A/N: ok so I am officially the biggest jerk EVER!!! I am SO sorry for not writing, I had writers block and a TON of home work!!

but good news and bad news: I'm on spring break next week so I'm planning of writing A LOT1! and I started a new story called Almost Perfect! I really LOVE Almost Perfect and I hope you will too!!

so now for the bad news, I think this is going to end soon, I know how I want it to end and all and I think I'm getting to that point. so once I'm done this Almost Perfect will become my main project then after that I'm allowing you all to chose if you want a sequel :]

so any way here we go Enjoy!!

Previously…

Joe got down to my level and said, "hey look you've saved my life, and you protected my whole family, the least we can do is make sure you're ankle is ok." all I could do was nod because there was no point in arguing with him at this point. my thoughts dragged me into a different world and all I could see was Nicholas Jerry Gray

a few hours passed and now I'm sitting in a room with Joe while we wait to hear what the doctor thinks about my ankle. the seat is dark blue and cold, unfriendly, and unwelcoming. in truth the only thing that I've seen that looked in some way comforting was Joe.

Joe tried everything, from blowing up doctors gloves, to knock-knock jokes just to get me to at least look happy, but It wasn't going to happen. Nick was somewhere in the hospital fighting for his life and Joe was dying on the inside, I could tell. but people deal with it in different ways, Joe projects all of his worry onto something else, me. and me being a spy I am taught well enough to know that in times where you are week, you form a rock hard shell around you.

the doctor came in about ten minutes later, my expression still one of a zombie, but you'd be too. "Miss Stewart, you have been pretty beaten up, your leg is broken in six places including the knee cap and you look like you've been mugged, what happened?"

"nothing, I'm in a acting class and we were studying action and it got out of hand. no big, but thank you" I lied smoothly, I was able to lie better then most were able to tell the truth.

"well, umm, wow" was all the doctor could say, I could tell that he was expecting a lie and he was right not that I'd ever tell him that.

"excuse me, but my friend is also in the hospital right now, so can you just put me in a cast so I can go?"

"sure, what color?"

"green, please" I said as he left the room. thank goodness I just want to get out of here, its bad enough that I have to be in a cast but the fact that the longer they take the more time I have to wait to know if Nick is ok and that's enough to make someone die of suspense.

Joe looked over to me once the doctor left and smiled, "what? you look like a creep."

"nothing its just, it still amazes me how well you can do that." Joe said still smiling like a freak.

"do what Joe? you're creeping me out."

"lie. the doctor completely bought that, heck if I wasn't there I would of too!"

I let out a small laugh. the first time I've laughed all day, and the first time I've ever whole-heartedly laughed in so long. "well practice makes perfect"

"I guess when you're a-" Joe was cut off by the doctor coming back into the room with gauze and green plaster.

"a what?" the doctor asked curiously.

I shot a look at Joe, telling him with my eyes that I'd handle this and to keep his mouth shut. "an amazing actress, you know I love your hair."

Joe shot me a look saying, smooth, you actually think he's going to buy that? I just shrugged in response.

"why thank you, you're so sweet" the doctor said flashing me a sweet smile, if only he knew he was being flat out lied to.

out of the corner of my eye I could see Joe's mouth drop at the fact that the doctor believed me. I smirked at him, prompting him to stick his tong out at me making me smile.

the doctor started to mold my cast around my heavily broken leg. I killed every time he moved it but then I'd just think of all that I've gone threw in the past 48 hours making this feel like a paper cut.

soon the doctor was done and gave me a pair of silver crutches to use in the many months that I would be a cripple. the thought automatically made me upset, I hated to think that I was going to be unable to do any thing on my own for a while.

a bit later the doctor released me and I hobbled over to the other side of the big white building where Nick was. an uneasy feeling that made me want to puke set in, what if he wasn't ok? what if he was gone? what would I do?

I guess Joe could tell how worried I was getting because he cut me off to stop me from crutching along the hall way and looked me straight in the eye. "hey, Miles its going to be ok, I know you're worried, I am too but we just got to hope, ok?" Joe said sincerely

"ok" was all I could say, I didn't trust my voice to carry me without crack so I looked ahead and started moving again, Joe right at my side.

it took us a while to get to the other side of the hospital considering the fact that I couldn't walk. but before I knew It Kevin came into view along with the whole Gray clan.

Kevin bolted up to us as soon as he saw me, "oh my gosh! Miley are you ok?"

"yeah just a few broken bones, no big." I said because, I really wasn't that bad and I had other things on my mind. like a curly haired boy fighting for his life.

"you sure?" Kevin asked

"yeah, how's Nick?" I said jumping to the point. I wanted Joe to be right desperately and I wanted this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach to go away.

"we don't know, they haven't told us anything, mom and dad are sleeping and Frankie is staying with the neighbors if you're wondering."

"really?" I said sinking into the closet chair as I felt like another break down was on its way.

Joe and Kevin rushed to my side and were about to speak when a lady in her late twenties with long brown hair said, "Nicholas Jonas?"

all three of our head shot up as the lady walked over to talk to us. my heart rate increased and a lump in my throat the size of a bolder formed as she started to speak, "Nicholas is……"

To Be Continued………

A/N: sorry for the cliff! but good news is that I had a cup of coffee and I'm going in late to school tomorrow so I can write the next chapter and post it REALLY soon!!! :]

so tell me what you thought of the Joe and Miley conversations. I thought they were cute, but no worries there will be no Jiley, they have more of a brother sister relationship :]

so comments are always answered and LOVED! so please do comment :] and also if you really like Almost Perfect, the more you comment on this the faster I write, the faster I'm able to start AP (almost perfect)

I love you all so much! thanks for sticking by me and reading!

-TheHeartNeverLies442