Mitchie jumped onto her bed and moaned. "I think I'm PMSing."

Caitlyn laughed as she whacked her friend with a random shirt that she was putting away. "If you're PMSing, then I am going to start tomorrow. Great!"

Mitchie giggled, rolling over to face her friend. "I'm glad that we have our room private to ourselves."

"Same." Caitlyn grinned back. "Look, you stay here and I'll go get ice cream for you."

Mitchie smiled. "Thanks, you're the best. If my mom's here by now, tell her I'll see her later."

"Okay."

Caitlyn left the cabin and stuffed her hands into the pockets of her jeans shorts.

She hummed a tune of a possible new song and stepped into the kitchen of the Mess Hall.

"Hello? Connie? It's me, Caitlyn!"

She got not reply and shrugged to herself, heading towards the freezer. She grabbed a tub of vanilla ice cream and two plastic spoons before taking her ringing phone from her pocket. She walked out of the kitchen, her focus on her phone and felt herself collide with something.

"Oh, damn! I'm so sorry!"

She looked up and saw Nate who shrugged it off. "It's fine. It was my fault. Wasn't looking where I was going," he replied, holding up his phone.

Caitlyn laughed and held up hers. "Same here,"

"So... How's life been treating you?"

Caitlyn laughed. "Pretty well actually. I'm a music producer now."

"I always knew that you'll become one. Ever since we met at thirteen and you shook my hand and said-"

"Caitlyn Gellar, today camper, tomorrow famous music producer." Caitlyn finished with a smile.

Nate nodded. "Exactly. Do you still sing?" he asked.

Caitlyn raised an eyebrow. "Uh... not really. Anyway, nice chat. Got to go give Mitchie her ice cream."

"Oh, yeah. It's melting by the way."

Caitlyn gasped as she felt the sticky substance run down her hand. "Damn!"

"Here, let me help you." he said, leading her towards the kitchen.

"I totally forgot that it was really hot today." Caitlyn chuckled, placing the ice cream in a mixing bowl and washing her hands.

Nate laughed with her, leaning against the counter as she dried her hands. "So... I nearly forgot to ask you..." he sighed. "Did you send me a crazy long text about meeting up soon?"

Caitlyn's eyes widened as she gasped. "I sent that to you?!"

"Uh..., yes?"

"It was meant for my ex, Nat. Nat's been texting me a lot and I finally agreed to meet up in a long winded way. No wonder I got no reply!"

Nate's face fell as his heart clenched a little. Of course, a girl like Caitlyn was unreachable. Plus, she wouldn't want him now following his track record with girls lately.

"Oh, well... I hope you and Nat get that meet up." he mumbled, about to leave.

Caitlyn stopped him. "Nate..., I'm not blind. You really did want to meet, didn't you?"

"Yeah but that doesn't matter because it wasn't meant for me, anyway."

Caitlyn smiled, her eyes twinkling. "How about you and I hang out this summer, just like old times? I missed my best friend."

"Really? You still want to be my friend after everything that has happened?"

The red head nodded with a cheeky grin. "Remember that prank we played on Brown ten years ago?"

"The one where we covered his entire office in bird feathers?"

She deviously nodded with a smirk. "I've seen his new truck..." she sang.

Nate looked at the ice cream. "Give Mitchie her ice cream and join me by the lake in ten."

"Can't wait." Caitlyn giggled, leaving.

"It's a date." Nate whispered after her.

...

"What's made you so happy, ducky?" Mitchie joked, accepting her bowl of ice cream.

Caitlyn blushed. "Nate and I talked. Like, properly talked. Apparently, I sent him the text and not Nat and now we're planning something to pull on Brown."

Mitchie laughed at her best friend's antics. "Not even five minutes and you're going to annoy Brown. Great!"

"Well..., it has to make up for the times I couldn't." Caitlyn replied, making Mitchie roll her eyes playfully.

"How is Nate by the way?"

"He's okay. Not much of the jerk the media play him out to be."

Mitchie raised an eyebrow. "He had three girls on a roll."

"That turned out to be false, actually." Caitlyn replied, sitting next to her friend. "Liza thought that they were together but it was only a lunch date because he felt sorry for her. Beba and he only slept once and she was dating someone behind his back anyway. Holli and he had a one night stand, nothing went on there."

Mitchie bit her lip before taking a bite of her ice cream. "Seems you stalk the guy,"

"He was my best friend. I'm just looking out for him."

"Hmm. I think I'll have a nap after this," Mitchie said.

Caitlyn took this as a sign to leave. "I'll be back later, love you!"

"Love you too. Crazy girl." Mitchie called after her with a chuckle before getting her phone out and texting someone with a smile.

...

"There you are!"

Caitlyn waved at him but was stopped by Shane who bumped into her, sending her onto the ground.

"Watch it!"

Caitlyn looked up at him. "You're the one who bumped into me! Jerk!"

Shane laughed sardonically. "As you can obviously see, I have things in my-"

"You alright, Caity?" Nate cut him off, helping her up.

She giggled and shrugged it off. "I'm as tough as I look. I'm good."

"Yeah, ignore my jerk of a brother." Nate smiled back before glaring at Shane. "Let's go, Caity."

Shane sighed as he watched them leave. In all honesty, he kind of missed his little brother. They hadn't heard from each other in years and it almost pained him to see Nate become the jerk he used to be but he didn't seem to be jerky to Caitlyn at all. That's when he realised that Nate was either playing her or had feelings for her. And he was determined to get to the bottom of it. But first, he had to get rid of the boxes of inflatable balls.