"M-Miley?" Lilly asked. She could barely push the words out. More were trying to escape but they got stuck in traffic behind all the other millions of things she wanted to blurt out. Her head was quickly being overstuffed with shock it might've blown up. She couldn't even begin to fit the pieces together. "Y-you're H-Han…and you just…k-ki-," Lilly pointed at herself and then at Miley. Her best friend only nodded her head.

"I wanted to tell you for so long but I just didn't know how." Miley said in a begging sort of tone.

Lilly ran her hand through her hair and gave the floor a baffled look. She slowly got onto her feet. She tried to put things into a reasonable and understandable perspective. Miley was Hannah. It was Miley-silly funny goofy Miley who freaked out over a bad hair day-who sang a marathon of epically popular songs in front of thousands as if it was nothing. Miley who was plastered all over the walls of girls across the world. NOT ONLY THAT…but it was Miley she just full out macked on! Her best friend, practically her sister. Lilly screwed her eyes shut from the guilt of all those Hannah fantasies she indulged in around midnight.

Miley twisted her fingers together over and over again, waiting for any sort of response. Lilly only shook her head in shock though. "Lilly please say something." Miley pleaded.

"Cha like what?" Lilly flipped out. "Should I start with oh that's awesome your Hannah, Miss You've Been Lying to Me for Like a Bajillion Years? O-Or-,"

"Calm down okay?"

"CALM DOWN?" Lilly said overdramatically. "You drop the biggest secret on me in the history of-,"

Miley laughed and reached over to cup Lilly's cheek in her hand. She lightly brushed her thumb over the girl's skin. "It's cute when you freak out, that's one of the things I love about you." Miley said. Lilly clapped her hands to the sides of her head. "Lil?"

"Ican'tdealwiththisallatonce!" Lilly hollered and made a run for the door. Miley began to chase after her but stopped and turned around to snatch her wig.

"LILLY! Get your confused little butt back here!" Hannah sprinted out of the room. She could see Lilly running as fast as she could down the corridors, knocking over people as she went. The poor people looked at Hannah for an explanation. "Sorry about that! She comes back this way snatch her for me will ya?" She chased Lilly all the way outside to the empty stadium parking lot. "Lilly please, I can explain everything!"

Lilly stopped running and turned around. She looked a little distraught. "No amount of "explaining" will be able to cover this one Miley or Hannah or whoever you like to call yourself right now."

"I know keeping the Hannah secret was bad but I was doing it to protect you." Hannah said she didn't dare take another step closer to Lilly in hopes that the girl wouldn't take off running again.

"No! I don't care if you're Hannah. I'm mad because you kept so much from me. You lied, how can I trust you after that? Or believe that I was ever your best friend in the first place." Lilly said crossing her arms as the chilly night air swept by.

"Lilly come on you know me." Hannah replied sadly, devastated by what Lilly was telling her.

"Do I?" Lilly challenged. She slowly turned to walk away. She glanced back at her best friend standing there unsure what to say now. Lilly felt a little bad dumping all that on Miley after she had the guts to be honest. "Take…" she sucked in a deep breath. "…care of yourself." She turned around and headed home.

Miley curled up on the chair sitting on the balcony. She had bundled herself up in a blanket to camp out and stare up at the moon all night. She pulled out her phone and shrugged. Lilly wouldn't reply to any of her calls, texts, emails, nothing. She was beginning to worry that she'd really ruined things time. What if Lilly never talked to her again?

"Hey Bud you out here?" Robbie Ray asked. He was holding a dinner plate in his hand. "I called you several times, you're gonna let your food get cold."

"That's okay daddy, I'm not really hungry." Miley admitted in a monotone. The alarms went off in her dad's mind. He put his hands on his hips.

"Alright, who is he and what did he do?" he asked. Miley chuckled at the irony but suddenly somehow those words sunk in deep. She'd kept this from her dad; she'd pulled a Lilly on him too. She felt her eyes sting and begin to overflow with salty tears. She looked away hoping he wouldn't see.

"It's not a boy daddy." She answered weakly.

"Whew…" her father chuckled. "Glad we're not at that phase yet. Remember Miles, just say no to boys." She shook her head slightly. She didn't know how she'd ever break the news to him and she wasn't ready to. Not now at least.

"I don't think Lilly's ever gonna talk to me again." She admitted. Her dad came over and put a warm firm hand on her shoulder. She leaned over to rest her head on his arm.

"She'll come around Mile, just give her a bit of time." He said squeezing her shoulder before slowly sliding his hand free. "Maybe if you eat something it'll help you feel better?" he set the food in her lap before heading back inside.

"Yeah…" she sighed and picked up her fork to poke at her dinner.

Why did she have to go and open her big mouth in the first place? Keeping Hannah from Lilly wouldn't have been so bad right? Sure, Lilly would never know but what she didn't know wouldn't hurt her? Ugh, how can I think so selfishly? I should've just told her a long time ago. We would've never gotten into this mess and she never would've…fallen for Hannah…because she'd know it was me.

