Author's Note: Okay well I'm back at school, ugh no, but today the power went out and we got let out early…Yay. My school life does get pretty hectic, with homework, cross country, and soccer. I'll try and make a promise that in my free time this story will be a priority. My last FanFic sort of died from my school life because I ran out of time to update, but I refuse to let that happen again. So R&R my lovelies R&R. P.S. Chapter title is totally suckish!

Disclaimer: It's still not mine.

Chapter 9: Alone Time

We walked through the door into the office I could feel the butterflies in my stomach taking flight. A tall sandy blonde haired man was standing behind a desk, he looked friendly enough. He smiled revealing a crooked smile his eyes gleamed in a way that caught my eye. I figured he was a friendly person but with a temper when needed.

"Hi I'm Bradley." He said shaking our hands "You must be Mitchie," He pointed to Caitlin "and you must be Caitlin." He said pointing to me.

"Actually you got it all wrong, I'm Caitlin and that's Mitchie." Caitlin said.

"Well don't I look foolish, now let's get down to business, Jared sent a copy of This is Me and well you are very talented Mitchie and we would love if you could join us here at Lightning Records."

I blushed I still wasn't used to people telling me that I was a good singer. "Well, one day I will hopefully." I returned his smile and notice Caitlin's smile disappear she then gave me a look that said I had some explaining to do.

"Caitlin, I hear you've been working on a lot of the music for Connect 3's CD, we'd like to offer you a position here as maybe an intern and of course you can handle the boys music as well."

Caitlin nodded like her head was a bobble head. "So we would need you here every day after school, but we can work out a schedule later, also Mitchie This is Me will be released as a single and we will see how it does and hopefully you will be coming back here soon."

I smiled back not a vigorously as Caitlin had, but still a sincere smile.

"Mrs. Torres, here are the contracts, feel free to look through them, and I look forward to seeing you girls soon."

He shook our hands one last time, and I was glad it was over. Sure it wasn't as horrible, but still it gave me a thing or two to think over in my head before I signed anything.

"Caitlin and I are going to meet up with Shane and Nate for lunch, bye mom."

"Tell everyone, to stop by for dinner later." I'm guessing my mom had some new recipes and needed some guinea pigs to taste it.

"I'll spread the word Mom." She hugged Caitlin and me.

Caitlin and I had some difficulty finding our way back to the studio.



"It's this way." Caitlin pointed down one hallway.

"No its not we've been there already." I disagreed.

"Do you want to bet" She extended out her hand.

"Actually I do." I shook her hand. "Twenty dollars says I'm right."

"Okay, we will go your way first." She said with a sinister smile across her face.

I was beginning to get the feeling that I was going to regret making the bet with her. That feeling I had was right I lost the bet, turns out Caitlin saw a door that said studio at the end of the hall way.

"Pay up Mitchie," I handed her the money "You and your boyfriend are so easy to get money from."

"How much money did you win from him anyways?" I'd completely forgotten about the bet she had made with Shane.

"56.37" She shrugged (A/N that's for UTMY123, the number was the first thing to come to mind at the time.)

"How did you guys agree on that number?"

"It's what I had in my wallet at the time."

Shane came up behind me and wrapped his arms around me. "Did she steal money from you too?"

"Yeah" He laughed and kissed my neck

"Shall we go to lunch, Nate called and said he's running late and he'll meet us there." Shane and I held hands while Caitlin hooked her arm with Jason who appeared out of thin air.

"Where'd you come from?" I asked completely confused.

"Bathroom," He said "Can we go to the rainforest café I love the little monkey's there except for that alligator that thing creeps me out."

"Sounds good to me" Shane said I couldn't believe that Shane was actually agreeing with Jason for once.

We sat down in a booth, and began looking through menus, while Jason tried to help the gorilla on the kids menu find his way to the bananas. The waiter came by to take our drink orders, when a certain someone with brown curly hair finally showed up; he slid in next to Caitlin and kissed her on the cheek. They really looked cute together.

"Hey guys." Nate greeted us.

Shane rested his hand on top of my and I leaned my head against his shoulder. I glanced over at Jason who was too involved in his coloring to really notice anything, but I still wondered to 

myself whether or not he felt left out. I made a mental note to myself that maybe finding him a girlfriend wouldn't hurt.

We ate and talked, Jason told us the tragic story of how his bird house caved in, while Nate and Caitlin seemed lost in each other's eyes.

"We better get going," Shane checked his watch "before Jared thinks we got lost or something."

