Where you Are is Where I Want To Be Chapter 5: Does Anybody Hear Her?, a camp rock fanfic

Where You Are is Where I Want to Be

By: IAMSOAP

Chapter 4: Does Anybody Hear Her?

Mitchie sighed as she read the caller ID on her ringing cell phone; Sierra was calling again and probably wanting to know why Mitchie hadn't shown up to school for the last three days.

Mitchie had decided to remain at home until the bruise on her cheek had gone away, she knew that if she showed up at school with those injuries that it would raise many questions and that Sierra wouldn't believe any lame excuse she would try to come up with.

But if she ignored Sierra's call one more time, Sierra was either going to drive herself crazy or come over here herself and that was something that Mitchie had to prevent at all costs.

Mitchie knew that her father had a problem, and that even though she felt slightly to blame she knew she couldn't let that feeling take over and destroy her.

Mitchie also knew that she should be telling someone about all this but for now her only companion was her journal which she hadn't written in, in years but now she suddenly need a form of some way to vent her frustrations and her pain.

She thought that maybe if she gave him some time her dad would come around and realize what he was doing was wrong.

Realizing during all this pondering she had missed Sierra's call once and again forced herself to call her best friend back.

When Sierra picked up the phone and realized who she was talking to she was very near hysterical.

"Mitchie! Where have you been?!" she squealed, "You haven't been picking up my calls, so I was getting a little worried."

Mitchie tried to make herself sound sick.

"Uh Sorry Sierra," Mitchie croaked, "I have been sick with the flu and I have been stuck in bed, my phone has been on silent so I never heard your calls."

"Oh." Said Sierra; sounding relieved. "Well I hope you feel better soon, I miss you at school. Do you know when you will be able to come back to me?"

Mitchie had to giggle, she loved when her best friend got all pouty, and it was so sweet. Thank goodness Mitchie had an amazing friend like Sierra to keep her going.

"Don't worry; I am sure I will be back at school in the next couple of days." Said Mitchie, cringing at the fact she still hadn't told Sierra what was truly going on.

At that moment Mitchie hear her father bellowing from downstairs, she panicked and almost forgot to sound sick before telling Sierra she had to go, Dinner was ready.

"Ok Mitchie! Get better soon, get lots of rest and drink lots of liquids! Bye!"

Mitchie hung up and flexed her hands, she cringed they still stung a little bit but most of the cuts had been shallow and were already turning into scars.

She heard her father bellow again and was just about to head downstairs to clean up whatever mess he had made after eating the dinner she had made, when she heard her phone ringing.

Turn on that radio
As loud as it can go
Wanna dance until my feet can't feel the ground (feel the ground)
Say goodbye to all my fears
One good song may disappear
And nothing in the world can bring me down (bring me down)

That was Shane's ring tone, Mitchie hesitated and almost went to answer it when she hear her father storming up the stairs and he began to bang on her bedroom door.

"MITCHIE! GET OUT OF THAT ROOM BEFORE I BANG DOWN THE DOOR!"

Mitchie scrambled across the room to throw her cell phone into her closest before she ran over to open the door, she was afraid if he saw the phone or heard it ringing her would destroy it and she would lose her only connection to Shane.

Once the door was open her father came storming in and slapped her across the face, with such force that Mitchie lost her balance and fell sideways into her dresser. She gasped and fell to the ground as she felt sharp pain shoot from her side all the way up to her chest, she was sure she had at least bruised a rib.

Her father stormed over to her and she tried to make an excuse, an apology, anything to stop him from hurting her again. But once again anytime she uttered a sound around him, her father only grew angrier.

"DO NOT TALK BACK TO ME!" he roared, landing a kick to her ribs, Mitchie tried to muffle her scream as she heard a crack, he had cracked one of her ribs. He then picked her up but the scuff of her sweater and brought her face close to his.

"If I hear even a peep out of you EVER again, I will hit you so hard you will not be able to feel it!"

With that he stormed out of the room, and just as he was about to slam the door he turned and barked: "And clean up the mess you made in the kitchen!"

--doesanybodyhearher? Doesanybodyseeher? Doesanybodyknowthatsheisgoingdowntoday—

Mitchie couldn't tell how long she had sat there; curled up in immense pain, at some point she dosed in and out of consciousness but woke when she could hear her phone ringing from inside her closet.

It was Shane again, Mitchie knew she had missed a few of his calls since the last time she had spoken, and he was probably getting worried.

So with that in mind Mitchie forced her body to crawl to the closet about two feet away, she caught it on the third ring.

"Hello?" Mitchie said trying to sound normal, which was extremely difficult because with her cracked rib it was hard to breath.

"Mitchie, are you okay?" Shane's smooth voice asked on the other line.

