Sing Your Heart Out – Chapter 14.
Nate's P.O.V:
"Nate! Wake up already."
I groaned loudly and rolled onto my other side, trying to block out the unwelcome visitor for as long as possible. I heard the person shuffling closer to me and lean down before yelling right into my ear.
"NATE! Stop being such a lazy bum and get out of bed. Or else I'll tell Miley everything bad about you I know."
Definitely Shane. For starters nobody else could possibly be this irritating. And he's the only person that knows enough embarrassing things about me to threaten me with.
"Shane go away now before I can be bothered to get out of my warm, cosy bed and really harm you." I groaned and pulled the pillow out from under me before forcefully planting it over my ears to drown him out.
"Right then. I guess in a few minutes Miley will know that you would only talk to your imaginary girlfriend Pamela all through kindergarten and threw a right tantrum when the teacher sat another kid in her place." Shane replied chirpily and started to head for the door.
At the mention of this I quickly jolted upright in bed and sent a death glare in my brothers direction.
"You wouldn't even dare." I growled.
"Try me." He laughed tauntingly, "And I can always tell her that you wet you bed faithfully every night until you were eight years old."
"Now that's a complete and utter lie Shane. But if you want to play this game I'm sure there are a lot of things that I could go talk to Taylor about."
"It doesn't matter if it's a lie as long as people believe it and you get all embarrassed and hot-cheeked. But fine I'll be a nice sibling and not publicly ruin your reputation. If you come to the girls room with me." Shane insisted.
"Please tell me that you didn't come to my room and wake me just so I could go with you to the girls and hold your hand while you talk to your girlfriend." I managed to get out through gritted teeth.
"Nope." Shane replied with an emphasis on the p, "I was thinking maybe we could do a double date later – me and Taylor, you and Miley. Come on, it'll be good fun."
"What makes you think I'd want to go anywhere with you?"
"Because you so obviously love me. Honestly, who wouldn't?" Shane boasted and pulled a pose that in his opinion is incredibly cool. In MY opinion, he shouldn't pull that move in public ever again.
"Fine, I'll go if Miley's free. But on the condition that you never ever do that pose ever again. It's so not cool."
"You are soooo not down with the kids." Shane laughed and grabbed my arm and began to drag me out of the room.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" I raised an eyebrow at Shane and motioned down to me in just my boxers.
"Ohh. Umm, I guess you could change first." Shane said and dropped his steel grasp on my arm.
"Wow, what a generous and sensible brother I have." I drawled sarcastically before walking back into my room and closing the door firmly in Shane's face, ignoring his protests through the door.
I quickly pulled on a pair of dark denim jeans and a navy polo shirt before slipping on my trainers, which were carelessly flung randomly on the floor from taking them off the night before.
I sighed at the time flashing up at me from my alarm clock planting the obvious fact that the girls were going to be so not amused in the back of my mind. I quickly contemplated just leaving Shane outside and not bothering but I decided he would only go to the cleaners and spin them a story to get them to unlock my room.
"Okay, we can go now. But you do know that 8am is not a great time to call in to just say hey to the girls. They are going to kill us. Destroy us. And definitely show us no mercy." I groaned and knocked on Shane's head jokingly, "Hello? Is there anybody in there at all?"
"The girls will be absolutely fine, especially with the promise of a date with such fabulous people. We'll even pay for it and treat them." Shane replied carelessly and pushed my hand away from him.
"What about Mitchie? After last night there's no way we can expect the girls to leave her here on her own. Is there a lad that we could take with us?"
"Umm... I'm sure we could get somebody. It would do her some good to get her mind of that jerk. Ugh! If I see him around I'll be so tempted to go up and punch him in the face. He's got such a nerve to treat her that way. He doesn't know what a great girl he just lost." Shane growled angrily, clenching his fists tightly at the thought of Chad.
"Dude, chill out. Mitchie's a strong girl – I'm sure she'll be absolutely fine." I replied and biting my lip anxiously. I sure hope she's fine anyways. Things were just starting to get great in our group. Even if I have only started being friends with them this term.
"I know but man, there's only one person who deserves teaching a lesson more than him and that's Liam. Seriously if they do anything else we're not just sitting by. Nobody get's away with hurting my best friend."
"Yeah I understand and if they do anything else I'm sure me and the whole team will be standing right beside you."
As I looked around I noticed that we'd got to the girl's door and hadn't even noticed, we were so deep in concentration.
"Dude you're so knocking. I am not getting any of the blame for this." I laughed and pushed Shane forward to the door.
Unfortunately I pushed him harder than I had intended and he banged heavily in the door and crashed to the floor before uttering, "OUCH! Oops?"
I laughed loudly at the sight of Shane in a heap on the floor rubbing his arm and pouting up at me.
"Sorry man, only meant it to be a gentle shove." I apologised as I pulled him back up to his feet.
"Well if that didn't wake up the girls then they must have been tranquillised or something."
I immediately stopped laughing as the door flung open to reveal three angry-looking girls. I ran my fingers through my curls uneasily and Shane shrugged his shoulders at me as if to say that he had no idea how to get us out of this one.
