The next day, Miley was at her locker, struggling with her books once again. She finally manage to put them in her locker and closed the door.
"Hello, Ms. Stewart." a boyish voice said from behind her...
She turned around, a bit confused, "uh, hi?"
"Oh, sorry, I'm Cody."
"Oh, hi." She smiled, "nice to meet you. I'm Miley."
"I already know that..." he smiled, "Hey, do you need help getting to your class?"
"Um, okay." She smiled and started rolling to class
"So, um, I was wondering if you would want to go with me to the dance?"
She looked up at him with sparkles in her eyes, "are you serious?" She smiled big. She was a sucker for that kind of event.
"Sure, I mean, you're cute... and I've wanted to ask you for a while so..." he said being nervous.
She smiled, "I would love too." In her head she was already picking her dress and shoes.
"That's... great."
"It's tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah, right, so... pick you up tomorrow at 7?"
"I can just meet you here." She smiled.
"Fine, whatever it is..." he smiled at her, "So, see you around?" he said as they reached her class.
"Yeah, thanks again." She smiled and went to class.
"Hey, Miles, I've been looking for you." Demi said as she saw her in the class.
"Hey!" She smiled, "guess what?! A guy just asked me to the dance!" She squealed, "just yesterday I was thinking to myself that I needed to get over Nick and now this happen! Today is a good day."
"Really? Miles, that's great!" Demi squealed too happily.
"Yeah!" She smiled big.
"But what made you think you should get over Nick? I mean why are you finally convinced?" Demi rolled her eyes jokingly.
She shrugged, "he doesn't care about me. At least not like that.. He actually ended our deal so, I guess I'm worth nothing to him now cause he doesn't even want to sleep with me..."
"He ended it? that's weird!" Demi mumbled, "But, that should be for the best, Mi." she said seeing her friend nod, "So, tell me about that dude, gosh, we have a lot to plan, like your dress, your hair and everything, who's that guy anyway?" Demi said ecstatic and way too fast.
"His name is Cody." She smiled, "he seems really nice."
Demi was about to reply but then the teacher entered and he didn't seem in a good mood so she mouthed to Miley that they'll have to talk about it later.
Later at lunch, Miley rolled up to Demi, "I found my dress!" She smiled and showed it to her on her phone. It was a long black dress and the top in a sweetheart shape and there was gold pearls all over it.
"Wow, Miles, that's amazing... you'll look gorgeous in that." Demi gushed.
"Thank you!" She smiled, "hey, I actually gotta run. I have a doctor's appointment. So I'll see you later okay?"
"Yeah, sure." Demi smiled as she saw her best friend roll away; she seemed so happy that she didn't even realize Nick wasn't there and didn't come to school... maybe that was the best for both of them?
The next day, Miley spent the day getting ready. She had curl her hair in medium lose curls and wore just the perfect amount of make up. She just wished the wheelchair could've gone away too. At seven, her dad drove her to school and she rolled in looking for Cody. She finally spotted him looking at her and laughing with his friends. She rolled up to him, "hey..."
"Hey...?" he looked at her with a smirk.
She smiled lightly, "um, so we said we would meet here at 7?''
"We? What do you mean by we?" he said as his friends burst out laughing.
"Well... You and I? You asked me out for tonight..."
Again, hard laughter among the group was loudly heard as he looked at her again, "Why in the hell would I want to go to the dance with you... I mean, can you even dance?" he said laughing.
Tears filled in her eyes when she realized it was a joke all along. She nodded and rolled away to the entrance of the school. She tried calling her dad but his phone was off. She knew he had a date with his girlfriend tonight so she had to find a way to get home. And it was pouring rain outside. She sighed and let some tears rolled down her cheek, "so stupid..." She whispered to herself.
"Miley...?"
She turned around to looked who it was and sighed, "really, Nick, I'm humiliated enough right now... Go away." She turned her head away from him.
"What? what do you mean?"
"Oh, don't act like you don't know."
"What's wrong?" he said and threw away his cigarette letting out the last breath of smoke from his system.
