I didn't know what to do. My mind just froze. My first instinct was to make sure he doesn't see me. I let my hair fall so it covered my face and I grabbed Em's pair of sunglasses off her desk discreetly. "Oh, matt this is my best friend M—" "Marie!" I said trying my best at faking a english accent as I stood up quickly with the glasses on and my hair covering the left side of my face. "I'm Marie." I repeated as I noticed Em staring at me like I was the craziest person she'd ever seen. Nick-Matt looked confused too, but not in the same way Em did. He looked like he was pondering the theory of relativatey. Suddenly a smirk spread across his face and he started closing the small twelve inch space between us by walking towards me slowly. "Marie, huh?" He said making no attempt at taking that smirk off his face. Oh gosh. "Yeah." I said with my oh-so-fake accent. With each step he took to get closer to me I took a step away. He reached over and put the piece of hair I had covering half my face behind my ear. "That's a nice name." He said walking still closer as I still backed away. "Actually her name's Miley." Em said from the other side of the class which we were now about 8 feet from. I winced when she said my real name, even though it was obvious he knew it was me. "Why would you use a fake name?" He asked, confused again as he stopped walking towards me finally. "I could ask you the same question NICK." I said as I took the glasses off. "Um, hate to interrupt the soap opera but I have a class to teach!" Mr. Jefferson, our teacher, said. I suddenly realized the entire class was staring at us intently. I couldn't deal with this. "Mr. Jefferson, I'd like to be excused." I said sternly as I walked straight towards the door and pushed it open to go into the hall. I heard nick say something like "Well, I don't go here, so I don't need to be excused." And he walked out and followed me. This was all so overwhelming. What was he doing here? I had gotten over him and I didn't need to see him. I was leaning against the wall by the door just thinking about it all breathing heavily. It was so hard to see him. He pushed the door open and was right there in front of me. "What are doing here and why the hell is she calling you matt?!" I demanded. He came closer to me and was gonna hug me, kiss me, I don't know but I just pushed him away and walked to the otherside of the hall. "Miley…" He started but I wasn't in the mood for his sarcastic banter or smooth talking. "Answer my question nick!" I shouted. "Matthew's my middle name and Emily just likes to call me that. But I never knew that she was your best friend…" He said just staring at me but I had my arms tightly crossed and I was looking at the floor with my eyes squinted shut. I didn't see him walk up to me but I knew he did. He put his finger under my chin and lifted my head up. All signs of teasing were gone from his face and he was just looking at me like he used to. Like he was face to face with the girl he was in love with. "I really missed you." He said as he put his forehead against mine. "Nick…" I groaned, almost moaned. "Don't hold me like that!" I commanded as I pushed him away from me again. "Miley, you made a mistake and I pressured you into doing it and I'm really, really sorry that I couldn't control my hormones enough to consider your feelings. But when you left it was the worst time of my life and I've spent the last seven months trying to forget about you." He explained as he stood behind me while I just tried to control my breathing. "Well I already got over you. I mean, I feel like what happened, never happened, and you should feel that way too." I said as I turned around to face him.
"Does Em know?" He asked.
"No…" I answered.
"I thought best friends told each other everything."
"Yeah but when you come on the first day of school and everyone's like 'How was your summer Miley?' I'm not gonna answer with 'Oh you know, went swimming, got a tan, went to camp, oh and I lost my virginity!' No!! I can't tell them things like that!" I explained raising my voice a little.
He laughed. "I missed you."
"Nick… now that you're here, we can be… friends. But never anything more than that. Kay?"
"I don't think I can do that Miley."
