Of course he had set up a surprise Meet and Greet for Franchesca. Why wouldnt he? She was after all Shanes girlfriend, why the hell wouldnt he? Mitchie was to blame for her own heart break she knew what was to come the next morning, she just wasnt as well prepared as she thought. She didn't cry or put on a frowny face. She was an expert in putting up a charade and she did it darn well, sometimes surprising herself. She was able to ignore Shane the rest of the day which was easy for the most part. She didnt see Shane until it was time for their duet that night. He was with Franchesca through out the whole day and he came to soundcheck two hours late, hardly in time to perform a song and by then Mitchie was already gone. She was glad in a way, it wasnt like she expected anything to change. The last night they spent together didnt change anyting and Shane was back to what he was when he was in a relationship - a lost puppy.
They spent the next few days successfully ignoring each other, the only time they were within a couple of feet of each other being when they performed. They were back to square one.
"Can I just go back to sleep? We've been at this for three hours. I'm hungry and I wanna sleep," Mitchie whined to her assistant, Clara.
"Your dad and Shane's dad gave me the responsibilty of making sure you knew exactly whats going to be happening at the video shoot of your music video since none of them will be present on set the first day,"
"I know, I know," Mitchie rolled her eyes, "I will be safe without them on a video shoot for god's sake! If you don't remember I went on a whole tour without anyone of you guys," She reminded, hiding under the covers.
"Yeah, and we all know how that went," Clara muttered.
Mitchie flew away her covers and glared at her assistance who threw her hands in surrender. "I was just saying,"
"Well, I'm currently hungry and cranky and I still have one more day till the shoot so I dont wanna talk about this now, okay?"
"You're always hungry," Clara stated, "And yes we have one more day left but tomorrow you wont be free till after midnight. You have dinner with Robert Freemont remember, and before that you have press and soundcheck and the show too?" Mitchie groaned as Clara read out the list of things to do for the next day from the top of her head, "And please try and get this right, we don't have any extra time to complete the shoot after the three days given for the shoot are over. And plus, Robert Freemont is sexy so you shouldnt have any other distractions than him which should be good," Clara smirked.
"If he's so sexy, do you want me to hook you up with him?" Mitchie asked.
"He's my son's age Mitchie." Clara laughed. "And don't even deny that you didnt look at his picture and say damn that's one hot piece of ass,"
Mitchie laughed at her assistant and shook her head, "Whatever Clara,"
"I'm serious Mitchie, we need to finish this within the given time. just had to throw in a surprise free concert the second day into the shoot. You're going to be running from the shoot to the concert and back to the shoot again."
"Ughhh kill me now."
-X-
"Mitchie!" Mitchie turned her head, looking for the source of the voice in the busy area backstage. She saw Clara approaching her with a very handsome Robert Freemont by her side, "Mitchie, Robert," She introduced, "And Robert, Mitchie."
"Hi." Mitchie smiled, extending her hand which Robert took immidiately. "Hi." Mitchie was surprised when he leaned in and placed a small peck on her cheek causing Mitchie to blush wildly at his forwardness. Afterall this was the first time she was meeting him. "You were, amazing," He expressed with a huge smile, "I think I'm your newest fan."
Mitchie giggled, continuing to blush. It was impossible not to with such a handsom creature standing in front of her. Caitlyn and Dana had done a nice job choosing this guy and the look on Clara's face showed her point had been proven. He had Mitchie at 'Hi.'
"I don't believe that," Mitchie giggled as she dug her fork into her spaghetti and twirled it around.
"I'm not lying," Robert expressed, laughing at the look on Mitchies face. "I swear, one of my sisters would hold my hands above my head and another would hold my legs and the other would punch me,"
"It seems like you had a pretty traumatic childhood," Mitchie laughed.
"It still haunts me today," He joked. Mitchie nodded, smiling and staring at his face a second too long and then back to her plate in embarrassment. Gosh, he was beautiful and he had a charming personality.
