Internet Girl
Summary- She was his best kept secret. He didn't plan on sharing her with the world. She was his Internet Girl. AU- Smitchie story.
Chapter 9- Lies and Lunch
Shane froze. 'How could I be so stupid and not log out?' He silently cursed himself. Nonetheless, none of this seemingly fazed Jason, who continued slurping up the last parts of his Mocha Frapp.
"Dear Popstar, thanks so much for all of that advice! Just like you said, the guy was missing out!! I mean, I don't want to sound conceited, but man, I had the eyes of all the guys in the school! Maybe when you're on line, we'll talk more about it! Thanks again!" Jason read aloud, before pausing. He turned his head to his friend. "So who's ThisIsMe123?" He asked again.
The raven haired boy cringed and plastered a fake smile, turning around to face the older boy. Slowly, he approached his friend, as well as thinking of a golden lie. "Okay, you might find this weird..." He started slowly.
Jason stared at his friend, his expression mixed with an interested and blank expression, also known as the Jason look. "Is that Tess's E-mail?" He asked, tilting his head to one side.
Shane weakly laughed. "No Jase. Never in a million years would I E-mail her." He explained. The elder boy let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness. We'd have you take you to see Nate's dad." Mr. Parker was a doctor at a local clinic, though Los Angeles was filled with so many doctors.
Once again, Jason paused. "You never answered me Shane." He frowned. Suddenly, a train of thought hit him. "Are you keeping a secret from me?" He accused. As Shane opened his mouth to answer, the older boy once again interrupted him. "Is this why you've been running out of the school everyday?"
"No!" He exclaimed, before pausing. "Do I really do that?"
"Yup."
Shane opened his mouth to retort, but brushed it off. He was about to head back to the bathroom when he saw Jason was still staring at him. Especially with his big, dark brown eyes just staring through his soul. It was a free guilt trip.
"Okay, I've been rushing home after school to talk to her.." Shane started. This time, there was no interruption from Jason, who was seemingly more interested now to hear the story. Even his Mocha Frapp had been placed away from his attention. "...because she is someone that is very close to me."
Shane carefully chose his words, making sure it wouldn't leave any questions for Jason. Nonetheless, he still had one. "So.." He eventually said, after Shane's story had ended. "Who is she?" He asked bluntly.
The raven haired boy hesitated for a moment, breaking his stare from his curious friend. "She's...my cousin..." He lied, slowly biting his lip. A small drop of sweat, thanks to the empty silence of the room and the nervousness, rolled down the side of Shane's face. Suddenly, realization dawned on Jason.
"Wow, you guys must be close." He finally said. Almost immediately, Shane let out a relieved sigh, which went unseen by Jason. "My cousins always forget my name." The older boy explained.
Shane replied with a careless 'Yup' as he headed his way to the bathroom for the third time. All of the tension only made him need to go more then he did before. As he reached for the doorknob, Jason's voice once again paused him. "So what should I reply with?"
"Just say 'I'm glad that it all worked out and hopefully, we can talk on line later.'"
And Jason did as he was told. With just a few swift movements, he typed the the message and hit the reply button. Right when he pushed 'Send' a thought came to him. 'Oh crap, I forgot to sign his name. Oh well.' Jason hit the inbox button as scrolled down, taking a glance at all of Shane and ThisIsMe123's E-mails. There were so many on the one page, all which were from her.
"Wow and I thought I used technology a lot." He muttered to himself. As he hit the X in the upper right hand corner, Shane exited the bathroom. Jason hopped out of the computer seat and landed on his bed, stomach facing down.
"Since when were you a Popstar?" He asked curiously.
Shane laughed. "It's an inside joke." He explained, occupying Jason's vacated seat by the desktop. Jason's eyes brightened as he sat straight up. "Oh I love inside jokes!" He exclaimed. "Share please!" His voice was quite firm and demanding, though it still held his playfulness.
"No can do. It would break the code of...cousins."
Jason quickly nodded. "Understandable." He said. "My cousins and I have inside jokes too...except they leave me out sometimes."
Shane weakly smiled, quickly turning his attention to one of Jason's guitars. He walked over to the acoustic and lifted it up, supporting all of the parts to prevent any destructions. "Let's right a song." He smiled.
The older brunette quickly nodded, his grin still the same as ever. "All righty then!" He exclaimed. Jason spreaded open his arms and leaned back down onto the bed. "This will be easy."
