Chapter 9 - Surprise Call
As Miley and Oliver sat her bed watching tv the phone began to ring. "Who could that be?" She asks reaching over the the phone. "Oh it's just Lilly" she says laying the phone back down and turning towards Oliver. "I don't really feel like hearing about what happen at the shoot just yet. I know all she is going to talk about is 'Jake this, and Jake that'."
"I thought you said you were over him?" Oliver asks tilting his head slightly to the side as if to add significance to the question.
"I am over him. But I don't exactly want to hear about him either. You know how it is."
"I do?" He asks starting to question Miley's feelings again.
"Well, how about this. Let's talk about Becca Weller. I seen her the other day after all. She was..." But Oliver interrupts her.
"Ok ok, I get what you mean. But you can't just ignore Jake, I mean he is dating Lilly." And as he finishes the sentence the phone goes silent.
"Well maybe your right, but if I can't ignore Jake, you shouldn't be able to ignore Becca."
"Oh so you want me to talk to other girls now?" he says sarcastically as Miley puts the phone back on the charger.
"I never had a problem with you talking to other girls anyway. But it is kind of mean to ignore Becca like you do." She says getting a little sentimental. Becca was still her friend, well more of an acquaintance.
"Well Becca and I ignore each other. Its not just a one sided thing you know." Oliver reminds her.
"Good point, I guess its different for you two. After all you two broke up because you both agreed you annoyed the hell out of each other. But Jake and I broke up because of 'differences'." Miley begins as she realizes she is talking about Jake again. "Sorry, I'll stop talking about me and Jake."
"No its ok, we can talk about it if you want." Oliver says putting his arm around her shoulder. "Did he ever say what the differences where?"
"Well..." she pauses wondering whether to tell him. "One of the reasons is he said that he knew I liked you. That we had our differences and maybe we should see other people."
"How did he know you liked me? Had you mentioned it to him or something?"
"No actually he said that we had been flirting and it was just obvious."
"Miley, I would have never flirted with you in front of Jake. That would have just been disrespectful of him. Not to mention a conflict waiting to happen."
"Well as far as I know we never really flirted with each other. But he claims we did." She then looks at him with one of her eyebrows raised and asks "Conflict waiting to happen?"
"Yea I mean I know if some guy was flirting with you, in front of me, I know there would some definite conflict. Like my fist making friends with his jaw."
"Ohh getting violent aren't we?" Miley jokes pushing him slightly.
"No not violent, but I'm sure you would do the same. Imagine if Becca came up and started flirting with me in front of you. What would you do?"
"Well I would probably beat the fund raising out of her." The two of them then grin and begin to laugh.
"She wouldn't have a chance."
"Damn right she wouldn't! So she better not be getting any ideas." Miley jokingly defends. She knew there was no connection between the two of them left. But just in case she wanted to make a point.
The two continued to sit on her bed and watch tv for a few more minutes. Then the phone began to ring again. "Persistent isn't she" Oliver comments thinking the call was Lilly.
But as Miley looked at the phone it was not Lilly's number. It was Jake. "Umm this outta be interesting..." she says showing the caller id to Oliver.
"Jake?! What is he doing call you!" Oliver objects reaching for the phone. "Let me answer it." Miley thinks for a moment about whether she should or not. On one hand it would be nice to know why Jake was calling. On the other hand however it would also be interesting to see what Oliver would say.
"Ok, just be nice ok?" she says handing him the phone.
"Oh trust me... I will." He then picks the phone up and puts it to his ear. "Hello?" He says in a low voice. Not trying to sound like Miley, but not wanting to give away that it was him either.
"Is Miley there?" Jake asks thinking it was probably Jackson.
"I don't know, who is this?" Oliver asks playing with his head.
"Oh its Jake, can I speak to her?"
"Well this is Oliver. What do you want to speak with her about? Aren't you dating Lilly!" He continues as anger starts to boil up inside of him. 'What nerve he has calling for Miley when he is dating her best friend!' he thought as he waited for an answer.
