A/N: Next chapter might be the last, than an epilogue and a triquel. I hope you guys read it. And I hope you don't find this story useless and tired. This, honestly is the last twist in the sequel.
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own Hannah Montana, but if I did. Lily and Oliver would already be married.
Chapter 5 You Jump I Jump Jack
Without thinking I began to run the length of the river. Searching the white-tipped rapids for any signs of that mob of brown hair.
I should have listened to him. He was right, he knew I would slip. If it weren't for me, he wouldn't have jumped to save my life.
I sobbed. Bracing myself for the absolute worst. It was too good to be true, the three of us couldn't make it this far in one piece.
I struggled for breath, and my knees felt like they would collapse. "Oliver!" I cried. "Oliver!"
Fear was nibbling at my toes, surging through my legs and arms, pounding in my abdomen, weaving through my head. "Oliver!"
The water had been too strong, I had lost my footing for one second after grabbing onto Candace's hand. She had let me slip. "Candace!" I yelled in spite and anger, before gasping once more: "Oliver!"
The more I cried the faster the memories of tumbling water enveloping me... now enveloping Oliver. "Ollie!"
I hadn't run far, I was dazed and confused, like a puppy. I had no sense of direction. Until I heard that faithful voice, and I spun around.
"Lilly!" There he was, lying on an tiny island in the middle of the river.
"Oliver!" I cried, before nearly jumping over the edge, and nearly plunging into the water.
"Stop," He laughed. "I'm alright, a little cold, but I think I broke my leg."
My vision caught the shape of his mishapped leg. And my jaw dropped, before sending him a questioning look.
What will we do now?
And he answered my thoughts, like he always does. "I won't be able to make it across. You and Candace will have to go without me."
"Oliver, why would you do that." I shouted over the roaring water. "Why would you plunge for me? It should've been me on that island."
"You jump I jump Jack," He chuckled, "and don't you dare ask why I would do something like that for you, I love you."
Aw... so mushy.
"You're a big mush-ball Oken."
"You like it Truscott."
And he's right, I do.
"Because you're always right?" I laughed, almost forgetting where we were, and what had happened.
"Not always, just around you."
And then it came crashing down, like a load of bricks.
"Sorry to interrupt this love fest, but Oliver isn't getting any better while we wait here and talk to them."
Her voice was like nails on a blackboard to my ears. And I resisted lunging at her.
When we get out of here, I am going to punch her so hard, she'll land in Connecticut.
"Good luck guys, Lilly, Candace." Oliver smiled at me, and I waved solemnly.
We had to get there... we had to get to town now.
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My stomach churned, and my throat felt tight as I retched again into the woods. The trees were spinning, as I curled up into a ball, trying to fight the burning fever. But I was too weak to move.
God damn it, and we were so close to being there. Candace towered over me, feigning worry.
"Lilly," Candace furrowed her eyebrows at me. "Are you sick?"
I glared at her, using the little energy I had.
"Well, I guess I'll just have to tell you what's going to happen now... since you can't do anything about it."
Questions filled, my head, what did she mean?
"'What?' I know that's what you're asking yourself." She paused before bending down over me. "You and your little friends are going to die here, in this god forsaken woods. I've been working out my alibi all along." She gestured to her head, "It's all up here."
"Don't you understand?" She continued. As I looked up at her, confused. "Miley drowned, in the Blue Circle, Jake jumped in to save her and banged his head. Sarah ate poisonous berries, and Amber and Ashley were slaughtered by a bear."
"That just leaves you and Oliver now," She smirked. "Oliver was killed during a lightning storm, when a tree fell on his head, and you... you were too weak and pathetic to go on."
"Of course, I tried to save you. But you cried, and fought, and ended up taking your very own life."
"When I get to town, I will be the hero-"
"You'll just be a liar!"
"No one will doubt what I say, because no one really cares about you Lillian! No one will care that you were too spineless to go on, because no one will notice your dead."
"What about my family, Candace? You don't think they love me?" I yelled, hoarsely.
"They'll get over it."
I never would've guessed, that even Candace could be so cruel.
"Why?" I whimpered, and she laughed.
"Why?" She mimicked. "You ruined my life Lilly. No one steals my boyfriends. Boys don't break up with me. I break up with them. No one's good enough for me. You and Oliver didn't play by the rules. So now, you're being eliminated."
She threw her water bottle at me. "You're so naïve, Lilly."
And she walked away, leaving me shocked.
Love,
Sara
"Sparkles!"
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