I was quiet all through out the journey to the airport. Shane would try and make small talk but I was too busy praying that dad hadnt gotten out yet. He was already pretty angry woith me and I didnt want to turn up late and make him a little more upset.

Once we got to the airport, I didnt know how to act. I was glad that dad hadnt come out yet and I just stood there, fixing my clothes, biting my nails or just playing with my hair.

"Calm down, baby." Shane laughed from behind me.

I turned around to see his body leamed against the wall, his hands crossed around his chest and one leg pressed againt the wall. "Are you sure I look okay?" I asked for like the millionth time in a few minutes.

"You look absolutely gorgeous." He stated, smiling at me.

I groaned. "No, Shane..."

Shane lagued again. "You look fine, trust me."

Dad came out soon after and I was glad that he didnt let out any of the anger he had for me in the morning on Shane. He was actually quite nice if I may say so to Shane, just like we were before everything blew up. I could sense that the anger, the dissapointment my father had for me hours ago had somehwat subsided. He couldnt stay angry at me for too long and he understood that what had happened in the past, the last few weeks, Shane and I had no control over.

I was relieved that there was not much paparazzi around, taking pictures and filming us. I saw a couple of guys with cameras but they werent much of a disturbance.

Shane and dad were busy engaged in conversation on the way to the hotel, leaving me bored and alone in the back seat of Shanes SUV. I felt like I had zoned out of everything that was happening around me and I felt like I was in my own world. I got down to some thinking. Thinking about everything that had happened, every high and every low. Honestly speaking I wouldnt want anything that happened between us, all the argument, all the fights, all the goodtimes, all the bad times, I wouldnt want any of it to change. If I could go back into time I would alter any of it because everything that happened made us made who and what we are today. Everything that happened eventually came down to this endiing. An ending where Shane and I were both happy.

"Thank you for picking me up today, Shane, and thank you for staying with Mitchie the whole day." Dad told Shane once we got to the hotel.

"You're welcome , and it was my pleasure." Shane replied politely

"Thank you, Shane. We'll se you tomorrow morning, then."

"Bye, Mitche."

"See ya, Shane."

-X-

"Looks like Shane and you are working things out." Dad started conversation.

"Um...yeah." I said, sitting awkwardly on the bed. "We are, kind of...yeah"

"That's good sweetheart." He said, sitting next to me. "Your mother and I, we're...we think we might have overreacted. We're you're parents, Mitchie, and we want whats best for you, we want you happy. Last night, when you didnt come home, we thought we might have lost you. You dont know how that felt, Mitchie. It was like a piece of us had been snatched away from us, that fear...I cant explain it. All we could see was darkness, darkness with no end. It's really scary, Mitchie, the fear of losing your daughter. When you were a child and you would let go of my hand in a crowd, that fear and the restlessness you get inside you kills you untill my eyes would place you again, thats how we felt today. We dont want to lose our daughter. One day, when you become a parent you'll understand. We realised that in the end of it all, no matter what happens, your happiness always had and will always start and end at Shane. We've accepted that and we just...we dont want to lose you."

"I'm sorry about last night, Dad. I dont know what I was doing, I was so stupid, I just...I dont know. Im sorry...I'm just really sorry. I love you and mom so much, I dont do thses things to deliberately hurt you. I love you guys." I told him, my voice cracking near the end. "I didnt mean it."

"We know you didnt." Dad pulled me into a hug. To be honest, I was hesitant during the hug and throught all the time dad was sitting next to me because I smelt like Shane. I felt like everything on my body said Shane Shane Shane. I felt like he was plastered all over me. I could still feel his touch all over my body, I could smell his scent in every strand of hair and I could just imagine his lips carassing my own. "Now, you should get some sleep, sweetie. Tomorrow's a big day for you."

"Yeah, Dad." I smiled.

"Do you wanna talk to your mother? She's uh..pretty worried."

"Sure."

"And.." He reached out into one of his bags. "She brought you this." He said, handing me the new iPhone 4G.

I grinned wider. "Thank you thank you, Dad!"

He smiled back, slowly getting off the bed and heading to his room "Now, call her."

-X-

"So, um...I'm officially signed on for your next record!" I gushed excitedly as soon as left the recording room, safely escortimg me there from the conference room after an intense session of paperwork and signs here and signs there. He still had dad caught up with some more of the legal formalities and walked me down to one of the countless recording rooms on the 7th floor so thar I could to get to work. Well, not really. Not yet. Jason and Nate were yet to come back and since they make two thirds of Connect Thee, we couldnt do much without them, but I was also signed to write music for the comapny which was pretty awesome if I may say so, and since it was a duet I would be singing with Shane, we could to get down to working on that.

