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Disclaimer: ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS STORY ARE CHARACTERS!! I do not own Hannah Montana. I also do not own the Jonas Brothers. Ugh I hate saying that.

Chapter 10

Third Person POV

The road was blurred in front of her. Her sense of direction was off. She was going way under the speed limit. She knew all of these things, but she didn't care.

Lilly Truscott was a mess.

All she could think about was the possible child growing inside of her and the look on Joe's face when she told him. Just moments after she let the bomb drop, Joe's face had darkened, and he left the room without a word. She hadn't even wanted to tell him about the potential pregnancy, not until she was sure. But he kept at her, goading her to leave Matt, so it just slipped out of her mouth. She needed to shut him up. And boy did it ever.

So here she was now, blubbering behind the wheel, going 40 miles per hour on the freeway, with horns blaring all around her. When she finally got home, she saw Matt talking on his cell phone. When he saw her, he said a quick goodbye and hung up abruptly. Despite Lilly's condition, he sparked her curiosity.

"Who was that?" she sniffed.

"That? Oh, that was, uh, no one. No one important." Matt said quickly. "What happened to you Lilly?"

"Nothing. It doesn't matter," she told him. She hoped she sounded convincing enough.

"Lilly, it does matter. Look at you! You've been crying," Matt noted, as he rushed over to her. "Did someone die?"

"No, but I wish I would," Lilly whispered.

"Lilly…"

"It's nothing Matt. Forget it," Lilly said. She extracted herself from his arms and she ran upstairs. Matt heard their bedroom door slam. He decided that it was best to give Lilly some space for right now.

Good choice.

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"I so own you Jackson!" Miley shouted as her slender fingers danced over the buttons on the guitar controller. She was at his house having a Guitar Hero III playoff. Miley was currently trying to beat his high score on hard.

"In your dreams little sis. You are never gonna beat my score," Jackson said confidently.

"We'll see about that," Miley retorted. She breezed through the song, hardly breaking a sweat. You could hardly see her fingers, they moved so fast. Finally the song ended.

"Oh yeah! Look at that! New high score!" Miley cried out triumphantly. "In your face!"

"What? How can that happen? You put in a cheat code!" Jackson accused.

"Psh yeah right. You just suck at this game. And I was Hannah Montana for a good part of my life so rock star is in my genes," Miley grinned. She was just about to break out into one of Hannah's hits "Rock Star" when her cell phone rang.

"Hello?" she said without looking at who was calling.

"Miley…" a girl sniffed on the other line.

"Lilly? What's wrong?" Miley asked.

"I-I need you. Please come over. I need help," Lilly choked out.

"I'm on my way," Miley told her as she grabbed her purse.

"Thanks. Oh and Miley? Can you pick something up for me on your way over?"

--

Miley showed up to Lilly's place breathless. She almost got into a car accident going from Jackson's, to the drug store, to Lilly's. She was driving way too fast, but she needed to be here for Lilly. She sounded so distraught on the phone. She pounded on the door after finding that the door was locked. Matt opened the door.

"Hey Miley," he greeted the red-faced brunette.

"Hello," Miley said as casually as possible. She tried to hide the brown paper bag behind her back.

"I'm not sure Lilly wants to see anyone right now. She's upset," Matt told her.

"Oh she called and asked me to come over," Miley said politely.

"Oh, ok. Well she's upstairs," Matt said.

"Thanks," Miley called over her shoulder as she ran towards the stairs. She was just about to dash up the stairs when she dropped the bag, causing the white cardboard box to slide out a little. Miley gasped and quickly snatched up the bag and then turned to face Matt. He was staring at her.

"What was that?"

"What was what?" Miley asked, trying to sound nonchalant.

"That box thing," Matt asked, pointing to the bag.

"Cigarettes," Miley said immediately.

"Cigarettes?" Matt asked. Miley nodded. "I didn't know you smoked."

"Yeah, well. I just started," Miley shrugged. "Nasty habit I know."

"Right. Ok," Matt said as he turned back to what he was doing. Miley exhaled, rolled her eyes, and ran up the stairs. She burst into the master bedroom to find Lilly staring blankly out the window. She turned when she heard the door open.

"Miley," she greeted as Miley rushed over to give her best friend a hug. "Did you get it?"

"Yup," Miley answered as she lifted up the bag. Lilly took it and pulled out the pregnancy test that waited inside.

"I told Matt it was cigarettes," Miley giggled. Lilly smiled weakly and stared at the box in her hands. She read and reread the directions five times.

