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Chapter 28: Surprise!
(Lilly POV)
It was a week since I had talked to Oliver, well almost, it was Saturday, today was Joe's birthday. We were throwing him a surprise birthday party, he was turning eighteen! I'm only sixteen, is that wrong? I mean that's only two years, but I just don't feel like that's right.
"Hey," Joe said as I picked up my phone.
"Hey." I replied quietly.
"You okay?" He asked concerned.
"Yeah, what's up?"
"Well, it's my birthday today, so I was wondering if you wanted to come out to dinner with my family tonight?"
"Yeah sure, what time?"
"I'll pick you up at six."
"Okay, see you then." I said as I hung up the phone.
I knew everything that was happening, Nick was going to pretend to be too ill to come out to dinner with us, when we leave to go to 'dinner' Nick will get everything set up in the hall we are throwing the party at, and Joe, Kevin and I will walk through the doors and everyone will shout, "Surprise! Happy Birthday!" and Joe will act all surprised when he probably already knows that he was getting a surprise birthday party.
I looked down at my finger and played with my promise ring. I couldn't help but feel like it was wrong to be wearing it. Every time I looked at it, it made me feel horrible, wishing that it was Oliver that gave me it, but I don't want to be with Oliver, do I? This is so confusing! Maybe I should break up with Joe and not date anyone and grow old and alone with twenty seven cats! Yeah, I'll do that, grow old and alone with twenty seven cats! I'm such a genius!
Who am I kidding? I don't want to break up with Joe, I love him. I think. Do I? I know I still love Oliver, but that's totally not my fault, he was my best friend, is my best friend. He was my first boyfriend, my first kiss, my first love. He was my first...Everything. Are me and Oliver meant for each other? Are we soul mates?
I looked down at my promise ring again, I couldn't help it, I took it off and placed it on my unit. If the paparazzi saw that, it would be all over the news! And I'm not even sure if I want that yet. I'm not even sure if I want to have that promise ring yet!
I looked at my clock, it was half five, wait it was half five! Joe would be here in half an hour and I wasn't even ready yet! I quickly ran in for a five minute shower, I didn't wash my hair, it would take too long to dry, luckily I washed it last night so it would be okay, I left my hair naturally down so it would be nice and wavy and I put on my clothes, luckily I looked out the night before, it was a small dress knee length, it was black, with diamonds on the straps and it was lovely and puffy.
I looked at my clock and it was now five to six, Joe would be here soon, his party was at half past, and it took at least forty minutes to get there. So we would be a little late, but what celebrity isn't late to their own party?
Just then my door bell rang. It must have been Joe. I went down to answer it, but it wasn't Joe.
"Oliver?!" I asked shocked.
He never said anything, his mouth hung open as he just stared at me, it was making me uncomfortable.
"Oliver?!" I yelled getting his attention.
"What? Oh, sorry, Lilly you look...gorgeous!"
"What is it?" I asked him.
"Where are you going?" He asked me.
"Joe's party."
"Oh, okay." He said turning to walk away but I quickly grabbed his hand and pulled him back, a little too far because he was right up close to me, inches apart! My heart started beating faster, I felt his breath on mine, oh boy!
"Why did you come?" I whispered to him still inches away from him.
"I wanted to..."
"Lilly?" Oh no, it was Joe.
"Joe!" I said pushing Oliver to the side, gently of course and went and gave Joe and hug and a kiss.
"Why is Oliver here." He asked as I hugged him.
"He was just getting something." I improvised.
"Like what?" He asked suspiciously.
"Eh, my moms coat!" Oliver jumped in for me.
"Your moms coat?" Joe questioned.
"Yeah, eh, Lilly's mom and my mom had a wee girls night out last night, and my mom left her coat here and I just came over to get it." He made up, I think, well he must of! My mom wasn't in last night! She was still on that business call!
"Well were is it?" Joe asked.
"I'm just about to get it!" I interrupted before Oliver could say anything.
I quickly ran upstairs into my moms room and grabbed a jacket and ran back down stairs and gave it to Oliver.
"I'll give you it back later." He whispered.
"Okay," I whispered back.
"You ready?" I asked Joe.
"Yeah, come on." He said as he grabbed my hand and walked me down the drive rather fast, and he was gripping my hand really tight and it hurt.
"Joe, you're hurting me!" I moaned as I tried to catch up with him as he was walking really fast.
"Sorry," He mumbled still not letting go of me. I would stop, but if I did, he would probably drag me along the ground.
"Joe, let go of my hand!" I moaned almost crying the pain was so bad.
"Just come on, the car is at the bottom of the drive." He murmured.
"Joe! I'm not kidding! Let go of my hand!" I said as a tear escaped my eye.
