Chapter 11: Power Of The Kiss

"What?" Miley mumbled horrified with wide eyes.

"Come on, we need to go right now." Nick suddenly stood up and grabbed both girls' arms taking them towards the door as they looked at him confused.

"Where to?" Demi asked.

"No time for questions, we'll talk while on the road." He said as he left the house dragging them after him. He jumped into an old car and made them both take the back seat. He started driving away as fast as he could.

"What happened?" Miley finally seemed to get over her shock as she asked him.

"The gang attacked them."

"I figured that, Nick. I mean what exactly happened?" she said with attitude.

"Nothing, Miley." He rolled his eyes, "The gang attacked. They defended and ran away. They're safe."

"Where are we going then?"

"To them." He said making her look like the stupid one.

"What do you mean?" That was Demi this time who asked confused.

"They lost their car." He explained sighing.

"What? Are you telling me that they're out there on the road?" Miley exclaimed.

"No, they're not." He raised his voice also.

"God, Nick, do we have to ask for everything? Just explain."

"If you could just shut up and let me think about my job!" he hit the driving wheel and huffed frustrated.

"Right," she nodded and looked at the window, "Yeah, I don't have the right to know, I'm sorry. It's not like you just dragged me out of my house not telling me where the hell we're going right after you told me my dad and my friend almost got killed, yeah, Nick, I'm sorry."

He sighed and didn't answer for a while until he got calmer, "Alright, I'm sorry, but I was planning everything in my mind," he paused waiting for her to say something but when he glanced at her from the front mirror he saw her just sitting there like a statue looking at the window with a frown, not even blinking.

"Where are we going, Nick?" Demi asked when she lost hope in Miley talking.

"To one of the huts, Joe took Mr. Stewart there when they lost the car." Nick explained and Demi nodded.

"What huts?" Miley asked with attitude showing him she's still mad.

"You don't think the CIA would leave us there with no shelters, do you? There's always somewhere to go whenever something goes wrong."

"And you know about them all?"

"Well, yeah, at least around the place I'm working at." He shrugged.

"So, is it far?" she asked with her normal tune but after a while.

"Not really, we'll be there in an hour." He told her.

Miley looked out the window again and lost herself in her thoughts once again. So, her father was fine, which got a huge weight off of her shoulder. And then there was Nick, when she replayed the little moment in her head, she found it as obvious as hell that he regretted it; that's why he pulled away all of a sudden. But she won't let him go with it. There will be a fight for sure.

It was really dark outside, the road seemed to be empty except for them, the cold night air blew in her face, and all in all it made her feel a little scared.

"Nick?" she found herself whispering. She didn't know what she wanted to tell him, but she just felt like she should call him.

"Yes?"

"Why did you take us with you?" Was what came in her mind.

"I couldn't leave you alone in the house, Miley."

"But my friends are there."

"They've got enough security."

"Then, you could have left us." She looked at him weirdly, "You don't make sense, Nick."

"I would have been worried if I left you there, okay? I would have been working with a half mind, but now that you're under my eyes, I'm not worried."

"So, your point is…?"

"You're my job." He said way too fast that she had to repeat it in her head so she understands what he said.

"Oh, right." She fell back in her seat and looked at Demi to see her eyes closed as she seemed to be asleep.

"And I care about you." He added shortly.

"Of course you do." She rolled her eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing, I'll catch some sleep." She closed her eyes but just kept thinking about everything until she slowly drifted into sleep as Nick sighed and kept driving and glancing at them in the front mirror every once and a while seeing their bodies vibrate slightly due to the car movement.

He couldn't help but slap his hand on his forehead knowing he screwed up, "What the hell was I thinking?" he mumbled to himself.

XxXx

Miley felt herself being shook as she slowly came to reality surprised by the ache in her neck, why would she have such ache when she has her pillows? She opened her eyes and realized the reason was she was still in the car. She figured that the car stopped and Nick disappeared so she became worried for a while and she looked at her side to see the one who woke her up was Demi…

"What happened?" she asked panicking.

"Relax, we're here." Demi told her smiling and pointed at the small old house. Miley looked at it and swallowed hard getting out of the car. She glanced at Demi worriedly who nodded at her as Miley took her way directly towards the small house.

She pushed the wooden door opened which made a sound revealing the modern contents of the house that didn't match the outside look of it at all. She stood there for a while before hearing some conservation making her know which way to take.

She followed the voices with Demi right after her and soon tackled her father in a huge hug once she saw him perfectly fine, he laughed and hugged her back but then he winced as she pulled away quickly with wide eyes.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just a small cut in my arm." He smiled at his daughter as she looked at his left arm and saw that it was already bandaged.

"What happened?" she sat down and asked sadly.

"Nothing to concern yourself with. It wasn't something honestly." He shook his head.

"Just tell me."

