Be Without You Chapter 12: Meet You There, a hannah montana fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own Hannah Montana. Or the song Meet You There, that is rightfully Busted's. I recommend you listen to it, it is an amazing song.

AN: Sorry in advance for any grammar or spelling mistakes.

Chapter 12: Meet You There

Miley Stewart was an unusually strong person. She was independent and confident, needing very little help from others. She learned at a young age that she could do anything she wanted on her own. She rarely relied on others. Miley learned at a young age, ever since her mother died, that everyone leaves you at one point. No matter how big of a part they played in your life, no matter how big of an influence they were to you, everyone would leave you. After losing the one person she needed most, Miley realized that the world never stopped to grieve with you. That no matter how big of a lose you endured, no matter how much pain you've suffered, you'll always need to move on.

Miley didn't have trouble with that of course. She lost her mother at a tender age and lived to tell the tale. She lost friends, pets and memories, yet she was okay. After everything she had gone through in her life, Miley thought she could handle anything that was thrown at her. But she was wrong. All the pain she's been through, nothing, not one thing compared to how hurt she was right now.

Right now, she was lying in her bed surrounded by tissues in her favourite comfy pyjamas. Tubs of ice cream surrounded her and her guitar sitting trustfully near the side of her bed. Her hair was tangled and was in a messy bun. Her eyes were red rimmed and crusty from the dried tears. Mascara lines streaked her cheeks, and dark purple circles were under her eyes. Her head was pounding and she was sore all over. Though the pain in her head and body didn't come close to the pain she was feeling in her heart.

Her heart, the pain that she was feeling was probably nothing compared to how Jake must've felt. Miley couldn't close her eyes, she was terrified to. Every time she shut her eyes, images of Jake flashed before her. After she told him they should take a break. The broken pained look on his face, the tears in his eyes, his pleading tone was fresh in her memory. Her heart twisted every time thought of him. Tears welled up in her eyes every time someone mentioned Jake.

Jake.

Oh, how she had missed him. Her chest burned when she remembered he was no longer hers. She had let him go. There was nothing Miley regretted more than letting Jake go. It had solely been the stupidest idiotic thing she had ever done. Ever. What was she thinking when she told him that? She honestly had no clue. Hurt and anger had consumed her when she saw him kissing Noelle. She knew that she kissed him, but she didn't know what made her think he kissed her. She saw her flirting with him, and she saw him pulling back every time she tried to draw him in. She had got caught up in the moment and let her mouth get the best of her.

How she wished she could turn the hands of time and take it all back. She loved him, with every fibre in her being. She couldn't survive without him. But she was being forced to now, for all she knew he could be of screwing some other girl right now as she laid in her bed, being consumed by endless guilt and heartache. The thought alone gave her a sudden urge to vomit. She wished he knew how she was feeling right now; she wished he could see her right now. See how broken and lost she was without him. Life was a hell hole with out him, there didn't seem to be a clear reason to continue on with life without him.

It had been a two weeks that she had to be without him. To any normal person, it would seem to be enough time to pick themselves up and get over it. But the problem was she couldn't get over it. Not wanting to either didn't help much. She hadn't gotten out of her bed until after the first week, when her father threatened her. The farthest she had gone was to her front porch to collect the morning mail a few days ago. Lilly had spent the majority of last week with Miley in her room, ranting on and on of how big of a jerk Jake was. But Miley silently disagreed with her every time. Jake wasn't a jerk, she was. She hadn't even given him a chance to explain, she jumped to conclusions and gotten angry and look at where she was now. Heartbroken, hurt, in pain and tired.

Suddenly, the door to Miley's room flew open. Revealing Lilly, who was dressed in her Bermuda shorts with a green tank-top and a white cami underneath, she had a pair of olive green flip flops. Her hair was pulled into a low pony tail and she stood there hands on her hips, glaring fiercely at Miley.

"Miley Rae Stewart, you need to get you butt out of bed this instant! You have been lying around here for the past two weeks! Seriously Miley, come on. You need to get up and smell the fresh air." Lilly exclaimed as she strolled into Miley's room. She approached the window and pulled the blinds open.

Sunshine came spilling into Miley's room, making it glow. Which normally would make Miley feel better but not today; her room was bright and cheerful when she was feeling the exact opposite. She squinted and shielded her eyes from the sunlight. She groaned and pulled her pillow over head.

"I don't want to get up Lilly. It may have been two weeks since we've broken up but I'm still not over him." Miley's voice came out muffled.

Lilly walked over and grabbed the pillow off of Miley's face. "Seriously Miley you can't let him do this to you. I understand you lost him but Miley you need to do something with your life."

