Tank you again all my reviewers. You guys are awesome. Just so everyone knows I don't think Robbie will stop the sleepovers. He just isn't sure how to handle things but that's for the next chapter. And Litarocks, Lita and the hardy boyz were my favourite team too, lol. I remember watching them when I was like eight every week with my cousin. And Smiley, thank you so much for that review it was really sweet of you. Anywho, don't own Hannah Montana or Band Of Gold by Freda Payne. Also this is kind of a Lilly chapter and I don't know if I like it. Meh.

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The sounds of her cell phone ringing awoke Lilly from her slumber. She groggily opened her eyes and grabbed it from Miley's bedside table. She checked the caller i.d and saw it was her mother. She frowned as she flipped it open. "What's up?" She whispered quietly, being mindful of the fact that Miley was still asleep.

"The sky." Her mom whispered back and Lilly rolled her eyes.

"Why are you calling me?" Lilly tried again, still whispering.

"Because you're my daughter and I want you to come home." Heather replied in a hushed tone. "Why are we whispering?"

"I'm whispering because Miley's still asleep and I don't want to wake her up. I don't know why you're whispering."

"Oh." Her mom said in her normal tone. "I was whispering because you were whispering."

Lilly let out a light chuckle. "What time do you want me home?"

"As soon as possible. I mean, I am all alone. I've got no one to talk too, and I haven't seen you since Saturday. How do I know I can even recognize you anymore…" Heather trailed of with a sigh.

It suddenly became very clear to Lilly where she got the whole drama queen thing from and although her heart sank in her chest somewhat at the thought of leaving Miley, she had to admit that she did miss her mommy. "I'll be home soon, drama queen."

"Okay hun, I love you, bye."

"I love you too." Lilly closed her phone and rolled over to face Miley. The brunette was still fast asleep and Lilly couldn't help but think she looked adorable. As much as she didn't want to wake Miley, she didn't want to leave without saying goodbye either. "Miley." She said as she shook the sleeping girl softly. Getting no response she tried again resulting in Miley mumbling something incoherently. "Miley." She said, slightly louder and she swore she saw Miley smile. Lilly leaned across and whispered, "Miley," in the other girl's ear making her giggle. "I know you're awake."

"Am not." Miley mumbled with her eyes still closed.

"You're not?"

"Nope." Miley said, shaking her head.

"Well, I need you to be awake and I've tried everything I can think of to wake you." Lilly sighed, playfully. "I don't know want else to do."

"You haven't tried everything." Miley said with a smirk.

"You're right. Hmm, how does one wake a sleeping beauty?" Lilly asked, pretending to think about it. "Oh, I know…a nice big bucket of cold water."

"No!" Miley exclaimed as Lilly moved to climb out of the bed. She quickly pulled the blonde back with the arm she still had wrapped around her waist. "That's not how you wake a sleeping beauty."

"Then how do you wake one?"

"A kiss, duh."

"A kiss, really?" Lilly asked scrunching up her nose even though she knew Miley couldn't see her and watched as Miley nodded her head. "A kiss here?" Lilly said as she kissed Miley's cheek, the brunette shook her head. "Oh, how about here?" Lilly asked as she kissed the tip of the other girl's nose. Once again, Miley shook her head. "Then where?" Miley brought a hand up and pointed to her lips. "Oh right," was all Lilly said as she bent down and pressed her lips against Miley's, letting her eyes flutter closed. She felt Miley smile into the kiss before the brunette reached up to increase the pressure. Soon their lips were moving in perfect sync with one another and her tongue was sliding into Miley's mouth, exploring every inch of it.

When the need for oxygen became too much she pulled away to see Miley grinning like a moron. "That was some wake up kiss." Miley said with a chuckle.

Lilly giggled. "Well, I have to go home soon and I wanted to get one last mini make out before I left."

"If that's the case." Miley grinned and grabbed a handful of Lilly's shirt, pulling the blonde closer. "I think I need a goodbye kiss." Again their lips met and Miley pulled Lilly flush against her. As the kiss went on, the hands that Miley had on Lilly's waist slid under and then slowly up her shirt.

It was then that Jackson walked in. "Hey Mile, I'm out of toothpaste can I bor- oh boy."

Both girls stopped kissing immediately and their heads snapped to the direction of the doorway. Jackson was leaning against the door frame and staring intently at the floor. "Jackson." Miley said, having finally found her voice. "What are you doing in here?"

"Toothpaste." The boy said, holding up his empty tube of toothpaste. "I'm just going to go and rinse my eyes out, then pretend I didn't see my sister with her hands up her best friend's shirt as she made out with her." With that he basically ran back to his room.

