A/N: Hey guys. Here is the next chapter...I hope you will be satisfied. Thanks to whoever nominated my stories fir the njK awards and, please, REMEMBER TO VOTE. Anyways, please excuse any spelling or grammar mistakes in this chapter because I'm using a strange and new keyboard (silicon – yeah, like, flexible) and I might miss out more than a few letters...I'll try to proof read but I normally can't because I'm too busy. Well, enjoy : Someone spotted that I've sometimes made the mistake of calling Miley 'Maia'...this is the girl's name in the show that this is based on and, to make it more realistic and better, while I'm writing I tend to think a lot about the TV show...I' m sorry if you got confused. I'll try to change it ASAP and not do it again.

In the last Episode:

Miley grinned. "Tyler? He's really sweet," she confessed. "And you should see how amazing he is at playing the piano...it's just fantastic. Oh! And he sings like an angel."

"Wow...that's cool," Jake accepted. "But, anyways, I don't think he's that amazing at everything."

"Really?" Miley asked. "What is it he's not amazing at?"

And, before Miley could even recall what was going on, Jake whispered: "This..." And kissed her like there was no tomorrow.

His lips crashed against hers brutally, working together robotically. The kiss continued but at one point Miley opened her eyes and, as soon as she saw who was staring at them from the other side of the street, she pulled away.

CHAPTER 9

NERVOSNESS IS PROHIBITTED

He had never really felt so low before, not when h had to leave his home when he was ten, not when his high-school girlfriend left him for the school jock, not even when he lost his first job and he nearly had a crisis at eighteen. Yes, Nick Grey had never really felt this way before, and the worst thing was, he didn't even know why.

He stood still looking at her kissing that blonde idiot, or more like letting the blonde idiot try and suck her face off. That was when her eyes opened and she looked left; that as when their sights met and he sighed and turned around the second after, too early to see her pull away.

---How?Did?I?Fall?In?Love?With?You?---

Miley pulled away quickly, feeling a strange sense of guilt take over her.

Jake raised his eyebrow. "What's wrong?" He asked. "I thought you wanted this..."

Miley breathed in and took a hand to her forehead. "I-I'm sorry, Jake. I-I'm just con-confused," she explained sounding dizzy.

---How?Did?I?Fall?In?Love?With?You?---

Nick went into the Stuart Mansion feeling like he would break pretty easily. His arms clinging to his sides like they had no will or power o move anymore, a frown decorating his pale face and his curly hair looking less lively than ever.

"Nicholas!" Taylor's squeaky voice rang in his ears. Nick looked up only to find the living room filled with all kinds of modern clothes.

"Taylor," Nick spoke seriously. He didn't normally address the woman directly or voice out his opinion about her to Joe or anyone else for that matter but she had caught him at his worst, at least his worst up to now. "Yesterday, it was the kids and today it's clothes, what are you playing at?"

"This wasn't her, Nico," Joe's voice rang above all the rest. Nick looked up and found his best friend staring at the far end of the room, where Pablo Cicaronni and Lilly where talking in between the clothes stalls. Nick looked around, confused. Joe understood. "Pablo," he said, with a clear edge to his voice. "Has decided he wants the company to promote a catwalk here in New York. He says he's seen it through and that it's an excellent way to promote and win money, but he said he needs Lillian's opinion for it and Taylor's also helping out.

At that moment, the door opened and an also down Miley came in. However, as soon as she saw the clothes the frown disappeared and her eyes went wide, making her start jumping around the living room energetically.

"Oh, my, god! Oh, god...this is so cool. Is this for a cat walk? Can I participate...please, can I?" she started shooting at Joe, who rolled his eyes dismissively.

He turned to look straight at his sister and he breathed in with a fake smile on his face. "No. Way. In. Hell."

Miley pouted and looked around her to find some ally. She saw that Lilly was too far away so she went straight to Nick, went on the second step of the staircase so that they were on the same level and wrapped her arms around him.

"Please Nick, convince him?" she begged with a puppy face. Nick couldn't help but smile and chuckle.

"I'll see what I can do," he laughed.

Joe sighed...it seemed, after all, he had no partner in crime when it came to Miley.

