A/N: Pretty long, hope it's not too fast...
Later that evening, just before sunset, I walked out the back of the house, turning the lights off as I went, but turned the porch light on. Then I walked out of the backyard and over to the beach. Very soon I stopped where the sand was still soft and sat down. Then I pulled my legs toward me, rested my chin on top of my knees and looked at the beach. Within a few minutes the sun would slowly start to descend. I came out here most nights for this moment. I loved these sunset scenes.
I looked around at the beach in front of me, most of it pretty much empty by now since there was a cool breeze. Although a few people still lingered to sit and watch the sunset. One person imparticular caught my eye as she walked along the shore line, looking at the ocean. I know the curves of her body, the way the wind gently blew her hair. I know it's Lilly. I just hope she doesn't see me here. Although I was sitting far away enough, so I think I'm safe. It's not that I don't want too see her now, I just felt too emotional and lonely and didn't want her to see me like this. Wait, lonely? Yeah, then I guess I wouldn't mind her company. Just a few seconds later, she noticed me. I saw her head look in my direction.
"Hey Miley." her voice called out to me. She was a little far in distance, but jogged over.
"Oh, hey Lilly." I replied a bit lazily. As Lilly walked to stand in front of me I looked up.
"Wanna see what I'm gonna wear tomorrow?" I looked closely. Holy crap. "Soo, what do you think?" I didn't say anything for a moment. "Miles?"
"Wow Lilly, that's really ho... so I thought you weren't interested in anything short?" I could only hope I covered the slight slip.
"I said that about shirts." she said and sat next to me. "I never said anything about not being interested in short shorts. I was out doing a little shopping today and finally decided on these." Lilly smiled.
"Well you can really pull that off, looks great on you."
"Thanks, although I'm not sure what to wear as far as shirts go. For instance the button up one I'm wearing right now, well I'm sure it doesn't go with the shorts. Any recommendations?"
"Actually that look does work sometimes, but tank tops would look cute. Although those are short mostly, so I'd go for some tight and long like logo T's. Oh, ones that discreetly say double meanings." I gave her a sly grin. "But that's just my opinion, you can look for whatever you want." I shrugged.
Lilly chuckled at my suggestion. "That actually sounds pretty funny. I'll remember that the next time I go to the mall. Do you wanna go with me tomorrow if you're not busy?" she asked.
Busy? I've got nothing but time since my parents were never around. Lilly's last comment made my thoughts drift to my parents again. "No I'm not busy, so sure." I said quietly and gave a weak smile. Then I turned to look at the ocean again.
"Hey, you ok?" Her voice suddenly filled with concern.
"Yeah, yeah I'm cool." There was a lot of sadness, as well as hesitation that filled my voice. I knew that Lilly could tell.
"You don't sound so sure. Do you wanna talk?" Lilly offered.
"No thanks, I can handle myself." Stop shutting her out you idiot.
"Come on Miles, talk to me, I'm here. That's what friends are for."
Realization hit me after she said that and now I know I should be talking to her. "Alright...well it's just that my parents are gone again, till midnight this time. They say it's working over time or business, but I don't believe it. I mean midnight? Seriously? I never have the chance to ask them the real reason. When I get too talk to them, it's always about school stuff. Anyway, I don't know why I care anymore." I sighed. Then I suddenly wondered something else, why was Lilly here? "Wait why are you here anyway?" I turned to look at her.
"Well I just came to look at the sunset and then saw you sitting here. But I'm real sorry about that Miley, I'll help you in any way I can." Lilly said as she slowly brought a hand up to my shoulder, hesitated and then let it rest on it. I looked at it for a few seconds, I would normally shrug it off, but I was lonely right now and it was comforting, so I let her leave it and looked away.
"It's ok, I've dealt with it for a long time and I can deal with it again." I sighed once again.
"You know, I don't think it's something you should have to deal with at all. I mean good parents shouldn't do that, but if it's gonna keep happening I don't want you to go it alone." Then she moved that hand and rested a comforting arm around my shoulder.
"God, I don't know why I just told you all that." I bent my head down.
"Well it's good to get hard feelings out that you've carried on for years." Lilly replied.
I turned to face her again. "Yeah I guess it is, that's real nice, thank you." I spoke softly. It was odd because I hardly ever do. Then the horizon began to dim and we both looked out at the bright orange and yellow colors that were coming from the sun while it was setting, as well as reflecting off the endless waters of the calm ocean. "You know, I've always looked at these alone." I stated.
