Miley opened her eyes slowly as she began to awake. Her head was hurting badly, but she could still remember the events that had happened before she passed out. Her vision was blurry at first, but soon began to clear as she noticed where she was. The hospital was not a familiar place to her. She sat up on the bed and noticed that Nick was in an armchair near her bed.

She moved a little in her sheets, trying to make herself comfortable when she heard the sound of his sweet voice.

"How are you feeling?" He asked sleepily. He was tired, but the sights of his girlfriend being okay made him smile.

"My head hurts a little, but other than that I'm fine." She replied with a smile trying to reassure him. "Where's my dad?" She asked looking around the hospital room. "And how did I get here?"

Nick laughed as he began to tell Miley the story. "I had a feeling that something was wrong with the house was pitch black when you went inside. So I turned back around half way to my house to see if everything was okay. When I got there you were already on the ground un-conscience. Your dad was crazy, and I was going to fight him if I had too. Thank the lord that your mother came home as soon as she did or else I might be in this hospital with you. We got you up and your mother calmed your dad down. We took you to the hospital and I don't know what happened to your dad after that."

Miley began to nod. "I thought I heard your voice before I completely blacked out." She told him as she rubbed the back of her head.

"I didn't know that your father was that crazy?"

"He only gets that way when he's really drunk." Miley tried to defend her dad. She didn't know why she always did, but it was something that she always did.

"So he has done this to you before?" Nick asked shocked. "I mean you let him do this to you before?"

"He doesn't do it very often…"

"Miley, you are making excuses for that man."

"That man is my father!" She yelled. "I know that he's not well right now, but he will get better. He'll stop drinking, and be the same man he used to be. I just have to give him some time, and stop getting on his bad side."

Nick put the blanket that he had over his body on the side of his chair. He went over to Miley and touched her cheek gently.

Miley turned her head in the other direction. She could feel the tears forming in both of her eyes. She hated when Nick thought she was weak around him. The truth was that everytime she was near him her whole body turned weak. It wasn't something that she could prevent.

"Look at me." He told her softly.

Miley turned her head back toward Nick looked him in his eyes.

"You didn't do anything wrong. Your dad is the one that needs help, and by you staying there and believing that he's going to get better you're putting yourself in danger."

The tears were now running down her cheek. Her brown hair was flowing down her face messy. "I know," she said gently.

Nick tilted his head and inched his lips closer to hers. When their lips finally met he could feel the salt that was from her tears.

"Excuse me Ms. Cyrus?" A females voice said behind them.

Miley quickly pulled away from Nick and responded "yes" embarrassed.

"Hi, I'm doctor Burton." A tall, blond lady said as she went over to Miley and shook her hand.

"Hello." Miley smiled as she shook her hand back. "I'm Miley and this is my boyfriend Nick." She introduced the both of them.

"Hello, Nick" The doctor greeted him nicely.

Nick smiled and waved. He was still kind of embarrassed by getting caught kissing in the hospital.

"Well Ms. Cyrus you took quite a fall." She said looking at the young lady. "As you an probably feel, you have some bruises in the back of your head."

Miley nodded her head as she rubbed the back of her head.

"You also have a big bruise on your cheek." She said looking at the young lady again. "I will prescribe you with some pain killers, and you are free to leave the hospital." She smiled and went over to the chart to fill something out. She ripped a piece of paper off of the chart, and held it up "I'm going to give this to your mother so she can get it at the pharmacy."

"My mom's here?" She asked surprised. She knew that she got there before her dad could hurt Nick, but she didn't know she was at the hospital.

"Yes, she went to go call your grandmother. My nurse told me that she kept asking about you every five seconds, and she just stepped out to check on your sister." The doctor laughed. "That lady was worried sick about you."

Miley didn't respond to what the doctor said. She felt that if her mom really cared about her, or her sister she would have divorced their dad a long time ago. Or got him help and put him in an AA program.

"Well, I'm going to go and find your mom, and you Ms. Cyrus stay healthy?" She told the teenager as she inched her way toward the door. "And nice meeting you Nick. It was a pleasure to walk in on you two kissing." She said as she opened the door, and turned around and left.

Miley began to blush. "I can't believe she caught us making out on a hospital bed." She told Nick in embarrassment.

"At least we weren't having sex on a hospital bed." He laughed and thought of the bright side.

In the Hospital Hallway:

Doctor Burton looked at the lady that she had become so familiar with in the past eight hours. "Mrs. Cyrus?" She walked over to the lady as she put down the telephone.

"Doctor Burton, is something wrong?" Maryanne asked jumping to the worse conclusion possible.

"No, everything is fine. Miley is up, and she is lucky. She just got a few scrapes and bruises. I'm surprised there were no head injuries."

"Well, my daughter is a very strong young lady." She replied proudly.

"Yes, she definitely is. I'm just curious as to how this happened? I know as a doctor injuries that she has received are from being abused."

Maryanne looked at the doctor with a blank expression on her face. "Are you insinuating that I abuse my daughter?"

"I'm not saying that exactly. I am just asking how this happened?"

