For the second day in a row, Miley Stewart refused to get out of bed. The first day had been because she had a terrible hangover and just the thought of opening her eyes made her want to crawl into a hole and never come out.
Then, the memories from the night before came flooding back and she once again wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out.
Part of her realized that she should call Nick and apologize and invite him over to talk, but a bigger part of her still wanted him to be the one to make the first move, she was a hopeless romantic and she knew it, but that's just the way it had to be.
Miley was lying in bed staring at the ceiling trying not to think while ignoring her phone calls when she heard the doorbell ring. She listened intently. She heard someone open the door, an exchange of greetings, and then suddenly footsteps up the stairs.
Please don't be Nick she begged silently while wishing deep down that it would be, her vain side however would not allow her to think that considering she hadn't showered or changed in two days.
She heard the steps coming closer to her room, was that two sets? Huh? Who could possibly be coming up to see her?
Then Lilly burst in the door.
"Lilly! You can't just-"Miley heard a familiar voice say.
The person was interrupted by Lilly yelling "Where have you been? What have you been doing? How are you? What happened? Why aren't you answering our phone calls? What did you do to Nick? What did Nick do to you? What's going on?" Lilly's questions seemed to go on and on.
"Slow down, Lils," the voice from the hallway said. The boy who was none other than Lilly's boyfriend and brother to the boy that Miley had completely embarrassed herself in front of, Joe Jonas.
"Hey Miles," he said grinning sheepishly, "Sorry to barge in, but Lilly here couldn't take another second without coming and talking to you so she insisted we walk over here from my house."
Miley sighed, she knew she would have to talk to them eventually so she guessed now was as good a time as any. She plastered a smile on her face and said,
"It's no problem, Joe. I've missed you guys" once the words left her mouth she realized how true they were.
Suddenly tears were rolling down Miley's face.
Lilly instantly went from pissed off questioning best friend to soothing sympathetic best friend as she sat down on the bed and held Miley.
"Shhh…" Lilly whispered, "Come on, Miley, just tell us what's wrong and we'll fix it"
Joe joined Lilly on Miley's bed and wrapped his arms around Miley too and began to try to comfort her as well.
"Miley, you know you can tell us, we'll always be here for you" he said.
"God, I'm so stupid!" Miley said angrily.
"Just tell us what happened" Joe said.
"Well, Nick showed up at that party and punched Jake and everything is a little blurry after that" Miley started.
"Wait? Nick? Nicholas? My calm, cool, collected little brother PUNCHED someone?" Joe said incredulously.
"Yeah," Miley said giggling a little at the look on Joe's face. "And I slapped him…" she added quietly.
"Miley!" Lilly reprimanded.
"I know, I know, but he was just being so possessive, when unfortunately for me, he's not mine and I'm not his"
"Can you tell us about what happened after you two went home?" Joe asked gently.
"Well, um, I was pretty wasted…" Miley said not wanting to tell them.
"And…" Joe prodded gently.
"I might have, sort of, kind of, triedtohavesexwithhim" she said quickly.
Unfortunately for her, both Lilly and Joe knew her well enough to decode her fast talking. And both of them stared at her in horror.
"Oh, it gets worse" she said laughing bitterly, "I told him I loved him and I wanted him," if the situation wasn't so crappy Miley might have found the looks and her two best friend's faces comical, but she was too wrapped up in the memory to notice, "but he told me we couldn't do it" their faces noticeably relaxed, "and then I started to cry and kicked him out."
For a moment, Lilly and Joe looked like they didn't know what to say, but they quickly recovered.
"You should talk to him, Miles" Lilly said seriously.
"Yeah, all he's been doing is moping around the house, and playing song after song… OW" Joe was cut off by Lilly punching him in the shoulder.
"Sorry, baby" she said, grabbing his hand to lead him out of the room.
"Miley, it's so obvious he cares about you, and you clearly care about him or you wouldn't be just lying in bed here. So give him a call, maybe you need to be the one to take a chance." And with that Lilly and Joe left.
Miley grabbed her phone and stared at it for a few moments. Little did she know a scenario much like the one that had just happened in her room was happening at the Jonas's house
Nick had barely left his room since his encounter with Miley. Once in a while he did a sad lap around the house, but nothing seemed to catch his interest. He kept checking his phone to make sure no one, meaning Miley, had called.
Each day he began to lose hope that she would ever call, but he still couldn't see to muster up the courage to call her himself. He knew that she would be feeling embarrassed and he wanted to give her time to collect herself.
He was sitting on his bed playing a new song he had written, one he was considering playing for Miley when, and if, they talked again when his oldest brother came into his room.
"Hey," Nick said, "There's this thing called knocking!"
"Brothers don't knock!" Kevin said a little too enthusiastic for Nick's taste.
"Soo…" Nick started, "You gonna tell me why you came into my room?"
"Yeah.." Kevin said, "Whatcha been up to?"
Nick rolled his eyes. Kevin's attempt to talk to him was so blatantly obvious, but Nick was tired of feeling sad and alone so he decided to spill his guts.
"Miley told me she loved me," Nick began.
"What? That's great! Wait, that is great right?" Kevin asked eyeing Nick nervously as he did not look excited or happy.
"She was drunk," he explained sadly.
Now Kevin was older than Nick and therefore had more experience and he could tell that Miley really did love Nick, but Kevin was also smart enough to know that he wasn't the one who should be telling Nick this.
"'A drunken mind speaks a sober heart'" he quoted.
"No…" Nick said, "I think… I think she tried to have sex with me..."
Kevin was not prepared for that one "WHAT?!"
"I don't know!" Nick defended, "She was kissing me, and I couldn't stop her, and then all of the sudden her hands were on my pants and I was pushing her away and she was telling me she loved me and she wanted me. It was definitely not the same as really being in love with someone."
"Maybe she doesn't know how else to tell you, Nick" Kevin tried to reason with him.
"I guess" Nick said doubtfully, "I just care about her so much, you know? Like it feels out of this world, to care about someone so much, so much that you'd do anything for them. It's absolutely terrifying laying everything on the line like that."
In that moment, Kevin realized two things, his little brother was not so little anymore and that he had fallen in love.
"Just give her time, Nick" Kevin said, getting up to leave, "She'll come to you when she's ready."
"Thanks, Kev" Nick said sincerely before going back to his guitar as his brother left his room.
Suddenly, his cell phone was blowing up with Miley's ringtone…
hahaha that was lame, sorry. but exciting! so i finished up this story last night when i wasn't doing my molecular bio homework which is pretty exciting! I have an idea for a sequel for this that i already started outlining a bit. Do you guys want to see what happens after this one ends (i'm sure this will become clearer after you really see it end)? Once i finish this story up i'll put a little post about what the sequel will be about. Oh, and thanks to all my reviewers especially the ones who review every chapter... it means a lot to me!