AN: Taking a small break from Message Delivered. :-D Enjoy!
Warning: OC present with spoilers up to episode 18, People Who Use People.
Summary: What if Miley lucked out on People Who Use People and went out on a date with a real senior?
Jealous
Miley was pretending like she was laughing at whatever Walter (she really didn't care what his real name was, or anything) was saying to make Jake jealous. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see that it was working like a charm. But she sounded totally fake. She didn't like this at all - but, oh! He's making eyes at that - wait a minute, was that the fungus commercial model? Oh this'll be good.
Before she could leave both Lilly and William alone on the table, a group of five guys went there.
The tallest (6"4), most well-built, AND most good looking of the bunch said, "Yo, Kyle - what is your brother doing with a couple of sophomores?" He only had eyes for Miley, who he thought was really pretty.
Miley and Lilly exchanged looks. They were just freshmen but kept their mouth shut. It was cool that some guys thought that they were sophomores!
Kyle, who not only looked like an older, taller (5"9 as opposed to 5"4 or so) version of Willis (except for the better styled hair) but also had a more mature air about him, said, "Pipsqueak, are you trying to pull the 'we just moved here, I'm a senior' act again? Which state did you come from this time?" He said so as he looked at Lilly who was busy watching the drama unfold.
He could tell that the friend put it together quickly.
Willis tried to stutter out a response and then actually just ran away from the scene without a word.
Kyle threw a quick apology to Miley, "Sorry about that - my little brother keeps on stealing my identity." Then he sat down next to Lilly. "I must say though - he picked the wrong girl. I'm Kyle." As Lilly noticed, he was actually better looking than Willis. At an angle, he looked exactly like Jesse McCartney.
Miley's newest admirer said, "I'm Scott." He sat down on Kyle's other side, so he sat across from Miley and gave her a gorgeous smile. He looked like Benjamin McKenzie, but was a lot taller with a lot more smooth, clean look rather than chiseled and rugged. He also had yellow blond hair rather than dirty blond.
"I'm Ken." A guy who looked like Shia LeBouf said.
"Ryan." The shyest looking one of them said - he looked like Channing Tatum.
A comic looking guy who looked like Joshua Jackson said, "Hey, my name's Adam."
Ken said, "We go to Seaview High. Adam and I are juniors. Ryan, Scott and Kyle are seniors."
"What about you, girls?" Scott asked.
Feeling eyes burn into her, Miley put on her best flirty smile forward and said, "I'm Miley and this-"
Lilly cut her off, "I'm Lilly. Thanks, I can speak for myself." She was still a little sore about the ice cream earlier.
Miley put her hands up. "Ok."
Adam then said, "So, Miley and Lilly - I'm really hungry. If you will excuse me, I'll go pitch in an order before the Zombie Slayer and that... girl friend he has make me lose my appetite." His voice got louder and louder.
Ryan covered his mouth as he stifled a laugh as Ken simply smacked Adam upside the head for saying that for the world to hear.
Adam said, "Ouchies!" Then he went by Miley and said, "Can you kiss it and make it feel better, Miss Miley?" He made a pouty but adorable face that she actually kissed him on his temple. "Yay! You're my bestest new friend. You should be there during our soccer practices and games."
The tip of Scott's ears and the back of his neck turned red in anger and slight jealousy at Adam's proximity to Miley.
Noticing this, Kyle said, "Cut out the five-year-old act, Parker!"
In response, Adam straightened up and saluted him. "Sir, yes, sir!" Then he started whispering some things into Miley's ear.
Kyle turned to Lilly and asked, "Are you gonna eat that?" He was referring to the prone form of her ruined ice cream cone on the table in front of her.
She shook her head no.
"May I use it?"
She nodded and said, "Go ahead." He proceeded to throw it at Adam who took it straight into his neck and down, underneath his shirt.
"Aw man! Now I gotta clean up!"
