A/N Hey everybody, I know that I have not updated in about a month but I have been working on a really long 50th chapter but I have had a really bad case of writers block. I was looking at my story one day and realized that some of the chapters were so short that they shouldn't even be considered chapters. So I took the story and made the chapters longer. None of the story is gone; it is just condensed into a shorter number of chapters. I should have the next chapter up in about a week, I hope. I am going to try and make each chapter a little longer than the others were. You all rock, thanks for every review I cherish them all.
Miley stood out on the cliff and looked down into the swirling water below her, the wind whipped her hair in to her face and her skirt danced around her, threatening to fly skyward, she slowly turned around and faced Oliver who was sitting on a bench. She stepped off the rocks that lined the edge and walked toward him, the soft green grass swirl between her bare toes. She stood in front of him and watched as his eyes started to water from the chill in the evening air. But she knew there was more to the tears. Miley sat down and nudged him, wanting to break the silence.
"Why did this happen?" his voice was shaking
"I don't know Oliver, I really don't know" Miley's voice quavered, but stayed strong.
"Miley? Oliver?" The voice loomed from the gathering fog, "If you want to see Lilly again before closing time you need to come now."
Miley slipped her sneakers back on to her feet and took her socks in her hand before standing up. She looked in to Oliver's continually tearing eyes and she took his hand as to say everything is going to be alright, she pulled him up before leading the way through the woods.
They walked through the tall trees together toward the looming silver building. The windows were all in long lines like somber soldiers waiting to go to battle. Miley held the door open for Oliver as they entered. The silence was unbearable to Miley and she wished she could breakdown in tears but she knew that that would make Oliver even worse so she tried her best to stay strong.
They came to the door and gave each other the strength to walk through it.
Inside was a dimly light room with a table and chairs that sat across from the small hospital bed. On the bed lay Lilly, sound asleep.
Miley walked over to the set of chairs were Lilly's mom sat with her head in her hands. Her mom looked up and stared into Miley's eyes, her own eyes were blood shot and damp.
"What..." Miley stammered to find the right question, "What really happened to her Mrs. Truscott, I need to know," Miley took Oliver's hand, "We need to know."
"Well, she was at home by herself and she apparently decided to go to your house, something about Hannah Montana tickets, I don't remember. Anyway, she ran down the front lawn and across the street, after about 20 min I heard a screech of tires outside and I just figured someone almost hit a cat. But then I heard sirens so I get up to find out what had happened when from the window I saw Lilly laying in the road and a couple of EMT's standing around her." Mrs. Truscott barely made out the word through her increasing sobs.
Miley dropped to her knees and put her head in her hands, "It's all my fault, she wanted to come with me but I said she couldn't, then she just ran out" Miley finally broke down and the tears started flowing.
"She wanted to come with you where, Miley?" Mrs. Truscott asked
Oliver covered for Miley "Miley finally got tickets to the Hannah Montana concert but she only got 2 and her dad said that he had to go, so there were no ticket for Lilly but Miley did not want Lilly to know that so she just said Lilly could not go."
Mrs. Truscott looked to Miley's dad for a conformation, he nodded and she turned back towards where Miley and Oliver were standing tears silently streaming down her pale face.
Oliver tugged on Miley's arm until she allowed him to lead her out of the room, he sat her down on the bench.
"Miles, it's not your fault, you had no idea that car was going to come out of nowhere, nor did you know that Lilly was going to take that way home." Oliver's comforting words did nothing to calm Miley's wracking sobs.
Robbie came out of the hospital room, closing the door quietly and sat down on the bench next to Miley. He put his arm around her and hugged her tightly.
"Miley, Lilly's going to be alright, it's just a couple broken ribs and slight concussion, nothing serious." Robbie looked in to Miley's eyes as he spoke.
"Alright Daddy" Miley whispered.
"Oliver why don't you and Miley go home and I'll be there in a minute." said Robbie.
Oliver put his arm around Miley and started to lead her home. As he got up his eyes connected with Robbie's and Oliver knew that he was not telling them the whole truth.
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Oliver walked Miley back to her house and made sure she was comfortable, her eyes were closed but he knew that she was not asleep, just resting. He rubbed her back a little but she jumped at his touch, her heart was racing. He massaged her back and shoulders until she relaxed and her breathing went back to normal. Silently he got up and left hoping she would not wake up.
Miley rolled over on to her stomach, she was on the couch and Oliver had just left. She was worried about Lilly. What's going to happen to her, I really, really, really hope she's going to be ok, but what if… What if… Miley shook she head and tried to erase the thought from her mind. It was horrible and without Lilly she did not know what she would do.
Ring, Ring
Miley stood up to answer the phone.
"Hello?" Miley said in the receiver, "Oh hi daddy….. what….. oh ok…… sure…… 6:00, that's fine….. ok daddy, ill see you there… bye."
Miley hung up the phone and went up stairs to change
