Chapter 3

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Miley sat with Lilly in her living room and Lilly had just finished telling Miley about her encounter with Joe. "I'm sorry, hun."

"Yeah.." Lilly responded.

"You want to know what I think though?" Miley asked.

"I don't know, do I?" Lilly answered.

"Probably not, but I'm telling you anyway. You need to talk to Joe and work things out." Miley replied.

"Miley..." Lilly said.

"Do you want to be like this forever?" Miley questioned.

"I thought I didn't mind, but now that I'm here...and I saw him." Lilly began softly, she sighed. "Honestly, I want things to go back to how things were back when Joe and I were together and before anything ever happened."

"He feels the same way, Lilly." Miley replied. "He's in a really rough place. Maybe it'd be good to have a talk with him."

"I want to, but I'm sure we'll just start fighting again." Lilly responded.

"You know...he isn't the only person that's changed." Miley reminded Lilly.

"What do you mean?" Lilly questioned.

"5 years ago you wouldn't have dreamt of being an accountant. You aren't the same Lilly you were." Miley replied.

"Yeah, it's called growing up." Lilly said, hesitating a little.

"Come on, Lilly." Miley responded.

"Fine, my dad is the one who suggested it to me. Then I kind of said oh cool and he took it as a yes. Then he started acting like we had so much in common and spent all this time with me. I felt like his little girl again." Lilly explained. "That probably sounds really dumb..."

"Of course not." Miley replied. "But, Lilly, you should be doing something that makes you happy. Not just trying to please other people."

"I know...it just felt good to make him happy." Lilly answered.

Nick came downstairs. He had just gotten out of the shower. "I'm going to go over to my mom and dad's."

"Ok, see you later." Miley waved.

Nick looked at Lilly for a second, but didn't say anything. Then he rushed out the door.

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Joe went back to his apartment. As soon as he got there, his phone started ringing. He sighed, not wanting to talk to anyone at the moment, but he answered anyway. "Hello?"

"Joe, are you at home?" Nick asked.

"Why?" Joe questioned.

"Just, are you there?" Nick asked again.

"Yeah." Joe replied.

"Ok, well I'm going to come by then." Nick responded.

"Okay." Joe said, a little annoyed. "Bye."

"Bye." Nick replied before hanging up.

Joe went to the kitchen and grabbed a piece of cold pizza that he'd ordered the day before. When he was finished eating it, there was a knock at his door. He opened it and as he expected, Nick was standing there. Joe let his younger brother in. "What did you want?"

"I have to talk to you about some things." Nick answered. He started telling Joe about what he'd heard Miley and Lilly saying.

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That night, Heather and Robbie were out with Mr. and Mrs. Jonas. Lilly, Kelsy, Kevin, their kids, and 12 year old Frankie were at the Jonas' house. Kelsy and Kevin brought the kids to visit Frankie and Kelsy wanted Lilly to come see them. "Hey, aunt Lilly!" Melody ran over to Lilly showing her a coloring page she ripped out of her book after she colored it.

"Wow, thanks." Lilly looked at it and smiled.

"Don't you love it?" Melody asked.

"Yes, I do love it!" Lilly replied.

"Good, I'm going to go do another one." Melody went back to the kitchen table.

"So when do you start work here?" Kelsy asked Lilly.

"A week from Monday, or tomorrow I guess." Lilly replied, realizing that it was Sunday.

"Are you excited?" Kelsy asked.

Lilly shrugged. "I don't know, I guess. I'll have to see how I feel once I get started."

Kelsy nodded. "I hope it goes well."

"Me too." Lilly agreed. "But I better get back home." She said her goodbyes to everyone and left for her mom's house.

When Lilly walked up to the porch, she saw Joe sitting on the steps. "Joe..?"

"Can we talk?" Joe asked.

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Sorry that was kind of short. The next one will be longer, I want to have a lot more going on. Anyway leave reviews. I'll update as soon as I can.