Mitchie flinched and decided to lie down flat on the carpet; it made things a little easier.

"Well hello to you too, yes I am fine Shane, how are you?" she said in a teasing voice or at least what she hoped was one.

She heard him chuckle on the other end. "Sorry, you haven't picked up your phone the last couple of times I have called and you sounded a little weird when you picked up the phone, almost like you were in a lot of pain…."

Mitchie forced a laugh, "Oh no, not at all, I was reaching for something in the top of my closet and I had almost grabbed it when you called."

Mitchie didn't know if that was a good enough cover, it sounded pretty lame to her, but he bought it.

"Oh okay… well how have you been? I haven't spoken to you in a couple weeks."

Mitchie sighed but then flinched, feeling sharp pain in her chest from her cracked rib, Mitchie tried to cover it up quickly. "Oh just fine, school is keeping me pretty busy and I have been helping my dad around his hardware store."

Once again Mitchie felt I twinge of guilt because one again she is telling lies to one of the few people who understood her and someone who she could tell anything to.

"That's good," Shane replied. "Hope you are not too busy when our concert comes to town." He teased.

Mitchie could almost picture him smirking. She laughed.

"Oh don't worry I will be there for your concert."

"Good, because the guys and I just sent you and your friend…Sierra I think her name was….you will get two backstage passes in the mail soon."

Mitchie found herself getting excited.

"Backstage passes?! Really? Thank you soooo much! Sierra is going to be so psyched!"

Shane laughed out loud this time.

"Got to hook up my girl – uh, I mean you and your best friend!"

Did Mitchie hear what she thought she had just heard?

"Shane what did you-?" she started to ask but Shane quickly cut her off.

"Oh! Got to go the rehearsal for our next concert is about to start! See you in a few months!"

Click.

Mitchie looked at her phone and just had to smile, Shane was truly a light of her life, he and Sierra were the only two people she could truly count on and because of that she felt even worse that she wasn't telling them what was really going on.

--doesanybodyhearher? Doesanybodyseeher? Doesanybodyknowthatsheisgoingdowntoday—

At the beginning of the next week Mitchie returned to school, even though she still had a cracked rib it only hurt when she twisted certain ways, therefore for the next week she had made a false doctor's note so that she wouldn't have to participate in gym class and risk a possibility of someone seeing the huge bruise that stretched from her left side and half way across her back.

When asked at why she was missing gym class she replied she still had a little of a chest cold and the doctor didn't want her overexerting herself. The teacher bought it and that had been the end of that.

At the end of the week Mitchie received the two tickets and backstage passes to Connect 3's concert for her and Sierra.

Retrieving the mail had been pretty easy surprisingly enough; because the mail came in the late morning Mitchie was able to grab her package from the large pile of bills and notices before her father came up before dinner and saw the pile.

After she had made dinner and cleaned up, without too much trouble from her drunken father, she rushed upstairs to her room to open the package from Shane.

Even though she already knew what was in the package, seeing the shiny laminated backstage passes with Connect 3 necklaces attached to it made Mitchie smile and almost squeal in excitement.

With these Tickets physically in her hands it was a sign that the concert would be happening very soon, and with that the summer soon after that.

Mitchie had made a very crucial decision after what had happened the week before that with all the money she had saved up from work and the money from her mother's will that she would receive when she turned eighteen in June, she would move to a small apartment before finding a job and start saving up for University in a year or so.

It was during this train of thought and exciting moment that she noticed the note that must have fallen to the floor during the excitement of pulling the tickets out of the package.

Mitchie picked up the note and smiled as she read the note from Shane and the guys.

Dear Mitchie,

Here are your tickets! The concert is going to be on a January 10, which is a Saturday so it's not on a school night and there isn't any way you can't come.

Also there will be a car to pick you and Sierra up from your place so your parents will not be bothered to have to drive you guys and go back late at night to pick you up…

Mitchie grinned at this; Shane had definitely become a true gentleman after their summer at Camp Rock.

…But I also have some more good news for you.

You will be seeing me and everyone else a lot sooner than you think, Jason, Nate and I have decided to spend Christmas in Chicago, and we are really looking forward to see what you got us for Christmas!

Seeing you very soon!

Shane~

Mitchie actually did squeal this time; she couldn't believe it! Shane, along with Jason and Nate who she had grown very close to over the last couple of weeks at camp, would be in town and she would be able to spend even more time with them.

"Finally!" she exclaimed.

With this exciting news, and the fact that her father had basically left her alone for the past week Mitchie finally fell into a peaceful slumber.

What Mitchie didn't know what that, this was one of the last happy moments she would have for a very long time.

Things were about to get worse, more badly than Mitchie could have ever imagined.

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