"What?" Robert smiled.
"No, no," Mitchile blushed at him, "nothing," she shook her head.
"I guess that's not a story I should be telling someone on my first meeting with them, specially my gorgeously beautiful new boss," Robert grinned sheepishly.
"I'm really not your boss," Mitchie blushed, shaking her head again. "It must have been nice growing up with five sisters," she asked, talking a sip of her cold water.
"Yes, it was," Robert chuckled, swallowing the food in his mouth. "If you count dressing me up as a girl and putting make-up on me as nice," they both laughed before Robert came to a stop and asked "wait, I shouldn't have told you that,"
"I'm really looking forward to tomorrows shoot. It will be nice getting away from the craziness of the tour for a day,"
-X-
Mitchie resisted opening her eyes as the sun perfectly fell on her face. She felt like at that moment she would to anything to have the slightest peek of the beautiful creature before her. She slowly opened her eyes and an automatic smile graced her face. Robert smiled down on her and Mitchie couldn't help but blush when he leaned a little closer, his soft warm fingers gently moving away the strands of hair that covered her face. Mitchie swore she could feel goosebumps forming all over her skin and was thankful to be covered by the comforter of the bed they were both in. He was so close that Mitchie could feel the warmth of his body next to her, warming her up without touching her. Mitchie could not understand how someone could have such an erotic effect on her after just a single day. She was sure the heat readiating from her now red cheeks could be felt when Robert's lips pecked her own. It was so quick that it was over before she expected it and the room suddenly buzzed into life with two words spoken by the director, "And cut!" The background music stopped and the crew around them gave a small round of applause. "That was more like it," the director spoke. "Good job MItchie and Robert, lets move onto the next scene!"
Mitchie and Robert both sat up and Mithcie flung the white comforter away, siging in relief that the one and only kissing scene in the video had been over with. It wasn't anything less than awkward having them repeat the scene over and over until they got it right the third time. Mitchie didnt understand what there exactly was to perfect in that scene and looked over at Robert who spoke first, "Well, that was kind of awkward," he said, picking at a string on the comforter. "Yeah," Mitchie agreed. "I didnt even know there was a kissing scene in this." Robert opened his mouth to reply but was cut off by Dana's voice coming from in front of them, "You guys have the next two days to talk about how you kissed each other three times a day after you met in front of nearly a crew on one hundered, but right now I need your ass Mitchie for costume change for the next scene. Get in the dressing room now!" Dana ordered before dissapearing back into the direction of Mitchies dressing room.
"Sorry, about that," Mitchie blushed as she stepped out of the huge king sized bed. "She's-she...that-"
"Don't worry about it," Robert laughed, slightly blushing too. Mitchie couldnt take her eyes off of his face when he smiled. She was sure his dimples were the cutest thing in the world and she liked what she was feeling because even thought she hardly knew him, he made her feel what Shane once had. "She's entertaining." He said before Mitchie skipped towards her dressing room.
"Take three, scene seven," the director yelled as everyone stood on que, "background music," he called, "and action!" It was already nearly midnight and Mitchie was glad this was the last scene for the day before pack-up. She was happy the day was coming to an end and she would be able to relax in her hotel room for the next few hours but the ending of a day meant the time for Robert to leave was nearing. It was stupid. She didn't even know him she kept reminding herself, but she couldnt stop her heart from fluttering everytime she saw him or every time he spoke to her or touched her. The day had gone on much longer than expected because Mitchie kept messing up. She didnt even have any lines to say, but she still kept messing up. She was so distrated by him that she was frustarted with herself. She had promised herself she would never let herself fall so deep with someone as she had with Shane but with each second near Robert her promise to herself slowly slipped away.
