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I went back to my bus to grab my purse and sunglasses. Kevin said that he would pick me up here.
I still don't understand why Nick broke up with me. We were so happy together. Pretty much every second that I wasn't filming and he wasn't in the studio we were together, and recently we had even been doing that together.
Was he getting tired of me? He didn't act like he was at all. He was the one who usually made plans for us. And to top it all off, the day before he said that we shouldn't see each other anymore he told me that he loved me. It was the first time that either of us had said that and I hadn't had the chance to return the favor.
My thoughts were interrupted by a tornado of banging on my door, accompanied (of course) by Joe's loud voice. "Mi-ley, open up! I'm going to die of starvation if I don't eat right now!" he pleaded like a seven-year-old.
"Okay, okay hold your horses I'm coming." I opened the door to see Joe sprinting to the car's backseat.
Freak.
I walked around to the passenger side of the car and froze. In the passenger side back seat sat the one and only Nick Jonas. I completely froze, standing about three feet from the car door, staring at him. He wasn't even looking back.
Great.
"Miley, get in! You're going to freeze out there. Its only twenty degrees," called Kevin from the open window.
I just glared at him and sat down in the front seat, keeping my eyes on the road ahead and my mouth shut.
Kevin knew that I would not have agreed to come to this lunch if I knew that Nick would be here.
We sat down in a booth in the back corner of a local diner. I made sure that I sat in the back corner, as far as possible from Nick.
"So, anything exciting happen last night?" asked Joe, trying to break the awkward silence that had fallen over the group.
"Not much. Brandi and I played a little rummy while watching The Incredibles, but that was about it. I was so worn out from that concert that I was in bed by 10:30."
"I thought rummy was your thing," replied Joe, gesturing to Nick and me.
Nick gave him a hard look, and Joe yelped and rubbed his leg where Kevin's shoe had made contact with it.
"Yeah, but I'm kind of addicted. I mean, I had played it pretty much every night for the past two years. I guess I couldn't break the habit," I mumbled, looking down into my cup of coffee. "What did you guys do after the concert?"
"Well little Nicky here wrote an entire new song, while Kevin and I took the proper action and passed out face first on the couch," Joe said, nudging Nick in the arm to try to get him to perk up.
"Wow, a new song. Impressive," I said, looking over at him to see a blush creeping up on his cheeks under his curls.
"Yeah, its not that good or anything. Just a rough draft of an idea," Nick said, finally looking at me.
"Are you kidding Nick? It's an amazing song, full of passion and hurt. It's one of my favorites that you've ever written, and it's not even finished yet!" cried Kevin. "Don't try and be modest."
If it was possible, Nick got even redder at that compliment. He was always the one to downplay his talent. "Yeah, whatever."
"So what was the song about Nick?" I asked, extremely curious about a song about pain and passion.
When Nick didn't answer Joe took the opportunity to jump in for him. "Well, it's about this guy who thinks his life is over when his girlfriend cheats on him with his best friend and OWW!" he practically screamed as Kevin kicked him under the table again.
Nick just jumped up from his seat and ran out of the restaurant.
"Oh shit! I guess you weren't supposed to hear that Miley. I better go find Nick and apologize," Said Joe, already half way out of his seat.
"What did he mean by girlfriend who cheated on him?" I asked Kevin slowly, disbelief etched on my face. "Does he seriously think that I cheated on him? Is that why he broke up with me? Please tell me that I haven't been miserable for the past two months because your brother falsely accused me of cheating!"
"Miley, please, slow down and just listen to me for a second. Yes, that is why he broke up with you," I was about to cut in again but Kevin beat me to it. "Remember in August when you filmed that last episode of Hannah with Cody Linley? Well we showed up at the set that day. The second that we walked on set we kind of witnessed you kiss him in your dressing room."
My mouth immediately dropped open. "What… how… why?"
"Nick was so upset he ran offset and refused to come back to face you for an explanation. He wouldn't even consider the possibility that you were only kissing as a part of the episode. I swear, I tried to convince him that you loved him, that you would never cheat on him like that, but he wouldn't believe it."
"How could you not tell me this?" I shrieked. "I thought we were friends! I have always considered you a brother, how could you not have had my back? Did Joe know about this?"
"No he didn't come with us that day, it was just Nick and me. Don't blame him for this. I'm so sorry Miley. In this case, blood had to be thicker than water. Nick is my brother. I had to respect his feelings on this one."
"Don't even try to explain. And don't talk to me ever again. I'll get my own ride home." And with that I left, well, to the bathroom at least. I took out my cell phone and called Brandi. "Brandi?"
"Miley? Oh my god Miley what's wrong? Are you okay?" I guess I was crying. Brandi always knew when something was wrong.
"I'll tell you later, okay? Can you just please come pick me up? I'm on 9th and Central at the diner."
"Yeah, I'll be there in a couple of minutes. Are you sure you're okay?"
"I'll be fine. See you here."
I combined two chapters that I had written into one to make it longer. The next chapter will be the confrontation with Kevin and Brandi and Miley and Brandi and then the D.C. concert. It should be out by tomorrow.
