Chapter 8 Hey baby
The days passed and finally the next day is the first day of the school, Demi was staying over at Miley as she told her, and Lilly was sleeping over with them some nights, but she couldn't stay all the nights, the two of them were still trying to make Miley make a new Hannah album, but she was refusing, she even didn't write any other songs after she finished 'Four walls'.
Jackson called her ever day as he promissed her. He was still worried about the fact that she's living alone, with no adult, but she wasn't completely alone, and that was the only reason that kept him from visiting her.
"Are you ready for the new school year?" Lilly asked them.
"Always be." Demi replied and Miley smiled and nodded.
"What's wrong Miles?" Demi asked her.
"Just don't know what will happen at school." She sighed "You know Nick is as the same grade as us, which means I have some classes with him, if not all the classes." She completed.
"But you have us and Oliver too." Lilly said, Oliver just came to the town again the day before, he visited them, and he didn't stop asking questions about what happened while he was away, finally Lilly told him what happened, because Miley couldn't stand hearing or telling the story again, he understood her very well, but he was at Demi and Lilly's side about telling Nick, but he didn't want to push her on that, because it's her life anyway.
"Yes Miley. We wont leave you alone." Demi added and Miley smiled at them nodding.
"Thank you, you guys are the best." She smiled. "Now let's go to bed, we don't want to be late on the first day at school." She said, Lilly was sleeping over this night too, so they all went to Miley's room and said their goodnights and went to deep sleep waiting for the next day to start.
Lilly was the first one to wake up the next day. So she took a quick shower and woke her friends up, they took their showers and started getting ready for school, then they took a quick breakfast before going out the house closing the door behind them, only to find theirselves face to face with two brothers who live in the opposite house and go to their school!
Miley looked at the floor not wanting to meet their gaze, which was burning her, she was feeling their gaze on her, so she tried her hard to hide after her friends while they took their way to the gate, the school wasn't so far, so they didn't need a car to go their.
To prove that she doesn't care, even though she did, Miley got her Ipod and her handfree, and started listening to songs untill they reach the school, for her luck the first song that came was one of their song.
I walked across the crowded street
A sea of eyes, they cut through me
And I saw you in the middle
Your upset face, you wear it well
You camouflage the way you feel
When everything's the matter
She knew that song and she knew that it somehow fit her situation with him now, and she didn't want to break and cry in front of them, so she skiped that one to the next song which was another song by them, so she just closed the Ipod and turned to her friends who were walking in silence while the two brothers were going on the other side of the street whispering something to each other.
"Why aren't you talking?" she asked them as they turned at her a little surprised that her tone wasn't upset, but then they saw it in her eyes, the sadness.
"Nothing to talk about." Demi shrugged.
"What if I gave you a reason to talk babe!" some guy in the street yelled at them, as his friends just laughed, and they continued walking ignoring them, but the four boys followed after them.
"Hey girl, you seem tired why don't you have some sleep." One of the guys whispered at Miley's ear as she pushed him away.
"Leave me alone." She yelled and her friends tried to calm her and make her just ignore him and walk away.
"Relax girl, you don't have to be such a bitch." The other boy said.
"I'll show you the bitch you're talking about." She said angrily as she was trying to hit him or something but Demi and Lilly garbbed her hand.
"Miley, what's wrong, just ignore them." Demi whispered to her, but Miley was already upset, that guy just got her nerve.
"Hey what's wrong?" Joe said ah he and Nick aproached them.
"None of your business boy." One of the starnge guys said. Joe wrapped his arm around Miley's shoulder and she knew that she had to let him do that to get out of that situation.
"Are you okay Miles?" Joe asked her and she faked a smile and nodded. Then he and Nick glared at the boys.
"I think you don't have anything to do here." Nick said as he took Miley's other side and grabbed her hand. The boys looked at them and they knew that they're talking to 3 of the famouse singers, so if the hurt them they'll be in a trouble, so they just left. And as soon as they were out of sight Miley took Joe and Nick's hands off of her hardly, and started walking away.
