A/N Sooner then I thought, so I hope it's still good. And wow, thank you guys so much for being such loyal reviewers and special thanks to those who return all the time, (sorry, if I just described a dog). You guys are awesome. Just seeing that devotion, made me write an even longer chapter. Now on with the story…
Miley's POV
The next morning brought a clear blue sky. After sleeping in for a little while, I got up and looked out at the beach from my bedroom window. The flowing waves were short and calm. And the sun wasn't at its hottest right now. The weather was just perfect to go for a walk on the beach with someone. Too bad Lilly was already busy. Just as I was thinking this, I heard my phone buzz a few times. I went over to my nightstand, grabbed it off and flipped it open. It was a text message from Oliver.
Thank you, how about we meet at Rico's, at 11?
I only had 15 minutes. Wow, I slept in longer then I thought. I text him back saying I'd see him there. As I was getting ready, it felt nice knowing that things may just become cool between me and Oliver again. I still wasn't quite positive, but Lilly told me to hear him out, so he sure as hell better have a good reason.
Once I arrived at Rico's, I saw Oliver sitting at a table. He sat up instantly, as soon as he saw me.
"So Miley, how about we walk down the beach?" he suggested.
"Sounds good, let's go."
As we began walking, there was about a minute of silence at first, and then Oliver was the first to break it.
"Ok, thanks again for hearing me out." I gave him a nod and he continued. "Alright first, you have to understand that I was drunk, I just didn't know what I was doing."
"I really got hurt Oliver-"
"Ah geez Miley, you said you'd let me explain."
"Sorry, go ahead." I guess I was still a bit nervous around him.
"Thanks. Well I didn't know what I was doing, because I was drunk. And you never heard the other side, how I got drunk in the first place."
"I'm listening."
"Ok, well I would never do this in my life again, I swear I've regretted it ever since you got hurt. But I, I took the drink on a dare. Me and some of the jocks got into a bar with fake ID's. Then I guess it was just the pressure that got me to drink one. After that first one I wanted more and before I knew it, I was too drunk to know what I was doing. Whatever they told me to do, I did it. They told me to steal your Dad's car and so I did, but when you came into the picture, I wasn't thinking straight and decided you should come along for the fun ride. But it wasn't so fun in the end." I couldn't help it, I let a small tear slide down my cheek from the memory. "Look Miley, I'm really, really sorry." Oliver said as he slowed our pace to a stop, then he faced me.
"Oliver it's…" I paused a few seconds and then looked up at him. "It's ok, I forgive you."
"So we're cool then?" he gave me a small smile.
"Yeah, we're cool." I smiled.
"Great, thanks a lot. Look I gotta go, but I'll see you at school on Monday."
"Ok, bye." I said as he began walking away from me quickly.
Pressure was something I never let get to me, and Oliver and I always stood strong under pressure. But I suppose being alone with a bunch of big jocks, pressure like that would really get to you. After thinking that explanation over again and being a little more satisfied, I walked over to Rico's and got a smoothie.
Lilly's POV
Monday was finally here and now I was standing in front of the Stewart's home. I knocked a few time and Miley ran over and answered.
"Hey Lil, let's get to school. Bye Dad." She shut the door just as he was saying bye. "You know, you can always just come inside if you want, you don't really have to knock anymore." Miley just shrugged. I smiled at the kind gesture of trust.
"Wow thanks Miles, that means a lot."
"Sure, no problem. So are you ready for school today?"
I looked back at my backpack. "Uh yeah, I'm pretty sure I have every-"
"No, I mean are you ready? Like are you ready to throw this into Amber and Ashley's faces?"
"Oh yeah that, yeah I think I'm pretty sure about it."
"I mean you've only been to school for a week, so your rep is-"
"Miles, my rep is already way low as the skater girl. So I figure that coming out with this is just fine." I spoke with confidence. "Plus it'll get back at Amber and Ashley."
"Yeah, but don't you think we should tell our families first?"
"Well we're already here, so we might as well go ahead with this." I said as we approached the school.
A few things started up as soon as we reached our lockers. Amber and Ashley started walking up to us with a small group of kids behind them. I turned to Miley and whispered.
"How does gossip go around this fast?"
"Welcome to my High School." She whispered back, with a sigh. Within the next few seconds, we turned and faced the small crowd.
