CHAPTER FIVE

Unexpected

Oliver's Point of View

"Ouch!" Lilly rubbed her head. A twig fell off a tree and it accidentally hit her.

"That was our third surprise of the day," I said as Lilly grabbed a small ice cube from her cooler.

Ever since the day started, Lilly and I have had nothing but surprises. First, upon waking up, Lilly found out that her skateboard had been stolen. Obviously lonely, Lilly reasoned, "Oh, it's okay, that's why I brought it, it's one of my inexpensive skateboards," to hide her feelings. But I knew that even though it was inexpensive, it meant a lot to her, because it was her first skateboard. The second one, my jeans ripped while I was chasing Lilly around our campground. Lilly laughed, but I said, "Those were my best jeans!" And now, this.

"Are you hurt?" I asked her.

Lilly rubbed the ice cube to her head. "No, not much."

"I really still can't believe that we're lost. In the woods." Lilly shuddered. She'd been afraid of the woods for as long as I can remember. But I guess she's gotten over it. A little. "If it weren't for Miley," she said, paused, and smiled. "Or Jake, I wouldn't have come here."

"So that means you wouldn't come for me?" I was sort of disappointed in her for saying that.

"No, Oliver, of course I would!" Lilly followed me into my tent. "I'm sorry, I just..."

"You what?" I said, turning to her.

"I'm just closer to Miley and I like Jake, that's all," Lilly answered.

I sighed. "I understand the thing with Miley, but with Jake? I'm your best friend, and Jake was—"

"Jake was my date to the 70's dance," Lilly finished my sentence.

"Exactly, he was your date to the 70's dance, so you don't even know him that well!"

"You're just jealous because Miley likes him and she thinks of you as a friend!"

Well, there was complete silence after that. But you'll never believe what caused it. A kiss. Neither of us knows who started it.

"Uh, I'm...I'm sorry," Lilly said.

Forgive me for not thinking clearly, but I pulled her into another kiss. And, what do you know, she kissed me back. I never really thought of Lilly as more than a friend. Sure, she was cute, smart and talented, she was kind, too, but we've been friends too long. When the kiss ended, we sat in my tent in silence, never once meeting each other's gaze.

"Well, look at that," I said. Lilly turned to me, and I looked back at her. "Two surprises in one moment. Will they ever end?"
"Look, Oliver, can we just forget that this happened?"Lilly asked.

"Yeah, I'd like that." I stood up and led her out of the tent.

"I'll go skateboarding," Lilly said.

"But your skateboard was stolen, remember?"

"I have an extra." Lilly pulled her extra skateboard out.

I recognized it. The one with the blue guitar and graphic background. It was the one I had given her in the sixth grade for her birthday. "Oh, you brought that here? What if it gets stolen, too?"

"Nah, I'll take care of it," Lilly told me, hopping on the skateboard. She rode it smoothly at first, but she lost balance when she got to the rocky part. She was struggling to keep up, but she eventually fell.

I was just watching her, thinking about the kiss, and if I liked her as more than a friend.

"Oliver!" Lilly yelled. "Help me up!"

I ran to her. "Sorry! Where's the skateboard?"

"I'm sorry, Oliver, but it just kept going and I lost it." Lilly looked at her new bruise, right on her knee.

"It's okay," I reassured her. "Want me to help you with your bruise?"

"Yeah, help would be good," Lilly replied.

I grabbed my pocket first aid kit and covered her bruise with a plaster strip ever so carefully.

"I didn't see that coming," I told her.

"Huh?" Lilly rubbed the plaster strip to tighten it.

"What happened to you earlier, with the skateboard," I said. "I didn't see it coming."

"Me, either." Lilly stood up. "Hey, thanks."

"No problem," I replied.

I tried to talk to her about the kiss. "Listen, Lilly, about the lip-lock..."

"What? Oh, that. Don't mind it. We didn't mean it." Lilly was quick to let it go.

But I wanted to decipher it. "That wasn't just a coincidence."

"I don't think before I act," Lilly reasoned. "All the time."

"But," I started. Lilly had gone back to her tent.

(A/N: There's the kiss, as promised! Thanks for the great reviews! I'm thinking about the chapters, so I guess there wouldn't be twenty-two of them, after all. I'll just write the others according to plan, but there won't be any full chapters on Robbie Ray and Jackson anymore, since this story revolves around Miley, Jake, Lilly and Oliver. I'll just sneak some parts about them in other chapters.)