Miley just sat on the bed looking at Oliver. His expression turning from a joking face to a dead serious face. He was obviously getting angry. 'Perhaps I should get the phone before he says something we will both regret' she thinks but decides not to. Not yet at least.
"Whoa whoa man, calm down. I'm not trying to get your girl. I just wanted to talk about some stuff."
"What kind of stuff!" Oliver barks back almost enraged. "What Lilly isn't enough for you so you want to get Miley back to! Well you can't have her!"
Miley then decides its probably best to get the phone back before he verbally kills Jake. But right before she reaches for it Oliver stands up and begins pacing the room. 'Boy I wonder what Jake said to piss him off.'
"Umm I think that would be best for me to tell Miley and not you." Jake answers. He did have something he wanted to talk to Miley about. But he knew he definitely didn't want to tell Oliver. He may take it the wrong way.
"Ok listen here Jake" Oliver says as he stops pacing. "I'll let you talk to her. But only because I trust Miley. So don't try anything devious or the next lines you will have to memorize will be your ABC's."
"Ok man no need to threaten."
He then hands the phone back to Miley. Taking the receiver she looks at him as a worried expression ran across her face. She didn't really feel comfortable talking to Jake, especially with Oliver sitting next to her. But then she had an idea. Oliver wouldn't be suspicious of their conversation if he could hear it to.
"Hey Jake, sorry about that." She says pressing the receiver against her ear.
"Oh no worries."
"Do you think you could hold a minute, I want to talk to Oliver a second. It will just be a minute." Miley says seeing that Oliver was staring at her intently. No doubt he was worried to death about what was being said. Especially after she told him earlier she was jealous of Lilly.
"Oh sure thing. Take your time." Jake says slowly. Miley then puts the phone on mute and lays the receiver on the bed. Looking back to Oliver she begins to say something, but he says something first.
"I went a little over board didn't I?"
"You think?" She says raising both eyebrows towards him. "But you were just worried and its understandable. How about this, I'll put it on speaker phone and you can hear what we say. That way you don't have to worry. Ok sweety?" She asks patting the bed next to her signally for him to sit down.
"Ok sounds good to me."
"Just don't say anything. We can't let him know you can hear us."
"I'll try my best." He says shrugging as he sits down next to her on the bed. She then pushes a button on the phone base and the speakerphone comes on.
"Ok sorry about that Jake. I'm back."
"No problem. Oliver doesn't want me to talk to you does he?"
Miley looks at Oliver and can see the jealousy in his face. "I don't know if I'd say that, but he is a little worried."
"Oh well is it ok if I talk to you?"
"Sure what's up?"
"Oh nothing much. Lilly and I have been hanging out a lot lately. She's so great."
"OK that's good to know. Is that why you called?"
"Oh no, I called because well..." Jake pauses not knowing what to say or how to say it. "After I dropped Lilly off and got home... I started thinking about you."
Oliver's eyes almost popped out of his head when he heard that. Miley looked at him with just as much surprise. Putting one finger over her lips she attempted to keep him from saying anything. So Oliver tried his best to hold back what was in his mind and it seemed to work. He just sat there silent as the night.
"What! Umm Jake you're dating Lilly remember." Miley responds surprised. She didn't need to fake being surprised, she was very surprised.
"Oh I know, I know. I didn't mean I was thinking of you that way. I was just thinking of how it might be weird for you to see me with Lilly."
"Heh egotistical much?" Oliver whispers and Miley puts her finger over his lips and quietly shushes him. He gives her another jealous look, but trusting her still he didn't say anything.
"What? Did you say something?" Jake asks barely able to make out what was said. "Oliver didn't hear that did he?"
"Oh no, Oliver is downstairs with Jackson right now. He said he wanted to give me some privacy." She lies as she lays her head in his lap. As much to calm her nerves as to let Oliver know she was still his and not even thinking of Jake in that way anymore. And as Oliver began to play with her hair Jake responds.
