Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Camp Rock.
AN: I like marking stories as complete. I also like the adrenaline rush I get after posting things. Sorry for the huge delay! Hope this one is okay...feedback is always appreciated. Thanks to everyone that has followed this and reviewed it throughout.
1. The first time Shane sang something in front of an audience, it had been to his family at their Christmas get-together and his cousin had dared him to sing along to a song he picked out.
He vaguely remembers everyone falling silent when he began, but it was slightly overshadowed by the way he felt with a mike in his hands. Of course, the best thing was his cousin watching with his mouth hanging open and he never let him forget it. The fact that he had been singing along to Whitney Houston was something he left out.
2. For some reason he had always loved annoying Caitlyn. She was somewhat like a little sister to him and that was how he treated their relationship. He didn't have any younger siblings so teasing and pranking seemed the best way to go.
It was only when he returned to Camp Rock as a guest instructor and found her throwing up before her performance did he realise there was more to being an older brother than just teasing. Even though teasing would always come first.
3. Changing back from being a jerk into what he had been before wasn't as easy for him as everyone thought it would be. He appreciated the fact that he had Mitchie but just because she was there for him didn't mean 'jerk- mode' switched off automatically.
He couldn't believe how dependant he became on Nate and Jason at that time and the most prominent feeling he has from then is that he chose his friends well. There weren't many people in the world who would put up with he had put them through.
4. During the time when Connect 3 were the most popular band of their time, he didn't have any relationships that lasted beyond one date. There was never anyone who he clicked with or anyone that was interested in non-famous Shane Gray.
He was so surprised that a conversation with Mitchie could flow so easily that he almost wanted to ask her out straight away before he decided that maybe having a friend who wasn't in the band might be a good idea. That and he really did want to find the girl with the voice.
5. People thought he sometimes sounded arrogant but it was only because he was proud of what they had achieved. Even with the fact that the label had taken over their lives, the reality that people for whatever reason did buy their music was slightly comforting.
So when their first album including songs that they had written themselves topped the charts, his exclamation that they were the best wasn't because he was egotistical, it was because he really was proud of his friends.
6. Although people thought that all three members of Connect 3 were complete opposites of each other, he actually thought his and Nate's personalities were quite similar.
They both had a similar sort of business sense and musically they worked well together and often found themselves finishing each others sentences. People assumed Nate took care of the business side of things because he was the only one who could but really it was just because Nate had been the first person to agree to do it because Shane and Jason had been in the middle of playing Guitar Hero. And then he found out that Nate really did enjoy it and didn't think of it as a chore so he decided to leave him to it.
7. He hated it when the kids at Camp Rock got so competitive. He understood why they did, because the whole time at Camp Rock was built up to Final Jam which was, essentially, a competition but he thought if they worked with each other they could have so much more potential.
He made a suggestion to Tess the second year he was an instructor. To his surprise she actually acted on it and in her Final Jam performance, she stunned the crowd by working with Andy and Ella in what could only be described as the best group performance that night.
8. He had always admired Jason because he didn't ever care about what other people thought of him and he managed to pull it off with a child like innocence. When he tried to stop caring about other people's opinions, people started referring to him as a jerk.
When Mitchie listened to his music and told him that she liked it and would definitely buy it, he decided maybe hearing what other people thought of him wasn't such a bad thing after all.
9. Unlike Mitchie who freaked out for most of her pregnancy, telling him that she wasn't going to be a good mother, he cherished every moment of it and couldn't wait until he was a Dad.
It was only when Mitchie went into labour did he realise what was going on and nearly started hyperventilating only to have Jason snap at him to hurry up and stay with Mitchie. He still thinks it was the shock of hearing Jason talk to someone like that that really did help him.
10. He warmed to Tess much more easily than Mitchie. Maybe it was because underneath it all, he thought they had been through similar things or maybe it was because he could see straight away how happy she made Jason.
He was the one to suggest patching things up to Mitchie when Jason told him he was proposing because his friends had become his family and he didn't want there to be any sort of a rift between them.