hello natasha can you please tell me when you think mitchie and shane knew they were it for each other?
they know they want to spend the rest of their lives together pretty soon after they get serious in late 2009, but they’re not stupid and they know the incredibly boring and average statistics are playing against them but sometime not that long after abstract daydreams start turning into serious plans and they realize, this might actually stick.
they figure it out at different times, but it’s not more than 24 hours apart. he is nineteen and it’s the afternoon after the 2011 grammy awards and he is watching his girlfriend pack up to leave the next morning.
this time last year he’d blocked in time off between the american and european legs of the tour and she’d come out to la for her spring break. they’d had not more than five days together but he’d hazard they’d spent at least 50 of those hours writing together. three of those songs ended up on the album, and it’s nominated for best pop vocal album.
they don’t win they don’t even come close to winning but it does cement one thing to him, they have built some sort of life together.
she is seventeen and she is sitting in the dining room at the ivy and the glow in mitchies chest seems to be drowning out the anecdote shane was telling the table.
jason is shaking his head and their manager is laughing and connie is doing the wine mom thing of passing her glass off to nate and mitchie cannot imagine a moment where she would want anything other than this.
the plans change over the years. she goes through a brief phase where she thinks she might forgo college in exchange for jumping into a career. he quits touring and moves into songwriting for a while. she records an album before deciding to go for a phd instead. they want to get married the year after she finishes undergrad no after the album no after the tour but who cares. the real decision happened before either of them knew how to recognize it, that first summer when the lights shined on them and they spoke to each other in the best way they knew how, really looking at each other for the first time.
