Jake dropped Miley off the next morning at her apartment. They spent a good ten minutes in the car saying their "goodbye's" even though they knew they'd see each other later that afternoon at work. Jake was on cloud nine. Nothing could ruin this day, month or even this year at this point. He was too happy.

He arrived on set and immediately went to Kevin's office. He smiled to himself that it was this very office that he had nearly wanted to murder Kevin in a few months ago because he had set up this whole experiment with Jake's heart.

He walked in still smirking and sat down on the chair resting his arms on his knees.

Kevin was there laying on the couch with a cold towel on his forehead. He squinted his eyes at Jake.

"You look way too happy right now. Come back when you can be as miserable as me." He said cringing at the small amount of light that had gotten through to his eyes.

Jake just laughed. "What happened to you?"

Kevin with his eyes still closed laughed miserably. "Ha! Well let's see. First I was up all night with your namesake…he does NOT like to sleep very long….just for your information. Then I came in early to find that oaf of an actor Mark sitting here in my office wanting to whine to me all morning about how sad he is about him and Miley and how he wanted to know if the rumors about you two were true."

Jake sobered a bit. "What rumors?" Jake asked trying to be casual.

Kevin sat up at this still holding the towel to his head. "You ARE kidding me right? You go and kiss her like THAT in the middle of filming and think that there aren't going to be rumors of the two of you together?"

Jake sighed and but then gradually smiled to himself. "It WAS a pretty great kiss though."

Kevin's eyes widened in understanding as he watched the expression on his best friends face. "They're not rumors are they?"

Jake sat up and tried not to smile. "What on earth are you talking about?"

Kevin scooted to the edge of the couch getting excited. "You two are together now aren't you?"

Jake opened his mouth but didn't really know how to answer. Miley had wanted to keep everything quiet still until the Mark thing blew over. "Uh."

Kevin jumped out of his seat throwing the towel across the room. "Hallelujah!" "When did you finally ask her out? God that took long enough! You know you were killing me with all this waiting stuff!"

Jake got up and clamped his hand over his best friend's mouth. "Shhhh….we're trying to keep it quiet….you know that thing that's the opposite of yelling it at the top of your lungs!"

Kevin calmed down a little and Jake removed his hand from his mouth. Jake sat back down in his chair and Kevin seated himself on the couch again.

With a huge smile plastered on his face Kevin asked "So….how is it going?"

Jake just smiled with a special twinkle in his eye. "Amazing."

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Miley opened the door to her apartment, sighed contentedly and flung herself down on the couch. She was completely happy. Lilly walked in still in her pajamas with a cup of coffee and a smirk plastered on her face.

"Well that must have been some first date." Lilly said sarcastically but with happiness in her eyes.

"Unbelievable." Was all Miley could say still staring happily at the ceiling.

"So….does this make it official? Are you and the Zombie Slayer back together again?" Lilly asked sitting on the chair next to Miley and the couch.

Miley sat up and hugged the nearest pillow to her chest and nodded.

Lilly raised her eyebrows at Miley. "So….did you two….you know…get to know each other a little better?"

Miley laughed at slapped Lilly with the pillow. "Lilly! I definitely don't ask you that about Oliver! So I refuse to answer the question!" Miley stammered trying to act indignantly.

Then with a mischievous look in her eyes she turned back to Lilly. "But hypothetically speaking you know….if we did…get to know each other better….it would probably have been incredible!" Miley said with a big smile.

Lilly just got up and gave her friend a big hug. "I'm just glad that you're happy."

Miley got up and nearly danced into the bedroom looking for her robe and shampoo to go and take a shower. She stopped at her dressing table and saw the topaz necklace Jake had given to her the day he told her he loved her. She stood there for a moment caressing it fondly and thinking about the man that she had been with the night before. She closed her eyes and could still feel the gentle kisses that he had placed on her neck and the soft way he had woken her up as she laid in his arms.

Lilly came through into the bedroom and laughed seeing her best friend who had accidentally put on her rain coat instead of her robe. "All I can say is that it's a good thing you two didn't "get to know" each other like that in high school….or else there's no way you would have been able to concentrate enough to graduate." Lilly said smiling pointing out Miley's new getup.

Miley blushed and threw a loofa that was within reach at her friend. Then trying to maintain her dignity she lifted her head and walked into the bathroom raincoat and all.

Hey Guys-

Sorry it's so short but the next one will be longer. I've written about 3 different endings and don't like any of them so I'm still working on it but we are definitely getting close to the end on this one. I can't believe this is chapter 25….how did that happen? Anyway thanks for sticking with it even though this isn't brilliant…

"I promise I'll do better next time! Toodles!"

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