Lilly slid off of a shell shocked Miley that was staring at the area Jackson was just standing in with scary concentration. "So, I guess Jackson knows about us." She said, breaking the brunette go out her thoughts.

"Um…y-yeah." Miley stuttered as her gaze switched between Lilly and the door. Then her eyes widened and she jump off the bed and started pacing. "Oh boy, Oh-boy-oh-boy-oh-boy, Jackson knows. Jackson knows and he ran away. Jackson knows and he ran away and I don't know whether that's good or bad. What do I do?" She stopped and looked at Lilly.

Lilly could see that Miley was freaking out and as much as she wanted to freak out right next to her, Miley clearly needed her so she forced herself to stay calm. "We could talk to him?" She offered.

"Right." Miley nodded as she started pacing again. "We can just talk to him. Explain that we're dating and that we've liked each other for a long time. He'll be okay with it..." Miley trailed off and bite her bottom lip. Something she only did when something was bothering her. She looked back up at Lilly with tears in her eyes. "What if he isn't okay with it?"

Lilly sighed and climb off the bed before walking over to Miley and pulling her into a tight hug. "He'll be fine with it Miles." She said as she rubbed soothing circles on the taller girls back. "If you want, we can go over there right now and explain things while I'm still here."

"I don't think he wants to see me just yet but maybe you could…"

Lilly sighed again and pulled out of the hug. "Fine, I'll go talk to him. You stay right here and try not to hyperventilate or something. Everything's going to be fine." Lilly said, giving Miley a reassuring smile before she left the room, closing the door behind her.

Lilly had no idea what she was supposed to do or what she was supposed to say, she just knew that she wanted Miley to be grinning like a moron again, and if that meant dealing with Jackson then she would. She took a few deep calming breaths before she pushed the door open to see Jackson pacing muttering, "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy." She did a double take, didn't she already see this? Sometimes Miley and Jackson were really alike; not that she would ever tell them that. She cleared her throat and Jackson looked up. "Oh boy." He said again when he saw her.

She had to roll her eyes as she closed the door, and they called her a drama queen. "Jackson." She said, walking over to the pacing boy. It suddenly occurred to her how odd it was that Jackson could pace. Normally you couldn't move in his room. It was then that she noticed the room was immaculate. "How'd your room get so clean?"

Jackson stopped his pacing, looking at her with confused eyes having not expected that question. "Miley cleaned it when you were avoiding her." Lilly inwardly cringed when she heard this. Wow, she owed Miley big time. "But I guess you guys are over that now." He went back to his pacing still muttering to himself.

Lilly had just about enough. She stormed right over to him and physically stopped him from pacing. "What is your problem?" She demanded, narrowing her sea blue eyes.

"My problem is I just walked in on my sister making out with a girl, excuse me for being a little freak out. I didn't know my sister was…that she was…that she was…like that." He finally managed to get out.

Lilly sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "She's still the same Miley, Jackson. She's still the same goofy, crazy, loyal, kind hearted girl she always was."

Now it was Jackson's turn to sigh as he collapsed into the chair by his desk. "I know she is. I…well, I guess it was just a shock is all."

"Well, it was a shock for us too, let me tell ya." Lilly said, taking a seat on the edge of his bed.

"So, uh…you guys are dating?" Lilly nodded. "When did that start?" Jackson asked, squirming in his seat, showing how uncomfortable he was.

"About a week ago, when you were on that fishing trip. Miley took me to the carnival." Lilly answered, a soft smile making itself shown on her face as she thought back to that day, and the big soft Miley bear that she had at home. Although the carnival hadn't been their first official date, Lilly liked to think of it as their first one.

"And you're serious about each other?"

"Jackson, she's my world and I just know that she feels the same." Lilly told him, blue eyes shining with sincerity and openness.

Jackson searched those eyes for any hint of a lie, finding none he turned his gaze back to his hands as he twiddled his thumbs. "Are you two happy?"

"Of course we are." Lilly smiled when she thought about just how happy she truly was. "But right now Miley is sitting in her room, worrying about the fact that her brother might not accept us, accept her."

Jackson's head snapped up to meet the blonde's gaze. "She is?" Again Lilly nodded. "Well, what do I do?"

"Are you okay with us?" Lilly asked, trying really hard to hide how much she needed to hear that he was. Jackson had always been like a brother to her and she was finding that his opinion really mattered to her; that was another thing she would never say.

Jackson's eyebrows drew together as he really thought about the question. "Yeah." He said quietly after a while. "Yeah, I am." He repeated with more conviction. "I guess I was just freaked at seeing my sister and the girl I've come to think of as a sister making out. If you two are happy then I'm happy for ya."

Lilly dove off of the bed and hugged him tight. "Thanks Jackson." She mumbled into his ear.

