Chapter 8: Tripperella
A/N: Thanks for all the great reviews! On with the chapter!
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BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP! "UGH SHUT UP!!!!" Lilly said, slamming her hand on the beeping alarm. She's not much of a morning person.
"Good morning sunshine!" I called from the bathroom.
"What the heck are you doing up so early?" Lilly asked, rolling out of bed.
"Getting ready to go ski! Come on, you have to go too!" I said, jumping out to reveal my skiing outfit. It consisted of light blue pants and light blue puffy jacket with white and silver accents in it. And my silver skis were leaned up against the wall. I ran over to Lilly's suitcase and got out her skiing stuff and threw it on her bed. "Let's go! Get dressed and I'll see if Oliver and Jake are ready yet."
"You're a meany bo beany fo sheany on the zeany!" Lilly said, going to the bathroom with her ski stuff.
"Aww thanks you're a doll! NOW GET READY!" I said, dialing Jake's cell number.
Jake: Hello?
Me: Hey Jake, are you ready to go skiing yet?
Jake: Ahh, hold on. sits down phone OLIVER! Man, what are you doing?
Oliver (faintly in the background) Throwing these skis out the window! They put a huge cut on my foot!
Jake: Oliver that cuts not even an inch wide!
Oliver: Hurts like it is!
Jake: Be a man and get ready! picks up phone Sorry Miles, we'll meet you in the lobby in 15 minutes. Bye!
Me: Yea, bye...
"I feel...like a marshmallow." Lilly said, walking out of the bathroom with the puffy ski ensemble on.
"You're not alone trust me. Look, we have fifteen more minutes so I'm gonna go ahead and go down there and get some hot chocolate. Wanna come?"
"Sure, let's go!" So we ran to the door, getting squished together going out the door because of our marshmallow ski suits.
-----------------Meanwhile in Jake & Oliver's Room------------------
"Oliver I put yours and Lilly's tickets on your bed, and mine and Miley's in my wallet so don't let me forget." Jake called out to Oliver from the bathroom where he was fixing his perfect blonde hair.
"Alright." Oliver said, walking towards the bathroom in his ski gear, "So any ideas what Lilly & I should do tonight?"
"Why are you asking me? I thought you were Mr. Romantic, Smokin' Oken, Ollie Trollie, you know."
Oliver shrugged, "Well I guess I'm having an off day. Seriously, any ideas?"
Jake tugged on a strand of his hair, trying to make it stay down, "I don't know. Concert starts at 8 and will probably end around 10. We'll probably go out to eat first, then I'll surprise her with the tickets after. So you guys could eat with us, then when I'm surprising Miley with the tickets you can show Lilly the Katharine McPhee tickets for Thursday. Then we'll go to the concert, and you guys could go swim or something."
"Sounds good. So we'll eat at 7?"
"Yea. I'm thinking the Cheddar's down the road sounds good."
"Alright," Oliver said, looking up at the clock, "Hey, we only have 5 minutes so we'd better go ahead and get down there."
--------------------Downstairs at the Lobby--------------------
"Hey Miles, they're here!" Lilly said, throwing her empty hot chocolate cup in the trash.
"How's my little snow bunny doing?" Oliver said, rubbing noses with Lilly.
"Snow bunny? You've GOT to be kidding me!" I said, as Jake walked toward me.
"Ah, hey Miley you ready?" Jake said.
"Uh, yea I guess..." I said, staring longingly at Lilly and Oliver. So what if I'm jealous of their relationship?
--------------------At the Slopes--------------------
I fastened my last ski and unsteadily stood up. God I'm gonna die... I though over and over. I mean, I've skied before, but I was never much good. No balance.
"Okay, before we go-pictures!" Lilly said, pulling out her pink Sony Cyber-shot camera.
"Jake, Miley smile!" Jake slid his arm around me and we both smiled. Jake was looking pretty fine too with his toboggan-ish hat on protecting his gorgeous hair. "Okay my turn!" Lilly said, thrusting the camera in the face.