Well, now she guessed the true question was; was it better to love Lilly and lost her then to have never loved her at all? She couldn't decide. She snatched her phone and dialed Lilly. Sure it was late but she just wanted to talk to the girl. She heard the phone ringing. Please pick up. Please pick up. Miley crossed her fingers. The call was answered but there was no hello.

"Lilly?" she wondered. No answer. She sighed but she wasn't gonna let this ruin her chance. "Okay if you're listening I'm gonna hope you hear me out. I'm sorry that you feel like you can't trust me or that you were never my friend. But I can't tell you how far from the truth that is. I know I kept those huge things from you but other than that I've been more honest with you than my dad. And you know me better than anyone Lil."

She paused a moment and hoped for anything Lilly might want to say. The other side of the line was pretty silent though. She tried to think hard. If she could put her emotions perfectly into a song she had to be able to tell Lilly something that would make her at least want to be friends again.

"You remember that sleep over we had, a couple weeks ago, and I fell asleep next to you? I probably drooled on your shirt but…the point is…I've always been that girl and I still am no matter what. I'm also that girl who sings in front of millions and got a double platinum album. I know normal ole me isn't much compared to Hannah but face it Lilly, you love Hannah-me. A-and what's better than your dream girl and best friend all mixed into one right?" she tried to say enthusiastically to the phone she didn't know Lilly was even listening to. "I mean I'd be willing to wear the wig when we're together if that's you know…what you're into."

She heard a chuckle. Yay! Lilly was listening! She bit her lip and felt her toes curling up in her socks hoping she'd done well enough to win her friend back.

"Whadda say huh? Will you take me back as your friend?" she asked.

"Sorry Miley, but I can't." Lilly replied. Miley's smile faded and her heart felt like it had been stabbed with a sharp icicle. She started opening her mouth to beg for Lilly to give her one more chance. "You know things can't go back to what they were before."

Miley lowered her head and shook her head heavily. This was reality, and in reality no amount of smoothly put speeches worked. Oh this-this-was just gonna be tough. Life with no Lilly, Miley didn't even want to begin thinking about it. She quickly brushed the tear away from her cheek. She was a big girl and she was gonna deal with this, the best way she could.

"I know…" she said in a shaky fragile voice. "Goodbye Lilly." She hung up and buried her face into her hands unable to control the sobs swelling up in her.

Somehow she crawled back into her room and rolled herself into a ball on her bed. Tears ran like miniature waterfalls down her face long into the night. Even though she was in such pain her memories just wanted to torture her even more. She remembered their constant giggles in the cafeteria, their hugs, and their TV watching on her couch with a giant bowl of popcorn. No more looking into those sapphire irises. No more having someone to lean back on when she was having a sucky day. But none of that felt as bad as the fact was that she'd been rejected by the one girl she'd ever loved. The only person she truly loved to the very core of her being. Lilly might as well have ripped out her skeleton and told her to survive with what was left over. There was no structure holding her up, no warm gentle smiles making her days worthwhile. Oh but the KICKER, ugh, the thing that drove her absolutely nuts was the fact Lilly loved her back!

She wanted to be angry and then she wanted be sad and then she just had to accept the crappy way things played out. She grabbed her pillow and hugged it tightly but it only reminded her how much she wished it was Lilly. She cried even harder into her pillow. Would this suffering end? Would she ever find someone who could possibly come close to Lilly? Plenty of fish in the sea Bud, her father's possible response to all this ran through her mind. Miley's depression exhausted her and she couldn't fight sleep anymore.

The next morning, Miley yawned and slowly got out of bed. She felt pretty numb, like her emotions were locked up and jammed. She couldn't cry anymore tears, well as long as she didn't think about her ex friend. She made her way downstairs but it was really early. Jackson and her dad weren't up yet, she thought she'd fix herself something to eat. It'd give her something to do other than moping around.

She felt like she was on auto pilot as she came down the stairs and turned into the kitchen. She stopped dead in her tracks as she saw Lilly sitting at the table. The girl perked up and came onto her feet. "Oh great I'm seeing things now." Miley said.

"No." Lilly laughed lightly. "Last night…" Miley swallowed hard and crossed her arms as if to protect her heart from another devastating blow. "You never let me finish." Miley looked around confused. There were more emotion crushing words to be said? "I was right when I said things couldn't go back to the way they were before because…I love you too much for that."

Instantly a heartbeat began playing in Miley's chest again. She felt the corners of her lips trying to form a smile but she hesitated. "So you're saying…?" she asked hopefully.

"I can't live without you Miles." Lilly said honestly. Miley squeaked with joy and ran over to the blonde as quickly as she could. She threw her arms around Lilly and squeezed as tightly as she could. Lilly struggled to breathe but still managed to wrap her arms around the brunette.

"I am absolutely gonna kill you for makin me cry all night." Miley whispered into Lilly's ear before burying her face into the nook of Lilly's neck.

"But you love me anyway?" Lilly said in her high pitched chippery tone.

"Yes." Miley gave a muffled response but Lilly heard her loud and clear. Plus she felt the large grin pressing against her shoulder.

AN: Ah I got you fooled didn't I? yes…yes? ADMIT IT! Lol anyway it's not over here but I just thought this'll be a good place to stop this chap.