"Umm, hey guys?" I offered uneasily and added a wide smile, silently begging for them not to hit me.
"What the hell just happened?"
"Your girlfriend – your answer." I mumbled slyly to Shane and nudged him into action.
"Umm Nate here thought it would be clever to push me and it caused us to wake you so rudely." Shane answered, smirking in my direction.
"Why are you guys even here at such a silly time?" Miley asked confused and rubbing her eyes fiercely to try and be more awake.
"Shane woke me up even earlier because he said he wanted us to come down to you. And he woke me up just as badly. He shouted in my ear like a foghorn." I explained and glared at him again.
"There is nothing wrong with getting up early. In fact it's the way forward." Shane said obstinately, "But we actually came here to ask you three girlies to go for something to eat with us and then go see a movie."
"No way am I going out with you two couples and having to sit through the lot of you acting all loved up. Gross!" Mitchie scoffed and turned to go back to her bed, now completely uninterested in anything we had to say.
"No arguments Mitchie. We're all friends and that's not changing just because some of us happen to be going out." I protested.
"It won't be like that because there's six of us going. And you know him so you'll be able to talk to him if we do pair off. Which we won't!" Shane pointed out, knowing that with these two arguments she didn't have a leg to stand on.
Miley motioned for us to come inside and she shut the door behind us.
"Aww come on Mitch, it'll be a really good laugh. I promise I won't even act like Shane's girlfriend. It can be a friends only trip." Taylor begged
"That's not fair on you guys to have to do that just for me. Honestly I'm fine staying here. I should make a start on the talent show project with Jake anyway."
Miley quickly added her own argument, "You can do that any day of the week Mitchie! Come on, we can watch that film we've been dying to see since it came out."
"If it's a slushy romance then no way!" Shane interrupted.
"Yes way!" Mitchie shouted, "If I'm going then we're playing by my rules. Anybody got a problem with that?"
There was an abrupt silence to this; the girls knew that neither of us would dare argue with Mitchie. Partly because she can be very scary when she wants to be and partly because she deserves cheering up. If that means sitting through a girlie film then so be it.
"So we're all agreed on going?" Shane asked excitedly.
"Yup I guess so. Are we going to the restaurant or the cinema first? And how dressy should we dress?" Taylor blurted out her long list of questions and looked at us expectantly.
"Umm... food first? Then we won't stuff ourselves with popcorn watching the film and not be hungry. And kind of casual but kind of dressy. Like something you'd wear on a first date kind of." I answered, knowing Shane would have no clue what the right answer was.
"Perfect. You guys better go then, we've got outfits to plan and maybe even some shopping to do." Taylor squealed cheerfully and opened her wardrobe looking through for anything suitable.
"Wait! I want to know the sixth person seeing as you're obviously planning a bit of match-making." Mitchie suddenly exclaimed.
"Umm we haven't really decided yet. Jake?"
"No! The more times we go out and end up pairing off I feel like I'm leading the poor boy on and giving him false hopes. It's really unfair."
"Okay. How about we do a blind date? But we promise it won't be anybody ugly or someone you don't get along with." I suggested hopefully. I wasn't so keen on debating who should be Mitchie's date for hours. Especially as she'd argue with pretty much all of them and then change her mind about going. Best to be a surprise so she can't back out.
"I guess so..." Mitchie trailed off, "But only because you guys are my friends and you know my taste."
"Perfect. We'll see you later then. 5pm outside your building." Shane called as we walked out of the room and headed towards the sports hall to search for Mitchie's ideal date.
Mitchie's P.O.V:
As soon as the lads left the room all three of us started frantically looking through our clothes to find the right outfit.
"You guys found anything yet?" Miley murmured as she flicked through her section of the wardrobe.
"Nothing at all." Taylor groaned.
"Me either, what about you Miles?" I asked, trying but failing to visualise anything fairly suitable.
"Absolutely zilch. I really don't think I can afford to buy anything else though. Dad will kill me if I spend all of my allowance on clothes for every time we go out." Miley sighed and closed the wardrobe dejectedly.
"Hang on guys, I have an idea." I exclaimed, my eyes sparkling with excitement.
"Well spill it already girl or I'm going to go into a fashion meltdown." Taylor laughed.
"How about we all organise the outfit for each other out of all of our clothes. We're all pretty much the same size except Taylor's taller. I mean we all think the others have fabulous clothes but our suck. So it makes sense." I suggested.
"Mitchie, it's the perfect solution! You're spot on." Miley squealed, "Who first?"
"I vote Mitchie. After all she's the one that needs to look killer for her blind date." Taylor said and they both got up sifting through everything and whispering together.
Eventually they decided on a pair of Miley's high-waisted denim shorts with a pink and white striped top tucked in and a pair of my own light pink heels. I quickly slipped them on and gave them a quick twirl for effect.
"You're going to look knock-out." Miley grinned, "Taylor's turn."
"Oooh I'm dead excited. It's better than getting a new outfit, we should have done this before now. Mitchie stop trying to pull the shorts down further you look absolutely gorgeous and you may as well flaunt those pretty pins. Whoever it is isn't going to be able to keep their eyes of you." Taylor backed Miley up as she spotted me nervously trying to cover up more of my legs.
