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A/N: Hey people! Thanks for reading-I love you all dearly! I hope you aren't too disappointed in this update…and im terribly sorry for the wait. But guys, PLEASE check out ttran59 and amy4156's stories! They are wonderful! Ttran59 has a new five shot coming out tonight called "A Broken Lullaby" (mentioned in this story, actually), so check that out too, okay guys? And don't forget about our collaborative project (me, tiff-ttran59, and amy-amy4156)…the link is /kxaxt
Thanks guys!! Enjoy!!
Miley P.O.V.
I mustered up enough courage to glance up at Nick, who looked as nervous as I felt. He shifted his gaze from his script, to my face, and we locked eyes. I felt myself shudder under his gaze, as my knees turned to jello.
"heh. I see we have to kiss…" he said, trying to make small talk.
"Well, that's what the script says." I responded, my voice a little shaky.
The kiss was at the end of the page, and we read through our lines slower than normal. However, despite all of our delaying, the kiss approached quickly, and I'd never been more nervous for anything in my entire life. I eyed him as he lowered his script, and slowly strode up to me. He took my free hand in his, and slowly brought his face to mine. For the moment, I forgot we were "Derek and Haliey", not Miley and Nick, and everything felt so right-so normal. I slowly leaned in too and our lips were merely a centimeter apart. One centimeter from connecting and showing me if all the sparks were still there.
Our eyes closed, our lips lingering, my head pounding in beat with my already pounding heart, our hands in one anothers-
"OKAY PEOPLE. THAT'S A WRAP. NO MORE TODAY. GO HOME, GET SOME REST." The announcement system blared, scaring both of us. We jumped apart, never getting to actually kiss, and I blushed a deep shade of red.
"Well, heh, uh, I should get going." I said, scrambling around the room. I grabbed my bag, tossing my script into it, and slipped my shoes back on. I turned around and waved goodbye to Nick, and started for the door. I clutched the brass doorknob in my hand and began to turn it, when I felt a hand clasp around my wrist and pull me back a bit. I turned around to meet Nick's brown eyes, and my breath caught in my throat.
"What? No hug goodbye?" he asked, a small grin on his face.
I giggled slightly and stepped into his now open arms. I rested my chin on his shoulder and wrapped my arms around his torso. After a few moments, I pulled back and turned back towards the door.
"Call you later, Miles." I heard him say, as I opened the door. I turned around and gave him a small smirk, before heading out the door. I raced out of the building and immediately saw Mandy standing no more than two feet from me. I ran to her, latched onto her arm, and we skipped down the trail to our awaiting car.
"Ready girls?" our driver asked, opening the car door for us.
"Nah, it's okay. We're going to walk back. It's so beautiful outside!!" I exclaimed, turning on my heel, and dragging Mandy behind me.
Mandy spoke of nothing of importance for a good half of the way home, but I wasn't paying attention. We reached the soft sand and decided to walk along the beach on our way home. I slipped my shoes off and clutched them in my hands. My feet came in contact with the warm grainy ground, sinking deep into the soft sand. I felt the warm sunlight beam down on my face, as the light breeze scattered my hair. I listened to the waves crashing, as the water rolled up the beige granary. My toes danced in the chilly water, as it shuffled up the shore and onto the sand. I glanced up, squinting my eyes, and looked at the stunning sky above me. The sun was setting, coloring the sky a pink-orange color. The clouds were softly floating by, slowly disappearing in the darkening sky. The white folds of the cotton balls in the sky always gave me a sense of peace and serenity.
I shifted my gaze to the surface of the water, staring out into the mysterious sea. Small sail boats casually drifted atop the water, rocking slightly in the wind. They donned bright sails, very rich and vivid, almost glowing. As we continued striding along the sand, I heard giggling coming from my left. I shifted my eyes to catch sight of two girls messing around in the water. They were splashing each other, running around, just having fun. It made me smile, because that's something Mandy and I did often, back home. I adjusted my step, turning to walk towards these girls. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Mandy doing the same as me, but giving me a questioning look. I gave her a little nod, and kept making my way towards the girls.
"Hey!" I called out, waving.
Their heads shot up, they raced out of the water, and walked over to us.
"Hey there!" one of the girls said, donning a bright smile. I returned the gesture, as I studied these two girls-they were familiar.
"Do….do i…know you?" I asked them, narrowing my eyes in confusion.
"Yeah! Actually, we haven't 'met' yet, but still-we're working on the same movie!" the other girl spoke up. I nodded my head, it all making sense.
"oh! I saw you guys at script reading today, huh?" I asked. They both nodded their heads, grinning at me.
"Well, I'm Miley! This is Mandy!" I said, pointing to Mandy.
"Nice to meet you guys! I'm Tiffany, this is Amy!" one of the girls said, pointing to the other.
"Well, we're heading back to our condo to chill, care to join us?" I asked them. I was really hoping they'd say yes, they seemed really cool!
I watched as they exchanged words with their eyes-another Miley Mandy trait-and grinned to myself.
