Chapter 12 Kissed? Nah, Got Interrupted!
"How do I look?" Selena asked her two best friends as she entered Miley's room where Demi was helping Miley choose her dress after choosing Selena's and hers.
"Beautiful." Miley smiled.
"And hot." Demi completed.
"Thanks, guys, I gotta go do my make up." She said as she turned making her red not so short dress dance around her thin perfect long legs.
"Wait, you can do it here." Miley called out and Selena thought about it before deciding to have some time with her friends while putting her make up on.
"Jacob is taking you, huh?" Demi asked while Miley entered her bathroom to change in her dress. Demi was already dressed before them and had her makeup done because she knew how late those two could get! It was two weeks since they knew about Taylor's engagement, and that night was her engagement party, after she and Lucas finally became free for the wedding arrangements and stuff.
"Funny that you mentioned it," she let out a nervous chuckle as Demi got alerted and looked at Selena knowing that the next thing that'll come out of her mouth won't be likable for her.
"What?" Demi asked impatiently as Selena started applying her makeup.
"Umm, his car didn't start when he was going to his cousins this morning, and Kevin is already taking his car with Danielle, which leaves just Joe's car since Nick crashed his car two days ago. And Joe has been nice enough to let him take his car just if he found him and Nick a ride… so, I thought that maybe you can…" Selena's voice faded as she got to the end of the statement… she heard Miley chuckle as she got out from the bathroom. Selena closed her eyes waiting for Demi's loud scream and yelling at her but it never came.
"I can't believe you fell for that. That was exactly what Joe wanted, to come with us so he can annoy the shit out of me again." Demi said gritting her teeth. She remembered the past two weeks which Demi and Joe have been like the cat and the mouth in.
She steps on his leg… he push the chair when she's about to sit making her fall on the ground. He orders her sugarless lemon juice… she puts chili in his coffee. She replaces the components of his bag with heavy weights… he puts a picture of her with a drawn mustache and evil look on her mirror… and so on!
"You can handle it, Dems… for me please." When Demi saw the look on Selena's face she sighed giving up.
"Fine, Sel. But next time tell me before deciding who can ride with me in the car." She said and huffed as Miley laughed again searching for some accessories. "Laugh as you like, I bet you're looking forward for that." Demi smirked.
"Why would I?" Miley asked while applying some make up on her face too.
"Come on, Nick's going to be there." Selena nudged her shoulders.
"Stop it, guys. I told you I don't like him."
"Yeah, you don't like him… as a friend." Demi teased.
"Listen, I'm not denying that I'm attracted to him, but not that much." Miley said honestly.
"Trust me, soon you'll find yourself even in love with him." Demi said and chuckled. Miley thought about that statement for a while, it held a lot of meanings for her than her friends thought it would, she figured that she has to think about that seriously to know the truth of her feelings. She thinks that Nick's hot and kind but does she really like him? Now that question needs an answer.
"Demi, can you get it?" she was interrupted from her thoughts by the doorbell followed by Selena's words.
"Fine, but hurry up." Demi said and left the room.
"Miles, how do I look?" Selena stood up and asked her friend who smiled.
"Gorgeous as ever." She told her smiling.
"Thanks. By the way you look great." Selena told her knowing that she'll ask. Miley smiled and took a last glance at the mirror with her white tight top of the dress and its short cream flaw skirt and her light make up.
"Thanks… we better go before she kills them or something." Miley said and Selena nodded in agreement before they went to the front door to see the three boys standing there with Demi sending a cold glare at the one and only Joe Gray!
"Wow, you look beautiful." Jacob whispered to Selena when she approached him making her blush and mumble a 'thank you'. "See you later, guys." Jacob said wanting to get rid of the tension between them as he dragged Selena out to Joe's car. Being dragged, Selena just waved at her friends.
"Umm, ready to go?" Miley asked noticing the tension in the air between Demi and Joe; she didn't even ask knowing that it's something stupid of theirs!
"Yeah, sure, let's go." Nick answered as Joe let out a long breath and Demi rushed out and entered the passenger seat.
"What are you doing?" Joe said.
"Driving, duh."
"No, I am driving. I won't be directed in car by a girl like you. You might make an accident just to kill me."
"Are you crazy? It's my car… and I won't lose it just so you die… you don't deserve even that." She said and looked at him a disgusted look.
"You. Are. Not. Driving." He said and grabbed her hand firmly.
"I am not letting you drive my car."
"Calm down, guys. Would it be better if I drive?" Miley said even though she knows she's a crazy driver and that they won't like her driving.
