Can We Talk?

Jakes POV

"Um, Miley? What are you...why are you guys holding onto each other like that?" Lilly said, trying to suppress a laugh.

Miley and I both looked at each other and then where our hands were. It was only until now that she noticed I had grabbed onto her shoulders. And I just noticed she was clenching my other shirt sleeve. We looked back at each other again, then we let go and took a step aside from each other.

"Hey Lilly! Let's go eat." Miley smiled and walked over to her, pretending like nothing happened.

"But what were you-"

"I said let's go eat lunch." she whispered loudly to Lilly, with her back turned on me.

"Ok, ok we'll go. Bye Jake, see you in class." Lilly said to me in a hyper voice. Clearly she was still a big fan.

"Thanks Lilly, but could I just say one more thing to Miley?"

"Yeah sure." she turned and whispered to Miley in a surprised voice. "He knows my name!"

"Yeah, only because I said it." Miley said with sarcasim.

Lilly rolled her eyes and then walked back through the doors to the lunchroom.

Miley was now facing the doors and her back was turned on me. Clearly she didn't want to hear me out. I took a step toward her and gently grabbed her arm to turn her around.

"Ok fine, what else did you want to say?"

"Well I just thought you should know that I uh...well I really do care about you Miley, and I just want to get to know the real you." I said to her quietly.

Then I let go of her arm and turned and walked the other way. I decided to eat lunch in a classroom again. I knew if I went in the lunchroom, things might feel a bit uncomfortable after what just happened between us. I also hoped Miley noticed I how I felt too. She did.

"Jake, wait."

But I just kept walking. I could always see her at our locker tomorrow. And that's exactly what I planned to do.

From the way we had both talked to each other and grabbed each other like that, I knew what my next move should be.

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The next day after school I decided to go to the beach. I went to a little place called Rico's. Miley was very successful at avoiding me all day today. I've heard she hangs here alot, so this might be worth a shot.

I sat on the bar stool and propped my elbow up on the bar, then leaned my face into my hand. Then a guy came up to me and asked for my order.

"Hey I'm Jackson. Would you like to order anything?"

"Oh uh, I'll have a hot dog." I said in a bored tone, still leaning my face lazily on my hand. "Wait a minute you're Miley's brother right?" I added slowly

"Well yeah, where'd you here that?"

"Oh I've heard things at school, you know."

"And I've heard you're Jake Ryan." he said sarcastically as he turned to go get my hot dog.

"You don't seem too excited."

"Dude, I'm not a girl." he chuckled and then set the hot dog in front of me.

"True. Hey you wouldn't happen to know where Miley is right now, would you?" I asked hopefully

"Well it's usually around now that she comes down here to hang with her friends, but I don't see her anywhere."

"Yeah, figures"

"What's the matter with you? Why are you so interested?"

"Well I like her and she knows it because I told her. I just like her because she doesn't treat me like a regular fan would. Strange I know. But this star stuff keeps happening everywhere I go, so it's getting a little boring."

"Well the kids at school are used to you being there by know aren't they?"

"Yeah and that's why I came here, because mostly kids from school come here too. Anyway, Miley and I share a locker and she's not too happy about that. The other day we had a little 'fight' I guess you could call it. And now there's some tension between us, so she won't talk to me. And she is really good at avoiding me." I said just staring at my hot dog and still leaning on my arm.

"Wow, sounds pretty harsh. But you know she's not as mean as she's been acting. In fact here's your chance to talk to her right now." Jackson said and pointed behind me.

Now I jolted up and spun around on my seat. Miley was with Lilly. She was talking to her and pointing at a place near a little palm tree- probably a place they were going to sit. I was in full view of her, but she hadn't seen me. So I turned back around to face the bar and watched until she sat under the tree with Lilly.

"So what's your next move gonna be?" Jackson asked and nodded his head once.

I had completely forgotten about him. And now he was intently looking at me as I was hiding my face from Miley's view.

"Oh, well I think I might just go over…wait, how come you're persuading me? Usually an older brother would be really protective."

"Well yeah, I am protective. But we've had a nice chat and you seem like a nice guy."

"Cool, thanks dude. Well I think I might go over there and surprise her from behind. What do you think?"

"I don't know yet. I just think you should try it."

"Thanks Jackson, that was really helpful." I said sarcastically as I got off the stool.

"Yeah, I know. I've been told many times." He said in a pondering way.

I walked around Rico's shack and behind a few trees until I got to the tree that Miley and Lilly were sitting under. They were both talking and enthralled in a magazine, so I don't think they saw me. I waited for the right moment to walk out and talk to her.

Miley's POV

As Lilly and I were sitting on the beach, from a far distance, I saw a flash of bright blonde hair quickly move past us. I knew it was Jake because I knew he was going to want to talk to me sometime soon.

I could feel him standing behind me and Lilly. Although I didn't say anything for a few more seconds, because I wanted him to think he had fooled me. Then after a few seconds I stood up and quickly turned around to tell him that I had seen him. But it just so happen to be the same time that he was walking toward me. I was only prepared for him to be standing there; not for him to be coming at me at the same time. So he had actually scared me and walked right into me; I couldn't believe it.

"Oh my gosh! Jake I can't believe you did that!" I said as the magazine I was holding dropped out of my hands. Then I lightly punched him in the shoulder. "What, what are you doing here? What do you want now?" Even though I knew what he wanted I just wanted to hear it from him.

"Whoa, slow down Miley. Look, I'm sorry; I didn't mean to scare you like that. I just wanted to talk about, well you know….yesterday?" he said a little quietly and nervously.

"Well Jake I-I'm kinda busy with Lilly here." I glanced over at Lilly; she had stood up a few seconds ago. When she saw me make eye contact she shook her head no. I know we needed to talk, but for some reason I was just putting it off. But now Lilly was trying to help me out. Still I was trying to get out of it. "I mean I have to get home and start on my homework- biology you know." The second after I said that I just realized he had that same class with me. His face lit up and now I knew what might be coming next.

"Hey you know I'm in your class don't you? Why don't we work on it together?"

A/N Looks like I was faster than I thought. But I know the next one will be about a day. Anyway enjoy.