Chapter 12

Hurt

I sat back down on my bed and covered my face. I knew that I had to go after him, but I just couldn't bring myself to go out.

"Miley, I'm sorry." I could hear Freddy say, but I wanted him to leave. I need to just everything together and calm the heck down.

"Freddy, I think it's about time you leave." I whispered, feeling all these emotions finally hit me. I wanted to go after him, but I was just too afraid.

"Okay, I see you later." He said.

I removed my hands from my face and watched him leave. Just as he reached my door, Freddy turned to look at me, his eyes filled with sympathy.

"I'm sorry Miley, I shouldn't have done that." Freddy sighed and walked out of the room.

I lay back onto the bed and closed my eyes. I know I have to make it up for Jake, but I was just too afraid to go looking for him. What if he did go to that one place that holds only bad memories?

I heard a soft knock come from the door and I looked seeing Lilly and Luann coming in. They looked worried once they saw me and they sat down on either side of me.

"You okay Miles?" Luann asked, rubbing my back.

"You guys, Jake walked in when Freddy and I were just playing around. He probably thinks I'm cheating on him. Isn't that… weird." I forced myself to laugh, but instead let out an awkward grunt and soon felt my self tearing up.

"Oh Miley." Lilly said as she wiped my tears that were now forming. "Don't worry; he'll forget about it, it just takes time." She pushed back a piece of my hair behind my ear and smiled weakly at me.

"Yeah, I know, but you don't understand, I agreed to be in this committed relationship, I agreed to this whole promise ring thing, and I agreed to be in a more intimate relationship with him. Wouldn't you feel this bad if you were caught doing something with another guy by your boyfriend?" I asked and both Lilly and Luann hugged me.

"Miley, everything will be alright. Just wait until tomorrow and see if he'll still talk to you." Luann kissed my forehead and got up from my bed. "I have some tutoring to go to; Uncle Robby is forcing me to go ever since my last F I got on my Spanish." She walked over to the door and closed it behind her as she left.

"She's right, but for some reason it feels like its last year all over again, but this time you have the guy trying to get to you." Lilly said and lightly squeezed me.

I calmed down a bit and nodded. It is true. Last year, it was Luann trying to get Jake, and now it's some random dude trying to get me. I'm already afraid that he's in love with both sides of me, as in my Hannah side and my Miley side.

"Lilly, be serious. Jake could be doing who knows what and he did say that he was going to that place. That place! He promised me that he wouldn't go there, but he's going there. I seriously screwed up Lilly. You don't know how serious this is!" I breathed in deeply and lay on my bed.

"Well, hopefully Oliver stops him from going to that place. Once he saw Jake leave, he followed him to see what happened." Lilly said, lying down next to me.

"Yeah, hopefully." I closed my eyes and tried to clear my head from what had just happened. I turned my head and looked over at Lilly. She was staring straight ahead with her hands folded over her stomach.

"Lilly, would you tell me something, and you have to be completely truthful." I said and she nodded.

"Sure, ask me anything. Just so that it would get your mind off of Jake for a moment. What's on your mind?" Lilly turned her head and looked at me.

"Well, I've been wondering, what's been going on with you and Oliver?" I finally asked.

Lilly's cheeks slightly flushed, she looked away and closed her eyes.

"We're just… experimenting." She said.

"In what way experimenting?" I moved my elbow on the bed and shifted on my side.

"We're kinda together." she bit her lip and I jumped.

"Kinda, since when?" I asked, suddenly shocked that they kept this from me.

"Well… beginning of the school year."

I sat up and shook her. "Are you freaking kidding me? So you like kept this away from me since then? What the hell? Good friend you are, you're probably going to tell me that you two are way more intimate than Jake and I." I laughed and she just kept quiet.

She shut her eyes with her face showing no emotion at all.

"No way…" I couldn't believe it.

"Like I said, we've been experimenting. Nothing to drastic or anything, just normal stuff. But yeah, I realized that I liked Oliver a lot and my relationship with him is way different than the one I had with Jackson. It doesn't matter anyway, we wanted to keep this a secret, but he ended up telling Jake about it." She shook her head and sat up from my bed.

"Oh gosh, I seriously can't believe it though my two best friends doing things I haven't even done yet… wow." I said and Lilly laughed.

"Well, at least you aren't feeling that bad about Jake again. Tomorrow everything will go back to normal so don't worry about it." Lilly hugged me and lay my head on her shoulder.

"Yeah, I hope so.

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For the next few days in school I looked all over for Jake, but he wasn't there. I went to his first class just before my own, but he didn't go there. I did, however, catch a glimpse of him walking to his second period. It was then I knew he didn't want to talk to me.

It's Friday and I still didn't talk to Jake. Jake did his best to avoid me today. I saw him, but once he saw me, he ignored me. It seriously hurts that he doesn't want to do anything with me. I just thought this year would be different, nothing like last year, but it is like last year. Almost exactly like last year.

"I'm sorry Miley." Freddy said during music class. Jake was running late to class. He really didn't want to be in the class with me or Freddy.

"It's okay Freddy, just let it go." I rolled my eyes and kept my eyes glued to the door, hoping Jake would come in at anytime.

Soon the door opened, and Jake came in. He held a light blue slip in his hands and gave it to Mrs. Rodrigues. He took his seat in the back of the class and he looked like a wreck.

"Hey Jake, do you have a pencil, I think I left mine at home." I hear a girl say behind me and I turned around, seeing Jake with his head down on the table while a girl stood in front of his desk.

Jake ignored her and just sat there doing nothing.

The girl blushed, and walked away when Jake didn't respond for the next few minutes.

I sighed deeply and stood up. I had to do something, I am the one person that made him feel like this for the past two days.

I walked over to Jake's table and kneeled down.

"Jake, talk to me." I said and he lifted his head off the table, placing his chin on his arms.

"Do I look like I want to talk to you?" He whispered so that I was the only one that could hear.

"Jake, we have to talk about what happened. It was nothing, we were just happy to find a song, you have to believe me." I whispered feeling so guilty from what happened. Not just a few days ago he asked me if I wanted go move forward into this relationship and in the end, he finds his girlfriend with another guy.

"I just need some time to think." He whispered and looked behind me, glaring at Freddy.

"You have to know that there's nothing going on be-"

Jake stood up and pushed his table on the ground. I was startled and he seriously looked hurt.

"Miley, so you want to talk right?" He gripped on my wrist and pulled me up from my kneeling position.

Everyone was looking at the both of us by now even the teacher, but she was just too shocked to see Jake explode like that.

He pulled me out of the class room and closed the door behind us.

"Where are we going?" I asked quietly as he dragged me out of the school, and brought me to the bike rack.

He pulled out his bike, the same bike he used when he saved me from Matt, and got on.

"Get on my handle bars. We do need to talk. I don't care about thinking anymore. We have to straighten this out right now."

I nodded and got on his handle bars.

I've never seen him act this serious before. Maybe he's going to question our relationship? I just hope he doesn't. I seriously feel even guiltier now.

A/N Okay, I hope I'm not moving too fast in this chapter. Lol. Anyway, hope you liked it.

To those of you asking for the whole Loliver part, where now you know what's this whole "secret" they had lol.

And to everyone who answered, yes, it's the place where Jake almost killed himself, the place where Matt almost raped Miley. It's like Oh-oh he's breaking his promise with the whole not going there thing. doesnt it just disappoint you? I don't know why I keep bringing up that place. I guess that place is cursed cuz of all those bad stuff that happened to both Miley and Jake whenever they go there.

Where do you think they're going now?