Demi follows Miley to the back of the bus. "Don't worry about him. He'll come around"

"No...it's better for him if he doesn't."

"But you guys are in love, nothing else should matter."

"Well it does. Look, Demi, I don't want anyone to know about this, okay?"

"I don't plan on telling anybody. Not even Selena. I mean, no offense to her or anything but she's getting kind of annoying."

"Well at least she likes you. I'm stuck in a bus with five people who hate me."

"I don't hate you though."

"Well, four...anyway, everyone knows you're all better than me so what's the point."

"Who cares about them. I'll stay here and hang out with you." Demi smiled at her.

"Thanks..."

"So first order of business...food."

"I'm not really hungry..."

"I have frozen pizzas...we can just sit around and get fat."

"Demi, Demi, Demi. That's not good for you." Joe said walking towards them with his brothers.

"Go away Joe."

"I can't honey. See, we all live on the same tour bus."

"Fuck off then." She gives him an 'I'll explain later' look.

"Uhm, I'm actually just going to go to my bunk..." Miley got up and walked away. She didn't want to be the reason for their fight.

Demi glares at Joe. "What the fuck was that! I'm trying to connect with her, she really needs a friend right now"

"Dude, I didn't say anything!"

Demi stares at him then gets up and walks away.

Later that night, during the concert

"Alright! That was a good one, LA! We love you!" Joe screams to the crowd.

Nick speaks into the microphone. "This next song is actually a last minute edition. Someone I love very much has been going through something difficult and I haven't been very supportive. So this is my way of saying Sorry..." The intro to 'Sorry' begins to play.

Demi and Miley are backstage listening, Miley looks over at Demi. "What the hell was that?"

Demi nudges her. "I think it's about you."

"It's not the way to apologize. He should have talked to me. He didn't take the time to do that, he wrote a song instead. Now don't get me wrong, I love the song, but I need a real apology."

"He probably wrote it while you weren't talking or something."

"I dont' know and I don't have time to care. I'm up next."

As soon as the song ends, Nick shouts. "Have a goodnight guys." He turns his mic off as he runs backstage. "Miley! Miley!"

"I can't talk Nick, I need to go on stage."

Nick grabs her hand. "Just wait one second."

Miley looks down at their hands and then back up. "Be careful there, you're touching me. You'll never know what you might get."

"Don't be ridiculous. Look Miley, I was wrong okay? I didn't know anything about it. I rushed my judgement. I didn't know it was curable. And even though you can't have kids, I'm willing to come up with something with you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I can't do that if I can't accept you for who you are, imperfections and all."

"You really hurt me Nick. It's always like that with you! Whenever I need you, you let me down. You never support me!"

"But you can't really blame me this time. This is something I've never had to deal with before. I was scared okay. But I realized now that it doesn't matter. Nothing does, as long as I get to be with you."

"I didn't know how to deal with it either. But we are a couple! A couple is supposed to help each other! You just ran away! You think it was easy for me? I'm the one who has to deal with this for the rest of my life! You out of all people knew how much I wanted kids. Well here it is." Miley took some of her bracelets off her wrist and showed it to him. "Here's a cut for every kid I wanted, make that three. Here's one for losing you. Here's one for making myself become the girl I am today...HOW AM I DOING NICK HUH!"

Nick backed away slowly. "Why would you do that..."

"Why not? My life's a mess. Everyone knows I'm a slut, just imagine when they find out I have a disease. Imagine what my parents are going to think when they find out."

"It's curable though. We can get rid of it before anybody else knows. And we can still have a normal sex life if you're worried about that too. I'll just wear a condom and take the medication that cures it as well. And about kids, we'll figure out a way. I promise"

"D-don't mess with my head Nick..."

"I'm not. I wa-no. I need you. And I hope you can maybe one day feel like you need me too...and I'll be right here when you do."

"Don't say you want kids with me Nick...We're eighteen! When you say things like that, you make me believe that we're going to spend the rest of our lives together and I just can't think like that..."

"But we are! I want to be with you for the rest of my life! Nick leans closer and whispers to her. "Chlamydia or not."

"Nick we can't choose that. We said forever the last time and it didn't last so please stop. Now I need to get on stage.

"Fine but I'll be waiting for you in your dressing room" He says to himself while walking away.

After the show

Miley takes her scene costume off as soon as she steps in her dressing room. She fails to notice Nick in the corner.

Nick just sits there and continues to watch her.

"Oh shit." Miley says when she finally notices him. "Sorry. Why didn't you say anything?" She asked while putting on her robe.

"Cause I didn't mind...Go ahead, continue" He winked.

"No because then we'll want to go further and we can't."

"Maybe we could do little things for now..."

"Like...?"

"I could finger you and just wash my hands after...until we're better...prepared." Nick laughed.

"I...I don't know..."

"Come on Mi. Let me prove to you that we can do this...that I'm okay with doing this. And you don't have to...return the favor until you're comfortable with it."

Miley looked down at herself. She wasn't ready yet but she needed to do it for Nick. "Sure." She faked a smile, she was an actress after all.

Nick opened his arms. "Come here baby."

Miley walked over to him and hugged him. "I love you."

Nick looked down. "Are we okay now? I promise I won't fuck it up this time."

"Yeah...we're fine" She faked a smile once again and looked at the new text from her phone. It was from Liam. She was still hugging Nick so he couldn't see what she was doing behind his back.

Nick cupped her face in his hands. "You're so beautiful."

Miley forced yet another smile, then looked down and replied "I miss you too, babe" to the text message.