If I were in your shoes

chapter 3

MPOV

whoa. I don't know what to say to him. Maybe he could be nice, maybe all he needs is a friend that doesn't focus on his music, or his attitude.

He turned and headed back to his cabin, obviously realising I had no answer. But for some reason my voice took over my brain.

"well how about we try and be friends? " stupid mitchie. Stupid.

He turned to face me, thinking for a moment then nodded.

"fresh start. Hi I'm shane gray" he grinned sticking his hand out, I shook it.

"hey shane, I'm mitchie torres."

"so mitchie torres, what're you doing today?"

"hmm, well since we have today free. I guess nothing. Unless caitlyn has something planned for us. What about you?"

"nothing, I think nate is coming to check on me or something. They think I have some sort of attitude problem, can you believe that?" he asked sarcastically. I laughed.

"no way, you? An attitude problem? I'm shocked. Well you're welcome to come and hang in my cabin for a while if you want?"

"yeah, just let me get changed, seriously need to straighten my hair again, I'll be over soon."

I rolled my eyes and went inside of my cabin to see caitlin peering out the window. Spying isn't a good look on caitlyn.

"hey cait." I said loudly and she fell off her bed.

"jeez mitchie, you shouldn't sneak up on people."

"jeez caitlyn, you shouldn't spy on people." she blushed and rolled her eyes.

"did he insult you again?"

"nope. He's coming over here to hang out actually."

"ooooh, do I need to leave?" she asked, wiggling her eyebrows.

"ew no. shut up otherwise I'll tell him how much you like his jeans." I smirked and caitlyn turned red again.

"you wouldn't mitch." she warned.

"we'll wait and see." just then someone knocked on the door. Well he was quick.

I opened the door to see none other than tess tyler, she pushed past me and into the cabin. I turned around and caitlyn stood up looking terrified. Why? I mean I know tess is mean, but she can't be that bad.

"hey caitlyn, who's your friend?"

"i'm mitchie" I said, noticing caitlyn still looked too scared to communicate.

"can I ask what you want?" I asked politely.

"your cabin."

"excuse me?" she could not be serious.

"i want your cabin. I know shane gray's cabin is near here. So I want this cabin. Now."

"look I don't know what your talking about, I thought shane gray was in your cabin?"

I said and tried to hide my laugh, caitlyn smirked.

"ok listen up bitchie. Give. me. Your. Damn. Cabin." she said in a low voice.

"ok."

"really?" she seemed surprised.

"nah."

"whatever. But just so you know bitchie, this means war."

she turned to storm out of the cabin but bumped into none other than shane gray. Wait. How long had he been there?

"hey shane!" she smiled but his face remained with the same bored expression.

"do I know you?"

"oh course silly! Tess tyler, tj Tyler's daughter!"

"uhm sorry, doesn't ring a bell."

"well how about you come to my cabin and I'll remind you." I rolled my eyes.

"I'll pass." now it was his turn to roll his eyes as the girl moved closer to him.

"look i'm sure you'd rather come and hang out with me instead of these, people."

"we have names tess!" caitlyn exclaimed. So now she joins in.

"oh shut up gellar before you end up in the lake again." what's she talking about. I looked at caitlyn, confusion evident on my face. She mouthed 'later' at me and turned back to tess.

"look just leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. Ok?" caitlyn asked.

"i have a better idea. I'm going to stay here and hang out with you, mitchie and shane. Won't that be fun!"

"no way. Leave." caitlyn shouted.

"fine I guess i'll just go and tell brown that you two have been bullying me, and i'll tell all the major magazines that shane tried to sleep with me." oh god. She's such a drama queen. I sighed, defeated. I wasn't going to let caitlyn and shane get blamed for something they didn't do. If it was just me i'd have told her to go for it.

"fine tess. You can stay for one hour. One." caitlyn looked at me like I was crazy and shane just looked relieved.

"ok, we're going to play truth or dare." tess decided. This cannot be good. Caitlyn sat down on her bed and put her head in her hands.

I went to go sit down next to her so shane could have the pleasure of sitting next to tess, but he grabbed my shoulder and pulled me down to sit on my bed next to him. Tess rolled her eyes and sat reluctantly next to caitlyn.

"so, mitchie. Truth or dare?" why me why me why me.

"hang on. Can we wait for nate?" shane interrupted.

"hey that rhymed!" caitlyn said and laughed.

Shane joined her "well I am a lyricist after all."

tess coughed to get attention then pointed out of the window "he's already here."

"oh, I'll go get him."

we watched as shane walked over to nate and began talking, he motioned over to our cabin then him and nate walked into our cabin.

"hi I'm nate." he said, kind of shyly. Shouldn't it be us who are shy to be meeting a rock star?

"I'm caitlyn, this is mitchie and"

"I am tess tyler. Pleasured. I'm sure." I rolled my eyes and saw nate smirk, trying to hold in laughter.

"so are you three like, best friends?" he seemed confused.

"NO! Tess rudely came over and started threatening us." caitlyn exclaimed and a look of understanding washed over nate's face then tess glared at caitlyn.

"so anyway. Mitchie, truth or dare?" well me being the little chicken that I am had to go and choose truth.

"is it true that your mom is the cook here? And that you help out?" how'd she know all this?

"yes." she began to laugh then looked at shane.

"shane gray hanging out with the kitchen staff. Wait until the magazines hear about this."

"what? No! I wasn't hanging out with her. I just came over to tell her to leave me alone. Like i'd be seen dead with someone like her." he said disgustedly.

I felt like crying, I know he warned me about having a jerk side, but honestly I never thought anyone could be so nice one minute then like that the next. I sat frozen trying to block out whatever was happening but I couldn't. Tess started laughing then caitlyn yelled at them.

I stood up and tried to get to the door but I couldn't. Shane and tess were stood in the middle of the room and nate and caitlyn were backed up against the wall watching the scene unravel. Nate was holding caitlyn back as she kept lunging for shane and tess whilst tess just stood laughing and calling us names and shane just stood there. No expression on his face, no guilt, remorse, joy, anything.

I stepped forward closer to him and he looked down, not matching my gaze. So I shoved past him and ran.

I ran for about ten minutes and I was now lost in the middle of the forest. I sat on the ground and cried. All I'd done is be nice to him today and he turns around and talks about me like im a fucking dog. I came here with so much confidence, telling myself I'd be different here. I'd stand out. But now, there's no point. If everyone is just going to treat me like they did. I heard someone walk towards me and I assumed it was caitlyn, but when I turned around I was surprised to see it wasn't caitlyn, it was nate.