"What? No thanks?" Nick yelled after her, but she ignored him.
Demi and Lilly looked at them apologitically before walking after her, but they followed them, when the two girls calmed Miley down, they were by the school gate, and they went to see their classes. The girls had a lot of calsses together, Miley always had music alone, well with Nick, but that doesn't count, but this year she had it with Demi too.
Her first class was biology and she had it with all of her friends, and him when they reached the biolgy lab, Lilly sat with Oliver and Nick called Demi to talk to her before the class starts, so Miley went to set next to Selena, she wasn't really afriend of her, but she was a nice girl.
"Hi Miley." Selena smiled.
"Hi Selena, how was your holiday?" she tried to be nice but she was so upset to be.
"It was good, what about you?"
"Not very well, but it was okay." silence fell around them for a while.
"Hey Miley.." Selena broke the silence making Miley look at her "What's wrong with you and Nick? I mean you were together last year when I saw you, are you on a fight or something?"
"Umm.. no.. I.. I broke up with him." She said looking down.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but why?"
"Umm, nothing I just figured out that things won't work between us." She tried to smile but failed misrabely.
Then the teacher came and the class started, Miley wasb't relly paying attention, but the teacher wasn't really explaining anything, since it was their first day, she just told him what they're gonna learn this year.
When the bell rang, all the students tood up and started walking out the lab, but Miley was thinking deeply that she didn't even notice that no one in the room except her… and him.
He walked towards her and sat next to her, but she didn't notice too, it's like that she was in another world "Miley." He said as he took her hand to prevent her from leaving him, but when she realized what was happeneing she tried to get up and leave but he sat her back down, and put his hands on hers to make sure that she won't do that again "Please hear me." He said but she shook her head, tears starting to form in her eyes. "What happened? Miley I understand if you don't want us to be together, but that doesn't mean that we can't be friends too."
She shook her head again trying to hide the tears "You don't understand." he opened her mouth to argue but she spoke before him "I know you deserve to know, but I just can't tell yu now, I know that you'll know someday, but untill that day come you better stay away from me, it's not that I hate you, but it's better that way." She didn't know why she said the last part, it can give him a hope, but she just did.
"Why? Was it something that I did?"
"Nick, please not now, you will know someday, I promise you, but just leave me now please, my life is already misrable now, don't make me think about the past again, don't make me cry." She sounded so pathytic, so weak, but he didn't care, he never cared about how she sounded, he only cared about her feelings, and if that was hurting her, so he has to let her go, as soon as he did she ran out of the room, leaving him watching her going away.
He figuered out that he can't move on that easy, so he decided that he can get close to her again at school, and he'll always keep his hope, just the fact that she talked to him was good and an improvement, he just have to keep trying.
After Miley walked out of the class she started searching for her friends, who happened to tell her that they will be next to her all the time to avoid moments like what just happened, and that wasn't just a moment, she was about to tell him, but she kept hre mouth closed.
When she saw them she started yelling at them but they told her that they didn't notice her disappear untill they reached thie next class where they were standing now.
"Sorry Miles, we're really sorry, so something happened?" Lilly asked as Miley told them what happened. Then their english teacher came, then she realized that he's in that class too, she sighed and went to set next to Demi in hurry when she saw him walking towards her.
Finally the day ended, and Miley was so happy about that because Nick kept trying to talk to her in any way, and she kept ignoring him or walk away and disappear everytime she see him, or just pretend that she has something to do with her friends, she thought that he will eventually give up and leave her alone. But he didn't give up, he was still trying to talk to her, even if it was about school, for an example he once asked her if she have a pencil in the art class, and when she looked at him she found him holding one and that made him look away in embrassment.