"Okay geez. Smile you two!" I said, aiming the camera at Lilly and Oliver. "Great, can we go now?" Lilly gave her camera and bag to one of the staff members to watch and we were off.
"Let's go try that slope over there!" Oliver said. It was an average sized one. Not a bunny slope, but not extremely scary. We walked over to the chair lift and Lilly and Oliver sat in the first one, Jake and I in the second.
"This is nice." Jake said, casually putting his arm around me.
"Yea...nice." I said. Then we just sat there. Awwwwkward silence! I turned to face him, then we just stared into each others eye's for a minute. Then he began to lean in. Closer, and closer until-
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" We quickly broke apart, to hear the screaming of Lilly jumping off the chair lift to ski. Of course, that meant it was our turn.
"Okay-1, 2, 3!" Then Jake and I jumped, right to a perfect landing, where we began skiing down.
(A/N: Since my ski trip isn't until next year, I don't know much about skiing. So if something is wrong, please forgive me!)
Halfway down, halfway down! I thought. Jake of course was an excellent skier and was already a few feet ahead of me. Wow, he has a nice butt. Whoa since when did I like his butt?!? BAM!!! I was so busy looking at his butt that I had tripped on a rock and was now rolling down the hill, screaming of course. Then I was stopped by a tree which smashed into my foot.
"AHHH!" I yelped. The tears came quickly after. Jake stopped, and turned around. He skied over then sat by me and hugged me.
"Miley are you okay?"
"sniffle Yea, but my foot is throbbing!" Jake carefully took of my skis and revealed my swelling ankle.
"We gotta get you to the nurse's station." He took off his skis, then carefully picked me up. "You okay?"
"Feeling better." I said, smiling. He walked me down the remainder of the hill to the nurse's station.
"Oh my, what's wrong honey?" The nurse said, pulling up the leg of my pant to reveal my foot.
"I was skiing and tripped on a rock, then rolled down and slammed into a tree." I said.
"Well my oh my doesn't that sound like a good time!" She poked it some and tried to move it. "Well, there's nothing I can do. It's not broken, just a minor sprain. Try not to walk on it too much today, and you should be okay tomorrow but you might be limping a bit. I have some IcyHot packets here you can rub on it every few hours, and a bottle of ibuprofen." The nurse handed Jake the stuff, and then Jake scooped me up again.
"So where to now Cinderella? Or shall I say, Tripperella?" Jake said.
"Shut up Jake! And to my room please."
"As you wish." We walked to past the desk to the elevator, noticing the same scraggly looking owner bent over with his butt crack showing.
"Ewww." I said, under my breath. As soon as we turned the corner, Jake yelled, "CRACK KILLS!" We got in the elevator and rode to my level and walked to my room. He unlocked my room for me and laid me on my bed, then propped my foot up with pillows and turned on the TV.
"Want some ice for your foot?" Jake said, looking around for a bag to put it in.
"Yea, use the leftover Ziploc bag in the bathroom and we have and ice bucket in there." I said. Jake made the ice bag and gently placed it on my foot.
"Hey, you wanna go to dinner with Lilly and Oliver at 7?" Jake said, pacing around.
"Sounds great! I may not be the fastest walker there, but okay!"
"Great! Okay, is that all? I need to go before I get caught. You know guys aren't allowed in the girls' rooms."
"Yea, that's it. Thanks for everything Jake!" I said.
"No problem." He walked over to the bed, hesitated, then placed a gentle kiss on my cheek. Then he quickly walked out of the room.
...a kiss on the cheek? That's it? Since when is Jake Ryan shy? I thought, as I slowly drifted off to sleep.
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Will Miley be okay? Is Jake shy? How will the concert go? And who is that scraggly looking guy at the desk? Find out in the next chapter, coming soon!