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Chapter Four
"Yo, what are you doing?" Joe asked as he walked into the kitchen. Miley was standing by the counter with eggs, sugar, flower, salt, and everything else you need to make cookies.
"I'm baking." She told him.
"Hmmm. Can I help?" he asked.
"Sure, wash your hands." She told him. She was very surprised that he wanted to help, he hadn't really been to involved in cleaning or cooking since they got to Nashville.
"All clean." he said drying is hands and holding them up to show her.
"Good, put the eggs in." She said. He carefully picked up the eggs hit them on the side of the bowl and then poured them inside the bowl. They worked together very well, soon they had all the cookie dough rolled up in balls and placed on the cookie sheet. Miley put them in the oven and set the timer for fifteen minutes.
"I didn't know you baked?" Joe asked pulling himself up onto the counter and letting his legs swing back and forth.
"My mom taught me when I was younger, but I don't get to do it as much as I would like to." She said. "Do you bake?" She asked him. "I mean by yourself?" She added.
"I baked muffins once, but other then that I just help my mom." he told her.
"Aww, that's so cute." She said smiling and sitting on the counter next to him.
"So where's Nick on this fine day?" Joe asked.
"I don't know, he's your brother." Miley said. She hadn't seen Nick all day.
"He's your boyfriend, or I'm sorry, friend." he said playfully rolling his eyes.
Miley shook her head. "Joseph, we are really just friends." She said.
"I know that's what I said." Joe smiled. "So you haven't seen him?"
"Not since yesterday." She said.
"He probably wonder around and got lost and can't find his way home." Joe said.
"Do you like acting?' Miley asked.
"I hate it. No just kidding, I love it, it's so much fun." He said. "All the smooth lines that I usually have to think about for a while just get given to me on paper, and I get them all on film." Miley laughed. "Are you having fun filming?"
"A lot of fun. I love working with you guys." She said.
"And what about kissing Nick, is it weird?" He asked.
"Are you asking if he's a bad kisser?" She asked.
"No, I was meaning is it weird for you two, who are just friends, to have to kiss and stuff?" He said. "But if he is a bad kisser, feel free to tell me."He added.
"It's not that weird." She told him.
"Hmm."
"Can I ask you something?"
"You just did." he said.
"Joe! Seriously."
"Yes you can ask me something." He told her.
"And you won't tell Nick, or anyone else?" She asked.
"Nope, my lips are sealed." he said.
"Not good enough, pinky swear." She said holding up her pinky. He held his up and the looked them together, then shook their hands.
"Well yesterday on the set, Nick was acting all weird after my scene with Josh, and I as talking to him about it, and he said he wasn't jealous, but hello, he's very obvious about it, and it just makes me wonder if this whole working together thing will go smoothly or not." She said.
"Well if he's jealous, that probably means he likes you, and you can't deny that you like him too, and then why don't you two just like go out or whatever?" Joe asked.
"Because when we got our scripts we were talking and he was kind of asking if we could be something more then friends, and I told him I thought it was a bad idea,and that it would mess up our friendship and make working together harder."
"Well it doesn't sound like working together is going so smoothly with you two being just friends either." Joe said. "Why not try it, see what happens?"
"I don't know." Miley said. "I guess we'll see what happens. And remember you promised not to say anything, you even pinky swore, so not a word to anyone, especially Nick." Miley said.
"Won't tell me what?" Nick asked walking into the kitchen. Miley had no idea what to say, so she looked to Joe for help.
"That we spilt dish soap all over the floor." Joe said.
"Why would that bother me?" Nick asked.
"I don't know, why would it bother you?" He asked Nick.
"I don't know that's why I asked you." Nick said.
"Sheesh Nick, your just trying to confuse us into thinking you really wouldn't care about the dish soap being spilt when you really would. Come on Miley, we don't need to take this." Joe said jumping off the counter and grabbing Miley hand and pulling her out of the room with him.
"That was confusing." She laughed.
"Yes, but now he's probably doesn't even care what we were hiding from him." Joe said, seeming very proud of himself.