"That's okay." Jackson said back as he wrapped his arms around Lilly. The hugged was awkward considering Jackson was still sitting in the seat but they managed. Lilly pulled away, grinning from ear to ear, giddy about the fact that the first person who knew about them had taken it so well. "Um…what do I do about Miley?"

"You go over there and tell her what you just told me, bozo." Lilly answered, playfully rolling her eyes at him.

"Okay, okay, I'm going." He got up and left the room before he walked into Miley's. Lilly fell back on his bed, felling like she had just had an incredibly weight lifted off her shoulders. But then she realised that she was lying on Jackson's bed and quickly jumped off with a, "Gross," before she too walked into Miley's room. The siblings were just hugging, Miley had tears in her eyes but this time they were tears of happiness. When she saw Lilly standing in the doorway she gave her a teary big goofy grin and Lilly smiled back, glad that Miley was grinning like a moron again. She literally had to stop herself from shouting mission accomplished at the top of her lungs.

With the hug now over, Jackson retrieved the toothpaste from Miley's bathroom and excused himself, shutting the bedroom door as he left. "You were right." Miley said, looking at Lilly with blue eyes filled with relief and happiness.

"About what?" Lilly asked, blonde brows drawing in confusion.

"Everything is going to be fine." Miley elaborated, with a soft smile.

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Lilly unlocked her front door and walked in, locking the door behind her and dumping her keys in the bowl that sat on the table right next to her. She walked through to the family room and was surprised to see the furniture in the middle of the room and the scent of lemon-y fresh in the air. She heard music coming from the kitchen and walked in to see all the drawers had been emptied and were sitting besides the sink and her mother…her mother was dancing around the kitchen singing into the mop. The sight made her burst out in hysterics.

The laughter made Heather look up to see her teenaged daughter standing with one hand on the kitchen counter to keep herself upright as she laughed. Most people may have been embarrassed at being caught singing into a mop handle but not Heather. She just shrugged it off as she turned down the radio. "Like you've never sang into a mop handle before."

The sentence made Lilly sober up slightly. "Maybe, but I'm seventeen. What's your excuse?"

"I'm young at heart." Heather replied, simply.

Lilly scoffed. "Or just really immature."

"Singing into a mop isn't immature." Heather started. "This is immature." With that she flicked the mop in Lilly's direction, effectively getting the younger girl wet.

"Hey!" Lilly exclaimed with a disgruntled expression on her face. "That was just uncalled for."

"Well, you left me to face you father alone this morning. He's coming back later by the way. He said he had something he wanted to tell you."

"Dad was here?" Lilly asked, feeling all the joyfulness from earlier leave her body immediately. Her father was, for lack of a better term, a dick. When Lilly's mom had caught him cheating on her, Lilly had sworn that she wanted nothing else to do with him.

"Yep." Her mother answered as she went back to her cleaning. "That's why I'm in cleaning mode. The place always seems dirty after that cheating sleazebag comes to visit." As soon as the words left her mouth Heather wanted to take them back. Although she hated Ken for cheating on her, he was still Lilly's father and she shouldn't speak about him like that in front of her. "Sorry, I shouldn't have said that." She said, her eyes filled with remorse.

"Why not, it's true." Lilly said with a shrug. "And I don't care what he has to say."

"But he's your dad and I don't want you to hate him. I get that you still need him. What teenaged girl doesn't need her dad?"

"I don't." Lilly said, nonchalantly. "I have you, I don't need him."

"Lilly your dad isn't a bad guy…"

"Yes he is. He cheated. He left. He's a bad guy." Lilly cut her off, eyes flashing with anger and hurt. She forced down her emotions when she saw her mother's shocked face. "Now, let's turn up the music and get this cleaning done." She said with a forced smile.

Heather still looked at Lilly with concern. She wasn't entirely sure that it was healthy for her daughter to feel that way about her father but she knew Lilly well enough to know that she would forgive him in her own time and not a second before. She too, forced a smile and said, "You got it," as she turned the music up. When she heard the song that was playing the smile turned genuine. "I love this song!" She yelled over to Lilly as she started dancing.

"You've got to be kidding?" Lilly yelled back, incredulous.

Heather just shook her head and grabbed Lilly's arm twirling the younger blonde around singing, "Now that you're gone, all that's left is a band of gold. All that's left of the dreams I hold, is a band of gold." at the top of her lungs.

Lilly laughed as she sang along, thinking that maybe it was time they came out to their parents. She knew her mother would be fine with it and honestly, she hated keeping secrets from the older blonde. She knew her dad wouldn't be but she didn't care, as long as her mother still accepted her for who she was and she had Miley at her side, Lilly knew that life would be good.