"Me too, but remember, you won't be alone anymore." There was a brief silence and Lilly said something I didn't expect. "You know I've seen pretty scenes like these in movies. Two people sit in front of a sunset and look at it together, then as it grows darker they..."
She trailed off, because the rest was obvious and right in front of my face as well. A second after she said that we both turned and looked at each other at the same time. Our faces were just inches apart. "I know." I barely breathed out. Then some sort of gravitational force slowly moved my face towards hers. I was moving unconsciously, but after a few seconds I snapped out of it and out of the lazy mood I was in and realized what I was doing. "It's dark..." I whispered, "I, I should get home."
I had startled her a little, from ruining that small moment or what ever that moment was. She took her arm off my shoulders from a slight jump at these few words. "You don't have to be anywhere and your parents aren't home." Lilly pointed out.
"I-I know, but I gotta go, it's um, cold." I stood up and quickly brushed some sand off my butt. "I'll see you around Lil." I gave her a small wave and walked straight back to my house as quick as I could. She still sat there and watched me walk away.
Well one funny thing is a nickname just flowed out. Other then that, my head was swarming with thoughts about what the hell am I thinking? I know I had flirted with her sometimes and I think she did the same in return, but I was never quite sure. So did I do the right thing by leaving when I did? I have no idea, I just know I need too get my thoughts knocked into place or someone else has to do it for me.
I stepped onto the deck, on the back of my house and under the small porch light I had turned on earlier. Just before I walked inside, I heard Lilly behind me and I turned around. She was jogging over to me.
"Miles wait up!" she shouted from a distance. When she arrived at the deck, she walked over to me. "You uh, you forgot your phone," Lilly held my cell phone out to me and I took it. "It was lying on the sand next to me."
"Oh thanks Lil, it must have slipped out of my pocket."
"Yeah..." she breathed, a little out of breath, then looked around and fidgeted with her hands.
Silence. Stupid. Awkward. Silence. It's always deadly for anyone, in any situation. Especially now it would be the death of me if neither of us said anything soon, so I finally broke the silence. "Well I wouldn't want that to happen again." I broke the silence to talk about my phone? Dumb, but the silence was broken.
Then I saw Lilly looking at me carefully while I spoke. It was an odd look, as if she were hesitating to say something. I was right, she spoke up and really quickly I might add. "No you wouldn't, but you would want this," Lilly took a giant step toward me and gently pressed her lips against mine.
I moved my lips a little and Lilly simply went with it. Whatever it was, it felt amazing and the more opened mouthed I made it, the more right things felt. I was right, that I have no idea what I was doing and I need to get my thoughts knocked into place and luckily someone else did it for me and now I definitely know what I'm doing. I broke us apart after several seconds when air was needed. "Lilly I'm, I'm sorry about earlier. I just got scared I guess."
She whispered, "It's ok, don't apologize, everyone gets scared, but look where we are now? Fears conquered."
I smiled. "Cute, thank you." I looked behind me and inside the dark and empty living room. I turned back and looked at Lilly. "Well that's all I had to go back to." I nodded my head back to the dark house. "Wanna go inside with me?" I gave her a shy smile, hopeful at the same time.
"Yeah of course I'll stay with you, I just have too be home by curfew."
"Thank you so much." I gave Lilly a big hug, then grabbed her hand and pulled her inside. I closed the doors behind me, then turned on the lights inside. "Well this is my place and what I come home to everyday. Kinda nice looking, but it certainly gets boring after awhile." I sat on the couch and Lilly sat next to me.
"Yeah I bet it would be, I'm sorry."
"It's really ok. So when's your curfew?"
"Midnight, but I'll leave before then if you want."
"No it's ok, I don't mind if my parents see you here. In fact they might just be tired and rush to bed, so they probably won't notice." I shrugged.
"Well alright I'll stay that long. Hey I can drive home with you after school if you want? I don't have too be home, only to start on homework, but we could do it together."
"Sure, that would be cool." I smiled and then got up and walked to the kitchen. "Are you hungry or thirsty?" I asked Lilly as I opened the fridge.
"No thanks, I'm fine."
"Great, here ya go." I handed her a soda as I walked back. "So, you wanna watch a movie?"
Lilly just looked up at me and smirked. "Wow, who new the tough lookin, school punk would be such a softy."
"Ha ha, funny. Although there were a few times you could have figured that out earlier." I chuckled, then I set my soda on the small table in front of us and walked over to the TV. I picked a movie out of the large selection and popped it in the DVD player.