"Hmm, who would have thought you actually had a brain floating around up there." Miley said pointing to his head.
"Shocking I know." he said. Miley laughed at him.
Later that night.
Miley was sitting on hr bed strumming her guitar trying to finish writing a song she had been working on for a few weeks.
She started singing the part she already had written down.
Every weeks the same
Stuck in school so lame
My parents say that I'm lazy
Getting up at eight is crazy
Time in school, what to do
So unfair
So uncool
Days too long
And I'm holding on
Till I hear the bell ring
Cuz it's the time when
The time when
She stopped for a minute to think about what could go next. She started strumming again and singing random lines, until it sounded right.
Were gonna Breakout
Let the party start
Were gonna stay out
Gonna break some hearts
She wrote the next part down and and then continued.
Were gonna dance till the dance floor falls apart
Uh oh, all over again.
Were gonna wakeup everyone we know
Were gonna have some fun, gonna loose control
Feels so good, to let go-oh-oh
She was stuck yet again. She continued singing the part she had written so far, and trying to add to it. Someone knocked on her door. She looked u from her notebook and yelled for them to come in.
Kevin walked in smiling at her. "Hey Miles, your mom said to tell you that we're all going out to dinner at seven."kevin told her.
"Okay, thank Kev." She said smiling.
"What are you working on?' he asked, being the snoopy songwriter he was.
"I'm not sure yet. I'm kind of stuck right now." She explained.
"What do you have so far?" he asked.
Miley played him everything she had written down so far. he stood there and silently watched her.
"What do you think?" She asked. She had never had anyone besides her family help her write before, it was kind of weird.
"Let me see the notebook." Kevin said. Miley handed him the lyrics filled notebook that held all of the songs she had been working on the last few months.
"What about something like,
Hangout, its something we like to do
With my friends, every mess were into
These are the last songs that we chose
None of them are here to remember you
He half sang half said. Miley thought for a second while she wrote it down.
She stated playing the song again and included Kevin's lyrics. They seemed to fit perfectly. She began singing again.
Days too long
And I'm holding on
Till I hear the bell ring
Cuz it's the time when
The time when
Were gonna Breakout
Let the party start
Were gonna stay out
Gonna break some hearts
Were gonna dance till the dance floor falls apart
Uh oh, all over again.
Were gonna wakeup everyone we know
Were gonna have some fun, gonna loose control
Feels so good, to let go-oh-oh
I wish it would never end,
Spending time with my friends
Oh with my friends
Breakout
Let the party start
Were gonna stay out
Gonna break some hearts
Were gonna dance till the dance floor falls apart
Uh oh, all over again.
Were gonna wakeup everyone we know
Were gonna have some fun, gonna loose control
Feels so good, to let go
Breakout
Let the party start
Were gonna stay out
Gonna break some hearts
Were gonna dance till the dance floor falls apart
Uh oh, all over again.
Were gonna wakeup everyone we know.
Were gonna have some fun, gonna loose control.
Feels so good, to let go-oh-oh
Once she was done, she wrote them down and then sang the song from
begging in to end.
"Sounds good to me." Kevin smiled.
"Okay, I'm totally writing with you from now on." he laughed sitting her guitar down and jumping up to hug him. he wrapped his arms around her too. She hugged him tightly and laughed.
"I heard music." Joe said walking in the room.
"Miley was working on a song.'kevin explained. Mile had stopped hugging him, and was just standing next to him now.
"And I was stuck and Kevin came in and helped me figure out the lyrics and now it's finished." She smiled at Kevin.
"Kevin!" Joe said putting his hand on his chest where his heart would be and looking down. "You cheated on me and Nick with...her." He said slowly lifting his head to look up at Miley.
"Sorry, but your to much drama." Kevin joked. Miley laughed.
"I'm hungry what's for dinner?" Joe asked, completely changing the subject.
"Oh, we're going out to eat at seven. I was coming up to tell everyone, and Miles got me all distracted." he said walking out of the room to tell everyone else.
"So new song, do I get to hear it?" Joe asked giving her a puppy dog face.
