Author's Note: Alright, so you guys won't be reading this until I get home but I'm writing this while on vacation. My uncle's house doesn't have wireless internet so when I'm bored late at night, I've been working on writing this on my laptop. Anyways, here's chapter nine. You guys finally get to find out how Miley feels about Lilly! Haha, I hope you guys like it. And I hope you guys don't mind that Lilly and Miley's writing styles are kind of the same, they both kind of reflect mine but I tried to make them somewhat true to their characters. Hopefully they've all sounded okay. Mmkay, I think that's it. Enjoy!
Oh yeah, and I want to thank all of you for leaving your thoughts for me to read! I love reading them. And a special thanks to those of you who leave nice, detailed reviews, those are awesome and they make me want to write more! But thank you to everyone who leaves feedback!
My Reply
"Oliver, it's from her!" Lilly whispered disbelieving.
"I know. Hey, look. I'll give you some privacy while you read that, I'll be downstairs watching the Lakers game," Oliver replied and he made his way out of Lilly's room and down the stairs.
Lilly was still staring at the envelope in her hands. She looked at Miley's writing. It's her happy writing, Lilly noticed. She thought about how the letter could have possibly gotten to her. Mail from Canada to the United States usually took at least four or five days and Miley had only been there for two. Noticing the high postage rate, she guessed that Miley had paid for the fastest delivery possible. A small smile formed on Lilly's lips at the thought.
She got up and went over to her desk. She pulled a letter opener out of a drawer and carefully sliced open the envelope. She replaced the opener and went back to her bed. Taking a deep breath, she pulled out the letter inside of the envelope.
Lilly immediately registered the smell of Miley's perfume from the letter. She caught the smallest whiff of the scent and it sent all of her hurt, her sadness and her anger pouring out of her. She smiled hopefully before she went ahead and opened a (much to Lilly's amusement) sloppily folded letter.
Dearest Lilly,
It's Miley. I hope you got this letter super fast, I'm going to pay a lot to get it to you as quickly as humanly possible. Hopefully daddy won't look at the room bill...
Anyways, I am so sorry that I haven't called you yet. I was overwhelmed when I read your letters on the plane and I thought I wouldn't be able to bare talking to you. So I didn't call. I'm sorry Lilly, I regret it so much now, you must be so mad at me. I'm so, so sorry.
So I finally did have the courage to talk to you. And I decided this was the way to do it. You wrote me letters in which you poured your heart into me, now I'm doing the same thing for you. I hope you can forgive me for not calling, I thought sending you a letter would be more personal. And I mean, everyone loves getting mail, right?
Okay. So, when I first read your letters, I can promise you that I wasn't mad and I didn't think you were disgusting or anything. I have so much respect for you, Lilly, for putting your heart out there, just like that. But, I was really confused about everything. I couldn't figure out how I felt about the letters, how I felt about you being in love with me.
I had my first concert of the tour the day after I landed. The beginning of that concert was terrible, I couldn't think of anything but you and for the first time ever, I didn't feel like performing. And then I had to sing "Bigger Than Us". Something clicked for me during that song, Lilly. I'm sure you know the lyrics to the song, I was singing the first verse and all I could think about was you.
I
see your face,
I look in your eyes
What you feel is no
surprise
Everyone needs somethin' to believe in
Tell me your
dreams, I'll tell you mine
In our hearts we'll look inside,
And
see all the colors of the rainbow,
I know.
You told me your dreams Lilly, you told me everything. And now it's time that I tell you everything. I guess I didn't know it before, and I guess I didn't know it when I was with Jake. But now it's as clear as the sky on a sunny day in July. I'm in love with you Lilly Truscott. Completely and utterly in love with you.
I guess it didn't click until I read about how you felt, and then I realized that I feel all the same things, too. Every time you're in my arms, I feel so alive and I feel so lucky to have you with me. Every time our eyes meet, I feel my stomach flip. Whenever I hear you tell me that you love me, I feel like I could die of happiness, right then and there. And now I realize that I've loved you all along, Lilly. I think the first day we met back in sixth grade, I think that's the day I fell in love with you and I've never stopped.
You said that you want to be my everything, you are. You said that Jake had everything that you ever wanted. You were wrong Lilly, Jake never had me. I've always belonged to you. Always. You said that maybe someday you could have your chance to be with me, I hope that someday I'll have my chance to be with you. And you said that you'd love for me to love you, and I do Lilly. I do, more than anything.
I know this letter won't make up for the pain I've put you through, Lilly, and that breaks my heart. But I hope you can give me a chance to make it all up to you. Please call me when you get this. I know it's horrible of me to ask that of you when I never called you, but writing you this letter just felt right. I hope that everything is still all right between us, hopefully better than all right.
Truly yours,
Miley
By the time Lilly had finished reading the letters, she could feel a goofy grin spread across her face and her heart beating faster than normal. Her eyes kept drifting back to one line in particular, I'm in love with you Lilly Truscott. Every time she read the words a warm feeling spread from the pit of her stomach up through her chest and to her whole body. Suddenly, all of the emotion inside of her burst out with an unexpected squeal and she let out a little hop. She threw herself back into her bed, lying on her back so she could look at the ceiling. She smiled, 27 months of seemingly unrequited love had broken her down, chipping away at her piece by piece. But now she knew that her love wasn't unrequited, Miley loved her. Miley loved her and that simple fact made all of the pain she had felt in the last 27 months dissolve into nothing.
Oliver rapped his knuckles softly on Lilly's open door. "You okay? I uh, heard you make some weird noise...," he said, eyebrows raised. Slightly startled, Lilly was pulled from her thoughts and turned to look at Oliver. She was still grinning. "Uh, everything's good then?"
Lilly sat up. "Yeah," she said. "Everything's perfect."
Oliver smiled, "Aww, Lils!" He went over and wrapped her in a big hug. "I'm so happy for you. You got the girl!"
"Not just yet, I have to talk to her first."
Oliver whined, "Talk schmalk, you know you got her." Lilly giggled at this. He continued, "Man, this is embarrassing. Now you've gotten more girls than I have!"
"Yeah, and it's even more embarrassing considering the fact that it's only one girl," Lilly giggled.
"Whatever."
Buzzz! Lilly's phone vibrated against her desk. Picking it up, Lilly examined the Caller ID. Miley.
Lilly looked over at Oliver who understood instantly. Holding his hands up in front of him, he backed out of the room and softly closed the door, leaving Lilly alone with her vibrating phone in her hand.