"Oh ok, I mean it's not that I'm trying to hide anything from him. I'm sure you will tell him anything I say anyway. He just might jump to conclusions." Oliver nods his head eagerly in agreement but still says nothing. Miley just smiles, they had both calmed down slightly.
"Oh no I'm not weirded out by you two. Yea it was kind of odd at first. But I got used to it. Plus its not like we could exactly avoid each other forever."
"Yea good point. So you're ok with me dating Lilly though?"
"Of course, she practically loves you. You two are perfect for each other."
"Yea she is pretty awesome. I'm very lucky to have someone like her."
"Well Oliver just got back, so I'm going to get off here and talk to him." She says trying to cut the conversation short. She may not like Jake anymore, but she didn't want Oliver to have any thoughts otherwise.
"Ok that's cool. Tell Oliver no hard feelings for me."
"Sure will. Catch you later." She then hands Oliver the phone and he puts it back on the base and cuts the speakerphone off.
"You think that's all he really wanted to talk about?" He asks looking down at Miley a worried look back on his face. He didn't think that Jake had just called to talk about Lilly. Perhaps it was paranoia but he thought Jake still like Miley. Perhaps he wanted Lilly and Miley. 'I'll die before I let that happen' he thinks continuing to play with Miley's hair.
"Who knows with Jake. But I hope that's all he wanted to talk about. Because I hate to tell him, I have a new man. And he is way better than some ego tripping celebrity hunk."
"Hunk?" he asks raising both eyebrows. But then he grinned as he realized his paranoia was kicking in. "Sorry I know what you mean."
She then sits up on the bed and puts her hand on his chin. "You're the only one for me baby." And she then leans in and kisses him. The two of them lay back on the bed, Miley leaning over top of Oliver, as they let the moment get the best of them. Oliver slowly moving his hand from her back down to her ass.
Miley stops kissing long enough to say "Ohh Oliver, I like it when you get frisky." And then begins kissing him again. The two of them letting there worries flow away. And the longer they kissed the more Oliver knew that Miley really did love him. He had just been paranoid earlier. And he mentally kicked himself for being overly paranoid as he firmly gripped her ass.
And they were to into the kiss to even hear the door open. However they did hear the words. "Oh my god! I did not want to see this!" It was Jackson. God only knew why he had just barged in. But the damage had been done. "Oaken what are you doing!" He yelled as he finally came to his senses.
The two of them now sitting up on the bed scowled at Jackson. Leave it to him to ruin a perfect moment. "We were just kissing Jackson. God its not like you've never seen me kiss someone before."
"I'm not talking about that. It looked to me like Oliver was holding on for dear life!" he retorts returning their scowl. "Plus aren't you supposed to have your door open when Oliver is over?"
"I've never had to do that before." Miley objects throwing a pillow at him. "Now get out."
"Well before you weren't dating him either. Oh and I'll get out. I think Dad would like to know about this anyway." he responds seeing that his words had taken effect. The two of them now had a surprised look as they remembered Robbie's words. 'Just don't do anything I wouldn't approve of'.
"Oh come on Jackson you don't want to do that." Oliver says speaking up. "Surely we can come to some sort of agreement."
Jackson then closes the door behind him and picks the pillow up. Tossing it back at them he responds "I'm listening."
"Well since this isn't the first time you have walked in on us..." he begins not exactly knowing what kind of agreement he could make. "I think we should come to some sort of agreement."
"You've already made that point Oaken, what's your offer." he replies tilting his head to the side as if to interrogate them.
"You and Julie are still together right?" Miley speaks up as an idea comes into her head.
"Yea, what about it."
"Well she's having a birthday party next week right?"
"Yea, go on, your point?"
"Jackson if I know you, and being my brother I do, you most likely haven't even thought about what to get her yet. So how about if you gave her Hannah Montana."