She was in a conflict with two different parts of her mind. One said that she simply liked him while the other told her she was only feeling this way because of the new wound that was left in her heart by Shane. She was desperately wanting Shane to say something, to confront what had happened between them nights ago, but they had not even spoked since then. She liked the attention she was getting from Robert, but not actually him. She didn't want to believe the latter and woke the next morning running on only a couple of hours of sleep.
"Mitchie," Shane stood infront on her room door that morning. She was sure the confrontation she had been hoping for had come, but she knew how unready she was for it. With his face inches from hers, flashbacks of that night replayed in her mind until she had to close her eyes and a single teardrop fell down her cheek. She closed the door on his face but Shane prevented it from denying access to him with his foot.
"What do you want Shane?" She asked, her voice coming out weaker than intended.
"How's your video shoot going?" He shrugged, not really knowing how to start the conversation.
"Why do you care?" Mitchie shot at him, turning around and crossing her arms around her chest. "You haven't even talked to me since that night."
"Well, you've been ignoring me!" He exclaimed as if that was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I've been ignoring you?" Mitchie asked appalled. "You've been ignoring me," She pointed. "Well I mean, you have every fucking right to since you have your girlfriend back with you!" Mitchie spitted out.
"Oh my god," Shane rolled his eyes and shook his head. "I just came to see how you were."
"Great." Mitchie stated. "I'm wonderful, now go on and move your merry way," She shooed him towards the door. "you've seen how I am so you can leave now."
"Why are you being such a bitch right now?" He flared, walking up to her and grabbing her crossed arms.
"I'm really fucking angry at you right now so just leave!" Mitchie yelled at his face, her cheeks burning red like Shanes and she pushed his hands away and shoved his hard chest.
"When are you not angry at me, Mitchie? When do you want me around? When are you fucking normal?"
"Okay, I admit I'm crazy okay. Now just leave. I'm getting really late and we don't even have the whole day to shoot today, so please."
"Okay," Shane said, his voice slightly softening. "But can we please talk after the show tonight, Mitch, please?"
Mitchie laughed humourlessly, "Is Franchesca going to be there?"
"No," Shane rolled his eyes. "Gosh, you are so stubborn. I just want to talk,"
"We did, the other night, kind of," Mitchie stated, "and we know where that turned to."
"Tonight it won't be like that," Shane assured.
Mitchies stomach dropped to the floor and she nodded absentmindedly, trying to not show any signs of dissapointment.
Shane followed closely behind Mitchie as she walked towards the already slightly open door and suddenly stopped when she found Robert standing behind it with a guilty expression on his face. Shane slammed right into Mitchie and Mitchie turned around giving him an annoyed look before turning her attention back to Robert. "You weren't down for breakfast and uh John sent me to get you. We're getting late for the shoot." Robert explained calmly looking from Mitchie to Shane who didn't move from his close stance behind Mitchie. "Yeah, um.." Mitchie scratched the back of her neck awkwardly, slightly distracted by the feeling of Shane's fingertips pressed against Mitchie's hips.
"Hey man, I'm Robert, Mitchies co-star in the shoot." Robert introduced himself, breaking the awkward silence formed between them.
Shane brought his hand over Mitchies shoulder giving Roberts hand a stern shake, his lips forming a thin line as he nodded, acknowldging the man in front of him.
"We should go," Mitchie spoke quickly, locking her room behind her. She tugged onto Roberts arm for a second before walking off throught the long passageway.
"I uh- shouldn't have heared that, should I?" Robert asked hesitantly once he caught up with Mitchie.
"The conversation? No." Mitchie replied, her mind skimming through the conversation between her and Shane again to make sure Robert hadn't heard anything too personal. She covered her face with her hands and mumbled "gosh, I'm so embarrassed. How much of that did you hear?"
"Um, I didn't actually hear much, I mean the door wasn't completely open. I couldn't really figure out what you two were arguing over. I'm really sorry." He apologised.
"It's okay." Micthie nodded, glad he hadnt heard much.
"Really, I should have just, I should have just gone or knocked or something. I shouldn't have stood there."
