A.N. Sorry this took so long but here it is :D Special thanks to My Personal Rose for giving me the thumbs up on this chap :D

Chapter Ten – Sneaking Around

When Lilly woke up the next morning, she blinked sleepily as she looked at the clock on the night stand. It read 10:02. She frowned slightly, the alarm should have gone off by now because Miley had a concert that night, so she rolled over to reach for Miley to find the bed empty. She quickly sat up and looked around the room and noticed the door to the bathroom was open so she wasn't in there.

"Miley?" she called but before she could get up and walk over to the closet to check in there, the bedroom door opened and Miley came walking in. She was carrying a tray and she smiled widely as she saw Lilly awake.

"Mornin' beautiful" she said happily and shut the door with her foot before making her way over to sit on the edge of the bed, next to Lilly, "Breakfast?" she asked as she placed the tray on Lilly's knee. Lilly steadied the tray and looked down at the breakfast Miley had brought up for her. She had made chocolate chip pancakes with maple syrup, her absolute favourite and also had a cup of orange and tea on there.

"You made me breakfast?" Lilly asked and looked up to smile back at Miley.

"Of course" Miley answered, "Well ... it's one of the things I can do for you until we tell people about us without it being weird and since you burn everything..." Miley smirked and trailed off. Lilly rolled her eyes.

"I do not burn everything" she replied, indignantly.

"Lil hun, you could burn water" Miley deadpanned.

"Did you just call me hun?" Lilly grinned as Miley blushed slightly.

"Yeah ... get used to it" she smiled, "I'm gonna be calling you that and more now, just because I can"

"Oh yeah?" Lilly asked, raising her eyebrows, "Like what exactly?"

"Oh like, sweetie" she supplied and placed a short kiss on Lilly's lips, "Or snuggums" another kiss, "or my little chocolate chip" she giggled and placed one last kiss on her lips.

"Oh no! I draw the line at little chocolate chip" Lilly fake grimaced, "Please don't ever call me that"

Miley laughed and moved so she was sat next to Lilly on the bed. "I can't promise anything" she taunted and grabbed the cup of tea from the tray and took a sip. Lilly looked from the tray to the girl sat beside her and smiled.

"I love you Miley Ray Stewart" she said softly.

"I love you too Lils" Miley grinned back.

"You want some of the pancakes?" Lilly asked as she grabbed the knife and fork.

"Nope" Miley shook her head, "These are just for you".

After Lilly finished her breakfast, they put the tray to one side and lay in each others embrace as they talked more about what they were going to do.

"Is Oliver coming to the concert tonight?" Lilly asked as she played with Miley's hair, loving how relaxed she could make Miley just by touching her. Miley sighed in contentment as she turned slightly and faced Lilly.

"He said he was" she told her, "I told him the limo was leaving at six anyway so I'll call him later and check"

"Later?" Lilly questioned.

"Yeah" Miley blushed a little before continuing, "I don't want to move" she admitted softly causing Lilly to giggle a little. There were several minutes pause until Miley spoke again, "Do you want to tell Oliver?" she asked.

"Do you?" Lilly countered.

"I'm not sure, I mean he probably already knows ... or think he knows anyways" Lilly wondered.

"I'd guess he does know that we were going to tell each other ... he's got annoyingly insightful recently" Miley added.

"Ok ... so how about we keep it secret unless he says he knows?" Lilly asked and leaned more into Miley's embrace.

"Yeah I think that's the best plan" Miley smiled before placing a soft kiss on her lips and then her phone rang. "Hello?" she answered.

"Hey Miley, it's Oliver"

"Hey" Miley smiled, "You ok?"

"Yeah I'm good, just checking it's still ok I come tonight?"

"Of course, limo's picking us up at six, like I told you before" she grinned.

"Ok, see ya later, bye" he said and ended the call. Miley threw her phone back onto the night stand and pulled Lilly back into her embrace.

"Oliver will meet us later" she told her.

"So ... say nothing unless he does?" Lilly asked.

