Sorry for barely updating. Blame katie.

If I were in your shoes

chapter 5

MPOV

why should I be friends with someone who wants to hide me? I shouldn't. Although maybe if we're friends he won't be a jerk anymore. Plus if no one knows about us being friends I won't have anyone pestering me or hating me just because I know shane gray.

He looked down at his hands nervously, obviously expecting me to flip at him for even suggesting such a thing but still he nodded and glanced up at me waiting for my reply.

"uhm, ok then, but don't make me regret this shane."

he smiled brightly and nodded his head.

"i won't, but you do understand no one else can know about this. Not even caitlyn and nate, when we're with other people we can't even be civil with eachother now thanks to tess who has probably told everyone I hate you, so we have to act like enemies. Are you still sure this is ok" to be quite honest it sounded alright with me I just nodded in acknowledgement and left the cabin to go back to mine and caitlyns.

When I got back caitlyn was lying on her stomache on the bed and nate was sat on the floor, caitlyn was attempting to braid his curls and around half of his head was done. I couldn't help but laugh at the sight in front of me.

"hey mitch like my new hair style?" nate said grinning.

"very nice, you should have it like that more often. It looks so much better" I teased.

"so, how did things with you and shane go?" caitlyn asked. I was just about to tell her everything was fine when I remembered that I'm not allowed to tell anyone we're friends so instead I frowned.

"he's such a jerk, I'm just going to stay away from him for the rest of the summer."

"i don't blame you, just be careful ok, tess doesn't let something like what happened today just be forgotten about. She'll try and make your summer a nightmare." caitlyn warned.

"yeah, but it'll be ok 'cause me and caitlyn won't let anything happen to you, will we?" nate said, trying to reassure me and caitlyn nodded.

"thanks guys but I doubt I'll need bodyguards." we all laughed then caitlyn stood up.

"and to think all this dramas happened and it's only time for lunch!"

oh wow, I thought it was later than lunch time, I was supposed to go help my mom! Shit. I pulled out my phone to text her and saw I had 1 new message from my mom. Brilliant.

Hey mitchie! Don't need any help in the kitchen anymore.

Plenty of help here.

Love you xx

well isn't that lucky.

"everything ok?" caitlyn asked.

"yeah, my mom doesn't need my help anymore, she has plenty of kitchen staff"

"well there goes my summer job!" we both giggled then turned to face nate who was wincing in pain while trying to get the braids out.

"don't pull them!" caitlyn exclaimed rushing over to stop him messing his hair up.

I helped take all of the braids out, which took forever and left nate's hair even curlier than usual, it was really frizzy but caitlyn wouldn't let him look in a mirror.

We left the cabin to go to the mess hall and get some food, nate said he'd go see shane when we got back and I feigned disinterest.

When we got to the mess hall tess and her minions were sat at a table in the centre so we chose one near the back, as far away as possible. As I walked past tess' table I heard them snigger and laugh at me but chose to ignore it and simply smiled at them.

We sat down and started to eat and began to talk about idle things such as music and stuff, I wasn't really paying much attention but nate and caitlyn seemed to manage to hold a conversation without me.

All of a sudden the whole mess hall was silent and I heard a door swing open. I looked up to see what all the fuss was about and saw shane standing at the entrance with everyone gaping at him. The room was suddenly engulfed with whispers about him and he rolled his eyes and walked over to get some food.

Tess followed him and shot the whole room a dirty glare telling them to start talking again so the room was once again full of friendly conversation.

Caitlyn and nate were both watching the exchange between tess and shane, I was glancing between them, my plate and said exchange. To be honest I quite hoped he would be a jerk to her. Just tell her where to go, but of course what really happened was she went over and started touching him and giggling and he awkwardly tried to get away from her then went and sat with her and her minions for about twenty minutes until he was fed up and stormed out of the mess hall in true shane gray fashion.

I could tell nate wanted to go after him and find out what had happened but didn't want to seem rude. I looked at him and smiled.

"are you not going to go after him?" I asked, letting him know I understood.

He smiled and thanked me before saying goodbye to me and caitlyn and following shane, only with a lot less attitude.

I suddenly remembered what tess had said earlier about caitlyn ending up in a lake again and decided now would be a good time to ask caitlyn what had happened between her and tess.

"so, you going to explain what tess meant?" I asked her.

"uhm I suppose it's best you hear it from me and not someone else, last year at camp me and tess were best friends but then one night we all snook out the yearly midnight party – which is tomorrow actually, we have to go – and she got some vodka from someone and spiked my drink then pushed me in the lake, I nearly drowned but luckily one of the older boys had been a lifeguard at his local pool and managed to save me. When I asked her why she did it she just said that she had never wanted to be my friend and I wasn't worthy of her."

"wow, caitlyn. I'm so sorry. She's such a bitch. I can't believe someone would do something like that!"

"yeah, I know. But it's all in the past now so it's ok." caitlyn smiled reassuringly at me and I decided to change the subject.

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