Chapter 5-Surprise
Hearing a knock on the door, Miley looked pleadingly at her friend Luke, she was lying her head on his stomach as he slouched down on the couch, "I'd get up," she laughed, "but I don't think I can. It's probably Selena."
"I'll get it," he chuckled before helping her sit up so that he could get up and opening the door, he looked at the older woman confused, "Soph, it's definitely not Sel."
"Miley, are you here," Cathy questioned peering into the apartment.
Luke scratched the back of his neck awkwardly, "there's no one named 'Miley' here. Soph? Do you know a Miley?"
She gulped nervously, what had Selena done, she questioned to herself. What would she say? What would she do? How would Nick's mother react? "Luke," she gulped, "could you please help me up," she questioned from the red leather couch. He walked over to her before reaching out for her outstretched arms and pulling her up.
"Who's Miley," he asked quietly.
"Me," she muttered, "I'll explain it all," she nodded silently before walking to the door, "hi," she said quietly.
"Miley," Cathy sobbed running to the daughter she never had and hugging her tightly, "my gosh! Don't do any like this ever ever ever again, do you hear me?"
"Miles? Could you please explain?"
After Miley filled Luke into everything and he understood what was going on, he poured Cathy and he some coffee giving Miley a glass of ice water. Sitting down at the deep oak wood dining table, he waited for Cathy and Miley to sit before speaking, "Miles, it's okay if I call you that, right?"
Miley nodded laughing, "you can call me anything; Mile, Miley, Miles, Smilerz, Smiley, I've heard it all, I go by like ten different names in Jersey."
He chuckled before replying, "well, 'Miles' you have a lot of explaining to do for Mrs. Lucas and Nichole and Spencer."
"I know," she sighed shaking her head and looking down disappointed in how everything turned out, "one time," she muttered tears falling down her cheeks, "we had un-protected sex one time, how could I have gotten pregnant? This baby is one of the best things that's happened to me, you know, and I will never regret her, I just really wished I was a few years older before getting pregnant. I'm supposed to be choreographing cheer moves, preparing for competitions, you know? I'm supposed to be going out with my boyfriend, go to his gigs, his games, talk to his football scouts, we're supposed to be looking for colleges together, but no, no," she sarcastically laughed, "my boyfriend thinks im dead. He thinks his baby is dead. I miss him so much! I'm supposed to be holding my family together, helping Noah through tough times, helping Demi, but no, they think I'm dead."
"Sweetie," Cathy laughed, putting her hand on top of Miley's, "if life was 'supposed' to be perfect, there wouldn't be love or strength or courage, anything like that. The truth is, life rarely goes the way it's 'supposed' to. Everyone has bumps in the road, but pretending to be dead, it's juvenile and really not necessary, Miley Ray."
Miley shook her head sticking to her reasons, "Nick needs to have a good future, and this isn't a 'bump in the road' because bumps eventually become flat again, I'm going to be a mother within the next few weeks and my life will never be the same, but I'm so happy," she laughed, "this baby in my bell," she said caressing her swollen stomach, "Nicky and I made this baby."
"Don't you think that Nick should be able to have the same happiness you do? You shouldn't be going through this alone! You need Nick."
"I'm not alone, I have Luke, he's a great friend, he's been there for me ever since I got here and Nick, he'll get over me eventually. He'll remember the times we spent together, but he'll move on and be happy with somebody else once he gets over Miley's death."
Cathy laughed dryly, "you think I'm going to let my son think you're dead his entire life? No, Miley Ray Stewart, I will not do that. He deserves to hav-"
"Right," she nodded, "he deserves to know the truth and the truth is, Miley's gone, Miley's gone and Sophie's here."
"No, Miley," she shook her head, "you can't do this. I won't let you."
Miley scoffed, "fine, ruin Nick's life, tell him about the baby, just wait until she's born, okay?"
The mother groaned in aggravation, "your brother has been avoiding all of us since you went missing, he won't even talk to Nick. Joe's hooked on drugs, he doesn't know I know, but I do and I'm terrified. Demi is planning on committing suicide because you aren't here. The cheer team is anything but cheerful, the football team is basically losing most of their games, the whole town is falling apart. So please," she begged, "stop this game and come home because I'm not leaving here without you."
"Then I guess you're sticking around," Miley shrugged, "you can have the guest room."
The red head shook her head, "no," she spoke, her voice stern, "you are coming home with me, you are going to explain this to everyone, and you are going to tell Nick everything. Everything, Miley. He better know everything about your pregnancy because he's," she sobbed shivering, "he's not himself! The sweet boy I know and love, has anger management issues. And what is this about Selena? She's planting evidence against herself? Do you know how illegal all of this is? You are lucky Vanessa is the D.A because if she wasn't, you and Selena would be spending a long time in prison. False evidence, lying to the police, kidnapping, faking a murder- you're looking at about twenty years. You're lucky you know everyone and your mom can bail you out if Vanessa can't save you two."