"I'll pay it for you later, we have to leave in half an hour, and I'm no where near ready." he said.
"Crap, half an hour?" Joe said looking at the clock.
"Yes, so I'll play the song for you tonight or tomorrow." She told him. He nodded and headed down the hall to hi room to get ready. She shut he door and begin to get changed out of her sweat pants and wife beater. She changed into black skinny jeans and a white tee shirt that had a silver peace sing on it. She put on boots and then added some bracelets and necklace. She took her hair down from a bun and quickly curled it.
She walked across the hall to her bathroom and put on a light coat of mascara and eyeliner, with some light brown eyeshadow. After her makeup was down she grabbed her purse and headed down stairs. It was seven o five, but she was always a bit late,so everyone knew she wouldn't be ready at seven.
"Ready?" Tish asked her daughter.
"Yep.' She said grabbing a sweater. Her and her mom were the first to to walk out the door, followed by nick and Joe, and everyone else. Miley linked arms with her mom as they walked to the large suv that was parked in their driveway.
"How are you doing sweety?" her mom asked.
"Okay, you?' Miley asked.
"I'm good, its exhausting having so many kids in the house." She said.
"So is that why we're going out to eat, so you and Denise don't have to cook?' Miley asked.
"Yep, plus it's nice to go out as a family every now and then." Tish explained.
"I eel bad for you Nicky." Joe said.
"Why?' nick asked.
"because your girlfriend would rather walk with her mother then you." Joe said.
"She's not my girlfriend." nick said firmly.
"Whatever." Joe said getting into the car.
When they got to the restaurant they had to wait a few minutes before they were seated.They all talked about filming, and jst the stuff going on in everyone's life at the time. They al had fun, and hated to leave, but Noah and Frankie were getting restless and tired, and complaining about anting to sleep, so they decided to head home.
At ten o'clock they were all making their way into the house. Miley was yawning and headed straight up stairs with Noah to put her to bed. Noah for some reason loved Miley to put her to bed. Miley always though it was kind of weird, but never complained.
"Which ones?" Miley asked holding up to different pairs of pajamas, one was blue with stars, and one was pink with hearts.
"Pink." Noah said.
Miley stuck the blue ones back i her dresser and walked over to Noah. She started taking her shoes off and tossed them in the floor. She got her changed in a few minutes. it was extremely difficult to change her when she was sleepy, she didn't help at all. She tossed the clothes she had on into the hamper and tucked her into bed. She kissed her good night and started to leave.
"Miley.' Noah said
"Yeah?' Miley asked yawning.
"Can you read me a bedtime story?" Noah asked.
"Sure, which one?' Miley asked not really wanting to, but she couldn't say no to her.
"here."Noah said handing Miley a Winni the Pooh Bear book. Miley laid on the bed next to her and read the book to her, even doing different voices for each character. After a few minute Noah had fallen asleep, so Miley gently got out of the bed, kised her cheek, put the book down and quietly walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her.
She turned around and just about bumped into Nick. She almost screamed, but stopped herself.
"Nick, you scared me." She said holding her heart.
"Sorry." he said.
"Come here." Miley said grabbing Nick's hand and leading him down the hall and into her room. She shut the door behind them and let go of his hand.
"Sorry, Noah just fell asleep, and I didn't want to wake her." She said, explaining why she pulled him into her room.
"It's cool." Nick said looking around her room.
"So what's new Mr. Jonas?" She asked him sitting down on her bed and crossing her legs.
"Uhm, nothing just chilling." he told her.
"Hmm." Miley nodded.
"Well I'm gonna go get ready for bed, I'm tired." He said heading for the door.
"Me too." Miley said standing up and yawning. "Nick."
"Yeah." he said turning around and looking at her.
"Do you wanna hang out tomorrow?" She asked him. "I have something I want to show you." She said.
"Sure." he said.
"Okay, well goodnight." she smiled at him.
"Night miles." He smiled back and then headed for his room.
Nick's alarm went off at eight thirty the next morning. Him and Joe were always fighting about who had to turn the alarm off. it was in between their beds, and nieghbor of them felt like stretching across the table and hitting the off button.