Miley glowered at Lilly. "You have no idea how it feels likes, to lose the most important thing in your world. You don't know how it feels to wake up every morning, have your first thought is about him. I loved him Lilly, I still do. He's everything I've ever needed. When I lost him, I lost myself. This isn't like failing a test or something, this is huge. I thought he was going to be here for ever, yet here I am lost and broken without him!" Miley cried.

"Oh, Miles," Lilly cooed as she sat down on the bed next too Miley and wrapped her arms around her best friend. "Miley, I know you love him. I know he meant the world to you, but you let him go."

"I know, I know! I am so stupid! He's the greatest thing that's happened to be in the longest time and I threw him away. I am so stupid!" she wailed loudly. "I want him back; Lilly I can't do this anymore. I can't live without him; I don't want to live without him!"

"Don't say that Miley, you can make it you're strong." She rubbed small circles on Miley's back. "You can make it."

Miley shook her head. "No I can't. I've tried for 2 weeks to forget about him, even if it was only for a minute but everything thing I do reminds me of him."

Lilly sighed. "He doesn't deserve you Miley; you're much too good for him."

"No I'm not," Miley disagreed. "If anything he's too good for me. If that were me who did all that, he would have let me explain, he would understand. But I just left, I ran away because I couldn't handle it. I'm not strong Lilly."

"You're going to be alright, Miles." Lilly muttered as she continued to hug her friend. Silence settled around them, but neither of them minded. The i\silence was comfortable, it wasn't that no one had anything to say, it was there wasn't anything to say.

But the silence didn't last long, as Lilly suddenly got an idea. Her eyes lit up and she jumped up, causing Miley to fall over.

"Hmmph," Miley grunted as she landed on the floor. "Ouch, Lilly, what was that for?"

"Oh, I'm sorry Miley." Lilly cried as she helped Miley off the floor. "But I just got the greatest idea."

Miley looked up warily, Lilly's 'great idea's' usually involved a costume and a lot of trouble. "And what would that be?"

"You know what we need to make you forget about Jake?" Lilly paused for a dramatic effect. "We need to have a girl's day out!"

Miley looked up at her, "A girls day out?"

"Yes," Lilly agreed, "A girl's day out, just the two of us. Come on, we haven't had one in forever! It'll be fun, we can get out nails done and go shopping, just catch up on things."

Miley thought the idea over. Lilly was right, the two of them hadn't had some 'girls time' in quite a while and she did need to at least try and forget about Jake. Her father would be pleased that she would be leaving the house to have some fun, Miley glanced down at her pale skin, sun light would d her some good. "All right Lilly. Let's go have ourselves a girls day out."

Lilly squealed loudly as she jumped around the room, "Oh goody! We'll have so much fun together, Miley. I promise Just like we used too!"

Miley nodded and forced herself to smile. "I'll be back in an hour, Miley. Okay, you can get ready by then can't you?"

Miley nodded again and Lilly skipped out of the room. Miley sighed one last time; she looked around her room before rolling out of bed and walking into her bathroom. She was in desperate need of a shower.

--HMHMHM—

"That was fun," Lilly noted as she dropped several shopping bag before taking a seat at the table.

Miley couldn't help but smile as she nodded in agreement. "Yes it was. I had no clue that American Eagle had those new cami's out."

Lilly shrugged. "Becca was telling me about it last time, and since we were here I wanted to check them out."

"I'm glad you did," Miley said. "It's a good thing we came out today or else we would have missed out on the sale."

"And you purchase of 15 cami's," Lilly giggled as she read through her menu.

Miley mock glared at her before turning to her menu as well. After a few minutes both of them decided what they wanted to order and a called a waitress over.

"Are you two ready to order?" A feminine voice called out. Miley looked over too find a pretty blond standing next to her, notepad out and pen ready.

"I'll have a turkey sandwich with some ice tea but easy on the ice, please." Miley said as she studied her menu. After she placed her order, she folded her menu and placed it next to her on the table top; she glanced at the waitress and saw her scribbling down her order.

"What about you, Lil? What did you want?" Miley asked looking up at Lilly. She was surprised to find Lilly's face hard, emotionless her lips pressed into thin line, her jaw clenched.

"Lilly?" Miley called out softly, reaching for her friend's hand. What was wrong with Lilly? Just then, the waitress looked up from her paper and her eyes fell on Lilly, and her eyes widened with recognition.

"Oh Lilly, hello, you're back! Would you like the same thing as before?" The blond asked raising her pen to the pad again.

Lilly glared at her as she shook her head. "No thank you Chrissie." Lilly spat.

