Chapter 9: Coming To Ya On A Sandy Road (4 Hours)
The phone rings.
"Hey. Miley, is that you?" Jackson asked the person on the other end of the receiver. Lilly jumped up out of her seat and Oliver suddenly stopped pacing.
"WHAT? Why in the name of all that is juice pops are you there?" Jackson yelled.
Lilly scrunched up next to Jackson to try and hear the other end of the conversation. Just a day ago, this would have been very awkward, but now she could get as close as she wanted to him…
"Ok, Miley. I'll be here." Jackson said, and hung up the phone.
" She went to L.A. on a bus and now she's on her way home." Jackson explained. Oliver let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding.
(2 Hours)
2 hours later, Miley came into the house. She hung her purse on the hat rack and came over to the couch.
"Hey, Lilly. Hey… Oliver?" Miley said, confused.
"Hey, Miley. I think Oliver has something to tell you…" Lilly said in a sing-song voice.
"What's that?" Miley asked.
"Well, um, you see," Oliver began nervously, "We were, like, all over town, sort of, yeah, you know. Like, see, we couldn't find you so we thought maybe you were at the mall, so we looked all over at the mall because we had to find you so that I could tell you that…"
Lilly and Jackson held their breath.
"…I had something to tell you that was important. But you weren't there, so we went to the beach. We looked all in the water and at that big rock you like, the one you think looks like Samuel Jackson's head, and we walked all along the beach, but we couldn't find you. To tell you. The thing, you know. That I need to tell you, you know? So then we looked here, but no you, even though I REALLY needed to tell you that thing." He rattled on.
"Which is?" Miley asked.
"I need to tell you that I…I…" Oliver began.
A/N: Oh, don't you just LOVE a good cliffhanger? Will Oliver confess his love to Miley? Or will he chicken out? Find out next time!