ok sorry for the shortness of this chapter but its short for a reason. it works i think. thanks to all my reviewers and people who added this story to alerts and favourites. o n the italics are the thoughts.

disclaimer: i still own nothing :(

Lilly watched her Miley run off down the beach in the direction of her house. If Lilly didn't already know that she had upset Miley she sure knew now. The way Miley ran made it clear to Lilly. That's how well the girls knew each other. Lily could tell by the way that Miley's legs nearly faltered every step she took and the way she kept her arms close to her body and the way the top half of her body swayed, like she were drunk, that her heart had just broken. It was something she had seen only once before. She knew the look that would be on Miley's face. It was the only thing she could see and it killed her. The imagined tears that she knew were gathered in Miley's unseen eyes destroyed her unseen soul.

And Lilly just stood there and watched her go. She was in shock herself. She couldn't believe she had done that. What had come over her? Did she really just do that?

Omg was the only think Lilly thought. Just over and over in hear head. What had she done? More importantly why? She loved Miley. That was obvious. She loved Miley so much it hurt. When it had finally sunk in what had happened Lilly couldn't take it.

She collapsed on the sand of the beach. "I'm sorry," she whispered. She carried on saying that like a mantra until she was wailing it to the empty beach.

Miley had run away. She knew she was headed in the direction of her house but she didn't want to go there. So she ran and ran, not knowing where she would go. She ran all the way along the beach. She ran for what seemed forever. Hot tears ran down her face. She ran till she collapsed. She landed face first in the sand and just couldn't seem to care. She lay there, sand in her eyes, her mouth, her ears. The sand was everywhere. It seemed to be eating her, swallowing her into its endless depths. And she just couldn't seem to care. She wasn't in the here and now, she was in a few moments ago, replaying all that had happened. She couldn't believe it had happened. She couldn't believe that was Lilly. She wouldn't believe it.

That was not Lilly. Her Lilly wouldn't do anything like that. No it wasn't Lilly.

It must've been my fault

Miley was lost in her memories. She heard a faint wailing, invading her mind. She heard it and joined in, repeating the words into the sand. As soon as she opened her mouth, sand hurried into it, rushing past her lips. She coughed and spluttered.

Lilly was still wailing at the top of her lungs when a copper taste spread across her tongue. She brought her hand up to gingerly touch her bottom lip. When she brought it away to look at it, it was stained red. She quickly forgot as she heard a wail that wasn't her own. Her ears picked up the faint sound. She knew that voice anywhere. Miley.
Miley gagged on the sand that invaded her mouth. She tried to get up but fell back on her knees. She lent forward, coughing all the sand from her mouth. She couldn't breathe. All she could do was gag on the sand in her throat.
Lilly hurriedly got up and dashed in the direction of Miley's voice, spurred on by the hurt and sorrow that her voice contained. Then the voice was replaced by coughing and Lilly ran even faster.
Miley couldn't stop coughing. It was to her like she had been coughing for an eternity, that coughing was all she could do and was all she knew. Black was tinting the edge of her vision. The darkness was closing in on her. She managed to scream a word though the never-ending coughing; "LILLY!"
Lilly could see Miley now. She was a dot on the horizon that was getting ever bigger. At least she hoped it was Miley. Please dear god be Miley. Then she got close enough to see her properly and she then tried to reverse her wish. She wished that that wasn't her Miley collapsed on her knees on the sand with vomit leaking from her mouth. Then she heard her voice saying her name. That voice no longer held the sorrow and pain and hurt that it did before.

She ran faster.

ok it was short but i thought id end it on a kind of cliff hanger. also i just kind of got this idea and wrote it down. the idea changed when i wrote this. i also hope this kind of redems Lilly just a little bit in ur eyes angelrock because Lilly isn't meant to be the bad guy in this story. well she is kind of. see the AN at the beginning of the first chapter. ive updated it to give a kind of overview. also ive updated the chapters and added a few things