Mr. Normal
Chp. 5
It Would Seem Seeing is Believing
Disclaimer: It also seems that I don't own Hannah Montana, oh well...
Pairing: Jake and Miley
Summary: Jake finally comes back after two years of trying to figure out what a normal kid is like
Jake just couldn't believe that Miley hadn't dropped out of his embrace when they'd gotten out of sight of that Derrick guy, but she hadn't. He'd had her in his arms again, and it had felt right. He could still feel her warmth on the inside of his elbow, and it sent chills down his back as he thought of her soft, flowing hair falling from his fingertips as he'd let her go at her next class.
He'd walked her there, his arm around her shoulder's, and hers wrapped loosely around his waist. He knew it was just pretense to get Derrick to leave her alone, but she really was his girl, even if she didn't know it yet.
On the walk to class, she'd talked about this and that, and he'd hung on her every word. But mostly she'd talked about the look on Derrick's face when he'd declared himself her boyfriend. She'd been so busy talking, and laughing, that he didn't think she even noticed that the jerk wasn't anywhere around, and their arms were still wrapped around each other. The most disappointing part of the whole thing was when they'd gotten to her class, and they'd had to drop the embrace.
She'd said, "Thank you," with a brilliant smile on her lips.
He'd wanted so much to kiss them, but opted for her cheek, instead, and lightly whispered in her ear, that it wasn't problem, and had walked away to his own class across the hall.
He'd been shaken from his thoughts when Lily had jumped and yelled, "Oh my god!" Right in the middle of class, like a rat or something equally as frightening for a girl had crawled across her desk.
Everyone had looked at her, she'd given a mortified look around, and squeaked out, "it's nothing," and dropped her head in humiliation back down on the book laid out in front her on the desk.
He'd shaken his head, and looked back down himself. Lily had always been an excitable girl, but that was just plain out wierd, but what was even wierder was the way she kept looking over her shoulder at him every few minutes like he was some kind of alien or something.
After the third or fourth time of her glancing at him, he was sure he had something on his face, or his shirt. So he'd started squirming around trying to figure out what was wrong with him. The last twenty minutes of class had been the strangest two tenths of an hour he'd ever had.
Lil y couldn't help it, her curiousity had gotten the better of her, and she couldn't keep from looking over her shoulder at the guy three seats and to the left of her. She just couldn't get her mind wrapped around the whole idea that Jake was back, and acting like a normal person. It was a far cry from the last time she'd seen him, and she just had to solidify her assumption in her head.
After like the third time she looked back at him, he'd started wiping his face with his hands, brushing something from his shirt, or picking at his teeth. One time she'd looked at him and he'd managed to do all three things at the same time, and she'd almost started to crack up at him. Apparently he thought there was something wrong with him. Okay, Lily, you really need to quit looking back there, you're going to give the guy some kind of complex or something. But she just couldn't help looking at him, it was just too hilarious watching him squirm under her intent attention, so she'd just kept looking.
It seemed he'd gotten tired of trying to figure it out, and finally asked her "What?!" with his hands up in the air, and mouthing the word. The expression on his face did finally make her laugh. Luck had definately been on her side, because right at that moment the bell rang, and covered up her laughter.
Everyone had gotten up and left class, and she was still sitting in her seat laughing. She finally realizes that she'd been the only one left in the room, and quickly gathers up her book, and notes, and shoves them in her backpack. She really needed to talk to Miley, she needed to know if Miley had known about Les being Jake.
The scene she came upon as she'd arrived at the lockers made her nearly drop her backpack, and purse. Jake had Miley trapped between his hands, her back to her locker. She'd been so intent on the pair, that she wasn't paying attention to where she was going and ran right into some guy.
"Hey! Watch where you're goin', Lose..." The guy looked down at her, and she was mortified all over again as she watched Derrick trying to keep his balance.
"You're just the person I was looking for."
Lily looked completely puzzled at that little confession. "Why are you looking for me? It's usually Miley you're gawking over, you don't want to look at me." She tried to push past the big behemoth, but he stopped her in her tracks.
"I have a question for you."
This was just getting wierder and wierder, and Lily knew wierd. She was going out with Oliver Oken, after all.
"OOOkay."
He pulled her back around the corner, and placed her against the wall. She was getting nervous now. Was he going to kiss her, or what, he was getting awful close, and she really didn't like it.
"Uh, Derrick?" He looked down on her. "Personal space?"
He backed away a little, "so as I was saying." He'd gotten her attention.
"Miley and that knew guy, umm." He couldn't remember his name.
"Um, Les?" She supplies for him.
"Yeah, Les!"
Okay this was about Miles, and Jake. She could handle that. "Yeah what about them?"
"Well it like this. You said that Miley didn't have a boyfriend, and hadn't had a serious one for over two years, but yet this Les guy shows up and all of a sudden she has the little leach attached to her everywhere she goes. So my question is, what's the hell's a goin' on, and why didn't you know anything about this whole deal?"
Okay, it was actually a pretty well thought out question for Derrick, anyway.
"Well like Miley told you, I don't spend every waking moment with her, and last summer we didn't do much together. She told me that Les was her cousins neighbor, so you know. She probably hooked up with him over the summer." Boy if that wasn't just one of the biggest fibs she'd ever told. Miley had hooked up with the guy two years ago, and he'd also been the one major boyfriend she'd ever had, but until Lily could get the scoop from Miles she wasn't going to tell anyone anything they didn't already know, and that went double for Derrick. Even if she did know what was up, she wouldn't tell him.
"Hey, buddy."
Uh-oh! Miley and Jake had walked around the corner, and caught them in the uncompromising position. Derrick was still in her face, and it did look like he was getting ready to lay a big, wet one on her. This day couldn't get anymore humiliating for Lily.
"You can't have Miley, so you go for her best friend?"
Derrick had pushed off of the lockers, and Lily had made a hasty retreat to Miley's side.
"We seriously have to talk," Lily whispered, as she came to a stop beside of her best friend.
"I seriously think we do," Miley replied, as she watched Jake and Derrick have it out. "But right now don't'cha think we should maybe keep Les and Derrick from tearing each other to shreds?"
Miley caught Jake's fist as he was getting ready to waylay Derrick right up side the head, and Lily took the advantage to tell Derrick to get away from them, and stay away from them. She hadn't liked him when he'd started hanging around Miley, and she really didn't like him now. He wasn't anything but an annoyance, and she could really do without that.
Jake had headed in the opposite direction, and Miley had watched him go. Oh god, she was smitten again. Lily could see it in her eyes as she turned to look back at her.
"Isn't he just adorable."
"You do know that's Jake Ryan, don't'cha, Miles?"
Miley's eyes get bigger than she'd ever seen them.
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