"Absolutely!! We would LOVE to!" Amy said, walking over to their stuff, which sat neatly on the sand. Tiffany followed her as Mandy and I waited patiently. They slipped their shorts and shirts on over their bikini's, shoved their feet back into their flipflops, and danced back over to us.
"I have an idea!" mandy said, speaking up for the first time since meeting these girls.
We all looked at her, waiting for her to continue.
"well, I was just thinking…well what if we made it a sleepover?!" Mandy exclaimed, her eyes brightening. I immediately agreed with her, jumping up and down, nodding my head. We stopped freaking out and turned to Amy and Tiffany.
"Sooooo….?!" Mandy and I said in unison.
"WELL YEAH! HOW FUN WILL THAT BE?! Okay let us run by our condo and get clothes and such, but we wont need more than…say….20 minutes?" Tiffany said.
"Okay, sounds good. What's your phone numbers? I can text you guys what our condo number is, and y'all can just head over whenever you're ready!" I said, whipping out my phone.
Mandy and I exchanged numbers with our new friends, before we all began our walk back to our condos.
Tiffany and Amy went their separate way to their condo, as Mandy and I strode up to our front door. I jiggled the key in the lock, waiting to hear it click. When it did, I swung the door open and bounced inside. I was so excited!!
"Manders-food! I'll set up living room. MOVE MOVE MOVE" I exclaimed, running around.
"AYE AYE CAPTAIN!" she said, saluting me, and dashing towards the kitchen.
I ran into the living room and pushed the sofa back, moved the coffee table, and all of the chairs. I skipped into our bedrooms, stripped the comforters off of the beds and pulled extra blankets out of the closet. I dumped all of these on the floor of the living room, before going in search of pillows. I quickly found plenty of those, dropping them in the living room as well. I ran into the bathroom, digging around until I found my box of nail polish, found some old magazines, and my laptop. I dropped these things off in the living room, picked out a few slumber party must-have movies, and raced into the kitchen. I cracked up at the scene playing out in front of me. I clutched my sides, and doubled over, practically falling over. Poor Mandy was covered in smoothie gunk, and food was spread out all around the kitchen.
"Miley! Help!" she exclaimed, sounding distressed. I giggled, and set to work helping her fix this disaster. I grabbed the chips she had picked out, and carried them into the living room. Then I took the blender and re-made the smoothies-this time securing the lid-what Mandy had forgotten to do. I boiled some water on the stove-cleaning up the smoothie mess while I waited. Once the water was boiled and the kitchen was clean, I dropped raw noodles into the boiling water. While the noodles cooked, I frantically searched for marinara sauce, and stuck the frozen garlic bread into the stove. Once the noodles were done, I heated up the sauce, removed the bread from the stove, and poured all the contents into 4 serving bowls.
I rummaged around for silverware, grabbing 4 forks, and brought all the food (smoothies and all) into the living room.
At about the same time, the doorbell rang. Mandy and I opened the door, welcomed Tiff and Amy in, and got excited for our girls night in!
We ate, talked, watched movies, painted our nails, and gossiped like crazy! I told them of my history with Nick, and they told me that Tiff had a crush on Joe, while Amy was lusting after Kevin. I told them I might be of assistance in that department, and we set to work on planning to get them all together.
At about 3 in the morning, we crashed. Sugar, random dancing, standing on tables and belting out songs, and the 6 smoothies we had each downed was seriously draining the energy from us.
1 MONTH LATER
Jerry called a freaking cast meeting at 5 in the freaking morning on my freaking day off. I am not freaking happy about this. I rolled, yes literally, out of bed, shoving my feet into my bunny slippers. I stomped into Mandy's room to see her still asleep.
"UP. NOW" I screeched, as she shot straight up.
"What time is it? 5 AM?! Oh. Right. I am so not freaking okay with this." She mumbled, sliding out of her bed. We both trudged into our bathroom, trying to get ready. I ran a brush through my semi-straightened, semi-wavy hair…well through the hair on the left side of my head. After that, I lost all will to care. It looked bad though, so I tied it into one of the messiest buns you've ever seen-hair falling out all over the place, bumps everywhere. But honestly, I couldn't care less. I didn't bother with makeup, and neither did mandy. We didn't even change. I stayed in my plaid pj pants,"music is love" black t-shirt and pink fuzzy bunny slippers, and Mandy in her basketball shorts and "Not a morning person" shirt. I giggled at the irony, but quickly stopped, realizing it took too much energy…energy I didn't have. Mandy slipped her feet into her squirrel slippers, I grabbed our phones, and we headed out the front door-locking it behind us.
The black SUV was already parked at the curb waiting for us. The driver jumped out of the car, smiling brightly at us, and opened the door.
"Good Morning, ladies." He said, smiling brightly.
"Yeah. Except GOOD DOESN'T WAKE UP UNTIL 8 FREAKING A.M….AT LEAST!" I raged, glaring and muttering under my breath.
