Hey guys. Starting off a new story here. I have no idea how long it will be, or where it will go, I'll just type things and submit. Review with your thoughts and suggestions, I'll more than happy to accept your guys' help, especially if I get writers block. I guess you can say this story kinda picks up after my one shot? I'm not sure.
Thanks! :)
Crossing Roads With a Rock Star
Chapter 1:
I Guess This Is Hello?
"Mitchie, hurry up! Get your bags, you are taking forever! We still have to load the van so HURRY!" Connie shouted in pure panic. Being the last day at Camp Rock, if she didn't pick up the pace soon by making her daughter help, it would be forever until they get home.
"I'm trying!" Mitchie cried at her mother as she searched around the cabin, frantic. Where the hell is it?! Mitchie shouted in her head. She looked under her bed a million times, down the sink, in the shower, in their bags, nothing. No sign of it. She sighed and sat on her bed, staring down. This is great. Now I can't face Shane before I leave, he'll hate me!
"Let's get going!" Connie burst into her cabin to see her daughter sitting on her bed, with tears in her eyes. She slowed down for a minute to sit by her daughter on her bed. "What's wrong, Sweetie?" Her mother asked, wiping away her daughter's tears.
"I lost it," was all Mitchie said.
"Lost what?" Connie asked, confused.
"The necklace. The one Shane gave me last night..." Mitchie said, replaying the image in her mind.
"Shane, what are you doing?" Mitchie asked, as she looked down to see a silver chain drop down onto her neckline, followed at the end by a heart-shaped charm at the end, with a green jewel in the center. She gasped.
"Shane! You can't give me this!" Mitchie yelled. This thing most have cost a lot.
He simply laughed. "Are you saying you won't be my girlfriend then?" He replied, with a hidden hint of hurt in his voice.
"No, I will. It's just – you can't give me something like this! It must have been really expensive, and you don't need to waste that kind on money on me, and plus I'll look down at it and feel bad because I have nothing for you..." She trailed off, still touching the wonder on her neck.
"Mitchie, relax. My brothers and I all carry one, and when we feel like theres a girlfriend we feel we won't have for just a week, that we really care about, we give it to them. It's like a post-it note on your neck that will always remind you how much I care about you." He said.
She turned to face him after her necklace was secure, with tears in her eyes. They gazed at each other for what felt like an eternity. When they both began to lean forward, they heard a loud boom, like an object colliding with something, and before they knew it, they were in the water.
"Ah!" Mitchie yelped before breaking above the cold surface, followed soon after by Shane. They looked at each other in silence for a few seconds before laughing, and Shane led Mitchie to shore and to her cabin. They said good night, and Shane simply walked to his cabin slowly, regardless of being wet, and looking back to see if Mitchie was still back there. By the time she was gone, he quickly ran back to his cabin, because he was getting cold.
Mitchie explained the situation to her mother, then buried her eyes in her hands.
"Oh Honey, I'm so sorry," her mother tried calming her by putting her arm around her front side and running her hand down her hair. "After we get the things packed up, I'll allow you to go look for it some more, in case you dropped it or something. And in the case it's still missing, you might just have to tell him, dear. He seems sweet, he'll understand."
Mitchie slipped from her grasp and stood up. "Mom! I barely had the thing for a couple hours before waking up this morning, and touching my neck, and seeing it wasn't there. It was special to him and me, and now I feel awful! I feel careless and stupid! I can't face him, not now!" She ran into the bathroom of the cabin and shut the door, as her sobs could be heard.
Her mother simply sighed and picked up some boxes in the cabin, and unloading them in the truck.
"Hey, Mrs.Torres," Connie heard someone say. She turned to see Caitlyn standing by the side of the truck.
"Oh, Hello Caitlyn," she chimed.
"Where's Mitchie? I have to talk to her A LOT before we all head off today." Caitlyn asked her mother.
"Um, well, she's in the cabin, but in a fowl mood, all upset, eyeliner and stuff all over her face. You know." Connie explained to the girl in front of her.
"Why?" Caitlyn was confused, she heard nothing about Shane and Mitchie and what happened last night at all.