"Miley I don't think she would be dating me if she was a lesbian."
"Jackson!" Miley yells as he totally missed the point. "That's not what I'm talking about. Get your head out of the gutter!" she continues shaking her head. She couldn't believe how stupid her brother could be sometimes. "What if Hannah did a private concert for your girlfriend. You know as a gift from you."
"Wow sis I like this idea. And all I have to do is not tell Dad about what I saw?"
"Or anything else you see." Miley adds in. "Like we said you have a knack for walking in on us."
"Ok sounds like a deal to me. But if I walk in and you all are doing something serious I will still probably have to tell Dad!" He explains not wanting to dig himself a hole he couldn't get out of.
"Ok deal" Miley says extending her hand to finalize the deal. After shaking hands he turns to leave.
"Now you two be good, and Miles the party is next Thursday."
"Ok Jackson now get out!" She says throwing the pillow back at him. It only hit the door though as he quickly turns and leaves.
"He'll make a deal for anything won't he?" Oliver asks shaking his head in disbelief. He didn't really think it would work.
"Yea, he's worser than a leprechaun when it comes to stuff like that."
The two of them then laugh and turn back towards the tv. A commercial was on advertising cat food, and didn't seem to grasp either of their attention. "We should call Lilly back on speakerphone." Oliver suggests. He was beginning to like speakerphone. "But we don't have to pretend one of us isn't here."
"Ok lets do it. I need to call her back anyway." Miley says pushing the speakerphone button and dialing Lilly's number.
It rings a few times before Lilly answers. "What up girl!" She asks turning down her tv.
"Nothing much, but I'm no girl." Oliver answers winking at Miley who began snickering. She then lade her head back in his lap. It was a comfortable place to talk on speakerphone, or at least she thought it was. Oliver had no objection to it though, as he once again began to play with her soft brown hair.
"Oh hey Oliver, what's Miley doing?" Lilly asks surprised that Oliver responded instead of Miley.
"Nothing much, just laying here." Miley answers as she interlaced her fingers in Oliver's hand. "Figured we would call you back since you called earlier."
"Oh cool, I was going to tell you about my trailer they gave me! It's awesome!"
"Really? That's pretty cool. How did the shoot go?"
"It went well. Most of the shoot was just Jake and I riding around on a jet ski."
"Wow that sounds like fun!" Oliver answered. He had only rode a jet ski once, but he remembered how fun they were to ride. 'Until you fall off and get left behind.' he thought remembering the first and only time he had been on one. He was only around 10 or so, but he fell off and his father hadn't noticed until he was about 100 feet ahead.
"Oh it was trust me! But hey someone is beeping in hold on." Lilly says flashing over to her other line. Oliver looks down at Miley and shrugs. And a few moments later Lilly comes back. "It's Jake."
"Oh ok, we'll let you go." Miley and Oliver answer in unison. They didn't think it would be a good idea to tell her about Jake calling. Would possibly cause to much trouble, and the two of them seemed so happy with each other that was the last thing they wanted to do.
"Ok, I'll give you the rest of the details tomorrow at school. Later!" She calls back before flashing back over.
Oliver then reaches over again and cuts the speakerphone back off. "Kind of odd he called you before her don't you think?"
"Not really, Jake can be weird sometimes. Plus he spent all day with her. Most likely will spend all night talking to her."
"Good point." Oliver responds but thinks back to when Jake had called. And once again his paranoia came into play. He trusted Miley, but he wasn't so sure how much he trusted Jake. But he did know one thing, if Jake tried to take Miley from him, there would be hell to pay.
A/N: Sorry for all the dialogue but I felt it was needed. So did Jake want to talk about more than he let on? Does he possibly still have some feelings for Miley? And what will happen at the concert? If everything goes as I have it planned, the concert should be next chapter and a secret will be revealed. Ohh I smell drama about to happen! Find out next chapter!