Scott mumbled, "Serves you right."
Ken said, "I'll get us some munchies, Adam. Just pay me back later. Ryan, could you go with him back to his house?"
Ryan just nodded.
Adam pouted telling Miley, "Tell your friend not to go out with mean people. Cause they'll be mean, mean and MEAN!"
She looked at him disbelievingly, "Are you sure you're not a five year old?"
With that he acted seriously. "Yes I'm sure, babe. I'm just a really immature seventeen-going-on-eighteen-year-old guy. But I'm really lovable!" He gave her a cheeky smile after saying so and waved to Ryan who started walking with him to his house.
Ken clapped his hands. "Alright, what does everybody want?"
Scott and Kyle said at the same time, "Ladies first."
Miley and Lilly looked at each other.
Miley said, "Actually, we don't know. Mind if we look at the menu?"
Scott said, "Oh, no go ahead!" He motioned a hand to her before she stood up. He got out of his seat and helped her push/pull her chair away from the table to get out.
"Thanks." She actually blushed at the gesture. And he smelled really good. Oh boy.
He smiled and said, "You're welcome."
Lilly caught up with her just before she reached Rico's stand. "Oh my gosh! That was sooo sweet!" Then she lowered her voice, "I know that look - you're getting lovestruck again."
Of course, Lilly had to point out her crush on Johnny and then a few weeks later - Josh. Okay, she's gotta admit - Scott is amazing. He's really cute, and pretty much too-good-to-be-true. He hadn't taken his eyes off of her, and Adam was whispering that obvious little fact to her! Not to mention, saying that Scott was single.
Adam explained that Scott, Kyle and Ryan were seniors were just too smart to be juniors; they were all 17 year olds and live on the same block. They play soccer and Scott and Kyle were co-captains. Scott, however is slotted to be MVP of the year. Adam thought that he'd do his friend a favor and tell her these things so maybe she'd give him a chance because it was apparent that he was attracted to her.
That was just before the ice cream had been thrown.
Miley took a good look at Scott who was talking with Kyle but was staring at her. She truly smiled at him. She was flattered and all but, "I don't know Lilly. He's not Jake."
She turned back to squint at the menu; so they could stay a little way aways from Jake and Holly who continued feeding each other popcorn. Then Oliver came up to them, "Hey, what's up?! Okay - so who are those guys staring at you both, and are starting to glare daggers at me?"
Lilly and Miley exchanged glances.
"They're some new friends of ours who drove away this guy who was trying to pretend he was older than he really was." Lilly said.
"Oh, but then how can you tell that they're telling the truth?"
Ken came up to them, "Hey - hope you guys don't mind the company. Just tell me what you want after you've decided."
Miley started up the introductions. "Hey, Ken - this is Lilly's and my best friend - Oliver. Do you guys mind if he joins us?"
"I don't mind - but I'll go and give them the head's up, alright?"
"Thanks, you're a sweetheart." Lilly blurted out.
"Thanks, I get that a lot. Ha ha. You're a sweetheart too, but don't tell Kyle I said that. He benches two-fifty, and I bench less than that." He left the scene to report the changes in seating quantity.
Miley full on smiled at Lilly. "Looks like someone got an admirer!"
Lilly tried to hit her, but she ducked away and slammed into Jake.
"Oh sorry, Jake. I didn't see you there." Her heart started racing, while her palm began sweating. Okay. Scott was a definite no... and Jake elicited this anxiety from her.
He took his shades off. "Oh, I didn't noticed that you were at the beach either." He shook a thumb at the girl beside him. "This is Holly."
She took her shades off as well, but a little bit more smugly as she leaned toward him.
Jake continued as he put an arm around her. "She's an actress."
Miley's blood boiled. "Oh yeah I saw you in that commercial - you know, the one where you had had that really uncomfortable talk with your mom?"
Holly wasn't so smug now.