"So, how have you two liked the latest talk among the school? Or would you like to hear more?" Amber said with a snotty tone.
"How would you like to have my fist shoved in that piece of shit you call your face?" Miley suddenly said.
"Excuse me?" Amber was shocked, so was I.
"You heard me."
"Do you really want to go there?"
"Yeah, make me. Of course, I don't see how you could do anything with your perfect little manicure."
"Oh you are so pushing it."
"You know, if you're trying to sound tough, it 'aint workin."
Just as Amber took a step toward Miley, I stood in front of Miley. "Not now, that's enough." Amber just glared at us. I stepped aside when I figured it was safe, then I turned my head to Miley. "Miles, back on topic?" I whispered.
"Oh, sorry." she whispered back. "Actually we haven't minded it that much. You wanna know why?" Just then the bell rang. "Oh sorry, time for class." Miley smirked and we walked off to class. I didn't care how close we were, because we were ready to tell them anytime.
Once lunchtime came, that was it. That was the big deal. Miley and I grabbed our lunches out of our lockers and then went to sit at our table, but our table was occupied. Amber, Ashley and a small crowd of students.
"Uh, move." I said as we walked up, surprisingly in the tone Amber usually uses.
"Why don't you have your girlfriend make me." Amber shot back.
"Gladly." I smirked and then glanced at Miley who was smiling as well.
"Are you serious? You two really are together?" Ashley, suddenly spoke up and was surprised.
"Yeah, looks like you aren't the greatest gossip queens now are you?" Miley spoke up. Amber stood up to Miley.
"That is so not true, you're just doing that to make me look bad." She said in a low voice, so nobody but us could hear. And also gave Miley a death glare.
"Oh, I've always wanted to make you look bad and even if this weren't true, this would be a great opportunity to throw it in your face. But it is true and we can still rub it in your face."
Miley suddenly intertwined our fingers and held up our hands, shoulder height. Then she moved in to give me a kiss. I thought it was going to be a small peck just for show, but it wasn't, it lasted for several seconds. There were only a few gasps. I was surprised that we even got a few claps from some people, actually proud of us. I was blushing a little after we were done. Amber and Ashley's eyes went wide.
"Who's going to believe your little rumors now Amber?" I said to her with a triumphant smile.
"Ugh!" she was annoyed and stormed off in another direction. Ashley mimicked her friend's actions and stalked off as well.
After watching them storm off, Miley turned to me and gave me a high five, then it turned into a bit of a handshake. Then we moved our hands around each others and back around to the first position of a handshake and we both move our arms down and said, "Bam!" in unison. It was funny that we had never done it before, yet we automatically read each others minds and knew what to do. Now we had ourselves our own handshake.
We looked back at the small crowd of kids. It was now most of the lunch room that was looking at us from the show down that we had just made. A few of them smiled and told us we were cool and we did a good job, then they walked away to finish their lunch. I still heard several murmurs from the other kids though, but it was nice to know that not everybody turned their backs on us.
At the end of school, we didn't see Amber and Ashley at our lockers. So I was pretty proud of our show off at lunch. Although we still received several stares, good or bad, I didn't know. But I was glad that Miley and I had stuck it out together.
"Hey, Miley." Oliver suddenly appeared at his locker just as we were about to leave.
"Oh hey Oliver, Lilly and I were actually just leaving."
"Alright, yeah I have to go to work. But I was just gonna say that I heard about the little scene you made at lunch and I wanted to say that I'm proud of you guys." He nodded.
"Thanks Oliver, I'll see you later."
"Yeah, bye." And with that, he ran down the hall.
"Wow, I see things are going well between you and him." I smiled at Miley and we began to walk out of school.
"Yep, yesterday morning we talked. Sorry I forgot to tell you."
"That's fine, I was kinda busy. So how did things go?"
"Oh yeah, it went pretty well actually. I mean being under pressure and doing a dare, I guess I can see that's understandable."
That was odd. "He was under pressure and he did it on a dare? What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about just what I said Lilly." She told me as if it were obvious. "You said he told you all that right?"
"Well yeah, he gave me an explanation, but it wasn't that." I was nervous now. I didn't like where this was going.
"What are you talking about now?" Miley stopped and faced me with a serious look.