"Yeah" Miley smiled, before closing her eyes and pulling Lilly closer, "I want to keep you to myself for as long as possible"

-LILEY-

The limo drive to the concert was very quiet. Miley and Lilly were contemplating how best to keep their secret from Oliver whilst Oliver was covertly watching their interaction. Whilst most people wouldn't be able to distinguish the majority of their current behaviours from their old ones, Oliver spent a lot of his time around these two girls and as they both loved to talk, it meant that he often spent his time listening to them and watching how they were together. Today he was noticing things like how they were sitting a little closer than normal, that their legs were crossed towards each other, that they were holding hands with their fingers intertwined and that Lilly's thumb was subconsciously rubbing the back of Miley's hand. He smirked to himself as he looked out of the window. He knew that they wouldn't tell him that they were together, that he would have to nosey a little more to get the scoop. He turned to fully face them and smiled as Miley faced him.

"Sooo" he drew out, "Anything that you'd ... like to share guys?" he asked and looked pointedly at their joint hands. Miley and Lilly both looked confused and followed his gaze to their hands. When they realised what he was looking at they quickly let go of each other's hands and practically jumped to opposite sides of the limo seat at which point Oliver burst out laughing. "Come on guys, it's so obvious"

"Pfft ... I have n-no idea w-what you're talking about" Lilly waved off.

"Guys!" Oliver said. Miley looked at Lilly and raised an eyebrow. They looked at each other for a few seconds until Lilly sighed and nodded.

"Ok Oliver ... we are together but we don't want people to know yet ... we're not ready" Miley explained.

"Guys, I get it and I'm happy you told me" he smiled, "And if you ever want to talk about anything including ... make out scenarios, then I'm totally available" he smirked.

"Oliver!" Miley and Lilly exclaimed at once.

"I'm kidding!" He held his hands up, "Well mostly" he winked. They all laughed at this.

"So are you ok with this?" Miley asked.

"Of course! As I've said before ... you two are my best girl buds ever"

Their talk was cut short by the limo arriving at the concert venue. They had arrived relatively early to today's concert so they managed to avoid the usual crush and mad rush for Hannah photo's and autograph's. When they made it to the dressing room, Oliver and Lilly went straight for the food table causing Miley to roll her eyes as she shrugged out of her jacket and hung it up.

"I swear sometimes I think that you two are twins" Miley sighed.

"Huh?" Oliver asked through a mouthful of hotdog, causing Miley to giggle and Lilly to roll her eyes. She walked over to Miley and wrapped her arms around her middle.

"Take it back" she grinned.

"Nope" she smirked.

"Ok then ... you asked for it" she grinned before she moved her hands to start tickling Miley who shrieked and tried to jump away but Lilly was too quick for her and they fell in a heap on the sofa. "You gonna take it back?" Lilly giggled.

"NO!" Miley shrieked again, trying to struggle out of Lilly's grip for a few seconds before finally shouting, "Ok, ok, I take it back!" Lilly stopped tickling and leaned closer to her, bringing one hand up to brush the blonde wig from her girlfriends eyes.

"I love you" she whispered softly causing Miley to smile widely.

"I love you too" Miley whispered back. Lilly pressed her lips to Miley's smiling as she felt her kiss her back. Lilly slowed the kiss and gently broke it to look at Miley. They were looking into each other's eyes as there was a sudden knock at the door. Lilly barely had chance to roll off Miley before the door opened and Tracey stalked inside.

"Hannah, darl ... What are you doing?" she asked crinkling her nose in disgust as she saw how close Hannah and Lola were.

"We fell" Miley said simply and stood up quickly, offering her hand to help Lilly up. After she did she turned to Tracey, "What's up Trace?" she smiled.

"Just wanted to say Hi" she said in her usually nasal voice, if she had suspected anything from their closeness, she obviously wasn't saying. She looked at Lilly at bit disgusted that she was so close before she finally spoke.

"Hannah ... you could do so much better" she said in monotone.

