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 15- Not so Easy
Shane felt his breathe hitch in his throat. "What?!" He barely croaked out. "Are you kidding?"
The younger girl stared him down. "Do I look like I'm kidding?" She snapped, her voice dripping with annoyance. Shane shook his head slowly, still trying to grasp the thought that Mitchie was ThisIsMe123. The girl he had been obsessed for nearly months turned out to be the girl he had starting crush on a few weeks earlier. How ironic right? 'Now they both hate me.' He thought. 'Well, she hates me…'
Jason voice broke his thoughts. "So it's not your cousin?" He asked with a frown. Shane shook his head as the older boy turned towards Nate. "He totally lied to me." Jason muttered, narrowing his eyes toward his sheepish looking raven haired friend.
"Even if he did lie to you Jase, he hurt Mitchie ten times more." Caitlyn turned to Shane. "You know you have to fix things right?" The raven haired boy nodded slowly, letting out a frustrated sigh.
"I don't know how Cait."
Annoyed, Caitlyn pushed herself off of the desktop chair and hopped onto Shane's bed on her belly, spreading her arms and legs in every direction, with Nate lightly rubbing her back to relieve her. "You need to do something big." She mumbled into the bed sheets. "Just going up to her won't do much except make her madder then she already is."
Shane groaned. "I was hoping to take the easy way out." He said to himself. Suddenly, one of his pillows hit him directly in his face. Shane scowled. "What was that for!?" He angrily barked at a smirking Caitlyn, who was now sitting upright.
"For making my best friend upset." She stated proudly.
The raven haired boy gave her a cold hard stare. "I thought you were mad at her!?" His temper rose as Caitlyn simply shrugged.
"That was before I knew why everything was happening the way it was."
Shane felt his lips slowly twitch to a frown. "I didn't mean make things this way…" He trailed off, focusing his attention on the carpeting of the floor.
The curly haired girl sighed heavily, filling the room with her sympathy. "I know you didn't Shane, but she telling us that you're sorry isn't going to do anything." Shane looked up at her with a blank expression. "You need to do something for her that'll show her that you mean business and you're not gonna toy with her again."
Jason nodded enthusiastically. "You could write her a song and pour every single ounce of your sorry mannerism into it!" He looked around the room, taking a quick glance of his three uneasy friends. "It's a good idea." He defended.
"As much as it sounds cheesy." Nate started. "Jason has a point Shane. Even if you don't admit it, you know that you are a great songwriter with so much talent." Both Caitlyn and Jason quickly nodded in agreement. "So grab a pencil and start writing those lyrics!"
Shane's frown slowly twitched to a grin. "First a get a Godfather Caitlyn, then an Einstein Jason, and now a Gandhi Nate? Gosh my problems are your positives!" He joked with a smirk. "Jason…" The older boy perked up upon hearing his name being called. "I think you know what it's time for."
Before Nate or Caitlyn could protest, they were both pulled in by the two boys into a massive hug. "Group hug!" Jason exclaimed happily, even though Shane, Nate, and Caitlyn were all squirming.
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea…" Shane choked out, earning dark glares from both Nate and Caitlyn.
"You think!?" The two shouted in an angry unison, still trying to push themselves away from their older friend.
Jason's grin widened. "Ahh." He sighed joyfully. "I love my bipolar friends."
Early Monday morning, Shane was sitting at the Grey's kitchen table, taking small sips of his cream and sugar loaded coffee while trying to come up with good ways to apologize to Mitchie. His list so far wasn't much.
1: Write her a apologetic letter
2: Cook her dinner
3: Pull a Troy Bolton on the balcony idea (will need to ask Brown to make a musical)
4: Beg until she forgives me
5: Write her a song (Jason idea)
"Gosh, how hard can this be!" He cried angrily. On small occasion, Shane had seen his own parents argue back and forth, ending up with his Mom stomping out of the room. About an hour later, Mr. Grey would be her flowers, apologize, and take her out to eat Italian cuisine. It was a constant process, but it probably wouldn't work on Mitchie.
"It's not like I meant to lie." Shane muttered as he scribbled out another set of not so useful lyrics. Just as he ripped out his third sheet of paper for that morning, his phone began to buzz, indicating an incoming text.
From: Caitlyn
To: Shane
-Any luck ElRockstar? :P
From: Shane
To: Caitlyn
-Ever heard the phrase 'a watched pot never boils'?
From: Caitlyn
To Shane:
- That's a no then xDD Now let me, Nate, and Jason inside.
Shane curiously glanced into the peep hole on the door and surely enough, the three of them stood outside his doorstep. "Good morning Shane!" Jason waved to the tiny hole.
'I should be concerned.' He thought to himself as he unlocked the door and gestured his friends to come in. "Why are you guys here so early?" He asked, watching his friends go though the papers around lyric book. By the look of their expressions, Shane could tell they were unsatisfied.
