Chapter 7

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Here we go! And remember…sad.

Lilly's POV

I woke up to the sound of birds chirping. Why could I hear birds? I quickly reminisced last night and it hit me. It hit me so hard I started crying again. I decided to sit up, and I knew my arm was broken right when I tried pushing myself up. When I finally managed to get my eyes adjusted to the sunlight, I realized how lucky I was to be alive. Everything was destroyed. I was sitting outside when the last thing I remember is being in a crawl space.

I shook Miley to wake her up and make sure she wasn't dead.

"Miley," I whispered into her ear. She opened her eyes and then shut them tightly. Then she bolted them open.

"Lilly we're alive!" she said standing up. When she tried to pull me up by my un-broken arm she couldn't, with either hand. Both of her wrists were broken. We looked across what would have normally been a street and saw a destroyed Jonas house. I managed to get up on my own and we made our way over to the house.

Miley and I both split up as she took where the basement was and I took the bed rooms. I saw a broken picture of Joe and me. I cried even more as I picked up the one section of the picture that was left. Next I went to what would have been Nick's room. All seven guitars were destroyed, I felt so bad. I noticed that his guitar strap was lying next to all the rubble so I picked that up and went on to Kevin's room. I didn't see anything but crushed wood. In Frankie's room all that was left was a cube off of a Rubik-Cube. I put that in my pocket and made my way over to Miley.

"Hey," she said giving me a hug. I returned it and quickly pulled away when I heard someone moan. It sounded like a little boy. I looked not four feet in front of me to see Frankie Jonas' arm emerging it's self from underneath some thrown tiles. I noticed his head was bleeding up in the corner. I pulled all the tiles away and picked him up.

"Lilly," he said in the happiest voice ever.

"Come on, let's find your mom and brothers." I said taking him another three feet when I heard something else. I looked down to see a foot with a black sock on it snaked out from under an unidentified object.

"Oh my gosh! Kevin," I pulled the rubbish away to find him smiling. He was dirty as was Frankie, Miley, and I.

"Kevin!" Miley said giving him a hug. I smiled as he sat up with only bruises.

"Guys I found mom and Nick!" Frankie yelled pointing at a spot. Miley helped Kevin rush over there while I sat down.

"Ya know, you were that close to sitting on my hand," a voice behind me said. I turned around to see Joe hiding under some plaster. He had his hand sticking out on purpose.

"Joe!" I pushed the plaster away and helped him sit up.

"Lilly, I wanted to tell you something on the phone," he said. I noticed he had a lot of cuts on his arm.

"I love you too Joe," I said giving him a kiss. We were both dirty and all scraped up so it reminded me of Transformers. Yeah, random Lilly moment there. I pulled away to get oxygen and noted him smiling.

"I'm glad you do, because I don't know what I would have done if I never would have heard you say that to me. I nodded my head up and down as I felt myself well up with tears again. We all decided to walk around our dead little community when we walked by my house. My eyes welled up with even more water as I walked over to where my basement was. My mom was nowhere. I decided to look in the bathroom and she wasn't there either. I looked where my stairwell would have been and noticed a leg sticking out from underneath a bunch of crap. I fell to the ground and Joe came up next to me. Frankie stayed behind while the others went to where my mom was. Miley turned around with a hurt look on her face.

"Lilly, can I talk to you please," she said walking over to me. Joe helped me up and the three of us excluded ourselves from the group.

"She's dead isn't she," I asked.

"Lilly I'm so sorry," she tried giving me a hug but I shook her off.

"I'm an orphan! They're going to send me away from you guys. Don't let them, promise me that you won't let them." I looked at Joe with pleading eyes and saw that he was crying.

"I can't promise you that Lilly, but I'll try my hardest," he said crying even harder. I fell to the ground again as more tears flowed out. I had no family left in Malibu. My closest family was in Denver and they would be the ones to take me in.

Miley left and Joe sat down next to me. "Lilly, you know I love you, nothing can change that. Not even them taking you away," he comforted me.

