Disclaimer: I don't own Hannah Montana, those lucky bastards at Disney do...

Second Heartbeat

Lilly walked to her locker and got her things. While she was doing this Miley came up next to her.

"Morning," Miley said, giving Lilly a kiss on the cheek.

"Wassup?" Lilly greeted.

"Eh, not much...So did you get home on time yesterday?"

"Yeah, Jessica texted me so that I'd actually be on time. My mom was surprised I was there before dinner," Lilly said with a slight chuckle. She was still digging through her locker for her science notebook. "Dammit, where is it..." She grumbled.

"Where's what?" Miley asked, leaning against the other lockers.

"My science notebook..."

"Why do you need that now? School hasn't even started and you don't have science until forth," Miley said.

"Woot! Found it!" Lilly exclaimed as she pulled a red notebook out and put into her backpack. She turned to Miley. "I need now because science is far from my locker but third isn't so I leave the stuff I need for third here and carry what I need for science instead that way my bag doesn't overload," She explained.

"Riiight..." Miley said, not really taking in what she said, "You're just insane."

"Of course she is," James said as he walked up, "She was just born that way." James was "offically" part of their group of friends. He and his friend had made up and weren't mad anymore but James said he liked hanging out with Miley, Lilly, and Oliver more. Lilly rolled her eyes.

"Shut up James..." She trailed off as she looked at him. "Whoa...you look..."

"Different..." Miley finished but that wasn't really what Lilly was going to say. James smiled. His light brown hair now had streaks of darker brown and it was moved over more so that his right eye was covered. He was wearing a new black zip up hoody, Volcom Lilly noticed, with a plain black shirt under. He was wearing some balck gloves with the finger tips cut off. He had a pair of slightly tight pants and a studded belt with some new black slip on Vans. Also he had his lip piereced.

Lilly cloudn't help but think James looked hot. He really did and she could tell that James knew she thought this. Neither of them could say anything though, not with Miley right there but damn, he looked fine! James gave Lilly a secretive smile and she tried to keep a straight face. Miley didn't notice anything.

"Damn James!" Oliver said as he came up behind him. "Check out the new look! Is this was you were doing yesterday?" James nodded.

"Yeah, my brother actually decided to be cool and take me to the mall during school," James said.

"Oh dang, lip piereced and everything, calm down," Oliver said. Everyone was giving Oliver a weird look.

"Uh...yeah, my brother wouldn't go as far as to let me get a tattoo but he said the pierecing was ok."

"You were going to get a tattoo?" Lilly asked increduously. James nodded.

"You know that tattoo that Jared Leto has on his wrist?" Lilly nodded. "Yeah, I wanted to get that one in the same spot," Jame sighed, "but my bro said no, that my mom would freak out."

"Didn't your mom notice your hair?" Miley asked. He nodded.

"Yeah but she was the one that suggested my brother take me out of school," He shrugged, "She's just cool that way."

"Hmm...awesome..." Oliver said, " Wish my mom would tell my brother to take me out of school." Lilly rolled her eyes.

"Like Jason would even consider it. He'd just be like, "nope sorry, I'm busy" while sitting on the couch watching the Real World," Lilly said. Oliver stuck his tounge out at her.

"It's not fair, you both have cool older sibs," Miley said, "and all I've got is..." Jackson ran by screaming with Thor's bird chasing him. "...that..." Lilly laughed and put her arms around Miley's shoulders.

"And how lucky are you?" She said jokingly. Miley rolled her eyes.

"Yes, the luckiest sister in the world."

"Hey, isn't it about time for the-" BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIING "Nevermind, let's go." The group scattered to their various classes.

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Lilly was in her science class and they were doing a small group assignment. Of course she ended up with James in her group. Wow was this period being hard, not because of the work, that was easy, but because of James. She couldn't stop looking at him, he just looked so good and wow. James was slightly taking advantage of this. When he caught Lilly looking at him he would look her up and down then give her a small wink. Lilly shivered.

This had to stop but she couldn't. His hair, those eyes, and wow, how come she never noticed what a nice body he had and...Stop it stop it stop it!! Lilly screamed at herself, Stop thinking about James like this...It's not right, you are with Miley! M-I-L-E-Y not James! James is your FRIEND. Don't think about him! Lilly looked down and concentrated on her work. James watched her and laughed silently to himself. She was so predictable and it was amusing how easily her self control could slip away and disappear. Yeah, James knew exactly what he was doing.

