Chapter 7

Never Too Close

It had been four days since the kiss and Oliver has been avoiding me. Yeah, how manly. I thought that the girls were supposed to be the ones avoiding the guy, not the guy. Then again, I can't blame him. The kiss was just so… sigh…. perfect and I loved it. Who knew Oliver could kiss like that; it completely makes up for the pool incident.

Miley was still clueless about everything that has happened. I mean, we hardly hang out and all, but she's still my best friend. She's with her choir friends while I'm with my skater or cheerleading friends. Oliver's with his other friends who he hasn't even introduced to me yet. I guess that's what happens when you and your friends have different interests.

I was at Miley's and we were having our movie night. It was our usual night where Oliver, Miley, and I would get together when there wasn't a Hannah concert and hang out at the Stewart's to have a movie night. Tonight Oliver couldn't make it because he was going to hang out with "the guys".

I guess it was good for me and Miley because we could have some time to catch up on our girly things and such, but yeah, I guess it's not really good because I might actually say I kissed Oliver.

With Jackson in college and out of the picture, it made it better for us because we had no interruptions when we talk. He wouldn't hear us say anything and use it against us, like on what he did in the past.

"Miley, Miley, Miley!" I chanted, making Miley throw a pillow at me. I was bored and I needed something to do so I just feel like irritating Miley while she watched this movie.

She threw me a funny look and said, "What, what, what!"

"I'm bored." I turned to her and she threw a piece of popcorn to me.

"Well, too bad." She stuck her tongue at me.

I laughed. "You're so mean." I pouted and threw the pillow back at her. She started to laugh and threw another piece of popcorn at me.

"Thank you very much, I feel the love." She joked and looked back at the TV.

We're in the living room, me, lying on my belly while facing the TV and Miley, sitting on the ground concentrating on the movie. The movie was somewhat boring and all I wanted to do was to just have my usual talks with Miley, just like how it was back in the day. Just because of our different hobbies, it just feels like we haven't really spent that much time together.

"Miley." I called once again. I wanted to talk, but she wanted to watch the movie, since this is a movie night and all.

"Shh, I'm watching." She replied with her eyes glued to the TV.

I rolled my eyes. "Come on Miley, we've seen this movie, like, a thousand times, will you just listen to me?" I asked and she sighed loudly.

"Fine." She lowered the volume down and pulled her legs up to her chest, hugging them. She looked at me and smiled. "So what's on your mind?"

"Ugh." I rolled my eyes.

She does this when she's irritated by me or something else. She pretends she's okay with everything when I know for sure she's not. I shrugged. I wonder if it was a good time to tell Miley about my encounter with Oliver at the pool and at Kunkle's class. Although I never really want anyone to know about me and Oliver, I always told Miley everything and she would tell me everything too. Just because we don't hang out with each other as much as we used to, we still trust and tell each other everything.

"What? You wanted to make conversation and that's exactly what I'm doing." She smiled innocently and giggled. "I'm here. What do you want to talk about?"

"Okay, so like," I thought for a second. "Uhh, there are some hot guys in school." I said making Miley laugh.

"Is that all you want to talk about?" She questioned and I sighed.

I couldn't bring myself to talk about the "Oliver incident" and I just find it embarrassing. That was probably the first time I ever was caught making out with someone by a teacher and when I got home, I couldn't stop blushing.

"Have you… ever talked to someone who brings up such great topics?" I asked her and she furrowed her brows showing how confused she was.

"What?"

I guess what I said didn't make sense. It never makes sense to anyone so I guess I'll have to say more.

"Have you ever met someone who seems so stupid in the beginning, but when you're with that person, when it's just you and him, he gets personal. Like, you never saw him express so much emotion in one topic where he's completely focused on it." I sighed. It wasn't coming out right. I can't say it without exactly saying his name.

She nodded. "Okay, I'll pretend that I know what you're talking about."

I chuckled. "I know this person and he's so idiotic on the outside, but when he gets personal, he gets so smart and cute and it's weird." I sighed. "Like, I never realized how smart he could be when he wants to. This one time, we were talking about forever and how forever is a long time from now and it just kinda made me really like him." I finally said, making Miley gasp.

"Who is he?" She asked and I blushed.

"This guy… I don't really want to say his name."

"Come on Lilly, we're 17 and we're mature. We don't hide stuff like this…" She thought for a second. "Let's have a confession time!" She exclaimed and crisscrossed her legs.

"Okay…" I sat up from my laying position and crisscrossed my legs as well. We stared at each other, but then someone knocked on the door.