3 hours later and the boys still had absolutely no inspiration. Shane's mind was elsewhere, his mind stuck wandering how Jason would have reacted if he told him the truth about ThisIsMe123. Along with that, he couldn't help but wander what Nate and Mitchie's phone call would be about.
'Maybe they're just having an intellectual conversation...yeah, that's what it is.' He thought reassuringly.
"See you tomorrow man." Jason greeted from the porch as Shane headed down the sidewalk. After doing pretty much nothing at Jason's house, the raven haired boy decided to head home before his parents worried, though they most likely wouldn't.
As Shane waited at the bus stop, he had a strong urge to text Nate and ask about the coffee date. He contemplated with himself and by the time the bus arrived, his decision was made- interrogate him with Jason at lunch time. Nate wouldn't be able to annoy two older boys.
By the time Shane arrived home, the sky had already darkened, though you could still see the streets and whatnot. This time, only his mother was home. She was in the kitchen cooking dinner. "Is that you Shane!?" Mrs. Gray half yelled over the stove's buzz.
"Yes mommy." The boy answered as he entered the kitchen. The table had already been set out with plates and utensils. In the middle of the table, there rest a baking dish, filled to the rim with the lasagna sauce and cheese top. Shane walked over to the table, beaming at his Mrs. Gray. "Smells great!"
Mrs. Gray happily thanked him for the compliment and returned to mixing the final ends of her bright freash green salad. "So how was your day honey?" She asked.
"It was pretty much the same as usual, except for one thing."
Once again, his mother looked up from the salad. "What thing?" She asked curiously. Shane shrugged, taking his usual seat at the dining table. "Mitchie Torres turned into some punk flirt chick." He said plainly. Mrs. Gray stared at him wide eyed.
"Steve and Connie's little girl?" Shane nodded. "From what I've heard, she's an angel and doesn't talk to many people." She trailed off.
"People can change Mom."
Mrs. Gray chuckled. "Within a day?"
"Things can happen." Shane argued back. His mother once again chuckled lightly before returning to her salad.
"Not without a reason." Before Shane could counter back, his mom held up her hand. "Just wash up for dinner sweetie." And that he did.
The entire meal, filled with a three by three inch lasagna, a freshly baked rosemary Focaccia bread, and a bright green garden salad, took Shane 10 minutes to fully consume. Now, he sat in his room, fully filled in his stomach. He had offered to do the dishes, but as he expected, Mr. and Mrs. Gray said no, as well as telling him to start on his homework. Luckily, he only had Geometry.
"The exterior angles of a polygon will always equal 360 degrees." He repeated to himself in a low mutter. As he continued to slowly go through the problems, a weak beep chimed through the room. 'You have mail!'
Shane rolled over to the front of his bed, where his laptop had been resting for the day. He lifted open the screen, clicking on his new message from ThisIsMe123. His lips twitched into a smile as his eyes scanned across the screen.
Well, I still can't wait to tell you about my day! I don't think I've been this cheerful in forever. You have the best advice. You could start a newspaper column- Ask the Popstar! :P Just kidding.
Are you online right now? I'm on messanger! :D
-ThisIsMe123
Shane clicked open his messenger system, filled out his login information, and the screen popped up, showing that he had two friends on line- ThisIsMe123 and TheFro, which happened to be Nate. 'Haha I can't believe his still uses that.' Shane thought. He had made Nate's messenger account for him, though the younger boy claimed that he would never use it.
He had decided to message ThisIsMe123 first.
ElRockstar15- Hello there!
Only a few minutes and a reply was sent.
ThisIsMe123-Hey! I was wandering when I would get to talk to you again :P
ThisIsMe123- Are you busy? I can wait (:
ElRockstar15- No you can :P You know you want to tell me about your day lol
ElRockstar15- And no, I'm just doing some easy homework. I'm smart like that :D
ThisIsMe123- Whatever. So today at school, the jerk was staring at me all shocked and whatnot.
ElRockstar15- He was probably mentally kicking himself lol :D
ThisIsMe123- Most likely! LOL. Even some of the jocks, who I add never notice me, were watching me! I felt like a celebrity or something.
ThisIsMe123- I still don't think he likes me though :O I'm pretty sure that he likes my best friend...
