Here's the second chapter for tonight. Don't you feel loved?

Miley was waiting outside the baggage terminal for Lilly. Before she even caught sight of her friend she was whisked up into a tight hug and nearly suffocated by a mass of blonde hair.

"Lilly. It's great to see you too…but you're chocking me!" Miley got out really not being able to breathe much.

Lilly let go quickly. She had already found her bags since her flight had gotten in a bit early.

They talked most of the way to Miley's apartment, Lilly telling her all the news from back home. Miley hated not having seen her dad and yes even Jackson for nearly 6 months. It was hard but now that she and Mark weren't going to be going on their vacation anymore she thought she might have some time off to go home and visit or maybe take them on a little trip when she got back. Oliver was still planning on coming to visit at the end of the month so she was looking forward to the three of them having a great time together. Smiling to herself she hoped that maybe they would be a happy foursome by that point.

By the time they arrived at Miley's apartment Lilly had barely let Miley say anything so she had yet to tell her about her and Mark or even more importantly about her and Jake.

Miley opened the door and for a moment Lilly was speechless. "This place is amazing."

Miley smiled. "It is isn't it?" Miley commented feeling good again about living in a chic apartment in Paris.

Lilly plopped her suitcase by the couch and sat down with a plop her awe erased by a need for tourism. "Alright… whereto first? I was thinking maybe the Louvre or how about the Eiffel Tower? Oh no! I know. There's that one museum our art history prof used to talk about all the time. The orange! Yeah let's go there."

Miley looked at her like she had two heads. "You want to go now??? Didn't you just get off a nearly all day plane ride? Aren't you tired?"

Lilly shrugged and looked at her watch. It was 3:00 in the afternoon Paris time but she had slept the entire way there. "My body had no idea what time zone it's on and since you're shooting again later this week I wanted to see some sights before getting left all alone again." She said jutting her lip out and looking at her with her biggest puppy dog eyes.

Miley caved. "Alright. Let me get a jacket and we'll go see your orange museum."

They arrived at the Musee de l'Orangerie a half hour later and bought their tickets. Lilly's eye's seemed to be darting around everywhere at the entrance. Miley gave the coat check girl their things. All of a sudden she heard her best friend squeal in delight as she ran and nearly toppled someone near the door.

"Jake! I'm so glad you came!" Lilly exclaimed.

Jake put her back on the ground and looked at her perplexed. "Of course I came. I told you that when you.."

"Miley! I hope you don't mind I invited Jake to join us." Lilly exclaimed slightly nervously.

Had Miley been in her right mind she would have wanted to know exactly how Lilly had gotten Jake's number or why she had invited him to go with them the very first hours that she was there with them in Paris. But she wasn't in her right mind. Just the sight of Jake after a few days absence had given her Goosebumps. He looked amazing as always and his eyes were nearly overflowing with that sparkle that they had just for her. He came over and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek. "Yeah Miley. I hope you don't mind that I joined you." He said softly again not seeing anyone but her.

God had she missed him. She was thinking she should make sure to buy Lilly a nice big welcoming gift for having been so thoughtful. She smiled brightly at him. "I uh…no I don't mind." She said still feeling warm all over from the kiss on the cheek he had given her. She could tell she was blushing and she liked it. It felt new and familiar all over again.

Lilly smirked as she watched them. Thinking to herself she felt as if this was almost too easy.

Jake brought himself out of his Miley induced trance and made the motion for the two ladies to lead the way.

They walked around the upstairs of the museum for nearly an hour. It was small but had amazing pieces. In the states Miley could only remembering ever seeing one or two Picasso's or a Matisse in the museums she had been too, but here it looked like everything was one of the masterpieces that she had learned about in college.

Lilly and Jake seemed to pick up right where they had left off. Jake was teasing her about liking Oliver and Lilly was making fun of some of his not so brilliant movie lines. Miley joined in from time to time but mostly she enjoyed being with the two of them and seeing how easily they fell into being friends again. She had thought that the ease with which she had come to treat Jake had been because of her strong feelings for him but now she saw that even good friends would always be that way despite time or distance. She felt happy seeing her friends together again.

As they made their way to the basement Lilly excused herself to go the bathroom. As they entered the room Miley nearly stopped dead in her tracks. She couldn't believe the pieces of art that she was seeing. There on all 4 walls of the oval shaped room were some of the most enormous canvases she could ever remember seeing. Each wall held a single painting by Claude Monet and each was a slightly different depiction of the water lilly's in his garden in Giverny. Miley had always loved Monet's paintings, they way they seemed to capture in color the way that a perfect day could make you feel. But this…this was beyond painting a picture.

Jake had taken her hand and she had gladly accepted it. They walked along the gallery slowly taking it all in. Miley was breathing slowly. "I…I wish I could sing like this." She said to Jake.

Jake smiled and looked at the gorgeous woman next to him. He knew exactly what she meant. The paintings were so far beyond beautiful and yet even here in this immense gallery they were extremely personal. Looking at them and the way that the color seemed to capture the scenes in the most perfect moment of twilight he thought that this is what a person in love sees of the world around them. He smiled to himself realizing just how true it was. Standing there with Miley the world and everything in it had never seemed so alive with possibility or beauty than it did right then with her hand in his. And she had brought him that. Before he hadn't really been seeing anything. Bun now…now he could see just how wide and wonderful the real world could be.

They sat on the bench in the middle of the room just looking at one of the paintings. Miley laid her head upon his shoulder. Jake leaned his head towards hers. "I've heard you sing like this." He said gesturing towards the paintings on the walls. "It's when you think you're alone and you close your eyes and you just let the songs escape. That's when you sing like this." He said looking again at the paintings. "That's when you make those lucky people listening feel everything that you're singing about."

Miley looked at him and saw the sincerity in his eyes. She loved how Jake understood her and saw things in her that she herself could never see. She sighed happily and placed her head back on Jake's shoulder. At that moment she wished she had Monet's abilities so that she could capture in a painting all the love and happiness that she was feeling right at that exact moment… just sitting there on a bench… with Jake.

Sorry if this one's too artsy for some of you but my mom's an Art teacher so all of my trips anywhere involve art museums and the L'Orangerie is one of my all-time favorites. If you like paintings with color or Monet's in general it's a must see. PLEASE REVIEW IF YOU HAVE A SECOND!!! Thanks.