"It's okay," Mitchie assured again, placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "Just forget about it, okay?" She smiled politely as they both walked out of the elevator to the lobby of the hotel.
"Forgotten." Robert smiled back.
Mitchie didn't have time to breathe the rest of the day. Their location for the shoot was at the beach and it wasn't an easy situation. They had to finish off most of the shooting that day and with thousands of fans showing up at the location, news spread fast and things were getting messy. They were already behind schedule but there was nothing she could do about it. Mitchie had to be in soundcheck for the free concert they were doing that day by 6pm.
"Frankie," Mitchie laughed as she put her console down. "You've gone better at this in the past two weeks," she said as she lost another round of Mario Cart to Frankie. Maybe it wasnt that Frankie had gotten better at the game or the loss of practise had made Mitchie bad at it, maybe it was the presence of Robert sitting behind them on the sofa talking to Mitchies band mates that distracted her making her lose focus on the game she was playing with the ten year old backstage that night as she waited for her turn to go on stage to come. "I don't know how many more times I can lose to you." She admitted, smiling at Frankie. Mitchie hadn't realized how much he was growing to look like Nate by the day. She turned around when she heard a stiff laugh coming from behind her and glared at Robert and her band mates who in turn laughed harder at her.
"Gosh, Mitchie," Frankie said, shaking his head. "You're such a sore loser," The ten-year-old shook his head at his opponent.
"I am not!" Mitchie exclaimed, slightly appalled as she placed her hands on her hips.
"You are Mitchie, you are," Frankie stated sadly before smiling meekily at her. "You just can't take it that I'm better than you."
"You guys are needed at the stage in five," Mitchies head shot the the direction of the voice and nodded at the staff who came to inform them.
Mitchie stood up lazily from her spot on the floor with Frankie, tossing her console to Robert who chuckled catching it while she left the room.
On her way to the stage Mitchie spotted Franchesca talking to Danielle who shouted "Goodluck!" on her way past them. Mitchie shouted back, replying to her as she made her way towards the stage, waiting for Connect three to introduce her. She knew that Danielle and Franchesca were waiting for Jason and Shane and it made her sick in the pit of her stomach. Even though she felt like she was dying with the now always present silnce that had lingered between her and Shane the past few days after that night they had spent together, knowing that the time was coming closer to actually talk about it made her feel nauseous. Did she regret it? Did he regret it? What came over them both? Why did it happen?
She didnt know any of the answers to those questions and not knowing scared her to hell.
Shane was particularly clingy that night duing their duet and Mitchie didn't know what had come over him. She smiled though when she saw Robert standing on the side of the stage cheering her on, the closest he could stand without coming into view of the audience.
Shane kissed Mitchies cheek at the end of their duet. She was so surprised at the PDA, her houghts being drowned by the roaring of the audience. She wanted to throw Shane into the mass of screaming girls, but she knew she couldn't do that. Mitchie gave Shane a look of annoyance and bit her lip, turning to see Roberts reaction. She didn't know why his reaction mattered so much. But it did and she had to know it. He was still smiling though, still cheering her on, unfazed at the closeness beteen them. Why would be even care, Mitchie thought. He was just her co-star in one of her music videos. Sure they had become friends in the past few days, but it didn't mean he had any sort of attraction towards her. He was her little crush but she was definately nothing more than a friend to him.
"Hey,"
"Hi," Mitchie said, looking up from her dressing room that night after her set was over. "I'm just getting my phone, we have to get out of here soon,"
Robert nodded, standing by the door with his hands in his pockets. "You can come in you know," Mitchie laughed. Mitchie hoped that even if Shane came to talk to her he'd go away seeing Robert.
Yes, she was stalling this.
"So, you were pretty awesome," Robert stated, smiling at Mitchie. Mitchie blushed, butterflies running around her stomach, driving her wild.
"Awh, thank's Rob,"
"Yeah," he laughed nervously. "And Frankie beat me at Mario Cart too."
