Chapter 4

Jackson?!

Once I got home, I found Jackson in the living room on the phone. I dropped my bag on the floor and walked into the kitchen to get something to drink.

"Hey Miles." Jackson said putting the phone down and sat on one of the counter stools.

"What is it Jackson?" I asked and sipped my water.

"What do you mean? Cant a brother be nice to his sister once in a while?" Jackson said giving me a stupid look.

"Come on Jackson just say it. I know you want something, what is it?" I said and sat down next to him on one of the counter stools.

He took a deep breath. "Fine. Don't freak out on me, but I want to ask Lilly out." He openly admitted.

I stood there with my eyes bulging out of my head. "WHAT!" I screamed. "Why do you want to ask out my best friend?"

"Well, because she changed a lot over the summer and… She became really hot ever since we came back from your tour." He had this dreamy look in his eyes.

"Ew. Don't fantasize about her in front of me and what makes you think that you're good enough for her when you treat me like crap at times." I questioned.

"You're my sister and most brothers treat their sisters that way. Toward girl outside of this family, I'm a whole lot of different man." He nodded.

"Ugh you wish you were." I said bitterly and rolled my eyes and stood up.

"Come on Miles, just give me a chance to take her on a date at least." He begged.

"It's up to her if you want to ask her out, not mines." I walked upstairs to my bed room.

"I'm bored. Maybe I should find a song. The 20th is already the end of this week!" I told myself and started flipping though my iPod.

"Something different… Something different…" I told myself over and over again and sighed in defeat not able to find a song. "Maybe I should call Lilly." I picked up my phone, but once I clicked on send, someone burst into my room.

"Miley! Why'd you not tell me that you and Jake had a thing?"

I turned to see Lilly, so I closed my phone. "What thing? Jake and I don't have a thing!"

"Well, that's not what people are saying around school because you saved his butt from answering Ashley's question. She had a breakdown right after you left with him. It was hilarious!" Lilly started to laugh.

"I didn't want to save him. He was asking me to save him. That whole time he was twitching, he was calling me." I shook my head.

"Ohh! I thought he was having a seizure or something."

"I'm not even gunna say it. Can you help me pick out a song? I'm really irritated now. I can't find a song to sing at tryouts and tryouts are on Friday!."

"Just sing a Hannah song and at the talent show you can sing something else. That's what I'm doing. I'm going to show some flips and a dance with it and then sing at the talent show." Lilly fell on the bed to lie down.

"I didn't think you'd actually sing, but you're good at it so you do have a chance in winning. Fine… I guess. I think I'll sing…" I started to think…

Lilly abruptly sat up. "I'VE GOT NERVE! No one knows the whole lyrics yet and they'll think you'd just be a Hannah freak sounding like her and knowing her lyrics.!"

"That's smart… I think I'm going to really do it…" I said and started to actually like the idea.

"Its open tryouts, so people are going to get scared when they see you kick ass at singing that song haha. They'll chicken out and drop out! All we're doing is showing them at least the chorus or a minute of whatever else we're doing. I don't see why they get so scared by putting tryouts for a talent show. I mean its not like someone is going to go onstage and strip."

"Yeah, well, it's weird that you say that because Jackson told me the last time Seaview had a talent show, a guy started stripping and got expelled from it. He said that the guy did it as a joke, but he went too far and some students transferred schools." I shivered remembering the night he told me.

"Eww, was he hot?" She asked smiling.

"Gosh Lilly that's sick and I don't know I wasn't there." I rolled my eyes.

"Sorry, it's just a thought." She looked down.

"Anyway, did Jackson tell you anything before you came up?" I asked curiously and sat down next to her.

"No, why?" She asked and looked at me a little confused.

'Should I tell her?' I asked myself. "Well he said…" My Hannah phone started ringing. I looked at it and I received an email. "Crap I forgot to log off my cell phone, I think my bill is going to be high this month. Hold on." I said to Lilly and flipped open my phone. I read it to myself.

'Dear Hannah,

I have two best friends and while one of them was vacationing during the summer, I hung out with my other best friend a lot. We talked a lot and got really close. Soon I discovered that I may have grown a massive crush on her. What should I do? I don't want to ruin our relationship by telling her that I love her.

From one of your biggest fans, Smoken Oken from Malibu.'

My eyes grew wide and my mouth dropped open. 'Oliver… Lilly…' I couldn't believe it. 'Oliver is crushing on Lilly! And so is Jackson! What the heck! Did everyone get hit by the love bug or something? Seems like everyone wants a girlfriend or boyfriend.'

"Miley? What does it say?" Lilly asked and was about to take my cell, but I quickly closed it.

"It's nothing. It was just some fan saying they love me and wants to meet me. One of them typical fan email." I forced a laugh.

"Ugh that's like junk mail right there. I don't know how you can handle people like that, you don't even do anything and they love you! How weird."

"Yeah, I know." I said and heard noises coming from behind my door. I quietly tiptoed to it and swung my door open.

I saw Jackson trying to keep his balance, but soon falling flat on his face.

"JACKSON!" I shouted and he got up and smiled

"Hey Lilly." He walked over and sat next to her.

"Uhh… Hi?" She said and looked at him awkwardly.

"Miles, can you give a sec, I would like to talk to Lil for a while." He smirked.

"Ugh this is my room so no." I replied crossing my arms over my chest.

"Please Miles, do you mind Lilly?" He looked at her and she looked at me.

I shook my head and mouthed 'No!'

"Come on, it'll only take a sec!" He said.

"If its only for a few then okay I guess." She said.

"UGH!" I said and walked out and closed the door. I listened though the door and heard them talking.

"So Lilly, you seeing anyone?" Jackson asked.

"Umm.. No, why?" Lilly asked sounding quite confused.

"Because, I was wondering if you'd like to go out with me." I heard her gasp. "I mean I know it might come as a shock to you, but I realized that maybe I should finally get to know you."

"I…"

"Please, just give me a chance."

"Jackson!" I heard her shout.

I burst into the room and finding Jackson pushing Lilly down on my bed. "What the heck are you doing, Jackson!" I shouted and pulled him off of her.

"Sorry, I cant handle myself. Lilly's just so beautiful and…" He covered his mouth with his hand. "I think I'm going to be sick." He said and ran out of my room and into the bathroom across of the hall.

"You okay Lilly?" I asked and sat next to her wrapping my arm around her shoulder. She looked like she was shocked and scared at the same time, which is something you'd never thought you'd see from someone like her.

"Yeah, I'm just freaked out…" She replied. "I'm going to go home okay? I'll call you later tonight." She said and stood up.

"Okay… I'll see you later." I said and watched her walk out of my room.

"JACKSON!" I shouted and walked into the bathroom. "Eww." I found him throwing up in the toilet.

"I'm sorry Miles, I couldn't help it." He said in between puking his guts out.

"We're only 15 and there you are forcing yourself on her! Really Jackson if you wanted to have a girlfriend, why did you even do that! Shows how much of a ladies man you are!" I shouted and slapped his back.

I walked out of the bathroom and into my room. "I guess that's what happens when you least expect it…" I sighed and started practicing for the talent show.

A/N Thanks for reading my story and hope you enjoy it…

Thanks for caring you guys! I'm okay… everything's okay no real damage happened during the earthquake so thank goodness…

try-to-sing-with-a-smile: o0o the orthodontist sounds like fun.. I miss braces lol I got mines off in February :p yeah it seemed different… it was supposed to give off major clues, but I guess it didn't really.. Ohh well.. Hope you enjoyed this chapter lol….