Her dad sighed and looked between Joe and Nick as the three started staring between the three of them as if having a silent secret conservation. Finally, Nick rolled his eyes, sighed and nodded and they looked back at Miley,

"We were on our way back when the driver noticed a car following us." Joe started, "I told him to act like we didn't notice but at the same time try to get away from them."

"Can we complete that conversation on our way?" Nick said annoyed.

Joe nodded as did Mr. Stewart and they stood up while Demi shrugged following but Miley spoke protesting out of irritation, "Why?"

"We can't stay here so long." Nick responded getting up and taking her arm trying to make her stand up also.

"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me, not anymore anyway." She shrugged his hand away.

"We can't e late for the sick drunk group of you at home, besides who knows, the stupid gang could know about the place." He knew the last part won't possible happen especially that they don't know yet about the interfering of the CIA.

She seemed to be thinking about it until she rolled her eyes standing up and storming out.

"You were good, what happened?" Mr. Stewart asked as they moved outside.

"She is just worried about you." Nick shrugged as Joe noticed the nervousness that crossed his face for a moment before washing away, he frowned but let it go for now.

Nick unlocked the car as Demi hoped in the back seat followed by Miley who was seated in the middle between her father and Demi as Joe took the passenger one next his best friend.

"Now, can you please continue?" Miley rolled her eyes.

"The gang started following us and when they felt they're losing us they started attacking. They obviously wanted to take Mr. Stewart, anyway they managed to kill the driver which put me in a hard position as I was supposed to manage somehow to get in the driver's seat and shoot them at the same time." Joe said, "Anyway, I couldn't, causing the car to crash hardly into theirs. We ran and only two left conscious to chase us. We got rid of them and came here." He finished.

"Wow," Miley started shocked, "That was so close then."

"Very." Joe agreed.

"And if we went back from the same road don't you think they might be waiting?" Demi asked as Miley looked at her and nodded.

"Who said we will take the same road." Nick shrugged. "When we reach I want you to have an hour or two of sleep so we can plan our next move." He directed his words to Joe and Demi, "And you need to get rid of the three drunk asses first thing."

"Don't call them that." She glared as he rolled his eyes.

"What's wrong with you two?" Demi whispered to her, Miley thought for a second before asking:

"Do you have your phone?"

"What?" Demi frowned confused.

"Your cell phone, Dem, do you have it?" Demi nodded and fished the phone from her pocket handing it to Miley.

"He kissed me." Miley typed into the small screen. When Demi saw her typing she understood that Miley meant for no one to hear them; after all, they're just in a car and it was all silent. But when she saw what Miley typed her eyes got wide and stared at Miley,

"What?" she exclaimed as Joe looked at her surprised and Nick looked at her from the mirror but Mr. Stewart was already asleep. She gave a small chuckle and faced Miley's glare again.

"But I think he regrets it." She bit her lower lip as she saw Demi write a reply.

"Why? I want details."

"We were arguing about Liam, and I was honestly considering dropping the whole plan thing, and he just kissed me."

"Wow, seems like he finally got to admit he likes you ;)"

"Nah, told you, he regretted it; the look of horror that crossed his face when he pulled away explains it all." Miley let out a sigh as she handed the phone to Demi.

"And…? Did you talk, I mean?"

"No, you came right afterwards saying Joe's on the phone. Look, we'll discuss it when we get back, catch some sleep now, Mr. Workaholic seems to have some plans." She rolled her eyes as Demi laughed.

"Fine."

XxXx

That night, after having the longest day from Joe's call to driving and rescuing them to finding a good excuse to make Miley's friends leave to Nick having a secret meeting with Joe and Demi and not letting her be with them to both Nick and Miley ignoring each other the whole day, finally, Nick was able to have some rest in his room with Joe on the other bed.

"Are you okay?" Joe asked him, "You seem pretty tired."

"I'm." Nick nodded half minded, "Joe I messed up." He shook his head and looked at him.

"What do you mean? The plan we came up with is great an-"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm not talking about the plan."

"What's wrong then?" Joe sat up in his bed to have a better view of Nick who just stared at the ceiling.

"I don't know what came over me."

"What happened?"

"I mean, I didn't even think about it."

"What are you talking about?"

"It was a moment of weakness, I couldn't stop myself."

"Nick, what the hell happened?"

"I kissed her Joe." He suddenly blurted out seeing Joe's eyes wtart to widen.

"You what? You kissed who?"

"Miley. I kissed Miley."

"Shit."

"There's something else."

"Don't tell me you…"

"I think so."

"You slept w-"

"NO. I think I like her."

"That's worse. Double shit." Joe smacked his head.

Nick sighed knowing Joe was right, but what could he do? It was her velvet soft lips that got him mad and her blue wide eyes that got him lost and just everything about her. But he has to admit, it wasn't until he kissed her that he actually admitted he likes her.