Okay, so it took me a while longer than I had planned on to update, but I have updated now, so it okay. I hope you like this chapter, because it took so long to write. Remember to check out some of my other stories. I always like getting comments on my stories, even if they are criticisms. Anyway, here it is. Oh, and by the way, this is in Miley's POV.

Chapter three

I reached my house, and found my dad sitting on the couch with his hands covering his face. He looked like he was, dare I say it, crying.

I was afraid to find out why he was crying, so instead, I just decided to figure out why my dad had gotten mad at me for being with Jake, even though only a short while before, he had been encouraging me to go after him.

"Dad, why don't you want me to be with Jake?" I asked. "When Aunt Dolly was here, you were telling me to go after him, and now, you are contradicting yourself by telling me to keep away from him."

"Well, Bud. When we were kids, she was always the smart one, so I always agreed with her," my dad began. "I forgot what kinds of things kids your age do: kissing, going on dates, being together every moment of the day, and stuff like that."

"But dad, why did you ever let me go out with Josh if you didn't like the idea of me dating?" I asked curiously.

"Well, I told myself that when I met him, I would not like him, so therefore, you couldn't date him. It turned out that I like him, so I let you date him," he said, laughing at what he had just said. "But when I saw you kissing Jake, I got mad because one second, I thought that you were my single daughter that told me everything, and the next, you are kissing a boy that I have never actually properly met."

"Well, if you had told me that, I would have introduced him to you. Just so you know, the whole reason I started dating Jake is because he is so sweet," I told my dad, waiting for a response.

"Can you give me an example of one nice thing he has done for you in the last week?" my dad asked, raising an eyebrow. "If you can name one really nice thing that he has done for you, I will take back what I said about you not being allowed to see Jake, and you won't be grounded anymore."

"Well, dad, this is easy. Just this morning, a hot girl was hitting on him, and he made her back off and told her that he already had a girlfriend, and that she was more beautiful than she could ever be," I said to my dad, who was apparently impressed by what Jake did. He obviously did not know that I made up the last part about being beautiful.

"Bud, you have proved me wrong about Jake Ryan. I will allow you to date him," my dad replied.

"By the way, dad, why couldn't you just call Aunt Dolly and ask what she would do in this situation?" I wondered out loud.

"Bud, read this letter that came in the mail today. It's from Uncle Earl," he said to me, and handed me a long letter.

Dear Robbie Ray, Miley, and Jackson,

I hate to say this, but there has been a terrible plane crash near Honolulu. I stopped reading. I knew that Aunt Dolly had been talking about going on a vacation to Honolulu. I was started to get scared. I started reading again. I'm sure you can guess who the passenger on the plane was: Aunt Dolly. It was a private plane, so she and the pilot were the only passengers. They were both killed. Not just injured: killed. The plane fell somewhere into the ocean, and has not been found.

Sincerely,

Uncle Earl

Now I knew why my dad had been crying when I came in. "I have to go tell Jackson," I said, heading out the door, toward Rico's, the place in which Jackson worked.

I found Jackson wiping the counter, while trying to take about three people's orders.

"Jackson, I have to tell you something," I said, with tears dripping down my face. "You need to know."

"Can't it wait?" Jackson asked, and then looked at my face. "Miley what is it?"

He walked around the counter to where I was, and waited for me to say something, or at least stop crying, because we were attracting attention.

I wiped a few tears away from my face, and started to talk through my crying. "Jackson, Aunt Dolly is... Aunt Dolley is..." I started crying even harder before i could finish my sentence.

"Aunt Dolly is what?" Jackson asked impatiently. "I have customers waiting for me."

"Aunt Dolly is dead," I finally said. "I know your customers are so important to you, so go back and take their orders." I started to walk away, but then felt a hand on my shoulder.

I turned around to find Jake staring at my tear stained cheeks.

"Miley, I know that I am not supposed to see you anymore, but I have to know what's wrong," he said, pulling me toward his chest, and slowly swaying, to hopefully calm me down enough to tell him what was the matter.

"Jake, my dad changed his mind. I talked him into letting us date, but that is not why I am crying. My Aunt Dolly just died in a plane crash," I said, crying hard again at the thought of my Aunt's death.

"Oh no, that's terrible. It's also a horrible coincidence. Did you know that Dolly Parton just died in a plane crash?" Jake asked, obviously not getting that my Aunt Dolly was Dolly Parton.

"Jake, they are the same person," I told him, rolling my eyes as best I could with all the tears still coming out. "I call her Aunt Dolly because she was my godmother. I loved her with all my heart. She was kinda like my mom, ever since my real mom died."

"She was like a second mom to you?" Jake asked.

"Yeah, and now both of my moms are dead. I have no one left except for my dad. I can't count Jackson, because we are still waiting for DNA results to see if he is related to us at all," I said jokingly. "But I shouldn't be joking like that right after I find out that the one person that I was closest to just died."

"Joking is a good thing. It helps you take your mind off of her for a while, just long enough for you to calm down. That's all," Jake said comfortingly. I smiled at him, and gave him a long kiss on his soft lips.

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