Shine On Me

Chapter 4

Mitchie's P.O.V.:

The next day

We all gather into Brown's class to find it crammed with multiple guitars and keyboards, that weren't there yesterday, all lined along the walls of one side of the room with Brown standing in front of them.

"Alright, file in. Come on everybody, find a seat and we can begin. After hearing most of you yesterday, I decided to just jump right into the fun stuff. For the rest of this week, I want to work on writing music. So to get a feel of who knows what and who needs a little help, we're going to have a little presentation day, if you will. So, everyone who has written an original song before, please step forward to this side," he said pointing to the side with the instruments. "Everyone else take a seat please."

"You can't do that, that's not fair!" Tess protested.

"What's not fair?" asked Brown.

"You didn't tell us we needed something original written. I didn't prepare!"

"Well do you have one already written?"

"No," she said.

"Then have a seat Ms. Tyler," he said pointing towards the side with the rest of the kids who didn't have a song yet. She huffed and stomped back over.

My friends and I all stepped forward to the side with the instruments with a few other campers while the rest, including Tess, took seats on the other side.

"Alright, for those of you over here, please pick your needed instrument, if any are needed, and get in line. When it's your turn I'd like to hear your original pieces whether they be by individuals or groups."

"We should pick a song where we all have a part."

We went down the line listening to everyone's song. A lot of them were really great voices. It made me wonder how a winner was going to be chosen for Final Jam.

We were last to go and I stepped up to the keyboard, Sierra and Jared to acoustic guitars, and Michael to a cajon drum.

[Mitchie]

I don't wanna be left
In this war tonight
Am I alone in this fight?
Is anybody out there? Yeah
Don't wanna be left in this world behind
Say you'll run to my side

[Jared]

Something 'bout Mary
Never won a pageant
Never felt pretty
Never looked like Cameron
Diaz was her last name
Always been abandoned
Keep your head up
Baby girl it's your anthem
There goes Hannah
Showin' off her banner
Rocking that crown
Make them boys go bananas
When you're insecure about yourself
It's a fact
You can point a finger
But there's three pointing back

[Jared and Michael]
I can see her crying out, yeah
Is there anybody out there?
She's really counting on your love
Still struggling uphill
But you act like you don't care
Right now she could really use a shoulder
Hanging onto the edge 'til it's over
She's crying for your love tonight
Lonely is hard to survive, she said

[Mitchie and Sierra]
I don't wanna be left
In this war tonight
Am I alone in this fight?
Is anybody out there? Yeah
Don't wanna be left in this world behind
Say you'll run to my side
Is anybody out there? yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Is anybody out there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah