he didn't lock himself up in his cabin and refuse to come out like Shane would have done. He didn't sit by the lake and stare at it in hope for some answers like Nate would have tried. He ran up to Uncle Brown's cabin and nearly knocked down the door to talk to him.
6. Shane had mentioned Tess Tyler the few times that he managed to call from Camp. Jason thought she sounded horrible and when he saw her practically attack Mitchie after Beach Jam, he thought that was a completely accurate description of her.
Then at Final Jam, he saw her run off stage in tears and couldn't help think that he had never seen someone look so vulnerable. He was intrigued, and he spent ages after the end of Final Jam looking for her. When he finally found her, he didn't even ask her anything, he just sat with her, and eventually the whole story spilled. He had never heard someone sound so innocent when admitting they were wrong.
7. He doesn't feel he has a lot to be proud of, but one of things that he could never not be proud of, are his friends. He thinks his friends are amazing people, and no one could ever change his mind about that.
He was teased a lot as a child in school and he wishes he could go back to those people and show off his friends. Because for once, he's actually proud of something that he picked himself.
8. He had never had any problems with the press. He had learned to follow a 'live-and-let-live' policy.
When they printed a front page on him and his supposed drug addiction explaining his happy attitude, instead of getting angry like people expected him to, he rang the reporter who had written the article and met up with him to congratulate him on writing such a good, although inaccurate piece. Nate and Shane had spent the whole afternoon laughing at the look on the reporters face.
9. Sometimes, very occasionally, he felt that Nate and Shane just didn't appreciate him, that they thought of him as band member rather than a friend. And it hurt more than he had ever thought possible.
It wasn't until he told them that he was proposing to Tess and after she said yes did he feel stupid for ever thinking that because Nate and Shane spent two hours at dinner arguing to be his Best Man. He had eventually told them both to shut up and said that maybe tradition needed changing a little and having two best men would be a better idea. Then, of course he suggested a group hug, bursting into laughter when Nate and Shane grumbled and groaned but agreed anyway.
10. When he first held Shane's son in his arms, he vowed to be as good an uncle as Uncle Brown and he didn't ever think he would feel as good as he did in that moment.
Two years later, he felt a strange sense of déjà vu standing in a similar hospital room holding a tiny baby girl wrapped in pink blankets, the only difference being he was promising to be the best Dad possible to his daughter.
