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Lilly's POV

About a minute later, I felt the grass next to me rustle a little bit. I opened my eyes and sat up, only to find that same long haired brunette sitting right next to me.

"What the…crap! You scared the…heck outta me!" I said as I popped my headphones out of my ears and stopped my music.

"Oh s-sorry, I just came to say hi." She said with a small hurt look on her face. She seemed sweet, like the kind of person that didn't take language well like I did. So I had just improvised.

"No no, it's ok, I'm sorry…I'm just, well I was just a little mad. Sorry I didn't mean to take it out on you. So uh, what's your name?"

"Oh I'm Miley Stewart. I live just over there." she pointed to her house, she also had a bit of an accent. I gave her a weird look at how oddly smiley she was.

"Yeah I noticed that." I chuckled nervously. "So that's a cool name, and where are you from? Your accent is…" I couldn't quite figure out where.

"Oh I'm from Tennessee." She blushed.

"Hey don't be embarrassed, I think your accent's cute. Oh and I'm Lilly, Lilly Truscott." We shook hands. Cute? Of course it was, but did you have to say cute, Truscott?

"Thanks, oh and that's my Daddy over there, Robbie Ray." she pointed to a truck to a tall man helping unload boxes. "I told him I saw a new family moving in, so we're here to help.

"Well thank you. So did you move here from Tennessee?"

"Yeah, about six years ago because…well we just moved here six years ago."

"Ok…" I could tell she didn't really want to say much more about it now so I changed the subject. "So where would I find the high school around here? I'm 16 by the way."

"Really? Me too. Well you would go to the same one as me. It's just a few blocks in the other direction. And it starts in a few days. Oh so where'd you move from?"

It was still a bit touchy, but I knew the question was going to come up a lot. So better to get it out sooner. "I moved from New York."

"Whoa, I bet this was a big shock huh? You ok?"

Wow I wasn't expecting that, that was…nice of her. "Oh yeah I'm doing ok, thanks. Yeah it is a bit hard leaving a lot behind." I sighed then several seconds of silence came over us. Miley soon broke it.

"Well don't you think we should start helping again?" she suggested.

"I'm normally not this lazy, but it's just so hot out. Is it always like this?" I lay back down.

"In the summers, yes, but then it should go down to about 80 degrees in a few months." She said casually.

"That's an improvement? What's the temperature now?" I sat up.

"Oh I think it's about 95 or 100."

"What the heck?! Then why are we even out here?" I stood up with a slight stumble and grabbed my water bottle with me. Miley stood up after me. "Is there some where else we can go, it is just way to hot for me right now." I took another drink.

"Well sure, we can go to my house if you want. It's really cooled down in there."

I stopped drinking. "Yes, that's great, thanks!" I walked over to a truck and found my Mom. "Hey Mom this is Miley, I'm going over to her house for awhile." I said then turned around and walked away.

"Alright, but Lilly-" she started.

"Bye Mom." I said as I continued to walk away. I was too anxious for some nice cold air.

Within the next few seconds we were there. Miley was in front of me and opened the door. Once I stepped in I felt a rush of cool air on my face. Then I looked over and saw her couch and walked over to it and sat down.

I let out a sigh of relief. "Now this is a nice house, thanks for letting me come over."

She walked over to the kitchen. "Sure no problem, do you want some soda or something?"

"Yeah that sounds great, thanks so much." I said and then a guy came walking down their stairs.

"Oh hey Miles, who's this?"

"Oh this is Lilly and Lilly, this is Jackson, my older brother. And Jackson, what are you still doin here boy? Get out there and help." Miley said a bit annoyed at him.

"Me? Why aren't you helping?"

"Cause, cause…"

"Cause we're the girls." I spoke up.

"Enough said." Miley smirked at him. He grumbled something and then walked out.

She walked back over to the couch, sat next to me and handed me a bottle. "Here you go, hope you like Mountain Dew, that's all we have right now."

"This is so cool, I love it." I opened it quickly and started gulping huge sips down. I couldn't help but feel Miley watching me.

"Whoa, you must be thirsty." She giggled.

I stopped drinking. "Oh sorry, well yeah I already drank all my water and you know how hot it is. How come this isn't killing you?"

"Well like I said, I've lived here for about six years, so I'm pretty much used to it by now."

"Look I'm sorry, I normally don't whine so much, but I was on an airplane only a few hours ago, leaving my own home and now I'm in this place. So sorry to be a bit cranky." I felt I should tell her from my complaints.

"Lilly, it's really ok, I can see how you're in a tough spot. But what do you think of this place then?"

"Well it's different, I mean the neighborhood is cute, looks a lot different from what I'm used to. And besides the heat, it is kind of relaxing, all the plants and stuff. I didn't get much of that in New York."

"That's good, and what about your house? Do you like that?"

"Oh I don't know yet." I shrugged and drank some more soda.

"You haven't been inside your new house yet?"

"I don't really care, I figure I could do it later, we just had to start unpacking. Well I've been in the garage." I pointed out.

Miley stood up from the couch. "No that doesn't count, come on we're going."

"What? Where?" she had caught me off guard and also pulled me up from the couch.

