I realize after proofreading this that I tend to do a lot of first person narrating even though this is ultimately a third person narration. You know what I mean? Anyway, this will probably change to first person over the course of the next few chapters. I just really like that.
Miley wanted so desperately to kiss him, she didn't care if it was in front of her brother at this point, she wished she'd just done it and gotten it over with. She couldn't stand the anticipation any longer. Instead she just watched him walk away and once he was lost in the sea of cars, Miley turned to her car and hopped in the drivers seat. She put the keys in the ignition and noticed something on her windshield. She got out and grabbed it. It was an envelope addressed to no one. She opened it and her stomach dropped.
Crap crap crap.
It was a ticket from the school. It had a note from the security of the school. It said that they were letting her off easy by just giving her a ticket rather than towing her car. Once she finished reading the note she looked at the ticket and then her jaw dropped. Two hundred and sixteen dollars? Why can't the school just say they want more of my money?
She threw it all on her passenger seat and headed home. What am I going to do? Dad will find out eventually, do I tell the insurance company? Does this go on my police record? She thought about lying to her Dad for a bit but she remembered her sleepwalking phase. She didn't want that around Nick, who knows what might come out then. Then he would definitely be scared away.
She sighed and knew that she had to call her dad and tell him and it wouldn't end well.
Miley tried slowing down her trip home, taking detours and going three miles under the speed limit but she eventually ended up at her apartment. She dragged her body up the stairs and into their apartment. She slammed the door and found her brother on the couch playing Xbox. She went and sat next to him with ticket in hand.
"What up, sis?" he asked not even looking away from his game.
"I got a ticket." She said almost mournfully as she stared at it.
Jackson at first laughed, "Sucks for you."
"Whatever, don't think I don't know about your ticket." Miley added trying to make herself feel better.
Jackson just scrunched his face still facing his game, "Do you also remember how I got grounded for two weeks and had to pay for the ticket when I told Dad?"
Miley did in fact remember "Ugh I don't want to tell Dad." Miley waited for Jackson to say something but he must've gotten to an important part in the game because he didn't seem to notice that Miley said anything. "I can't keep this from him, he'll find out eventually. Might as well keep my lead as favorite child and do the right thing and tell him myself."
"Say goodbye to your social life." Jackson had come back from his game just in time to mock Miley.
"Maybe because he loves me he'll be more understanding."
"Ouch, that hurts, right here." Jackson said point to his heart.
Miley rolled her eyes and pulled out her phone and dialed her dad's number, he answered quickly.
"Hey, bud, miss me already?" Her father said happily.
"Of course, Daddy!" She said enthusiastically hoping that he would believe she'd just call out of the goodness of her heart.
"Uh oh, what happened?" He said. He always has a way of hearing insincerity, Miley thought.
"Daddy, can't I just call you to talk to you? Here about your career? Tour? Any special ladies?" She looked over at Jackson who just gave her a "Really? You're gonna try that?" face.
"'Cause you always wanted to talk at home so much." Her dad said in a very serious tone.
"Fine," Miley took a deep breath as she prepared to give it to him straight. "I got a parking ticket. I left my car overnight at school which apparently is frowned upon, but I didn't know that, so this ticket is totally unfair and I should not be blamed for it and you should not punish your favorite child." She squeezed into one breath. It was silent for a second, "But Daddy it could've been worse. They say that the should've towed me car but instead they just gave me a ticket as a warning."
"Miles, why was your car at school overnight?" He didn't sound very upset with her. This was a good thing, right?
But Miley hadn't realized that this would come up and it was another explanation her dad deserved. She sighed, "I was hanging out with some friends and we figured it would be better to leave my car and get it later that night, but we forgot."
"Who were these friends that the forgot to go get your car before it might possibly get towed?"
She really hoped they would've skipped over the "some friends" bit, but her Daddy was a lot smarter than she thought. "The Jonas Brothers."