He let go of my hand and I immediately placed my other hand over it to support it, it was all white, like no blood was getting into it! I couldn't believe he just did that!
"What was that all about!" I yelled as I got into the car.
"What was what all about?" He asked me.
"Joe, I will have a bruise on my hand later you were gripping it so tightly!"
"Joe, what did you do to her hand?" Kevin asked examining it.
"I didn't do nothing! It was probably that Oliver!"
"Don't you bring Oliver into this!" I yelled at him.
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Kevin asked.
"That wee gimp was with Lilly up there, rather too close to her!" He yelled with rage.
"That's why you're angry?! Because I was with Oliver?!" I yelled at him.
"Yes!"
"Joe!" Kevin yelled at him.
"Joe, I have known Oliver since I was three years old! We're best friends!"
"I don't care! I don't like him, especially what he did to you!" He yelled.
I never said anything, I couldn't he was only being protective of me.
"Wait, what did he do to you?" Kevin asked.
"Do you want to tell him Lilly?!" Joe asked me angrily.
"Tell me what?" Kevin asked confused.
"Oliver didn't do nothing." I said calmly.
"What?!" Joe's voice went all high and squeaky.
"What?" I asked him innocently.
"Lilly, he cheated on you! That is definitely something!"
"Whoa, he cheated on you?" Kevin asked shocked.
"No, he was dared to kiss Miley, and he did, he had to."
"If he was dating you at the time, he shouldn't have had."
A sudden rush of guilt ran through my body, I did what Oliver did to me to Joe.
"I know but it was a bet, he had no choice, it doesn't matter now anyway."
"That's not all the story!" Joe yelled, "He also admitted to being in love with Miley!"
"What?!" Kevin yelled.
"Exactly!" Joe yelled back.
I just looked down, trying to control my breathing, I wish everyone would just stop talking about it!
"Lilly, did Oliver do that to you?" Kevin asked me.
I kept my head down, hoping they wouldn't notice my tears and whispered, "Yes."
"No wonder Joe was so angry to see him there with you." Kevin said.
I never said anything, I just looked down on the floor of the car and hoped that they wouldn't notice I was crying. My hand was part of why I was crying but mentioning Oliver just made me want to scream and cry; I hated thinking about what he did.
"It's fine, I forgive him, we are closer than ever." I replied after a couple of minutes still looking down.
"It's not fine, Lilly, Oliver was some jerk, you shouldn't have forgiven him." Kevin told me.
"No, Kev, you don't know Oliver, we talked it all through, and I forgive him, we are best friends and nothing else more, so Joe shouldn't be getting angry." I replied.
"Well sorry for trying to look out for you." He replied coldly.
"Taking your anger out on me isn't what I would like Joe." I fought back.
"Sorry." He said sincerely.
"It's fine." I replied, still gripping my hand for support.
"Let me see your hand." Joe said.
"No, it's fine." I replied, he must have saw me holding it.
"Lilly, let me see your hand." He moaned a bit.
"Lilly, let Joe see your hand." Kevin nudged me.
I held out my hand, I let another couple of tears drop from the pain.
"It's swollen, it might be a little sprained. Lilly I'm so sorry!" Joe said sincerely.
"It's fine." I said taking my hand away from him.
"Are you crying?" Kevin asked.
"No, I just have a something in my eye." I made up.
"Lilly, your crying." Kevin replied, "Mark will you pull in a minute." He said to the chauffeur.
"Lilly, your crying, I know you are." Kevin said again.
"I'm not! Honestly! Just keep driving will you?"
"No, Lilly, just look at me a minute." He told me.
I didn't lift my head up, my face was probably all puffy and red, good thing I brought my make up.
"Lilly?" Kevin asked me again.
"What?!" I moaned getting angry.
"Lilly, look at me." He told me.
"Kevin, I'm fine! Please just let's go!"
He lifted my chin up, I tried to resist but he managed to lift it up.
"Why are you crying?" He asked me.
"I'm not." I said.
"Lilly, your eyes are all red and watery. You're crying. Why? Is your hand sore? Or is something bothering you?"
"My hands just sore." I whispered looking down again.
"Oh my god Lilly, I'm so sorry! I never meant to hurt you! Honestly! Please don't make me feel guilty." Joe spoke with a weak voice.
"It's fine Joe, honest." I replied wiping the tears from my eyes.
"No it's not, I hurt you! Please forgive me?!"
"Of course I do! I know you never meant it." I told him.
"Come here." He said lifting me up and sitting me on his lap.
"I love you Lilly." He said.
I never said anything. I couldn't, could I?
"Joe, it's fine, honest." I replied after a moment and giving him a hug.
He gave me a passionate kiss and he pulled away and I looked over at Kevin who was gagging, well pretending to be.
"Did you have to do that?!" He moaned.