"Boy troubles. Just, walk on in there. Shes in the bathroom crying her eyes out. She'll explain everything to you eventually, oh, and can you help me with some things soon in the kitchen? My daughter probably won't be of much help for a while." She filled in the rest of the information Caitlyn expected to find out from her.
"Sure Connie, and thanks. Bye!" She smiled and waved, and jogged up to the door of the Torres' cabin. She opened it and shouted inside.
"Mitchie?"
She heard a loud sniff and went to the door of the bathroom, and could hear Mitchie's sobs. She opened the door to find a very broken Mitchie on the floor. Her makeup was on her face as her mom said, and she had her knees to her chest. She looked up at Caitlyn, and knew right away she wanted some answers.
"What-"
"It's a long story," Mitchie said.
Caitlyn simply shut the door behind them and sat down on the floor next to her friend, rubbing her back and trying to comfort her, much like she did the day Tess exposed her.
"I'm listening," Caitlyn said. It was horrifying to see her friend in such a state.
Mitchie sat down there are poured out everything. She started with the canoe ride, then with him giving her the necklace, the kisses, the unexpected swim, and waking up without the necklace. She finished her story and wiped one of her eyes, her makeup now all vanished. It felt kind of good to tell the story to a best friend.
Caitlyn looked shocked at first at the fact her friend was now dating Shane Gray, but greatly felt her sympathy when she explained the case of the missing necklace.
"Wow," Caitlyn grabbed her friend and pulled her into a tight hug, letting her cry to her.
"Don't worry, we'll all go out later. Me, you, Lola, Maybe Peggy and Ella, and maybe even Tess if she decided shes still going to be nice. We can all going looking for it. I'm sure you just dropped it. Did you have it on when you came to the cabin last night?" Caitlyn explained to her tear-stained friend, making a bigger deal of it than she needed to.
Mitchie looked up at Caitlyn for the first time, with a semi-smile.
"Cait, I highly doubt all those people would help. And besides – if they did – what would happen if Shane sees us and asks what we're doing? Or worse, he finds me not wearing the necklace. You know how awful I feel right now? Multiply it by ten. Thats about how horrible Shane will feel, seeing I'm so careless to lose it. He'll never want to talk to me again. That was his reminder that he loves me and I no longer have it. Don't get so caught up in my drama."
She began to sob once more. "I don't even know if I had it on when I went to bed last night. I just sighed happily, and went to bed. I should've checked and taken it off...ugh – either way I'm a horrible person!" She beat herself up.
"Stop, just stop." Caitlyn said, serious. "Don't you think you're being a tad bit over dramatic? I know how you feel, Mitchie, but crying won't solve anything."
She stood up and Mitchie thought she was just going to walk off, but her hand stretched out, so Mitchie took it and pulled herself up.
"We're going to fix this," Caitlyn said with confidence and a smile. Mitchie smiled as well.
"Okay, just let me get changed real quick. This shirt is ruined," Mitchie's tone actually sounded normal. She grabbed a shirt out of her dresser and changed real quick, throwing the dirty one into the hamper where her mother kept the used clothing that she was going to wash when she got home. She washed her face. Besides her red eyes, it looked as if she had never been crying. Thank God for Caitlyn for coming along making the day better.
She walked down the stairs with Caitlyn. She decided that if anybody knew about her new necklace and saw her without it, she would tell them that she was keeping it under wraps for a while, not to raise suspicion or rumors. And she also decided that if there was an emergency where they couldn't avoid Shane, she was sticking with that story as well, at least, until they find it.
"Well it's good to see your spirits back up," Connie told her daughter, who would look normal to anybody else. But she has been her mother for 15 years – she could tell which grins were hiding fear and guilt. Like all the time she "borrowed" money or "borrowed" Sierra's math homework.
"Yeah, I can go once I help pack up some stuff, right?" Mitchie asked for safety.
"Yeah, I'll get the rest in the cabin, you girls can work in the kitchen," Connie instructed.