"What exactly were you guys doing?" He said with his overprotective dad voice.
"Daddy, you know them. We were just hanging out, it was a mistake and we just forgot to get my car later that night."
"You know I trust you Miley, but you still got a ticket." Her dad paused for a moment. "I like them, and they already got my approval. I'm not happy that they were so careless about your car but that was your responsibility. And I still love that fishhook joke. Now, give the phone to your brother."
Miley turned to her brother who was way to into his game, "Jackson, Dad wants to talk to you." She handed her phone to her brother and he put down his controller and snagged her phone.
"Yeah Dad? Yeah I know she told me. She was home before curfew. The younger one. Yeah. Okay, you know she won't listen to me. I remember. Okay. Miley, let me see the ticket," Miley gave him the ticket and Jackson looked at the ticket and the letter. "It's just from the school. It says to pay it to the administrators before the end of the month. Yeah, I'll make sure she does. Okay, bye Dad." Jackson then hung up and handed her phone back.
"What did he say?" Miley asked. Maybe she'd gotten lucky and her dad wouldn't punish her other than making her pay for the ticket.
"He knew you were dating one of them, I just told him which one. He said you have to pay the ticket and if you get another one you'll lose your car for a month."
Miley nodded and grabbed the ticket from Jackson, "I got off easier than I thought." She got up and stuck the ticket on the fridge. She turned and headed for her room to get ready for her date with Nick.
"Oh yeah, and you're grounded." Jackson added in. Miley knew he'd done that on purpose, just to get her hopes up.
Miley stopped in her tracks and turned around to face Jackson. "What? When?"
"He said you can't go out with your little Jonas Brother, or anybody else from school. Dad said you could only have Lilly and Oliver over if they were visiting." Jackson picked up his controller and went back to his game.
"What? I get them but not Nick? He doesn't want me to date him." Miley knew this wasn't true. Her dad knew that Lilly and Oliver would only be able to make it out every once in a while and that seeing them meant a lot to Miley. But still, if she gets to see them then why not Nick, her boyfriend too?
"No, that's me being nice. He said no one at all but he's not here to check on that. Besides, Oliver told me Lilly and him were gonna surprise you this weekend." Miley was a little surprised. Her brother was being nice? Wow.
Miley tried to grimace less, but she was still mad that she'd have to cancel on Nick. Then she thought about how upset Nick would be, what was she gonna tell Nick? Her face sunk. "Fine, thank you." Miley sulked to her room.
She flopped down on her bed, her head buried in her pillow. She pulled out her phone and added Nick and Stella's numbers to her phone from her hand. She then selected Nick's phone number and put the phone to her ear and at the same moment she heard her bedroom door open. "Miley," Miley sat up and turned around to see her brother, "Go out with Nick. But just tonight, so don't make more plans with him. After tonight you're grounded again, except for Lilly and Oliver. But then after that you're really grounded." He said trying to get their dad's authoritative tone across.
Miley's face lit up and she heard Nick answer, she was too happy to even hear what he said, she just responded with "Nothing, never mind, see you at your place at 6:30." She hung up and hopped off the bed and gave her brother a bear hug, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you," She continued as her brother tried to get her off him.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. But don't get used to this, I just figured that if I let you off you might go easy on me sometime." He added a pat on her back while Miley was still hugging him tightly.
Jackson finally shoved Miley off him, "Yes, I owe you, big time, thank you so much Jackson. Now get out, I have to get ready." Miley then started shoving Jackson out the door. She shut it behind him and leaned against the door and squealed.
She ran into her bathroom and went into the shower immediately. She conditioned twice and put on her $75 body lotion immediately after she dried off. She changed into pajama shorts and a tank top to get read in. She put her hair in curlers, which she rarely did but she didn't feel like using her curling iron. She went straight to her calendar. My first date with Nick Jonas, I have got to mark this. Miley grabbed a pen and circled the day, Thursday, April 16th. Miley let out a little squeal and then forced herself to focus again. She went to her closet that was now much smaller than the one back home, but it could hold at least half of her closet, only when she and Lilly had squished everything together. She started riffling through her dresses. Her Hannah dresses were too fancy, and she thought her Miley dresses weren't fancy enough. She was panicking and decided to take Nick's offer of calling Stella.