Miley's let out a gasp and her hand flew to her mouth, this was the girl that Oliver picked up last time he went out with Lilly! Miley gazed up at the girl, Oliver made a good choice, there was no doubt Chrissie was pretty. She had blond hair with light-brown highlights. Her gray eyes sparkled as she waited for Lilly to answer. She looked about nine-teen, definitely older than them.

"I'll have you're home made BLT," Lilly replied through her gritted teeth, "With lemonade. Untouched please."

Miley glared reproachfully at her friend, Miley knew Lilly despised Chrissie now that Oliver had taken a genuine liking in her, but she was being just plain rude. Chrissie, though, seemed in fazed by Lilly's mean demeanour.

"Alright," she said cheerfully. "I'll have another waiter send it over then. Be sure to tell Oliver I say hi!"

"But you'll be seeing him tonight won't you?" Lilly sneered. "He told me, you two have a date."

"Well yes, but if you see him just tell him that." Chrissie shrugged. "Tonight seems ages away."

"We will," Miley cut in before said something she'd regret. Chrissie turned to her as if just noticing Miley was there.

"Oh, hello there. Are you a friend of Oliver's?" Chrissie asked as she stuck her pen in the front pocket of her apron.

Miley nodded surprised. Surely Oliver must have mentioned her to Chrissie. "Yeah, Lilly and I are his best friends."

Chrissie smiled warmly at her. "My, Oliver never mentioned he had such pretty friends. Should I be worried?"

"Depends, with whom?" Miley teased. Chrissie laughed. "I'm Miley by the way," Miley added sticking her hand out. Chrissie shook it, "Well, nice to meet you Miley. I had better get back to work, or Paul will keep me late. Remember to tell Oliver I said hi, it was nice meeting you."

"Likewise," Miley replied easily, as she relaxed into her chair.

"Nice seeing you again Lilly," Chrissie turned to Lilly who had her arms crossed as she sat stiffly in her chair glaring at Miley. When Lilly didn't reply Chrissie continued, "You're food should be in shortly."

Miley nodded and waved at Chrissie as she walked towards the kitchen. When she was out of ear shot, Miley dropped her hand and turned to Lilly. "Did you have to be so mean?"

"How would you feel if you had to talk to someone Jake was with?" Lilly retorted icily. Miley winced at Lilly's tone; this was supposed to be their girl's day out, to help her forget about Jake for a while. Lily seemed to have realized what she just said was out of bounds quickly because she jumped out her chair and ran over to Miley's side.

"I am so sorry Miley that was totally uncalled for. I was just upset that you were being so nice to Chrissie, I can't stand her. I am super sorry; I shouldn't have said that, it was out of line." Lilly cried as she hugged her friend, "Oh my god! It was my idea to go out and try to forget about Jake and I bring him back. Ugh, nice job Lilly. I always do this, like that one time when Oliver broke his hand…" Lilly rambled.

Miley gave her a shaky laugh. "Don't worry about it, Lilly. I get it."

Lilly stopped talking for a minute and watched Miley with a blank look, like she'd forgot what they were talking about. Knowing Lilly, she probably had. It then seemed to have hit her, "Oh! Are you sure, Miles. I am sorry."

"It's fine Lilly." Miley gave her a watery smile; Lilly looked at Miley one last time before dropping her hands and slowly walking back to her seat. Once she was seated comfortably she looked out the window. "I feel like some ice cream." She stated randomly.

Miley laughed, "We could get some after if you'd like."

Lilly eyes lit up like a child's on Christmas morning, "Really? Oh that'd be wonderful." Lilly cried clapping her hands for emphasis. Miley rolled her eyes as a smile made her way on to her face.

"Our food should be out soon, right?" Miley asked as she glanced behind her.

"Miley?!" A voice called out from across the room. Miley head snaps back to see who was calling her. A grinning darker boy was walking towards them, twp trays in his hands as he walked past tables. His dark brown hair was all over the place and his brown eyes shined when he stopped in front of them placing their trays in front of them. He looked so familiar. Where had she seen him before? It suddenly hit her.

"Johnny!" She cried, the boy in front of her grinned brightly, "Oh my goodness, Johnny! I haven't seen you in forever!"

Johnny nodded in agreement, "Oh yeah, how've you been? Hey Lilly," Johnny smiled at the blond who was already digging into her sandwich.

"I've been good," Miley said slowly, careful with her words. Something told her she didn't sound as convincing as she intended to, so she threw in a smile for emphasis. "How about you?"

Luckily Johnny didn't seem to notice her tone. "I've been doing great! I'd ask how you were Lilly, but I don't think you'd be able to answer me."

Lilly nodded enthusiastically as she struggled to swallow her food. She managed to with great difficulty and after taking a long gulp of her lemonade she cleared her throat. "I've been fine Josh, haven't seen you around school lately."

