Mr. Normal

Chp.4

The Plan Falls Back in Place

Disclaimer: I don't own it, I just do it for fun

Pairing: Jake and Miley

Summary: Jake finally comes back after two years of figuring out what a normal kid is like


He didn't know what to think of the whole situation, but Miley was looking at the guy with disdain or something like it.

"Ew! No, Derrick!" He hears her squeal, and looks up from the perusal of his tennis shoe. His attention completely on the pretty, little brunette.

"We have never been, and never will be on for Friday, or any other day of the week" He watches as she deftly removes Derrick's arm from around her shoulder's.

Jake had been leaning dejectedly on the bank of lockers at his back, but at her reaction his whole demeanor had changed.

"Awe, come Miles," the jerk replied in a whiny, little voice, "why won't you go out with me?"

Jake had seen Miley look in his direction for any kind of help, and he couldn't let his lady down now could he?

Miley was still looking in his direction, and he'd just stood there like a knot on a log, but with her pleading look his Jake persona started to come out, he couldn't help it. He straightened his shirt, swaggered to her side, slid his own arm around her shoulders, and looks the bigger guy up and down. He didn't look like much up close.

The Zombie Slayer takes in a deep, steadying breath, and looks Derrick in the eyes, "the answer to that question Bub, just might be that she already has a boyfriend." He'd probably just slipped and fell face first into what ever that was he'd gotten on his pants leg this morning with that declaration, but Miley had wanted out of this situation, and this was the only way he could figure to do it. " and dude he seriously doesn't like other guys putting their hands on her." Okay that was probably way over the line of how far Miley was going to let this go, but hey if he was going to fall face first he might as well wallow around in it too.

"Whoa, now. Wait just a second." Dude looked like a deer caught in the headlights of his Mustang, and he really wanted to laugh, hell he almost did.

"M-Miley?" She had to look at him, and damn if he didn't feel a little ripple of laughter run through her shoulders.

Derrick had to take a moment to get his composure back. "You never said anything about having a boyfriend, well other than Oliver, but that's Lily's guy, so I knew there wasn't anything goin' on there, which led me to think. . ." He really didn't want to finish that sentence. "I mean you've been blowin' me off for the last year, and a half, so where's HE." He points a finger at Jake, "been all that time?"

Miley squeezes her body up as close as possible to Jake's side, and wraps an arm around his waist. Jake's in heaven, and wraps his arm tighter around her neck, and gets a little sigh as a reward.

She looks Derrick directly in the eye, "well Derrick, if you'd give someone the chance to tell you, instead of going off in a hissy fit every you ask her out, you'd know that I had a boyfriend." Miley wasn't giving the guy any slack, and he was sure if dude didn't shut up Miley would resort to the cursing again.

Derrick looks stricken for just a moment, then his eyes grow big at a realization. "Hold on a minute." Jake and Miley look at the idiot like he's something they'd stepped in that smelled like manure.

"I talked to Lily not long ago, and I asked her if you had someone." He looks over their shoulders at Lily, who'd been discretely listening to the conversation from behind her locker door, their eyes meet and she just shrugs her shoulders, like she doesn't know anything at all. "And she said that she didn't think so. I mean if anyone would know that it would be her, since she seems to be attached to your hip and all" He'd said it so flippantly, and with so much vehemence that Jake just felt like punching the guy.

"Dude, you really need to just back the hell off," he said through tightly clenched teeth. "Like Miley said if you'd just have shut it and let her explain, we really wouldn't be having this conversation right now, and I wouldn't be ready to punch your lights out."

"I was just saying that Lily has to know something as big as Miley having a boyfriend, and she denied that she did. This just so screwed!"

"Um, Hello!" Miley waves a perfectly manicured hand in Derrick's face, catching the dumb asses attention. "Lily doesn't spend the whole summer vacation with, and she certainly doesn't know what goes on when I'm on vacation with my family."

Derrick's bravado plummets to the earth as he watches Miley look up at the new kid. For a moment he'd thought they were just putting this little show on to get rid of him, but when the two's eyes meet he knows there's no show involved, there was definitely something going on with those two and he knew at that one moment in time that he didn't have a snowball's chance with Miley Stewart.

He walks off in defeat, but not completely. He couldn't place his finger on it, but Miley's boyfriend seemed familiar somehow, the way he said dude for one, he knows he'd heard it somewhere before. He'd figure it out eventually.


The only one that had noticed Lily was Derrick, and she'd listened to the whole conversation. You'd think that Miley would've known she was still there, but for some odd reason she'd been all over Les, and not even looked in her direction for the help that had always been there. She'd gotten rid of Derrick on many occasions for her best friend.

Also, what was up with the whole Lily doesn't spend the summer with me, deal? She'd been on tour with her as Hannah Montana this summer, and every summer since she'd found Miley's secret. She was darned sure they hadn't been to Idaho in the last two summers either. And what with this Les guy? Yeah the whole confrontation had led to Derrick going away and all, plus she'd kept her mouth shut, when Les had sidled up to Miley and declared himself her boyfriend. Miley acted like she didn't even want to be around the guy in class, and now she was walking off with her arm wrapped around his waist. Oh, wait!

They'd walked around the corner, and out of site before she could catch them, damn. She stomps her foot, and looks at her watch. Two minutes til the bell, and she hadn't gotten her book out of her locker.

On her way to her next class, she had a niggling feeling, she'd gone over the whole situation and ensuing conversation at least once. There was something about the way Les had automatically switched persona's, and every time that he'd said one certain word, dude. That one word just seemed to jump out at her.

During her second period class she didn't pay much attention, it was World History anyway and no one paid any attention in that class. She just kept going over what had happened in the hallway before hand, when right in the middle of class it had come to her.

"Oh my god!" Everyone in the class comes out of their varying states of coma to turn and look at her. Her eyes grow big, and she can feel the embarrassment rising from her toes to her cheeks. "It's nothing," she quickly replies, and goes back to staring at the book in front of her.

She'd figured out why Miley had been acting like that, Jake Ryan had come back, with new hair, and a new attitude. She also knew that Miley hadn't had a boyfriend since Jake had left, and that Miley had never really gotten over him. Oh this was big, and just like the Hannah secret, she couldn't tell anyone, well except for her best friend, which in this case, she was pretty sure already knew what was going on.


A/N: I'm sorry updates are so staggered, I do try to update as soon as I get a chapter outlined. I have a busy life, so they may not come as often as I'd like. But they will come. I hope you guys enjoy this latest installment, and I will try to have a new one up Monday at the latest. Be kind Review.