ElRockstar15- You still want to date him? o.o
ThisIsMe123- No! :o I was just saying.
ElRockstar15- Liar! He's not worth it though xDD You could do better.
ElRockstar15- I wouldn't advise dating him though :O You'll just go back to square one.
ThisIsMe123- I know that Mom, so I'm guess I'll just have to hang around and see if anyone asks me out xD
ElRockstar15- Well, good for you I guess xD
ThisIsMe123- I'm sorry for loading all this stuff on you ^-^' Just needed to let it out!
ElRockstar15- What about your best friend? Not that any of this is bothering me
ThisIsMe123- I think she's mad at me or something :O I don't know what's wrong with her.
ThisIsMe123- She was fine all day, until after lunch.
ElRockstar15- Maybe it's her time of month?
ThisIsMe123- Okay new conversation please! I don't want to talk about her...personal life like that lol
ElRockstar15- Okay then. What would you like to talk about?
ThisIsMe123- I dunno :O Anything special in your life?
Before Shane could even begin to type his response, a pop up appeared on his screen. It was another window for messaging, this time it was from Nate. Shane cocked his eyebrow. 'Why would he be messaging me?' He wondered. 'Doesn't he have homework or something?' The raven haired boy shrugged off the thought and read the message.
TheFro- What's up dude?
ElRockstar15- Nothing. I'm doing homework :O What about you?
TheFro- I'm done.
ElRockstar15- Figures :O
ElRockstar15- Can I have the answers?
TheFro- No xP
ElRockstar15- I'll get them from you tomorrow then. Thanks for the offer.
TheFro- ...
TheFro has signed off
Shane chuckled. 'Silly Nate. He probably thinks I'm just joking.' Nonetheless, Shane would surely get the answers from his friend the next day, without any resistance. He clicked back his and ThisIsMe123's chat pop up window, which had been flashing during his conversation with Nate.
ThisIsMe123- Am I bothering you?
ThisIsMe123- You didn't die did you? o.o
ElRockstar15- Lol no :D A friend from school wanted to chat with me. I'm awesome like that (:
ThisIsMe123- I'm sure you are :D
ElRockstar15- You know it! No need to be jealous! Plenty of me to go around lol xD
ThisIsMe123- You're so conceited xD
ElRockstar15- :O I'm hurt!
ThisIsMe123- That's why I said that xD
ElRockstar15- Haha. What are you doing?
ThisIsMe123- The terrible thing in the world that we knows as homework :O One of my friend's is coming in a bit to do homework together :D She's smart too lol!
ElRockstar15- The friend who's mad at you?
ThisIsMe123- Hey you actually paid attention! But no, a different one.
ElRockstar15- Oh :O Makes sense then xDD
And the conversation went on for 10 minutes longer until ThisIsMe123's friend arrived, then the girl had to log off, leaving Shane bored in his room. From his room, he could hear that his parents were watching TV in the living room, only this time, they were watching football.
"Bored!" Shane complained as he began working on his Geometry homework. "I don't really care how to find 'the sum of the interior angles'!" He threw his hands up in annoyance before yanking his pencil to draw on the paper.
Shane groaned as he approached Nate and Jason in the front of the school. It was 8:00 A.M and he was exhausted, even though he did sleep as early as 9:00 P.M. Nonetheless, he was still not a morning person and his friends 'bickering' wasn't helping either.
"Tell me Nate!"
"No!"
"What are you guys fighting about this time?" Shane asked, tossing his book bag on the ground, along with Nate and Jason's. The two quickly greeted him before Jason spoke up.
"He won't tell me what him and Mitchie did during the date!" Jason exclaimed.
"You don't need to know!" The curly haired boy countered.
The older boy over dramatically gasped. He frowned. "Nate's keeping a secret from us Shane!" He exclaimed, pointing an accusing finger at he younger boy.
"Are you guys like this every morning?" A voice said from behind. The three quickly silenced at the presence of Caitlyn Gellar, who held a bemused smirk. "This would make great stuff for little kids. I can see it now- Quick Steps to becoming an Idiot." She said, splitting her hands in the air in an arc shape.
Shane rolled his eyes. "Like society needs help on that subject." He muttered, slumping himself onto the the free seat of the ledge.
Caitlyn ignored Shane and turned her attention to Nate and Jason, both who had stopped arguing. "What's wrong with him?" Nate was the first to reply.
