Tell me that you're alright
Yeah everything is alright.
Oh please tell me that you're alright.
Yeah everything is alright.
Tears pricked Miley's eyes, "Is-is that what I think it is…?" she whispered. Nick was holding his breath, not daring to answer her rhetorical question.
"No.." she whispered, barely audible. "No." she declared more forcefully this time, "This is our place!" she exclaimed, choking back the tears, "Our place!"
Nick stood there silent; his arms hanging limp against his sides. "We should go" he muttered under his breath, turning on his heel and starting to walk away.
Miley stood her ground, "I'm not leaving." She declared. "Mi" his voice was strained, "We should go"
She shook her head, not believing that their place, which held so many memories, was going to be torn down and probably turned into a mall or something. "Can we at least stay here tonight?" she pleaded.
He focused his gaze on the ground, "Maybe we should head back to my place, be alone for a little while. Then, you can return to the girls" he offered.
"Nick…" she whispered, "Please, can we stay here? It doesn't feel right being anywhere else"
Nick turned back around, facing Miley. Her hair was tousled, her face pale and the tears were slowly falling down her skin. They were steady as a clock…
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
He slowly made his way back to Miley and wrapped his arms around her waist as she collapsed into his embrace. "Things change Miley, we just have to change along with them."
A knot formed in her throat, one she couldn't swallow, "I hate change"
3 PM.
Lily tossed and turned in her sleeping bag, she finally gave up on getting any sleep and let out a sigh. Selena, who was currently laying next to her looked over in her direction, "I can't sleep either"
"Where can she be?" Lily whispered.
Soft snores escaped from Aly and AJ's mouths, telling them that they were asleep. "She's probably at the warehouse" Taylor whispered over towards the girls as she climbed over Aly and AJ and sat at the end of Selena's sleeping bag. "You know about that?" Selena asked.
'Miley left us for the warehouse?' Lily thought to herself.
"Mhmm" Taylor nodded her head, causing her wavy locks to fall over her shoulder. "I was one of the first one's she told…" she blushed, "I kinda got it out of her"
Lily felt this fire be ignited within her. Taylor knew before her?
"What do you mean?" Selena asked, sitting up and resting her back against the couch.
"Well," Taylor started, "One night, we were having a sleepover and I caught her sneaking out around midnight. The next morning, I got it out of her with chocolate covered strawberries…" she smiled deviously.
"Her weakness" Lily piped in.
Taylor nodded her head proudly, "Pretty clever, huh?"
Selena let out a quiet giggle as Lily just nodded her head, "Was that the night Oliver pronounced his undying love for you?" Lily laughed.
Taylor blushed, as the memory replayed in her head, "Yeah…" her voice trailed off, "Wait, he's over me right?" she asked worriedly.
Aly rose from the sleeping bag and lifted her eye mask, "Oh trust me, he's over you" she insisted.
"Were you listening in?" Selena asked.
"She was listening in" Taylor and Lily proclaimed in unison.
They both laughed, "You'll get used to it" Aly giggled. Selena just blushed at her embarrassing question.
"Remember how AJ couldn't stop talking about that guy before?" Aly smiled.
"NO!" Taylor and Lily gasped.
"Oh!" Selena exclaimed, "Oliver!"
Aly smiled at the girl, "See, now you're catching on!"
Nick helped Miley through his window, shutting it tight behind her. "You can go over to my bed, I'm just gonna go get a glass of water for you downstairs" Nick insisted as he pointed towards the bed. Miley nodded and made her way over towards the bed, she gently sat down and buried her head in his pillow, taking in his natural scent. "Nick?" she heard a groggily voice ask.
She seemed unfazed, "No Joe…It's me" she whispered, in a daze. "Miley?" he asked, sitting up in his bed and digging his fists into his shut eyes. Miley continued to lay there, her face buried into the pillow. "Aren't you supposed to be at the…" he snapped his fingers, racking his brain for the place.
"Yes Joe. I am…" she declared, her voice fading out in the end. "Why aren't you…" he started. She cut him off, "Can we not talk about it?" she whispered, you could tell she was about to cry.
"Oh, ok" he seemed confused. He lifted himself from the bed and walked over to where Miley was laying. "Wanna talk about it … now?" he tried. Miley sprung up from the bed and was in a sitting position within 2 seconds. "How can they do that!?" she cried, throwing her hands into the air.
"Who?"
"They can't just take it away from us!" she exclaimed, shaking her head; causing pieces of her hair to fall into her tear-streaked face.
"Take what?"
"I mean, how are they gonna do it? Just tear it down without even getting our consent?"
"How what!?" Joe pleaded. Miley collapsed into his arms. She grabbed onto his shirt, trying to pull herself up, "It's not fair" she kept muttering over and over, "It's not fair"
Joe rubbed the crying girl's back soothingly. "Nothing's fair Miles, but if you explain to me what you're talking about, maybe we can think it through"
"The warehouse" she muttered, dryly, "They're tearing it down…"
"Oh" was all Joe could manage to say, at that exact moment Nick walked through the door. He walked over towards the side table and placed the glass of water on the wood. He then motioned Joe to move. Joe slid across the bed and Nick was there in an instant for Miley to rest her head upon. He quickly shushed her sobs and stroked her hair. "I'm gonna go sleep on the couch…" Joe offered, "I think you two need to work this one out alone…"
He then walked over towards his bed and grabbed his blanket and a pillow, he made his way for the door, but then turned around for a second.
"And Miles?"
She looked up to him with her over flooding pools of blue, "It may be the end of the warehouse, but the time and memories aren't going to be torn down with it" and with that, he exited the room.
She slid close the sliding door and tip-toed across the hard wooden floor; causing a few squeaks here and there. She was almost towards the piano without being caught when four heads popped up from behind the couch.
"Crap"
"Where have you been missy?" Lily scolded, waving her finger in the air and tisking her friend as she made her way out from behind the couch. Miley closed her eyes, hoping all of them would just disappear. "Out for some fresh air?" she tried.
A loud laugh escaped Aly's lips, but was silenced when a pillow collided with the back of her head.
"I'M TRYING TO FREAKIN' SLEEP HERE!" AJ shouted, then rolled over and fell back into a deep sleep.
Miley walked over towards the four girls and took a seat by her sleeping bag, the place was a mess. Sleeping bags scattered everywhere, gummy bears everywhere you looked and a bottle of nail polish spilled onto the magazines. "Nice try…" Aly muttered, rubbing her head.
"But, we know where you were…" Taylor continued.
"You were with that Jonas boy" Selena took over.
"Yeah, that … Jonas boy" Lily said in disgust.
Miley watched them all in disbelief, had they all planned this?
Her question was answered when Lily and Selena high-fived each other. "We nailed it!" Selena exclaimed, "Yeah, after an hour of rehearsing it!" Lily added, glaring at Taylor.
"I'm sorry! Just when Selena said that line I died every time!" Taylor giggled.
Selena rolled her eyes and then fixated her attention back on Miley, "Hey…" she noticed Miley's strange look on her face, "Are you alright?"
Miley quickly snapped out of it, "Yeah I'm fine! I'm just, tired. Long night, so if you don't mind I'm gonna try and get some sleep now."
Taylor and Aly traded concerned looks with each other as Lily answered Miley, "Sure, we'll just be here when you wake up" she smiled.
Miley lay her head on her pillow and let her eyelids slowly droop close.
Her friends' voices drifted to the back of her mind as unconsciousness overpowered her.
"You think she's really ok?"
"Guess we'll find out when she wakes up"
"Or … we could just ask a certain Jonas"
I just had to post this, seeing your reviews! :)
xxEmilyKearsexx