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Goodnight and Go - Part Eight
Written by: Amalea
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For the next week after Miley's little kitchen confrontation with him, Lilly hardly saw Jackson at all, unless of course she happened to catch him at Rico's where he couldn't run away, or occasionally for a brief moment at Miley's house when one of them was on their way out. She assumed he had gone with his logic and not his heart and decided not to ask her out. This hurt Lilly deeply, but at the same time she couldn't get up the nerve to just ask him out.
Miley was still no help either. She'd been mulling it over for the past week, intensely trying to come up with the perfect scenario in which Lilly could make her move. No divine inspiration had struck yet, but she felt she was getting close.
So it was Monday morning, and instead of being out at the beach or the movies or the mall where any other normal teenager would be hanging out during their summer vacation, Lilly Truscott was sitting at the Stewart's house once again, waiting for Miley to come up with an idea.
"This is really starting to get ridiculous, Miley." Lilly commented, her arms propped up on the table, resting her head in her hands. "I always knew you were determined, but seriously, don't you have your own life?"
"I do still have my own life," Miley snapped, "If you'd just stop being such a scaredy cat and ask out my brother I hardly think we'd be doing this right now."
Lilly's eyes widened, "Sor-ry, but this was your whole plan in the first place. I don't remember asking for you to do this."
"You need me."
"I think I could manage. We're not getting anywhere being in this stupid house all day anyway. Jackson hasn't talked to me in a week. Where's the progress? We could be going out and having fun, but we're not. Do you know how many beginning of summer parties we've missed?"
Miley didn't responded. With her back to Lilly, she was staring at the refrigerator.
"Earth to Miley?" Lilly said.
Still receiving no response, Lilly became a little concerned. "OK, OK, I didn't mean it? I do need you, it's not your fault Jackson hasn't talked to me, and I didn't really want to go to any of those parties anyway."
Still nothing.
"Mileyyyy," Lilly whined, "Please talk to me."
After walking over to the fridge and reading the calendar, Miley finally turned around to face Lilly.
Her eyes lit up she walked over and grabbed her friend's shoulders, "Lilly you're a genius!"
"Well, of course... but why?"
"A party. It's the perfect scenario. Not only that, but guess who just happens to be having a party tomorrow night?"
"Who?" Lilly questioned.
"Only my brother's best friend," Miley began. Lilly finished the statement for her.
"Cooper."
"Yes! And we have to go."
"But we weren't even invited Miley, we can't just show up at his house." Lilly said.
"That's the best part, it's going to be this huge beach party right by his house. A bunch of kids from the senior class are getting together to celebrate their final summer before high school."
Miley was now semi-pacing around the kitchen.
"There will be hundreds of kids there, no one would even notice if we went, and all you'll have to do is find Jackson and get him alone."
"That's all?" Lilly said, "Miley, you just said there would be hundreds of kids there."
"That's OK, I'll help you find him. Then you just need to get him to talk to you."
"But how am I going to do that?"
Miley's eyes glimmered once again, "Oh, I'll take care of that." The way Miley said that last sentence made Lilly slightly uncomfortable.
"All we'll need is a little trip into the Hannah Montana closet, some make-up, and a few hours of prep-time."
"Oh no Miley, not some crazy girly makeover. You know I can't handle that."
"But we have to! You're going to be so smoking at the party that Jackson will have no choice but to talk to you. Especially when he sees all the other hott guys that will be hitting on you." Miley said.
Lilly laughed, "Why would a bunch of older guys be hitting on me? Miley, I somehow doubt that you can actually work miracles."
"Oh, shut up Lilly. You're totally hott you know, you just never put enough effort into it to prove it."
"I happen to like the way I dress, thank you."
"I know, I know, but would it kill you to wear a skirt every now and then?" Miley suggested.
"Yes, it actually might."
"Well that's too bad, because you're going to wear a skirt tomorrow, and you're going to like it."
"That's not going to happen." Lilly said bluntly.
"You need to have some confidence, Lilly. How else will you win Jackson over? You need to go to that party with me, you need to look hott, but most importantly you need to believe you're hott. You need to walk in there like you own the place, stare them down, say to the world, "I'm Lilly Truscott, you got a problem?" Simple as that."
Lilly sighed, "Oh yeah, sounds simple."
"Well, trust me, it is. It's all just an act. I do it all the time as Hannah, and I know you can act too. Lola never has a problem telling people what's what."
"I guess," Lilly said, and now that she was thinking about it, maybe it wouldn't be that hard. Of course, as Lilly she wouldn't have a crazy wig on to empower her.
"Please Lilly, just go to the party. Have any of my plans let you down yet? Again, you just need to trust me." Miley said, pleadingly.
"Alright, alright, but promise me if this doesn't work you'll just let it go?" Lilly said, resigned.
"Deal," Miley said happily, then as an afterthought added, "but it will work."
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A/N: That was a little more filler; I promise there will be more action in the next chapter. There are probably only one or two more chapters of this left. I'm a little disappointed with the review count for part seven, but I'm going to blame that on the lack of working alerts, or am I the only one not receiving any alerts from Anyway, 10 reviews and you'll get another chapter by Friday night. Deal?
Also, if you like Lilly/Jackson, check out my other story, a oneshot piece entitled 'The Unexpected Love' and review with your thoughts. Then, see my favorite stories for more excellent works I've found by some other excellent authors.