"If you must know my daughter is very clumsy. I tell her all the time to not run in the house. She didn't listen to me, and slipped on my shoe on the floor. She fell backward, scraped her cheek on the knob in the hallway closet, and hit her head on the floor."

Doctor Burton was a little skeptical about what she had been told. However she couldn't call her a liar because she had no evidence that her story wasn't true. "I'm sorry if I offended you. I was just doing my job."

"It's alright. Can I take my daughter home now?" She asked with her arms crossed around her skinny body.

"Yes, I already talked to her." She looked down at the floor for a second, and then remembered she had the prescription. "Here this will help Miley with her migraines that she will be experiencing."

Maryanne took the piece of paper, and without another word walked toward her daughter's room.

Back At the Room:

Nick was in the bed with Miley. Her head was softly on her chest, and she could hear the way his heart beat. They were both completely in sink with one another. "You don't have to stay here with me on Christmas."

"My whole family is going to be here in about an hour. My mom is about two halls down. Ever since my mom got diagnosed with cancer, we pretty much have spent ever Christmas here."

"I know that this is none of my business, but do you know what you guys are going to do?"

"About what?'

"Your mother, are you guys going to pull the plug?"

"Really it's not up to me weather or not it happens. My dad has all the rights to do whatever he wants. But personally I want him to keep the machine on. I mean you never know if she is going to wake up or not."

"Yea, but that's kind of selfish."

"How?" He asked confused.

"If there isn't a good chance of her waking up, you're basically just wasting her time to move on. The only reason you would keep her hooked up to a machine is so that you know technically she's still alive. You might as well let her move on to whatever after-life you believe in."

Nick shrugged his shoulders. He had never thought of it that way. "It doesn't matter because my dad doesn't have to make that decision for at least another week."

"Miley, darling are you awake?" Maryanne asked as she walked into her daughters' room.

Miley got off of Nick so quickly it made her head hurt even more. "Mom!"

"I guess Nick is trying to make you feel better." Maryanne said sarcastically as she watched Nick get off of the bed.

"I guess I should go and check up on my mother now." Nick said not making direct eye contact to Mrs. Cyrus. He gave Miley a kiss on the cheek and then left the room. Without making any eye contact at all to his girlfriend's mother.

Maryanne watched as her daughter's boyfriend left. After he left she closed the door behind him. "I guess the two of you are getting pretty close?"

Miley looked at her mother and rolled her eyes. "You didn't have to be so rude. We didn't do anything. We just cuddled." She shrugged her shoulders as if it wasn't a big deal.

"Miley, don't start. You just got better and I really don't feel like arguing."

"Where is Kayla?" Miley asked switching the conversation.

"She stayed with your grandmother. I thought that would be what is best for her, right now."

"Why?"

"I just think that Kayla should stay away from her father. I came back early because I want to take you over there." She tried to bring the move up as sudden as possible.

Miley laughed nervously. "Mom, you can't be serious." She continued to laugh.

"I am deadly serious. I think that this would be the best move for all of us. We can leave your father here. I am going to give him an ultimatum. Either he stops drinking or he can keep drinking, and we will live with your grandmother"

"I can't move. I just started tenth grade at Mark James High, and I just found Nick. There is no way that I'm leaving without Nick."

Maryanne went over to her daughter's bed. "Honey, I know that this is going to be hard for you, but you will meet new boys out in Georgia. I met this really nice one when I was down there. His name was Michael, and he is already getting scholarships for his academics." She told her while she cuddled her, and gently stroked her hair.

Miley got up and looked at her mother. "That is what this is about? You don't want me to date Nick!"

Maryanne looked at her oldest daughter. "I am not going to start lying to you now. I don't think that Nick is the best boy for you. Plus, I can really see that you two really like each other and I don't like that one bit. You guys have only been dating for a month, and you spend way more time with him then your own family!"

"Mom, that's because I love him, and no matter what you are not going to keep me from seeing him!" She raised her voice at her mother.

"I am your mother! You will do whatever the hell that I say. Now shut the hell up, stop fucking whining, and get ready. We have to go to the house and pack your things. The movers will be here in two days. Your lucky that it's Christmas or else we would be moving today."

Miley could feel the tears coming down her face. There was no way in hell she was leaving with her mother. She couldn't leave Nick and the rest of the Jonas family. They had become more of a family then her own family had. She was going to argue, but she knew that her mother wasn't going to change her mind. "I'll go get ready!" She told her mother with an attitude as she walked into the bathroom.

Jonas Hospital Room:

Nick walked into his mothers' hospital room and he also noticed that he was the last one to enter the room.

"Mr. Jonas, your wife is so beautiful." Shelby said admiring her almost-mother-in-law. She was wrapped around Kevin's arms.

Kevin kissed her on the hand. "Someday I can't wait to marry somebody just like her." He whispered in her ear.

Nick went over to the corner of the room and just looked at his family. "How is she doing?"

Mr. Jonas turned around in astonishment. "I didn't even hear you come in?"

"I know all of you were so into looking at mom that I just snuck off to the corner of the room." He replied as he went over to the other side of the room and looked at his mother. She still looked the same as she did three days ago when he went to the hospital.

