A/N. A bit more explanation is given with this loooong flashback chapter.
Being Miley and Jake
Flashback. Two hours previously.
"I'm Miley. I'm so great" Jackson put on his high girlie voice, "but I don't know what I want. I could take my best friend Lilly to my Hannah concert tonight, or take my hunky new 'friend' Jake"
Lilly had to stop herself from laughing. "Hey, I'm Jake. I'm the most handsomest movie star in the entirety of movie stars. Check out how handsome I am." Lilly pretended to check herself out in the mirror, making her voice deeper. Jackson went along with it.
"Oh Jake! I hate you. Now I love you. I hate you. No, now I love you again. I want to be your girlfriend. I want to be your best friend. I want to be your girlfriend. I want to be your best friend!"
"Hey, Hey, Hey. Jake Ryan could have any babe he wants to" Lilly cut in.
"Oh, you!" He giggled, batted his eyelashes and put his hand flirtatiously on Lilly's shoulder, "I want to be your girlfriend again!" Jackson did a little squeal and gave Lilly a big, over-exaggerated kiss on the lips in character as Miley.
He took a step back and looked at her long and hard to see if he went too far under the guise of 'Miley.
Lilly had laughter in her eyes. "You think that's really what happened tonight"
Jackson shrugged. "I wouldn't be surprised. She could have taken you"
"She doesn't take me to every event" Lilly said pointedly.
"She takes you to most events"
Jackson took out a spoon from the kitchen draw and started balancing it on his nose. "Going for the record" he had his head titled back and started walking across the room.
Lilly sighed and got a spoon out from the draw too. "Not if I beat you"
She followed him around the room, trying to trip him as he walked. She finally got him down. He grabbed her jacket and pulled her down with him.
Through laughter, Lilly finally came out and said it. "You kissed me"
"No. I kissed Jake"
"Ewwwww" She screwed up her nose, "you kissed Jake"
"Well you kissed Miley" he joked.
"Yeah, I think I'd rather kiss Jake. No offense to Miley"
"None taken" he was very close to her right now. She could almost count his eyelashes. "So is it my turn to be Jake now?" He asked, grinning.
"Oh Jake... uhh... y'allllll are cuter than a pile of freshly churned Tennessee butter"
Jackson had his turn to laugh. "You do a terrible Miley"
Lilly kept the accent, "now what are ya'll talking about? I'm as southern as y'all can get"
"Miley, I don't know whether I love you more as Miley or Hannah. Or maybe I just love myself more." Jackson had to remove his own accent for this.
"Only one way to find out, lover-boy." Lilly puckered her lips just as exaggeratedly as Jackson had earlier.
This time Jackson leaned over and kissed her properly. Lilly grabbed his shoulders and deepened the kiss. They knew deep down they weren't Miley and Jake anymore, but it was so much easier to pretend they were.
"Oh Miley" Jackson mumbled through the kiss, still trying to keep what little of the 'in character'stuff that he could do.
"Oh Jake" Lilly played along, as they hardly broke apart for a second, fastening her lips back onto his. Jackson didn't know how much longer he could keep this up. A three minute kiss pretty much said that they weren't play acting anymore... right?
He hardly dared to say her name or anything else that could lead to an awakening to the real world of what both of them were doing, or what non-verbal, non-specified contracts they were breaking right now. The type of contract that said that his dad and Miley trusted them together.
He finally broke away from her, Lilly leaned forward again with her eyes closed, her nose colliding with his when she finally reopened her eyes and realized she had to rejoin reality too.
"Now that's what probably happened tonight" she joked to avoid any awkwardness.
Jackson put on his Miley voice again. "We're off again. We're back on again. We're off again. We're back on again"
She giggled, putting on her Miley voice too. "Oh, y'all are funnier than a possum in a cat trap"
"A possum in a cat trap?"
"I couldn't think of anything fast enough"
Jackson shook his head. "You always were a strange girl Lilly"
"Thanks." She took it in stride. "You kissed Miley this time"
"And you finally got to kiss Jake. How does it feel?"
"Like I'd rather be kissing Jackson." she said shyly, although it was partly in jest.
He looked at her like she'd just swallowed a cat trap.
As far as Jackson could tell, everything between that moment and the moment they were sprung on Miley's bed was a complete blank. Which was weird, because getting a girl in bed is the last thing anyone would want to blank out... but Jackson was probably trying to block out his lack of smooth moves and the fact that she went for him anyway (it was Coop's sister all over again) and how anything like that happening had to be wrong on so many levels (just like Coop's sister) and he may as well not remember it.
Lilly on the other hand, remembered everything.
"I happen to know for a fact that Jake's a much better kisser than Jackson" Jackson told her.
"And how would you know that"
"I kissed him too remember?" Jackson joked.
She shrugged, "maybe you should refresh my memory?" she squeaked, hardly believing that she had enough guts to say such a line to one of the (if she thought about it) grossest boys she'd ever known... but still so... fun. But kissing was kissing and Lilly had not being doing a lot of it lately. Well, not as much as Miley and Jake seemed to be doing, anyways.
"Maybe I should..." Jackson was completely dumbfounded. He just sat there. She did an exaggerated puckering of her lips again at him and then he realized what she meant. "Oh, right."
He leaned back in toward her and then stopped. "Wait. Am I Miley or Jake this time?"
She picked a spoon up off the floor and tried to put it on his nose, "you're Jackson."
"And you are?" He half-joked as the spoon fell back to the floor.
"Oh! Can I be Lola"
"As long as you're not Miley, cause Miley and Jackson is a no-go zone."
"How about I be Oliver?"
Jackson gagged. She laughed at him. "Can I be Lilly?" she asked seriously, her voice going to that dangerously high squeaky place again.
"If you like that type of thing." Jackson leaned in to kiss her, going all the way this time.
"It's worth a try" she mumbled as best she could.
Then it was almost an hour later when Lilly said she was going to go hang out in Miley's room, Jackson noted how bored he was too... and one thing led to something totally unexpected. Kissing on top of the covers of Miley's bed and being sprung by Robbie Ray Stewart.
Jackson was telling the truth all along though, it most certainly wasn't what Robbie Ray thought.
Miley, Jake and Robbie Ray comin' up as soon as you press that little bitty button and tell me what you thought.
