9. Can't we just watch a movie?
Miley and Demi had a great day together and spent a lot of money for clothes. Of course, Demi was the main dispenser. Miley said she wanted to save money for later. Demi didn't really care, her parents paid. Now, she really loved her parents and not only because they bought her a lot of stuff. But it wasn't her fault that her parents were really… giving? Yeah, she could say that.
Anyways, they ended up at Miley's apartment, watching The Notebook. They ate cookie dough and cried when the movie ended. It was around five when they finished. Demi sighed and looked at Miley.
"I'm way too lazy to get up now." Miley giggled. She may have had a tad bit too much sugar this afternoon.
"I'm way too excited to keep sitting!" Demi giggled too. She had her fair share of sugar too. Even more than Miley, but she was tired from the day together. Demi rolled on her side, actually attempting to make herself more comfortable, but she rolled off the couch. She sat up, rubbed her head and groaned.
"Ouch." Miley laughed. She sat down next to Demi on the ground. Demi looked at her.
"What are you doing down here?" Miley shrugged.
"I thought you felt alone." They sat there next to each other for a few moments until they both just burst out laughing. Demi got up and pulled Miley along.
"How long 'til lover boy gets here?" Miley looked at the clock on the wall on the other side of the room. Her only problem was that she couldn't exactly read what time it was.
"Uhm, I'd tell you but I can't really read it." They looked at the clock.
"Can you walk over there? I don't think I have enough strength to do that." Miley started walking towards the clock when they heard a knock on the front door. Miley looked at the door, then at Demi, then back at the clock and back to the door. That's when she made a run for the door. Demi laughed and fell back onto the couch. She found it adorable how Miley was so hooked to Nick already, even though they've been dating for less than 24 hours.
Miley answered the door eagerly, to see Nick standing there with a goofy smile on his face. Miley giggled and hugged him quickly. She wrapped her arms around his neck.
Nick was caught a little bit off guard, but quickly shook his head and hugged her back confused.
"Are you okay?" Miley giggled and nodded against his neck. She slowly let go. Nick smiled down at her and gave her a soft peck before he walked into her apartment with her. Miley smiled dreamily. Demi giggled. That was when Nick noticed that Demi was even there. He smiled at her.
"Hey Demi!" Demi waved at him and giggled again. Nick looked at Miley confused.
"What's she on?" Miley giggled too.
"Sugar, just like me." Nick chuckled.
"And you're proud of it?" Miley shrugged.
"Why not? I love being high on sugar. Or you, for that matter." Now Nick was confused again.
"What do you mean?" Demi laughed after she realized what Miley was hinting at. Miley giggled too and hugged Nick around his waist.
"Well, you are my sugar and I'm so high 'cause of you, honey." Demi burst out laughing. It sounded so cheesy. Nick chuckled himself as he placed a sweet kiss on Miley's forehead.
"I get it. I shouldn't give you too much sugar." Miley pouted playfully and crossed her arms. But then she smirked.
"Well, if you think like that, then maybe you should go now. Since you're my sugar and all." She pulled out from Nick's grasp and walked over to the couch, plopping down next to Demi. Together they pouted. Nick rolled his eyes.
"Okay, honey, I'll give you as much sugar as you want. But that will only happen if Demi here would leave. Because I'll do things to you that aren't appropriate in front of your best friend." Miley beamed while Demi pulled a face.
"That was too much information already Mister!" She got up and pulled on her shoes. Then she walked over to the door to get her coat. Demi turned around to look at the couple.
"You two are cute… but also really disgusting. I'm out of here… call me with the details." Then she was out of the door. Nick chuckled.
"Is she always like that or just when she's on sugar?" Miley shrugged and looked up at Nick. He was standing over her. She pouted and pulled on his hand.
"Sit down, I feel alone." Nick sighed and plopped down next to Miley. She put her head on his shoulder. They sat together in silence for a while. Nick played with Miley's fingers while she traced little hearts on Nick's thigh. Then Nick sighed.
"I know we know each other for about two weeks now, but I only know the 'present-you'. I would like to know the 'past-you'." Miley looked at Nick kind of shocked. She didn't really want to tell him about her past because she was embarrassed about it. And it kind of still hurt to even think about it. If she talked about it, she was pretty sure that she would break down crying.
Nick noticed Miley's discomfort. That got him curious of course. Now, he didn't want to make her cry or anything and he really didn't want to pressure her. But it seemed like her past was a pretty big deal to her.
"You don't have to tell me now if you're uncomfortable, you know? You can tell me later as well." Miley sighed. She had to tell him, she knew she had. But if right then was the perfect time… she wasn't so sure.
"I want to, I really do. It's just…" She shook her head. Nick sighed and rubbed her thigh gently. He didn't want to pressure her.
"You don't have to tell me. Don't feel pressured. I can wait. And until then, I'll tell you about my past." Miley sighed relieved. This conversation would have been awkward if they had talked about her past. But Nick was nice enough to forget about her past this night to talk about his own.
Although for Nick, he thought his past was pretty embarrassing, because he wasn't always the gentleman Miley probably thought he was. So he shifted awkwardly and sighed before he looked at Miley.
"Okay, well, I guess it all started when my parents were about twenty and--" But Miley slapped him on his shoulder.
"Ew! You are so gross!" Nick chuckled and rubbed his shoulder.
"Geez, for a girl you hit pretty hard." Miley hit him again and glared afterwards.
"Hey! Girls are strong, they just don't show it that often because girls are nice and polite." Nick rolled his eyes.
