AN- if you hate a couple in this story, I would very much appreciate you not complain about it .

When I Look At You;

Chapter Twelve; A Vowed Was Made.

"Good morning, Demi." Nick greets cheerfully as he walks into the office;

Demi immediately stood up from her desk, smoothed down her skirt and started walking behind Nick. "Hello Mr. Gray, I have some information to tell you for this morning." She started saying, quickly. "First of all-"

Walking into his office and behind his desk, he raises his hand; "Demi, relax. Tell me in a minute." Nick takes a seat and leans back on his chair and smiles.

Demi's eyebrows furrowed together as she stared at her boss. Nick was never like this, all happy and smiley at the office. She had been working for him for two years and not once has she seen him like this.

"Now that we are all relaxed, take a seat and slowly read me my memos please." He stated calmly, reaching his hand toward the chair, indicating her to sit down.

A smile started to form on her face as she took a seat on the chair, crossing her legs and placing the folder on top of Nick's desk. "Well Tom called and he says that the papers you have need to be faxed today before 12:30," Demi read off, then looked up at Nick who sternly nodded his head. "Oh and also your mother called and she asked for you to call her too." She said, looking into his brown orbs.

Finishing off tell Nick his memos, Demi pushed back her chair and stood up, grabbing the folder off her desk. "Anything else, Mr. Gray?" she asked.

"Oh yes, I need you to get me the number of that new bar, I think its called "Night Stars." He asked, focusing his eyes onto the computer screen.

Demi knitted her eyebrows together; "Why?" she asked, the words slipping out of her lips;

Nick looked at her and a flicker of annoyance crossed over his features; "Don't ask questions, just follow orders." He spat out, looking back at the screen.

"Sorry." Demi mumbled quickly and walked out of the room; standing out in the lobby, she leaned back against the door and let out a long sigh; "Great," she muttered to herself. "He is back to his old self." He finished of sarcastically before walking to her desk in search for the number.

Demi has liked Nick since she first saw him. She walked into the office in search for a summer job, but as soon as she saw his curly haired self. sitting in the desk chair she knew she would want to stay longer the just the summer and that's exactly what happened. As soon as she started working there she learned things about him. He was a father. A single father and she didn't mind, but when she found out that his girlfriend died, she had decided not to push anything, but after awhile she started dropping hints but he would never catch them.

So, after awhile she just decided to stop trying but she didn't want to stop working there, seeing his face everyday was enough for her and she would wait for him.

- (:

"Hey mom," Nick said into his phone as his brown orbs scan over the papers on his desk; "How are you?"

"I am good, Nicholas. How are you? You sound happy?" she questions, through the receiver. The smile on Nick's face widens and a low chuckle escapes his lips as he can see his mother knitting her eyebrows together.

"I am good mother and cant a man be happy just to be happy?" he questions, writing a quick note down on his forms.

"A man like my son isn't happy all the time." Denise shot back with a smile on her face.

"Well I've been spending time with my daughter and my brother.." Nick replied. Partially it was because of them so he wasn't really lying; he was spending time with his family, but the blue eyed, brunette had something to do with his happy mood. They way she laughed and how carefree she was. At McDonald's last night, he had the best time that he has in a while besides Field Day of course.

He couldn't possibly be falling for Miley, could he…?

Nick quickly shook his head, shaking thoughts from his head and focusing his attention to his mother, who was talking about some event next week.

"I made a promise, …" he thought to himself. A picture flashing in his head; him with tears streaming down his face, as he holds his dead finance's hand and vowing to never fall in love again.

-(:

Miley's eyes fluttered open as the sunlight rays beamed through the window of her bedroom, she sat up stretching out her arms and letting out a long yawn.

Unwrapping the blankets from herself, she gets out of bed and walks out into the living room of her sister apartment, spotting her best friend on the sofa.

"Thank you for taking Taylor to school for me." Miley said as she throws herself on the coach, placing her head on Lilly's lap.

