Sorry for the wait, guys! Completely my bad!

Oliver laughed nervously, "So are you going to be okay, Lilly?"

She sat down and wiped her eyes, "I think so."

"Well I hate to leave you alone like this…"

"Just go, Oliver." And he left.

Oliver walked down the beach towards his "special spot". It was a secluded part of the beach surrounded by tall palm trees with a few rocks to sit on. Ever since he found it four years back, this little part of the beach had become his covert. His sanctuary. A little calm in the midst of chaos. Heartbreak, failure, rejection, whatever the reason, Oliver always felt better after coming to his little sanctuary. So he hoped the sanctuary will do its magic on Miley and Jake too.

"Please pick up," Oliver pleaded before dialing Jake's number on his cell phone.

Ring…ring…ring…ring…ring… "(Jake) Hi! You have reached the one, the only, the man, the legend, the great Jake Ryan! (Miley) Leave a message and try to ignore Jake's ego! (Jake)…hey!" Oliver sighed and hung up. Of course Jake didn't pick up. Why would he? Why would he want to talk to the guy who kissed his girlfriend?

But just listening to his voicemail reminded Oliver of how happy Jake and Miley both were. The laughter in the background made Oliver even guiltier. It was screaming "It's all your fault, you doughnut!" Now he is determined to get the Golden Couple back together. After all, if they're destined to be together, a little accidental kiss can't change fate. Can it?

Oliver called Jake again. And again. And again and again and again. After Oliver dialed for the tenth time, it rung and rung as always, but just before the voicemail clicked on again, Jake actually answered his phone.

"What. Do. You. WANT??" he screamed into the phone.

"Oh hi, Jake!" Oliver replied cheerfully.

"Oliver! Please tell me why you just called me ten times within the last two minutes?"

"I have to talk to you."

Oliver could hear Jake sigh on the other end, "Who are you, Captain Obvious of Duh-land?"

"I see my jokes aren't working on you today," Oliver said.

"I don't have time for this! If you don't have a point, I am hanging up," Jake warned.

"No!" Oliver cried. "I did not call you ten times just to have you hang up on me again."

"Then why did you call me ten zillion times?" Jake was obviously annoyed.

Oliver shut his eyes and finally said what he's been trying to say this whole time, "...I'm sorry, Jake."

The other end of the phone turned silent.

"Jake?" Oliver asked, "did you hang up?"

"No, I'm still here."

"So…? Do you forgive me?"

"Oliver," Jake said, "You kissed Miley! You stole my girlfriend! I'm not going to forgive you just like that."

"Now that's where you're mistaken," Oliver explained.

"You didn't kiss Miley?"

"No, I did…but I did not steal her away from you. I don't think you truly know just how much Miley cares about you."

"Miley doesn't care about me," Jake said. "Because if she did, she wouldn't have kissed you."

"I'm really really sorry, man," Oliver said, working his way into the second part of his plan. "Look, why don't you come down here and I'll try to make it up to you. Maybe a little surfing, some beach volleyball, and a heart-to-heart will get you to accept my apology?"

"This is not something you can 'make up', Oliver."

"Please, Jake? Just come to the beach and we can talk. We'll meet at the big rock down by Rico's," Oliver said, praying Jake will agree.

"I guess… I'm all for the surfing and volleyball, but save the heart-to-heart."

"Deal." Oliver shut his phone and smiled. Phase 1 of his plan worked. Now comes the hard part: Miley.

Maybe calling over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again worked on Jake, but Oliver knew Miley And no matter how many times he called her, she will not pick up.

So he was left with two options: either go to her house and beg on his knees, or use Lilly's phone to text her. The first option didn't sound so good, but the second option wasn't that honest. Maybe he should drag her here by force. Or hold Beary hostage. Or maybe he migcould just tell her his plan...nah. So Oliver spent the next half hour debating on ways to get Miley here.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming closer to the sanctuary. Could that be Jake already? He got here this fast? No, Jake is supposed to arrive after Miley! He's ruining the plan!!!

But it wasn't Jake. It was girl with long, curly brown hair. It was a girl with red eyes from crying all night. It was a girl who had come to the sanctuary to get away from it all. It was Miley.

"Talk about luck," Oliver muttered to himself. Then he waved, "Hi Miley!"

Miley stopped dead in her tracks when she realized the one reason she came to the sanctuary was also in the sanctuary. She turned and made a run for it.

"Miley, wait!" Oliver quickly caught up to her and grabbed her arm.

"Don't talk to me," Miley said, shaking his hand off her arm, "I'm mad at you."

"Please," Oliver said (how many times had he said 'please' today?) "Miley, just talk with me."

"What if I don't want to talk to you?" Miley argued.

"Well, you just did."

A small smile crept over Miley's face. "Darn it," she muttered.

