AN: Wow three chapters in two days that's a record for me. I hope you enjoy this chapter and please let me know what you think.
Chapter 3
"Hey Mom" Mitchie called out as she and the others entered the kitchen. Her Mom was searching the shelves for some ingredients and answered her with out turning around.
"Hey sweetie, how are thing's going so far?" she asked
"Really good, great actually" Mitchie said with a smile.
Connie was surprised when she finally did turn around she had expected to find her daughter stood in the middle of the big industrial kitchen but instead of one girl there were four. Her daughter, two curly haired brunets and a blond with a skate board.
"Mitchie" she asked in a puzzled tone
"Oh" said Mitchie understanding "These are my friends Caitlyn, Miley and Lily" Mitchie introduced each girl in turn.
"It's very nice to meet you" Connie said giving each girl a bright smile. A moment later her smile faded as a sudden thought struck her.
"You haven't gotten into trouble already have you girl's?" she asked. Brown (Camp Rock's owner) had warned her that kitchen duty was used as a punishment in some cases.
"Oh no, nothing like that Mrs Torres" Miley assured her
"We're the reason Mitchie is late" explained Caitlyn
"So we came to help to make up for it" Miley concluded
"Oh that's very sweet girl's but not necessary" said Connie
"We want to help Mrs T" said Lily
"If that OK" Miley finished politely
"Well we could always use some extra hands around here" Connie conceded "Ok everyone grab a work shirt" Connie commanded each of the four girls rushed in a different direction quick compiling to Connie order.
"So any of you girls done much cooking before" Connie asked her newly enquired helpers.
"Me and Daddy cook together all the time" answered Miley
"Grate" said Connie "Have you ever made hamburgers?" she asked.
Miley answered with a bid grin and a vigorous nod "We make the best burgers in all of Malabo" she told Connie.
"Well then" Connie said with a grin "you and Mitchie are on the hamburgers" as she led the two girls over to a huge pile of hamburger meat.
"Caitlyn can you wash and chop salad?" Connie asked
"No problem" stated Caitlyn as she began to rinse a whole lattice under the tap.
"Now Lily what shall we do with you" Connie wondered aloud
"Please don't give me anything that can burn" Lily pleaded
"OK" said Connie "how about-"
"Don't trust her with anything too sharp Mrs Torres" Miley cut in
"Why" Connie asked Miley
"If you do Lily will not finish the summer with all ten fingers" Miley stated as a matter of fact
"Is that true?" Connie asked Lily
"Well- kind a- sort a- yes- probably" Lily admitted going red with embarrassment. Connie smiled kindly at the blushing girl.
"Well Lily can you butter the buns for the hot dogs and hamburgers?" Connie asked.
"Sure" Lily said with a bright smile as Connie led her to her very own work station.
A few minutes later Connie couldn't help but smile at the new voluntary members of her work force. The girls made a good team, Mitchie and Miley were up to their elbows in hamburger meat but they were chattering cheerfully none the less.
Caitlyn obviously wasn't new to kitchen work she was competently washing and chopping salad while talking to Lily and the knife she was using had never once gotten close to her fingers.
Lily who Connie could tell had little faith in herself when it came to any thing new seemed to have forgotten all of her initial reservations as she laughed with Caitlyn. She seemed to be cutting and buttering the buns without really noticing what she was doing.
Out of habit Connie turned on the radio and a connect 3 song flooded the room. Each of the girls began to sway to the music, Miley and Caitlyn sang along they both had lovely voices but Connie wouldn't have expected anything less considering she was at Camp Rock.
"So I hear there's an open mike night tonight" She asked smiling at the girls.
"Yeah" Mitchie confirmed she had a suspicion that she knew where her mother was going with this.
"Are any of you girls going to sing?" Connie asked
All four girls answered at once
"Not tonight" said Miley
"Not yet" said Caitlyn
"Not going to happen" said Lily
"In front of all those people? No way" said Mitchie
Connie smiled again she could tell that in Lily Mitchie had found a like minded friend at least when it came to performing in public but both Miley and Caitlyn had more confidents they weren't saying no out right they were just biding their time.
Connie fully intended to encourage and support all four girls thought out the summer but she would deal with Mitchie's lack of confidents first.
"Sweetie I hear you in you room. You're really good. Moms honour" she said complete with a Boy Scout salute.
"You got to believe in yourself" she urged "And if your nevus, so what everyone is nevus" Connie could see she was getting no where with this but she made one last attempt at getting thought to her daughter.
That's why I'm making so much food tonight people eat when their nevus"
"Not me" said Mitchie looking at the pile of meat that she and Miley had made very little head way into
"I don't think I can eat another burger. Ever" she put all of her enfaces on the last word.
"OK" Said Connie "Why don't I help Miley finish up here you take the trash out to the dumpster and then set up in the mess hall"
"I'll help you Mitchie" Lily said with a smile "I'm done here"
Connie checked out Lily's station "Good job Lily" she commented
"Thanks Mrs T" said Lily before she and Mitchie left the Kitchen carrying a trash bag each.
On their way to the dumpster Mitchie and Lily had to pass cabin vibe that housed Tess and her back up girls Ella and Peggy.