"Are you just gonna stare at it or are you actually gonna pee on it?" Miley asked. Lilly gave her a look. "Sorry, but I'm a little anxious here," Miley said.

"You're anxious? You're not the one who has to take it!" Lilly cried. There was silence in the room after that as both girls looked uneasily at the box together.

"What the hell, we might as well get it over with," Lilly said finally. Miley nodded.

"Good luck."

Lilly locked herself in the bathroom and took the test out of the box. She sighed before squatting over the toilet, pee stick held underneath her. She emerged a minute later and held it over her head.

"I did it," she said.

"How long do we have to wait before we know if there's a bun in your oven or not?" Miley asked. Lilly gave her another look.

"Five minutes," she said. Lilly sent it down on her dresser and sent an alarm on her cell phone. After a minute went by, Lilly was getting really nervous. She began to pace back and forth. What if she really was pregnant? What would Matt say? Would he be happy? Would she be happy? And what about Joe?

Joe.

Being pregnant would mean that she probably would never be able to have a relationship with him. It would mean that she would have to cast her feelings aside and marry Matt. Marrying Matt wasn't a bad thing, but she could feel that it probably wasn't the right thing. At least not now. Not while she loved Joe too.

Joe…

Just then Lilly felt something come out. Something downstairs if you know what I mean. She ran into the bathroom right as the alarm went off.

"Lilly! It's time!" Miley shrieked. Miley was definitely not known for her patience. She couldn't wait for Lilly to come out of the bathroom. She jumped off of the bed and rushed over to the awaiting pregnancy test. She picked it up in her hands, blinked, and looked again.

"Oh my god," Miley hollered.

"Oh my god!" Lilly cried from inside the bathroom. She cleaned herself up and raced out of the bathroom, almost colliding with Miley.

"It's negative!"

"I got my period!" The girls screamed these things at the same time. They screamed again and jumped up and down, hugging each other.

"Oh wow, I never thought I would be so happy to get my period," Lilly laughed as tears of happiness ran down her cheeks. Miley laughed along with her and handed Lilly a tissue.

"So what does this mean for you?" Miley asked. Lilly knew what she meant: 'Are you still going to marry Matt or are you going to go with Joe?' Lilly thought about it for a moment and then grinned.

"I gotta go tell Joe." Miley grinned as well.

"Go get him girl." Lilly gave her best friend a squeeze and ran down the stairs. When she got down, there was another man sitting on the couch with Matt. Matt heard Lilly come down the stairs and spun around.

"Oh, Lilly. You're feeling better I see," Matt said.

"Yeah I am, a lot better. Who's this?" she asked, eyeing the man. He was fairly young, not any older than thirty. He had blonde hair and green eyes.

"This is Justin. He's my business partner," Matt said.

"But you work from home," Lilly said. Matt sighed.

"I know that, doll, but I still work with other people who work in the office and some who work from their homes as well. It's one company, with one boss, with one team. Justin is on my team. He just came over to work on some things," Matt informed her.

"Oh, okay," Lilly shrugged. Right now she didn't really care about Matt's work things. All she cared about was that she wasn't pregnant and that she needed to tell Joe.

"It was nice to meet you Justin," Lilly said politely.

"You too," Justin said with a wave of his hand.

"I have to run some errands. I'll be back later," she told Matt.

"Alright," Matt said turning his attention back to Justin and their work.

Lilly sped as fast as possible over to Nick's house. She had just been over there a few hours earlier, but now she came bearing much happier news. She could not wait to see the look on Joe's face when she told him that she wasn't pregnant. They could go back to the way they were when they were teenagers.

She finally pulled up to Nick's house and she got out of the car. She went to the door and rapidly pushed the doorbell about 18 times in a row before Nick answered.

"Lilly?"

"Hi Nick! Is Joe home? I really need to tell him something," Lilly said breathlessly.

"Actually he's not here," Nick told her as he crossed his arms over his chest. Lilly's smile faltered a little.

"Well can I wait here until he gets back?"

"Well you'll be waiting for a pretty long time," he said.

"What? I don't get it," Lilly said.

"Joe's gone Lilly. He went back to Wyckoff."

Lilly gaped up at him. "What?"

"Yeah, he was muttering something about you and pregnancy and his nightmare coming true. You hurt him again Lilly, so he took off again," Nick said coldly.

Now it was Lilly's turn to have her world crash in around her. And it did.

A/N: Lilly is officially not pregnant, but now she has more problems. Will she ever get a break?

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Love, Deni