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Disclaimer: Still Stands
It's been three weeks since that whole meeting-with-Matt-fight-with-Miley happened. Sally, Matt and I have been shooting the documentary for two weeks now. School has been keeping me busy whenever the video project wasn't and the only time I got with Miley was when she needed to study and she had come over to the house to study with Oliver. Most of the time we're together I'm also studying just like we were doing minutes before the round two of Matt-Miley-Lilly triangle fight begun. We have been studying for more than an hour. I was writing a paper for my literature class and Miley was studying for an anatomy quiz she had the next day when out of the blue I realized something and told her:
"Hey Miles I've been thinking about the mix you gave me."
She stopped reading, lifted her head from the book and said "What about it?"
"That song I played before you kissed me. I was supposed to give it to you."
"Lil. I'm not following you." She started reading again.
"I mean… take a look at the lyrics. I was supposed to give it you."
She stopped reading again "Babe does it really matter?"
"No." I said trying to focus on my writing again.
"There you go. It doesn't matter if all the words don't relate to us, the thing is, if some of them do, the rest is only filler for later days or years." Wow. She amazes me.
I made my way over her and sat in her lap. "I'm speechless."
"Why is that hon?" she laughed holding me by the waist.
"Because even being as clueless as you are you went dead on the point I wanted to prove in the beginning." She pushed me off her lap.
"Do you want to pick a fight by calling me dumb, Truscott?" She was playing mad.
I kneeled down to be closer to her "No dear. That's not it. You're not dumb. I love the way you're clueless to some stuff."
"Really?" she gave me a peck on the lips.
"Yeah. Really. Now let's just quit the chat and study before Ollie enters here and kill me for keeping you from getting your work done." I kissed her forehead and in a quick move she captured my lips and deepened the kiss. We were starting a very heated make out session when my cell phone went off.
"Don't. Answer. It." She said in the kissing process.
"Babe I have to. It could be my mom." She let go of me mumbling something I couldn't understand.
Without looking at the ID I answered it.
"Hello."
"Hi Lil. It's Matt." Yes. Matt Marshall was calling me by one of my nicknames. The same one my girlfriend loved, but that's beside the point.
"Hi there Matthew." I looked over Miley and her smile fainted.
"I was wondering if you could come over to my dorm tonight. I started to edit the parts we shot last Tuesday and I wanted your opinion on the scenes." I can sense trouble.
"I don't know Matt. I mean isn't it Sally's job?" Miley was already furious. This should be fun to explain.
"Yes it is. She's coming too. We have to do this together." What's with the emphasis in together?
"OK. I'll be there in thirty minutes." I glanced at Miley and mouthed an 'I'm sorry dear.'
"Great. See you soon." Miley was now staring at her book with eyes and face that could actually kill someone.
"Bye." And hung up the phone ready for the argument I was about to have.
"Matt Marshall? Did you really stop our only Lilly-Miley time we had this week to speak with Matthew Marshall on the phone?"
"Miles. I didn't know it was him. It could be my mom. You know I'm waiting for her call."
"Lillian, Caller ID was created so you could avoid unwanted calls."
"I didn't look. It was sudden. I'm so sorry."
"You're sorry alright. Now you're going to his dorm to spend the night with him."
"Hold your horses pretty girl. Sally is going to be there, we're editing the first part of the video you know its work."
"Why they can't do it together and forget about you for once?"
"Because the theme was my idea. Back in our freshman year when I didn't even know you yet."
"So since I didn't know you then I just don't count anymore?"
"MILEY. Just hear me out, right?! I have absolutely no interest in Matthew Royal Marshall. He's ancient history to me. And no matter what he says or do I WON'T hook up with him. Because I DO HAVE an amazing, intelligent, gorgeous girlfriend. And her name is Miley Stewart."
"I'm sorry Lil. I know it's not cool to be jealous but I know how much you liked him and I just can't help it."
"I'll tell you what. What don't you come with me this time? You could study while we work and after we could come back here and watch a movie or something."
"I don't know. Sally doesn't like me very much."
"So what? You're my girlfriend. It's time to tell some of our friends." She smiled and nodded. "Awesome. So let's go. I can't be late, Matt hates it." She gave me a look.
"It's going to be all about him, isn't it?" I nodded
"Probably, but hey pretty girl, look at me." I grabbed her chin and made her face me.
"There's no reason to be sad. I chose you, remember?" She nodded wiping her eyes I kissed her and then we left to Matt's dorm.
Minutes later we were at Matt's dorm door.
"Lil please don't forget about me as soon as we pass through this door."
"I promise Miles. I won't forget you. But you must know I'm doing a very important thing here and I'll be focused on it, OK?" She nodded and squeezed my hand as I knocked on the door.
A smiling shirtless Matt opened the door. Miley gave me a look that I chose to ignore.
"Hey Lil. Come on in." He motioned us to enter. "Hi Miley how are you?"
"Fine. And you?" Good. She's trying to be nice.
"Good. Make yourselves at home." He said making his way to the bathroom.
"Lil? Seriously he just didn't call you Lil, did he?"
"Babe, c'mon! It's my nickname for crying out loud!" I whispered-yelled at her.
"It's also my pet name for you. He couldn't find another?"
"Miley. Behave. I gotta do this and if you just ignore him the time will fly by and we'll be leaving in a heart beat." She made raised her eyebrows pouting and gave me an angry look.
"Please?" I begged kissing her right hand
"Fine." She spoke through her clenched teeth.
Matt's dorm was a single. But it was also one of the biggest rooms. It was very clean and classy. Probably because his mom and dad paid for a maid. He was a very spoiled and rich kid. Which combined to his geek personality made a very interesting person. His computer was in the living room across from where Miley and I were sitting.
