A/N 1: Alvinfan again! Thanks for all the reviews for the previous chapter. And thanks to those who pointed out the minor mistake we made. Hopefully we fixed it well. But anyways, here's the next chapter, and hopefully you enjoy it. Thanks again!

A/N 2: The Great Idiot! Oh yeah, Black Friday was awesome! Yeah as much as I'm not a morning person, this is the one day of the year I am. In fact I didn't sleep all night. I just went to wal-mart at 4am. It was crazy fun! I finally got Rockband, another guitar for my GH, a bunch of DVD's…oh ok, sorry I'll stop now :P. (Yeah well I had to bring it up sometime.) Yes I do agree, thanks for pointing out that Nashville is a big city. Man that was embarrassing, but hopefully no longer. I think we made it a good fix. (A made up town, but what the heck?) Well read on…

Realness I'm Faking

"Chapter 3"

Lilly's POV—

I walked over to a brunette who stood across from my new yard. Her eyes were widened in surprise. In some way, she intrigued me; I couldn't explain it. Her hair was long, wavy, and the slight breeze blew into it. She wore a simple black t-shirt, ripped skinny jeans, cowgirl boots, and she wore a bandanna tied neatly around her wrist. The only thing that would make her a stereotypical cowgirl is if she had a cowgirl hat on. I'm sure she has one though. I make my way over to her; staring her down, "What did you say?"

"Uh…" She stalls. "Nothing. Nothing at all. Why would I say anything to you?" She rudely remarks.

Ouch. "Huh? What did I do to you?" I ask madly.

She rolls her eyes at me. What's with this girl? I didn't even know her! "Forget it. Welcome to Southville," She welcomes sarcastically.

"Southville?" My nose scrunches in confusion. "This isn't Nashville?"

The brunette bites her bottom lip, trying not to laugh I'm guessing. "Nashville??" She laughs. Yup, I was right. "This isn't Nashville! Do you know how big that city is? Come on, city girl, didn't you read the sign on the way into town?"

I can't believe she's making fun of me. She is so rude! I turn to my mother, sending her a death glare. "I thought you said we were going to Nashville!"

"Oh," She dumbly says. "I guess I said the wrong city. I'll be working in Nashville, so it's an honest mistake."

Rolling my eyes, I turn my attention back to the rude girl in front of me. I glare as I see that she's smugly smirking at me. "Okay, so I said the wrong city, big deal. It's an honest mistake."

"No," She laughs. "Everybody knows where Nashville is and what it looks like." I see her stare at my mom's car again. "Ah, California… Get a little too much sun then?" She smirks.

My mouth drops. "What?!" I snap. Before I continue, my mother decides to walk over to us.

"Well, hello there," She smiles. She sticks her hand out for a handshake, and the brunette happily accepts it. "I'm Heather Truscott and this is my daughter, Lilly."

"Nice to meet you." I can't tell if her smile is real or fake. Then again, I don't really care. "My name's Miley. Welcome to Southville."

"Thank you, Miley. It's nice to meet you as well." She gives us both a smile and heads back over to the car. Great, now I'm alone with her again. I should just walk away, but for some reason… I don't.

From the corner of my eye, I see someone else approaching and… Oh. My. Gosh. He is so cute! Miley sees the look on my face and turns around to see what I'm looking at. "Jake!" She smiles and runs over to him.

"Hey, Miley." He smiles and they give each other a one-armed hug. Wow… She can actually smile for real. "Just came over to say hi to the new neighbors."

I watch as she says something to him, but I can't make out what she says. He gives her this weird look and laughs. I swear if she told him I thought this place was Nashville I'm going to—

"Hi," He says while walking up to me. "My name's Jake Ryan. Welcome to Tennessee." Jake sticks out his hand and I gladly take it.

"Thanks, I'm Lilly." I can't stop the smile that forms on my face. I take in his look: gorgeous blonde hair that has a wind-blown look to it, dark jeans, a blue, flannel shirt that's open quite a bit…. Yea, Lilly likey…. And to top it all off, he's wearing a cowboy hat and boots. His smile causes my heart to skip a beat.

He shyly smiles at me and then glances back over at Miley. "So, you're from California?"