"How's Miley?" Joe asked snapping out of a gaze that he was in.

"She's fine. She has a couple of cuts and bruises, but she will be fine." He looked around the room once more. "Where is Anna?"

"If I had a clue then I wouldn't be so spaced out." He laughed nervously. He kept thinking about the way he left after the big fight about the abortion.

"I'm sure that everything is fine." Nick went over to his brother and playfully hit him in the arm.

Joe laughed, and then stopped thinking about Anna for a minute. It was time that he focuses in the family that he was born with. It was Christmas and he was here with his whole family.

"Can we sing now?" Frankie asked all of his elders in the room. He always liked coming to the hospital and singing during Christmas, and mom's birthday.

"Of course Frankie," Lyle told his son. "Frankie start us off."

Frankie looked around the room all right. Everybody started to snap in on beat. Frankie started off slow. "Dashing through the snow

On a one-horse open sleigh,

Over the fields we go,

Laughing all the way;"

The rest of the boys started to chime in while still snapping. The beat was slow, and steady through the whole thing.

"Bells on bob-tail ring,

Making spirits bright,

What fun it is to ride and sing

A sleighing song tonight

Jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way!

O what fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh"

Kevin, Frankie, and Nick stopped. This was the part that Joe sang by himself. He had the strongest vocals out off all of them.

"A day or two ago,

I thought I'd take a ride,

And soon Miss Fanny Bright

Was seated by my side;

The horse was lean and lank;

Misfortune seemed his lot;

He got into a drifted bank,

And we, we got upset.

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Jingle all the way!

What fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh."

Joe stopped singing and Nick picked up for him. This was his favorite part of the whole song. He wasn't that bad of a singer either. He just wasn't as good as Joe.

"A day or two ago,

The story I must tell

I went out on the snow

And on my back I fell;

A gent was riding by

In a one-horse open sleigh,

He laughed as there

I sprawling lie,

But quickly drove away.

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Jingle all the way!

What fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh."

All of them continued for the last part making it even slower. To make the ending sound like a beautiful medley of voices.

"Now the ground is white

Go it while you're young,

Take the girls tonight

And sing this sleighing song;

Just get a bob-tailed bay

Two-forty as his speed

Hitch him to an open sleigh

And crack! You'll take the lead.

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Jingle all the way!

What fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh."

Shelby clapped at the end of the song. "You guys are so amazing. I knew Kevin had singing talents, but I didn't know you guys could all sing."

"Yea, we can all play instruments too." Joe responded. "We just never took that talent to college."

"I always wondered why only one of my boys was smart enough to get a full scholarship with his talent."

"I like baseball more, sorry dad." Nick told his father as he went over to his father and put his arm around his shoulder.

Joe laughed and then went over to the corner. Singing was a good escape from his problems. He was beginning to wonder where Anna was.

Clinic:

Anna walked into the clinic with her blond hair down and her blue eyes filled with fear. She went over to the counter.

"Hello?" The person behind the counter said looking at the frightened teenager.

"Hi, I'm Anna. I scheduled an appointment with the doctor. I'm here to get an abortion."

The lady behind the counter nodded and gave her a clipboard. "Here fill this out." She told her with a smile.

Anna nodded her head and took the clipboard. She took a deep breath as she looked around the room. She saw a couple on the far end of the waiting room. The girl looked just as nervous as she did, but she had her boyfriend there to comfort her.

She stopped staring when the girl looked at her. She walked over to an available chair and looked at the clipboard. She started to fill out her name when the girl on the other side of the room was called.

"Jasmine Mitchell?" The doctor called.

The girl got up with a worried look on her face. She turned around to the boyfriend who gave her a kiss on the lips and whispered something in her ear.

Anna started to really miss Joe. She went back to the sheet when something Joe said came up in her mind.

"It's my baby too."

Anna looked down at her stomach. She began to rub it self-conscienceless.

A nurse came over to the young lady. "When you're finished with your papers. I'll be prepping you for the procedure."

Anna looked at the nurse and nodded her head nervously. So many things were going through her head. She wasn't completely sure if she wanted to go through with this. She quickly shook all of those thoughts out of her head. Joe had really gotten to her?

She finished the sheet and gave it to the counter. The lady at the counter waved a nurse who took Anna into a room. "Put this on, and I will explain the procedure when you come out."

Anna looked at the hospital gown. Then she looked at her stomach. She nodded her head and walked to the bathroom and put the gown on. Once she came out the doctor was already in the room getting prepared.

Anna walked over to the operating table.

"Since you in about your twelfth week we are going to use the suctioning method. We will give you anesthesia, which will cause you to dilate quickly. A suction curette will be inserted in the womb. This will act as a vacuum and tears the fetus and the placenta. Which will then suck up the fetus and placenta into a small discard." The nurse explained.

"Is it painful?" Anna asked looking at the doctor for reassurance.

"You won't feel a thing. When the anesthesia wares off you might feel some discomfort. Not much worse then a period cramp."

Anna felt her throat begin to hurt.

"Do you have anymore questions?"

Anna nodded her head no. "Just get on with it." She said very low.