Shane paid the check and the guys headed off back to the studio, while Caitlin and I took the train home. When we got home Caitlin rushed home to tell her parents the good news, only to realize well they weren't home. I waited outside I few minutes to see if she would come over, but when I saw her bedroom light go on I figured she wanted to be left alone. To my surprise neither were my parents, I walked in the kitchen to be greeted by a note.

Mitchie,

You're Dad and I went out to dinner with the Gellar's, to celebrate today. We would have waited to take you and Caitlin with us, but we didn't know when you would get back, but tomorrow we will celebrate.

Love,

Mom and Dad

So much for her wanting everyone to come over, so she could try out some new recipes. I opted on calling Caitlin, and sent a text to Shane telling them to stop by later for pizza and a movie. So we could all have our own little celebration.

By seven, my house was buzzing with life again.

"Mitchie I brought Sprite!" Jason proclaimed as he walked through the door and hugged me, followed by Nate who quickly hugged me and then wandered over next to Caitlin on the couch.

Shane walked in last, kissed me on the cheek. "Hello beautiful," he smiled "and actually we all brought many, many different types of pop, we were unsure of what you guys would be in the mood for."

"I hope you brought Orange soda." Caitlin said "that's my favorite."

"Mine too." Nate said, and he leaned in for a kiss, which Caitlin was happy to return.

"Well my favorite is Dr. Pepper." Jason said as he hopped the couch and landed next to Nate "It's really good with red vines." He said as he pulled out a package of red vines out of his pocket.

I gave Shane a look; he laughed and said "It's an acquired taste kind of thing."

We sat around my family room eating pizza, and after a lot of convincing I tasted the Dr. Pepper, and Red vines combo. Surprisingly it wasn't as disgusting as expected, but still a onetime only thing. We made some popcorn and Jason got all excited when he saw that there was movie theater butter on it.



We all curled up on the couch and watched several movies. By the end of the second movie, we were all sprawled out on top of each other. Caitlin and Nate passed out halfway through the movie, followed by Jason shortly after.

"Want to take a walk." Shane whispered in my ear.

I nodded and stood up; he took my hand and led me out the back door to the porch.

"Some walk."

"I didn't say I wanted to walk far."

We sat down on the swing bench and I rested my head against Shane's chest, while he played with my hair.

"Shane, this may sound random, but out of curiosity how come you guys haven't recorded Gotta Find You for the CD?"

Shane starred out into the dark for a while, searching for his answer. "I wrote that song for you Mitchie, well intentionally for the voice, which was you."

"Shane"

"Yeah"

"You're rambling."

"What I'm trying to say is that I just wrote it for you and just you."

"Well, I think I get what you're saying and it's very sweet." I leaned up and kissed him, the kiss turned into a passionate filled kiss. We broke apart and Shane wrapped his arms around me, and he nuzzled my hair. Shane lifted his head and smirked, I was about to ask what he was up to, when he answered.

"Here's my thinking, I think we should go on date." He announced.

"Nothing we've done over the past month, hasn't been considered a date."

"We've always been with them," Shane tilted his head in the direction of the house "I want this to be like just you and me."

"We're alone now."

"It's still not the same" He pouted

I kissed him on the cheek, pulling him out of his Popstar pout. "But isn't it hard for you to go out in public."

"I have my disguises; I mean they worked well so far," He smiled "and I would where any disguise so we could get our alone time."



I rolled my eyes I've gotten to know Shane's master disguises very well in the past month and a half. Somehow his disguises were magically working, because they media hadn't really brought us back into the spotlight.

"It's been easy hasn't it?" I said with sudden realization.

"Sorry I don't follow."

"You said dating a celebrity wouldn't be easy."

"Wow I was surprisingly wrong for once," Shane replied "but I think we're just lucky."

Nate poked his head through the screen door, interrupting our conversation.

"It's getting late man, we better head out."

"Okay I'll be there in a second."

Nate's head disappeared back into the house.

"I'll call you later about our date."

He took my face in his hands and kissed me briefly.

"Bye Shane." I said while we were in a tight embrace.

Shane smiled at me and with one last kiss, turned to leave. I sat back down on the bench, looking out into the night sky. I couldn't help but think that this relationship with Shane wasn't going to be a walk in the park. Like there was this dark cloud on the horizon just waiting to mess everything up.

Author's Note: Okay I am in desperate need of my Beta why did she have to go to Virginia for a week. Whenever I have writers block she's always there helping with ideas and now she won't answer her phone.I'm sorry for the choppiness of this chapter I tried to keep things moving the best I can. For those of you that review, I really appreciate it, but c'mon guys I know you all can do better than that, and the more reviews I get the more likely I will update faster. So just go click on this crazy button that lets you write a review!

-the storm