The girls rushed off into the kitchen through the back door, because so many others were already in the cafeteria, eating. Caitlyn and Mitchie lifted their heads through the small window and looked into the dining area. There was no sign of Connect 3 in there yet, except Jason who was obviously talking to Ella about birds, they had a book open and were laughing while looking, while Peggy sat there watching them with a look of pure horror and disgust. Tess was sitting at a table with a group of people she never talked to before, and she was laughing and really looked like she was having an honest good time, like the others at the table.
"Well, at least we know Tess has really changed..."Caitlyn said, knowing Mitchie was suspecting the worse.
"I think these are the boxes we need," Mitchie changed topics, lifting up a box of burger buns. She walked to the door and nearly dropped her box. She looked out to see Connie and Shane talking, then Connie turned back to the van and Shane began jogging up to the back door of the kitchen.
"Shoot!" Mitchie yelped and piled the box on top of Caitlyn's.
"What?!" Caitlyn yelped at the sudden gain in weight.
"Shane is coming. Uh...stall for me. Tell him I am taking out the trash, or something. Anything, please!" Mitchie begged, already beginning to tear up.
Caitlyn sighed. If it meant helping her friend. She nodded. Mitchie gave her a quick tight hug before running out behind some boxes and watching the scene unfold. About three seconds after she was safely hidden, as if on queue, Shane came into the doorway, almost knocking over Caitlyn and her overload of boxes.
"Sorry," He said, helping her regain her balance. "Have you seen Mitchie? Her mom told me she was around here, and I need to talk to her for a minute."
"Uh..." Caitlyn was bad at this. She stammered before saying, "She grabbed some trash bags, she should be back in about five minutes." She said, praying it would work.
"Um, okay. Tell her to meet me at the Mess Hall," was the only thing Shane said before walking through the door to the dining area. Caitlyn put her boxes down and looked through the window, to see him talking to Jason and Nate.
"It's all clear, Miss.Lovesick," Cait confirmed, watching Mitchie get up.
"Ugh, we don't have 5 minutes, Cait!" Mitchie shouted.
"I'm sorry, but did you expect me to tell him it would take you to the end of camp until you came back?" Cait had a point.
Mitchie sat on a couple boxes, huffing.
"We'll get through this. If we run fast, we can begin looking before Shane comes back here," Cait planned and helped Mitchie get up.
Thats what they did. After dumping out about enough food to feed raccoons for a couple years to come, and laughing, all that could fit in the van was in there. They left immediately. They split up for about 10 more minutes before meeting at a rock. Caitlyn shrugged, telling Mitchie silently that nothing had been found. She simply stared at the ground.
"Well, this is just perfect," Mitchie sighed. "And I totally skipped out on the meeting at the Mess Hall, he'll know I'm avoiding him. I just don't want to lose him, Cait." She leaned on her friend once more as she comforted her.
--
Meanwhile, Shane laid back on his bed in his cabin.
Is she avoiding me?
He sighed and spun the necklace around on it's chain for a while, letting the light bounce off of it.
She probably is. She didn't meet me later. Why?
"So Romeo, how's Juliette doing?" Nate said, closing one of Shane's suitcases, helping him pack, and piling them up with the other bags and guitars near the door.
"You know. Hiding away in her tower," Shane tried to play along.
"Nobody hides in a tower in Romeo and Juliette, genius," Nate pointed out his error. "A balcony maybe but..." He looked into the air, thinking, unaware of the pillow that was chucked at his face. "What was that for?"
"For just being Nate," Shane mumbled in his pillow that his face was buried in.
We haven't been dating for 24 hours yet and she already ignoring me...wow...love is great. Maybe she's just been busy – everyone is, it's the last day of camp.
Shane finally convinced himself she had a reason she wasn't seen that day, and rolled over.
"Dude, we only have about 3 hours left in camp. If you don't find her at the closing ceremony, you're screwed."
Shane chuckled. "Thats exactly when I plan to talk to her," he twirled the necklace around again.
--
"Shit!" Mitchie yelped. "I totally forgot about the closing ceremony. I'm totally going to have to face him, this is going to suck.
"Well, this might be a bit cliché, but honesty is the best policy," Cait rested her head in her palm.
