A Hurtful Fight Full of Feelings

Miley's POV

"O-ok guys, you're even now. Fair enough?" Lilly said with a hint of fear in her voice. I had the same feeling because Oliver and Jake's eyes were locked into death glares.

"I don't know…" Oliver said to Jake sarcastically. "What do you think Jake? Are we even?"

"Depends on what you think of this!"

Just as Jake finished the last part of his sentence, he shoved Oliver backwards by pushing his shoulders and then causing him to fall into his bucket of water. Now Oliver's shirt was soaked. He struggled to get up as quick as he could.

"Dude what is wrong with you?!" Oliver said when he had gotten up. Then he took his mop with him and swiped Jake in the face.

"Me? What's wrong with you man?"

Jake went to get his mop, but it knocked into his bucket. He had swung the mop with so much force that the bucket rolled away from him and headed straight for me. We all saw it, but couldn't stop it. I was just a few feet away from all the action. Once it hit me it hurt. It hit me right in the shins and splashed water all over my jeans.

I looked up at Jake. He had a look of horror on his face. He hadn't meant it and didn't want to get me upset again. But I put that out of my mind. I didn't care anymore. Now I was upset.

"Oh no Miley I-"

"Jake, this was supposed to be simple! A simple clean up of the cafeteria. Why do you have to have such a big ego?!" I said to him in a slightly shaky voice. I was slowly backing away to go to the bathroom and clean up.

"But Miley I'm really-"

"No, I don't care." I said as I turned around and began walking out of the room. I could hear Lilly following me. "And that really hurt." I yelled back.

When I got to the bathroom, I was almost in tears. And I had no idea why I was. I tried to hide it while drying myself, but Lilly still noticed.

"Aw come on Miley, its ok. How bad does it hurt?" she said quietly as she rubbed my back to help me feel better.

"Thanks Lilly, but it's not my leg, it only feels a little bruised. I'm just so upset at…oh gosh I don't know! Why do boys have to make things so complicated? And I don't even know why I'm crying. Lilly, what am I crying about?" I asked her, hoping she might have an answer. She did. But I didn't know if I liked it.

"Well maybe, maybe you might actually like him." She replied still calm and rubbing my back.

"O-oh no, d-did you just say w-what I think you just said? Because if you did then you know you're going to regret it."

"Ok, so maybe you don't like him. But what other reason would a 9th grader be crying over? I hardly think that it was because of water being spilled all over you." Lilly said as she grabbed me some tissue to wipe my face. Apparently she wasn't threatened by my tone.

"Thanks Lilly." I said as she gave me the tissue. I was finished crying by now, but my face was partly streaked with tears. I wiped them off. "I know it's not over the water, that's why I asked you, why am I crying?"

"And I gave you my answer Miles. It's just not the answer you wanted was it? You're the one who really knows why."

I thought about this for a moment. She was right. I'm the only one who really knows. And her answer was not what I wanted to hear. But was it the truth?

"Yeah you're right, I only know. But I just can't think of why. Is that really the truth?"

She knew what I meant and so I ended our conversation there.

To get my pants dry, I just held each leg up to the hand blow dryer for a minute. It worked pretty well. Then Lilly and I walked back out to the cafeteria.

Jake and Oliver were still there, but the cleaning supplies were gone. Jake and Oliver were sitting next to each other on a table, a clean table, talking. Then they saw us and hopped off the table.

As they were walking toward us Lilly and I looked around. All the other tables were clean too. And so was the ground; free of all the trash.

"You guys this is so cool. How'd you clean up so fast? We were only gone for like five minutes." Lilly said really amazed. I was amazed too, but I just walked slowly behind Lilly. I didn't feel like being cheerful right now.

"Well after that bucket hit Miley, Jake and I realized we were acting a little immature." Oliver was saying.

"A little?" I said to him and raised an eyebrow.

"Ok, very immature." Oliver corrected himself. "So we wanted to surprise you and hurried to have this place clean, before you got back." Oliver finished.

He sat back down, stretched his arms and legs very proudly at their accomplishment. Then put his arms behind his head and had a satisfied expression on his face. I noticed Lilly looking at him with a small smirk. Nobody else had noticed. I thought Oliver had looked funny too, but there was something different about the way Lilly looked at him. Right after this, Jake walked up to me.

"Yeah Miley, Oliver was right, I haven't been very nice. I've been way to forward and I shouldn't keep showing off like I have been. And I didn't mean to do that, I'm really sorry. Are you ok?" he asked with a small smile.

"Thanks Jake, I appreciate that. And I'm ok, thanks." I replied and smiled a little back.

Just when I was feeling better, just when I thought he might not be that bad and I wanted to say something back; Ms. Kunkle walked by to check on us.

"Wow, I must admit, you four are really good." She said as she walked all around the place and looked it over. "You haven't even taken the full hour and everything's already perfect."

"Well it was mostly Oliver and Jake. They're really fast." Lilly said.

"Alright, then I think I'll take away the rest of your detentions. Have a good day everyone." And with that she walked away.

"Thanks again you guys. I don't know what we would have done." Lilly sighed as Kunkle left. Then we all got our book bags and began to walk out of the school.

"Sure, no problem." Oliver said back to Lilly as he swung his bag over his shoulder. "I'd do anything for you…." Oliver said, looking right at Lilly. Then he added more to make it seem like he was talking to all of us. ".…y-you guys, I'd do anything for all of you, because you know that's what friends do they'll-"

"Oliver, we get it ok? Lilly said. She sounded a little frustrated that he changed his mind about her. I could tell that, that was his first intention, but he just didn't want to admit it. "Miley let's go." Lilly gestured for me to walk with her.

"But Lilly I-" Oliver started, and then Lilly cut him off.

"I'm walking home with Miley today." She said as we were almost out the door.

When we were outside I saw a limo waiting in the front. It must have been waiting since school ended.

Well there's another one of his perks that the ego boy gets. I don't know why I had suddenly felt that why about him earlier, but I had. Slowly these feelings were being pushed toward the back of my mind as I thought of how Jake got everything. And he also had continued that fight. So maybe he still is the jerk I first met.

Everything was turning into one big complicated mess. Now I was glad Lilly was walking home with me; we could talk. When we were a block away from my house, I started talking.

"So Lilly, do you…I mean is there something going-"

"Yes I like him ok. I can tell he feels the same way. You can too right? I know. But he's just too stubborn to do anything about it." she said all this very quickly. We had also just arrived at my house and were walking inside.

"Wow that um, thanks that sure answered my question." I said with a smirk as we both sat down on the couch.

A/N Awesome reviews, you guys rock! Ok, I'll give you this- Oliver isn't jealous, don't worry.