**Again, sorry if there's mistakes. I havent proof –read.** - ROYA
The next week was weird, nick acted completely normal, like the exact way a guy would treat his cousin's best friend. Like none of what happened, happened. And I have to admit, even though I said I wanted him to act like this, I didn't think he'd actually listen to me! And now that he did it kinda, sorta, annoyed me.
"So you wanna come over after school and help me get ready for the part-tay?" Em asked me as we walked to our next class. "Sure, is nick gonna be there though?" I asked wearily. Em stopped walking. "Miles, I love you to death but I think you're kind of overreacting about this whole thing, nick really seems to be over you, I think this whole 'is nick gonna be over there? Cause I know he'll come onto me' thing is all in your head babe. He's over you. I don't wanna sound harsh but this is the truth." She explained as she stood in front of me. It took a minute for all that to sink. What if Em was right? What if he didn't care about me anymore? Boy, that was a quick turnaround. "I think you're right Em. Sorry. I'll act normal now." I said as I started walking again. "Okay, good." Em replied.
The rest of the day breezed by. I kept looking at nick in all my classes but he, and this was hard to believe, was paying ATTENTION to the teacher! And not looking at me?! This is so weird! I almost wanted to walk straight up to him and say 'Who are you and what have you done with MY nick!' Oh god, did I just say 'MY nick.'? WTH! What am earth am I think—. RINGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!! Just then the bell sounded and it was time to go. I got up in a hurry to avoid any kind of contact with him, not that my efforts were needed, he just walked right by me! I just glared at him as he walked down the hall. What the hell is he doing?! UGH!!!!!!!!!
I walked to the parking lot and got into Em's car. Em and I had a sleepover the night before so I didn't have my car today cause it still at her house. Em was already in there. "Yolah." She said as she turned on the radio. "Hey Emmy." I replied. We drove with the top down and the radio blasting.
We got to her house and nick's black car was already in the driveway. I couldn't hold back my giggle when I saw it. That car had a lot of memories for us, I mean me. "Why the smile?" Em asked as she locked her doors. "Nothing." I said as I went to the front door of her house and opened it. "Okay…" Em said raising her eyebrows. Em and I went up to her room and she started trying on the dozens of bathing suits she had. I told her 'Bathing suit #9' was the best choice so she chose that one. I didn't have as many options as she did so I was just wearing a simple brown and white polka dot bikini that I had. Once we were all ready we drove to the country club with nick and his black car right behind us.
Eventually everyone arrived to the party and it was nighttime now. It was a night pool party, how quaint. Em had rented the entire country club, god she was rich. I was just sitting on one of those beach chairs while all the other girls were doing cannon balls into the pool and flirting their asses off with the hot guys. And we were only about half an hour into the party! Em was sitting in the chair next to me. "Good party Em." I said to her. "Thanks." She said with a smile as she observed the hundreds of kids from our school having a great time. I took a sip of a complimentary iced tea that the people working here gave me for no apparent reason. I was still drinking it when nick came over to us. He had just gotten out of the pool and (obviously) he was shirtless. I choked on my iced tea when I saw him and started coughing. "Woah mile, you okay?" Em asked patting my back. I nodded but I looked away from nick and crossed my arms. From the corner of my eye I saw him smile at me but then he looked back at Em and started talking to her about something. I don't know what though, I wasn't listening. But I started listening when I heard two very preppy voices say to nick: "Come on nick!" "We're about to play Chicken!" "I get to sit on your shoulders nick right?" "No way! I get to sit on his shoulders!" I wonder if it was obvious to anyone that I was on the verge of gagging. I glanced at nick long enough to see him put his arms around two of the girls' waists. And walk away. UGH!!!!! Why was he doing this?!! Is it to make me jealous or something!?! UGH!! I couldn't take it! I had to confront about this. I got up and walked right up to him and the two SLUTS with him. I crossed my arms. "Nick. Can I talk to you?" I said sternly, in a tone that pretty much said 'I won't take no for an answer.' The two girls scowled at me but nick let their waists go. "Whats up Miley?" He asked nonchalantly. "Can we go somewhere private?" I asked impatiently as I looked those two girls up and down, annoyed at them for coming onto him so much. "Okay…? I'll be right back girls." He said to the sluts. He and I walked towards a tree that was about 20 feet away from the party. "What's up?" He repeated. "Nick, whats the deal?! Why are you doing this?" I demanded. "Doing what? I'm doing what you wanted. I'm being your FRIEND and I'm moving on." He said plainly. "So its THAT easy to move on and forget about me?" I asked a little hurt but not showing it. "I'm not forgetting about you, you're my friend. But I gotta go, I'll see you later." He said as he walked away casually. UGHH!!!!!
I walked back to the beach chair I'd been sitting at and just pouted angrily. Em probably sensed I was in a bad mood so she didn't say anything. I stayed like that for at least another half hour. Out of nowhere I saw a boy approaching me from the corner of my eye. I looked up anxiously to see if it was nick. It wasn't and I pouted again. But this boy came right up to me and knelt by my chair. "Shouldn't a pretty girl like you be in the pool having a great time with the rest of us?" This strange boy asked me. I looked at him and I smiled a little. "Thanks for the concern, but kind of having a bad night, I'm not really in the mood to party." I explained to him. "I bet I can cheer you up." He said persistently. I smiled. "What's your name?" He asked me. "Miley, you?" I replied. "I'm Justin." He said as he shook my hand and grinned. From the corner of my eye I saw nick who was cornering a girl in the pool look up at me for a split second then looked back to the girl, but he saw 'justin' with me and he shot his gaze back to me. Stunned.