"My first boyfriend, and I'll lose him after a day," Mitchie sighed dramatically. Deep down she thought she was making a big deal of it, but yet she thought she wasn't.
"Oh, come on drama queen. You worry too much," Cait said. "Just confront him whenever you can."
"I'll try," Mitchie stood up and her and Caitlyn both ran off to the closing ceremony.
"Well, It looks like we are basically done for the year!" Brown announced, as tons of campers groaned. "But – theres no way we're aren't going out this year – one of the best years we ever had – without a bang!" Brown formed his hand into a gun shape and pointed it upward, and pretended to shoot it, while the crowd of kids all whooped and yelled and hollered back and forth.
Mitchie got caught up in the excitement that she didn't see Connect 3 behind the stage, all preparing. Shane just stared at her for the longest time, and began to walk over to her, until Nate had pulled on his shirt, leading them to the stage.
"And now, to help us close up this year, a special performance once again from Connect 3!"
That was all Mitchie needed to hear.
Her eyes widened as Shane, Nate, and Jason all walked up onto the stage.
"Okay guys. We're going to sing a song you guys should all know, dedicated to all the special friends I've made here at Camp Rock this year," Shane said with a grin, looking at Mitchie. Everyone cheered and the band began their song 'Inseparable'.
Mitchie tapped Cait on the shoulder.
"What will I say?" She said, a bit calmer, accepting reality. "Sorry, I lost your expensive necklace, but now we're leaving anyway, nice knowing ya?" Mitchie panicked.
Cait told her friend she would help her handle it, with a smirk Mitchie didn't see. The guitar faded out and the crowd erupted into a loud roar of claps. Shane was the first to jump off the stage as the crowd began clearing out to say goodbye. Shane walked through the group of people hugging, trading phone numbers, like every year after the final performance. Mitchie and Shane were about 3 feet away when a huge crowd of people surrounded Mitchie. She was shocked. One minute, she saw Shane making his way to her, then Tess was right in front of her. She silently thanked her in her head and looked up. Tess handed her a heart-shaped notebook that already had about 10 phone numbers written down from her new friends. She smiled.
"Mitchie. I really am sorry for all the things I did to you this summer," Mitchie grabbed the notebook. "I'd really like to try at being your friend once again – if you give me a chance?" She smiled. So did Mitchie. She signed her number down with a fancy signature next to it. Tess gave her a quick hug and walked off to gather more for her notebook. Next she exchanged numbers with Ella and Peggy. She had grabbed Ella's notebook next to see right above it, was:
JASON.
CALL ME ANYTIME TO TALK ABOUT BIRDS OR ANYTHING ;)
1-432-555-6723
Mitchie couldn't help but giggle. She placed her number right below it, as well as in Peggy's notebook. As the crowd of people cleared, Shane was still there, talking to Brown real quick, before turning to see that he could now see Mitchie instead of 20 backs of people. He grinned and walked over to her. She stood there silent, looking up at his face.
"You, Miss, are a very tough person to get in contact with. I hope that doesn't change this summer," Shane joked.
Mitchie semi-smiled before looking down.
"Whats wrong?" He asked, concerned.
"Shane – you know your necklace you gave me?"
"Hm."
"Well, about that-"
You could hear a slight chuckle.
"Close your eyes real quick and turn around."
She had no idea why, but she followed his orders and did so anyway. She felt something cool touch her neck then she opened her eyes and looked down.
"Shane! How did you- I mean what- BEGIN EXPLAINING!" Mitchie shouted with a shocked expression while turning around.
He laughed once more.
"Caitlyn told me everything while you were giving your number to that awfully large group of people..." Shane said.
She glanced over at Caitlyn to see her grinning with her arms crossed.
"But that doesn't explain how-"
"I'm getting there. You know how the canoe tipped over and we kinda...went for a swim?" Shane asked, as Mitchie smiled at the memory.
"Yeah, I do."
"Well, I had to go out to the boat later and put it back to shore, when I noticed your necklace lying on the bottom of the boat. It was un-hooked, meaning it probably came off when you fell out," he told her, then laughed. "You didn't have to avoid me all day."