"He probably didn't add enough sugar in his coffee." He joked, laughing along with an amused Jason. "Where's Mitchie anyways? You guys are like best friends."
The curly brunette scoffed angrily. "She's the pig show by the steps." Her index finger was pointing at the bottom of the stone steps, where quite a few guys were standing there. From the top of the steps, you could see Mitchie's dark brown hair, which was across from Sierra's light brown hair, which stood out from the rest. "Do you like her or something?"
Nate didn't even bother giving the girl a response. Instead, the waved farewell to his friends and with his belongings in hand, he rushed down the steps to greet Mitchie. To Shane's surprise, the curly haired boy was given a overly friendly hug, earning a couple of glares from the other guys. Though he was sitting at the highest point, Mitchie's loud 'Hey!' was clearly audible.
Until the bell rung, both Shane and Caitlyn glared at Mitchie and Nate, who both sat having a conversation with each other, though they were still surrounded by people. Jason on the other hand had wandered off. He himself decided not to get involved in the silent drama; also known as relationships.
"What's so great about her." Caitlyn muttered.
Shane snorted at her comment. "Nate's as good looking as a rock with vomit on it."
And the same annoyed comments continued for less then a minute, and then the bell rung. Students filed one by one into the school building. Shane headed for his locker and exchanged his Geometry Book for his Biology II book. As he entered the class room, he nearly jumped back, seeing Caitlyn sitting beside his usual spot. She looked up at Shane as he slowly approached her.
"What?" She snapped.
Shane blankly stared at her. "Umm....wrong seat Caitlyn." He grew even more confused as Caitlyn laughed sarcastically. "I paid Sander to switch spots with me." She answered, pointing over to where Sander now sat, with Mitchie happily chatting with him. They sat only a few inches apart, unlike Shane and Caitlyn, who had at least 1 foot between them.
The rest of a day seemed to be a drag. English, Geometry, and Art went by like nothing, more nothing then usual. By the time lunch had come, Shane began clearing his mind of Mitchie and Nate thoughts. Instead, he rather focused on his conversation with ThisIsMe123. 'Were we actually flirting online last night?' He wandered. 'We were just joking...yeah joking."
When he finally reached the lunch table, Shane was a bit surprised to see Jason sitting alone. As he approached his friend, he looked at Mitchie's normal table. She wasn't there, as was Caitlyn. Along with that, Nate was no where to be seen. After Shane had gotten his food- a chicken sandwich with a spring colored garden salad and water- the only person that had joined them was Caitlyn, who was seemingly laughing at one of Jason's jokes.
"Hey Caitlyn." He said, unsure of why she was there. He took a seat on the opposite side of Jason, who frowned at his lunch. "Chicken." was all the older boy said.
Caitlyn cocked her eyebrow. "I didn't know you're a vegan." She stated. Jason simply shrugged, taking a bite of his cheese filled tator tots.
"I just don't like eating birds."
"Even Turkey on Thanksgiving?"
"I still have Ham don't I?"
Caitlyn smirked. "Touche"
Lunch went better then the morning had gone. They went through the whole 40 minutes without even thinking about Nate or Mitchie. The three stayed entertained with Jason's jokes and perkiness, Shane's cheesy lines and excessive talk about bands, and listening to Caitlyn's beats off her laptop, though she was upset at the fact that she had to lower the volume. Even Tess hadn't stopped by the bug Shane, which please all three of them.
They were stuck in their web of happiness until to figures, who were holding hands, sat in the seats across from the three. Jason , surprisingly, was the first to notice them.
"Where have you two been?"
Both Nate and Mitchie glanced at each other in sync before smiling at the trio. Nate was the one to speak up. "Is it so wrong for me to take my girlfriend out for lunch?"
A/N: Eep I'm so sorry for making you guys wait this long for an update ^^ I hope I didn't lose any reviewers. I've been busy :O I had typed up some of this chap on one comp, but then it got a really bad virus so it's dead lol XDD And then my doggy got sick, but he's been feeling so much better now :D And stupid school is bugging me xDD I think that's it :O Oh and zomg I can't believe Circuit City got bankrupt :O So sad. I don't shop there, but it's still sad. By the way, sorry if there are a bunches of typos :O I only have a crappy spell checker xD
Disclaimer: I own nothing :D