"Um Shane?"
He turned around to look at her as she laughed loudly. He was covered in bubbles from head to toe, the washing machine still throwing more soap out.
"It's not funny! Help me!"
Continuing with her laughter she started to make her way over to him, only to slip over bringing him down with her. He laughed grabbing some bubbles and throwing them at her.
"How do you turn this thing off?"
Rolling her eyes, Miley gripped the washing machine pulling herself up and hitting the off switch.
"The off button Shane"
He laughed pulling her back down again as she landed on his lap laughing still.
"You're in trouble" He smirked picking more bubbles up and rubbing them into her cheek. She pushed him away laughing before falling down onto the floor next to him.
"Oh look at the mess you made Shane"
"Hey, next time my Mum should tell me how to use it! It's her own fault"
Miley rolled her eyes as Shane lay down next to her, both of them still giggling every now and then. Shane turned to glance at her a wide smile across his face, he was glad to see her smiling again, laughing along with everyone.
"Hey Shane will you help me grab these bags, just don't look in them there you're Christmas... what the hell happened here?" Nate stopped as he walked through following the sound of the giggling.
Miley and Shane both pointed at each other as Nate shook his head. "Shane you best clean this up before Mum sees it"
"Fine, but you know I still need to go Christmas shopping"
"It's Christmas tomorrow Shane!"
"Exactly! That's why I need to go, duh!" He tapped Mileys head as he stood up.
"Well I can't take you; stupid car got a flat tyre on the way back. You'll have to ring Jason and see how long it's going to be till he gets here"
"Fine, but please help me clean this up!" Shane pleaded looking at the two of them.
--
"Jasooooooon! What time will you be getting here?"
"In about 10 minutes Shane, why?"
"Because I need to go Christmas shopping and Nate's car got a flat"
Jason sighed "The sooner you learn to drive the better. Be ready when I get there and I'll take you, okay?"
"Thank you! You can pick out your Christmas present then!"
Jason laughed at how excited his 18 year old brother got about Christmas, the novelty never wore off.
Around 10 minutes later Shane was stood on the driveway waiting for Jason to pull up, seeing the car come to a stop he ran down jumping in.
"How's work?"
Jason nodded. "Yeah it's good, I really like it. It's pretty rewarding when you see the children's faces after they've learnt something new"
Shane smiled. "That's good then, although Mum misses you loads"
"I guessed how many times she rings me" Jason laughed a little. "So plans for Christmas then?"
"Well tonight Mitchie's coming round with her Sister and parents, you know the usual. Then tomorrow I think we're just spending it at home, for once. Then I don't know after that, I guess whatever we all want to do. Mileys with us over Christmas too"
Jason nodded. "Nothing changed then?"
"No. Her Dad rings her sometime, but Jackie's got it into his head that Mileys knocked up so he doesn't want her there either"
Jason shook his head. "I wish someone would slap that stupid cow, you know why she does it Shane?"
Shane shook his head.
"Because Alex wants you and Mileys a threat to that and she'll do whatever she can to get Miley out of the way"
--
Mitchie joined Jason and Nate sat on the stairs, they were peering through the door watching Miley and Shane decorating the tree. Miley still hadn't noticed Jason being back and he wanted it to stay that way for a little while more.
"They seem to be getting a lot closer" Nate broke the silence, Jason smiled.
"Don't you find it weird though?" Mitchie asked turning to look at Jason.
He shook his head. "We can't be with each other and I can't stop her being with someone else. If being with Shane is going to make her happy, then it's going to make me happy too"
Mitchie smiled moving to hug him. "You don't find many men out there like you"
"I'm one of a kind" He laughed causing Miley to turn around. She grinned as she noticed Jason sat on the stairs.
Standing up he smiled as she ran over hugging him tightly, his arms wrapping around her hugging her too.
"I've missed you"
"I missed you too" He smiled.
"What are we going to do about rooms? Mileys staying in yours at the moment"
"I can sleep on the couch?" She offered as Jason shook his head.
"I'll have the couch"
She gave him a look. "It's your room"
"This is going to be a long night..." Shane sighed.
--
Finally they decided that Jason would just bunk in with Miley on the mattress, they just hadn't decided who was having the mattress.
"Miles, let me sleep on it! You're a guest"
"Exactly"
He shook his head, jumping onto it and lying down as if to prove a point.
"Fine" She rolled her eyes sitting down onto the other bed. "How long are you here for?"
"I go back 3rd Jan, so a week or two" He smiled turning to look at her as she pulled the duvet up. She smiled back.
"How are things with you?"
"Oh you know, everywhere" She laughed a little.
He sighed standing up and sitting down next to her on the bed. "You want to talk?"
She nodded as he lay down next to her, her head finding his shoulder.
"I gave up trying to get my Dad on my side. They can believe what they want, I just I don't know I can't stay here forever and I need to find an apartment or something"
Jason shook his head. "Miles you know my Mum would keep you here for the next two years if she has too, she knows your safe that way, we all do"
"I guess, I just feel like I'm putting everyone out"
"Well I've heard other things. Shane and Nate both love having you here as does Frankie"
Miley smiled a little, Frankie had taken a big shine to her.
"We both know the truth so don't let what that cow says get you down, you're so much better than her Miley and you need to start realising that. They'll soon realise the lies she's been telling in 7 months time" He smiled tucking her hair behind her ear.
Miley nodded lazily as her eyes started to close. "Stay here tonight Jason"
"I will" He whispered as her eyes fell shut completely. Shane had told him about the sleepless nights she had, the nightmares and the panic attacks, he thanked god that his younger brother was there for her as much as he was.
--
Miley woke up with a start, sitting up quickly. She glanced at the clock noticing it read 5:58am.
"You okay?" She heard a soft mumble from beside her. She turned to see Jason rubbing his eyes, before he looked up at her.
"Yeah, sorry I didn't mean to wake you" She lay back down as he pulled her closer, his arm wrapping around her waist in an attempt at a hug.
Glancing at the clock he smiled. "Don't worry, Shane will be here in 50 seconds anyway. Want to talk about it?"
"It wasn't a dream, I don't know I just woke up, I felt like I couldn't breathe"
"You should go to the Doctors Miles, check it isn't anything serious"
She shook her head. "I'm fine, stress I guess"
"HAPPY CHRISTMAS, WAKE UP WAKE UP!"
Miley glanced at the clock before laughing noticing it was dead on 6am.
"Told you" Jason laughed as Shane bounded from the room towards Nate's. He stood up, pulling Miley up too as she grabbed her dressing gown following Jason and an annoyed looking Nate downstairs.
"I was having a brilliant dream then Shane, you couldn't have waited 2 more minutes?"
"Was it about Mitchie again, did you actually kiss her this time?" Frankie asked as Nate placed his hand over his brother's mouth to shut him up. Jason, Shane and Miley were all sat laughing as Denise and Jason Senior joined them.
"Merry Christmas guys" Denise smiled kissing each of their heads. "I hope you don't mind being up this early Miley?"
Miley shook her head smiling, it was nice to be spending a Christmas as a family again. She felt loved and wanted and it felt amazing.