The Wedding Part 2

Miley finally reached Nick. She just stood in front of him, not saying anything at first. Nick wanted to say something, but she held her hand up to silence him, then one tear fell and she talked.

"You used me for a dare?"

Nick shook his head quickly. She never should have heard him say that! All the things he said came out wrong. He didn't mean them like they may have sounded. But Miley didn't know that. She only knew that apparently, asking her out was a train wreck for Nick. Nick wanted to talk again, but Miley didn't let him.

"No, don't talk to me! I can't believe you did this!" Nick took a step forward, but Miley just took one back. She shook her head fiercely.

"Stay away from me! How could you do this!?" Larry felt bad, really bad. It was kind of his fault that they were fighting. He made Nick do the dare after all. He took one step forward as well, trying to calm Miley down.

"Miley, you got it wrong, Nick didn't…" Miley made him stop talking as well. She kept shaking her head.

"No, don't defend him! And you, you made him do it! I mean, I'm not sure if I should thank you or kill you. One week ago, if I knew you were the matchmaker, I would've thanked you, but right now I'm so close to killing you, I'd watch out if I were you." Larry's eyes widened as he quickly left. He wanted to give them some privacy.

Miley glared at Nick as he just stood there and stared at her.

"I never thought you would or could stoop that low and break someone's heart just because you had to do a dare. How old are we? 13? It was fun back then, but right now, it's not so much fun." Miley started crying then. Her heart was breaking – or actually it already broke – but now it got also stomped on by Nick's silence.

Upon seeing her cry, all Nick wanted to do was hug her and tell her everything would be okay. Of course he knew it wouldn't be, but He wanted to do something. He reached out towards her, but of course, she slapped his hand away.

"Don't touch me." She looked Nick in the eyes – a hard task for her to do – and her crying doubled over, but she still had a few words to say.

"Do you know what's worst about falling for someone? You fall for them anyway because you think they're nice. But then they screw you over and your heart breaks. I can't believe that I actually fell for you." Nick looked at her with big and sad eyes. Until that day, he didn't know that Miley fell for him and she didn't know he fell for her. But at the time being he was sure she wouldn't care about him.

"Yeah, Nick, I fell for you. I fell for you hard and all you did was play with my heart. What? Did you plan on dumping me after the wedding? Or after you brought me home so I didn't have to cry in public? Or maybe after the night we might have spent together because I actually thought you were the one. Yes, call me pathetic, but after two months, I thought you'd be 'it'. Well, I guess things change." Nick's heart broke more and more by every word she said. Unfortunately he was too speechless to say anything. All he could do was stare at her crying figure and watch her heart break.

"All I have left to say is this: I love you, Nick. I've loved you for quite some time now, but this is not working anymore. Our relationship was based on a lie. Maybe it wasn't even a relationship to you, but it was to me. I really can't look at you right now. This is the last time you'll see me. Have a nice life, Nicholas Gray." Miley turned around and walked away from him quickly. Nick wanted to run after her, but he just couldn't bring himself to move. She said it. She loved him. He watched her walk away and out of his life.

"I love you too." He whispered to himself as he turned around. He couldn't watch her run out crying. As he turned around he spotted Larry. And suddenly, anger washed over him. He stormed up to Larry and took his arm, dragging him out of the room. Larry was shocked and scared, because he knew what was about to happen.

Nick stopped walking after some time. He turned around and glared at Larry. Larry already looked guilty.

"This is your entire fault! I can't believe I agreed to do the dare! How stupid can I be?" Larry sighed and looked down.

"I'm sorry dude…" Nick shook his head.

"No! You know what? I can't believe you didn't stop me from talking! I know that you saw her a long time before you told me to actually stop! She heard all the things I said! She wasn't meant to hear the things I said. She hates me now!" Larry wanted to say something, but Nick cut him off.

"Don't talk! You know what the worst part is? She hates me but I love her. I love her so much it hurts. And everything is ruined now. Only because I couldn't keep my stupid mouth shut. And you didn't even stop me! Ugh! I'm so mad at you right now! No, I'm mad at me! I'm mad at both of you! Us… god, I can't think straight." If the situation wouldn't have been so sad, Larry would've laughed. But he felt sorry for Nick.

"If I can, I'll fix this. I really will." Larry smirked right after he said that. He already had a plan. Nick glared at him.

"Stop smirking." Larry stopped immediately. Nick sighed and rubbed his hand over his face. He knew, any longer and he'd break down. He had to get out of there.

"I have to leave, tell John that I'm sorry but I just… I had to leave, alright?" Larry nodded and patted Nick's back. Nick looked at him with tired eyes.

"See ya at work." Nick left with slouched shoulders and a terrible ache in his heart.

Miley stormed out of the reception, crying already. She had no car there, so she just ran all the way to her apartment. But the pain in her feet was nothing compared to the pain in her heart. So she didn't notice that she twisted her ankle while running. She just pulled off her shoes and kept running. She had to get home.

She reached her apartment after twenty minutes of running. She opened her door and closed it behind her. And then, she completely broke down. Sliding down the door, she cradled her face in her hands and sobs shook her body.

After ten minutes of intense crying she managed to pull out her phone. She called the first person that came into her mind.

"Hello? Miles, have you looked at the clock, it's… way too late to call me, right now." Miley just sobbed into the phone. The person on the other end started panicking.

"Miles, can you talk to me? Tell me what happened!" Miley couldn't talk. After five minutes of silence, the other person decided to just hang up and go over there. And that's what the person did. Miley put her phone onto the floor and continued crying.

After ten minutes there was a knock at the door and someone just pushed it open without waiting for an answer. Miley looked at the person and whimpered.

