The next day Miley felt okay enough to go back to school. Lilly was overjoyed when she stopped by Miley's locker and saw Miley there.
"Miley! You're back!" She exclaimed loudly. Everyone in the hallway turned and looked.
"Lilly, not so loud!" Miley replied in a loud whisper.
"Sorry. So where were you yesterday? I called your house and no one answered." Lilly shut Miley's locker for her.
"I uh, I was hanging out with Nick." She blushed.
"Oh. Were you just hanging out? Wait," Lilly leaned in close to Miley. "You're not cheating on Jake are you?"
"Wh-wh-what? No." Miley stuttered and tried to walk away. She knew that she wasn't cheating on him, but she knew that he wouldn't find it that way. She felt guilty about the whole thing. Lilly grabbed Miley by the arm.
"Am I missing something? Are you dumping Jake for Nick or something? Is that why you've been acting so weird?" Miley had suspected that Lilly knew that she really wasn't sick. That Lilly knew that there was more than the fact that Miley might dump Jake.
"No! Can we please talk about this later? I don't want rumors to be spread about me." Miley said a little too loudly.
"You are coming over after school. We are going to talk and you are going to tell me what's up." Right after Lilly said that the bell rang. Miley and Lilly rushed off in different directions to their first classes.
The day flew by for Miley. She had made up her mind by the end of the day. She was going to tell Lilly the truth. Well, part of the truth. Miley grabbed her backpack from her locker then walked to Lilly's house with Lilly. They walked up to Lilly's bedroom.
"Lilly, I'm going to tell you the truth. There's been something I've been hiding from you for a while now. Me and Jake, we're not like happily in love." Miley thought that she sounded a little corny or something.
"Okay, Miley. That's not exactly a big confession. I picked that up like two months ago. Is there more to this?" Lilly raised one eyebrow. Miley always hated it when she did that.
"He, well uh we've been fighting a lot. He hits me." Miley winced just thinking about it.
"What? Are you serious? Why are you still with him?" Lilly gave Miley a one arm hug.
"Lilly, you don't get it. Do you know what he could do to me? What if he told my secret? I can't handle everyone knowing that I'm Hannah Montana!" Miley was shouting now. The truth was she asked herself everyday why she hadn't left Jake.
"Miley, you can't do this to yourself. He's gonna do something really worse than hit you one of these days. What if he, well, what if he convinces you to have sex?" Lilly whispered.
"Lilly, I wouldn't do that, but he hasn't done anything recently, I think the rough patch is over. I think that we're gonna be okay." Miley tried to sound confident.
"Well, I can't tell you what to do. Thanks for telling me though." Lilly hugged Miley again.
"Thanks for listening." Miley looked at Lilly gratefully.
"That's what friends are for."
Just a warning, the next chapter jumps about a month in time. Look for more confessions in the next chapter as well! Please, as always, rate and review! :)
Love,
Alyson