"Yea. I already miss it. Plus, I'm dreading to load all this stuff into the house." Please take my hint… Please!

"Well, I could certainly help with that. So can Miley."

I see Miley's eyes shoot open, "What?" She deadpans.

"You heard me." He gives her a serious look. I'm really confused.

She glares at him. "Fine," She growls and walks over towards us.

Miley's POV—

As we walk toward Lilly's house, I just follow behind the other two. And I simply stare at her. Even though I couldn't see her face at the moment, I remembered that all her features were just beautiful. Now this girl was also funny with the way she handled my attitude. It seemed like she couldn't understand what was wrong with me. It was rather amusing really.

But when Jake walked up to us, that changed things. A different smile came across her face, a change in her attitude, and a slight hint of jealousy stirred in the pit of my stomach. I could tell that she just might like him.

I was suddenly knocked out of my thoughts as they had stopped in front of her car and began talking. I saw Lilly's Mom, walk into their new house, leaving Lilly with me and Jake. Then Lilly leaned against the bumper of the car and began instructing us.

"Ok, since the moving trucks aren't here yet, I guess we'll just start with the boxes and stuff in the car." She said and opened up the trunk.

"Trucks? You mean there's more than one? Gosh, that's a hell of a lot of stuff. Why do you people have to pack so…hmph!" I was cut off suddenly by a heavy box being shoved into my stomach. I put my arms around it and Lilly let go. Although she didn't back away from me.

"Excuse me, but if I recall a few minutes ago, you called me a city girl. So there's your answer, I pack so many things cause I'm just me and well, from the city too."

"Yeah, yeah ok you told me so. Now where do you want me to set this down?" I breathed out.

"Oh did that hurt?" She asked with no hint of sincerity in her voice.

"No."

"What's wrong, too heavy?" Lilly said sarcastically, as though she didn't care. And she still faced me, a few feet away from my face.

"No," I countered again, as I secured the box in my arms a bit more. I crinkled my nose with frustration. She was becoming a bit irritating now. "I'm fine, just a bit surprised that's all."

"Ok good, cause just a minute ago it seemed to me, like you're a pretty tough cowgirl. So if you couldn't handle a heavy box, then I'm not sure if you could handle much of anything, except tough talk." She chuckled at me, hands on her hips.

I decided to abandon the box all together and just set it on the ground, with a slight slam. Then fully faced Lilly again. "Oh yeah? You know, I can handle anything you throw at me, but I don't think much is possible coming from you. Think you can handle me? Think you can get used to Southville, city girl." We were facing each other a bit closely now, glares through the whole conversation. From the corner of my eye, I noticed Jake, simply standing there and watching the two of us quarrel. A slight look of amusement was on his face.

"What's with the nick names? Are we suddenly friends now or something?" Lilly asked.

"That wasn't supposed to be a compliment." I defended.

"It sure as hell didn't sound as mean as everything else you've said."

"Well damnit then." I shrugged my shoulders. Then Jake suddenly walked between us.

"Alright ladies, break it up now. Come on, we don't want anything to get too heated." Jake was facing me and raised an eyebrow at his double meaning he thought was clever. I just rolled my eyes.

Lilly and I folded our arms at the same time. I let out a sigh of frustration. "Alright, could you please help me unpack though?" Lilly asked.

"I'd be glad too and Miley, what about you?"

Wow, he actually asked me this time, now I had the choice to say no, but for some reason…I couldn't. "Fine." I gave her my answer, in a fake voice.

A few minutes later, after we had unloaded some boxes into their house, we all saw two moving trucks drive in front of the house and back into the driveway. Now we could open the back of the trucks easier.

I leaned up on the back of one of the trucks, "Alright, so which one do you want us to start with first?" When Lilly looked at me she had an odd expression. But she wasn't really looking at me, more like staring into space in my direction, "Lilly?" She didn't respond. I decided to have a heart, "Lilly, are you ok?" I asked louder this time and took some steps away from the truck. She snapped out of it this time.

"Oh, uh yeah, yeah I'm fine. Just…just thought of something, i-it's not important though." She responded quickly.