"The word is, the company has signed on the next biggest thing." Shane announced, coming upto me from one of those numerous machines in the room and greeting me with a kiss. "Congratulations, honey." He said, kissing me again.

"Thanks, baby" I replied, half choking and blushing violently when I realised there were actually five other people in the room. Its not that I was blind, but the combination of the excitement of actually being signed for such a big record comapny even if it was for just one song and then seeing Shane who had the ability to make me forget everything about my surroundings and pay attention to him and only him made some of my senses useless.

"I'm so proud of you." He told me. "You are officially one of us now. Let me introduce me to the guys!" He excitedly took my hand, lacing our fingers together and leading me further into the room with five pairs of curoius eyes glued onto me.

"Mitchie, these are my bandmates." He let me know, introducing me to each musically talented guy one by one. "And guys, this is Mitchie, my girlfriend." Shane said, lookig down upon me, lovingly.

I knew who they were. I had seen them enough times to have their names and faces memorised into the back of my mind and I was sure they had seen me on televison with Shane enough times to know exactly who I was.

"It's great finally meeting you, Mitchie." John said as they all stood up, presumingly getting ready to leave. I thanked him, giving him a small smile, still blushing.

"Yeah, Shane has been talking about you non-stop ever since he came back from Miami." Jack added, draping his jacked around his body.

I lightly chuckled, looking at a blushing Shane but was cut off by Shane before I could even respond. "Okay, guys. Bye now, I think its time to leave."

"Actually, we would love to stay and talk to Mitchie, but all of us have been in the studio since last night and I'm pretty sure I'll probably fall asleep driving back." John laughed. "We'll see you around, Mitchie. And congratulations."

" Thank you." I told them all before they finally left the two of us in the sound proof room.

"Someones been working real hard, I 've been working here all night? You should sleep, Shane." I advised, cupping one cheek with my hand.

He took my hand and lightly kissed it, causing butterflys to suddenly erupt in my stomach and I blushed again. What was happening to me?

"It's no big deal, baby." He said, leading me to one of the couches in the room. He plumped me down on his lap, his voice low and hot in my ear. "I have to make time for everything. Ever since I've ben back in LA I havent had much time for the music, it's mostly been promoting the new movie and since the new record is to release sometime within the first half of next year, we have to get going."

I bit my bottom lip when his own were felt on my neck, placing tender kisses down it. "We didnt do much last night since Jason and Nate arent here, but it's always like this. You never know how your time goes with the music. And we were mostly playing around..."

"Uh huh." I choked out, his hands squeezing my hips and knees.

"Mitchie, baby, we chould celebrate." He suggested, kissing my cheek. I laughed at his actions causing him to squeeze my knee again, harder. My whole body shivered harshly at the contact, eventhough his hands were still over my jeans, I bit harder into my lip, sure it would draw blood."No, seriously." He tried again. "This is big, Mitchie. You're gonna be a star. We should do something."

"Um..Shane. I know you and your brothers are huge and everything and Im really excited about this, but c'mon one song wont make me a star. Yes, people will know me, but I wont be considered a star."

"You will be." He spoke with certinity in his voice and I chuckled. "What, seriously, you dont believe me?"

"I do, Shane." I laughed, turning around, bringing myself face to face with him. "But I dont wanna think about the future right now. I'm just really excited about this whole thing, this whole experience. Meeting new people, learning ew things...this is going to be so much fun." I reminded myself again, the excitement brewing inside me once again.

"It will be." He agreed, his forefinger suddenly slipping into the waistband of my jeans and pinching my tattoo. I suck in air at the sudden action, feeling every nerve in my body shooting up to the spot inbetween my legs.

"We should work." I suggested, trying to change the subject, the tension bewteen us slowly rising.

"We will." He said, his tone husky. "Jason and Nate will be here tomorrow, then we can work. Lets just get out of here."

"Now?"

"Yes, now." Shane slowly nodded, digging his finger into the skin of my hips one more time before removing his finger from my jeans, every action of his slowly turning me on.

"Arent you tired? Like, wont we get into trouble for that?"

"No." Shane laughed and the butterflys erupted in my stomach once again, my breathing uneven at the sound of his glorious voice. "We cant really be doing much without Nate and Jason, but we can work on our song if you like, and now anyway, the rest of the guys have left. They'll probably wake up in the evening so that doesnt leave us doing much right? But we can start off on our song and do some song writing if you like. I'm not sure how much of a help I'll be to you with that because I'm too knackered to work now, babe. Lets just go from here, please?" He pouted.

I ringed one arm around his neck, a smile appearing on my lips. "But you still have the energy to take me out?"