Another thing that Miley noticed is Selena's behavior, she was always that girl who stayed quite and the didn't hear so much about her, but this day she seemed different, she kept talking to them all the day, even though he have her own friends, and she wasn't really friends with them, maybe it was because of Demi, it's her first year at this school, and she has got a lot of attention, but for this school it's not the first time they see a celebraty, so it's not so much attention. But Selena's talking somehow always ended up with her talking about Nick and Miley's lost realationship, which bothers Miley. And if she wasn't talking to them she was talking with Nick, or maybe trying, just trying to flirt with him, but he didn't seem to notice.
On the other hand Nick was disappointed that the day ended without him having another chance to talk with her, he kept trying to all the day, and he kept thinking about another plans to talk to her, but that Selena girl kept interrputing him, she really got his nerves out, but being the quite boy he is he didn't show it, even though he was boiling inside.
He decided that he will try his hard to know why did she break up with him, and be friends with her, if she doesn't want them to be together it's okay, but he can't just pretend that nothing ever happened between them, he can't just forget her.
While he and Joe were walking home they saw her with Lilly, Demi and Oliver on the other side of the street, like they were that morning, Nick thought about trying again, but Joe stopped him.
"Nick that's enough today, take it slow man, that will just make her walk away even more." Nick had to admit that Joe was right, so he nodded and continued walking.
When they reached their houses Joe looked at the other group, and he saw that Lilly and Oliver were waving goodbye to Miley and Demi, he thought that they were all going to their houses, as Miley's house is the nearest to school, but apperantly Demi was staying with Miley.
"Hey Demi, I see you aren't going home now, so do you want to come over or something?" Joe asked her.
"Um, me and Miley are going to our homework together." She answered not wanting to give him so much information.
"So, what about after you finish your homework and before yu go to home?"
"I'm staying here."
"I noticed that you do that a lot for the last period of time." She raised her eyeborrow at him "If you didn't notice we're neighbors." He explained.
"Oh, yeah, um my parents are out of the town for a while and I'm staying with Mikey."
"Why Miley? I mean come on, I know that you're close friends and all, but we're friends too, right? I mean you didn't froget that did you?" Miley did her hard not to smile at that, he wasn't being mean he was just jocking even though he kept a straight face on, but for anyone who knows Joe he will know that he's kidding.
"I know but-"
"No buts, it won't hurt you if you stayed away from each other one night."
Demi looked at Miley asking her for help as she and Nick stayed silent in this conversation, but Miley just shrugged her shoulder and whispered to her that it's fine and she can go if she wants.
"No, Miley. I know that you'll be scared alone." She whispered back.
"No, Demi I'll be fine, I'll just lock the doors and windows. Besides he's right, you musn't forget your other friends for me."
"But Miley you need me."
"No, I'll be fine. I know you didn't spend a lot of time with them latley, and it's kinda my fault, so just go, one night won't affect me."
"Are you sure?"she asked after thinking about it for a while, and Miley just nodded. "Okay, I'll go." She said turning to the boys, and Miley smiled at her before heading towards her house door to enter it when Demi yelled her name. "Miley wait, I'm still doing homework with you, 'm not going there untill dinner, which means about 7 or 8." She said enteing the house with Miley before she close the door.
At about 7:45 Demi went to the boys' house, she knocked the door and Denise opened it. After greeting her she told her that the boys are at the music room with their dad discussing new songs or something.
"Nick that's an amazing song, you should- oh hey Demi." Their dad said when he noticed Demi's presence in the room.
"Hi Paul, hey boys, am I interrputing you or something?"
"No, Nick just show us a new song he wrote, and I was just telling him how amazing it is. Here read it." He said handing her a Nick's songs book.
She took it smiling, then she looked at the messy handwriting, she saw the song name it was 'Hey baby', then she started reading:
Hey baby, why you treatin' me bad? Say that you need me, I know you deceivin' Please don't ask me to go Hey baby, what's the matter with you? Hey baby, why you bein' a fool? Say that you need me, I know you deceivin' Please don't ask me to go Hey baby, why you treatin' me bad? Say that you need me, I know you deceivin' Please don't ask me to go Hey baby!