Johnny shrugged, "I've been busy, I don't hang around there after school much. I have this job down to pay for my college tuition."

"Oh, so I guess the whole you and Sandra gig was a rumour?" Lilly asked as she wiped her mouth.

Johnny looked thoughtful for a moment before answering, "I don't remember any rumours about me and Sandra. And, yes it was a rumour. We're just friends, we're study buddies."

Lilly nodded, "Yep, study buddies. Lewis is my study buddy, Man; did you know he's a whiz at math?"

Johnny laughed, "Yeah he was helping me with my homework last time." Johnny turned to Miley, "So Miley, anyone in your life?"

Miley looked up at him and nearly choked on her turkey. How was she supposed to answer to that? "Well, you see, I'm in this relationship thing right now, but things aren't going to well. I don't know really."

"Okay," Johnny nodded. "I totally get it. But if you ever want to get together and hang out, you can just give me a call."

"Sure," Miley agreed. "I think I still got your number. The same one right?"

"Yep, anyways, I'd better get back to work. They need me in those kitchens. It was great seeing you again Miley. I'll see you later Lilly." With a final smile, Johnny strolled away from their table and into the kitchen.

Once the door swung shut, Lilly turned to Miley and squealed loudly. "OMG! Miley he still likes you! He's totally into you."

Miley shook her head. "No he isn't, he just want s to hang out, as friends."

"Then he would have asked me too," Lilly replied. "But you're not seriously considering going with him are you?"

Miley shrugged as she toyed with her napkin. "I don't know Lilly. I just don't know anymore."

--HMHMHM—

"Miley you want some cookies?" Robbie Ray's voice called through he closed door.

"No, I'm good thanks." Miley called back to her dad. She didn't want to be interrupted, she wanted sometime alone to clear her thoughts. Her and Lilly's 'girl's day' had ended early due to unexpected rain. She was now in her room seated on the middle of her bed with her guitar on her lap and a notebook in front of her, pen tossed lazily across it.

Usually when Miley had a lot on her mind and she desperately needed to clear her mind, she sat down with her guitar in her hands and paper and pen near by, trying to get her thoughts down on paper and into a song. Once she came home from the mall she want right up to her room dried off, slipped into warmer drier clothes and took her spot thinking of a song.

She gazed down at the paper in front of her which was now filled with her neat scrawl. She sighed, before picking up her guitar and strumming the first few cords. This song was for Jake. Her Jake. She began singing softly:

"I'm waiting
For the perfect time to call you back
'Cause I remember saying
Don't wanna know the truth
Can't handle that

And I try to (and I try to)
Just forget you (just forget you)
But don't know how
If only I knew

It's written all over your face
Such a painful thing to waste
Tell me now where do we go?
Now the future's not so clear
I can't believe we've ended here
Where's the world that doesn't care?
Maybe I could meet you there

Yeah
I'm sorry
If I slagged you down, I meant no harm
When I heard the stories
Said things I didn't mean
Should have stayed calm
Sadly

You got angry
And it breaks my heart
You're so mad at me

Maybe I could meet you there
Maybe I could meet you there

Maybe I could meet you there
Maybe I should meet you there" she finished.

Miley sighed again. It all made sense now, what she had to do. She wasn't going to lose Jake, no matter what. She was going to get him back. And there was never a time like the present. She rolled out of bed, slipped on her shoes real quick and ran down stairs. She needed Jake to know that she loved him, no matter what he's done in the past.

--HMHMHM—

Ring. Ring.

Jake jumped slightly as the door bell ran through he house. He remained where he was in front of the television, hoping someone else would get the door.

Ring. Ring.

He was about to yell for someone to get the door when he remembered that he was the only one home. His family had gone out to his sister's house for the day and Jake decided to stay home. He really didn't think that being under the same roof as Samantha would be entirely safe just get, his sister hadn't quite forgiven him for what Miley had done and neither had Miley. Lately he wasn't in the mood for anything really, ever since the break up he's stayed cooped up in his room listening to songs about heart break. So far, he must have listened to So Sick and Losing you nearly 50 times.

Groaning, he pulled himself off the couch and dragged himself to the door. Who on earth could possibly be there right now. Oliver left about a good hour ago to get ready for some date, and no one else would be visiting him now anyways. He wasn't really expecting anyone. Sighing he pulled the door open only to reveal a soaking wet Miley Stewart.

--HMHMHM—

AN: Ha-ha. Cliff hanger!!!! Oh, want to know what happens? Well you're going to have to review to find out! The next chapter will be the last. I posted a little Niley one-shot a couple of days ago called Tinglies. Be sure to check that out and review for it. Thanks so much guys.

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