"Come on, Miley," Oliver said, leading the way back to the middle of the sanctuary. "You can't stay mad at me forever."

"I could actually," Miley whispered. "Based on what you did…"

Oliver was about to respond when he heard a soft, nearly inaudible sound from behind one of the palm trees. Out of his peripheral vision, he saw a flash of blonde before it disappeared behind the tree. Great! Jake's here. Now, all Oliver has to do is cross his fingers and hope the rest of his plan works.

Like a photo,
Like a second thought.
Always silent,
I just think a lot.

Jake was walking towards the place Oliver told to meet him when reality and common sense hit him like a truckload of bricks. "What am I doing?" he asked himself. "Am I really going to see the guy Miley cheated with?"

Jake slapped his forehead and was about to turn around to return to his car when he heard a voice calling, "Hi Miley!"

A familiar voice. Oliver's voice.

What was Miley doing meeting with Oliver? Jumping to the worst conclusion, Jake quickly sneaked over and hid behind a tree.

"Miley, wait!"

Jake stuck his head out and watched Oliver stopping Miley by grabbing her arm.

"Don't talk to me, I'm mad at you."

Jake grinned slightly at what Miley said.

"Please, Miley, just talk with me."

"What if I don't want to talk to you?"

"Well, you just did."

"Darn it."

"Come on, Miley, you can't stay mad at me forever."

Jake clenched his fists together. So first Oliver wanted Jake to forgive him, now he expects Miley to forgive him too? What a jerkwad!

"I could actually, based on what you did…"

Taking a step back, Jake accidentally stepped on some dry leaves, causing a soft crunch sound. Afraid Oliver and Miley will find him eavesdropping, Jake quickly ducked his head back behind the trunk of the palm tree.

"What I did? It wasn't just me who screwed up, Miley, it was you too."

"What are you talking about? You were the one who kissed me!"

"But you were the one who kissed back!"

Jake gasped.

"I…I…"

"I just want to know why."

Jake wanted to know why, too. He peeked back and saw Miley walk over to a rock and sit down, bringing her knees to her chest.

"You don't understand, Oliver. You don't know what I had to go through. You don't even know."

"What don't I know?"

"I loved you, Oliver! I loved you so much. I was head over heels, helplessly in love with you."

"..."

...

Hearing those words, Jake felt his heart sink to his stomach. Miley never said the words "I love you" to Jake. Ever. Jake has said it plenty of times before, after every single date, he has said it to her. But she never said it back. Never. She always went around it and said something like "Goodnight" or "See you later". Or she would distract him with a kiss. Jake always assumed she was just shy, or uncomfortable. Now he knew. Miley didn't want to lie; she wasn't going to tell him she loved him when she didn't.

When she loved Oliver.

Jake couldn't believe it. And obviously, Oliver couldn't either, "What?"

"God, Oliver, you're so clueless! Why do you think I laughed at all your stupid jokes when I first met you? Why do you think I hated all of your girlfriends? Why do you think I picked you for our Romeo and Juliet project? Why do you think I let you smash pizza in my face and didn't say anything?"

"Okay, first of all, the pizza thing was an accident. Secondly…you liked me?"

"Yes," Miley tilted her head back and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, tears were starting to fill. "I kept dropping hints. I never left your side. For three years, I've been waiting for you to come around. Three years. But you never got the message, Oliver."

"…I…well…I don't know what to say. Did Lilly know about this?"

"No. I didn't tell anyone. Well, except Nick."

Jake was already angry as it is. Now, hearing Nick being brought into the conversation, he was boiling mad. He rested his head against the trunk and squeezed his fists so hard, his knuckles turned white.

"From the first time I met you, I fell for you. I fell for you so hard," Miley stood up and shook her head. She walked around before stopping only four feet away from the tree Jake was hiding behind. "But you never felt the same way, did you, Oliver? I was just your best friend. No, I wasn't even that because Lilly was your best friend. I was a lame number two."

"Why didn't you just tell me, Miley?"

"Because I was too chicken. And I kept wishing you would fall in love with me too and then you would ask me out…I kept on waiting and waiting…"

That's the optimistic Miley, Jake thought to himself.

"..and waiting and waiting. But you never even looked at me that way. You broke my heart, Oliver. And you didn't even know it."

Jake felt the sudden urge to go over and wrap his arms around Miley. Even though she did cheat on him. Even though she is in love with Oliver. Even though she doesn't love him.

"I'm sorry, Miley," Oliver said.

"Oh, it's nothing. Really, it was nothing. I thought it was so painful and so tragic at the time, but compared to what I feel now, it was nothing at all."

"What do you mean?"

"That summer two years ago, the summer I switched with Hannah. That summer, I met Jake. When I was with Jake, he fixed me. He made me fall in love with him and I couldn't help it. And finally, after three years of wasted energy, I got over you. Or so I thought…"

Hearing his own name, Jake perked up and held his breath. Maybe there was hope for him after all?

