Dreamland

By: Lingering-In-Darkness

Author's Note: The story is told entirely in Miley's point of view. The title of this story comes from Sarah Dessen's book: Dreamland

I own nothing but the storyline.

Chapter 2

Lilly was in it...

I still can't believe it's really real, I knew things like car crashes happen every day to people who might not have deserved it but I never thought something like that could happen to me, my family or my friends.

I can't believe this happened...what will I do?

"Miley? Miley?" Oliver repeated trying to get my attention, it's true that I had heard him say my name a couple of times but I was crying and even though that's expected of a person who could have just lost somebody close to them in a car crash. I still didn't want Oliver to see my cry. "Miley do you want to come inside with me. My mom just baked some cookies after she heard about the crash."

I really wanted to go with him, Oliver is my friend and he did have a small crush on Lilly even though he refused to admit or show it to anybody...even himself. On the other hand I wanted to go home and cry on my pillow, since my dad is on a "harmless date" and Jackson is still at the party...Jackson...I wonder if he knows...or what if he was in the crash with Lilly? So many questions started flooding my mind all at once and before I knew it I was crying my eyes out in front of Oliver.

"Miley are you ok? Do you want to come inside?"

I didn't say anything but the fact that I was still crying and I couldn't move from the spot that I was in must have implied to Oliver that I would stay at his house for a little bit and eat some cookies that his mother made because he started leading me inside.

Oliver is a good friend, but I really just want to run back home and cry.

Oliver and I sat down at the small table in the kitchen and turned on the television, it seemed like on every channel there was a news blurb about somebody dying...I couldn't take it anymore! I wanted to do something other than cry, eat cookies, and drink milk. My best friend could be dead right now, shouldn't I be asking a detective or something to help track down the person who caused the crash? Although...that person could be dead too, I actually don't know.

"Hey Oliver, hey Miley. What's up?" Oliver's mom asked us as she walked into the kitchen. I know that she meant us to say something other than the crash that Lilly was in but it was the only thing that surfaced in my mind.

"Lilly was in a car crash." I said.

Oliver's mom nodded and said, "I know. She'll be okay though, they brought her to the hospital, her and the boys and other girl that she was with...your school should be quieter for the next few days, especially for the ninth graders."

Oliver and I both looked over at her in surprise, we knew that the party had a lot of high schoolers but we didn't know that a lot of other ninth graders were there. Actually I thought Lilly and I were the youngest ones there, apparently I was wrong.

"Who else?" Oliver asked.

"Oh let's see...some girl named Becca Weller, some other freshman boy that I don't know, oh yeah and that Jake Ryan boy." She paused and then said, "he was driving."