"I guess so. Anyway, let's crack on." I decided, trying to get the attention off me.
I'm pretty nervous about this date. What if they pick someone absolutely horrible? Or what if I fall for them and they end up hurting me just like Chad? I doubt I'll fall as hard as I did for him though. My guards going up well and truly.
Miley picked out a cream bodycon skirt with lilac flowers printed onto it with gold studs on the side with the tag still on from Taylor's clothes and I quickly rummaged around for a matching lilac vest from my pile.
"Taylor do you own any lilac shoes?" Miley turned to her and held the outfit up to her.
"Ooh that's cute. But I don't think I do. We could always quickly pop to the shops and get a pair and have a quick snack or something when we've sorted you?" Taylor scrunched her eyes up trying to think through all her shoes.
"Yeah that'd work. I quite need to buy a new mascara." I replied and Miley put Taylor's chosen clothes on the bed next to mine.
"Well Miley's going to be far too easy. You have such nice clothes – your dad spoils you. I'm so jealous." Taylor laughed and hopped up to help me look.
Taylor quickly spotted a gorgeous ruffled floral maxi dress in pink, purple and gold and I grabbed her gold gladiator sandals.
"See! We are definitely borrowing from you more often Miley." Taylor giggled and put Miley's clothes next to ours. "Shall we get walking to the shops?"
The three of us linked arms as we began the ten minutes walk to the shopping centre, discussing the type of shoes Taylor was looking for – flat of course so she wasn't a giant next to us and talking excitedly about the film and who the mystery boy could possibly be.
Shane's P.O.V:
I grinned as I burst into Nate's room with my clothes in hand and flopped onto the bed. We'd gone around all the people we thought were suitable but although people definitely liked the look of Mitchie and there was a lot of interest nobody seemed willing to actually be brave enough to step up and be her blind date. But then we found somebody who surprisingly said yes.
"Do you think they'll be okay together?" Nate asked worriedly.
"Of course they will. They know each other, don't they? And he said yes for a reason." I dismissed Nate's doubts. "Tonight's going to be perfect."
Author's Note:
Guys I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO sorry that I abandoned this story and all my amazing readers for so long! I know there are no good enough excuses but I hope you understand. I didn't get such a great response to the last chapter at first and it took ages to get to the review goal when it usually only takes about 2-3 kind of got me a bit like "why bother" which I know is wrong because I still had those faithful reviewer. I'm sorry :[ And then I don't know where the time went but it was my last week of school and I was so busy hanging out with people and writing in everybody's leaving books I had no time for anything else. Then I had like a week left until my exams so I had to do some serious revision and these past four weeks I've done nothing but have my nose in a textbook or be sat in an exam.
But I've finished my exams now and I had my prom on Saturday. It was honestly one of the best nights of my lives and I've changed my profile picture to me in my prom dress so if you're interested in what it looked like – you can see it :D
I was going to post a big Author's Note before now to explain myself to you but I just thought it would disappoint you guys more that it wasn't an actual update and annoy you.
I'm sorry if the chapter's not good, I've wrote it in one night so it's probably not as good as the rest. I know it's not as long as usual but I just wanted to give you guys something and hopefully I can post another chapter of at least this length in a few days. This is kind of just a set-up for the next chapter so i'm sorry nothing pretty much important has happened. Usually i wouldn't split the day in half i'd just do it all in one chapter but i really wanted to give you guys something even if it's rubbish. I will make the next chapter better and as good as the others don't worry :]
I understand if you don't review me for being so crap but I really hope you do. Who do you guys think Mitchie's mystery guy is? I promise I won't make you wait for long!
Once again – I'm so sorry I let you down :[ But on the plus side I have the whole of the summer off until September so I have loads of spare time!
Thanks to everybody who's reviewed the story you've all been great :D But a special mention to a few really helpful people – NikkyJonas thank you so much for sending me a message and kicking my bum into gear and caring enough to do so you've also been a favourite reviewer of mine :D,, niley16, Niley23Alex, Mz Fizzle, loveiscoming, NileyxMoexLOVEx , kiisuke379, Mayniac, itsaNileything, WeAreLoveStory, McFlyGrl, teammiley4ever, fallingstar2008, Melissa, Elisia, a big thanks it's nice to see familiar people reviewing each time with amazing comments and advice so thanks you guys can always make me smile with what you say. livinforthemusic I keep forgetting who you are because you changed your name but you've been one of the biggest helps with the story and your stories are fab too. Anybody I've forgotten I'm super sorry – all the reviews I've had have been fantastic.
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mileyluver4life – Haha I completely agree there should be more guys like Nate!
Mz Fizzle – Aww Mitchie will soon be happy again don't worry :P
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Niley23 Alex – I do ballet and modern dancing, I have a show in a week :D Trust me, my writing just got worse for this chapter :[
NikkyJonas – I like you're opinion on who Mitchie should be with :P Um I'm in Year 11 in England like 15-16 year olds. You?
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