"I know, same here but I don't want to leave this school or anything Joe! I don't want to leave my life behind and start over. I have no family or anything. I just,"

"Lilly, look at me look right at me," he said and I did, "nothing changes who you are or who loves you. Both of your parents still love you as do Miley and me."

"I know, I just don't want to leave," I said as he pulled me closer and held onto me. He had his head on top of mine and kissed the top of my head.

"I know beautiful, I know," that's all I needed to hear to regain my strength.

Miley's POV

After we got Lilly situated we made our way to the health clinic thing set up down town. I went up to the lady with the pager. Denise, Frankie, and Kevin all left to check in and get Frankie's stitches.

"Hello Miss, who can I page for you?"

"Robby-Ray Stewart please," she nodded and paged him. He had to be here, he couldn't be gone too. Not five minutes later my prayers were answered when he ran up to me and grabbed me in his arms.

"Bud, I thought you were gone,"

"Heather, daddy, Heather's gone," I cried into his chest as he sighed and glanced at Lilly who was getting her arm checked out.

"Any injuries bud?" he said pulling away.

"I think my wrists are broken, both of them."

"Ok, come on bud," he led me to a man who had everything needed to check my wrists. He put a splint on each of my wrists and told me I was free to go. Lilly had gotten her cast done and it was a royal blue.

"Daddy, she's an orphan. I can't picture that being true," I whimpered.

"I know bud, but you know there's nothing we can do," he answered giving me a hug.

"Daddy where's Jackson?!" I yelled pulling away. I already knew the answer when I saw his eyes.

"Bud, Jackson was thrown out of the ditch about a half a mile. He didn't make it Miles," I cried even more and shook my head. He was dead, no, he couldn't be.

"Daddy, not Jackson, please don't let it be our Jackson!" he gave me a sympathetic look. I walked over to Nick, Joe, and Lilly.

"Hey Miley, what's wrong?"

"He's dead. Jackson's dead," I cried even more. Nick gave me a hug as Lilly cried again. Everything was falling apart. I pulled away from Nick and ran to the beach.

"It's just too hard to watch it all, slowly fade away," I sang as I laid back in the one bit of sand there was. The rest of the beach was covered with tree limbs and stuff from Rico's. I cried some more at the thought of getting Jackson fired and then re-hired.

I need to call Oliver. I pulled my phone out right as it was ringing.

"Hello," I asked.

"Miley, I just heard! Is everybody ok?!" Oliver asked through the phone.

"No Oliver, nothings ok." I felt my eyes well up again.

"Tell me what happened," he said.

"Oliver, Jacksons, Jacksons, Jacksons dead," I softly cried into the phone.

"Miley I'm so sorry." He sympathetically said through the phone.

"Lilly's an orphan,"

"What?!"

"Heather was killed too. Lilly is more than likely being sent to Denver. Oliver, she basically has no family,"

"Miley, tell her how much I miss her and feel for her please. I have to go but tell everybody I say hi." He said.

"Ok, bye Oliver."

"Bye Miley," he said as I clicked my phone shut.

"Watch it all, slowly fade away," I sang again. More tears flowed as I watched the calm ocean sit there un harmed. I wondered how it always managed to be safe and un touched and yet everything near it was destroyed and wrecked.

I thought about how Jackson was with mom and how they were showing Heather everything. At least three people were happy. I wonder if I'll ever be truly happy, but then, what is true happiness? Is it having all your friends and family with you, or is it just living life and taking what comes your way? Does happiness even exist?

And the answer to all of these questions is yes. True happiness is having all your friends and family with you and living life and taking what comes your way. So I guess it does exist, but, have I ever really had true happiness? Could someone have true happiness their whole life?

No. And that's when I came to the conclusion that there will be no more Hannah Montana. I am truly happy without that so why bother? I don't need to be Hannah if it's just getting in the way of me being happy.

There will be no more Hannah Montana, ever. But can I do that?

Ok. So I cried a lot during this chapter and I really like the end. I was thinking about this not that long ago so I wanted to configure it in.

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