"No problem, you know I say we do something tonight." Lilly suggest, looking down at her best friend. "Since Taylor is going to be at Mark's place for the weekend."

Miley presses her lips into a thin line and shrugs her shoulders. "Yeah, that sounds fun."

"So last night at McDonald's…" Lilly started off with a smirk playing on her face.

Miley's body shot up on the coach and she rolled her blue eyes at Lilly. "Nothing happened." Miley stated;

"Oh Miley, don't deny that you and Nick have some sort of connection!" Lilly exclaimed as she threw her hands in the air;

Miley immediately started shaking her head. "Me and Nick have no connection, alright?" Miley spat, a bit on anger in her voice. "He is still in love and all. Plus, I am not good enough for him."

"Oh dear lord," Lilly added, her turn to roll her eyes; ignoring the tone in her best friends voice, she stood up from the coach and started heading toward the kitchen. "You believe what you want dear." She added and with that she was in the kitchen, leaving Miley in the living room alone.

Miley let out a loud groan and threw her body back on the coach. She wasn't going to lie, but she did feel something whenever Nick was around, it was just something she couldn't figure out. Every time Nick was around or she thought about him the day at Field Day popped into her head and his amazing self; Nick was perfect. His whole life was perfect. Unlike Miley's, who's life was far from it. Nick knows what he wants and whats going to happen and Miley just doesn't know anything.

"I cannot like you!" she mutters to herself as she closes her eyes and lets out a groan.

-(:

"No way dude!" Joe exclaims as he stares at his brothers with wide eyes; "H-how did you get that to happen, that place is booked til like November of next year!"

"Well I called to get you to a date but they said they were booked this month," Nick starts to explain. "but turns out the owner of the bar has done some business with us, so he bumped and switched some performances." He finished off, taking a sip of water;

Nick and Joe were currently eating lunch and Nick had told him the news of getting him to perform at "Night Stars" tonight. Nick did have to do a lot of persuading to get the spot for Joe, but I guess working for a big corporation has it ups.

"Nick thanks so much!" Joe gushes as looks at his brother; "This means so much to me!"

Nick smiled at his older brother. "Dude, I will always be here for you to support you." He explained. "I am even going to the show tonight."

Joe smiled and lifted his beer. "Cheers." He says.

Nick chuckles and lifts his water; "Cheers." He repeats, hitting his glass against his brother's beer.

"Can you believe I am performing at Nights and Stars tonight?" Joe asked, stunned at the news still.

Nick laughed once more; "Well believe it bro." He said, lifting his water in the air one more time before taking sip of it.

-(:

Walking out of the closet with a dress in her hand and her cell phone in the other, she reads the text and looks up at Miley. "Tonight we are going to Night Stars." She says, throwing her dress at Miley.

Miley catches it and examines it over; "That place is so hard to get into and the line is long as hell!" Miley complains as she drifts her gaze from the dress to Lilly.

"We will easily get in because Kelly's brother is a bartender there." Lilly says with a smile on her face.

"Really, I thought he worked at the club in West Hollywood." Miley questions, placing the dress over her body and looking in the mirror.

Lilly shook her head. "Nah, he switched to Night Stars, because it was new and all so he would make more money." She explained.

"Oh." Miley said. "I heard a band performs every night, you know who is performing tonight?" Miley asked. "This dress is cute, I want to wear it and I have the perfect heels."

Lilly nods her head. "It does look hot on you." She compliments. "Some local band that performs around LA a lot, they are called "Reckless."

"What a name!" Miley adds with a giggle.

"We are going to have fun tonight!" Lilly yells while pumping her fist in the air as she walks into the closet.

"Yes we are." Miley says admiring the dress in the mirror and smiling. "Something unexpected is going to happen at Night Stars." Miley whispers to herself.

She didn't know what was going to happen, but something was telling her that it was going to.

OMG. What a terrible chapter! I am sorry but my great grandmother passed away and a lot of crap has been going on. Today was a rough day and I've been writing forever! But I promise I will start updating faster and the chapters will be BETTER AND LONGER .

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