Chapter 9
AN 1: Hi there everyone it's me again. This chapter feels kind of fillerish but it was fun to write so I hope you enjoy it. I wrote the little rap in this chapter. That's something I have never done before so I have no idea how good or bad it is so if it is really really bad I'm sorry.
The next day Mitchie, Miley, Caitlyn and Lily were once again in the Kitchen. They were helping Connie prepare for the camp fire jam and cook out. At least they were meant to be helping Connie but she had disappeared twenty minutes ago and didn't say were she was going.
Mitchie had just chopped the last of the potato's when her mother came rushing in with a large brown paper bag that looked very like a potato sack.
"Oh no" Mitchie wined "Please Mom no more potato's"
"This isn't potato's Mitchie" Connie said with a role of her eyes
"This is a special treat for my four best workers" she beamed
"That's you guy's" she clarified when the girls didn't react
"Oh Connie you didn't have to do that" side Miley
"And you don't have to be up with the sun and help me but you do"
Mitchie thought is was best not to mention that she had no choice in the matter.
"But we like helping you Mrs T" Lily reassured her
"And I like treating you girls" Connie said firmly "If it makes you feel any better I promise it is no big deal" she said as she sliced open the top of the bag and pulled out the four plastic bags that were inside it. She tossed one to each girl.
"Marshmallows" cried Lily excitedly hugging her bag to her chest.
"Thanks Connie" said Caitlyn with a grateful but slightly confused smile
"Thanks Mom" Mitchie said "but why-"
"Are marshmallows such a treat?" Connie cut in and finished her daughter's question
"Because these four bags are the only Marshmallow's that are going to the bonfire tonight, making you the most popular girls at the big pig out" Connie explained with a smile.
The four girls looked at her in wonder.
"Wow Mom, that's really cool thanks" Mitchie said giving her mother a smile.
"Lily you do realize this means you are going to have to share them" Miley said to the blond who was still holding her bag close to her chest.
Lily pouted slightly but nodded in agreement.
That night all of the campers gathered at the beach. It was a lovely warm night and the girls were some of the first to arrive seen as Mitchie and Miley had finally realized that at camp you didn't need to be dressed to the nines every night.
"Hey, hey, hey if it isn't Caity and her crew" Sander called out as a greeting when he saw Caitlyn and the others approaching.
Barron, Sander and Lola had front row seats for the camp fire jam and they had saved seats for the girls too.
Lily made her way to sit down but Barron and Sander stopped her. They each grabbed one of her hands and pulled her up on to their bench.
They stood ether side of her beat boxing before launching into one of their on the spot raps
"YO yo yo listen hear,
This is Lily, girl with no fear
She can fly thought the air with the greatest of ease
And bring the Tess Tyler to her knees
A new Camp Rock legend has been born
The age of Lily is about to dawn."
The surrounding campers loved the boys rap as always.
Lily flushed bright red and jumped down as soon as the boys let her
She slipped in between a laughing Lola and Caitlyn desperately trying to hide from the cheering crowed.
"Don't blush girl" Lola told her "Own it, like you owned Tess yesterday" She advised
Before Lily could say anything Dee appeared on stage to explain what camp fire jam was all about and announce the first act, witch was Tess, Ella, Peggy and their dancers.
Everyone was so busy watching the glitter covered girls take to the stage that no one saw Shane slip into the back and hide among the trees.
The song Tess and the girls performed was the one Mitchie and Lily had head them practicing days ago. If the was ever any doubt about whether any of the three girls had talent their performance of too cool quashed it but something else the performance proved was that Peggy and Ella were getting no enjoyment out of performing with Tess.
The looks on their faces alternated between nervous, fed up and miserable while Tess was loving the attention she got on centre stage.
"They look like they are having so much fun" Miley commented sarcastically. The six teenagers she was sharing the bench with nodded in agreement.
Shortly after the girls came off stage they approached Mitchie.
"So Mitchie" Tess said in a board tone "You sure you don't want in, we're a sure win for final jam" she told her
"I'm doing a solo for final jam" Mitchie told her flatly not even trying to be polite.
"Wow, solo in your first final jam that's brave" Tess said sounding impressed but everyone knew her well enough to know that it was fake.
"I mean I know how nervous I get" she said
"You'll be fine" Peggy cut in reassuringly
"Of cause she will" continued Tess "I just know that I feel so much safer in a group"
Mitchie pause not sure what to say
"Maybe a group would be better" she conceded
"But not you group" Caitlyn cut in
""Mitchie has her own group right here"
"Really" asked Tess in disbelief
"Really" Miley confirmed "I'm her back up singer"
"And I'm her music producer" said Caitlyn
"I guess that makes you her groupie" Tess hissed at Lily
"Oh yeah I'm her biggest fan" Lily said with a bright smile
"But I am also her dancer"
She told Tess watching the smug smile fall from the girls face.