As the girls passed they could hear loud singing coming from inside. The two girls crept up to the door bringing their trash bags with them.
Inside Tess was centre stage singing her heart out with Ella and Peggy in their back up positions oooing and arring along with her.
"OTT much" Lily whispered to Mitchie. Before Mitchie could reply Tess spun around to yell at Ella and Peggy for something making Lily and Mitchie duck for cover.
The two girls snuck away while they could, not daring to make a sound until they were a safe distance away.
"Wow she is really good" said Mitchie
"If a little high strung" Lily said with a laugh "Miley is way better and I bet you are to" Lily assured her
"You really shouldn't listen to my Mom" Mitchie said "she has to say good stuff she my Mom"
"And maybe you should listen to you Mom, if she didn't think you could sing she wouldn't be trying to get you to do this open mike thing, she wouldn't set you up to be embarrass she's your Mom"
Mitchie just smiled what Lily had just said actually made sense.
When the girls lifted the lid of the camps huge dumpster to get rid of their trash bags a pile of papers was court by the wind and blown out of the dumpster and along one of the many woodland paths.
"Oh shoot" said Mitchie as she slammed the lid down.
"I'll go after them, you go set up the mess hall" said Lily running off after the papers before Mitchie could say anything.
Lily court most of the papers quickly but there was just one peace that kept eluding her.
She was so busy watching the paper that she was unaware of her surroundings until she crashed into someone.
The someone court hold of her using only one hand. He was strong enough to keep her from hitting the ground using just that one hand the other was holding his phone to his ear.
"Watch it Blondie" He snapped at her before turning away from her.
Lily watched in shock as Shane Gray marched away from her. He really was the jerk that the press made him out to be, he didn't even give her the chance to say sorry.
She had to pass him again on her way to the mess hall. The phone was still stuck to his ear but it must have connected now because he was complaining loudly about needing hair product to whoever was on the other end.
Lily smiled it was a shame he had been so rude to her earlier because she could have helped him. About half of one of Miley's suitcases was full of various hair products and Lily was sure that Miley wouldn't miss a couple of bottles.
Lily hear loud squeals a few seconds later and assumed that Shane had been spotted by some overly enthusiastic fans and she didn't even feel slightly sorry for him.
When Lily entered the mess hall Mitchie had already set everything up.
Lily looked around for her friend and found her sat at the piano near the window. Lily was about to say Hi when Mitchie began to sing and play. Mitchie was unbelievably good she took Lily's breath away and it was not just Lily that was listening to her.
Shane was hiding in the bushes beside the mess hall waiting for the girls that had chased him to lose interest.
He couldn't believe what he was hearing. The song was about being who you truly are, knowing yourself and telling the rest of the world all about you thought your music.
Finally the beautiful voice faded away. Shane got ready to make a run for the mess hall he was sure his fans would move on soon.
In the mess hall Mitchie had just found out she had an audience.
"Mitchie that was amazing" lily gushed clapping enthusiastically.
"Oh no you hear that?" Mitchie blushed
"Yeah you were so good" said Lily
"OK well now it's your turn" said Mitchie
"What?" Lily gasped
"You hear me sing now I get to hear you" Mitchie explained
"Oh no, Mitchie I can't sing, I really can't"
"Well" said Mitchie "If you can't sing for me now I can just sit here and wait until everyone turns up for dinner, then you get to sing in front of all of them" Mitchie said slyly
"You wouldn't" Lily gasped
"Oh wouldn't I?" Mitchie asked the truth was she wouldn't but Lily didn't need to know that.
"Now or later witch one is it?" Mitchie asked
"Oh OK now" Lily snapped "But remember you asked for it"
Lily took a deep breath and began to sing. The song was not an original like Mitchie's had been. It was a very old song it had been stuck in her head ever since she and Miley had watched sleeping beauty last week but while it was stuck in there Lily had changed it up a little.
Shane was losing patients, he was about to make a brake for for the mess hall and just hope the girls didn't see him but he froze in his track when he head the second voice.
It was different from the first one. The voice was timid and untrained but it was the most beautiful voice he had ever heard it was so honest and venerable.
A flash of inspiration hit Shane; he pulled out his phone and set it to record. He held the phone up as high as he dared; he had acted as fast as he could but he only managed to catch to chorus.
"# Once upon a time I dreamed we be together in love for ever. Once upon a night I wished for a never, a never ending. Once upon a time, once upon a night, once upon a wish, once upon dream #"
Shane peered over the bushes his fan club had finally disappeared. He raced up the steps and into the mess hall but it was empty there was no singe that any one had ever been there.
Back in the kitchen Mitchie was trying to tell Lily how good her voice was but Lily was having none of it and neither was Miley. Both girls stubbornly refused to believe that Lily could sing after all the audio evidence of the last time she had tried to. Nether of them stopped to think that maybe Lily voice had matured and improved with time.
Then and there Mitchie made a vow that by the end of this summer both Miley and Lily would see just how talented Lily really was.
Across the camp Shane was making a vow of his own that he would find out who it was that had been singing in the mess hall.
Thanks for reading
Millie