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Sorry about taking so long to update. I was out of town again. Anyway I have the next chapter already to go so read and review and I'll update really soon. Enjoy!

Jake's POV

His eyes shifted from the producer he had been talking to near the coffee cart. He had just been looking out over the beautiful garden surrounding the house where they would be filming when he had caught a flash of blue. His eyes caught hers.

Sheer unadulterated panic seemed to flood through him. They had both seen each other. Jake knew that running away and hiding was a somewhat childish thing to do but it was still pretty high on his list of ways to react to seeing her.

The slightly more mature part of his brain realized that he couldn't do that. It made no sense. She hadn't run away yet so neither should he. But God…What would he say to her? Should he go and talk to her? It had been so long since they'd seen each other. What was she doing here of all places? He realized that he was standing there with coffee in hand and his mouth wide open in astonishment.

Luckily or rather unluckily the man sitting next to her seemed to follow Miley's gaze and immediately got out of his seat to talk to Jake. Miley seemed to recover a few seconds later and followed him. Jake was glad they were coming to see him because he wasn't sure his legs would still support him if forced to move right now.

"Jake!" Mark said extending his hand. "It's great to finally meet you! I'm a huge fan of your work! I'm sure it will be a pleasure working with you."

Jake was still stunned. "Ummm….excuse me? What did you say?"

"I said it's going to be great getting to work with someone of your experience. I know that you and Miley here will do a fantastic job working together." Mark said putting his arm around Miley's back as she arrived next to him."

"WHAT?" Both Miley and Jake asked simultaneously staring at Mark.

Mark laughed a little. "Didn't you two know? You're going to be playing opposite each other. Your names were both on the script I was given. Wasn't it on yours?" Mark asked Miley looking down at her.

"Um…." Miley couldn't seem to speak much. She was too busy having her eyes dart back between Mark and Jake and the hem of her dress. She shook her head again. "Um…no…I…uh….didn't realize Jake was going to be in this movie….my …uh script only had character names." She got out nervously. She swallowed and tried to raise her eyes to Jake's needing to know how he was taking this. From his pale complexion he was just as shocked as she was.

His eyes moved back to her. She was looking shyly at the ground seeming uncomfortable. His mouth felt like a desert. He swallowed. "Well…um….that's a um….surprise." He said running his hand through his hair, trying not to look directly at Miley.

He had never been more uncomfortable in his life. Here he was standing feet away from the girl who had been driving him crazy from afar for the last 10 years and her pretty boy boyfriend. He secretly prayed that one of the electrical poles nearby would collapse and put him out of his misery.

"So anyway I just wanted to come over and introduce ourselves. I'm Mark Henderson I'll be playing Jacques and this is my girlfriend Miley Stewart who will be playing Marie." Mark continued seemingly oblivious to the tension between Miley and Jake.

Jake and Miley both gave out small laughs at the fact that Mark was now introducing them. They both looked at each other. Miley then turned to Mark.

"Actually Mark…uh…Jake and I went to high school together for a couple of years. We were pretty good friends"

Jake looked at Miley trying to hide the pain that the last sentence had caused him. He thought that describing their relationship as being "pretty good friends" was the understatement of the century. He had loved her with his entire heart and she knew it. Was she downplaying their relationship for Mark or did it really mean that little to her? He wasn't sure which of those two options upset him the most.

Again not picking up on any of the undertones to the conversation Mark continued. "Well Miles I'll let you and Jake catch up a bit. I have to go meet with the people in wardrobe." Mark said shaking Jake's hand and walking away.

Jake turned back to Miley and crossed his arms in front of his chest.

"So we were pretty good friends in high school were we?" He said raising his voice slightly and arching his eyebrows.

Miley's awkwardness was gone as she turned defensive. "Come on Jake. How did you want me to introduce you…. 'oh by the way honey this is Jake Ryan who I dated for awhile in high school?" She said sarcastically putting her hands on her hips.

"Awhile?" Jake asked his voice raising even higher.

"Two years Miles. Three if you count the year we tried the long distance thing." Jake said making gestures with his hands.

"Jake…I didn't mean it like that at all. I just….I just didn't think it would have been good to tell Mark that the guy I'm going to be acting like I'm falling in love with for the next 6 months is someone that I actually was in love with." She said softly placing her hand on his arm.

Just hearing her say that she had loved him was enough to melt him completely. He knew she didn't mean to insult him. He just hated how much it had hurt him to hear her downplay what they had together. He felt so ashamed of himself. All the fight had left him quickly.

He took a deep breath and looked at her seriously. "God…Miles…I'm so sorry. I think…it's just you know…seeing you after so long….and then finding out we're working together…it's just a lot to take in. I didn't mean to take it out on you." He said ruffling his hands through his hair again.

She smiled back at him. "Don't worry about it…I didn't handle it well either."

She looked at him out of the corner of her eyes. "Actually. To tell you the truth when I saw you I considered running back to my trailer and hiding for awhile.'

Jake laughed for real for the first time this morning. "I wish I had thought of that….I was thinking of running all the way back to LA." He semi-joked and looked her in the eyes again.

He got caught in them. He was never able to stay mad at her when she looked at him with those eyes. He loved them too much.

"It is good to see you Miley." He said softly.

Miley blushed slightly. "You too Jake." She absentmindedly fondled the necklace around her neck that he had given her.

Jake noticed the gesture and it sparked something inside of him that he had long forgotten.

Hope.

Hope that she hadn't completely forgotten about him. He shook his head again. He couldn't be thinking like that at all. She was with someone else and he had to be happy for her.

He needed some sort of neutral territory to talk to her about. He couldn't get wound up in the past again. It was much too painful.

Looking down at the table and blushing slightly Jake continued the conversation. "I….I saw your movie. You….you were amazing." He said catching her eyes in his.

He saw her blush and look at her coffee. He loved that he could still affect her like that.

"Thanks…. I think….I think seeing how much fun you had doing movies and things when we were younger always made want to try it again." Miley told him honestly.

His whole body was relaxing to her again. He wanted to take her hand in his and just tell her that everything she did was amazing. It was just who she was. He breathed in again.

"Well I knew you could do it." He said again looking at her. When she didn't drop his gaze he coughed a bit and changed the subject.

"So…how did you find out about this role?"

Miley softened again beginning to enjoy talking with Jake again. "Actually it was kind of strange the way it happened." Jake nodded absently as he finished off the last bit of his coffee.

"The director Kevin actually called me up personally…"

At this Jake had spit the drink of coffee out across the table. Luckily none of it had landed on Miley.

"WHAT?" He asked.

"Kevin? Our DIRECTOR Kevin? He called you up and asked you to audition?" Jake asked loudly with his eyes bugging out of his head.

Miley had no idea what was going on with Jake. "Actually…. he just called me up and offered me the part. I never had to audition." Mileys said slowly with confusion written all over her face.

"And when was this?" Jake asked looking deadly serious.

'I guess it was 3 or 4 months ago. Why? What's going on Jake?" Miley asked him.

Jake just looked disgusted. He crumpled up the coffee cup in his hand in frustration.

"I can't believe he did this!" He whispered to himself.

"Did what? Jake what on earth is going on?" Miley asked now fearing that something was really really wrong.

It was as if Jake never heard her. He stood up and then looked back at Miley. "Miley can you excuse me for a second…there's someone here that I need to kill!" With that he stood up and stormed off leaving a very confused Miley Stewart looking after him.

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