"Yes, yes I did." Joe replied.
"Okay Mark, you can start driving now, please!" Kevin begged.
We started driving to the party and I put on some more make up to cover up that I was crying. I hoped it worked.
"We're here." Mark said as he pulled in.
We got out of the car and all the paparazzi where all around us. They were taking pictures and shouting questions out to us, but couldn't really here them, there were too many of them.
We walked through the doors and eveyone shouted,
"Surprise! Happy Birthday!"
I looked up at Joe's face and he was laughing. He probably knew.
"Happy Birthday mahn." Nick came up hugging his brother.
"Wow Nick, this is huge!" Joe exclaimed.
"Well it is your eighteenth." He replied.
"Where's Miley?" I asked Nick.
"I think she's at the toilet, putting on more make up I think."
"Okay, thanks, Joe I'm going to go find her okay?"
"Okay, babe." He said giving me a kiss before I left.
I quickly ran to the toilet hoping Miley was there. I looked around and on the other side of the toilets was Miley putting on her make up.
"Miley!" I shouted.
She jumped with a huge fright and smudged her lipstick half way across her face.
"Oh my gosh Lilly! Don't do that to me!" She yelled wiping off the lipstick from her cheek, "Have you been crying?" She asked.
"Yes, and still am!" I yelled as I let all the tears fall from my eyes, holding it in was so hard.
"Lilly whats wrong?!" She asked running up to me.
"Joe!" I yelled.
"Wait, what?!" She asked confused.
"I don't want to be with him anymore! Look what he did to my hand!" I yelled holding out my hand still supporting it with my other one.
"Oh my gosh, did he do that to you?!" She asked shocked.
"Yeah, he got angry because I was with Oliver and he grabbed my hand and pulled me down the drive gripping onto it and not letting go!" I moaned crying even louder.
"What did he say when he saw it."
"He said he was sorry, but Miley, I don't know if I want to be with him anymore! He even brought up what happened with me and Oliver! And I hate that! It makes me even more sad!"
"How what did he say?" She asked.
"Miley, he was telling Kevin about what happened between us."
"Oh." She said catching on.
"Miley, last week, when I left, Oliver didn't go back with you, he followed me home."
"What happened?" She asked concerned.
"Miley," I began sobbing more, "He came into my room and refused to leave until we talked."
"What did you talk about?"
"He begged me to go back with him, and he started kissing me again! And this time I couldn't resist! And I kissed back, so that means I'm doing the exact same to Joe to what Oliver did to me!"
"No your not! Lilly, Oliver kept kissing you without asking you! You didn't want him to kiss you!"
I looked down, not wanting her to know.
"Oh my gosh Lilly!" She said.
"I can't help it! It's your fault!"
"My fault?! What did I do?!"
"If you didn't try set up that whole thing I would never have to kiss him, when he just kissed me out of the blew, I couldn't help but fall in love with him all over again, I mean I never stopped loving him, but it just made me love him even more!"
"Lilly that's the whole point! I don't want you with Joe anymore! You and Oliver are too perfect for each other! You are soul mates!"
"Thats just freaky." I said.
"What is?"
"Oliver said that exact same thing, 'We're soul mates'"
"Well you are! Lilly, please just forgive him, please just get back with him!"
"I can't!"
"Why?!"
"Joe gave me a promise ring." I mumbled.
"What?" She asked not hearing me.
"Joe gave me a promise ring okay?!" I yelled.
"What?! Did you accept it?!"
"I didn't know what else to do! I was so angry at Oliver I accepted it! But I wish I didn't now!"
"Lilly, you have to give him it back! Where is it?!"
"Oh no, I left it in my house, I was going to put it in my purse so when he was with me I would put it on, what am I going to do Miley?!"
"Tell him the truth, break up with him and get back with Oliver."
"No." I said,
"No what?"
"No, I am not breaking up with him, or getting back with Oliver, I'm happy with Joe."
"Lilly you just said you didn't want to be with him anymore."
"I know! I'm so confused!"
"Lilly, calm down! Breath!"
I took a couple of deep breaths and wiped away my tears.
"Miley, I don't know what to do, I want to be with Oliver, but I like being with Joe too!"
"Lilly, when was the last time Joe told you he loved you?"
"In the car."
"Did you say it back?"
"No."
"When was the last time Oliver told you he loved you?"
"Last week."
"Did you say it back?"
"Yes." I whispered.
"Well there's your answer." She said.
"No it's not, I don't want to go back with Oliver, but I do, but I don't want to break up with Joe, but I do!"
"Lilly take a look at your hand!"
I looked down at my swollen black and blue hand.
"Lily, Oliver would never do that to you, no matter how angry he was."
"Joe didn't mean it though!"