"Demi…" Demi rushed over to Miley and hugged her tightly.

"I called Sel and Em; they're going to be here any second." Miley just nodded and buried her head into Demi's shoulder. Demi sighed and rubbed Miley's back. She wasn't sure what happened yet but she had a pretty good idea what did.

"Can you tell me what happened? Please, just tell me…" Miley looked at Demi with a tear-stained face. Demi wiped a few tears away and just stared at Miley. Miley sighed shakily and nodded. She told Demi everything. She started at the beautiful wedding and how nice Nick was to her. Then she told Demi about Nick having to talk to Larry. She continued with her walking towards Nick and eavesdropping on Nick's conversation with Larry. And then her talking was incoherent. But Demi could hear that they sort of broke up and that Miley loved Nick.

But as much sympathy as she felt for Miley, the more anger she felt towards Nick and mostly Larry. Right after Miley finished her story Selena and Emily burst through the door.

"We're here, where's the fire?" Miley and Demi looked at them and they just sat down next to the two on the ground and all hugged each other.

They got Miley to sleep since it was late anyway. After Miley fell asleep, the other three girls sat on her couch and discussed the situation. Demi told them about what happened at the wedding. The girls' reaction was… weird.

"He dumped her at a wedding?!"

"Is he that shallow? He should've proposed!"

"No, he shouldn't have, he is a liar, remember?"

"Whatever, at a wedding… that was just low." Demi sighed frustrated.

"He didn't dump her. She did. She dumped him because he hurt her and I think she did the right thing. But what I don't get is why Nick would act like that with her if it was just for a dare." She saw how he was towards Miley and she just couldn't understand how that all could've been just a dare to him.

She didn't really tell the girls though. They never even met Nick. They wouldn't understand. The weird part was that she didn't understand it herself. She sighed deeply as she turned to the girls. They had discussed every part of Miley's problem and were now tired.

"Guys, you can totally leave. I'll stay here with her, so when she wakes up that she's not alone." Emily and Selena nodded and got up. They all hugged each other and then the other girls left. Demi sat back on the couch and let her head fall back. She was exhausted. Just as she was about to fall asleep her phone rang.

"People just have the wrong timing." She mumbled as she picked up.

"Hello, you've reached a very tired Demi. You are only allowed to keep talking if this is an emergency or…"

"Yeah, it is!" Demi jumped at the loud voice. She knitted her eyebrows together.

"Who is this?" The person sighed heavily.

"Someone you might hate right now." Demi thought really hard. No, it wasn't Nick. He sounded different. Who might she hate right now that was somewhere, where it was loud? She gasped as she realized.

"Larry, I really hate you right now." Larry sighed. He knew she would.

"Okay, then please let me explain." Demi was too exhausted to fight so she let him explain.

"Yeah, it is my entire fault. I made Nick do something that I shouldn't have. But the point is I only did it because I saw that it was Miley who would be the next girl to enter his office. You know, ever since the incident at the diner, he adored her. He even dreamt about her! And when I saw, she'd be the next girl to walk through his office door… He just got the invite for the wedding and he said he wanted to bring a date. And I thought, I would make him ask Miley. I told him that he had to ask the next girl that would walk through his office door. And since I knew it was Miley, I knew he would do it. He really loves her. I think he even would have asked her out without my little dare. It would've taken him way longer though." Demi sighed. The explanation sounded plausible, but something still irked Demi.

"But if you wouldn't have dared him to ask her out, then Miley wouldn't be heartbroken right now. Yeah, he would have taken his time, but at least they would have been happy together." Now Larry sighed because he knew she was right.

"I know. But it happened. And now I really want to fix this mess." Demi nodded. Suddenly she was eager to find out how he wanted to do that.

"Go on." Larry smirked.

"Well, I have a few videos of Nick talking about Miley. I somewhat knew that they would come in handy once. I just didn't know when. Well, we'll need them now. We'll edit them together. You have no idea how often he mentioned that he loved Miley. Sometimes, how he talked about her was sickening because he talked like he was obsessed with her. I guess he is, but whatever. We'll edit the videos and show them to Miley. She'll see that it was my entire fault and forgive Nick." Even though the plan sounded pretty simple, it could work.

"Fine, we'll try it. But take your time. She won't talk for some time now." Larry agreed. He told Demi to meet up with him the next day at Patty's so they could talk it all out. Of course Demi agreed and hung up after another five minutes of planning.

Demi let her head fall back onto the couch and closed her eyes. It was half past midnight now and she just wouldn't fall asleep. Of course, the plan was still running through her mind. And of course, Miley was also on her mind. Her best friend was hurting so bad right now and all she could do was see how the plan would unravel. But she had a feeling that the plan was somehow going to work. It might also take some time, but she hoped that it would work.

And with only that hope running through her body, sleep took over her. Her last thoughts of course were with her best friend. What she didn't know was that her best friend just awoke from her sleep with a nightmare.

She woke up crying and aching for someone's arms around her. No question whose arms she ached for. She hugged her pillow close to her body and just continued crying until she fell asleep once again. Her dreams only were about one person and that person just left her life in a bad way. The worst she could ever imagine. She just hoped everything would turn out fine.

Okay, so here it is; the second part. There are about two or three chapters left; then this story's going to be over. I hope you all liked it and I'd love it if you'd review.

As to She Said, He Said: I kind of lost the inspiration, BUT I'm trying to write the next chapter right now.

I'll try to get the new chapter for this story out as soon as possible.

Well, like I said, leave a review. You know, the whole 'Hours to make, seconds to review' thing ;)..