"Erm w-we're here to help." Caitlyn said, still trying to get over the massive amounts of bad lyrics. "What in the world is 'I feel my heart shatter like broken glass, as you frown?" Shane shrugged nonchalantly. "Hello Shane, this is the twenty-first century, not the Renaissance fair. Get it together!" She scolded before going off to pour herself a cup of his coffee.
Shane glanced at Nate and Jason, who only gave him empathetic looks. "Maybe you should enter a poetry contest?" The older boy encouraged sheepishly, making his curly haired friend hide his face in shame.
"Just…shut up and go get some coffee Jason."
As Jason went off to Caitlyn's side, Nate motioned Shane to sit by him. "Okay Shane, you know this just as well as I do. So far, your lyrics suck. Don't even save them. Burn them and then bury them somewhere far far away so we never have to think of them again."
The raven haired boy glared at his critical friend. "Thanks." He muttered sarcastically. "And how will all of that help me?"
"Don't think cheap Lifetime melodramatic lyrics; pick something that you really feel." Just as Shane opened his mouth to retort, Nate cut him off. "No Shane, you absolutely and never will 'feel like your heart is shattering like broken glass as Mitchie frowns'" He remarked with hand quotations and everything.
The raven haired boy frowned. "Well then Gandhi, what do you think I'm feeling?"
"How should I know?" Nate countered back. "I'm only Gandhi today, not Edward Cullen. Just write about…" He paused, looking back around the room.
"What I regret?" Shane said quietly.
His curly haired friend grinned widely. "Exactly."
After the first tardy bell rung that day, Shane glanced around the room. Mitchie was nowhere in sight. "Where is she?" He muttered to himself.
"Maybe she's avoiding you?" Caitlyn offered.
Shane sighed. "Not helping Cait."
The curly haired girl smiled weakly. "Give it time Shane. She'll come around. Mitchie just needs extra convincing."
'I hope you're right…' He thought, staring at Mitchie's empty seat.
When lunch arrived, neither Shane, Caitlyn, Nate, nor Jason had seen Mitchie that whole day. While Nate, Caitlyn, and Jason tried to go on with the day with smiles, Shane couldn't help by feel anxious. 'Where are you Mitchie Torres?'
"Calm down Shane." Nate spoke up, after watching his friend go through a slight panic attack. "It's not like she disappeared off the face of the Earth."
"And even if she did, it would be totally romantic if you went after her." Jason added cheerfully.
Shane sighed heavily before turning his attention back to the cafeteria entrance. "But what if she never comes?" He asked hesitantly.
"She will Shane. Now shut up and finish your food." Caitlyn ordered firmly. "With all the food you have on your plate, you could feed a whole third world country!" The raven haired boy looked down on his plate, eyeing his food in a bemused manner.
"I just got a burger with fries…"
"Which is better than no food." The curly haired girl answered proudly.
As lunchtime progressed, Shane slowly inched away from his pathetic lacking of Mitchie. He was laughing, along with Nate and Caitlyn, at a joke Jason had made. Just as the four got up to throw away their trash, the raven haired boy caught a sight of the girl he had been searching for all day. Immediately, the guilt and regret all began to pour back in. She was sitting with Sierra and a guy he recognized as Greg Davis, who was fairly known as the Biology obsessed kid. What caught his eye was the fact that Mitchie was dressing in her normal attire of semi-loose jeans and a scoop neck tee, as well as actually having a conversation with the guy.
"Tch." Shane scoffed at the sight of the three. "She'd be better off hanging out with me." But on the inside, he couldn't help be feel envious of Greg from Biology class.
"And then Mr. Diaria was like "molars are only used for grinding" and I was like "check out the textbook, fool." I was right all along, so he had to give me a ten point bonus. Pwnage or what, right?" Greg exclaimed with a cheesy grin. "And he says I'm not capable of teaching the class. Hah!"
Mitchie laughed weakly, but as Shane's figure caught her eyes, she pretended to be intensely absorbed in the discussion. "Oh what happened next?" She asked with false enthusiasm.
"I don't want to be a bragger." Greg started with fake humbleness. "…But if you insist! Mr. Diaria was all 'I apologize for my small mistake…" And quickly enough, Mitchie zoned out of the conversation, continuing to watch her old friends leave the cafeteria. Even after all the bad events, she still didn't want to completely shut Shane out of her life, but by the looks of it, he felt the opposite way.
'I bet he's glad to be rid of me.'
A/N: Wow. Almost 2 monthes of no updating Dx I am so so sorry!! I know that this chapter is pretty much just a cruddy filler chapter, but I hope it's okay to all of you ^^; Sorry I didn't update. Finishing my Sophomore year was harder then I thought xDD But now that it's summer break over here, I'll try to update better xDD Bad news, probably not as often as you would expect. I'm taking driver's ed this summer and it starts next week. Along with that, I need to help re-launch my parent's business, so I'll be occupied. Just know that I'm gonna be dragging a notebook and a filled pencil with me ;)
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Thanks for reading the chapter, as well as being very patient with me :D You all rock! I'll start on the next chapter as soon as I can ^^ I apologize for the short chapter and the long author's note xD
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