"There is no one better than Lola" Miley stated firmly, Tracey laughed this off and the conversation was ended quite quickly by the stagehand asking Miley to come and do sound check. Lilly and Oliver spent the rest of the evening talking and then watching Miley from the side of the stage as Lilly had insisted. Miley noticed her friend and her girlfriend stood there, cheering her on and it made her dance a little faster than before, with a spring in her step. After she had finished her songs, she knew right away that she wasn't going to do any encores, she thanked her fans, yelled goodnight and ran towards Lilly who she hugged tightly and then quickly released her before hugging Oliver even faster. The next hour was a blur and before she knew it, they were back at home and getting ready for bed. They were finally lying down, with Lilly resting her head on Miley's chest before they spoke.

"This is just gonna get harder to hide isn't it" Lilly whispered. Miley paused before she spoke as well.

"I'm not sure I want to hide it, but yeah, it's gonna get harder, just wait 'til Monday" Miley whispered. Lilly nodded but didn't speak as they fell into and easy sleep.

-LILEY-

Monday rolled round faster than either girl wanted and before they knew it they were on their way into school. They walked over to their lockers as usual and started getting their books out for the day when Amber and Ashley suddenly appeared.

"Look who it is Ash, the Hillbilly and the Homeless" Amber taunted cruelly. Miley saw red at this comment and slammed her locker shut, noting with satisfaction that Amber and Ashley both jumped at the action.

"Right! Listen up Tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber" she started, moving to stand between Lilly and Amber and Ashley, "That has got to be one of the cruellest things I have ever heard either of you two say and it's NOT fair. If I find out that you've come near Lilly again I guarantee that you'll find out just how hillbilly I can be" she threatened, pointing her finger into Amber shoulder. Both girls looked speechless and Lilly took full advantage of this and dragged Miley into a nearby empty classroom.

"What was that, Miles?" she asked. Miley was pacing angrily in front of Lilly before she stopped and took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry Lils, it's just ... that wasn't mean or even dumb, it was plain cruel and I'm not gonna let them speak to you like that" Miley explained and then looked at Lilly, who was smiling softly at Miley.

"You are my new protector" she told her. Miley walked over to Lilly and wrapped her arms around Lilly's waist, pulling her closer to her and leaned to whisper in her ear.

"I always have been and you're mine" she pulled back slightly to look at Lilly, who decided that the hug wasn't nearly enough and kissed her. She had only meant it to last a few seconds but Miley groaned and deepened the kiss so Lilly's arms wrapped themselves around Miley's neck of their own accord. The kiss quickly turned desperate and Miley walked Lilly backwards until she hit the wall at which point she leant into Lilly, kissing her more passionately still. After a few minutes of each girl battling for dominance, Lilly tired to speak.

"Miles ..." she gasped as Miley attacked her neck with her lips, "We should ... should ... stop, we should ... stop"

"Don't want to" Miley mumbled before claiming Lilly's lips again. The next few things happened so suddenly that Miley and Lilly didn't know what hit them. First the warning bell rang, surprising both girls enough to cause them to jump apart and then the door to the classroom opened, causing Miley to jump around in surprise and in doing so she caught her foot on the leg of the teachers table and went flying into the bin as the class started to walk inside.

"Miley!" Lilly exclaimed and rushed to her side. Miley flailed around for a second or two until she realised that she was well and truly stuck. She looked at Lilly, trying to ignore the stares of their classmates who were wondering what the heck was going on.

"A little help here!" she almost shouted. Lilly quickly helped Miley out of the bin and brushed off some dust that had appeared on her sleeve before Amber showed up.

"Nice form Stewart, a little shaky on the dismount though" she smirked before laughing and walking back to her desk. Miley rolled her eyes and smiled at Lilly before they walked over and took their seats. A few minutes into the class starting, Lilly slipped Miley a note which she quickly opened. It read:

This will be harder than we thought

Miley smiled softly at Lilly and nodded. It really would.

A.N. So that's chap 10, please review, they really do mean the world to me :D thanks Nicki xoxo