"No way!" Mitchie laughed.
"Yeah," Robert blushed.
"I swear, that kid's been practicing hard," she chuckled. "C'mon, time to leave," Mitchie patted his shoulder as she walked towards the door.
"No, wait, Mitchie," Robert stopped her.
"Hhmm," Mitchie hummed, looking at him.
"So, uh..I really don't know how to say this," he started nervously, "Like um, I know how to I just,"
Mitchies forehead creased in confusion, "What's up? You can tell me," she encouraged.
"Yeah, so um you know," He looked around the room, his face turning read.
Mitchie laughed at his nervousness again, "I'm not godzilla, I'm not gonna eat you up. C'mon fess up what you have to say, we don't have all day pretty boy,"
"I like you Mitchie, like a lot." He confessed, staring at Mitchies face for her reaction. Mitchie didn't know what to say. Being shocked was beyond what she was. She had no idea he felt this way. "I don't even know if you're seeing anyone right now or what's going on between you and Shane, and I know that we just met but I just wanna know if I have a chance."
"Y-yes," Mitchie stammered without thought. She liked him, she knew that much, but was she ready for any sort of a relationship? No.
"Can I kiss you?" He asked, "Properly, this time."
Mitchie nodded slowly.
That night, the smile on Mitchies face as she layed on her bed could not be wiped. She kept replying the kiss over and over in her head. It was perfect. She could really see herself being happy here. Something felt right. She had never been with anyone other than Shane. She had immideately grown a crush on him when she met him for the first time when she was fourteen. And when he asked her out for the first time when she was sixteen she felt like the happiest girl in the world - her best friend had finally noticed her, had finally sen her as something more than just friends. Shane was her first kiss, her first boyfriend, her first love and her first heartbreak. Shane was it all, Shane was all she knew but couldnt have.
Mitchie reached over for her phone from the drawer beside her bed as it buzzed. Her stomach dropped a little when she saw who the message was from.
To: Mitchie
From: Shane
Time: 12:09 am
I'm coming over now.
She couldnt talk to him. She wasn't ready to hear what he had to say and she didnt know what she would say specially now that things with Robert were going a different way. Her feelings for Robert could never compete with the feelings she had fo Shane though, even of hate. If she hated Shane then she'd hate him more than she loved the person she loved the most in the world. It was always extreme with Shane no matter what she felt.
To: Shane
From: Mitchie
Time: 12:09 am
Don't.
She hoped Shane wouldn't bother her again and he would listen to the one word she messaged him. She groaned when she heard the sound of her ring tone, dreading having to scream at Shane over the phone. Her heartbeat eased when she caught sight of the caller ID though.
"Caity!" Mitchie almost screeched. She forgot how much she missed her.
"Mitchie oh my god, how are you?"
"I'm good, how are you?" Mitchie asked. "I feel like I havent talked to you in forever."
"I know, I know, but Mitchie I'm so excited, I have so much to tell you and I don't even know where to start or what to actually tell you, it's to perfect I think I'm gonna cry," Caitlyn said in one go.
Mitchie laughed at her friends eagerness as curiosity seeped through her. "Calm down, calm down Caity," Mitchie chuckled. "Breathe," she instructed, "now tell me what the hell happend!"
"Jeff asked me to marry him," Caitlyn breathed, "and I said yes! I can't believe it Mitchie, I'm engaged now. You have to see the ring!"
"Wow." Mitchie didn't know what to say. This was so sudden and there was no doubt that she was happy for her friend, but she felt like this news would almost shatter Nate. She didn't want to see her friend heartbroken. "This is great!" Mitchie smiled. "I'm so so happy for you Caity, really." And Mitchie truely was for her. The first thought in Mitchies mind was for Caitlyns love story to not have an ending like hers.
CAITLYN IS ENGAGED TO THAT JEFF DUDE! haha whaaaatt?
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