Hey guys! Thank you squillions for your kind reviews and i'm so sorry i've not been able to update in so long! See my grandpa passed away a few months back and then I got made redundant so spent a couple months finding and now starting a new job! Things seem to be back on track for me now and I have some more chapters planned out and hope to write them up very soon. Again thanks for your kind reviews and I hope you enjoy this next chapter. All my love Kate x

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Miley showered and dressed quickly, drinking the entire bottle of water and popping two aspirin before leaning both hands on the sink and taking a good long look in the mirror. Shouldn't she look different? Wasn't sex like some magic potion that instantly made you older and wiser and able to understand the world? Apparently not...

Although she had hurried to get ready she just couldn't seem to build up the nerve to go out and speak to Lilly. She kept staring in the mirror, expecting some kind of giant neon sign to just appear and scream out to the world ' I got trashed and had fantastic lesbian sex with Lilly last night!"...whoa........fantastic?? Had she really just described the confusing, difficult, life changing, confusing, unexpected and oh yeah confusing events of the previous night as fantastic?! She had....'well I guess at least I know how I feel about it then...' Miley was about to go into full on freak out mode but figured one thing...there was no point freaking out until she knew how Lilly felt about what happened. 'Okay Miley. You have to do this, just suck it up, walk out there and say..'

Knock. Knock "Miley? Everything okay? It's just the food's gonna be cold so..."

"Uh yeah Lils, everything's fine, just uh finishing my make up I'll be right out"

"Oh okay"

Taking a final look in the mirror and taking a deep breath Miley fixed her hair and went to the door.

After the darkness of the windowless bathroom the room seemed oddly bright and it definitely wasn't helping the whole hangover situation. Lilly was now sitting at the small dining table, Lilly's coffee was poured and the plates were on the table, still with the lids on to keep them as hot as possible. Lilly was wearing a simple pair of skater shorts and southern print cotton shirt, hair down still seeming to stare off into space, that same unreadable expression gracing her features. The fact that she couldn't tell what Lilly was thinking was bugging Miley more than anything else.

They'd been friends for years and she'd always been able to read Lilly like a book. When she'd said about coming to London for her birthday Lilly's expression only had to flicker for her to know she wanted to celebrate her birthday with her family, the slightest twitch of an eye and Miley knew exactly what Lilly was trying to secretly communicate to her, whether it was 'Can you believe this guy?' or ' Let's go some place more fun!' Lilly's eyes always said something but now Lilly seemed unwilling to make any kind of eye contact, just acknowledging that Miley had finally come out of the bathroom and pouring her some coffee and took the lids off their plates. Miley walked over and sat down, forcing a polite and hopefully friendly smile. They both started to eat, each sneaking glances at the other, waiting to see who would break the incredibly awkward silence first.

Miley cracked …."So uh, this is what they call a full English then.... you think they have this everyday?" 'Man, great one Stewart, irritating small talk that you'd have with an elderly relative, just fantastic' She wished she hadn't said anything.

Lilly grabbed at the opportunity.."I don't know. I guess some might..." She trailed off, unable to think of anything else to say. She hated this. There had never, in all the time they'd known each other, been a time when they had had to try to force conversation or struggle to find something to talk about. Usually they'd just babble.....

They both just kept eating, fixating on their plates till they'd eaten their fill. Miley put down her knife and fork.. "That was really good" She said and Lilly looked up at her in wide eyed horror, thinking she was referring to last night. Miley's shock matched Lilly's milliseconds later realising what she'd said.."Oh! No I didn't mean...! I mean yeah it was but I meant the... oh god I'll just shut up now!" Miley hid her reddening face in her hands and slid down in her chair but Lilly finally relaxed and let out the slightest of laughs. It was wonderful to know that even after all the awkwardness and confusion and tension Miley could still make her laugh, even if she wasn't trying to.

Lilly finally relaxed and leaned over towards Miley and took one of her hands away from her face and pulled her up a little in the chair. "Miles this is ridiculous. We're best friends. We always said we could talk about anything and that nothing would ever come between us so why should we let this?"

Miley smiled. "We're still best friends?!" she said, half asking hopefully.

"Of course we are!" said Lilly. They both stood up and hugged each other, enjoying the feeling of being close again but also being careful to keep it no more than a hug between friends. Lilly took Miley's hand again and led her to the bed that hadn't been slept in and they both sat down cross legged and facing each other.

"So have you ever..?" Lilly asked..

"What? Slept with a girl before? Kissed a girl? No! I didn't even really think about it before last night."

"Me either!"

Miley started to feel a little braver "And I can't figure out where last night came from but I don't regret it and I just really hope we can just sort of chalk it up to a drunken...thing.. and just forget about it," she wasn't one hundred per cent sure if she was lying or not but she felt the burning need to add, "Cos I'm not gay."

"Well me either and I think you're right. I'm not gay, and yeah it was something but It'd probably be better if it didn't happen again" Mentally adding, 'Even if I really want it to cos it was amazing – whoa. I thought last night was amazing! Oh my god I can't believe I want to have sex with Miley! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'

"So we're okay then?" Miley asked.

Lilly shock herself out of her shock. "Completely"

"Okay cool. So you wanna watch a movie while we pack? Our plane goes in like four hours"

"Sure. Sounds good." Said Lilly and she smiled.

Miley went to the TV and switched it on flicking through the movie selection before settling on Charlie's Angels, figuring it was the most appropriate choice considering all the others were romantic comedies. Lilly mean while got their suitcases and had opened them both on the unused bed. Miley then looked around the room and noticed her clothes from the night before scattered wherever Lilly had thrown them in her desperate attempt to get Miley naked. 'Dang, should have worn nicer underwear yesterday' she thought to herself as she self-consciously went around picking everything up, each item bringing with it a different memory or feeling from the night before, suddenly making Miley feel really warm and her cheeks start to flush ever so slightly. Lilly stared intently at her own packing avoiding looking at everything Miley was picking up.

Miley walked around to the other side of THE bed and saw Lilly's ruined shirt. The memories came rushing back as if some tsunami of sensations was flooding through her whole body. As she picked up the shirt had the rational part of her brain not known she was on the other side of the room she would have sworn she could feel Lilly's hands all over her body again. The effect was so over powering that Miley had to sit down for a moment, pretending to fold up the now dry but stained shirt that had been the trigger for last nights events. 'God if one shirt can do this to me what the hell am I gonna do if I see her changing for gym class or if she sleeps over!'

All Miley could do was sheepishly hand over the shirt and continue to pack her things and wonder how the hell she was going to get through a nine hour flight sitting so close to Lilly.