Chapter 7

AN 1: Hi everyone sorry this update took so long but I had a nasty case of writers block and loads of stuff to do for work but I am back in action now and hopefully I won't take so long between up dates again.

Thanks to Tess the girls were late. The four of them ran though the kitchen door so fast that they nearly collided with Connie who was carrying a box of cup cakes.

Mitchie who was the in the lead managed to stop just in time but the other three couldn't they all crashed into Mitchie and the four of them ended up sprawled on the floor.

"Hello girls" Connie laughed as she watched them get to their feet.

"Hi" said Miley, Caitlyn and Lily trying to catch their breath

"Sorry we're late" Mitchie gasped

"Don't worry" Connie told them "the last of the cup cakes are in the oven can you girls start cleaning up for me while I put this batch in the store room" she asked as she left the room.

Lily and Mitchie began to wipe down the surfaces while Miley and Caitlyn started to wash the dishes.

Mitchie picked up a bag of flour to put it away but it was heavier than she expected and slipped out of her fingers. The bag landed on the floor with a dull thump sending huge plumes of flour into the air, most of witch settled on Lily.

Lily stood completely shocked for a moment before a smile spread across her face she picked up a handful of flour and aimed it at Mitchie.

Mitchie squealed and dived out of the way. Lily's handful of flour hit Caitlyn who was standing at one of the kitchens big sinks.

Lily quickly hid behind Miley as Caitlyn got her own flour missile. Caitlyn's shot covered both Miley and Lily; Miley didn't miss a beat before retaliating. Soon squeals and laughter filled the kitchen as a flour fight raged between the four girls. When it was over each of the girls could have passed themselves off as ghosts they were that covered in flour.

"Wow" said Lily looking around the kitchen witch was more of a mess now than it had been when they started to clean up.

"As much fun as that was Connie is going to kill us" said Miley

"Not if we clean it up before she sees it" said Mitchie handing out wash cloths.

The kitchen wasn't as hard to clean up as they had feared it would be, after ten minutes of hard work the only mess left in the kitchen was the girls them self's.

Just as they were about to go clean up they heard someone enter the kitchen.

"Hello?" a male voice called out, the four girls looked at each other for a second before they all dived for cover behind the counter.

"Erm-hello?" the voice called again but none of the girls answered they were all hoping that the boy -who ever he was- would just give up and leave.

Shane looked around the seemingly empty kitchen. He was sure he had heard some one in here a moment ago but they didn't seem to be here now.

Shane turned to leave when he heard some one sneeze behind him.

"I know you're here, I can hear you" he called out.

Shane watched as four heads appeared above the counter. He could tell they were all female but they were so covered in flour that he couldn't tell much else.

"Do you all work here?" he asked

The girls all looked at each other before one of them stepped forward to answer him.

"Yes we do" was all she said

"Wow- you really get into your work" Shane commented

"I'm Shane" he introduced himself before adding "But I'm sure even the kitchen help knows that"

"Of course" said the same girl as before, Shane got the feeling that she was the only one that was going to talk to him.

"It's nice to meet you" she said with a smile

"Actually it's not so nice" he told in a tone that made the smile fall from her face.

"My manager said he sent over my food allergy list but since I couldn't go near my breakfast this morning – you know what just get me who ever is in charge" he snapped.

The three girls that hadn't spoken to him were glairing at him in such a way that he could help but wonder if tomorrow's breakfast would be poisoned.

The strange thing was that one of those pairs of eyes held more hurt than anger. They were blue eyes that seemed vaguely familiar to him.

"Excuse me" said the spokes woman bringing his attention back to her

"What?" asked Shane in an impatient tone

"Your kind of being a jerk" she pointed out

"And you are?" Shane asked he was shocked he couldn't believe that this nameless kitchen girl was daring to speak to him like this.

"A person" she told him "There is a way to talk to a person and that's not it" she said her voice getting angrier and angrier as she went along

Shane was now beyond shocked he couldn't get over this girls boldness.

"Well- err" Shane stammered "I'll have them send it over again" he told her

"Fine" she said giving him a look that made him feel like he was being dismissed by an angry teacher.

Shane turned to leave he was anxious to get away from the kitchen and the slightly scary girls that worked there but he was stopped by the leader clearing her throat loudly

Shane wasn't sure what she wanted him to do but she was clearly waiting for him to do something, he took a guess at "Thank you"

Right before he walked out the door Shane heard her say

"Much better" in the most condescending tone he had ever heard.

Once Shane had left the girl hurried back to their cabin to clean up and get ready for Hip Hop Dance class.

Lily was the last one thought the door and she slammed is so hard behind her that the whole cabin shuck.

"Wow Lily" said Caitlyn "Just because Shane was a jerk to us doesn't mean you have to take it out on the door"

"He is not just a jerk" Lily seethed "He is a big headed, arrogant jerk with a dual personality" she told them hastily pulling cloths out of her closet and slamming everything she could along the way.

"Choose to believe what a wind bag" she muttered angrily as she tried to brush the flour out of her hair.

"OK Lily" Miley snapped "Ether share it with the class or stop beating up the cabin" she ordered.

Lily sat down on her bed heavily with a sigh.

"That jerk made me think he wasn't a jerk" she told her friends miserably

"What?" gasped Caitlyn

"How?" asked Mitchie

Lily took a deep breath a blew it out to calm herself down before explaining about her attempt to skip class and meeting Shane at the dock, she didn't miss the I told you so look that Miley shot the others when she mentioned she had planed on not going to class.

"It not like he was super nice or sweet or charming or anything like that but he wasn't a jerk" she explained sadly.

"I actually thought for a moment there that there might be normal guy under that pop star image, a nice normal guy at that" she told her friends.

"Well" said Miley thoughtfully "Maybe you were right"

Lily just looked at her like she was mad

"You were in the kitchen a few minutes ago right?" She asked Miley in disbelief

"Yes I was" Miley reassured her friend "And he said he couldn't touch his breakfast, maybe he one of those guys that gets grumpy when he doesn't eat" she said optimistically as she finished getting the flour out of Lily's hair

"I bet Miley's right" said Mitchie warmly "my Dad is like the sunniest guy on the planet but you really shouldn't try talking to him in the morning unless you know his belly is full" she said making the other three girls chuckle.

Caitlyn couldn't think of anything nice to say about Shane so just smiled and patted Lily's hand reassuringly.

"Thanks guy's" Lily said softly giving them a weak smile she didn't know what to think when it came to Shane but she was touched that her friends were trying to comfort her.

AN 2: Seen as already have it written I thought you might want to know that in the next chapter we get what we have all been waiting for (or at least that my brother and I have been waiting for) a real confrontation between Tess and Lily

Thanks for reading Millie