Another update. Just saying im not a monkey (katie)

if I were in your shoes

chapter nine

MPOV

the rest of camp went by pretty much the same, the days in classes, having fun apart from dance class where tess would push me around and shane would scream at me. Then on a night me, shane, caitlyn and nate – who decided he would stay for the whole of camp - would hang out in our cabins. We were all pretty close and I felt like i'd known them my whole life. Shane was actually a really great guy when we weren't around other people and we were becoming best friends. I told him almost everything and he did the same.

Nate and caitlyn were also getting quite close and i'm pretty sure they like eachother a lot more than friends. They'd make the cutest couple, i'm seriously going to have to play cupid.

Camp had flown other and it was now the last week. Final jam was on saturday then we all go home on sunday. I've honestly had the best summer of my life and I don't want it to end. I've made so many friends and definitely improved my singing, guitar playing and dancing, with no help of tess.

I was planning on performing at final jam but I was between two songs. They were both originals and i'd wrote them both at camp. One was called 'until you're mine' and the other one was called 'two worlds collide' I was re-reading them when caitlyn came back after hanging out with nate.

"what do we have here?" she said grabbing the book. I jumped up and tried to get it, I hated people reading my lyrics. It's so embarassing.

"could these be the excellent new lyrics of mitchie torres' next hit songs? The ones she has neither mentioned nor shown to her best friend!" she said accusingly.

"they're far from brilliant." I said and she sat on her bed and read them.

"wow. Mitch these are fantastic. You're so modest. Seriously these are amazing, which one are you performing for final jam?"

"i'm not sure, which one do you think is better?"

"well until your mine is pretty good and has a lot of meaning behind it and maybe a certain pop star will finally come to his senses."

"what are you talking about?"

"oh come on mitchie don't be stupid. It's so incredibly obvious that he likes you and you like him as more than just friends. Everyone can see it. That's why tess always shoves you around in front of him to try and embarrass you"

"but I don't like shane as more than a friend, and he doesn't like me as more than a friend"

"ok, you keep lying to yourself. But we both know until your mine is about him"

"it is not about shane."

"hm OK. I believe you." she said sarcastically.

We sat for a while changing some lyrics and working on a melody on both songs since caitlyn couldn't decide which song I should perform either. She said I should go ask nate but to be honest if caitlyn thought the song was about shane, so would nate and he might actually tell him.

4 days later

it's the day before final jam and I still have no idea what song to perform, caitlyn's working with me though and we've been rehearsing like mad for the past 4 days.

I'm sat in the mess hall for lunch with caitlyn and katie playing kiss marry kill.

"connect 3?" katie asked.

"well I know which one mitchie would marry." then she 'coughed' and said shane. I kicked her under the table and she yelped.

"oh my gosh! You like shane!" Katie said loudly and I looked around nervously.

"no. it's just caitlyn being stupid because she's so in love with nate."

"aw that's so cute"

just then nate came over and sat with us, as he usually did. However shane sat with tess and her friends as our friendship was still a secret. Even though tess said she knew about it she was quite happy keeping it a secret as long as shane spent time with her and she got to shove me around.

Katie squealed quietly and nate looked at her like she was crazy.

"whats up?"

"oh nothing, nothing at all. Just sat here chilling with my girls. Oh look at the time. Best be going. Bye guys" katie said really quickly.

"uhm, you're friends are weird"

"tell me about it" I said sarcastically.

"hey! I'm not weird!" caitlyn pouted.

"oh caity you're the wierdest of them all, but that's why we love you" nate said and caitlyn turned as red as a tomato.

"uh erm, I have to uh, go. Bye." caitlyn rushed out the door. Oh my god. She really does like nate. Oh bless her she must be so embarassed.

"i better go see if she's ok." nate nodded understandingly and I followed caitlyn.

When I got outside though she wasn't there, there was just tess, shane and her little crew.

"oh hey mitchie come here!" shane called and I looked at him warily. What was he doing? I walked over to them even though I knew something bad was going to happen. Curiosity always gets the best of me.

"tell your mom to take cooking classes. This food is disgusting, just like your fashion sense." tess said and stood up.

"here why don't you try some?" she threw the soup that was in her bowl in my face.

I screamed as soon as it came into contact with me. It was boiling and scolded me instantly. I couldn't even bare to stand there any longer. I ran off round the back of the mess hall and into the kitchen. Pleading that my mom wouldn't be there.