"Ugh." Miley rolled her eyes and got ready to stand when I held my hand up.

"I'll get it." I said and got up from my seat.

I needed her to forget about what I said. I suddenly regret saying I like that person. What if she did find out it was Oliver, she'll definitely play match maker and I hate it when she does that. I remember in my freshman year when she tried it with Matt, he stood me up because of her whole change. Speaking of Matt Marshall, Oliver was totally jealous when he found out I was texting him. I wonder why he turned like that calling Matt my boy toy, pfft.

I went to the door and opened it seeing Oliver himself. I backed away for a second and shook my head.

"What are you doing here? I thought you were going to hang out with "the guys"?" I asked and he smiled shyly. I couldn't help but hold my breath. He looked so cute like that, I love his smiles, I hate how dorky and adorable he is even if I can't help it. Ah!

"They were boring and I couldn't skip out in our movie nights. It's been too long." He said and walked passed me into the house with his backpack.

I closed the door and stood there, collecting myself, and went back to Miley and Oliver, who were talking.

"Yeah, I knew you couldn't stay away." Miley laughed and got up from her seat. "I'll get one more blankie!" She said and skipped up the stairs.

I sat on the couch, crossed my legs and placed my hands on my lap. We hadn't talked in a while and I don't know what to talk about. Ah, this sucks.

"Hey Lillayy, how are you?" He asked and plopped down beside me.

I shrugged. "I'm great." I replied and looked at the TV seeing people walk around with their lips moving, but no noise left the speakers of the TV.

"Cool." He replied and started to tap his fingers against his knees.

I licked my lips and continued to watch the TV when Oliver moved on the couch, facing me. I sat still and pretended to be interested in the movie as the guy and girl character shared a fiery kiss. Man, if only real life kisses could look so hot like that.

"Look, Lil's, about Monday at Kunkle's…" He started and I glanced at him.

"What about Kunkle's?" I asked pretending to sound like I didn't know what he wanted to talk about. I knew what happened, I mean I started it, but it felt weird talking about it.

"Come on, you know… the random kiss… everything I-" He started, but I heard Miley coming down the stairs and put my hands over his mouth.

"Shut up." I looked at him with seriousness in my face and he nodded.

I let go of him and Miley came down holding a huge blanket and a pillow.

"Let's get this movie night going!" She exclaimed and I laughed.

"How fun."

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I lay still on the hardwood ground, pressing my cheek against the pillow under my head and held the blanket tightly over myself. It was about 3:30 AM and the three of us had finally shut off the light and gone to bed. Well, Miley and Oliver, I think.

We were positioned like Miley on one side, Oliver in the middle, and me on the other side. It was always like this when we slept over someone's house, but tonight it felt a little weird. Miley was definitely sleeping because I could hear her heavy breathing, but I wasn't sure if Oliver was. I faced the opposite side of him; I couldn't look at him because I knew what he would want to talk about.

I was getting ready to fall asleep when I heard Oliver talking to himself. I my eyes were wide open and I waited for Oliver to stop talking, but he didn't.

"Lilly." I could hear Oliver whisper.

Should I respond to him? Should I give him a sign that I'm awake? I sunk deeper into my pillow, pulling the blanket higher over my body.

Then, I felt something move under my blanket and wrap around my waist. I bit my lip and turned my head, being greeted by Oliver himself.

"What are you doing?" I whispered and he shushed me, slipping his whole body under my blanket with me.

He took my hand on the other side of me, lacing his fingers with mines, and leaned in kissing my cheek.

"Oliver." I felt my cheeks burn under the darkness. His hair brushed against my face and I twisted my upper body.

"Shh…" He whispered and leaned forward, pressing his lips against mine. I lay there with my eyes closed and I lifted my hand to the back of his neck, holding him in place.

I didn't know why he's kissing me, but like before, it felt perfect and so sweet. Like that movie kiss I saw on the TV earlier.

We're breaking into forbidden territory, one which could ruin our friendship forever, but it was as if we didn't care. I wanted to be with him, I wanted to be close to him like this, and I'd do anything to keep it like this even if it might ruin our friendship. I didn't know how he felt about this, but it feels so right. But if you look at this as friends, it's wrong.

I guess it didn't matter anymore.

We're friends who kiss and don't tell.

We keep secrets and this is just one more secret we have to hide from anyone else.

I just wonder if this as close as we'll ever get.

A/N I'm so sorry if it took me forever to update. XP haha. Anyway, I'm finally getting back into the Loliver mood haha.

Hope you liked this chapter. It took me a while to finally decide which way this fic was going.