"Maybe, but that is still wrong, that must be sprained. What happens if you marry Joe, what happens if you get into a fight? I mean he wasn't even angry at you when he hurt you, he was angry at Oliver."
"I know but..."
"But what Lilly?"
"I just don't know."
"I wish you would just go back with Oliver." She told me.
"It's not as easy as that."
"Yes it is, give Joe back the promise ring tell him you don't want to be with him anymore and go back with Oliver."
"Miley, I can't forgive Oliver!"
"Why?! You forgave me didn't you?!"
I looked away from her, I made up with her, but I never exactly forgave her, for saying she loved Oliver.
"Lilly?" She asked shocked.
"I'm sorry! I just never could stop being mad at you for saying you were in love with Oliver! My boyfriend! My first boyfriend, and you took him away from me!"
"I didn't! Lilly, I was so confused!"
"Miley, let it drop, Oliver says the exact same thing!"
"The kiss just got to us."
"Miley, Oliver had always had the biggest crush on you even before we started dating!"
"What?!"
"Yeah, exactly, Oliver knew he would never be with you, so I was his second choice, although he liked me too, you being Miss Hannah Montana he would never win you!"
"Well I'm sorry, I never knew that, but Oliver is madly in love with you! He never stops telling me!"
"What?" I asked confused
"We are in the same maths class together, he sits beside me and all he talks about is how depressed he is and how stupid he was to let a girl like you go, he didn't know what he was thinking, he loves you so much!"
"He never said that."
"Yes he did."
"Well it's too late for that."
"It's never too late Lilly."
"Come on, lets get back out to the party, people are gonna wander what happened to us."
"Lilly, lets clear your face up first."
"Good idea." I replied giggling.
Miley put some make up on me and covered up my red eyes. We walked back into the party and Miley walked over to Nick with me behind her.
"Hey babes." He greeted her and giving her a passionate kiss.
"Wow Lilly, you look amazing tonight." He complimented.
"Thanks." I replied.
"Wow, what happened to your hand?" He asked shocked.
I looked down at it and quickly placed it behind my back and looked back up at Nick who was eyeing me suspiciously.
"Nothing, just hurt it thats all." I replied.
"You should get some ice on that." He replied.
"I will."
"There you are Lilly!" Joe said from behind me, he put his hands through my waist and hugged me which made me flinch a little. I looked at Miley and then at Nick, he must have noticed my reaction.
"Hi." I said quietly to Joe.
"Are you okay?" He asked concerned.
"What? Yeah I'm fine. Why?"
"You just seem a little jumpy."
"No, I'm fine honestly."
"I love you." He whispered into my ear.I just froze and didn't know what to say.
"Let's dance!" I said hoping that he wouldn't notice.
I grabbed Joe's hand with my left hand and not my right, that was the sore one.
"Lilly, where is your promise ring?" He asked.
Oh no, he's noticed!
"Eh..."
"Lilly why aren't you wearing your promise ring?" He asked getting frustrated.
"I just forgot to put it on."
"You forgot to put it on? You shouldn't have it off."
"Why don't we go somewhere quieter and more private to talk?"
"Fine, come on." He said taking my right hand and I screamed in pain.
"Sorry." He replied bitterly and took my other hand and pulled me outside.
"Joe, what's wrong with you?! You're not yourself and you seem to be hurting me a lot!"
"I'm sorry okay? Just tell me why you aren't wearing your promise ring."
"I'm not wearing it because I didn't want to."
"What do you mean you didn't want to?"
"Joe, I think we are taking things too fast, I'm not sure if I want to commit myself to you, your eighteen, I'm only sixteen."
"So what are you saying?"
"I don't know, I don't want to break up, I just don't want to the promise ring, sorry."
"But that just means that we will be going out but we will break up."
"Maybe, but it might not."
"It's to do with Oliver isn't it?" He asked.
"A little." I admitted.
He never said anything, he just leaned against the wall and sighed.
"I'm sorry." I said.
"It's okay, I always knew you loved him."
"I do, but I don't want to be with him."
"Why?"
"He hurt me too much. Joe I don't want to end this relationship, I just don't want to have a promise ring that only makes me feel guilty."
"I'll tell you what, let's just take a break, decide who you want to be with, and when you do, I will be okay with who ever you choose."
"What?" I asked hurt.
"Lilly, you love Oliver, not me, if you don't want to be with Oliver then be mines, but just think about it, if you still love Oliver, you will know you are meant to be with him."
"Okay." I replied.
He walked up to me and wrapped his arms around me and hugged me tightly.
"I will always love you Lilly." He whispered in my ear.
I never said anything, I just hugged him back.
"Come on, lets get back to my party." He said taking my left hand gently.
We walked back into the party and we went up and started dancing, I have never felt happier in such a long time.
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