It had been so long. The last time she performed was with Mitchel at The Grove. She was waiting beneath the stage; and then he came.

It was silent, she was looking down, and her earpiece kept slipping out. Her mom was off to the side, she would stare at her for the confidence she needed.

You'll be fine Miley. He had said. The song is a hit, everyone will love this surprise we've cooked up.

She began breathing in, and out. In, and out. The platform began rotating.

Uh oh.

She looked over at him and smiled, he smiled back and she felt the butterflies.

She grabbed her stomach, making sure it was freaking out to bad.

He looked over with a concerned look and she just smiled.

They both heard the music in their earpieces. Why wouldn't hers just stay in?

Yea-aah.

Whooo-ooh. I know this isn't what I wanted. I never thought it'd come this far.

She was thinking back to before the show, how she and the brothers had just been together again, like it was 2007 and they were on her tour and they were just getting big. They had only experienced so little compared to now.

Thinking back to where we started, June 11th, 2006, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, she was there in her mind for only a second, and how we lost all that we are. December 19th, 2007, the day she wrote ten whole pages about why she loved him and how she would never give up on them.

We were young and times were easy. She couldn't make eye contact when he was singing. She would try, but it would just be to hard. But I could see it's not the same.

If there was one thing in this world that made her smile the most, it was when he sang, because she knew he was his happiest then.

I'm standin' here but you don't see me, I'd give it all for that to change.

She smiled off into the distance, looking for Kevin or Joe, or even one of the thousands of cameras that would get a great "Niley" picture.

But I don't want to lose her, don't wanna let her go.

"Why don't you come to Dallas, perform with us?"He'd asked over the phone.

"Yeah, cause all those thousands of girls came to see us sing a duet about our past relationship?" she'd responded, hoping he'd fight harder.

"Miley, it's doing so well. The studio is even making it a song that you can only get if you buy the whole album. That's how well it's doing." He said.

"I don't know, Nick. That's Dallas, what if I don't get there in time?"

"Miley, you're at the very end, it's 11 am right now, oh and thanks for waking me up so early."

"Hey, I'm like an hour or something ahead of you, I thought it was okay!" She said, in her playful way.

"You're at the end, and somebody might've arranged with your mom for this to possibly be happening and your mom might've said yes on your behalf." He said, playing right along with her.

"You did not!" Before she heard his response she screamed "MOOOOOOM!"

Her mom came in, "What is it? Are you okay?" She looked at the phone and realized that there was only one person she was talking to on the phone now a days. "Hunny, just let him sweet talk you into it. He always knows how to get you to do things."

She put the phone back to her ear and could hear him trying to muffle his laughs.

"Okay, fine. But if my voice sounds bad it's because I didn't get to do my proper eating schedule." She said. She hung up, knowing that she didn't need to say goodbye.

Standin' out in the rain, I need to know if it's over, cause I will leave you alone.

I'm flooded with all this pain, knowing that I'll never hold ya.

Like I did before the storm.

She got off the plane, she was used to humidity and Texas was a nice cooler from that. It was still extremely hot, but somehow not as bad as Georgia. Maybe it was just because of what she knew she was gonna get to do that made Texas better to her.

With every strike of lightning.

Comes a memory that lasts.

She'd been texting him all day, and had now just told him she was going to chik-fil-a.

"oooh, get me a peach milkshake."

"no problem."

She went back up to the counter and got one.

And not a word is left unspoken, as the thunder starts to crash.

Maybe I should give up.

Standin' out in the rain, need to know if it's over, cause I will leave you alone.

Miley and her mom were headed to the stadium in a big car driven by a man in black.

"Are you nervous, sweetie." Her mom asked.

I'm flooded with all this pain, knowing that I'll never hold ya.

Like I did, before the storm.

"Yeah, but it's just one song, and you know, it's not like I'm new to this." She said, picking at the straw in the milkshake.

"You'll be fine, and you're singing with one of your best friends, right?"

How did she know? She hated that he was only her best friend, she wanted him to be her everything. He practically was, she called him when she found a quarter in the couch cushions, she texted him when she walked in a restaurant and only three people noticed (instead of a frenzy). She just couldn't call him her boyfriend. She'd just broken up with Justin because she knew the distance would be too much for their relationship. How could she then turn around and get with Nick when they would see each other less than she would've with Justin. Justin was even willing to drop everything and go with her to Georgia.

I try to keep, the lights from going out.

"Mom, what am I supposed to do? I love him. I knew it from the second I walked out of the recording studio with him. It's like singing a duet is romantic, but singing a duet about your past relationship, and how you both miss it, it's like a double whammy. I just got all those feelings back."

And the clouds from ripping out my broken heart.

They always say, a heart is not a home, without the one who gets you through…

The storm.

"Hunny, there is nothing I can tell you that will make them go away. There is nothing that will change this until you face it head on. Figure it out."

She loved that about her mom, she told her everything she needed to hear, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Standin' out in the rain, knowing that it's really over, please don't leave me alone.

I'm flooded with all this pain, knowing that I'll never hold ya.

She glanced over at him, this time, finally able to lock eyes with him. Why did it have to be a rotating stage? She was already dizzy enough.

Like I did, before the storm.

She went to hug him and gave a kiss.

His cheeked warmed up; he smiled. Why does it have to be a rotating stage? He thought as he jumped off before it was too late.