A/N: I'm so, so, so, so, so, so sorry. I haven't updated in over a week, and I even got THIRTEEN reviews on the last chapter. You guys are amazing, I suck. It's just with Christmas and work I have had zero time. So here's something a little more lengthy. Hopefully you enjoy.

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Goodnight and Go - Part Seven

Written by: Amalea

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After putting everything back in its place, they went to Miley's room to talk.

"So tell me, Lilly!" Miley said in an excited tone, "What are you going to do?"

"I can't do anything!" Lilly exclaimed.

"Well, why not?"

"I'm not asking your brother out," Lilly said simply, and crossed her arms.

Miley slapped Lilly's arm, "Oh come on! You can't ask a guy out?"

"No..." Lilly turned slightly pink.

"Well if you seriously expect my brother to ask you out, you might want to think again."

Lilly looked up alarmed, "Why wouldn't he ask me out?"

"Because he's Jackson, and he's stupid." Miley said, "He's probably all freaked out about you being my best friend or whatever. And... I don't know if you've noticed this, but Jackson's not so smooth with the ladies."

"But he's had like a thousand girlfriends!"

"Did he tell you that?" Miley asked.

"Not exactly... but he's always going out on dates and stuff, right?" Lilly said, a little confused.

"I'm sure he's been on plenty of dates," Miley said, "but I can't recall any time he's actually had a girlfriend."

"Seriously?"

"Well... yeah. He's never actually been serious with any girls," Miley laughed, "He can't seem to actually get past a first date."

"No way."

"Don't tell him I told you that," Miley said, still laughing, "He'd kill me. I can't believe he made you think he was such a... a player."

Lilly smiled, "Not even one second date?"

"Well, there may have been like one."

"Poor Jackson," Lilly said, and now giggled.

"Poor Jackson? Poor you!" Miley said. "When was the last time you had a boyfriend, miss?"

Lilly's mouth fell open.

"I'm kidding," Miley said quickly. "I'm just saying, you guys would be perfect for each other."

Lilly smiled again, "We should've read his journal."

Miley mockingly gasped, "But that would've been a total invasion of privacy!"

"I know," Lilly groaned, "I'm a horrible person."

"Let's do it," Miley said, her eyes glimmering.

"Go back in there?" Lilly asked.

"Yeah."

"But what if he comes home?"

Miley shook her head, "No way, he hasn't been at work very long yet."

Lilly took a deep breath. "OK, let's do it."

Miley clapped her hands together, "Yay!"

They both stood up immediately and walked back down the hallway to Jackson's room. After removing the notebook from under the mattress once again, they flipped it open.

Miley began reading the first page aloud, "I can't believe I'm doing this. Keeping a diary is something that for the most part…"

"Boring!" Lilly called, "Skip ahead, find something about me!"

Miley laughed and began skimming pages. "Where should I look?"

"I don't know, go to the day when we hung out over here while you were gone. See what he said about my note."

"Alright, alright. Remember the date?" Miley asked.

"I don't know, it wasn't that long ago, skip back from the end."

Miley nodded and fidgeted around with the journal for another second. "Aha!" she exclaimed, tapping a page.

"Found it?" Lilly asked.

"Found it."

"Read it."

Miley began reading aloud once again:

"I've mentioned her before. You know, the crazy blond? Cute, but weird. Cute… that doesn't even describe her. She's amazing, really. I can't even figure out what it is about her, but she captivates you, you know? I'll admit it, I've got a thing for her. But that can't get out, ever. There's one person who knows and that's how it's going to say. Alright, but get this. I'm working at Rico's tonight and out of nowhere she shows up. She sits down at the end of the bar, just hanging around, totally alone. So after a minute I go over there, ask if she wants a drink… whatever. She asks for a Sprite and I go back down to the other end to the tap to get one. Cooper's hanging out down there, so I'm talking to him while I get the drink. "You go put the hot moves on her?" he asks. Right there. She's like 2 feet away and he asks me this. Some friend. I don't think she heard him, I freaked out and glanced over at her, she was checking out something down the beach. So Coop keeps urging me to make my move, which I'm not even going to do, but I go back down there, she's looking pretty depressed. I ask what's up, she's looking for Miley, I know Miley's at some Hannah thing and won't be home until late. I seize the opportunity. So maybe I kind of lied, but this was the perfect chance, I'd get to hang out with her, sister-free. I offer her an escort to the house where she can wait.

Too bad I got rejected."

"Wow, that's hilarious." Miley said, stopping. She glanced at Lilly.