Jake... looked like he never saw that commercial but was impressed because Holly reacted like she was ashamed of that particular stunt. He watched Miley continue on.
"I hope everything worked out."
At the other side of the stand, Ken, Lilly and Oliver watched the scene with much amusement.
Jake looked back at Holly who started speaking. Inside, he was saying, "Come on, Holly - don't make me regret this."
"That wasn't really my mom, okay?"
He looked at Miley, trying to look like he supported Holly with this one. But he inwardly thought, "Okay - that was WEAK." He watched Miley's triumphant smile grow.
She shrugged, showing she didn't care. She really didn't care about the specifics - just Jake's arms around that girl. She said flippantly, "well - as long as your fungus in gone!"
Ken, Lilly and Oliver smothered their laughter as Holly admitted defeat by putting her shades on and breathe.
Jake readied another battle. "So, who are your friends?" He gestured his uppity chin towards where she and Lilly were sitting.
Miley played dumb. "Oh, them?"
True enough, the two guys were sitting down, but two others were pulling up another table and rearranging the seats to allow eight people to sit where they were.
Jake shrugged.
"The guy in the green shirt who kinda looks like Jesse McCartney as we see his profile is Kyle. The guy in a black shirt who looks like he could lift me and Lilly up without breaking is Ryan. The guy who looks like a court jester is Adam. And the guy who just waved at me is Scott." She waved back then turned to Jake with a smile. "And Ken is that guy with Oliver and Lilly placing food orders."
She's gotta talk and come clean about this to Scott. He might hate her - but at least she won't hurt him.
He looked calm, but she saw his eyes shut off. He put a fake smile on his face and listened to her say, "We're just going to eat, and then maybe play some frisbee."
"Well, don't let me keep you."
"Okay... hey you know, you should come and join us! We're probably playing soccer too, Scott's the shoo-in MVP for the year and we'll probably need the extra man power against him."
Jake stood up from his seat. "We'd love to, but Holly's due for a model shoot in a couple of hours."
"Oh, that's too bad." She started patting her pockets. "Jake, do you have your cell on you? Lilly didn't bring hers, Oliver doesn't have one yet and I forgot mine."
He wordlessly dug into his pockets and gave it to her. "Why don't you ask Scott for his?"
At this, Miley ruthlessly smirked, "Because it would be like saying to him, 'hey could I borrow your cell? I need to call my brother and pay him and his friend Cooper to play against the senior MVP soccer player of Seaview High.' I mean, that's gonna be embarrassing."
Jake just said "Wow."
"One sec - hey Jackson? Do me a favor and get your and Cooper's butts over here. Lilly, Oliver and I are going to play soccer against these guys from your school... yes, if you're rattling off Scott's, Kyle's, Ryan's, Ken's and Adam's last names. Okay - thanks." She handed him the cell phone back.
"Thanks Jake - you're a lifesaver. Holly, nice to meet you - toodles!" She left them just in time for the food to come out.
Ken said, "Here, Miles - these are your and Scott's cheese fries, passion fruit ICEE and strawberry ICEE." He handed her a tray.
She started walking back to where they will be sitting when Scott blocked her path. "Let me." He said. He took the tray from her and they walked back to the table. He pulled out a random chair and had her sit in it. Then he sat beside her.
The rest of the gathering was merry. They traded some stories, and Miley found that the group as a whole were nice to hang with. Scott was amazing. He was really sweet - he let her take a sip of his ICEE every now and then while she allowed him to sip hers too. Eventually, Cooper and Jackson showed up - and they started to play a pickup game of beach volleyball. It turned out, they were great vball players for Seaview, too! Kyle was the MVP in this one, though. And he impressed Lilly a lot.
Throughout all these, one fact remained definitely bittersweet. Scott wasn't Jake. And as Scott asked her out to the movies while Jake watched on - Miley couldn't help but wish that he was him. She said yes unthinkingly as Jake listened in on the conversation from his place.