"Well it's true that he was drunk. But what he told me was that Jake took him to a party. Then Oliver served himself some soda, but it wasn't until his third cup that he realized it was spiked, because that's when he started feeling a bit dizzy. Then Oliver said when he saw Jake near by, he told Jake that he wanted to see you, because he didn't want his parent's seeing him like this. So Jake took him back to your house, but once Jake saw your Dad's car he told Oliver that it would be really cool to drive it, Oliver agreed and just went up to it and stole from there. Of course he didn't know what he was doing."
"Oh my gosh, I-I forgave him. I can't believe I forgave that jerk after he told me he…why that son of-"
"Whoa, and you're the one telling me not to swear?"
"Sorry, but I just can't believe he would do something like that!"
"Yeah, I guess you were right about him, ever since that accident. I'm sorry Miles, so what are you gonna do now?" I asked a bit cautiously. She seemed really upset now.
"Well I know I'm not gonna forgive Jake either, 'cause he knew how out of it Oliver was. And now Oliver, has given each of us a different story, so either one was true or they're both fake. So somehow I'm going to get the real story out of Oliver."
"Alright, I'm with you. But I sure don't know how he did it, he's a damn good actor."
"Yeah, I don't know if he was even really happy for us."
"It's alright Miles, other people were and we don't need him anyway. We'll just talk to him tomorrow."
"Yeah, tomorrow sounds good. I guess right now is the time for our parents to know about us." Miley sighed.
"Do you want to do it together?"
"Yeah, that seems best, let's go to your Mom first."
We walked inside my house and found my Mom sitting at a desk, using the computer. Miley and I walked up to her.
"Hey Mom, I'm home." She turned and looked at our sudden appearance.
"Oh hi girls, did you have a good day?"
"Well yeah, sort of. There's uh, something I want to tell you though about me and Miley." I decided to come straight out with it. "We're together Mom, we love each other." I spoke confidently and rather quickly than expected. She paused for a few seconds.
"You know, I figured something might be up, with all the time you spend together. I'm happy for you two. And thanks for telling me Lilly, I'm proud of you."
I smiled, very happy at her reaction. "Thank you so much Mom." Then I gave her a small hug. "Well we're gonna go tell Miley's Dad now, so I'll see you later."
"Alright, by girls."
Miley's POV
Lilly and I walked out holding hands and walked over to my house. I sure hoped that my Dad would take this as calmly as Lilly's Mom did.
"Wow Lil, your Mom is pretty cool about this."
"Yeah she is a pretty cool Mom, I'm glad she took it so well."
"Well I hope my Daddy does too." I said with a hint of worry in my voice, as we entered my house. Dad was sitting on the couch with his guitar.
"Hey Daddy, Lilly and I have something to tell you."
"Well sure bud, is anything wrong?" he asked as he set his guitar next to him. Then Lilly and I went to the oversized chair and sat side by side.
"No, everything's fine really. I just thought you should know that…well, I really like Lilly. Like I love her more then a best friend…we're together Daddy." I said a bit slowly and bit my bottom lip out of a nervous habit.
He was silent for a moment; a bit longer then Lilly's Mom. "I'm proud of you bud. It took a lot of guts to tell me something like that. Lilly really is a great friend and since you make each other happy I just want you to know that I support you all the way."
I got up and gave him a small hug. "Thanks Daddy, thank you so much."
"No problem bud. Now you just need to tell your brother."
Oh I hadn't thought about that. He probably already knew from school and what not. "Well I think he might already know. In fact the whole school knows because of Amber and Ashley. It's a bit of a long story, but still it's out and we're proud." I smiled at Lilly.
"Well good for you Miles. But I also suggest you make sure it's ok with him."
"Yeah thanks, that's a good idea. Well I've got stuff to do, so Lilly and I will be upstairs."
"Alright, see you two later."
We ran upstairs and once in my room, I let out a breath of relief.
"Whoa, that's a huge weight lifted."
A/N I also really like your small comments on my authors notes too, I really appreciate it. No Lizdacious, my move has nothing to do with Lilly's, funny thought though. The news was really sprung on me about a week ago. And then, with only a months notice to move from this big place to a much smaller place. Oh yeah and thanks Kurrent, I sure hope it goes well too.