Jake and I both turned our heads towards each other in wonder. Then I asked her again, "Are you sure-"

"Yeah I'm fine, really. Now let's just start with this one." Lilly said as she pushed up the back door of the truck. It rolled upward with a slam. I just shrugged my shoulders and moved on.

Lilly's POV—

That was one weird feeling. In one flash of a second, I saw myself leaning sadly against the truck. Then the next second I saw Miley again. But seeing myself leaning against the truck before we left California, brought my thoughts back to Oliver. That was something I couldn't handle right now. Now wasn't the time for me to think of Oliver, it was time for me to unpack the trucks.

The help from Miley and Jake had been nice. Jake was a big help, as he was pretty strong. As for Miley, well I could really never tell what she was thinking. Every time we passed by each other, from the truck to the house, the look in her eyes was mysterious. She's just one big mystery waiting to be solved. Then for the heavy furniture, we left most of that for the movers driving the trucks.

After most everything was finished, Mom thanked Miley and Jake, again for about the hundredth time that day. I just rolled my eyes, "Thank you so much you two. We really appreciate all the help we can get. And thanks for becoming friends with Lilly. You know, I was afraid she might-"

"Mom! We were on our way into the house I believe?" These weren't friends, just kids from the town helping out the neighbors. Gosh, my Mom is so oblivious at times. I took a quick glance at Miley, of course she was about to laugh at me, but holding back her laughter by biting her bottom lip. Damn.

"Oh that's right, sorry sweetie. Alright, well I guess we'll see you two later then."

"Yes ma'am and you're very welcome." Jake said politely, tipping his hat. Wow, he's such a gentleman.

My Mom walked away and into the house, leaving just the three of us outside in the sun, which was beginning to set. I glanced over at Miley, once I saw the look of curiosity she had on her face, I took the smile off mine real quick. I had completely forgotten I had been smiling at Jake.

"So…thanks guys. I guess I'll see you around school sometime."

"Yeah of course. Do you know where it is?" Jake asked me.

"Oh yeah, I've got the directions and I already signed up as a new student too."

Miley just rolled her eyes, "Ok great, bye." She said and pulled Jake by the arm, away with her.

I didn't bother saying anything back, except turned around and walk toward my house. Then a thought occurred to me; I have everything set up in school, I just don't know where my classes are. Shit, I just know I'm gonna have to end up asking Miley. Suddenly my cell phone rang. Oliver. At least one thing brightened my day. I pulled it out of my pocket, I decided to sit on the front steps of our house and watch the sunset as we talked.

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Miley's POV—

When I finally made it home, my mind was overwhelmed with thoughts of Lilly. I just met the girl and she already made my head spin. I don't want to feel this way, but at the same time I… I thrive for it. It's something that I can't really explain. There's something about Lilly that intrigues me, aside from the fact that she's insanely hot.

Instead of going straight inside, I take a seat out on the porch swing outside on the deck. It's a nice evening since it cooled off. I really don't like it when it gets too hot…

My attention turns to a subtle noise I hear off in the near distance. It's Lilly… Her voice is magnificent. I was taught it was rude to eaves-drop, but I couldn't help myself. I needed to hear what she was saying. The more I could learn about her, the better. Or so I thought…

"Oliver," I hear her say. "It's so strange here. So far, I've only met one nice person." Ouch, I knew she wasn't talking about me… "Some guy named Jake," She continues, "Hopefully he'll be able to show me around the school instead of this one girl I met."

Frowning, I slump back into my seat. I know I brought it on to myself, but it still hurts. Yet, I keep listening anyways.

"I don't know what her problem is, but she's been mean to me since I met her… Her name's Miley." I smile; my name sounds much better coming from her. The next thing she says was something I totally wasn't expecting though.

"I love you too, Ollie, and I miss you like crazy…"

Love? She has a boyfriend? Of course she's straight. Why wouldn't she be?

Knowing that I wouldn't be able to stand listening to this conversation any longer, I decide too head inside. Somehow, I feel heartbroken. I just met Lilly and she already broke me. I can't let her in. If I do, then I don't know what would end up happening to me.

A/N: Alvinfan yet again, lol. Thanks again for reading and hopefully our made up town is good for a fix. Yes, Miley isn't too pleasant, but that will be explained later. Thank you again, and reviews are always appreciated.

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