"Turn it off." Joe yelled, his head stuffed into his pillow, trying to block the sound out.
"I did it yesterday, you turn it off.' nick said laying on his side facing the wall.
"As your older brother I command you to tun it off." Joe said.
"Well as the smarter and more mature bother, i say you have to turn it off.' Nick said.
Nick felt a pillow hit him in the back of the head. he grabbed with one hand and without looking, he threw it.
"Haha missed me." Joe said. Nick finally rolled over and opened his eyes. he was about to turn it off when he saw that Joe was sitting up.
"Your sitting up, why didn't you just turn it off?" Nick asked.
"because it's ore fun this way." Joe said standing up and stretching. he left the room.
Nick leaned over and turned the alarm off, then fell back onto the mattress on his back and shut his eyes.
A few minutes later joe returned with a tooth brush in his mouth, and jumped up onto Nick's bed.
"Joe." Nick said.
"Nick." Joe mocked. He lifted his foot and stepped on Nick's right leg.
"get off." Nick said kicking at him.
"Fiiiiiiine." Joe said jumping off the bed.
"Thank you."Nick said rolling over and shutting his eyes.
"So what are we doing today?' Joe asked.
'I have plans." Nick said.
"What kind of plans?" Joe asked.
"I don't know, just plans."
"With you?"
"Miley." Nick said.
"Oh, those kinds of plans." Joe said with a mouth full of tooth paste.
"What does that mean?'nick asked looking at Joe.
"I don't know what does that mean?" Joe shrugged his shoulder and left the room.
nick tried to fall back asleep, but couldn't, so he decided to just get up.
"Dude, where's the age to perfection shirt?' Joe asked looking through the closet.
"You mean my shirt?" Nick asked.
"Whatever, where is it?" he asked.
Nick though back to the day when Miley helped him unpack, and ended up wearing the shirt home.
"I don;t know, maybe we left it in LA." Nick said. he honestly had no clue here the shirt was, probably in Miley's closet in LA.
"Dude, you have to learn to pack better." joe said taking out a different shirt.
"I think you need to learn to wear your own clothes, and not rely on everyone else to bring there's." nick said.
"So really, what are you and Miley doing today?" Joe asked. Nick was sitting on his bed putting on his favorite green converse.
"I don;t know, she said that she had something she wanted to show me.' he said tying his shoelace.
"Show you what?" Joe said.
"I don't know yet." nick said standing up."Well I'm going downstairs." nick said leaving the room.
Miley turned her alarm of at nine, and fell back asleep until nine fifteen, and was woken by her phone ringing. She sighed and answered the phone.
"Hello?" She said.
"Hey miles." Mandy said into the phone.
"Manderz, I haven;t talked to you in forever." She said sitting up.
"You sound asleep, did I wake you?" She asked.
"yeah, but it;s cool, I was suppose to be up fifteen minutes ago anyway." She said. "So what's up?"
"I just wanted to se how you were." andy said.
"I'm good.I mis you though." Miley said.
"I mis you too, that's why I'm coming to visit." Mandy said.
"Shut up, are you serious?" Miley asked.
"Yup, I'm flying out tomorrow, and I get to stay for like five days." Mandy said.
"Yay, I can't wait." Miley said.
"Well I ave to go now, but I'll see you tomorrow." Mandy said.
"See you tomorrow." Miley said smiling. They hung up and Miley decided to get ready.
She took out a pair of light blue shorts, and a grey tee shirt. She headed into the bathroom and showered. She dried off and then got dressed. She dried her hair and straighted it, the put on a light coat of makeup. Once she was happy with how she looked, she headed downstairs.
She saw Nick standing in the kitchen looking in the fridge.
"Morning." She said happily.
"Morning." he replied.
"Where's everyone?" Miley asked. The kitchen was usually packed with everyone wanting food.
"Our parents abandoned us." He said.
"What?" She asked.
"I was joking, I have no idea where everyone is." nick said.
"Hmm." Miley said.
"So what time are we doing whatever it is we're doing?' Nick asked Miley after a moment. he shut the fridge and looked at her.
