Here it is. SORRY about the wait!!! R&R!! BTW, you should keep in mind that this is a total AU story and not everything they do has to match their character on the show. Thanx Lub u...Ok I get that a lot of you don't like this story, Fortunatley for you i have a simple solution, Don't Read It If You Don't Like It!!

The room was cheap, smelled, and was filthy but he was just happy he had a roof over his head. Jackson stood, staring at his reflection in the mirror, he looked like the very definition of pathetic, he had dark circles under his eyes and his clothes were starting to smell. He didn't care, this motel was all he could afford and he saved his nicer clothes for going out.

His head pounded, the drinks from last night starting to really hit him. God it's only been three days. He said to himself wearily. It felt like weeks. He splashed cold water on his face and slipped into the clean clothes in his backpack. He pulled on the Rico's shirt regretfully and headed to the beach,. After days of not showing up, he'd be lucky to still have his job, which he needed now more than ever.

Rico spotted him climbing over the shack's counter and called out to him.

"Jackson!" He let Rico come to him for he didn't feel like enabling the fact that he was inferior to him. "So would you like to explain why you weren't here the past few days before of after I fire you? He smirked at Jackson expecting him to start mumbling random excuses at him but he did not.

"Well?" Rico said again disappointed. Jackson grew angry and lost control of himself.

"Look Rico of you're going to fire me then do it because I really don't give a fuck what happens to me in this point of life!" The look on Rico's face was surprising, he didn't look angry but concerned.

"Jackson, what happened?"

"Nothing,… nothing" Rico walked away, looking back over his shoulder to see Jackson wipe a tear off his face.

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Lily heard Miley throwing up in her bathroom on Saturday morning and hated herself for wishing that Miley would go throw up at her own home. She loved Miley but living with this hormonal, always sick, stuck in the biggest, tragic moment of her life Miley was just too much for her. Even just three days felt like a month.

"You okay"

"Yeah I think so." Miley rinsed out her mouth and walked out of the bathroom.

"So I was thinking," Lily said in a suggestive tone, "We should go to the beach, It's so nice out and the sunlight would do you good." Miley did not want to go, she didn't want to do anything but she knew Lily was right.

"Okay." she said in a kinda sad attempt at cheeriness. Lily smiled sympathetically and all her bad thoughts went away.

The wet sand felt good beneath their toes and the warm sun felt relaxing on their shoulders. They walked in silence, drawing in the moment of bliss before Miley spoke.

"I decided to put the baby up for adoption." Lily looked at her and smiled.

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I've gone over it a thousand times in my head and it's the only option I have."

"Well the only logical option you mean. You could keep it if you wanted."

"I don't. Imagine explaining to your child that 'daddy' is also 'uncle Jackson'. No adoption is the way I'm going." She said it in a final tone.

"Good for you, I'm impressed." Lily said. "After all you've been through, you're still thinking more rationally than everyone else. Besides, you make some fertile woman very happy as long as you don't go into details about how this came to be you know. It might drive them away." For the first time in weeks, Miley Stewart smiled and Lily caught a glimpse of her old friend.

Just as this moment was about to be one of the better one's in the last few weeks, a small, black haired boy came walking toward them looking worried and anxious.

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There has to be something wrong with him. I've never seen him like that before. Rico pondered Jackson's odd behavior in his mind as he walked up and down the beach. He had never been close to Jackson but now he felt like there had to be something he could do to help him. Like Jackson was alone and only he could reach out and save him. It was the strangest feeling, but when Jackson had yelled at him his eyes cried out for help.

He spotted the two girls walking toward him on the beach and approached them anxiously.

"Hey Rico, what happened?" Lily asked concernedly.

"Something's wrong with Jackson but I don't know what." He responded. "Do you-"

"Jackson's here?!" Miley exclaimed. Rico looked shocked.

"Yeah, he's at the shack. Why?" Miley's heart beat hard against her chest as she nudged Lily inn the arm. Rico looked from one to the other and said;

"Do you know what happened to him?"

"No, no we don't. Haven't seen him in a few days in fact. Sorry." Lily said rubbing where Miley elbowed her. They walked past him and Lily turned to Miley

"Do you want to go see him?" Miley thought. She could not, for some reason give an answer.

"I- I don't know." She said. Lily led her back to the house, clearly she was not ready to talk to Jackson so that would have to wait.