"Hey, Nick" Miley heard herself reply.

Mileys heart was racing as she looked at the man before her. He'd changed so much from the baby faced teenager she'd fallen in love with so long ago.
Nick was a hell of a lot taller than she remembered. He towered above her now and she was wearing heels.
His jaw was more defined and his hair was a lot less wild.
But his eyes were the same, they were so familiar. Warm, that beautiful shade of chocolate brown. She'd spent hours just looking into them when she was young.
And they were gazing down into hers right now.

"It's been a while," He nodded at her and cleared his throat after a moment of awkward silence, "So…How are you?"

Miley took a second to process what he was saying and wracked her brain for something a reply.

"Yeah, it has. I…I'm great and yourself?" Miley murmured and folded her arms across her chest. Across her heart.

Why had he chosen today of all days to talk to her? It had been a long time since they'd even made eye contact. They had passed each other at award shows but that was it, Miley had tried to avoid him for so long, to keep the pain away.
She couldn't let him back into her life, even it was for just something as simple as what they were doing now. Talking.
So why wasn't she walking away?

"I'm fine, can't complain." He laughed and ran a hand through his hair.
He never could leave it alone Miley thought to herself fondly her lips turned up into a smile as his perfectly combed hair became a tousled mess. She wondered if it still drove his hairstylist crazy.

"Same here, same old." Miley murmured looking around at the crowd in the room. She recognized a lot of Demi's family but the others were a mystery to her.

"Cool," Nick said and smiled at her and paused before saying "Take a walk with me?"

Miley hesitated, should she really be doing this? Taking walks with her ex boyfriend, her first love? Oh c'mon Mile, stop being so dramatic. It's just a walk, Right? She thought to herself.

Nick must have sensed her reluctance because his face fell and he looked away from her, "It's fine if you don't wan-"

Miley cut him off "Sure, let's go."

Nick grinned and began making his way through the sea of people surrounding them, How could a ten year old have some many friends?

When they had finally pushed their way through the crowd they stepped out into the back yard, it was vacant, thankfully.
Miley sat down on an empty bench and crossed her legs, Nick hovered awkwardly in front of her. It was strange, he was standing right in front of her. Yet he still felt so far away, distant.

"Is it just me or is this extremely awkward?" Nick finally said letting out a loud sigh.

"It really Is." Miley laughed nervously "But it has been two years since we actually talked…civilly."

"Yeah.." Nick replied and finally took a seat on the end of the bench she was sitting on, "Hey, do you remember the last time we were in this house, together."

Miley let out a little laugh as she thought back to the memory, "Of course I do, who could forget."

It sent a shot of both pain and happiness through her body, They had been 14 at the time, it was a summer day and they'd all decided to spend it at Demis, drinking kool aid, having water fights, pigging out in he movie room. Trivial, boring things but at that point in their young lives were so hectic it seemed like a god sent.

"Oh my gosh, didn't you almost give Joe a black eye?" Miley laughed thinking back, yes he had. They had been running around the pool with water balloons like a pair of idiots and almost ran into each other, Joe had gotten the brunt of it when Nick elbowed him in the face.

"Yeah! I almost did!" Nick began to laugh with her and it was welcome sound, one she hadn't heard in a long time.

"That seems like such a long time ago." Miley sighed smoothing her dress down, trying to break her eye contact with him.

"It does, doesn't it? It was what, only 4 years ago? Wow…" A few emotions passed over Nicks face first he frowned, then he looked shock but he settled on a grinning widely.

Miley felt self conscious "What? What is it?" She asked looking behind her.

"Those earrings you're wearing…are they…" He said then shook his head laughing "Nah they can't be…"

"I've had them for years, what about them?" Miley asked confused reaching up to touch them, What was he getting at?

"You had them in the first time I met you." He said tilting his head a smile still on his lips.

"I did?" Miley replied slightly bewildered, how had he remembered that?

"Yeah, I remember thinking about how well they set off your eyes.." He murmured.

"Oh.." was Miley could say.

She had no idea what was happening here. She couldn't get believe it, never mind process it. She and Nick were sitting and talking about the past. Their past.

She didn't have time to think about anything else because Demi burst through the back door and the look that crossed her face was probably exactly how Miley felt inside right now.

"Miley, I'm sorry to interrupt…but Noah just through up, like, everywhere she wants to go home." Demi said carefully.

"Oh, is she ok? I'll be right there!" Miley said standing up as Demi nodded and stepped back inside.

"It was nice seeing you, Nick." was all she could say.

"You too, Miley" He nodded, but he couldn't look at her.

She didn't know what to say. So she left without uttering another word

This was going to hurt later.

Sorry this sucks, I know. It's 6AM...
i just wanted to update it for you guys it's been so long...
BUT GOOD NEWS.
I have ideas on where I'd like this to go but I've been working on another fic on a different account (Thisheartitbeatsforonlyou)
So I don't know if I should continue with this, let me know if you guys want me too!