"Really? You just want me to say it out loud so you and your friends can laugh even more right? What a joke am I. Hey, lets ask the wheelchair out to the dance and then tell her she's crap and no one would want to dance with her because she can't dance. That's what you want to hear? Then there you go. Now you can burst out laughing and joke about how stupid I look right now." There was so much pain in her voice and in her eyes. She just wanted to burst into tears.
"Hey, hey, take it slow," he said defeated but then he saw the tears form in her eyes as he sighed, "Do you want me to take you home?"
"I'll walk. Or roll or whatever. I don't need your help." She said, sure he was up to something else.
"Come on, Miley, don't be stupid!" he rolled his eyes and walked over to where his car was... he unlocked the doors and went back to Miley to get her in.
"What are you up to now?" Her voice cracked. She just couldn't take it anymore.
"What do you think I'm up to?"
She shrugged and burst into tears. She was trying so hard to hold them back but she failed.
Her heart won over her head.
"Why are you crying now?" he groaned as he put her in the car, "It's okay, I'll take you home and you just rest and forget everything."
"Like I could ever forget..." She mumbled through her tears.
"Just calm down and tell me what happened cause I can't understand. "he said getting into the driver's seat.
She took a deep breath and finally pulled herself together enough to talk, "your friend asked me out yesterday... And now I show up there and he's laughing at me with his friends because it was all a joke! He asked me out just to laugh at me..." A few more tears rolled down her cheeks.
"My friend...?" He asked puzzled.
"Cody..." She looked down still embarrassed by this whole thing.
"That bastard... why didn't you tell me before?"
"Tell you what?"
"That he asked you, Miley. I'd have known, Cody is not your type."
She shrugged, "what's my type? Another guy in a wheelchair so we can match? I thought a guy was actually interested in me..." She looked down.
"No, not a guy in a wheelchair, but someone deserves you." he said annoyed.
"Whatever... I can't trust anyone anymore."
"It's okay, Miley, you just have to be careful with guys at this school, most of them are jerks."
"I'm really starting to learn that..." She sighed and looked out the window as a few more tears rolled down her cheeks. This time she wasn't talking about Cody, but about the guy sitting next to her.
He pulled into her driveway and got out of the car helping her inside the house. "Here you go," he said and then realized that they're actually standing in a lighted area, where she could possibly see the red mark on his cheek so he turned to be not facing her.
"Thanks for the ride..." She tried to give him a small smile but failed.
"Are you okay?"
She shrugged, "I will be... I'll go take a bath and..." She sighed realizing her dad wasn't home to help her, "actually, I'll um, sit in my room and wait and I'll be fine..."
He sighed, "I guess I can stay and help you out..."
"You really don't have too..." His siged really showed to her that he didn't wanted to, "really, there's a party so you go and have fun. Don't worry about me."
"It's not like there's something to do at the party, Mi... I'm staying here."
She sighed and nodded. She opened the door and rolled inside, "are you hungry?"
"Nah, I could live..."
She nodded, "okay then." She looked up at him and finally saw his mark on his cheek, "what happened to you?"
"What..? Oh," he saw she was looking at his cheek, he had his fingers tracing the marks painfully, "I.. um... got ... uh, got into a fight."
"What?! With who?" She asked worried and put her hand up to touch his cheek.
"It's nothing to worry about, Mi."
She just nodded, she really don't felt like arguing with him. Plus, she knew he was able to take care of is own things. "So, I guess I should change... I look kind of overdress and stupid like this..."
"You look beautiful..." he shook his head, he couldn't help but be nice with her, it was like his father's slap, changed him... he felt even more bad for how he treated Miley, and he wanted to make it up for her, yes, he still has attitude, but that's because of the current circumstances with him.
"You're only saying that because I got ditch on my very first, and probably last formal ever." She half joked.
He looked her up and down and raised his eyebrows at her, was that what she rally thought? Then why did he think she's gorgeous? Beautiful? Hot? He walked over to her and put his hand between her ear and neck, "Listen, you look pretty, and Cody is the loser in the whole situation..."
She looked at his hand and back up to look at him directly in the eyes, "thank you..." She smiled lightly, "and I'm sorry about tonight and how much of a mess I am."
"It's okay, Mi." he smiled at her.
A/N : So… Is Nick getting soft ? Tell us your predictions with this story and please review !