Summary: Miley and Nick have been best friends since they were in diapers. One day, they get the news that Miley would be moving. Years later, will they have a chance to reconnect? One night Miley goes missing and is believed to be in grave danger. Will she be saved in time?

Six year old Nate and Five year old Miley are outside playing make-believe

"Otay, I'm gonna be the handsome prince and you're gonna be the princess trapped in the tower." The young boy says. He then picks up his cat as it walks by. "Tiger will be the scary dragon."

Miley looks at the orange tabby with brown stripes, the cat couldn't be more than a few years old and was actually quite small. Miley giggles at the young boy. "Nate, Tiger isn't very scary."

Nate just smiles in return. "Pretend that he is scary and wants to eat you.

Miley rolls her small eyes but agrees anyway. "Otay fine." Miley walks over to Nate's toy little tikes house and points to it. "Nate this is the tower otay?"

"Otay, go inside." He quickly places his cat in front of the door. "Tiger stay there." Surprisingly the cat does as he is told. Nate then hurries over and picks up his bike helmet. He puts the helmet on his head and straps it on. Then he picks up a paper towel roll and walks back over to the cat. "You mean dragon I will hurt you for trapping the pretty princess." He raises the paper towel roll over his head. (note: just so you know he was never going to hit the cat. No animal cruelty in this story)

The cat meows and runs away

Miley who had been standing in the back of the small plastic house, er, tall stone tower runs to the door. "Yay Prince, you beat the mean dragon!"

Nate opens the door for the young girl. "I have come for you pretty princess!"

There is a slight pause that is quickly broken by Miley.

"Umm Nate?"

"Yeah?"

Miley looks down bashfully and lightly kicks at the grass. "This is the part where you kiss me."

Nate wrinkles his nose. Kissing was definitely not the six year olds forte, but he complies anyway. "Otay The young boy slowly leans in and lightly kisses Miley on the cheek. Miley who was still looking down when the kiss occurred looked up as soon as Nate pulled away.

Nate and Miley look at each other with funny faces. "Ewww." They both say in unison then burst into a fit of giggles.

As the two were giggling Denise, Nate's mom, comes to the back door and calls out to the two children. "Miley, your mommy called it's time for you to go home."

The two immediately stop giggling and each make another face.

"Aww can't she stay a little longer Mommy?" Nate begs his mother

Miley chimes in as well hoping that if the both of them ask the chances of her staying were a lot stronger. "Yeah, can't I stay a little longer?"

Denise shakes her head. "Sorry guys but Miley's mommy needs her to come home right now."

Miley's hopeful face falls. "Oh alright." She slowly walks inside to get her things together.

"Ready to go Miley?" Denise asks the young girl.

"Ready!" She then turns to her best friend. "Bye Nate."

"Bye-bye Smiley." Nate responds using the Natename only he is allowed to call her. He hugs her before she walks out the door.

Miley turns and follows Denise and they walk out to the big parked car out in the drive way. A little later, they arrive and Miley hurries through her front door. "Mommy, I'm baaaaaaack!" She calls out.

Miley's mother, Tish comes in from the kitchen. "Hey honey."

Upon seeing her mother, Miley runs up and throws her tiny arms around her legs. "I missed you Mommy."

She caresses Miley's head. "I missed you too baby. Now go take your things upstairs."

"Otay." The small girl unwraps her arms from her mother's legs and hurries up the stairs.

Tish looks up and Denise and begins speaking as soon as Miley is out of earshot. "Thank you for bringing her home."

"It was no problem at all." She pauses a moment and then asks the question that's been bugging her the whole drive there. "Is it definitely him?"

"Yeah, it's him and for my family's protection I've decided to move."

Denise frowns at this news. Tish has been around since the two were in high school, they have been best friend since, but she knows that this is for the best. "When are you going to tell her?"

Tish sighs. She felt the same way as Denise. "Tomorrow morning."

"It's going to be hard to separate them." Denise responds referring to Nate and Miley.

"I know." There's a slight pause.

"Well, I'm going to go. Good luck tonight."

"Thanks, good luck to you too." The two women hug each other tight and Denise leaves.

Later that night, Tish is sitting on the couch in the livingroom when she calls for Miley to come downstairs. "Miley, can you come here for a minute."

Miley makes her way downstairs and stands in front of her mother. "Yes, Mommy?

