Chapter Five – The Secret's Out

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The next day at school, Miley was still in a horrible mood over Jake. Lilly tried to comfort her, and, now that Jake was back at school, steer her away whenever she spotted Jake. If ever Miley was on her own, she would ignore Jake if she happened to run into him.

"Miley!" Jake would yell in-between classes. He would make and attempt to speak to her, but she would ignore him and run away.

After fourth period, when they were about to go to lunch, Miley went to her locker to get her lunch bag. Jake spotted her and walked over to talk to her.

"Miley," he started. "I honestly don't know what I did to make you upset. I feel li –"

"Jake, just stop it." Miley could feel, for about the fifth time that day, tears burning her eyes. "Jake, you didn't respect the rules about the movie, and you could have waited until later to give those girls autographs. I mean, come on, that was our date, something we were supposed to share with no one else, and you blew it."

"Miley, I'm sorry, bu-"

"Just go away, Jake." Miley pushed her locker closed and walked into the cafeteria.

Miley sat down at the usual table with Lilly and Oliver. "Hey," Lilly said gently. "How are ya?"

"ARGHH!!" Miley began to pound her head on the table, causing quite a scene.

"What happened?" Oliver turned and looked at Lilly.

"She broke up with Jake." Lilly told him the whole story. The entire time, Miley was pounding her head on the table.

Soon the bell rang. Miley got up and went to her class without even looking at her two best friends.

When Miley got home, she went straight up to her room to take a nap. When she woke up, there were five messages on her phone.

"Miley, it's Jake. I just want you to know that whatever I did, I'm sorry. I – "Miley deleted his message.

"Hey Miles, it's Lilly. Oliver and I are gonna come over at four and hang with you whether or not you like it. See you!"

"Hey Miley, Lilly again. Sorry if I acted too mean on my last message. See you at four!"

"Miley, this is Lilly. I am in your living room. Come on down here and let's party!"

"Miley, this is Oliver. I just want you to know, that whatever's the matter, I'm here for you. Jake doesn't deserve a pretty girl like you. You deserve a lot better. See you."

Miley trudged down the stairs. She noticed Lilly had brought some cheesy movies, while Oliver had made his specialty, strawberry smoothies.

"Hey, you're up!" Lilly came over and wrapped Miley in a bear hug. Miley reluctantly hugged back. For some reason, Oliver was staring very hard at Miley. Miley felt herself blush, and Oliver looked away.

"We brought some movies. Come on and join us."

The threesome watched movies until six, when Miley's dad got home from a meeting and told Lilly and Oliver to leave because Miley had a concert later. Lilly and Oliver left and told Miley they would see her later.

As they were walking out, Lilly started to talk.

"Something's bugging you," she said to Oliver and playfully punched him in the arm.

"What? No, uh, no." Oliver tried to keep a straight face.

"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's ner-"

"Ok, ok, I'll tell you!" Oliver had clapped his hand over Lilly's mouth.

"Wait! I already know. It's…" Lilly looked thoughtful. "Girl problems?"

"Yup."

"Who's the girl?"

Oliver mumbled something that sound like "curly".

"What did you say?" Lilly questioned.

"Miley," he replied quietly.

"What about her?"

"I – I –"

"You what?"

"I love her."