Miley smiled widely and gave Nick and strong kiss on the cheek. However, no matter how many times she had done the same thing before, now it felt different, it felt so different. She pulled back and they caught each other's eyes only to look away quickly and have Miley run up the stairs and Nick basically jump back.

Luckily, Joe had been too busy dying of jealousy as he looked at Lilly laugh at something that Cicaronni had said to notice anything.

---How?Did?I?Fall?In?Love?With?You?---

"So, then Mariana walked up to Juan Felipe and they kiss passionately and I'm melting as I look into the TV and he's just so…" Demi, who had come along and had been telling Miley about her favourite Mexican TV show, stopped abruptly. "You're not listening to me, Mi."

Miley looked up absently from her bed and shook her head. "I'm sorry Dem...I'm just...oh god..."

"Wait, wait..." Demi said, standing up and sitting on the bed with her best friend. "What's up?"

Miley bit her lip and spoke hesitantly. "Today Jake kissed me," she confessed.

Demi's eyes went wide, "Are you serious? Oh my god! Are you guys like back together now?"

"No," Miley answered, receiving a raised eyebrow form Demi. "Because...when we were kissing I saw Nick looking at us and...I kind of runaway..." she confessed.

"Oh my god! True! What if he said something to Joe...that would be like...?" Demi started inventing.

Miley looked at her incredulously, did the girl not remember their last conversation?

"No, Dem...I...It wasn't about Joe it...it was about what I felt when I saw him standing there."

Demi raised her eyebrow even more, if that was possible.

"It was like my boyfriend was seeing me kiss another guy...I felt so guilty."

Demi's jaw dropped. "Oh! My! God! You don't only like Nick...you're in love with him!" she shouted.

"Shut it!" Miley snapped...dead scared that someone may have heard.

"Oh, god!" Demi said, taking a hand to her heart. "I...like...totally get you...I mean, I'm also torn between two lovers," she spoke dramatically. "Robert Pattison and Taylor Laurtner, god, how to choose?"

Miley looked at Demi with an expression that clearly read 'are-you-kidding-me?' "Demi, you don't know either one of them, neither one of them knows you and...I think you're confusing yourself with Kristen Stuart."

Demi smirked. "Well, maybe they don't know me right now...but you'll be forced to take your words back in a few years."

Miley laughed and threw a cushion at Demi, who started fake weeping. "Okay, then, I'm leaving and going to the playroom to send Rob and Tay two wonderful love letters."

Miley simply shook her head at her best friend as she left.

---How?Did?I?Fall?In?Love?With?You?---

Nick was about to open the door as Demi came out and bashed into him.

"Sorry," he muttered, she simply ignored him and hurried down stairs.

Nick went into the room and as soon as Miley saw him she jumped of the bed and stood up.

"Nick? What are you doing here?" she asked with wide eyes.

He took a deep breath. "I want to speak to you, can I?"

Miley nodded.

---How?Did?I?Fall?In?Love?With?You?---

The two of them sat on the bed; her, pressing a cushion to her stomach and him, doodling with one of Miley's fluffy pens. He had surprised her, asking about Tyler before anything else.

"It's confusing," Nick spoke honestly. "I can't seem to understand..."

"What don't you understand, Nick? He's a great singer and piano player, first...and secondly...he's incredibly hot, Nick...even you can see that...it'd be strange for me not to like him," Miley told him.

"Well, I really think that's going over the top, no? Do you really like him that much?" he asked her, his heart beating a little faster.

She sighed. "Well, yes...and, well, no...I mean, at the beginning, yes...but now."

"No," Nick said looking at his feet. "I get it, I get it....You still have feelings for Jake, right? And then you like this Tyler and your confused..."

Miley gulped and looked at Nick right in the eye. "Well, not really because...y-you see...today something happened...something kind of weird."

Nick's heart started beating a little faster...

"Well, you know today when Jake and me where kissing and...You know...you saw us."

A little faster...

"Well, I kind of felt something."

A little faster...

"Like I was uncomfortable with it."

A little faster...

They looked into each other's eyes, a silent message going in between them.

Far too fast...

Nick stood up quickly, dropping the pen and tripping over the bed.

"It's l-late...I-I have to leave, Miley...I'll see you later..."he spoke as he left and tripped over a pair of shelves on his way out.

Miley bit her lip.

Well,

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