"Sure, sure. Well, anyways back to my story. Okay, so I'll leave out all the embarrassing and awkward years of growing up. We'll just skip to High School. Well, I was pretty much the most popular guy in school. You don't have to believe me if you don't want to, but it's true. Still, I'm not really proud of my High School years." Miley looked at him confused.
"Why?" Her voice was soft, comforting and curious. Nick smiled softly at her before he continued.
"Well, let's just say I wasn't a gentleman back then. I didn't treat ladies with respect." Miley looked at Nick.
"So you slept with every girl on the cheerleading squad?" Nick shook his head quickly.
"No! I… well I don't… I'm still a virgin." He admitted quietly. Miley looked at him proudly.
"Me too." That got Nick to smile.
"Is it on purpose, like did you make a promise, or was it the guys?" His question sounded so awkward, it made Miley giggle.
"It's 'on purpose'. I promised my parents and god that I'd stay clean until I was married." 'She's perfect', Nick thought while he smiled really big at her.
"Me too. Anyways, I said I treated girls with not enough respect. I just made out with them the one day and had another one on the other. You know, kind of a player without the physical part." Miley nodded. She was interested in Nick's past, even though he seemed to have had a lot of girlfriends or whatever he'd call them.
"What made you change?" Nick sighed. Here comes the embarrassing part, he thought.
"Well, I didn't treat my parents right either. So one day, I threw a party at our house because I thought they weren't home. But they came home two hours into the party. I didn't notice them at first. And then, when I came into the living room they showed everyone my baby pictures. And even videos which were even more embarrassing than the pictures. But that got me even more mad at them than I already was." Nick looked down and blushed a little.
"What did you do?"
"Well, I yelled at them. They gave me a limit, that if I didn't start acting like the raised me then they'd throw me out. But I ignored that limit. I kept on hurting girls emotionally which made my mom terribly sad of course. So, after five days of ignoring the limit Mom decided it was time to show me what I did to the girls. She called each and every girl she knew I was with and told them to write me letter, send me videos or come to our house to tell me how much I hurt them." Miley just nodded. By then, she was fascinated by this story.
"So, I got about a hundred letters – which I know, is a lot – but there was more. I got twenty videos and fifteen girls showed up at our house. And that were only the ones Mom knew about. The letters were all heartbreaking because it seemed like every girl was in love with me. The videos were even worse because I could see the girl actually crying and not only the tear stains on a sheet of paper. The worst were the ones that actually came to our house. They came all on one day and they told me everything. How much it hurt, what I didn't know. And they hurt me too. But not emotionally." Miley looked at Nick interested.
"What did they do?" Nick chuckled.
"Let's just say, my cheek hurts even thinking about it." Miley chuckled quietly.
"So that's what changed you?" Nick nodded.
"Even though it took me a whole week to read everything and Mom another hour to talk to me about it. But I changed completely after that week. I never was with a girl in High School after that. And it was only my junior year. I college, I only focused on studying and forgot all about girls. When I started working at the company, my life became a routine without any disturbance. Even my friends thought I was boring. That was until you came. And I'm pretty glad you did." Miley blushed a little and looked down.
"Well, that was the heartwarming and kind of disturbing story of Nick Gray." Miley giggled. She looked up at Nick and kissed his cheek.
"I thought it was brave of you to just change. Even though it was necessary too, but it was also pretty brave of you. I don't think I could change in the blink of an eye." Nick looked at her seriously.
"You could." Miley blushed.
"No, I don't think so. But whatever." She cuddled up to Nick. He sighed and pulled her closer. They were silent again for a little while. Nick then sighed again. He was just too darn curious!
"Are you ready to tell me your story?" Miley sighed and looked at Nick.
"Can't we just watch a movie?" Nick chuckled and kissed her forehead.
"Of course we can, princess. That's what I'm here for, right?" Miley giggled and nodded.
"That and other things." Then she winked and jumped up. Nick laughed quietly as he watched her pick a movie. She came back after some time.
"I don't really know what you wanted to watch and honestly, I don't care either, I really want to watch '10 things I hate about you'." Nick chuckled. She plopped down next to him and cuddled up to him. She pressed play and the commercials started. Nick sighed a little annoyed. He didn't really like this movie.
"Are you sure you don't want to talk about your past?" He whined which made Miley giggle. But then she sighed because she felt bad. About not telling Nick, about dodging his questions… Just about everything.
"I'm sorry. When I'm ready I'll tell you. But for now… can we just watch the movie?" Nick nodded and kissed her temple exactly as the movie started. And together they watched the movie and fell asleep on the couch afterwards. Even though before Miley could fall asleep, she contemplated whether she should tell Nick sooner or later. Her past wasn't the best, it was worse than Nick's, but with Nick being her boyfriend he had a right to know. She knew that. She just wasn't comfortable telling him yet.
Nick did his own thinking while Miley watched the movie – or he thought she did even though she didn't. He wasn't sure if he had a right to ask her about her past because to him it seemed like the question was too intimate. But she told him that she would tell him. That was enough for him. Because she made him a little nervous with her not telling him about her past. But he tried to shrug it off. And like mentioned, they fell asleep together, both with happy thoughts because they were with each other. And there was not better feeling than that – at least to them at the moment.
So I checked my e-mail for the first time in almost three weeks and I see - I got more than 130 e-mails just from fanfiction. I also checked my account here and oh my god!! I never thought so many people would actually read my story!!
Because I am so awesome I decided I should just write another chapter. It took me long enough anyway. And I should have studied for school, but I found time to write it! So I really hope you like this and review, I always love reading your reviews!
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