"Oh..." She touched it again, running her finger over the vivid patterns and the sparkling green object in the center. She began blushing, realizing how stupid she had been all day, then felt guilty because she had avoided him all day. She looked up at him.
"I'm so sorry I caused you so much trouble, I-" She was silenced by his finger.
"You say sorry too much. It's cute, but I want to hear something else once in a while."
She smiled and jumped into his chest as he wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head.
--
"Hurry up Mitch!" Her mom was yelling.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Mitchie had bags along with her and she went to the front of the van and put down her bag of clothes, her guitar, and her bag of other things. All the rest was in the back. She was picking up a couple more boxes outside that couldn't fit in the back. She picked up a velvet necklace case and placed it in her bag. She placed the last box in the van and looked over at the people around her. She ran over to Caitlyn first and gave her the biggest hug she ever gave her.
"Thats for being the greatest friend ever. Thank you so much for all you did for me." They traded papers of contact information before Cait ran off to her own car to leave.
Next was Brown. She smiled.
"Promise me you'll keep singing?"
"Promise." They interlocked hands like they did the first time he heard her sing. Then he gave her a quick hug before jumping off back to his office to settle the last things. Last was Shane. She stood in front of him and smiled for a while.
"I guess this is goodbye?" Shane made a horrible puppy-dog face. She giggled.
"No, Shane Gray. This is Hello," She said handing him a paper with similar info she gave Caitlyn, plus a note at the bottom. He did the same. They then leaned forward and locked lips. They stood there a while, before parting. He then held her hand for a while, and gave her a deep hug.
"If you don't call me within 24 hours I'm obligated to break down crying," She said with a better puppy face then he had attempted.
"And if I don't see you every week, I'm obligated to throw an "I want to see Mitchie" rock star fit until it happens." Shane replied.
"Each week? You know thats not possible," she said with a frown.
"Don't think that way," he looked down at her frowning face. "Okay?" Shane lifted her chin up.
"Okay," Mitchie gave him a quick kiss before hopping into her van and watching him walk over to the rest of Connect 3 who was waiting for Shane's final bags to be put into the limo. He watched the van drive off as she watched Shane get smaller. When he was no longer visible, she leaned back and put her hand on her necklace, and held it in her hand.
--
"Well, hope you had a good time because we are hitting the recording studio as soon as we are on the road so we can get our company a demo. You going to be okay?" Nate asked.
"Yeah, I'm going to be fine." He said, smiling at the ground.
"So you gave her your necklace, huh?" Nate questioned.
"Yup," Shane simply said.
Nate grinned.
Shane looked over to see that the brown van with the words "Connie's Catering" was no longer in sight, so he turned to face the rest of the group.
"You know, I still need a birdhouse – so if at any time you are feeling down you can ju-" Jason began.
"Jason!" Nate shouted. "He isn't making you a damn birdhouse!"
Shane laughed at their bickering, as he opened the piece of paper Mitchie had given him.
Hey Rock Star,
I know you're probably dying to call me right? ;)
So to keep you from throwing a hissy fit that will make you end up on Hot Tunes by Saturday, my voice is just a phone call away.
Home: 555-9304
Mom's Cell: 1-765-8693
If you are wondering why it's my mom's cell phone – I don't have one. Sorry to disappoint. :( You can call her anytime I don't answer at home.
Anyway, I miss you already.
I love you.
-Mitchie
Shane grinned at the note and folded it neatly back into his pocket where on the outside it had Shane printed in girly letters with a heart by it.
He simply sighed.
"Mitchie withdrawal already – huh?" Nate asked.
"Yup."
Thats it for the first chapter. I'm only getting started. The rating is indeed T – mostly for minor language and upcoming chapters. Don't worry, nothing graphic will happen. I'm not into stories like that. But - Like Mitchie said - "This is only hello."
Reviews make me update faster! ;D
(Not really. But I really like them and I'd love to hear from you guys! Got any questions? I'll try my best to answer them in my next chapter's author's note.)
And another warning: things may not be all goody and happy like they were in this chapter. It's always good to start a story nice and sweet, and add the drama and such the middle of the story, where it gets good.
Don't worry, I'll keep you guys interested. ;D
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