"Hey Lil come here check that out." He said showing me his new video game a skate competition I really don't recall the name of, he came back wearing a t-shirt. "I bought it thinking of you. We can play it together, huh, what do you think?"
"Awesome! The graphics are amazing, Matt." I said going in his direction "Dude you totally rock!" He half hugged me and gave me a joystick. "Prepare yourself to lose! I'm totally going to kick your butt!"
"Bring it on Truscott!" We started laughing.
The door opened revealing a very smiling Sally.
"What's so funny? Why I wasn't invited to the party? Ooh… do you guys want to be alone, because I could totally understand; I mean I can take a hint. Just say the word!" Sally was a bit of a talker and she was so caught up in her rambling that she didn't see Miley studying on the couch.
"Hi Sally, we're just playing this new game Matt bought."
"Aw, so no cute couply thingys?. I would love to see you two together." She said pulling Matt and mine's cheek. That was when I remember Miley was still on the couch. I glanced at her. She was looking pissed, but her eyes were in the book so I let her be.
"May I ask you how did you get in here?" She was now setting a snack plate.
"She has a key." Matt told me. "Oh, by the way… here is yours." He gave me a key. I guess I had a weird look on my face because he looked at me and explained "If you need to get material to the video or use the equipment and I'm not available you can come and get it." I made a 'got it' face and he continued. "Or when I am, you can come and get… me."
Ok. That was just too much. Since when virgin Marshall uses lines like that? Oh my. Miley. She won't get that as a joke. I glanced at her. She was silent, but she was crying. She sniffled and that was when Sally realized there was someone else in the room.
"What is she doing here?" Sally sounded a little harsh if you'd ask me.
"She's with me." I glanced at Miley and she smiled and wiped tears. "Oliver needed to go see some chick and she was studying so I invited her to come with." I knew I was lying but I had no choice. Miley gave me an understanding look.
"Whatever. Hi there Stewart. How's it going?" Sally still had manners.
"I'm great. You?" Miley was smiling and happy to see Sally talking to her.
"Fine.oh… I got a question to ask you later." Sally said in an innocent way.
"Ok." Miley said and continued studying.
We started to edit the first scenes and then we organized the storyboard and the shoot schedules for the weekend. I could only think 'great. Another weekend without Miley, shooting this thing and studying. Argh!' I sighed. Three hours later I was getting ready to leave when Sally called Miley to join us near the computer. I was with my back to them talking to Matt about the plans for the next day when I heard something I was sure would be a big deal.
"So Miley the question I wanted to ask you was don't you think Lilly here should finally accept Matt as her boyfriend? It's not like she can hide how much she likes him when they're together huh?" I turned around to find an angry-red-faced Miley.
"Stop it Sally. This is not funny!" I said laughing trying to avoid a major reaction.
"C'mon Lils I want to hear Miley's opinion. I'm sure she heard about you being in love with Matt, everybody on Campus has."
"Sally, please just drop it, OK?" I was now standing between them I could see tears forming in Miley's eyes.
"What do you say Miley?" She asked again in a playful tone. She was trying to mess with Matt but it backfired.
"I'd say he needs to stop flirting with my girlfriend." Miley answered in a very confident way.
"I beg your pardon?" Matt said. I was definitely not ready for this conversation but I had to now.
"She's kidding Matt. Isn't she Lils?" I remained silent. "You're joking, aren't you Stewart?"
Miley was ready to answer when I took a hold of her hand "No. she's not." Sally's jaw dropped to the ground and Matt shook his head in disapproval.
"Listen guys, I don't expect you to understand it now or accept or anything for that matter. The thing is. I like Miley, she likes me and we're together." I said walking towards the door pulling Miley with me.
"How did it happen? When?" Matt asked me. I let go of Miley's hand and cupped his cheek.
"Matt you know I loved you, very much. But I couldn't wait for you forever. It was before you asked me to be your girlfriend. To your 'how' question – we just realized we have feelings for each other." I hugged him and he hugged me back. When we broke apart Miley was very close to me.
"I listened to you flirt with her the whole night. I listened to Sally's jokes in silence because I don't want you to fight. She loves you. Lilly deserve us to be friends. If it's not possible at least to be civil to each other. But for that to happen, you gotta lay off my girl and you to be nice to me." She said pointing both Matt and Sally. They nodded and we left.
The trip back home was silent. Here and there I would steal a glance at her but she remained facing the road. She parked the car in the driveway and I was opening the door
"Please don't get out yet." She said holding my arm.
"Pretty girl are you ok? I saw you crying there."
"Lillian, when you we're playing that stupid game with Matt or just goofing around I saw how happy you were. I realized you happy you would be if you were with him. And then Sally came and said all that stuff I just got scared I'd lose you."
"Babe don't you know I act the same around Ollie? He's just a guy. I like to goof around with guys, play video games and all that stuff you saw me doing with Andy and Luke too. It doesn't mean I want to kiss them or cuddle with them in my bed tonight." She looked up at me with her eyes glistening
"You wanna cuddle with me tonight huh?" She gave her unique sexy grin
"Yeah. I was hopping to do a little more than cuddle…" I said caressing her cheeks.
"Really? What do you have in mind?"
"I don't know maybe I could do this…" I kissed her on the lips then I straddled her. "and I could be on you like this and maybe, just maybe I could kiss you like this" I kissed her passionately and when she deepened the kiss I broke apart and spoke "and I'd like to do this" I said moving my hands to her waist and tickling her.
"Lil." She was laughing hard and trying to pull me off her "Lil. Stop. It. Please." I stopped and she was gasping for air.
"You have a dirty mind Stewart! Now let's go inside and cuddle." I said getting out of the car. "C'mon! oooh and by the way, I love you!"
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