It rang a few times and Stella answered, "Hey Stella, Nick gave me your number. We're going out tonight and-"
"And you don't know what to wear? Don't worry we'll be there in a few minutes." Stella said almost like she knew Miley was going to call asking for her help.
"Uh, we?" Miley inquired.
"Yeah, Macy too. She's with me right now and it wouldn't make sense to drop her off at home when we're just going to hang out with Kevin and Joe once you and Nick leave.
"Okay, see you guys then." Miley hadn't talked much with Macy other than her showing the school. She had even felt a little bad that she took her place with Stella yesterday for the president's daughters. But Stella would find a way to make Macy and Miley comfortable.
Miley went out to the family room; her brother was still playing Xbox. "Jackson, I know I'm not supposed to have people over but can today just be exception day. Some friends from school are coming over."
Jackson didn't look over, "Is it the Lame Brothers?"
Miley grunted, "No, it's these two girls-"
"They cute?" He said as his eyes immediately shot over the Miley.
Miley groaned. "Jackson, you can't date them. One of them is kind of already involved with someone and I'm not sure about the other one."
"Well, then." He said in a cocky tone.
"Jackson," Miley said in a whiney tone.
"You owe me, remember?" He then pointed at the ticket that was now hanging from the fridge.
"Fine, I won't stop you from asking them out, but I won't help. I don't even know them that well." Jackson got a stupid smile on his face as Miley went back to her bedroom. She started pulling out her curlers, the curls were tight but Miley ran her fingers through her hair and they then looked more like her natural curls minus the frizz. She then heard a banging from the family room. She ran past Jackson, shoving him down on the couch as he tried to answer the door.
"Hey guys, thanks so much for coming. I'm supposed to be there in an hour so we should probably head back and figure this out." As the girls headed towards Miley's bedroom they passed Jackson standing at attention towards the three of them. Miley sighed, "And this is my brother, Jackson." She said with a less than enthusiastic voice.
Macy and Stella both said quiet 'hi's', "Alright now that we're done with that let's go." Miley pushed Stella and Macy towards her room. Once they were in Miley shut the door. "My brother might try and get your numbers, just saying."
They both giggled and then looked around the room. Macy climbed onto Miley's bed and Stella found her way to the closet. "Wow, even I think this is crazy." Stella said as she stood inside the walk in closet.
"Maybe you'll get a chance to see my real closet back home." Miley said after a small giggle.
"There's more?" Macy asked, her mouth open staring into the closet.
Stella had come out of the closet holding a few Chanel dresses, holding them like they were her children. "Yeah, and it was more organized there, but most of my clothes are here. I have no idea where we are going and I just can't figure out what to wear."
Macy and Stella both looked at each other, like they were in on some secret. "Well, now we're here and you have an hour, so let's get started." Stella said as she turned back into the closet.
Miley didn't like trying on clothes that she owned. She knew what she looked like in them, she'd already worn them, and putting them back on just reminded her of the places she'd worn them too. First Stella pulled out the skirt she'd worn on her first date with Travis and Miley immediately shot it down. Then she pulled out a purple dress that Miley had worn when she'd made up with Jake one time.
"Here, how about I pull out stuff out and you guys tell me if it works?" Miley asked, seeing as their current situation didn't seem to be getting them anywhere. Stella agreed and she went and sat next to Macy on the bed.
Miley would pull out skirts, dresses, shirts, shoes, anything to help them at least get started on the outfit. Once Miley had gone through just about every piece of clothing (well not every piece, just the ones Miley thought would work) in her closet they still hadn't even figured out what purse she would use. Miley, in her frustration, looked up at the shelves above her hanging clothes. It was filled with mainly shoes but there were a few clothes folded in plastic bags. They were sent to Hannah for free so that she would wear them and the company would get free publicity. Miley reached up and grabbed the whole pile of brand new clothes.