"Yeah, I can do that." He agreed, smirking. "I dont want to waste any time I have with you."

I smiled at his words, shifting myself so that I was now straddling him. Leaning in forward, I kissed his lips and sighed at the warmth he provided. He immidiately replied by wrapping his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. "Or..." He said, into the kiss. "We could do this. I'm never gonna be tired of doing this with you."

I laughed, breaking the kiss. "You're such a whore at heart, did you know that?"

He tugged onto my thighs, pulling me closer and capturing my lips with his. "Only when I'm with you." He admitted, his voice a mere whisper as his lips went down to place butterly kisses on my neck.

"That is flattering.." I smirked, my palms placed flat on either side of his chest, pushing his lips off of my skin.

"Mitchie.." Shane groaned at the loss of contact and I smiled.

"I'm sorry, baby." I told him, pushing back his black short curls. "But this is like my first day here and anyone can walk through that door any second. I dont want them to see this." I explained, pointing towards the both of us at the end of the sentance.

"No one's gonna come." He insisted, giving me his best puppy dog eyes which were already red from the lack of sleep.

"I cant take that risk now." I let him know, placing a short kiss on his lips and pulling at his hands to get his exhausted self up.

He lazily dragged his body up from the couch, looking at me pointedly but still obeying my orders. " You should go home and rest or sleep or something, Shane. We can hang out later. You look seriously tired. Go."

"I couldnt, even if I wanted to. I have press for the movie after lunch which will go on for a couple of hours. I'm only free after that."

"So? Go home and eat, shower and try and sleep or something. Try and do what normal human beings would do if they had three more hours left."

"Come with me, sweetheart?" He asked, hopefully.

"I cant.." I bit my lip. "Dads here and I cant leave him when he's doing all the work for me here. Plus, he's gonna take me shopping." I smiled like a little kid. "But we can hang out later in the evening, that is if you're not busy or anything."

"Nahh.." He said. "I think I can scoop up some time for you. After all, it's only you, not really someone speacial."

"Gee, thanks, I'm honored." I laughed and he bit onto my bottom lip, sucking on it lightly.

"C'mon then, let me take you to you're daddy."

He tugged onto my hand, giving me a cheeky grin and I hit his chest lightly, laughing again. "You make me sound like a three-year-old."

-X-

I gently ran my fingers through his hair again, afraid that if I stop, he'd wake up. He looked so beautiful even in his sleep. I leaned down and leveled his face with mine, pecking his lips lightly, thinking he was still he surprised me by smiling into my lips and pulling me closer to him. "Shane, baby, sleep." I cooed, placing one hand lovingly on his cheek and digging my fingers into his hair with the other.

"Mhhm.." He mumbled, bringing his face closer to me and nuzzling it into my shoulder.

I sighed at the warmth he provided, not wanting to make one wrong move and wake him up. I knew he was tired when he came to pick me up at the hotel to 'celebrate' and when I came out the bathroom, ready, he was already half asleep on my bed. I didnt want to wake him up. I couldnt if I wanted to, my heart wouldnt let me. He looked so worn out with no sleep and work all day, I felt kind of bad for him. I pulled the covers up and snuggled up next to his sleeping form, just staring at him.

This felt so surreal, like to wasnt possible that Shane was with me. It felt almost like a fantasy.

Eventhough I wasnt in a very comfortable possition, I was scared to move in fears of waking him, even if I was practically starving. I hadnt eaten anything other than a sandwich seven hours ago and dad probably already had dinner since he knows that Im out on a date with Shane and doesnt know that Im actually still at the hotel.

I carefully picked his right hand, raising it and slowly removed it from my waist. Gently moving my head so that Shane wasnt distacted in anyway, I was successful in getting out of his embrace. Not that I was happy with it though bcause as soon as his body was no longer close to mine a sudden chill went through my body, but sooner than that Shanes arms rapidly pulled at my back, abruptly colliding his chest with mine.

"Don't go." He groaned, his voice drowsy and slightly cracking towards the end. " I like you."

I laughed at him, shaking my head. "I like you too, but um...okay." I said, cuddling next to him again and deciding I'd order room service later.

"Where were you going?" He asked, his eyes still closed and hand making soothing patterns on my back.

"Nowhere." I smiled. "You should get more sleep, baby." I suggested, kissing his cheek.

He smiled again and opened his tired eyes, kissing my nose. "I'm okay. I'm sorry I fell asleep before I could even take you anywhere."

"It's okay." I said, digging my head into his chest and inhaling his scent. "I'm just glad you got some rest. Geeze, you looked batshit tired before."

"Me? Tired? No..." He said sarcastically. "I'm never tired, Mitchie. I'm superman! I have like all these awesome powers, you'd be so jealous of me, babe."

