CHAPTER NINE
Just Friends.
It was the next morning, and at the moment Nick and I were the only ones up. Apparently he was a morning person just like I was. We were sitting around the fire pit, which wasn't lit, huddled against each other with a blanket wrapped around our shoulders.
The icy wind blew against my face, causing my eyes to water. Raising the corner of the blanket I rubbed them over my tired eyes. Truth was that I probably could have slept for at least another hour if not more, but I heard someone outside… and I was kind of hoping it was Joe.
"So what's up with you and Lilly now?" I asked, trying to sound casual. I didn't want him to think I was really that interested in their relationship, even though I was. Because I mean, what kind of best friend would I be if I didn't know everything about Lilly's relationship.
"I don't know actually," He chuckled and pushed a curl away from his left eye.
"Have you talked to her about it?" In response, Nick shook his head. "Well, don't you think you should?"
I watched as his shoulders rose and fell as he let out a long sigh. "I will, when the time's right."
For some reason, I was getting the feeling that he didn't want to talk about this anymore. Maybe Nick wasn't the person to ask about their relationship – I should be going to Lilly, since she would be the one to dish all the dirt.
We sat in silence for the next few minutes, not really having anything to talk about. It was strange, but I liked just sitting with Nick, not saying anything. It was just a nice comfortable silence.
Hearing someone stirring from one of the tents, I looked over my shoulder and saw Oliver emerging, his sleeping bag wrapped around his shoulders.
"Hey, what's up?" He asked, wiping the sleep from his eyes then sat down on the bench across from Nick.
Last night I had made up my mind, I knew what I was going to do about the whole Oliver/Joe thing. It actually didn't take much thought, since I knew all along whom I wanted to be with. The only problem was the fact that I had to tell that certain guy I just wanted to be friends.
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It was going on one o'clock now, and everyone was now up and ready to go out for another exciting day of camping. Honestly, I wasn't even sure how many days we had been here for. Five days I think it was which meant we would be leaving in two days.
"Miley, want to help me get some more wood?" Oliver asked, now standing in front of me and blocking the heat that the fire was giving off.
"Sure," I shrugged and set my plate aside. "Race you!" I shouted, taking off in the direction of the opening in the trees.
Trying to run while dodging random things on the ground is much harder than it looks. After jumping over seven holes, and an axe I finally made it to the opening just as Oliver ran up beside me.
"No fair," He pouted, and crossed his arms across his chest.
"Oh don't be such a baby," I swatted his arm and let out a laugh as I looked around for pieces of wood.
We had been out here for the past fifteen minutes, and only found two pieces of wood. I was carrying one in my arms, and the other was with Oliver.
"Jeeze, does Joe suck at chopping wood or what?" I joked. "I mean, he was supposed to cut a ton and just leave it here."
Oliver stifled a laugh and I turned to him with my eyebrows raised.
"Now what's wrong?" I asked, dropping the wood on the ground and sitting down on a tree stump, motioning for him to do so as well.
"I was thinking last night."
"Oh, well that's never good!" I smiled and nudged him in the shoulder with my own. Apparently he missed the joke.
"And I think we should just be…" Oliver took a deep breath and looked over at me. "Friends."
Ollie Trolley say what?
I was speechless. "Huh?" Was the only thing that managed to come out of my mouth. And to make it worse, it was in that stupid high pitch voice I sometimes get – like my voice just cracked or something.
"I think we should just be friends," He stated again, more slowly this time.
"I repeat… huh?"
I couldn't believe that Oliver was saying this! It was like he could read my mind of something; I was going to tell him this today! But I couldn't help but feel a little sad. I liked Oliver, I really did but maybe we were right – maybe we were just better off as friends.
"Last night when Joe kissed you for that dare, I knew I had no chance. This whole trip I wasn't completely oblivious to the fact that you liked him Miley. I just didn't want to say anything unless it was true."
I needed a few minutes to take this in. Oliver and I had always been best friends, and now the fact that we had a little fling, well was that going to change our friendship? When I broke up with Jake, we didn't talk ever again and I didn't want that to happen to me and Oliver.
Following his hand with my eyes as he stuck it out, I couldn't help but just stare at it. This was like a peace offering except… except different. This was signifying that we would still be the best of friends after this crazy trip.
I smiled over at him and shook his hand. "Friends."
A/N: Finally I updated this story! It's been awhile haha. So this chapter there is something important that happens, and hopefully you all liked what happened, I think a lot of you knew this was going to happen from the beginning haha. Anyways, sorry it's so short I've been having major writers block on this story. I think the next chapter will be the last one. Once again, thank you sooo much for all the nice reviews! They really made me want to write and update for you guys, so because of all you I wrote up the chapter faster haha. So please click the button and review this chapter for me! I love reading what you think so make sure to review, don't be shy! The last chapter or the next one should be coming by either Friday or earlier.
