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Goodnight and Go - Part Five
Written by: Amalea
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"What is she doing in there?" Lilly wondered as she sat at the table on the Stewart's back porch the next day.
As usual, with his amazing ability to show up just when Lilly was alone and preferring not to see him, Jackson showed up on the porch behind her.
"Hello hello," Jackson said, walking around the table, "Here again with no Miley?"
"No, she's actually here... she said she had to go get something," Lilly responded, peering through the window into the house and willing Miley to return.
Jackson didn't nod and walk inside at this information as Lilly expected; rather, he took the seat across from her at the table, his back facing the door.
Lilly's body tensed and her stomach tightened. She wanted to laugh, she wanted to cry. Mostly, she wanted to throw up. She hated this feeling, and she understood perfectly what it was. It happened every time she saw him, every time she thought about him, and she knew it would only go away after Jackson did, when she could try and focus on something else other than the fact that he was sitting there across from her.
Jackson stared inquisitively at Lilly for a few moments.
Lilly noticed. "What?" she questioned.
"You're not normal, Lilly Truscott," Jackson said simply, a smirk lingering at his mouth.
"Um, thanks," Lilly said, her eyebrows slightly raised.
"No, I just mean you're different. Not bad, just different," he said, then stood up, smiled, and walked inside.
"What the hell was that?" Lilly muttered to herself, extremely confused by the event that had just occurred. Miley walked out the door just seconds later.
"Sooo, saw you talking to Jackson," Miley said, smiling, "What about? Did you spill the beans? You guys dating yet?"
"I don't know, and no, I didn't, and no, we aren't?" Lilly said.
"Well what did he want, than, if not to confess his undying love for you?" Miley said, visibly upset that nothing exciting had happened in her absence.
"Oh, apparently he just wanted to let me know I was weird," she said, with casual sarcasm.
"Is that what he said?!" Miley yelled, looking ready to go beat up her brother, "I swear, you give me five minutes with him..."
Lilly laughed at Miley's concern for her. "No, it wasn't like that. I don't know what it was... he just said I was different, but not in a bad way?"
"What?"
"I don't know, he's your brother."
"My weird brother," Miley added, "What's with that kid? He likes you, I know it. And I did promise I'd get to the bottom of this, which I will. I'm just going to need a little more time."
"What's your plan?" Lilly asked, quite interested, and also a little scared of what might be going on in her friend's head.
"Oh, I can't tell you, that would ruin all the fun, but I am going to find out for sure if he likes you and you will live happily ever after. Those are facts."
"Miley, there's no way Jackson is going to tell you he likes me. Even if he did like me, what would possibly make him tell you?"
"Lilly, I'm his sweet, angelic little sister, why would he want to keep anything from me?" Miley said with an innocent smile.
"I have a really bad feeling letting you get involved is just going to make everything worse," Lilly responded.
"Not a chance. How could I possibly mess anything up? Unless you're going to march into that house right now and tell him how you feel, I'm going to have to continue with my plan," Miley stated.
"Not a chance."
"That's what I thought. No worries Lilly, my best bud. It's going to be easy, I'm going to find out what we want to know, then, as I've said, you two are going to live happily ever after."
"Unless of course you find out what I really don't want confirmed. You know, that Jackson hates me, thinks I'm his sister's weird, nerdy friend, all that stuff." Lilly said, flatly.
"But that won't be what I find out. He likes you. I know it, I just have to make sure the two of you know it. I mean, he probably already knows, but you obviously won't believe me without proof. So we'll just have to work on that."
The look on Miley's face gave away that she was already lost in plans and calculations, so Lilly gave up trying to convince her friend not to meddle. Her fate was sealed, Jackson was going to find out she liked him, if he hadn't already found the note, and once he did, she was going to have to deal with inevitable rejection.
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A/N: Oh, that was awful. So short, not even 1000 words, but I HAD to get something out here. The next chapter will be longer I swear. I'm just so busy, exams are over but I've been working non-stop, and I felt awful making you guys wait so long. Thanks to all my new reviewers and subscribers, as well as my old. The next update will be much faster than this was.