"After breakfast." She said.
"Okay, what are we doing anyways?" he asked.
"Well, I lived here for the first eleven years of my life and I have many many memories, and stories of things that happened, and special places that I want to share with you." She told him. "If you want to hear them." She added.
"of course I do.' He said smiling, happy that she wanted to share something like that wit him.
She smiled back at him.
"Good morning." Mrs. Jonas said walking inside the house carrying a bag full of food.
"you went shopping, this early?" nick asked.
"Nicholas, not everyone sleeps in until ten o'clock." Denise said. Mr. Jonas Billy Ray, and Tish all came in carrying bags too.
Soon breakfast was ready and everyone sat at the table eating and talking.
Miley slipped on her shoes, and her and nick left out the front door.
"So where do we begin?' nick asked.
"Right here." Miley said and stopped walking. They wee only a few feet in front of the house. "This is where I got my first bicycle." Miley said. She stated walking a few feet away from where they were standing. "And this, is where i fell off my first bicycle, five minutes later." She laughed.
"Ha, I remember falling off bikes, that wasn't a lot a fun." he said.
They walked a bit more, Miley would stop every now and then to tell a story, usually about where she hurt herself, or someone else at. They arrived at a big tree tat had a tree house built into it.
"My dad built me the tree house when I was six." Miley said.
"And did you fell out of it?" Nick asked.
"I didn't, but Braison did." Miley said. "Wanna go up?" She asked.
"I don't know, All the stories Ive heard so far usually end with someone falling, or getting sent to the hospital."nick said.
"Shut up." Miley said beginning to climb up. nick followed behind her. Once they got inside the tree house, they sat down on he dusty floor.
"Thank you." Nick said.
"For what?' Miley asked looking at him.
"For showing me the tree house, and sharing all your memories with me." He said.
"Thank you for wanting me to share them with you." Miley said smiling at him. "I really ike hanging out with you." She said.
"I like hanging out with you too." He smiled. "There's no one I'd rather spend my time with." He added.
"Nick." Miley said. "Why are you so perfect?" She asked.
"What do you mean?" He asked, not expecting her to say that.
"You listen toall my stories about falling off bikes and out of trees, you're nice to my family, you're cute, your sensitive. You don't mind when I get all weird and ramble on about the randomest things." She said looking at him. "Your always sweet and understanding even after I tell you that we can't date."She said. "Why, why are you so perfect?" She asked him.
"Miley I just." He had no idea what to say."I just care about you." he finally said. She thought about her conversation with Joe a few days before, about her and Nick.
"Miley." nick said. She realized she had been starring off at nothing for a few minutes.
"Hmm." She said looking at him. "Sorry i was just thinking." She said.
"About what?' he asked.
"Just stuff, you." She said.
"Good stuff?" he asked.
"Of course." She smiled. "I care about you too." She said.
Nick smiled at her."Come here." he said. She moved closer to him and snuggled up next to him. He wrapped his arm around her. They spent the next hour or so talking and cuddling.
"We should get back home, people will sat wondering where we are." Miley said sitting up.
"Yeah." Nick agreed. They climbed down the steps and began walking back to the house. Halfway there Miley moved closer to Nick and held his hand. he smiled at her and they continued walking.
They walked into the house, still holding hands. Nick stopped the from walking any further once they got about halfway to the living room.
"I really enjoyed today." He said.
"Really?" She asked.
"Yeah, I liked hearing the stories, but the part I really liked was talking with you in the tree house." he said.
"I liked that part too.'She smiled at him.
"Hey guys." Mrs. Jonas walked up to them smiling. "Where d you two run off too?' She asked.
"We were just hanging out outside." Nick said. Mrs. Jonas nodded her head and then looked down at their hands. Miley and Nick realized they were still holing hands, and quickly let go. Mrs. Jonas gave them a knowing look, and went on her way up stairs.
A.N.
That was chapter four. Hope you all enjoyed reading it. I love reading reviews, just to let you now, lol. Let me know what you thought, and what you want to happen.
Krissi