My first fan fiction ever, so I was really nervous about posting. Oh well, here goes nothing. Review and tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: I don't own Camp Rock or Wizards Of Waverly Place

Chapter 1

2 months after Camp Rock…

After a world-wide audience saw Mitchie and Shane's performance at Final Jam, every musical company out there wanted Mitchie to sign with them.

Her life was turned around from all the attention she never thought she would be getting. She was asked to do interviews to talk about how she started singing, whether she had ever taken singing lessons, how her life used to be – something she wasn't comfortable with, so she often declined.

Mitchie took her time to decide whether she actually wanted a contract with some huge recording company. Her dream has always been to sing and she had been perfectly happy just doing so in the confinement of her room. Did she really want to pursue a serious singing career? To sing in front thousands of people? To be away from her family for long periods of time?

Sure, she had opened a few times for Connect 3 after her first summer in Camp Rock. After Shane cleared his act the band went on a world tour. They did a couple of concerts near her area and invited her to be their opening act. She was tremendously excited to see Shane again so she accepted without a second thought.

But this… this was different, big, life-changing. Whatever her decision, her parents were behind her 100%.

She asked Shane for advice on what she should do, the answer she received though wasn't one she was looking for. "Follow your heart", he said. Right now, she had absolutely no idea what her heart was saying. "I could always drop out, if it's not what I asked for, right?", she thought once to herself and that was when her mind was made up.

After researching every single one of the companies that offered her a contract, she decided to sign with Hollywood Records. After all, Connect 3 had signed with them four years ago and they were famous all around the world now. Her mom called a lawyer to come and go over the contract they offered Mitchie. She were to be signed for two years, doing shows here and there in all kinds of small venues, nothing major until she had a solid fan base. The pay was also going to be good… well that was the understatement of the century… she had never imagined to see so much money at once, not to mention have them.

If she thought life after Camp Rock had been hectic, now it was quite simply insane. She had to record an album and fast. They offered her to do covers of well-known songs, but she always shook her head 'no' at that. If she were ever to become famous, people should know the real her. And the best way for her to express herself was through her music. She wanted all the songs on the album to be written either completely by her or co-written, but that was as much as she would allow.

She frantically searched her songbooks for songs that she would want the public, her future fans to hear. 'This Is Me' and 'Believe In Me' were the first ones on her list, since they were about her insecurities. She was more confident now, but it wasn't always like that and she wasn't going to hide it. 'Who Will I Be' came next, expressing her dreams as she was growing up. 'Brand New Day' was the song she performed at Opening Jam when she returned to Camp Rock, it brought back a lot of memories. She couldn't possibly not include 'Different Summers', which she sang at Camp Star and which confirmed her feelings for Shane. 'It's Not Too Late' was a song no one knew about, but she was proud of it. It was written after she heard Brown complaining to her mother about how she had fallen into Axel's trap. The next three songs on her list were 'Stronger', 'Falling over me' and 'The Middle', inspired by her love for Shane, but they weren't necessarily about him. The last song she chose was written just recently, when her life became an interest to the media. It was called 'La La Land' and it was like a promise to herself that no matter what happened from then on, she would never change.

She was nervous, thinking that they would reject her list of songs and force her to do covers or record songs that others had written for her. But Hollywood Records loved it, they were utterly impressed with her songwriting. Now all she had to do was record them. She had imagined it to be easy, after all she had recorded some of her own songs at home. But she had never been in a professional music studio, she didn't know how many times she'd have to sing the same song over and over again, until they thought it was perfect. She was singing either too high or too low, she had to sing with more feeling, she missed her cue… the critique was never-ending. Every day for the duration of a week she spent more than ten hours in the studio. All the hard work was going to pay off sooner or later, she kept repeating in her head. When she was finally done and they gave her the first copy of the final record, she went home, locked herself in her room and put the CD in her old CD-player. She couldn't believe her ears, she sounded good, really good actually. She never thought her voice was as great as her mother kept telling her and as her friends back at Camp Rock thought, but now she was starting to believe them.

Her album was set to be released a week later. Mitchie never knew that things would happen this fast, she was expecting months of work, of writing and recording, before coming out with a record.

It was time, and she was overly excited. She couldn't stop fidgeting and picking at her nail polish. Today was the coming out of her album with the title "This Is Me", which she found very fitting, considering her record was all hers; her feelings, her thoughts.

The record turned out to be a complete hit, topping the charts in no time. Apparently people had been hoping that she'd enter a singing career, after hearing her in Final Jam. The album was sold in over 100 000 copies all over the world.

Mitchie Torres was now a teen sensation.