"No, no, no not you." Demi shook her head.
"Why not? Come on." Miley said and pushed Demi out of the seat and sat in it.
"Fine, you are better." Joe said and opened the back seat door sitting next to his brother while Demi sat next to Miley.
"You won't ever drive the car when I'm with you, again. Never ever." Demi said when they finally arrived at Taylor's house while Miley chuckled and Nick smiled and Joe shook his head with a sarcastic smile on his lips.
"I knew she's a big coward." He said and left them.
"I see you're here." Selena and Jacob approached them, "Sorry, guys, I won't be able to take care of the party with you." She smiled an apologetic smile.
"It's okay, Sel. Enjoy your date." Demi smiled and Miley nodded as Selena left again with Jacob.
"Take care of the party? What's that supposed to mean?" Nick asked confused.
"Well, since Taylor will be busy with the guests and her fiancé, and we're her closest friends, then we offered to make sure everything's okay." Miley explained while scanning the party with them searching for Taylor.
"But you won't have fun."
"We won't do that all the time, just every few minutes we would make sure that everything's in its right place and that the plats are full of food."
"Aren't there maids to do that?"
"Taylor doesn't like them, even though we convinced her to hire two for tonight, but we still need to make sure they're doing well."
"Aha." Nick said and looked away a little disappointed; he was hoping to have some time with her!
"Isn't she supposed to be waiting for the guests?" Demi questioned still searching, even though it wasn't that crowded yet.
"Lucas is no where in sight too."
"I bet they're upstairs right now." Nick said earning a hit on his chest from Miley, "What? It makes sense!" he chuckled.
"Here they are." Demi said pointing at the stairs where they were standing at the end of.
"See? They just came from upstairs." Nick said as Miley rolled her eyes and smiled while Demi just smiled.
"Tay." Miley exclaimed as she approached them, "Congrats, honey." She said and hugged her.
"Thanks, Miles." She hugged her back, "You look beautiful; no wonder that he's following ya." She whispered making Miley pull away from the hug and frown playfully t her.
"Why do you all keep mentioning it?" she complained whispering as Taylor rolled her eyes and faced Demi giving her a hug too followed by Nick who just shook her hand as the girls congratulated Lucas too.
"Well, you need to go welcome your guests at the door." Miley informed the couple.
"Oh, right, forgot about that." Lucas said as Taylor rolled her eyes playfully and then they excused themselves going to see their guests.
"Miley, I'm gonna go see if everything's okay." Demi said and smirked then turned around after sending her a wink!
"So," Nick started after a while, "Wanna dance?" he asked seeing that the party is getting more crowded and the music was being louder and louder.
"Umm, sure, why not?" she said smiling. He took her hand for the first time and guided her towards the dance floor.
The beat was fast and soon they found themselves melting with the music as their bodies moved in a perfect rhyme against each other! "Didn't know you're such a great dancer." Nick commented.
"I just do what the music says." She shrugged. "You're not so bad yourself." She said making him smile.
Two songs later, they were at the bar as Miley wanted to do her job and make sure nothing's going bad for the sake of Taylor's party. She wanted everything to be okay for her god-sister engagement party!
"Nothing's wrong, Miles, I just checked." She heard Demi say behind her as she turned around and smiled at her.
"Okay, Dems, why aren't you with us?" she asked her as Demi raised an eyebrow and chuckled.
"You took the chance of being alone and snuck out to the dance floor!" Demi smirked as Miley blushed and Nick laughed.
"Yeah, Demi, our bad." Nick said not showing his embarrassed side.
"Well, I was sitting with Danielle." Demi said.
"Kevin's here? Didn't know that."
"How would you?" Demi mumbled, "You were busy dancing." He pretended not to hear since she said it whispering.
"Well, since we're at the bar, why don't we have a drink?" Miley changed the topic looking between the both of them.
"I am not staying here." Demi said looking past the two of them as they turned around to see Joe approaching them. But before having the chance to leave he was already there and Miley's hand was on Demi's preventing her from leaving.
"Where were you? I was looking at you for a long time." Joe said.
"You were the one who left us on the first place." Nick shrugged.
"I wanted to say hi to Taylor and Lucas." He said.
"You know we could have done that together."
"Being seen with her won't be good for my reputation." Joe said.
"Watch your words, Gray." Demi glared.
"I didn't mention your name, Monroe." Joe smirked.
"I swear if it wasn't for the sake of Taylor I'd have started a fight that you won't ever forget." She gritted her teeth as he smiled at her his 'I don't care' smile.
