Chapter 9

"What's wrong with you?" Miley asked annoyed as she tried to follow Lilly's fast steps while they were taking their way to school. Jackson was now going with his friend Cop, so they were alone.

"Nothing." She answered.

"Oh, yeah? I think I know you better than that." She said now starting to get really angry. She was ignoring her since Saturday, but she didn't have the chance to ask her Sunday because they were still have company, as the boys, Danielle and Demi spend the day with them too, but it wasn't so much fun like Saturday.

"I thought you do too." She replied.

"Lilly, you're being stupid, I mean we were talking and everything was fine, and suddenly you're mad at me? And with no reason?"

"Who said that there is no reason?" she replied bitterly.

"So what is it?"

"You should know by yourself."

"I'm not a mind reader to know."

"But you're my cousin and my best friend, and I thought I was yours too. And you're supposed to know what's bothering me."

"You thought you were? Wait a minute. Are you-are you jealous of Demi?" Miley said narrowing her eyes.

"I'm not jealous of her." She said.

"Then why were you treating her that way? It seemed like that you didn't like her. But I don't know why."

"I'll tell you later, okay? But that doesn't mean that we are totally cool yet." She said, as Miley looked at her in disbelief.

"What? I didn't do anything Lilly." She yelled, they now reached the school and were standing besides the gates.

"Hey girls, calm down. What's wrong?" Joe said as he saw them glaring at each other and rushed towards them with Nick and Oliver.

"Ask her." Miley said glaring at Lilly before walking away, Nick looked between the both of them before running after Miley leaving Lilly with Joe and Oliver.

"Hey what's wrong?" Nick said as he reached Miley and slowed down to be walking next to her.

"I don't know, she's just being stupid." Miley said annoyed.

"Why? What happened?"

"She doesn't even want to tell me, she's gone crazy." She said throwing her hands in the air.

"I noticed that she wasn't the same with you yesterday."

"Yeah, and she was like that since Saturday."

"Don't worry, she'll be fine." He smiled.

"It's just that she was never like that, and she says that it's my fault." She said soften a little when she saw his smile. "Anyway, forget it."

"Ok, we have drama first, right?" he asked her.

"Yeah, we have to show her the scene we were working on." She smiled.

"You're not bad with acting. But don't worry you'll be perfect working with Nick Gray." He smirked cockily making her roll her eyes.

"Stop it."

"Stop what?" he smiled, making her know that he's just kidding.

"Stop being cocky, why don't you realize that it's not all about you?" she said.

"Hey, if I was like that, do you think I'd come after you to see what's wrong with you? I mean that's about you, right?" he said as she rolled her eyes playfully.

"Yes."

"And how is that?"

"Because that will give you some time with me." She smirked.

"So?"

"I don't know, hmm, maybe try and flirt with me again?" she said sarcastically.

"I do not flirt with you."

"Sure you don't."

"Now who's being the cocky one?" he said as she laughed.

"Let's just go to class."

When they reached the drama class, Miley saw Alex and went to say hi to her, while Nick went to their class and started texting, "Hi." Miley said as she tabbed Alex's shoulder.

"Oh, hi Miley." She said as she stood up and hugged her, then the both sat down.

"How was your weekend?" Miley asked starting a conversation.

"Not so much happened, but it wasn't bad." She smiled "What about yours?"

"Just hanging out with the guys."

"And by the guys you mean?"

"You know just the boys, Demi and Danielle, Kevin's girlfriend."

"Oh." She said looking away.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, but Miley take my advice and be careful from him." She said seriously.

"Don't worry Alex," she smiled, "I'm careful." She said as Alex smiled again.

"Ok. So, what do you think about Demi? She's cool right?" Alex said changing the subject.

"Yeah, pretty cool, do you know her?"

"Yeah, I told you that I was his first victim."

"Oh yeah, right." She said and the continued talking until the teacher came and forced them to set with their partners, so she went to set next to Nick again.

"Well, did you rehearse the scripts that I gave you?" Mrs. Karla asked and they all nodded. "Ok, I'll call your names to see your works and the best can join the school play, if they want."

"What's the play about?" someone asked.

"Romeo and Juliet." Mrs. Karla answered.

"But why did we have to rehearse on that one then?"

"It's just rehearsing, to know if you're talented or not." She rolled her eyes, "So, let's just begin." She said as she started to say the names and see their job and write something in her papers. Finally it was Nick and Miley's turn.

She took the script from them and started searching for a scene that they can do. "You can do that one." She said handing them the script back, they looked at it and found that it contained a kiss. They looked at each other then at the teacher. But she just told them to start. When they was about to argue, she said it's just acting. So they started doing the scene.

"Hey, Liz where are you going?" he started his lines.

"Oh, hi, Sam, I was just going to take a walk." She replied smiling.

