A/N Yeah I know it's not as long as usual, but I'm working on it. I promise my next chapter will be alot longer. Thanks again for those reviews...

He's Back In?

Miley's POV

I tried to slip into my usual sit behind Lilly, but the teacher noticed me.

"Ms. Stewart, you're late." Ms. Kunkle said to me.

"Um really?" But right after I said that I realized I shouldn't be joking around. She hated jokes.

"Hey, no jokes around here. So do you have an excuse?"

I just rolled my eyes and tried to think of something, but gave up. "Sorry, but I don't have one. I'm just late. I didn't make it in time."

"Alright then…" she began to write something on a small slip of paper. "…could you please keep this and your hour of detention begins after school."

"Detention for an hour?! But I was only late for class, that's not-"

"Do you want to go to the principals for talking back to the teacher?"

"No ma'am." I mumbled

"Thank you, now please take your seat and let me continue the lesson."

I sat down in my desk and threw my backpack just on the floor next to me. I threw it out of anger. I'm sure Ms. Kunkle heard the noise, but ignored it.

"Now could someone please recite to me, the beginning of the paragraph on page 294 in your biology text book please?"

She looked around the room and saw a few hands in the air, one of them was Lilly's, and she chose her.

"You want me to recite the beginning of the paragraph you said?" Lilly confirmed

"Yes Ms. Truscott."

"Hmm let me think…" Lilly said as she searched the page on her text book she had sitting infront of her. Then she stopped and looked up. "…Oh yeah…Go to hell." She said casually.

Wow, I hadn't seen that one coming. And now Ms. Kunkle looked angrier then I had never thought possible.

Several students snickered and even laughed and some whispered things. But Lilly just sat there. Even though I couldn't see her face, I knew she was smiling and proud of what she just said.

"Alright that's enough everyone! And that's a detention for you too Truscott, so you will be joining Miley after school."

Just after she said that I realized it was done on purpose. I had just almost made her cry earlier, so I didn't think she would want to even talk to me for the rest of the day. But with our little fights like these, I knew Lilly didn't want to stay in them long either. So I figured she did this just to have time to talk things out.

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Right after class I hurried to be the first one out the door so I could catch Lilly. Then after the swarm of students came out I saw her among them and grabbed her arm and pulled her along side me.

Once we reached our lockers, which were very close, I turned to her and started talking.

"Lilly, you know you didn't have to do that." She was just looking at the ground. "Why did you?"

Then she looked up at me. "Well I'm sorry I said that stuff before class. I know you really didn't mean to lie to me and I do want to hear what you have to say about it." she sighed.

"So you decided to get into detention too?" I chuckled

"Hey, we don't really have to do anything in there, so why not talk? And anyway I really don't like staying mad at each other, so that's also why."

"Yeah me too. Thanks Lilly." I smiled and then we walked off to the next class.

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When we met up with Oliver at lunch, we told him we couldn't go to Rico's right after school.

"Detention." Lilly and I said at the same time.

"Really, you two? Why, what'd you do?"

"Well I was about a minute late. And it was Kunkle, so you know how she can get."

"Oh yeah." Oliver sighed. "What about you Lilly, what'd you do?"

"Oh I uh…well lets' just say I talked back to her." Lilly said a little quietly.

This was of course smart, as we didn't want to get into too many details. Which would eventually lead to the subject of Jackson.

"What? To Kunkle? Well ok, so how long is it for?"

"An hour, then can we still meet at Rico's?" I asked Oliver.

"Yep, that still sounds ok."

Just then the warning bell rang. So we all packed up our things and walked to our next class that we all had together.

"Hey Miles where's Jake? I haven't seen him all day."

"Oh I don't know, I guess I didn't really notice. I don't really care anyway. You know he would call me if he really cared about me."

Right after I said that my cell phone rang, it was Jake.

"Wow, speak of the devil. Seriously, it's the devil. What great timing I have." I said with my voice full of sarcasm. Then I sighed and let it ring once more.

"Oh, that must be Jake then." Lilly said, just realizing what I was talking about. "Well aren't you gonna answer that?"

"Alright fine." I said, and then I reluctantly pressed the answer button.

"Hello?" I mumbled a little angrily

"Hey Miley I uh, I just thought I'd let you know why I had to miss school today."

"Gee thanks Jake that's really thoughtful." I tried to sound sympathetic, but I don't think he bought it. It came across like I was more annoyed.

"Very funny, anyway it's because I have a very important meeting about my TV show. So they had to pull me out of school just for today."

"Wait, it's about your show? But I thought you said you're done with all that."

"Well I was, but then I got a call from my old agent who said they would really like me back on. Then I realized that I actually do like doing it and it's not really that hard. So I decided to sign back on with them." He spoke in a proud voice.

"Wow, well that's great Jake. I hope….I hope everything goes well in the meeting." I felt sad for some reason, but I hid it and spoke cheerfully. Why was I sad that he signed back on? Shouldn't I be happy? I'll see him less and that would be a good thing.

"Thanks Miley, that means a lot that you'd be happy for me. And you know you're the first person I've told about this."

"Aw thanks Jake I really appreciate it." I said sweetly and with a hint of sarcasm, which I don't think he caught. So I thought of something even better. "And you know I always thought you were capable of a lot of things. But I never thought you'd be capable of actually flirting over the phone! So would you please stop already?!"

"Alright alright, sorry. Anyway, I'll be finished about an hour after school gets out. Do you want to go to the beach?" he asked hopefully

"As a matter of fact Lilly, Oliver and I had planned to be going to Rico's around that time anyway. So you can come along too if you want. Oh and nice try on your part, but no dates ok?"

"Yeah well it was worth a shot." He chuckled. "But hey, thanks for the invite, I'll see you there."

"Alright bye Jake." Then I hung up before he could say his goodbye, also because we only had another minute to get to class.

"Is he really starting his show again?" Lilly asked with a bit of excitement as soon as I got off the phone.

"Were you eavesdropping?"

"No, ok yeah maybe. Well you were talking pretty loud."

"Ok fine, whatever. Yeah he is, he signed back on because they asked for him again and he realized he missed it." I forgot to hide my disappointment when I said this.

"Wow this is going to be really crazy again when everyone finds out." Lilly said as we walked into class and took our seats. "Are you ok Miles?" Lilly asked and just realized that I looked a bit sad.

"Yeah I'm…ok actually it's about-"

But then the final bell rang and the teacher began the lesson.

Now I sat through the entire lecture, hardly paying attention. I could bet anything that Lilly was doing the same thing from where we left things hanging. Now Jake was doing his show again and everything was going to run just smoothly again right?