Tish scoops Miley up and sits the young girl on her lap. "Miley," she pauses and looks into Miley's big brown eyes. This was going to be difficult having to tell her daughter this. She was going to be so upset. She sighed and decided to just say it. "Miley…. we're moving."

The young girl looks up at her mother with confused eyes. "What is moving?"

Tish mentally smacked herself in the head. She hadn't thought that the five year old wouldn't even know what moving was. "Moving is when you leave one house and go to another house and live there.

Miley looks scared for a moment. She doesn't want to leave anything behind. "But what about my toys?"

Tish can't help but chuckle slightly at this. "Don't worry your toys will come with us."

"My bed will come too?"

"Yes, your bed and all of your other stuff comes too."

Miley looks relieved but it's only short lived as another worried expression spreads across her small face. "Will Nate come?"

Tish hesitates but knows she has to give Miley an answer. "No, I'm sorry baby but Nate has to stay with his Mommy, Daddy and brothers."

Miley looks up at her mother again, but this time with sad eyes. "But I want Nate to come."

Tish feels her heart break at the look in her daughter's eyes. "I'm sorry, honey, but he has to stay here."

"This isn't fair!" The young girl screams at her mother as she begins to cry. Before her mother can stop her gets off her mother's lap, runs upstairs to her room and slams the door.

At the Gray residence, Nate is sitting in his bedroom playing with his favorite Super Man action figure when his mom walks in.

"Mommy, tomorrow me and Smiley are going to play red light, green light with Shane and Jason. I can't wait!"

"Speaking of Miley, I need to talk to you about something."

"What, mommy?"

She pats the place next to her on Nate's bed and braces herself for what's to come. "Come here." Nate puts down his toy and crawls onto his bed and sits next to his mother. "You know how last year when your uncle Mike got a job and had to change houses?"

Nate nods quickly remembering when his uncle moved last summer."Yes."

"Well, Miley's mommy is going to be changing houses too-"

Nate gets overly excited and interrupts his mother. "Does this mean Miley is going to come live with us?"

"No honey." She responds while shaking her head. "Miley has to go with her mommy."

Nate quickly goes from excited to upset. "So…so Miley is moving?"

"Yes, I'm afraid so."

Shane, Nate's older brother, upon hearing this as he walked by the room pokes his head in the room and exclaims, "Sweet this means we get some new neighbors!"

"You shut up Shane!" Nate yells at his brother immediately getting angry at what the seven year old had said.

"Nathan Gray, we do not use that kind of language in this house!" Denise said scolding her youngest son.

"I don't care! All this bites!" The young boy storms out of the room.

The next morning, Nate and Miley are saying their good-byes in Miley's living room while the two women are in the kitchen which is the next room over.

Denise leans over the island counter, resting both arms on top of it. "They've hardly said anything to each other since we got here."

Tish mimics Denise. "I know, poor things. They just want none of this to happen, so I don't blame them. Not saying anything can make it like it's not really happening."

"Yeah, last night after I told Nate, he locked himself in the bathroom. I almost couldn't get him to come out and go to bed last night."

"Aww, bless his little heart. I had the same issue with Miley though; locked herself in the bedroom. I had to bring her dinner to her because she wouldn't budge from her bed. I didn't want her to go without, not that she ate much anyway."

After sitting next to each other on the couch for a while in silence, Miley looks over at Nate and breaks the silence. "Nate?"

"Yeah?" The young boy responds looking over at his best friend.

"Promise you'll never forget me."

"I'll promise if you promise."

Miley smiles slightly at the young boy. "Promise." They both say in unison. They latch pinkies in a pinky swear.

"I also want you to have something." Miley says when they release pinkys.

"What?" Miley quietly pulls something from behind her back and hands the boy a small, grey stuffed mouse that she's had since she was a baby.

Nate's eyes widen in surprise. "Mousy? But you love him. You sleep with him every night."

"I know, but I want you to have him to remember me by."

Nate can't help but smile a little as he holds the stuffed animal. He then hugs the girl. "I love you Smiley."

"I love you too, Nate." A lone tear falls down her cheek as she hugs the young boy tighter.

Sorry if this was a little boring. Don't worry, it gets A LOT better.

If this does not get deleted, I will post chapter 2 forty-eight hours from the time this is posted.