The bell rang soon and Lilly and James headed out for lunch. The first few mintues went by a little awkwardly for Lilly because both James and Miley but she soon got over that. Suddenly she remembered about the skatepark.

"Hey Miley," Miley looked up at her, "Remember that skatepark opening?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Do you think you can go?" Lilly asked. Miley shrugged.

"I don't know but I think my dad'll say it's ok," She answered.

"Awesome. My mom said I couldn't go unless someone went with me for sure."

"What about Brandon?"

"Well, yeah he's going but you know I always want you with me," Lilly said with a smile. Miley chuckled.

"Hey...are our plans for Friday still on?" Oliver asked.

"Uh...no," Miley said. Lilly and Oliver looked at her.

"Why not?" Oliver asked.

"Because I have a..." Miley glanced quickly at James before looking back at the other two, "thing on Friday. You know which thing I'm talking about." They nodded. She had something to do with Hannah.

"Oh well, we could always get together some other time," Lilly said, "Anyways, let's get in line. I'm starving!" Her friends rolled their eyes and got up from the table. While walking to the lunch line James got a little too close to Lilly. It was making her nervous and just when she was going to tell James to back off he moved. Man, he had perfect timing...

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Lilly skated home afterschool. She was thinking about all that had been going on with James today. What was he trying to do? Did he like her and was trying to get her to like him? Was he just messing around with her? Gah! What was going on? James knew she was with Miley so why was he acting like this? Was she starting to fall for James? No, he was just her friend. F-R-I-E-N-D, nothing more, nothing less. Sure, he looked good but she couldn't get feelings for him.

He was James! She hadn't even been friends with him for a long time! Lilly shook her head and tried to focus on skating and not crashing. Lilly got home soon without further thoughts about James. She closed the door behind her. She passed by the living room where Jessica and her mom were watching TV.

"Hey, I'm home," She said.

"Oh, hi Lilly, didn't hear you come in," Her mom said, "How was school?" Very, very weird...

"Eh, it was normal. Same as always," Lilly said with a shrug. "Anyways, I'm gonna go upstairs." She turned and headed up. She walked into her room and dumped her stuff on the floor. What should she do now? Homework? Lilly scowled. Eww, no, homework was going to be put off until later. Get on the computer? Eh...maybe TV? Lilly went downstairs into the kitchen and got a Coke. Her dad was in there looking around in the cabinets. She raised an eyebrow at him.

"What're you doing?" He looked up and smiled a goofy grin.

"I'm cooking dinner tonight," He answered. Lilly put a look of mock horror.

"No Dad, I'm too young to die!" He rolled his eyes and she laughed.

"C'mon, my cooking isn't that bad," He defended.

"Dad, you've grown immunity to it," Lilly continued joking, "but sadly the rest of us might be poisoned eating it."

"Fine, you can skip dinner and the rest of us will get full." Lilly laughed.

"Right Dad, try to make it edible."

"Oh shut up," He called as she went back to her room. She ran into Jessica at the bottom on the stair, literally.

"Why are you just standing there?" Lilly asked. Jessica shrugged. "You're weird."

"Yes I am! Thank you," Jessica replied. Lilly rolled her eyes. She was about to go up when she realized something. The skatepark was on the other side of town, a bit too far to skate to. She was going to need Jessica to drive her. She turned around and asked.

"There's a new skatepark?" Jessica asked. Lilly nodded. "Uh...yeah sure, I'll drive you. Maybe I'll stay, it's been a while since I last skated," She commented. Jessica was the one that had taught Lilly how to skate. Lilly smiled.

"Yes, it has been a long time. Thanks Jesse," She said.

"No problem, besides there might be some cute guys around my age there." Lilly rolled her eyes.

"Riiight..."

A/N: Ok ok, I know it's short but sorry! I couldn't think of anything else to put! Besides, I wanted to get this up soon because of the whole Lilly/James part. Hehe, more of that coming up soon. Sorry if there's any mistakes, didn't have time to spell check.