"All the love I once gave you, I now give to Jake," Miley continued. "The only difference is Jake actually loved me back. I feel so happy around him, so refreshed, so complete. So loved. And I could have sworn he had pieced back together my broken heart and then stole it. I really thought every bit of my heart belonged to Jake. But apparently, all those years of loving you left a scar. When you kissed me last night…all those old, put away emotions rushed back and suddenly, I felt like I was in eighth grade again."

Poor Miley, Jake thought. She always seemed upbeat and energetic. Who knew she was so depressed and broken on the inside? And after loving Oliver for so long, no wonder she kissed him back…aw crap, I think I'm starting to forgive her!

"So that's why…"

"Yes, that's why I kissed you back, Oliver. Because I let my old feelings get the better of me. I realized what I was doing a second later, but I was already too late. I already made the biggest mistake ever and because of it, I lost the best person in my life," Miley's voice trailed off.

Jake felt his nose tingle a little. Was Jake Ryan actually…crying?

"If only you kissed me sooner, Oliver. Before I met Jake, before I got over you. Then maybe we could have been the Golden Couple. Maybe we could have fallen more in love and then get married and have kids and everything I'd imagined. We could have lived my fantasy. But you didn't kiss me earlier, you kissed me yesterday. And you're too late. Two years too late. Because I don't love you anymore, Oliver. I love Jake now."

"I understand."

"But Jake doesn't! And he won't give me the chance to explain! I wish I could tell I love him, more than I love anyone else."

Jake's heart pounded as he smiled so wide, the tree could barely hide it. She said it. She finally said it. She loved him. More than Oliver, more than Nick, more than anyone else.

Sticking his head around the tree trunk to sneak another peak, Jake found Miley standing with her back to him like before, but Oliver was staring right at him. And he was sgrinning. Almost as if he knew Jake was there all along. Almost as if that was the point. Almost as if that was the reason he called Jake down here in the first place.

"You hear that, Jake? Miley does care about you. You believe it now?"

I still wonder:
Am I still stuck in your head?
In your head?

It felt good to let it all out. After Miley had kept it all bottled up inside, it was a relief to finally get the weight off her shoulders.

"You hear that, Jake? Miley does care about you. You believe it now?" Oliver asked to the tree behind her.

Wait a second…

Jake…is…here??? Miley's eyes widened and her jaw dropped. Jake was hiding behind the tree over there? He heard everything? All the cheesy lovey-dovey stuff? And all the part about her liking Oliver? Everything?

How embarrassing.

Still unsure if Jake was really there, Miley stayed frozen where she was, afraid to turn around. But before long, a pair of arms wrapped around her from behind. She felt him set his chin on her head as he said, "Yes, I do believe it now."

Miley, about ready to burst of happiness, spun around to see Jake standing there, smiling almost as big as she was. Her tears were overflowing as she hugged him tightly (almost to the point of suffocation) and promised to never, ever let him go.

"I'm so sorry," Miley whispered, pulling her head back to look Jake in the eye. "I was being completely stupid and I'm just really so-"

Jake interrupted her when he brought his lips down to hers in a breathtaking kiss. "It's okay, I forgive you."

"Really? You're not mad at me anymore?"

"No one can stay mad at you for long, Miley. And I'm no exception."

"Aw…" Miley gave him one quick kiss before saying, "And I love you. With all my heart. I don't think I've ever spoken those exact words."

"No, you haven't."

"Well I do. I love you and only you."

"Me too."

After many minutes of hugging and kissing and intense smiling, Miley finally peeled herself off of Jake. "Aren't we so pathetic? It hasn't even been 24 hours since Oliver kissed me and we've already gone through the entire break-up make-up phase."

"That just means I can't stand being apart from you."

"…no, I think it means we're just pathetic."

They laughed and started heading towards Miley's house, before Miley realized, "Hey, where did Oliver go?"

Oliver smiled at the couple in front of them. He quietly snuck out to give them some privacy.

Well this is good. The Golden Couple is back together again, thanks to Oliver. But then again, Oliver did break them up in the first place…

But regardless, if Miley and Jake are together again, then things are starting to take a turn for the better. Oliver must be on the right track to fixing his friendship. He silently went down his list in his head…so Miley is good and Jake is good…that means up next is…

…Nick and Hannah.

YAY! Jiley is fixed! Go Oliver! And I'm not really sure if Miley ever said "I love you" to Jake, so just pretend okay? ;)

When I went back to reread and edit, I realized I used A LOT of repitition towards the end. Repitition for effect is cool the first time...but I think I overused it. :) Whatever.

And I can't wait to write the next chapter. Oliver attempts to get Nick and Hannah (Hick? Nannah? Hannick?) back together! And then Oliver tries to match up Lilly. To who? Hmm. Who do you think?