She wasn't so I but cold water on paper towels and placed them on my face for a few minutes, luckily there was no swelling or burns, the skin was just very red and hurt when I touched it. I was seething. The whole thing was clearly a plan and shane was a part of it. How could he do that. The whole deal was secretly friends as long as he wasn't too mean to me in front of people. Sure I didn't mind it when he laughed along with tess because I knew he was doing it to fit in.

but this, this hurt. Not just emotionally but physically too. Once my skin had cooled down a little I walked to the cabin to find caitlyn lying on her bed looking happy.

"hey caitlyn"

"hey mitch- woah what happened to your face?"

"uhm tess threw some soup in my face. No big deal"

"no big deal?"

then all the anger came rushing out of me, unfortunately when i'm angry I cry.

"oh mitch. What happened?" caitlyn said and put her arm around my shoulder.

"well I came outside to look for you and see if you were ok and shane was sat with them and he called me other, and I knew something was wrong but I still went other and then she said my mom couldn't cook and threw the soup in my face. And it must have been a plan and, and he was part of it! How could he! Stupid jerk! Oh god" by the end I was crying even more.

that's when I realized some part of me must of liked shane as more than a friend, but not anymore. Now I barely liked him as a friend. His apology better be fucking spectacular.

"so anyway, why are you so happy?" I wiped my eyes and smiled.

"well for now i'm quite happy knowing nate loves me, even if it is just as a friend."

"so you admit that you like him?"

"yeah, but erm you know we have dance next right?" caitlyn said trying to change the subject.

"aha, I wish we could skip but i'd never hear the end of it from tess. We better get going. Does my face look okay?"

"yeah, just put some sun cream on or something otherwise it might actually burn." I grabbed some sun cream off my vanity and followed caitlyn to class.

Class was pretty weird actually, tess didn't shove me she just danced along to the music, shane didn't even acknowledge I was there and every so ofter tess would look at me, look sort of regretful then look away again.

I managed to get through the whole class without anything eventful happening and I was quite glad to be honest. I just wanted to get out of there. So as soon as we were dismissed me and caitlyn grabbed our stuff and got out of there.

We were walking through the forrest towards our cabin when he caught up to us.

"mitchie, I understand you're mad but we need to talk." shane said breathlessly, he'd obviously ran from the class to here. Which considering our cabin was quite far away from camp was quite a long distance.

I rolled my eyes as i'd been expecting this, I nodded and told caitlyn i'd catch up with her.

"look I had no idea she was going to do that, do you honestly think I'd willingly let her pour boiling soup over anyone? Especially you?"

"well it sure looked planned shane."

"please mitchie you have to believe me!"

"why so you can go back to tess and have a good old laugh at my expense? No thanks"

"you think I laugh about you to tess?"

" I don't know what to think about you anymore" I snapped, I was so pissed off though and it wasn't like I was lying.

"but, but you know me"

"yeah, I know that you just let some bitch pour soup over someone who is supposed to be your friend."

"oh my god. Do you not listen! I didn't know she was going to do that. I would have stopped her."

"no you wouldn', your reputation means more to you than I ever will"

"bullshit"

"no it isn't shane admit it. You're too ashamed of people knowing you're friends with people who don't have flashy cars or a trust fund or famous parents. I'm sorry if i'm too poor to be seen with you."

"oh don't be so fucking stupid. You're the one who is so oblivious to everthing, you go around like you don't care and nothing phases you, if you don't care why did you even bother coming here?"

"i do care! I care about my friends, about my music, about my parents. Heck shane I even cared about you!" I didn't realize how loud we were actually shouting.

"cared?" he said quietly.

"yes. Cared as in past tense. I give up. You're right, I don't care. I don't care about you. I don't care about anything."

I walked off before he could say anything else, all I wanted to do now is get back to my cabin and talk to caitlyn.

When I got back to the cabin she was hanging up clothes.

"how'd it go?" she asked, not turning around.

I flopped down on my bed and groaned.

"that well huh?"

"i'm never talking to that jerk again."

"eurgh seriously how many times can one guy fuck up in one day?" she asked sarcastically.

"it's not just him, it's me. We started arguieng and I told him I didn't care about him anymore"

"well do you?" yes.

"no." lie.

Caitlyn nodded understandingly, she clearly knew I was lying but chose not to bring it up. It's moments like this when I'm glad caitlyn isn't like most girls.

"uhm caity?" best tell her now, sooner rather than later.

"yeah?"

"i'm not performing at final jam"

"WHAT?" she dropped the pair of jeans she was busy hanging.

Review please guys? I promise there will be smitchie at the end. :)