"Hey, guys, why don't you dance with us? The party is getting louder." Selena yelled over at them as she was dancing with Jacob while Taylor and Lucas weren't so far away.
"Yeah, it's getting great." Danielle said suddenly appearing by their side dragging Kevin behind her.
"Hey, Danielle." Miley welcomed her.
"Hey, Miles, come on, I know you enjoy dancing." Danielle said eagerly.
"I'm not dancing right now." Demi said.
"Ha! Because you don't have someone to dance with." Joe said while smirking.
"Joe," Kevin said calmly making Joe afraid of his next sentence, "be nice and dance with her." Kevin said.
"What?" they both exclaimed.
"Come on, there's some paparazzi here, fix what you've done in the last party." Kevin said and without waiting for their responds, he pushed them to the dance floor where it took them a while to start moving according to the music while 'deciding' stubbornly – aka arguing- what move they should do!
"Wanna dance? Again?" Nick offered smiling as she nodded and soon they were surrounding by people moving to the beat.
"Stop stepping on my feet." Joe whined gritting his teeth and faking a smile to make it un-obvious that they're not getting along.
"You're the one who dances horrible." She told him with the same attitude.
"How come I'm the horrible dancer while you're the one stepping on my feet?"
"Because you don't move fast." She said and hit his nose lightly with her index finger to annoy him even more.
However, the other two noticed their attitude and shook their heads, "They're just perfect." Miley rolled her eyes and Nick chuckled.
"Hey, Miley, can I ask you a question?" Nick asked nervously.
"Go on." She encouraged.
"How- how do you see me now? I mean we're not enemies anymore, right?" he knew that it's not the first time that he ask that question, but he chickened out at the last minute from asking the question he wanted to ask. However, his question shocked her, maybe because she was avoiding the answer of that question. They slowed on in the movement when the music became slower.
"Umm, yeah, we're friends." She smiled as she felt his hands on her waist and she put her hands one on his waist and the other on his shoulders. He smiled at her and gazed into her blue eyes; she smiled back and also met his brown orbs.
"Did I mention that you look beautiful tonight?" and now his player flirting side came out as he smirked while saying that.
"No," she answered blushing.
"Miley,"
"Huh?"
"You look beautiful tonight." He smirked.
"Nick,"
"Huh?"
"Don't try your player side with me." She also smirked.
"For the first time in my life, I'm saying what I actually think about a girl." He said honestly.
"So, you think I'm beautiful?"
"One hundred percent sure." He smiled and once again they gazed into each other's eyes. Slowly he started leaning in without being able to stop himself, her heartbeat got more frequent when she noticed that she watched him leaning more and more not knowing what to do! She was now sure that she has a crush on him, but was she ready to a kiss? He stopped for a while to make sure that she's okay with it, also without being able to stop it, she leaned in a little to let him know it's okay. Just when he was about to make the last move and connect his lips with hers…
"Miley." Someone yelled her name interrupting Nick who sighed and got back to his normal position and looked past Miley just then his face turned red from anger. Is he blind? Or dumb? It was fucking obvious that they were about to kiss, the closeness wasn't normal between their faces! And that Liam just came and ruined his perfect moment!
"Oh, hey, Liam." Miley said offering him a slight smile. Nick smiled to himself when he noticed that she wasn't happy with his showing up either… but was it because he interrupted their moment or because she doesn't like him?
"Hi, Miley… I was looking for Taylor but I can't find her anywhere." He said.
"Really?" Nick raised an eyebrow.
"Hey dude, um yeah!" he said confused as Nick rolled his eyes and pointed to his right where Taylor and Lucas just stopped dancing and were about to go get a drink. "Oh, I think I must go check my eyes!" he said and chuckled.
"I agree." Nick said.
"Anyway, since that I'm talking to you right now, Miley, will you please come to my office tomorrow?"
"Of course, but why?"
"I need to discuss some things with you about the job."
"Oh, fine… what time?" she said thinking that it's probably some new fabrics of his!
"Anytime you like." He smiled and walked over to Taylor and Lucas to congratulate them, "See ya tomorrow." He said winking.
"Do you work with Liam Ryan too?" a man asked who seemed like he works for a magazine said while holding a recorder in his hands
"Ummm, yeah… who are you?" Miley asked.
"Oh, sorry, I'm Mike Ronald, a magazine reporter." He introduced, then he noticed Nick, "Oh, we have the youngest Gray here too!" he said happily, "Then, the rumors about 'Three Styles' girls and 'The Gray Paradise' boys are true."
"What rumors?" Nick asked confused.
