Always Second Best
Chapter Eleven.
"I can't believe you quit! Miles, who am I going to talk to now?" I hear her voice whine through the phone and I can't help but sigh, she's only asked this question ten times in the thirty minutes that we've been on the phone.
"It's complicated Dems, just come over and get ready with me. I'll tell you all about it," I say, hoping that she'll agree so that I don't have to arrive at my little sister's party with just Ethan, because for some odd reason I invited him along as my date.
"Alright," she groans, "I'll be over in twenty minutes."
"Okay, see you then." I hang up the phone and go straight toward my shower. Twenty minutes is plenty of time for me to clean myself up.
As soon as I step back into my bedroom I hear Demi's voice from my living room.
"Miley! I'm here!" she yells, I listen as her heels clack against my floor as she closes in on my bedroom.
"Hello Demi," I smile, as soon as she walks through the door.
"Are you seriously not dressed yet? Miles, at this rate we're going to be late!" she whines. I roll my eyes.
"It's not like we're going to anything that important," I whine back, looking inside my closet for something decent to wear. I decide on a strapless pink dress that lands right above my number and hold it up for Demi's approval.
"Perfect, and wear those silver heels with all the glitter on them," she replies. I pull out my sparkly heels from the bottom of my closet and begin my transformation. "So, are you going to let me know why you quit any time soon?" Demi questions as she's helping me zip up the back of my dress.
"Long story short, Taylor's living with Nick now and he believes that we're just having some sort of sister conflict. I want to tell him the truth about her and let him know just how evil she really is but I just don't have the heart to let it all out. There's no way that I can stay in that office, falling so hopelessly in love with him when he's falling in love with my lie of a sister. I just can't do it," I explain as briefly as I possibly can.
"But Miles," she whines, "Who am I going to gossip to? Nobody else in that office will keep my secrets! I'm going to be miserable!"
I take a deep breath and walk over to my vanity, starting to curl my hair in layers. "I'm sorry Demi, I'm going to miss you terribly too, but we'll just have to make due. Maybe have a girl's night every Friday to make up for lost time or something?" I suggest.
"You won't have time for me every Friday, you've got a boyfriend now Miles. We all know that boyfriend's take up the majority of every girl's life," she states. This is true, every time either one of us claim a boyfriend we barely have enough time to spend a day out of the month together. That's why working together was always the perfect make up place.
"Ethan and I… we're not going anywhere. I think tonight I'm going to end it altogether. I don't see the point in wasting my time with a guy when I know that there's absolutely no future for us. I need to start looking somewhere else."
"Poor Ethan, he's so hopelessly in love with you!" Demi exclaims.
"I know, and that's another reason to just let him go. I don't need to continue leading him on like a little puppy dog. He needs to go out and find his true love too. We're both giving up the ones that we love in hopes of finding one that we love… more," I say, twisting a strand of hair around my curling iron.
Out of the corner of the mirror I see Demi give me a sympathetic smile. She starts my way and lays her hand on my shoulder.
"Miles, I know that giving up your hope for Nick is going to be extremely hard. And I hate that you have to let it go, but I really do think that you'll be happier in the long run because from what has occurred in the past couple of months I don't think Nick's ever going to realize that he has the perfect lady right in front of his eyes just waiting on him. So, I'm happy that you're moving on. You deserve to live your life," she says, her eyes getting all watery. It's as if we're at my wedding and she's letting her best friend go or something. Except, it's not my wedding, this is my letting-go-of-the-one-I-love party.
I smile, feeling the water rush to my eyes, "Thanks, now stop getting all sentimental and crap. I don't want to redo my makeup."
"Right," she smiles. "But, just as a final note, you will find the right guy for you Miley, I'm sure of it."
As soon as she's finished with her final word the door bell rings to my apartment. "That's probably Ethan; will you go answer it while I finish getting ready?"
"Sure," Demi says, making her way out of my room to greet Ethan.
I lay down my curling iron; satisfied with the way my hair looks. Then I sit down on my tiny chair and let all the pity that I've been feeling for myself let loose.
Tonight, I'm sure, will be a terrible night for me and I'll probably come home and cry myself to sleep. I'm going to be thinking along the same thoughts that I'm thinking right now. I've spent entirely way too much time waiting on the person that I'm in love with, the guy that I shouldn't even be in love with because I haven't had to the chance to be with him in that way. And in the back of my head I know that I'll never be able to find someone that will compare to the way I think about Nick, but I'm going to try my hardest and if I never manage to find someone then I'll just have to be happy with my life as a single, independent woman. But, tonight, I'm going to let myself have fun, maybe take a couple shots and forget about everything that's happened. I'm going to stay away from Nick and start living the life that I need to be living.
A/n: Okay, I just can't make these chapters any longer for some reason. This chapter really has no meaning whatsoever. The next chapter… the next chapter should be pretty interesting :) I'm going to try and finish this story because Jan. 10th, which is when I started it. Two chapters left!
Everyone have a Merry Christmas!