"Oh, yeah. Uhm, do you mind me coming along?"

"No, of course not." She replied and they started walking.

"So, how did it turn out between you and Mike?"

"I- I broke up with him."

"I'm- I'm sorry."

"No, it's fine, I didn't really like him anyway." She smiled and he smiled as well.

After a while as they were supposed to reach the park and set on a bench.

"Hey Liz, I want to tell you something."

"What?"

"It's that I, do you remember how we met! You know when you looked up at me, I felt a weird feeling, I think I was… Liz, I really like you since that day." He said looking in her eyes.

"I like you too." She smiled and that's when they were meant to lean in and kiss, they started leaning in while gazing into each other's eyes. Miley felt her heartbeats increase, and Nick felt the nervousness cover him, a feeling he never experienced!

Finally, their lips met, and it was just like the previous time, he was kissing her slowly, and it took her a while to know that she's supposed to be kissing back, so she decided to enjoy it as long as it lasts, she knew that she will think about it probably all the night. But she liked it.

He seemed to forget about the class and the teacher watching them when he moved his tongue over her lip slowly, and she seemed to forget them too when she opened her mouth allowing his tongue to enter.

"Great, you two are really amazing." Mrs. Karla said making them come back from their own world to reality and pulled away. Miley felt her cheeks burning as she realized that the teacher was watching this. "You made it very believable." Mrs. Karla continued, "You can go and set now." She said as they went to their seats in silence.

"What just happened?" Miley heard herself saying without even thinking.

"Umm, we were acting the scene, and I felt like I'm lost for a moment until the teacher spoke." He mumbled but she heard him and smiled for herself pretending that she didn't hear him.

It was now the lunch time and Miley couldn't stop thinking about the drama class, she was trying to forget it when it happened at the beach. Yes she couldn't, but at least she had a chance to forget it and don't get her hopes too high. But now, it's impossible for her to forget it.

She walked towards the cafeteria to meet her friends, when she reached there, she saw them all setting at their usual table, the only chair available was between Lilly and Oliver, when Lilly saw her she told Oliver that she wants to move to that chair, when he did she stood up and sat in his chair, which was next to Joe, leaving Miley to set between Nick and Oliver.

Miley sighed and rolled her eyes before going to set in that chair. She looked over at Lilly to see that she already started a conversation with him, she seemed like she didn't even notice Miley was now with them, but they all knew that she was just ignoring her.

"How did your act scene go?" Oliver asked them starting a conversation, as Miley blushed and Nick looked away.

"Uh, it was good." She replied.

"Which one did you play?" Joe asked entering the conversation that neither Miley nor Nick wanted to be involved in, even though it was about them.

"Uh, I don't remember it." Miley said as Nick nodded.

"Huh? It was the first class. Today." Joe said confused.

"Ok, it was that one." Miley said as she got the script and showed them the scene. At the first they didn't see it, but then when Joe noticed he started laughing like crazy, making Miley blush even more.

"Y-You kissed in front of the whole class." Joe managed to say between his laughs, while Oliver just chuckled an Lilly had an excited look on her face.

"Shut up." Nick said whispering.

"Why? Are you embarrassed?" Joe laughed again.

"Shut up, Joe." He said again.

"Are you serious?" he asked surprised, "Wow, you never cared."

"Joe, please. Shut. Up." He said annoyed and firmly. Joe mouthed to him 'We'll talk about it later' as Nick shrugged and looked away.

Lilly looked at Miley excitedly as if she forgot their argument, which she was the reason of. She smiled at her and Miley didn't know if she should smile or not, she was still mad at her for being mad at her without any reason.

The three boys noticed and looked at Miley waiting for her reaction while she and Lilly just started at each other, Lilly smiling and Miley with no emotion. It looked like they were having a silent conversation or argument, as they changed their reactions every once in a while, finally Miley's lips broke into a really weak smile after sighing.

While her eye contact with Lilly she knew that Lilly was just in a bad mood, and she's not really mad at Miley. And that she will tell her later, so she just nodded and sighed with the weak smile!

When Miley and Lilly reached home, without a word between them the whole day at school, except when Miley said 'let's go' after saying their goodbyes to the boys, she looked at her and sat on her bed "Well, what was going on with you?" she asked crossing her arms as Lilly sighed and sat on her own bed facing her cousin.

"I'm really sorry, Miles." She began as Miley just looked at her waiting for the rest of her explanation, "I- I don't know why I treated you like that, I mean I wsa angry at the first but I tried not to show it-"

"Well, it didn't work well, they all noticed." Miley interrupted.

"I know you have the right to be mad at me, but I'm really sorry."

"I just don't get what made you that mad all of a sudden." Miley said throwing her arms at the air.

"Ok, you were right, you can say that I was jealous of Demi." She said looking at the ground.