"Actually, a magazine said this morning that the three of you are dating the three of them! It's the first and only magazine that said that."
"No, no, we're not dating." Miley said smiling.
"Well, will you please give me a report?" he asked hopefully.
"Uh, just the two of us? Won't you like our friends to join?"
"No, the two of you are just perfect." He said as they both looked at each other and with their eyes agreed together to give it to him, probably it will make things better!
**In a Year**
"Here it is," Miley held the magazine up the next day to her friends while they were at Joe's office as always, "He actually made a good conversation with us," she told them flipping through the pages until she found the one she wanted, "Here it goes," she started reading,
The Grays, Three Styles and Liam Ryan all in one job!
Yesterday, at Taylor Scott's and Lucas Turner's engagement party I actually met the youngest Gray, Nicholas Gray with his cousin, Jacob Gray and two of the three famous girls who are known under the name of Three Styles, Miley Stewart and her friend Selena Russo…
At first I saw Miley and Nick dancing together making the people think about the rumors that the girls and the boys actually are dating! I myself thought that at first.
Then –at a point where they seemed too deep into their conversation- Liam Ryan came and talked with them for a while and asked Miley to meet him at his office today. So, I knew that they're working with him. And that gave me the courage to go and ask them both about it where Nick was still standing there after Liam left.
"We actually kinda of work together right now." Miley answered me when I asked them about the rumors that have been about them being seen in and out of the 'Gray Paradise' for the last month or more but no one had the chance to talk to them ever, due to the security around their company, "And it's for Liam's hotel."
And when I asked them about the previous rumors that said they're enemies they both laughed and shared a look then the young man answered me, "That's not true at all. We're actually good friends. All of us."
And about the Demi/Joe HUGE fight also in Taylor's party they both agreed it was a misunderstanding. And at this point their friends decided to join them not knowing they were with me!
I saw the other two smiling widely while approaching us as they were kinda out of breath due to dancing the whole night –or was it the only reason?-, it seemed like they're really close. I asked them also about their relationship with each other and they also agreed that it's a great friendship. Then I found that they're not giving me any information about shared hatred or shared feelings between each other, so I moved to the important part… their work together.
I asked them about the kind of job they're doing, "We're styling new outfits for Liam's hotel." Answered the black-haired beauty, Selena Russo. When I got confused I asked why they are the ones who are styling… why don't they leave it for their stylists? she answered me again after sharing a look with Miley, "Well, it's a big deal and we wanted to make it special."
"We don't know yet," Jacob shrugged when I asked about when they'll finish that job.
They told me that it was fun to work together and that they sometimes sit around and just joke, but I could see there was something between them all… they were hiding something, I could tell. Maybe their relationship isn't that perfect and maybe it is more than perfect in a romantic way… and I actually think that the last one is the true one, they all seemed to have a special bond with each other! And the flirting smiles didn't go missing by me the whole night! They were just so close! But it sure looked like that job brought them all closer. At least closer than the last time both teams were on an occasion together!
When she finished reading the article about them she looked up to see their faces and saw different emotions; Selena and Jacob seemed happy that their image as friends is getting better, but also a little scared that the paparazzi will find out about them dating and won't leave them alone, especially that they knew they're working together for a while.
Demi and Joe seemed disgusted by the idea of them being friends, but also happy that they didn't meet that reporter, they'd for sure made another scene!
While Nick got a red face and looked interested with the ground not lifting his head up, Miley instantly knew why he was like that, because of the mention of them being 'too deep in the conversation' while dancing. She thanked God that the reporter didn't notice the almost kiss that was about to be shared between them! The thought also made her face redden and looked at the magazine again.
"So, what do you think?" she asked them.
"It's good and bad at the same time." Selena said, "I mean, they now know we're not enemies, but they'll start another rumor about us dating."
"Which is true in your case." Demi said.
"Yeah, but if they knew that, there will be even more rumors, don't you see what happens to the famous people?" Selena said.
"But we're not that famous, Sel." Demi rolled her eyes, "We are not movie stars. Yes we own two huge companies, but still, it's not that big of a deal!"
"She's right, you know." Jacob said, "Don't worry, they won't affect us."
"It's just some lies though," Joe said, "we're not that great of friends you said we are."
"Well, when you talk just talk about yourself. I and Jacob are already dating, and Nick and Miley are actually close." Selena said making Miley and Nick's faces get a deeper color of red, but no one noticed due to their hidden faces. "Right, guys?" Selena asked them, and now they had to raise their faces and look at them. Miley hadn't got the chance to tell them about what happened, because when they got home they were just so tired to speak like they always do, so they went to sleep. Nick also hadn't got the chance to tell anyone.
