"Camping Trip."

Oliver sighed to himself as he looked at the letter. He could not be assed to go, if he was to be completely honest. It only meant another embarrassing time in which he would be forced to watch Miley and Jake twenty four-seven.

Frankly, Oliver was fed up with the entire thing. He was stuck having a crush with Miley, the pop goddess, and then he had to cope with Jake and Miley constantly flirting. At first, he got comfort from Lilly but then she got sour. He could not not blame her. He felt that even he would have gotten fed up of him.

Of course, when he asked if he could go, his mother said yes. While it would have been easy enough to tell his mother he did not want to go, he would rather not to be interviewed by his mother. It was the usual thing and before you know it, his mother would begin a talk about how he could come to her about anything. Oliver felt like saying that he had masturbation problems. That would shut her up and he would certainly get a few chuckles out of it.

He rushed to his room. Closing the door behind him, he called Lilly.

"Hello?"

"Hey Lil, it's Oliver. How are you?"

"Alone."

"They're out again?"

Oliver was shocked. though only mildly this time. Lately, Lilly's parents were never home and she was made to sit at home. He always wanted to keep her company but for some reason, her parents never wanted Oliver and Lilly to be alone. It wasn't as if he was a danger to Lilly. He certainly would never do anything with her.

"Yeah, I know. So how about you?"

"I was just thinking when my mind drifted to –"

"Miley?"

Lilly did not even need a response. She could almost hear him shyly nodding. She gently punched the drawers next to her. How could she just sit there? Once again, Oliver had to go on about her.

"Oliver, as great as this conversation is probably gonna be, I'm just –"

"Oh please don't hang up! We don't want to have to talk about it. I just want to talk to someone."

"Why don't you come over?" Lilly frowned. She did not want this love struck Oliver around, but still she asked him, glancing around at the empty house.

"I thought your parents said that I was in no circumstances allowed to go near you alone."

"I know, but it's not like they'd be around long enough to find out."

"Okay. I'll be right over."

Oliver left his house and strolled over to Lilly's next door. The bitter atmosphere was radiating from the house as he approched it. Knocking on the door, he waited. Lilly then opened the door. She was still in her pyjamas and her hair was a mess. She could have spent ages making up her hair but she had decided that there was no use anyway.

"You do realise you don't have to knock?"

Oliver smiled. "I know, but having you going near the public like that is amusing."

Lilly gently punched Oliver in arm, letting out a giggle. She could not help but find him so charming and funny. It just showed how much she loved him.

Oliver came into the house and looked around. "Geeze, you really cannot keep this place tidy."

"I know." Lilly tried to make some space on the couch. "But I can't help but be depressed."

"Why's that?"

Lilly was not about to let it out that easily. Like after all this time she would just admit her feelings for him and say how she partly hated Miley for having this insane power of him. Under no circumstances was she just to declare that she wanted him so badly it was painful to watch him and not kiss him.

"I just – don't feel like myself."

Oliver frowned. If there was one thing he didn't like, it was Lilly lying. "Come on. You can tell me."

"No I can't."

Lilly looked up, realising that she said it out loud. Oliver stood straight up and walked towards her. "Hey, you know you can tell me anything."

"It's not that you can't know it. You just probably wouldn't want to."

"How could you know that if you haven't told me?"

"I know alright."

"How's that?"

"Miley – Miley didn't want to."

"So Miley knows but not me?"

"She's my best friend."

"Then what am I?"

"Oh, don't be like that!"

"Just tell me."

"All right, you wanna know?"

"Yeah!"

"You wanna know?!"

"Yeah!"

Lilly almost said it, she could feel her lips begin to part. In that mad fury, she had brought up, the first syllable came out. Oliver watched with fascination. It was almost as if it was all slow motion. That was until Lilly's front door was opened.

"Lilly Truscott," her mother began, "looks like some things haven't been clear."

Oliver practicaly sprinted back to his house and peered through the window, looking into Lilly's. He watched as her mom threw her hands in the air and shouted. Lilly just sat there, rolling her eyes and every now and again, retorting with obviously sarcastic comments to undermine her mother's authority.

He tapped his fingers on the window and shook his head, What was she going to say?

Oliver began to pace. In that moment, he almost felt this strong aura, exploding off Lilly, an array of mixed emotions. Some anger, sadness but there was an emotion that Oliver sensed which confused him. Passion.

He rang up Miley.

"Hey Miles."

"Hey Oliver! Camping trip again! Although, this time I have a good feeling about it!"

"Yeah," Oliver sarcastically exclaimed, "I hear it's gonna be a hoot. Anyway, d'ya know what Lilly is upset about?"

"She's upset?"

"Yeah. She said that you knew."

"Well I had no clue that she was upset."

Oliver paused. He knew this then meant that Lilly had lied to him. But why? What was it that she was so keen to hide?

"Another thing to worry about along with that stupid camping trip."

A/N: Heya! Hope that got some people on their toes for a few moments. Next chapter I'll get this properly started! I know I said I'd add abit of Jake, so I'll do that next time!