"Looks like that nap worked wonders." I laughed.

"I was just fooling with you. I wasnt really sleeping. That was my super nap, I dont really need to sleep, actually. I have all these powers which give me enough energy to stay awake all I want. After all, you know, I am The Super man."

"And you get high after you wake up." I noted, my tone sarcastic and laughing at the same time.

"So..." He started dragging the end part of the word. "Whatch wanna do?"

"Eat. Gosh, I'm practically starving." I let him know.

He nodded. "I'm sorry I kept you from eating, Mitch." He apologised, kissing me again and getting off the bed, parting me from my insulator again. I wrapped the warm comforter around me as he walked over to the inter com. "The food here is absolutely amazing. Jason, Nate and I come here a lot from the studio." He informed. " What do you wanna eat, beautiful?"

"I dont know. Anything. A burrito? You choose." I told him from the bed, grabbing the TV remote from the bedside drawer.

He laughed at me, nodding. "I'll choose then."

"But remember I'm starving!" I yelled, making sure he'd hear me over the phone. Shane chuckled and nodded my direction as I adjusted to an appropriate channel.

"Oh my god!" I jumped, keeping my eyes on the television. "It's Mr. and ! I fucking love this movie!" I exclaimed a little too excitedly as I gripped into a random pillow, bringing myself to a comfortable sitting position on the bed.

"The room service guy on the other line thought I might be murdering you from the sound of your scream." Shane joked, climbing back into bed with me after a couple of minutes.

"I wouldnt mind being murdered by you." I turned my face towards him and smirked, lightly laughing. "But have you fucking seen Angerlia Jolies legs in that movie? Jesus, I want those!" I exclaimed again, diverting my attention back to the TV.

"I dont care about her legs." Shane let me know, pressing down on my keees so that my legs were now flat on the bed. I gulped down some air at how close Shanes lips were to my face. He kissed the side of my face, one hand exerting pressure on my knees while the other pressed down on my shoulder, lying me flat on the bed. "I care about you." He said, smashing his lips against mine. I ringed my arms around his neck, pulling him closer to me as he adjusted himself so that he was on top of me, both his hands on either side of my head, holding his weight.

My fingers found his hair when he bit the skin of my neck, setting it ablaze and then started sucking on it. I let his arms fall to my sides and attacked his own neck and covered chest with kisses. We both moaned together when his hardness grinded into my hot center, his bulge growing. I wrapped my legs around his hips as we both fought with our lips, hair tangled with hair, skin touching skin, breaths mixed together.

I placed both my hands on his face and bit down on his swollen bottom lip. Shane growled at the pain and I bit down harder, sucking his lip. His fingers slipped inside my shirt, slowly pushing it upwards, the cold air and his own fingers tickling my skin. Suddenly the sound of someone at the door was heard and we both abruptly stopped our actions, staring at each other.

"Foods here." Shane smiled and I remembered how hungry I was a while ago, my stomach rumbling with the sound of the word food.

Shane kissed my lips and got off me, walking over to the door and I sat up again, remembering I still had the movie on.

Gotta tell you guys that this is the second last chapter :( Next chapter will be the last. This story has been so much of a part of my life for the past year now and I dont know how I feel about letting it go. I dont want to continue it and drag it on when I know it can end nicely just how it is now.

Look out for the next chapter guys :D I can assure you it was be LOOONGGG haha so, I wanted to make this longer but I wanted to get this out too. So here it is.

Mitchie is in the LA studios now and she gets to fulfill her dreams of singing and song writing...yayy Thats pretty cool. Next chapter will probably have songs and stuff and I know I told you guys earlier that when shes in LA theyd be singing alot of songs but at that time I didnt really have this reunion planned and the story was going a different way but now its different but yeah next chap will have songs and it will be the premier of Shanes movie + LOTTTSSS more. I bet you guys will get bored reading it lol. I dunno I might break it down into two chapters if its too long. Lets see :P

Anyway thank you all soo much for all the reviews and yeahh lol Shane didnt get some in the M rated but that will happen soon and he'll be a happy camper again ;) I dididnt want them to actucally get laid in the last chapter but I wanted something like that so it was somewhere in the middle. Im happy they didnt do it...yet.

So, CR2 got leaked..who saw it? Who saw the Smitchie kiss? its pretty interesting. I was too lazy to download it but I've heard about the movie...so lets just see how it turns out.

And LOL I wrote like half this chapter with 'Joe' instead of 'Shane' I was laughing at myself (what I tend to do a lot) when I realised what I did.

Anywayyy I love you all and please do review since this is like your second last chance to (or third last chance...i dunno)...

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