"I'm not leaving," Miley muttered.
Luke sighed finally speaking up for once, "you're going home, Miles, and I'm coming with you, you need to go home."
Miley shook her head feeling betrayed, "Luke," she whispered, "you're supposed to be on my side."
The blonde haired athletic teenager groaned, "I am, I am, Miley, this is for your own good."
Miley walked around the large apartment trying to get rid of her cramps, with both hands holding her back up, she thought of what to say. "My daughter and I will be perfectly fine without anyone's help. If you guys don't want to do this, then don't. Go."
"You'd kill your baby, Miley, you're just a child yourself," Cathy replied.
"Fine, I'll stay here, but I'm not going home. I'm not, I can't," she muttered shaking her head.
Cathy sighed shaking her head, "once the baby is born, you are, it'd be too much stress on you," she realized, "it wouldn't be healthy for you or the baby. I'll come visit," looking at her watch, she sighed, "I know I just got here, but I need to go. I have a PTA meeting tonight, Luke," she said looking at him, "you call me if anything happens, I'll be checking in, but if I need to come, you call me, okay," she questioned writing her phone number down.
"Yes mam," he replied, "sounds like a plan."
Kissing Miley's forehead, she smiled, "I'm so happy you're okay," she whispered, "I love you," she said before leaving.
"How come I have a feeling we just walked into a whole lot of drama," Luke asked.
Miley scoffed laughing lightly, "because we did, you have no idea what my town is like, elite and perfect. This is front page stuff, this is news worthy. This is scandalous."
Luke chuckled shaking his head, "I feel like I just walked into crazy town."
"Nick," the football coach smiled the next week, "Nick, son," he said putting his hand on Nick's football padded and uniformed shoulder, "you're set. I've gotten calls from the best colleges in the country, they all want you. I say, give in seven or ten years, you'll be in the big leagues, pro."
He chuckled, "really," he said with excitement coating his voice, but he wanted to spend it with her, he wanted to be celebrating this moment with her.
"Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, CAU, NYU, CU, Boston… I could go on for forever! You better keep that helmet on because this is going to be a long ride," he said figuratively before sighing and looking down, shaking his head, "I know what you're thinking, Nick, and she would've been proud of you- really proud. You know that if you ever want to talk about it, I'm here."
"Thanks," he faintly smiled, "yeah, I wish she was still here, but I have to live for three people now; me, her, and our unborn baby," he muttered.
Coach choked surprised, "what did you just say?"
The curly haired eighteen year old nodded, "apparently, according to her doctor documents that I saw when I was going through questioning, she was pregnant- with my baby."
"Wow," the balding man who was wearing a red baseball cap exclaimed, "I'm really sorry, son."
"Thanks," he mumbled, "I gotta go," he mentioned, "I'm picking Frankie up from soccer practice and I'm picking Noah up from cheerleading, so-"
"Just like her sister," the forty-three year old man chuckled, "Noah is just like Miley."
"I know," Nick laughed, "sometimes it's creepy how much they're alike."
"Give me my money," a scruffy guy sneered holding the collar of Joe's shirt and holding Joe up against a back ally wall.
Joe grumbled, "I told you, I don't have it."
"Give me my money, BITCH," the drug dealer yelled, "I've given you leeway because Miley was my friend, but I swear if you can't find the mo-"
"You leave Miley out of this, you son of a bitch, you screwed her over, you lead her down the wrong path. Nick and I dug her out, we pryed her out of your hands, literally, before you could rape her."
"I'd never rape Miley, I loved her," the sketchy guy scoffed, "you leave me and Miley out of this."
Flashback-2009 (Miley, Demi, and Nick, 16, sophomores, Joe, 19, college freshman)
Miley strutted into the senior class party wearing a short leather skirt and a black v-neck leather tank top with black grudge boots. Immediately, she grabbed a red plastic cup chugging down the liquor. Nick and her were in a fight, a huge fight because of Selena, what else, she thought. Although she knew Nick would never love Selena, Selena had some how pried her way into Miley's mind making her paranoid over Selena.
"Hey," Liam smiled going over and hugging her from behind tightly, "try this," he whispered before passionately kissing her neck. Handing her a bag of white powder, she snatched it up wanting to feel the intense feeling that the drugs had given her so many times.
"My pleasure," she giggled before snuffing the powder.
Three hours later, Nick and Joe walked into the house in search of Miley, looking everywhere, Nick saw Miley and Liam making out.
"Come on," he chuckled, "let's go upstairs."
"No," she slurred, "that's a bad idea. Nick wouldn't like it," she giggled shaking her head.
"Come on," he begged slyly, "you know you want to," he teased slipping his hand up her shirt.