"Whatever" Tess snapped at them before staking away.
Mitchie breathed a sigh of relief as soon as Tess was out of ear shot
"Thanks guy's" she said "But you don't have to do all that stuff"
"Yes we do" said Miley "Final jam is going to be so much fun" she almost squealed
"Yeah it should be cool" said Caitlyn "Are you in Lily?" she asked
"As long as none of us end up as miserable as Peggy and Ella looked then I am totally in" she told them
"Don't worry we won't" Mitchie reassured her "this summer is going to be all about music, having fun and being happy" she promised
When the last performer had finished the girls cracked out he marshmallows and shared them between the people that were hanging around to watch the fire go out. They were pleasantly surprised at how many marshmallows each bag held; there was enough for the 40 or so people left to have a few each.
With their marshmallows scoured on stick they all gathered around the fire to toast them.
"This really reminds me of home" Miley said into the silence.
"You do this kind of thing a lot in Malabo?" asked Barron sounding surprised
"Of course they do man" said Sander "Haven't you seen those films with bonfires on the beach and the dudes paying guitars"
"Actually we never really do that" said Lily "she means home as in Tennessee where is from originally" she explained
"Yeah we go on camp outs up in the mountains" Miley said with a smile "Toasted marshmallows and scary stories are pretty much compulsory" she laughed.
"Is there anything else to do there" Andy asked.
"We have a lot of dances" she told him "But not like the stuff we did yesterday it's totally different"
"Cool" said Lola "can you show us some" she asked
"Better yet" said Caitlyn getting to her feet and pulling Mitchie with her "Teach us some"
"OK hang on one second" Miley said as she searched her bag hoping that what she was looking for was still there.
A moment later she found it, a CD her and her Dad made a few weeks ago to teach Lily how to line dance.
"Will your computer play this" she asked Caitlyn who just rolled her eyes as if to say of course and popped the CD in.
Soon music filled the beach.
"Come on Lilz, I'm going to need your help" Miley said pulling her friend up onto her feet. Lily immediately fell into position ready to dance.
Everyone else made three horizontal lines behind the two girls even Dee and Brown joined in.
Miley had learnt for teaching Lily that the easiest way for people to learn these dance routines was if the words of the song were actually the dance moves you need to do, that was why she had written this song.
She launched into her song and with a little encouragement everyone tried to follow the moves that she was talking (or singing) them thought.
By the time she had reached the end of the second verse the only person still struggling was Andy.
Miley watched as Lily tried to help him but she could tell he was ready to throw in the towel so she aimed to next few lines directly at him
"# We get to 4, 5, 6 and your feeling busted but it's not time to quit, practice makes you perfect#"
Andy obviously got the message because he watched what Lily was showing him more intently and soon he had the hang of it too.
Shane watched from the tree line. It was amazing to him to see the large group of people dancing in almost prefect synchronisation on the beach in front of a nearly dead bonfire.
Shane had been paying attention tonight so he knew that the girl singing was Miley. Hat girls name was Caitlyn and the striate haired burnet was Mitchie. He knew the two boys with them were Barron and Sander (though he wasn't sure witch one was witch yet). The girl that they had sat with was called Lola. He even knew that Tess's back up girls were called Ella and Peggy but he had yet to find out what Dancer's name was. Every time someone spoke to her or called her Shane managed to miss it.
As the song was nearing an end Dancer noticed him. She looked up from helping Andy and saw him.
She smiled and beckoned for him to come join in.
He seriously considered going to her but his inner pop star wouldn't let him. He didn't know this dance, he was meant to be teaching them not the other way around, so regretfully he turned away and headed back to his cabin.
Lily had a hollow feeling in her stomach as she watched Shane walk away.
Talk about mixed signals. He flip flopped from jerk to nice guy and back again so fast that he was giving her emotional whip lash.
As Miley song ended everyone who had been dancing broke out into applause but Lily only joined in half heartedly.
She was very confused by Shane's behaviour but what confused her even more was why she cared?
If Oliver or Jackson -or even Jake Ryan her one time celebrity crush- was acting this way she would let it go.
So why when it was Shane did it hurt so much? Lily didn't know but she was determined to find out.
AN 2: I finally have some more songs to put on my play list now that I have had a few chapters with songs in, so take a look if you are interested.
Thanks for reading
Millie.