Chapter 18: Another Contract

Shane stayed where he was looking intently on Mitchie. She was beautiful. In everything she does, she's beautiful. Shane thought.

"Hey." Shane interrupted.

Mitchie faced him irritated now. "What again?"

"What do you say if we do the contract thing all over again?"

Mitchie stared at him and said "Shane, the last contract wasn't even followed! After a day with you, you never left me off."

"Mitch, you were sick."

"Okay, fine, thank you. But still…" Mitchie trailed off. As much as she wanted to not follow Shane, she can't help but feel like owing him a lot. So she gave in. "Fine, what's the deal?"

Shane smiled and pulled a scratch paper from her pile of papers. "I, Shane Grey, would never court or get to be seen by Mitchie Torres here in Greece…" Shane trailed then thought of the next words to write and continued with "Of legal age, signed by Shane Grey… Just put your signature there and it's a done deal again." Shane winked at her again.

Mitchie shook her head and signed. I so am a screw up! Ugh! What is up with this Shane Grey?!

"So what are we going to do now huh? Again?"

"Comon'! You'll see…" Shane pulled her and they walked down the streets of Santorini.

Shane brought her to a bar. It was still early but there were many people already. It seems Greece is a place where alcohol is much loved.

"What are we doing here?" Mitchie asked.

"Well, you have seen my good contract date scheme so now, it's time for the bad one." Shane smiled and pushed the door open for her. They went inside. Shane noticed a couple of girls he knew but he just waved at them. Naturally, he would come to them but not this time.

Shane let her sat on the counter where there was a bartender. "Two shots of each kind of your drinks, Alfredo." Shane ordered. Then Alfredo started his job.

"You seem to know everyone here." Mitchie told him.

"Yeah. My friendly side gets in the way always." Shane flashed her his sparkling smile. It really does make her knees feel weak.

"Wait, you ordered for everything this bar could offer? Shane! It's still too early to drink!" Mitchie called to him and smacked him on the chest. "Are you trying to kill me? You know I have low alcohol tolerance!"

"That is why I would want to bring you here, not only since this is the bad contract scheme but this could also help you with your alcohol tolerance."

Mitchie wasn't on the mood anyway to argue so she gulped every shot that Alfredo prepared for her and Shane. After several shots, Mitchie was starting to get tipsy. Shane himself was spinning too but like last time, he was still aware of his surroundings. But not really that good like last time.

"You know what? It's depressing at home in California." Shane said "Because of my family's problem." Shane was drunk, but Mitchie can still absorbed whatever he was saying even if she too was drunk. "You know what? All of my siblings are single parents. All of them were left by their loved ones. Don't you think my nieces and nephews will get crazy in the future?"

"Then, they really must need you to go home now." Mitchie said that made Shane scowl.

"I can't help but think that I am not that strong enough to face my big sister. Maybe she's right, if I wasn't a bad son maybe our parents had some other spare time to look after them not only on bad boy Shane. And they were able to help her if ever that was the case. Right? But this is life."

Mitchie smiled at him and gave him a shot. Shane took it and gulped it. "Will you be resigning from your dad's company now?" Shane asked teasingly.

"You? You gonna open and manage the Taverna?"

Shane got silent and just drank another shot of scotch. Then he reached the second one and gave it to Mitchie. Mitchie got it but she slipped it the minute it touched her hand. The glass got broken on the counter and spilled on her shirt.

"Hey! Be careful. Don't touch the broken glass!" Shane called to her. "Alfredo!" Shane called the bartender.

"Ugh! Me and my clumsiness!" Mitchie called and Shane chuckled softly.

"Are you okay?" Shane asked.

"Yeah. Luckily I didn't get a single scratch, for sure it will add up to all my injury marks again!"

"By the way, why are you sensitive about that big injury mark on you hips?" Shane asked.

"Actually, there's two. I just conceal it." Mitchie admitted and started to rub off a part of her arm. It was a big one on her upper arm. "Here, that's the biggest one." Mitchie pointed.

"What happened?" Shane asked.

Mitchie sighed. "I guess I really got you curious very much huh?"

Shane nodded and waited for her to speak.

"These are the reasons why I am not going to resign at my dad's company." Mitchie started

"That is from your dad?"

"No!" Mitchie smacked him. "It's from a car accident. When I was 18 years old. I was so madly in love with my first boyfriend, Jake was his name." Mitchie faced Shane and she looked into his eyes. "But my dad doesn't like him. He said, Jake was a distraction, he's a big liar and has many girls aside from me. He's a bad influence, as what my dad says. No direction in life. He's a rockstar in the making." Mitchie smiled. Jake being a musician makes her flutter more. It was one of the reasons she fell in love with the guy. "I thought, love would conquer all. "

Shane was shaking his head and chuckled.

"You know what he did?" Mitchie continued. "He told me to go to Europe and stay there and study. But I ran away with Jake."

"What? You ran away with Jake?"

"Yeah. I ran away with him." Shane was shocked but continued to listen to her. "But our car crashed that night that we tried to ran away from home. I was hospitalized for a week. My dad was so so mad. He forbid me to talk or to see Jake who was also at the same hospital as me. But of course I fought for it. I went to him even though my dad didn't like it. But what I didn't know was that Jake got back together with his ex-girlfriend. He broke up things between us because our relationship was getting complicated. He gave up. It was that simple to him. He was already suffering so he ended up whatever we have."

Mitchie was crying now. Shane wiped away her tears as she continued to narrate her past. "I broke my dad's heart. I hurt him so much. And every time I see him, it feels like I am a very bad daughter. It feels like I have to repay so many mistakes." Then she got silent.

Shane chuckled softly. "What?" Mitchie asked.

"All along, I thought I was talking to an angel. But based on what you just told me, it seems you yourself have a devil inside you." Shane told her.

"Ha! I took away all that brattiness long time ago Shane." Mitchie said.

"Why did you take it away? You might not know, a little brat personality suits you best."

"Ha! Like this?" Mitchie raised her eyebrow and pouted.

"Mitch, let me return to you back your first kiss." Shane asked her softly. Mitchie didn't answer but with the look she was giving him, it looks like a yes.

Shane lowered his face to her and touched her lips with his own.

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A/N: hey hey hey! love it? i hope you do because more drama would come up :D (stopping with the hints) so... sorry if i had not been updating over the weekend and I haven't posted the high school fic... it's just that our internet server was down over the weekend so I was stuck with watching one tree hill reruns and camp rock watching all over again :D so here's the new chapter and i hope you like it... by the way I think I'm gonna post the new fic later or tomorrow depends on my mood... :) R&R! thanks again for reading!

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