Hey darlin', know you're makin' me mad
I'm goin' crazy, tryin' to figure out
Why you are leavin', give me a reason
The lines that you feed me will leave you alone
I'm already gone, I'm already gone
Please just leave me alone
I'm already gone, I'm already gone, oh, oh!
Hey darlin', no, your love isn't true
Goin' crazy, tryin' to figure out
Why you are leavin', give me a reason
Hey darlin', always been good to you
I'm goin' crazy, tryin' to figure out
Why you are leavin', give me a reason
The lines that you feed me will leave you alone
I'm already gone, I'm already gone, oh
Please just leave me alone
I'm already gone, I'm already gone, oh, oh!
Hey darlin', no, you're makin' me mad
I'm goin crazy, tryin' to figure out
Why you are leavin', give me a reason, yeah
The lines that you feed me will leave me with feelin'
And please help me baby, it's terrible, scary
I need you to leave me alone
I'm already gone, I'm already gone, oh
Please just leave me alone
I'm already gone, I'm already gone, oh oh yeah
She looked at Nick and knew who was that song for, she smiled at him a sad smile.
"What do you think?" Kevin asked her, Demi was still angry at him, and he knew that, but he was trying to act cool and dump, so she will forget and forgive him.
"Um, it's pretty good. " she answered.
"I was about to tell him that the melody musn't be a sad one, it better be rock music." Paul said obviously not understanding his son's feelings.
"Great idea dad, it won't be good when it's sad." Kevin agreed. Apperantly no one understood Nick except for Demi and Joe, who looked at him trying to know what was he thinking about.
"What do you think Nick?" he asked him.
"Whatever, it doesn't matter." He didn't want them to understand him, they have to figure it out by their own, that if they really cared.
After staying their discussing the music for the song for about an hour, they went to have dinner, and then Joe, Nick and Demi stayed in Nick's room chatting, Kevin went to bed, but he wasn't feeling comfortable around Demi, she was completely ignoring him.
Demi grabbed her phone and texted Miley making sure she's okay.
Hi Miles, every thing okay?- Dems.
Yeah im fine just enjoy yourself- Miles. she answered.
Ok if you needed me just tell me, I'll be with u in a sec.- Dems
Demi relax, I'm okay, just have fun and forget me :) – Miles
"Who are you texting?" Joe aksed her.
"It's Miley." She answered.
"Oh, can't you guys stand a night without each other?"
"Nope, and I was just making sure she's okay." She said before thinking about it.
"Why what's up with her?" Nick asked.
"Um, nothing, she's okay."
"Then why did yo-"
"Drop it here or I'll kill you." She said getting nerve that she can't shut her mouse up, she almost blew Miley's secert, and they looked at her taking aback.
"Okay, Okay, I know what will you say,'I can't tell you, it's not about me'." Joe said mimcking Demi making them laugh.
"Where's Mr. Stewart? I didn't see him for a long time." Nick asked.
"You know he still upset about his wife's death."
"It's been really long time. And besides he was getting over it, when I was with Miley, she was telling me that he's going out too much and having new friends."
"Um, yeah he thought that won't work out, and retyrned to stay at home again." She lied. For her relief they stopped there, she wasn't comfortable about lying to them, or talking about Miley's life, and besides she is a terrible lier, she doesn't know what to say usually, she had to discuss those things with Miley, since she's going to have a lot of time with them, at least at school.
I know that it's a boring chapter, but the circumstances has chanfeda bet, I mean Nick decided that he won't move on, and there's a new person in the picture now, Selena. And I know that I'm bringing up songs that is new and saying that it's old or vice versa, but this is my story for you :) you have to excpect anything in it :)
And please please please pleases review, I need to know if you eally like it or not, so that I can make it better, but not reviewing is turning my mood down, and it wont hurt you to review, right? And please tell me what do you want to happen next, I know what I'll do, but if you want something to happen, so I'll cahnge my planes for ya :) :) ;)