"Jackpot, girls." Miley threw the clothes on the bed, "Get to opening."
Macy and Stella both squealed as they all eagerly started ripping the plastic and laying out the cloths on the bed.
"Alright, none of these have been worn." Miley said realizing as she said this how dumb it was, of course they haven't been worn, they're in plastic bags.
"These are really cute where are they from?" Miley found a tag on one of the dresses, "Some London designer? It says Happy Summer."
"Huh, well they have really cute stuff." Stella added pulling out a purple one shoulder, bubble dress.
Miley looked over all the clothes and saw a black floral print hidden underneath all the clothes. She reached for the fabric and pulled. It was a floral print strapless mini dress. "How about this?" Miley asked as she held the dress to her body.
"Oh my gosh, with a cute cardigan it would be perfect with a black flat."
Miley just smiled and went into the bathroom to change. Once she had gotten dressed she came out and saw the cardigan and shoes Stella was talking about on the bed. Stella had also grabbed a small black purse for Miley. "This is going to be awesome, thank you guys so much."
Miley waited for Stella and Macy to get the hint to leave but they didn't seem to get it. "So, I'm just gonna put on my make up and leave."
Macy just looked at her and smiled, Stella did the same but shortly realized what Miley was getting at. "Oh, you want us to go? Well, like I said before me and Macy are just going back there after this to hang with Joe and Kevin. We could take you too and then you wouldn't have to worry about your car."
"Thanks that would actually be great. I got a ticket today so anyway to avoid my car is perfect." Miley headed into her bathroom and started doing her make-up. "Apparently you can't park your car overnight at school. I got a $200 ticket from the school." She added as she started putting on foundation.
"Ouch," Stella said, "Once Joe gets the courage to ask me out I'm going to have him drive me to school everyday."
Macy laughed, "What happened to not ruining your friendship with him?"
"Eh, I'm running low on gas money." She said sarcastically.
They giggled and kept talking about boys and clothes, Hannah Montana didn't even come up once, Miley was glad they hadn't gone all super fan on her. Miley finished her make up quickly. She kept it simple so that it wouldn't outshine the dress, just foundation, light eye make-up, dark lashes and a clear lip gloss. She came out and put on the shoes and cardigan. Miley looked at the purse Stella had picked out. She realized it was tiny.
"How do I look?" Miley asked spinning so they could see the whole thing.
"Nick is gonna go crazy," Macy said.
Right before they left her room Miley grabbed one of her Hannah wigs that were hidden under her bed. She kept the more recent on a mannequin head in the bathroom to prevent tangles. All the old ones were stored in a plastic box under her bed. She grabbed the one from about the time when she met the Jonas Brothers, just to really hit home. She ran her fingers through the hair to make sure to get out any big knots, the rest she'd take care of in the car. When she got up off the floor she looked up and saw Macy and Stella staring.
"I know, weird." Miley said.
Macy and Stella just smiled and started heading for the exit.
"Bye Jackson, we're going." They all left before Jackson could start hitting on Macy and Stella again.
Miley got in the back of Stella's VW Bug. It was a tight fit but Miley was so excited. She texted Nick and told him she was on her way. Nick texted back almost immediately that he was waiting and couldn't wait to see her. Miley felt the butterflies in her stomach float higher. All she could do was run her fingers through the wig to calm down.
Did you all catch the Camp Rock reference? 10 points to whoever finds it! 10 points for what you ask? For nothing. This is kind of short. Recently with my stories I've been realizing that I used to think 2000 words was a lot but that was dumb. Really dumb. So now I'm aiming for like 4000-5000. This is 3441 but that's after I added more to it. It was like 2500 before. But I promise, longer chapters.