"What she said." Mandy grumbled, glaring at everything. We slid into the back seat, fastening our seat belts, and remained silent as the SUV wisped off to its destination.
The car pulled to a stop at the entrance of one of the many buildings that had become second homes to us. I jumped out of the car, dragging Mandy behind me, as we stumbled into the building. Everyone was already in the meeting room, chatting quietly amongst themselves, none of them looking any happier than we were.
"MILEY! MAAANDY!" Jerry called, running into the room. He pulled us into a hug, which we only half heartedly returned, before pulling back and glaring at him.
"Feeling the love, feeling the love." He said, his eyes darting back and forth between us.
"You're gonna be feeling SOMETHING if you don't have a good freaking reason to have us here at 5 in the freaking morning, Jerry." I hissed, Mandy nodding furiously behind me.
"Okay…very well. 'Wake up cast before sunrise' is officially placed on the black list…moving on…take your seats girls-we'll make this fast." He said, smiling.
"Fast? You'll make this FAST? So, what, we wont have to stay in the confinement of this building-oh no-but we can go back to our condos and NOT FALL ASLEEP BECAUSE SOMEONE WOKE US UP AT 5 IN THE FREAKING MORNING TO CHAT FOR A FEW MINUTES…………OH HELL NO." Mandy said, clenching her fists.
"Peace, girls, peace! Promote the peace! Violence solves NOTHING!" Jerry said, still smirking.
"It solved World War II." I quipped, crossing my arms over my chest, and glaring.
"Heh, yes, well you see-"
"Girls, uh, come sit with me. Lets stop breathing fire at Jerry for now, you'll burn the inside of your mouths!" Nick joked, grabbing mine and Mandy's arms, pulling us over to the chairs. We huffed, but obliged, slinking back in the cushiony seats. Tiffany and Amy were sitting behind us-completely in the same mood as we were. The four of us had become extremely close recently…it was rare that there was a night we WERENT together. As for the "Hailey/Derek kiss"…still hasn't happened. Not in practice or filming. They decided to postpone it for our next destination…which, in my opinion, is a curse and a blessing.
We waited-not so patiently-until Jerry stepped into the center of the room.
"People people please! I know you hate me at the moment, and I'm sorry, but I have news!" he shouted, staring at all of us.
I waited for him to go on, but he didn't. He just stood there like a freaking monkey at a freaking circus for 10 minutes. IF LOOKS COULD KILL, HIS BODY WOULDVE BEEN TORN TO PIECES.
I was about to get up and attack him when he finally began again.
"We are leaving Hawaii tomorrow-2 weeks early-and heading for New York City!! We are now scheduled to remain there for 9 or 10 months to finish up filming. So pack, and enjoy your final day, m'dears!" he shouted, skipping out of the room.
My eyes widened in horror and I sprang out of my seat-pulling Mandy up behind me. We raced home and began to pack-throwing clothing all over the place
Before we knew it, 11 p.m. had approached and we had gone all day without stopping to eat, drink, pee, watch tv, answer the phone, ANYTHING. We collapsed on my bed, finally having everything packed and ready to go. The next morning at 6 AM the cars came to pick us up and take us to the private jet. They loaded all of our luggage, and we boarded the plane. I took a seat on the soft sofa, slowly sinking into it. Mandy settled herself on the chair across from me, Tiffany and Amy sitting on the sofa across the plane, watching some movie. Nick was sleeping in a sofa in the back of the plane, and I noticed Mandy was fast asleep already too. So I pulled my macbook out of my carry on bag, and flipped it open, waiting for it to load. My fingers danced across the keyboard as I typed in my password, pulled up Safari (internet) and waited to check my email. My eyes scanned over the "from" section, seeing who all had contacted me yesterday while I was in my panic attack mode. Most of them were the stupid astrology emails, I had one or two from family, then one from an email address I didn't know.
I clicked on the address, and it opened up an email, informing me of a story some kid had written. I clicked the link to the story, which was called "A Broken Lullaby" (A/N: that's an actual story and it's FIRST CHAPTER OUT TONIGHT, BY MY FRIEND ttran59. CHECK IT OUT GUYS! I PRE-READ IT, AND ITS FANTASTIC!!).
The page loaded, a blue strip across the top saying "-unleash your imagination." The words uploaded to the page, and I began to read the summary. It was a story about me-a little strange-but I had nothing better to do, so I read on. By the time I had finished this story, my eyes were dripping with tears. I was clinging to a pillow from the sofa, and it was now tear stained as well. The thought of someone writing something this amazing and emotional-well…it was just bewildering. I knew better than to put myself in the kindof situation the story had placed the fictional me in (A/N: not giving away ANYTHING. Go read her story!!), but it seemed so real. It really got me thinking about how much I need Nick, and how it might not be too late for us…about how I should tell him my feelings.
I was so lost in thought that I failed to see another human life form standing in front of me, a worried look washed over their face.
"Miles! Are you okay?!"