"Umm, yeah, I guess." Miley said while pretending to be interested in another article in the magazine, while Nick had no other choice than to look up at them allowing them to see his now pink face.
"I think we're." he said smiling now getting rid of the blush on his face and focused on Miley whose face was still in the same degree of red, and he noticed it. "Something wrong, Miley?" he asked smirking. She was surprised by his question but didn't show it,
"No, just reading." She said not lifting her face from the magazine. After a while she figured that she should go meet Liam, "Well, I'm going to go see what Liam wanted now." She said and took her way out of the office.
"Want me to come with you?" Nick offered.
"No, I won't handle another fight between the two of you." She smiled and left.
She took the car and in fifteen minutes she was in front of Liam in his office. "Hello, Miley, I missed you." He got up offering her a hug which she hesitated to give it back but did anyway.
"You just saw me yesterday." She said pulling away.
"Yeah, but the second I left you, I missed you." He chuckled and she offered him a nervous chuckle.
"Well, why did you want me today?" she changed the subject.
"Ah, I wanted to discuss the business."
"But isn't that Mr. Gray's job? I mean, Kevin." She said frowning confused.
"Yeah, but it's more fun to discuss it with you." He winked and Miley felt uncomfortable so she moved in her seat and cleaned her throat.
"But, I'm not the one to take decisions, Mr. Liam."
"Oh, please call me just Liam. And you can tell them the discussions and whoever to decide do it and you tell me."
"So, I'm like a messenger?"
"Kinda, but a beautiful messenger." He winked again.
"Mr. Liam, my job in this deal is to design or choose the fabric and the colors, but I have nothing to do with the relations between the three companies." She said feeling more and more uncomfortable, "There's other people responsible for that."
"But, I don't like them." he said and got up moving closer to her, and when she saw the smug smirk on his face she instantly stood up fearing his actions. "Not as I like you anyway." He said getting closer as he put a hand on her lower back and looked down at her.
"You and Mr. Gray seemed so close yesterday. When I first saw you, you couldn't stand each other, what changed?" he asked and she was trying to push his hand off but it was like a magnet; as it got in the same place every time she moves it not allowing her to move away.
"That's not business talking, Mr. Liam." She said.
"I told you it's just Liam." He said and moved closer.
"Get away from me." She said and pushed him. She didn't want to push him at first wishing that he'd pick the hint that she's not interested but he didn't, so she chose the harsh way. Just then the door opened and his secretary came giving him some papers and told him to sign them.
He looked at the papers and frowned, "Couldn't these wait?" he asked angrily gritting his teeth.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Ryan, but he's waiting outside and in hurry." She gave him an apologetic look.
"Fine, but tell him that I'm not signing any other papers whenever he like." He said angrily signing the papers.
"Sorry, Mr. Ryan."
"Whatever," he rolled his eyes.
"I gotta go too. Call Kevin when you need any discussions, Mr. Liam." Miley said and before the older woman even go out she did, because she knew he won't stop her in front of his secretary.
"Why does he get just Kevin and I am Mr. Liam?" Liam whispered to himself huffing.
**In a Year**
"Are you kidding?" Demi's eyes widened as did Selena's. They were sitting in Demi's room as usual in the evening after a long day at work; Miley just told them about the events of Taylor's engagement party. "Wow, no wonder you two were so quite today, you didn't talk that much." Demi pointed.
"Yeah, it would have been a little awkward." Selena agreed as Miley blushed at the memory. "Anyway, how did you feel about it?"
"I don't know, Sel, it was confusing my brain was telling me that I'm not ready for such a move yet, but yet I found myself leaning in too."
"YOU LIKE HIM." Demi exclaimed. "And don't even deny it this time." She pointed at Miley with her fore finger warningly.
"I think I do." Miley whispered.
"Well, it seems like the reporter was right." Demi winked as Miley blushed even harder, and then she changed the topic and told them about Liam.
"You did the right thing, Mi." Selena said and Demi nodded in agreement.
"Tell Nick, I bit he's gonna kill him." Demi said bringing back the same topic that Miley tried to avoid talking about but then again she found it good talking about it!
Heeeey! New chapter with a Niley moment. YAY. :D some of you asked for a Niley Kiss and I gave you an almost kiss ;) it's not coming that easy, but it'll come… eventually :P so, what did you think about that one? Like it? Love it? Or Hate it? It'd be sad if you hated it so I hope you liked it :D
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