"I can't believe that!"

"What?"

"All of it, I mean, he LIKED me, Cooper knew, he LIED about where you were so he could hang out with me. Wow."

"Of course he lied. You," Miley finished in a dreamy voice, "captivate him."

Lilly slapped her friend on the arm, "Finish please. I'd like to get the rest of the information on that night before he gets home and catches us!"

Miley stuck out her tongue and went back to reading.

"So I get some lame excuse about her wanting to hang out at the beach and maybe she'll stop by later. Shot. Down. I didn't have a chance, of course. I'm Miley's weird older brother. Coop didn't let me live that one down either. Not until I shut down the store and told him to go home. I walked home, pretty bummed, I won't lie. But that didn't last long. I'd hardly been home 5 minutes and there's a knock at the door. Scared the hell out of me, but there she was; standing at my door. Then she just starts talking 500 words a minute, I've hardly understood one word she said. I physically have to stop her by putting my hand over her mouth and inviting her in. She calmed down a bit after that, I guess. Eventually we got down to watching a movie. Some horror film. Sitting there on the couch next to her, my arm barely touching hers… there was just something right about that moment. Then she totally freaks out at this scene in the movies and she's all over me."

"What?!" Miley exclaimed.

"Um, that's a lie. I may have grabbed him but in no way was I 'all over him'," Lilly said bluntly and looked over to read what Jackson had written. "OK, look, read the next sentence."

"Alright, fine, maybe "all over me" is an exaggeration. But she's buried her face in my shoulder, and she's clutching my arm. What I really want to do is just hold her like that, but I don't. I choose the more masculine route, the more Jackson of choices. I make fun of her. I don't know what I said, Lilly can usually take a joke. But something just makes her tense up. Then my phone rings, and like an idiot I run to get it. Only to come back downstairs and find no one. She did leave a note, though. Saying something came up, she had to leave. So I'm sitting on the couch, cursing myself for being such a moron, when I notice something on the ground at the foot of the couch. A crumpled up piece of paper, nothing too interesting… but I knew it hadn't been there before. Being a curious person, I picked it up to see what it was, not expecting much, maybe like a receipt or something. Boy was I wrong. Lilly wrote me this note, see? I guess it was the first draft of the note I had just read. I've enclosed the note in here for safe keeping, it's just too amazing to trash. But am I supposed to tell her I found it? That would be an awkward conversation. This note I found… this brilliant, amazing, fantastic note, in which Lilly expresses her strong desire for us to be together. What am I supposed to do? She's my little sister's best friend. That is not a good position to be in. I know Miley would kill me if I tried anything with her. And I'm eighteen years-old. I just graduated from high school, she's going to be a junior. I'm going to be at college come fall, she's going to be here. How is that going to work out? I like the girl, but really, is all the drama I'll have to put up with worth it? The voice inside me is shouting 'yes'… but logically, I just don't know. Now I've got a headache. Tonight was a little too much to deal with. I've got Lilly intoxication. But what in the world am I supposed to do now?"

The journal ended there. There were no more entries describing his plans for what would happen with Lilly. There was nothing.

"What a let down." Miley said.

"Well, I guess it gave us something?" Lilly suggested.

"What?" Miley asked, "That my brother's too much of a moron to realize he should ask you out?"

"There's that…" Lilly said and smiled, "But I also know just how amazing he thinks I am now."

"Oh, you've lost it," Miley said, "Now let's get out of here."

Lilly was smiling as Miley dragged her back to her room. "You're going to ask out my brother."

Lilly stopped smiling, "I can't!"

"Yes, you can. And you will. On my orders."

"There's no way. He'll come around eventually, right? Can't I just wait?" Lilly pleaded.

"Not a chance. We need to take matters into our own hands if you're ever going to be my sister-in-law."

"OK, seriously Miley, that's getting weird. Stop thinking so far ahead."

Miley smiled, "Oh come on, I know you've thought about it… Mrs. Jackson Stewart."

Lilly blushed, "No… ok, maybe… a couple of times…"

"Well then, let's make this dream a reality."

"I really hope you have another genius plan, Miley Stewart. I don't think I can take much more of this… or your meddling."

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A/NA little (or big, new longest chapter), filler-y thing. Kind of recapped what happened in chapters 1 and 2 from a Jackson perspective. A little girl talk with Miley and Lilly. Something to move my story a little more toward the climax. It'll probably wrap up shortly. And again, I apologize for the delay. You guys are the best! Thanks for the reviews, and keep it up please!