"What? Lilly, that's just ridicules. You know that we just became friends, really good friends, we already were, and the only change is that now she knows my secret."

"I know, I know. But it's not just about you and her being friends, there's something else."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I thought you'd have noticed but you didn't. I- I like Joe." She said as Miley looked at trying to get what Lilly just said in her mind.

"You like J-Joe?" she asked and Lilly nodded slowly . "Whoa, I didn't see this one coming."

"See? That's why I was mad at you, not for only giving hr more attention more than me, yes that bothered me, but not as you didn't notice that I like him and that she do too bothered me."

"Lilly, I didn't get her more attention than you! You were the one who avoided me all the time and now that I noticed you were with Joe all the time."

"That's why she was with you. I don't like her."

"Because Joe likes her." Miley said.

"Maybe he was just saying that, Miley. Because I didn't see him look at her that much. At least not like he looked at me."

"That because you stayed all the time with him, Lilly. And he was gentle enough for not telling you to get away from him."

"So, you say I annoyed him?"

"I don't know, but I'm sure he wanted to talk to Demi and you didn't let him."

"That's what I wanted."

"What? You want to be the third wheel? You want to stand in the way between two persons who like each other?" Miley said in disbelief, "That's not Lilly that I know. My cousin would never do something like that."

Lilly thought about it for a second before sighing, "I guess you're right. I'm sorry. I didn't realize it was that bad until you said it. But how do you know that she likes him? And that he likes her too?"

"He said that he likes her, and when we reached home, I noticed that he was glancing at her every once in a while. And she did the same."

"I'm sorry, Miley. But I really like him."

"Maybe you should try to move on." Miley said.

"You're right. I'm sorry. I'll try to move on." She smiled a sad smile, "Do you forgive me?"

"Only if you promise me something."

"What?"

"Promise me that you'll treat Demi well. She's really a nice girl."

"Ok, I'll try that too." She said as Miley smiled and hugged her.

"That's my best friend." Miley smiled then she pulled back seeing Lilly smile at her a big smile.

"So, tell me everything happened between you and Nick since the day at the beach." She said excitedly, as Miley blushed and rolled her eyes, then she began to tell her about their first kiss and how she felt about it, and what he said after it, and about their kiss today and how she felt so special and that the whole world disappeared around her and that there's no one left in the world except the two of them.

"Oh my gosh, Miles. He totally likes you." Lilly said as Miley finished her story.

"No, I'm not sure about that one. I know Demi was right when she said that he didn't go after the girls at the beach. But maybe he was just acting to fool me. You know what he do to get a girl. His past is against him."

"Yeah, but that was in the past, didn't you hear Joe saying that he never cared when he knew about the kiss in front of the class."

"Don't remind me. I don't know, maybe he's trying to change, but I don't think that he already changed."

"Just give him a chance, Miles."

"Ok, we'll see what'll happen." She said as Lilly smiled at her.

Miley knew that she really likes Nick, more than she should be. She didn't know why though. She don't like his behaviors right now, and she's not a one to like someone only because he's good looking. So, maybe she liked him for a long, long time ago, but she didn't realize it soon enough, now he's a player and he likes it, and it's hard to change him. But she thinks that he already is changing, it'll take time, but she hopes that it'll worth it in the end.

She knows that if it means Nick's changing for a better person, even she won't be the one who win his heart, but it worth her try to change him. Even if he only wants her because he thinks she's beautiful, but if she changed him to the person she liked first, she'll be happy. Even if he just see her as a friend. But then again she doesn't really know what he thinks about her. But maybe just maybe he likes her. But she didn't want to set her hopes too high, after all she doesn't want to end up broken.

She was surprised with Lilly's confession about her liking Joe. She knows that Demi likes him too, she doesn't know how she knows, but she just do, just like Demi knew that she likes Nick, and that she's Hannah Montana. She knows that Joe isn't the right person for her cousin.

She knew that there's another person likes Lilly, and she knew that they'll be cute together, Oliver! But she's not going to tell her, if she told her, then maybe Lilly will just think about him to get over Joe, and that'll lead to a lot of drama, she has to realize it herself.

'Oh, god. There's a lot of complicated things this year. Let's just hope they'll end up well' she thought to herself.

So, what do you think? You were right about Lilly :D

What do you think will happen next? Will be there anything that prevent the three un-settled couples to be together? Of course there'll but which couple? Which couple will be together first? And what do you think about Nick and Miley? Does he really like her? Or just playing around like used to do?

And PLEASE REVIEW it means a lot to me :D

Thanks for reading, and who's excited about Christmas? It's just 8 more days :D :D :D

So Merry Christmas cause I'm not sure when will I update again, but hopefully I'll update at Christmas a few stories not just one :D but it's not a promise, I'll just try :)