Title: Belonging Together

Title: Belonging Together

Ship: Lilly/Jackson, with a slight Miley/Oliver

Fandom: Hanna Montana

Rating: T

Summary: They were complete opposites with nothing in common. He's a self absorbed, money scheming jock and she's into surfing, skating and being there for her best friends. After a few awkward moments they begin to realize they have one thing in common, each other.

Disclaimer: I don't own Disney, Hannah Montana, or their actors that bring the characters to life. I own my words, my story and my thoughts. So if you take them be warned by bite is worse then my bark.

School had started once again and she had begun pushing him away once again. She blatantly ignored him at times or gave him the cut off using the most infantile excuses. Had he messed up? Jackson touched his lips remembering her soft lips caressing them. She was in one of her moods again. Jackson walked down the halls in silence listening to Thor, whom was on another one of his long rambles about farm life. Jackson looked for her as they walked. He hoped he would be able to corner her and get a decent response from her. This was not the Lilly he knew and he was going to find out exactly why she was so insistent on pushing him away. Then he spotted her and she was not alone. There they walked hand in hand, chatting and laughing as if they were the only ones in existence.

"I can't believe it." He muttered.

"What its true Porky can swallow it all whole." Thor replied as he looked at Jackson. "You know one day I'll take you."

"Not that." Jackson muttered as he hadn't even turned to look at his friend. Thor then realized what his blonde friend was observing.

"Oh."

"I thought . . . but I guess."

"Come on buddy don't give up."

"Obviously she doesn't want me." Jackson retorted with a sigh as he scratched his head. "Come on Thor lets go somewhere."

"Where?"

"Anywhere but here."

Lilly sat down on the bench alone. She needed to be alone to think everything through. A moment she could rarely enjoy now a days. Lilly seemed to always be around people. Miley, Oliver or Jc. There was always someone but never him. He had distanced himself or maybe she was forcing him to. She sighed and ran a hand through her hair as her other came over her lips. What was she doing with Jc? What was going on?

Lilly was confused and most of all frustrated. She didn't want to contemplate it but she needed an answer and she could confide in no one but herself. It had been weeks since he had kissed her and they had yet to discuss it. She had thought acting like it didn't matter would be the best solution but that didn't help erasing the memory of it and her sudden longing for a second one.

"Waiting for a ride?" A voice asked coming up behind her. The voice she hadn't heard in what seemed like ages.

"Nope." Lilly replied as she swung her legs and avoided looking at him.

"Ok." Jackson nodded as he let out a small sigh and then adjusted his backpack. "Well then I'll see you sometime." He waved a hand, not that she'd have seen it for she was avoiding him, and began to leave.

"Yeah see you later." Lilly replied without even a glance till he was a safe distance away. Lilly witnessed the junior blonde girl slip her hand into his as they walked towards his car. Their eyes had met for a second. She turned away and let him think it hadn't bothered her at all. After all that was Jackson for you.

Jackson always charming the opposite sex at all times. He was a player with a few catches under his belt. He was always so friendly by nature she assumed. She sighed as she got to her feet and decided it would be best to start her trek home.

She had the urge to see the water, to hear the crashing of the waves, to feel the wind breeze caress her body. She found the central part of the beach full of activity as always. Lilly ran her hand over her other one as she continued her walk down the beach. Lilly soon found a small secluded part off past the rocks and the sight she saw caused her to laugh.

"Oh . . ." The blonde boy replied with a sigh as he looked at her. She couldn't stop laughing at the sight.

"What in the world?"

"Don't ask. Just help me will you?" He said as he was tugging at his shorts or at least she hoped they were shorts

"What do I get if I help you?" Lilly asked as she crossed her hands over her chest.

"You get the personal gratification that you aided out a poor sap in need." Jackson said as he looked at her with his adorable puppy dog eyes.

"Hmm."

"Please?" She only nodded as she helped him out of the dress up that he had been tangled in. I mean seriously how do you get manipulated into wearing fish net as clothing? She would never know and would never ask; in fact she would never refer back to the situation the rest of her days on earth. Something's were best left a mystery.

"Here slip this on." Lilly flung him his pair of shorts that had been discarded a few meters away. He grinned as he slipped them on and looked at her.

"You know . . . I'm beginning to think. ..."

"Oh my, gosh you think? Really?" She gave him a sarcastic look of shock, as if the concept itself was preposterous.

"Yes I think and a lot thank you very much."

"And all this thinking takes place in front of the blank television set you watch?"

"Why yes it does." He nodded with his hands over his bear chest. She bit her lip and blushed, why couldn't she wash away this urge, this feeling, and these thoughts of him? Why couldn't she be normal and find a boy her age to feel all this for. Jackson was not the right option; no he was totally the wrong option.

"I see you think about that day a lot."

"No."

"Of course you do." Jackson came closer to her and wrapped his arm around her small waist and pulled her into him. "I see the urge in your eyes. You try and act like you don't want me."

"I don't want you." Lilly spat as she put her hand on his chest in order to push him away but his hand came over it and started motioning her hand over his body.

"You like that don't you?" He grinned as he picked her hand up and kissed it. Jackson didn't know how in just a few moments his anger for her had turned into this. A moment ago he was cursing her to the end of the world but now that her small hand was in his all he wanted to do was kiss her, hold her, and protect her. His other hand raised her chin as she trembled a bit and he kissed her on the lips. "Tell me you do Lilly? Because I love it."

"Oh Jackson." Lilly whispered as he came closer and her hands went around the frame of the young blonde. "I just don't want to . . . I don't want to get . . ."

"Lilly I wouldn't think of ever hurting you." His hand pushed away some hair from her face and he looked her directly in the eyes. "You mean too much to just be another fling."