"To see your house, you might as well see it soon. So come on let's go."

I rolled my eyes as she pulled me along and outside. "Aw man, it's still so hot."

"Well let's get to your house then." then we started walking.

"But I don't even know if it has AC yet."

"Come on Lilly, there's only one way to find out."

"Fine." We were there and I walked up to my Mom, who was now leaning against the car, drinking from a water bottle and talking with Miley's Dad. "Mom can I have the house key? I wanna go look inside."

"Oh, sure sweetie." She searched for it in her purse, and then handed it over. "Here you go, but don't be too long, we've still got more unloading to do."

"Sure, thanks Mom." I waved behind me as I was already walking away.

Then I pushed the key in the lock and opened the door. I walked in and Miley followed closely.

"Whoa." She simply said.

"Yeah I know, no AC. Now can we go back to your house?" I whined and then turned around, but she stopped me and turned me back around.

"Lilly look at how much room this place has." She pointed all around the front living room. "You know, you could have a huge party in here. I mean the stairs are off to the side, the vaulted ceilings make the room look bigger and there's even-"

"Whoa whoa, I haven't even been here a day and you're already talking about me having a party here? I don't think so Miles."

She smiled. "Hey you pick up pretty quick. You remembered my brother call me that huh?"

"Oh yeah I like it, it's cute." Oh gosh I slipped up again. What is it about her?

"Thanks, well let's just think about a party later. I won't make you, I just thought it would be fun."

I took another sip of my soda. "Alright, now can we please go back to your house?" she giggled at me.

"Yeah ok let's go."

Miley walked ahead of me out the door. I closed the door and closed my eyes for a second to prepare myself for the bright sun. I was stupid enough to walk with my eyes closed, because once I opened them I saw that Miley was facing me and waiting for me. But I didn't register how close she was before I walked right into her. Luckily the grass was right next to our house and her back was facing it. My impact caused us both to fall to the ground on the grass.

"Sorry, I'm a klutz." I said and winced from the pain.

I was flat on top of Miley, turned to the side a little. Then I moved myself over to push myself up on both arms, but then found myself face to face with her. Something suddenly surged through me as I looked in her eyes. I froze and tried to figure out what exactly I was searching for. Then she suddenly snapped me out of my thoughts.

"Uh Lilly, aren't you going to…?"

"Oh right, sorry."

I pushed my self up with my arms, and then took Miley's hand and helped her up. I suddenly felt my hands sweat and I began blushing like hell. I walked over to the small grassy hill, hoping my blush would fade soon. I sat down and set my soda down. Miley followed and sat next to me.

"That's a nice house Lil." Miley said to break the uncomfortable situation.

"Yeah thanks I…oh thanks that's cool." I smiled at her, at the new nickname she gave me.

"Sure, I just thought of it. Hey didn't you want to go back to my house?"

"Oh yeah that would be great, thanks." I said, but we still sat there for a few seconds of silence.

"So, do you wanna know what you did today?" Miley suddenly spoke up in a cheery voice.

"Uh…I've been complaining about the heat and I just knocked you over?" I sort of answered, unsure of her point.

She giggled. "Yeah that and on your very first day in Malibu, you made a friend." She smiled at me and playfully bumped me in the shoulder with hers. I smiled and bumped her back.

"Thanks Miles. Ok let's go." I got up from the ground and helped her up.

As we began walking away, my Mom called me back over, using my full name. I had forgotten about helping unload more.

I didn't like my full name used all the time. "Oh shit I forgot." I cursed silently as I was walking away with Miley. She had heard me.

"Language." Miley pointed to me.

"Yeah, sorry." Then I turned around. "Alright Mom, I'm coming." I turned back to Miley. "Sorry Miles, I gotta unpack more boxes, but thanks for all of your help. And letting me hang out with you, its been fun." I smiled.

"No problem and I'll always be just a few houses away. So feel free to come over whenever you need me."

"Cool thanks. Oh and can we walk to school on Monday?"

"Yeah that would be great, I'd love too show you around every where." Miley said with excitement.

"Alright, I'll see you later then."

"Ok, bye Lil." Miley smiled and I swear I saw a small blush creep on her face.

We both waved then walked our separate ways. I saw Robbie and Jackson, walk back home, since there were hardly any more boxes.

When I walked up to the truck, I saw my Mom. She gave me a look at how I had gotten out of most of the unloading.

"Look Mom, I'm sorry. It's just, you know I'm not used to this kind of heat and I really didn't mean to get out of all this. But guess what? I did go over to Miley's house for awhile and I got to know her a little." I saw my Mom's face lighten up at that.

"Really? And on your first day, I'm so proud of you Lilly." she gave me a small hug, then I pulled away. I wasn't much of a touchy, feely person.

"Uh yeah thanks Mom, anyway we're walking to school together on Monday and she's going to show me around."

We finished unloading the boxes. Then we took a few mattresses and set them on the floor in our rooms just for the night. Once we got a good nights sleep, we actually put them in the frames and unpacked our rooms the next day.

Once Monday morning came, I skateboarded off early to meet Miley at her house.