By the time the movie was finished, it was almost 11pm. I looked next to me and Lilly had her head on my shoulder. "Uh Lilly, are you asleep?"
"Not anymore, but thanks for asking." She yawned.
"Oops, sorry." I said as she leaned her head up to look at me, then smiled.
"I was just joking with you." Lilly chuckled, so did I.
"Well why'd you pretend like you were asleep?"
"I didn't really, even though the movie was over, I kept my head on your shoulder cause I was comfortable. Then when you asked me that, it was a fun opportunity."
"Yeah, well it's getting late and my parents aren't home, just like they said. You don't have to stay if-"
Lilly shut me up with a sudden kiss and a hard one too. "Miles I'm staying. I don't care if it's late, besides it's the weekend so you shouldn't mind either."
"Yeah I guess you're right." I smiled and then leaned in and started up another kiss.
It quickly became heated. I pushed Lilly back on the couch and lay on top of her now. It was amazing. Lilly ran her hands through my hair and I ran my hands up and down the sides of her body. Her lips were so soft that I wouldn't mind kissing them all day. Our lips moved together so smoothly and in sync and I couldn't ask for better, but it did get better. Lilly slowly moved her tongue across my lips and I opened my mouth in pleasure. I couldn't help but moan at this sweet sensation. I of course, returned the favor and intertwined our tongues for several seconds. Several long, hot, enjoyable and lustful filled, seconds. Then I broke apart for some very much needed air.
Lilly looked me deeply in the eyes. "You ok?"
"Yeah, you?" I breathed out heavily.
"Never better, now get back here." She smirked and put a hand on the back of my neck, to pull me back towards her.
We started out hot for another minute again. Then I heard the front door being unlocked. I sprung off of Lilly and into a sitting position. "Shit, they're early." I cursed as Lilly sat up too. Then I turned the TV on so things looked more natural, a second later the door opened. "Oh hi dad, hi mom, you guys are home early." I said casually, looking over at the door to see my dad walk in, followed by my mom.
"Hey Miley, yeah we finished up with work earlier then I thought." my dad said. "But we're tired so-"
"Hold it one minute Robbie Ray, it looks like Miley has a friend over." my mother said and stood next to the couch. My eyes went wide at the fact that she stopped to say hi and even noticed Lilly. "Miley, aren't you going to introduce us?" my mom asked.
"Right, sorry." Lilly and I both stood up and faced my mom. "Mom this is my..." What was she? Lilly is certainly someone special that I'm not gonna let go of, I know that. But what more is she to me? I think I know, but now's not the time for my parents to know. "...my best friend, Lilly." I quickly turned to her, giving her an apologetic look. She rolled her eyes to shrug it off, but I knew I'd hear more about it later.
"Well. it's nice to meet you. That's my husband Robbie Ray and I'm Susan. You know, you didn't have to wait up Miley."
"It's ok, we just watched a movie and... and we hardly noticed the time. It's the weekend anyway, but Lilly's gotta go home soon."
"Alright and you should get to bed soon after that. We're going to sleep now and we'll see you in the morning. Nice meeting you Lilly, night." my mom gave her a small wave and then walked up stairs with my dad.
"Well that was weird." I mumbled.
"Your parents are pretty nice Miles." Lilly told me as we sat back down.
"Thanks, that's actually new to me, because I was surprised that my mom stopped to notice you."
"Well who knows, maybe they're trying?"
"Yeah could be..." I trailed off in thought as I heard something, or rather didn't hear anything, just up the stairs. "Lilly did you hear that?" I put a hand on her arm and sat up straight.
"What?"
"The door to my parents room, it didn't shut." I told her.
"Wow Miley, that's some pretty good hearing." she pointed out in a sarcastic manner. "Alright can we talk about earlier, when you told your mom I'm your best friend?"
I was going to respond, but still curious about upstairs. So I got up and walked over and stood at the bottom of the staircase. I could see the door to their room from there, so I looked up and noticed that the door was opened, just by a small crack. I looked back at Lilly. "I was right, they didn't shut it all the way. I'll be back in a minute." I took a step up.
"Wait, what? Really Miley?" She said, a little tired out.
"Lil I'm kinda desperate at this point ok? Now if they're talking about work, I wanna hear about it. So I'll be back in a second." Then I silently walked upstairs and stood next to their door. Voices were slightly rising in a heated discussion. My eyes widened after hearing a few sentences from them, debating to tell me something. What was it? My parents really were keeping secrets from me. I froze to the spot and didn't move until I heard it all.
A/N: Review! Peace!