"Stop it," she giggled.
"No," he chuckled.
"Please, stop it," she pleaded giving him a teasing puppy dog look.
Liam slipped his hand under Miley's skirt and Nick and Joe's blood boiled.
"LIAM," she yelled, "STOP IT!"
He shook his head, "no, I love you and you can't just tease me like this! COME ON! I gave you free drugs!" Kissing her again, he held her so that she couldn't pull away.
"I think she said 'no'," Nick snapped pulling Liam off of Miley.
He just chuckled, "what are you going to do about it, Lucas?"
"I don't have to do anything," Nick smirked watching Joe tap Liam's shoulder, as he turned around, Joe punched him hard in the face knocking him out. "because my brother just did. Come on, babe," Nick said picking Miley up, let's go, beautiful." Walking out with his brother and Miley, he sat in the back seat stroking the now-tired sixteen year old's hair as she laid across the back seat putting her head on Nick's lap.
"You're the one who brought her up."
"GIVE ME MY MON-"
"Let him go," Demi muttered holing a gun up from behind Liam, the drug dealer, "I have your money, just let him go," she sneered dropping a black bag of cash down beside Liam, "that's enough for you to get out of here, get out of town, and leave us alone."
Dropping Joe to the ground, Liam laughed like a child on Christmas morning before taking the bag and running out.
Running to Joe, Demi whimpered putting his hands around his neck and closing her eyes in comfort as he picked her up, "I'm here for you," she whispered lovingly kissing his neck quickly, "I love you, Joe. Regardless if you had an affair, regardless how you treated me, I love you, I love you so much," she cried looking into deep into his brown eyes, the only light was the bright and moon, "we have a lot to work out, but I'm willing to give it a shot."
Joe kissed her cheek smiling slightly, "I love you too and so am I."
"Get me out of here," she giggled tucking her head into his neck. She was terrified, this wasn't her elite and pristine town, this was the outside, the violent and dangerous part of California.
Getting into a taxi, they went to the Stewarts' house.
"Come inside," Demi smiled grabbing Joe's hand. Joe paid the taxi driver and got out with her. Quietly, they went into her room, it was two in the morning, but they didn't care.
"So, let's talk," he muttered, "Dems, baby, I'm so sorry. I love you so much, I do. But I loved your sister too and now she's gone, she's gone and I don't know what to do because I was so close to her, you know? So, I got into drugs," he explained disappointed in himself, "I got into drugs and I had a fling with Emily, but all I want is you and your sister. I am in love with you and I realized that I love your sister, but I love her more like a sister. Miley and I had sex once, a few months ago, and before you ask, no, she couldn't have been pregnant with my baby. That'd be impossible because she would've had the baby like three months ago. We had sex like a year ago. A few weeks after Nick and Miley had sex for the first time. I've screwed up, but I know we can get though this."
"Then let's try to get through this," she smiled straddling him before running his fingers through his hair and kissing him passionately. Feeling him kiss back, she started crying. Quickly, he pulled away, "what?"
Joe looked at Demi confused, "three things, one, why are you crying?"
"I was going to kill myself tonight, I was going to shoot myself with the gun, that I left in the ally way so that I wouldn't ever have it again, it was Alex's. Then, Emily texted me and told me that you were in trouble so I went with money that I took out of my mom's bank account, she won't care," she giggled shaking her head, "but now, were making out on my bed, and we're trying to fix things and Joe, baby, none of this would've happened if I had killed myself."
Joe shook his head kissing her lips quickly, "don't kill yourself, I need you. Promise me, Demi, promise me that you won't kill yourself."
"I promise," she cried, closing her eyes, she tried to pull herself together as Joe wiped her tears with the pad of his thumb.
"Two," he smiled looking into her dark brown eyes once she opened them again, "will you be my girlfriend again?"
"Not yet," she muttered shaking her head, "you've got to earn my full and complete trust back."
"And third, we're not having sex tonight- if that's what you thought we were going to do."
"Oh trust me," she giggled, "no way, no way," she smiled shaking her head, "like I've said, you've got to earn my full and complete trust back before we starting dating again or having sex. We hadn't worked our way up to sex before everything came crumbling down so it's definitely not going to happen now. I'm exhausted," she laughed yawning, walking to her closet, she changed into her pajamas before throwing Joe a pair of sweatpants and t-shirt he left in her room for times like these when he unexpectedly slept over.
A/N: First off, a big thank you to everyone who reads this and comments! I love you all so much. Thank you. Okay, so this was a really badly written chapter. I apologize. I realized that I forgot to upload this chapter and I totally spazzed out! I was just trying to show that Demi and Joe are trying to fix things, more with Nick and his future, and Miley and Luke (JUST FRIENDS, don't worry), Joe trying to get better, and Cathy going to Miley's. Thank you so much for reading, it really means a lot to me.