Chapter 6

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It was Monday morning, Lilly had briefly talked with Oliver when she got to school and then she had to go to English. The teacher got in front of class and started talking. "Ok, class first thing this morning, I want you to partner up." She walked down an aisle. "Lilly, I don't think Miley has a partner yet." She pointed.

Lilly sighed. "Ok." She pulled a chair up to Miley's seat.

"Hey." Miley said, like nothing was wrong.

"Hi." Lilly replied dully.

"So what's new with you?" Miley asked.

"Not a whole lot. So...why are you talking to me?" Lilly questioned.

"Lilly, I'm sorry we haven't been talking. It's just that I don't want Amber and Ashley to tell everyone my secret." Miley replied.

"Right." Lilly rolled her eyes.

"I'm sorry. I wish we could just hang out again." Miley said. "I miss hanging out with you."

Lilly wanted to say she didn't but she really did miss hanging out with Miley. "Yeah.."

"So hey, you should meet me at my house after school." Miley replied.

"I guess." Lilly shrugged.

"Great." Miley smiled.

They started working on their assignment and finished right before class got done. The rest of the day they didn't really say much to each other. "Hey, Lilly, we're walking home together, right?" Oliver asked.

"Of course. Why would you even ask?" Lilly answered.

"You've been quiet today, I just thought you were mad at me or something." Oliver replied.

"Nope, not mad." Lilly thought about if she wanted to tell him about her talk with Miley. She decided against it, though. At least for now.

"Oh, ok. So what are you doing tonight?" Oliver asked as they walked toward Lilly's house.

"I have to work on an assignment and then my mom gave me some other things to do." Lilly lied. "What about you?"

"I'm meeting Becca at the beach again." Oliver replied.

Lilly fought the urge to say something. "Have fun."

"Thanks." Oliver answered awkwardly.

It got quiet as they approached Lilly's house. "Well text me later." Lilly said to Oliver.

Oliver smiled. "Will do." He waved as she went up to her house, and then he started walking to his own house.

Lilly set her backpack down when she got inside and walked into the living room where her mom was sitting. "Hey, mom, I'm going to go hang out with Miley."

"That's great, honey. Have fun." Heather replied.

"Yep, I'll be back later." Lilly left out the back door and crossed the beach to go to Miley's.

When she got to Miley's she knocked on the door. Miley opened it. "Hey."

"Hey, what are you doing?" Lilly asked.

"Nothing really, I just sat down to watch some tv. Want to go up to my room to hang out?" Miley offered.

"Ok." Lilly agreed. She followed Miley up to her room. It felt like things were almost normal between them again. "So what's been going on with you?"

"Concerts, school, you know." Miley explained.

"Having fun being friends with the popular kids?" Lilly asked.

"I sort of regret it now." Miley replied.

Lilly half smiled, sympathetically. "Yeah."

"So what's going on with you, there has to be something." Miley said.

There was something. She had been dying to tell someone, but she couldn't tell her best friend, Oliver, and she couldn't tell her mom. "Actually...yeah, but you have to swear you won't tell anyone."

"I swear." Miley grinned. "This has to be good."

"Well..I think I like.." Lilly paused. "Oliver."

"No way!" Miley started laughing.

Lilly gave her a look. "Sorry I told you."

"No! I mean it's just funny. I saw it coming." Miley replied.

"What do you mean?" Lilly asked.

"You guys have been so close forever." Miley answered. "I could always sort of tell you liked him too."

"I guess that's all thats new with me, though." Lilly replied.

They kept talking about other things and Lilly ended up leaving a couple hours later for dinner.

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