Can't believe at the amount of alerts and favourites I've had – but no reviews! Come on guys! I would love to know what you are thinking or even enjoying the story. Sorry for the lack of update – took me a while to fathom out how to link it up. Still not entirely sure that it flows all that well, but this is the part I disliked writing the most.

I was deliberating whether or not to join this and the next chapter but it would have been really long, so decided to leave it in two. The next part is complete so will be up quicker than my last update. Anyho, on with the show Chums!

Disclaimer: I do not own any Hannah Montana characters, references or songs/bands/artists used I this story. No profit is made, this is purely for fun.

Stephanie Bentley – I Will Survive

I will survive
I will endure
When the going is rough
You can't be sure
I'll tough it out
I won't give in
If I'm knocked down I'll get up again

Robbie looked out the kitchen window and saw Lilly walking along with a bridle in her hands, shouting for her she came round the back door and gave him a smile.

"Hey Mr. S. What's up?"

Robbie smiled at Lilly; she had a Stetson placed on her head, a pair of Miley's cowboy boots on, old tattered shorts and shirt and a large smudge of dirt across her left cheek. He couldn't believe that the young woman stood in front of him was a city girl. She certainly no longer looked like one.

"Yo, Mr. S?" Lilly tried again. "You're spacing on me."

"Sorry Lilly. Just to say your Mum will be here in the next couple of hours."

"What about everyone else?"

"I'm picking them up from the airport, I've gotta leave in ten minutes."

"Ok, thanks. I'll tell Miley, she's just put the horses out."

Lilly walked out of the kitchen and dumped the bridle in the tack room before heading back in to the barn. "Hey?" She called out. "Miles? You about?"

"I'm here." A voice said from behind her.

"Damn. You made me jump."

"Sorry." Miley said walking past, shedding clothes as she went along. "Did I hear my Dad shouting?"

"Yeah, he said my Mum will be here in a few hours, your Dad's just left for the airport."

"Gives us enough time for a shower." Miley looked up, noticing that Lilly had paled and was rooted to the floor. "Hey Lil, you okay?" Miley wandered over and looked in to Lilly's eyes.

"Yeah, no, I dunno." Lilly shrugged, pausing for a moment. "I'm freaking out." She whispered.

Miley placed a hand on Lilly's cheek, rubbing the dirt mark with her thumb. "I know. I am as well. We can do this Lils." Miley gently brushed her lips over Lilly's. "It's reality setting in." She rested her forehead on Lilly's.

"It's just so scary." Lilly said pushing herself in to Miley's warm embrace. "At least your Dad knows." Lilly felt Miley's arms tighten around her.

"And think how he found out Lilly, if he can accept us then surely telling your parents this way will be better."

"I know." She sighed. "It's just the thought of them not accepting me for who I am."

"You said yourself that neither of your parents have a problem with homosexuality."

"You sound like a teacher." Lilly felt her girlfriend smile in to her neck with this statement. "I just think it's a bit different to your daughter telling them you're gay."

"It's a terrifying thought Lil, but just be positive, that's all we can do."

"Lillian!" Heather Truscott flung open the barn door, announcing her arrival and making Lilly scream.

"Holy shit Mother!" Lilly clutched her now racing heart. "Do you want to give me a heart attack? And have you ever heard of knocking, I could be naked."

"Don't be so melodramatic Lillian and you weren't, well, not entirely." Heather allowed her eyes to look at her daughter before giving her a light hearted laugh.

Lilly was suddenly acutely aware that she still was in her underwear, the worst part being that it was made with lace with very little padding. She tried to cover herself up, she certainly did not want her Mother seeing what God gave her. "Don't call me Lillian." She scowled.

Heather noticed what Lilly was trying to do. "Oh Lilly, don't be such a prude."

Before Lilly could get out some sort of retort Miley came walking out their shared closet holding two outfits. "Which do you think?"

Lilly took one look at Miley who was wearing a purple wonder bra and panties. This situation couldn't have looked any more obvious to Lilly. "I think my Mum is here."

"Hey Mrs T!" Miley dumped her clothes and walked over to embrace Heather. "How are you?" Lilly was shocked at her girlfriend's lack of modesty, then again, she thought, Miley was Hannah Montana, she wasn't exactly lacking in confidence.

"Very well thank you Miley." She said pulling back. "You got a hug for me Lilly?"

"Any chance I could put some clothes on first?" Lilly crossed her arms that were over her chest tighter.

"Oh for goodness sake Lilly, come here." Heather said grabbing her daughter and pulling her in to a bone crushing hug. "I gave you what you've got."

Miley couldn't help but laugh as Lilly tried to push her Mum away. "Mum, I need oxygen." She gasped.

"Sorry." Heather let go and took a step back, finally taking in her daughter's beauty.

Lilly felt her Mother's eyes on her. "Mum?"

"You look so grown up. You're so beautiful. You've changed a lot."

"You only saw me last month."

"I know, there's something different about you, almost a glow." Heather ran her fingers through her daughter's hair.

Lilly and Miley exchanged a glance. "Really?" She looked back at her Mum before taking a quick peek at Miley, Lilly quickly caught on where Miley's eyes were resting. She tried to subtly elbow her girlfriend, the motion not going unnoticed by Heather.

"Well, I'll leave you to it, I only wanted to come in and say hi."

"I'll be out in fifteen minutes Mum, help yourself to anything you want. Mr. S will whip you up something fantastic if you're hungry."

"You know me Lilly, I'm always hungry."

Miley shook her head. "Like Mother like daughter." She laughed.

Heather laughed as she turned around and walked out, closing the door behind her. Lilly turned to her girlfriend, crossing her arms and taking a step towards Miley. "Could you have made it anymore obvious?"

Miley gave a nervous grin and stepped back as Lilly continued to walk forward. "What?" She exclaimed.

"You looked like a child drooling at a sweet shop. I'm pretty sure my Mum knew what you were staring at."

"I'm sorry. I honestly didn't realise." Miley couldn't help but smile as her back hit the wall, she felt Lilly's warm body come in to her personal space. The first tingles of excitement were beginning to take over Miley's body.

Lilly took another step toward Miley, placing a hand either side of her head, allowing her body in infiltrate Miley's personal space. "You know..." She leant in to Miley's lips, stopping just short before touching them. "You are hopeless." Lilly pushed herself off Miley quickly.

"Oh come on!" Miley yelled.

"You ready?" Miley said taking a sharp intake of breath.

"No." Lilly sat down on bed and fiddled with her bracelet. "But I suppose I don't get a choice in that."

"We talked about this earlier, you can do this Lil. We can do this." Miley found Lilly's hand and linked it through her own.

"Doesn't it cross your mind what your Mamaw and Grandma may think of us?" Lilly was trying to find any way to delay this further.

"It does. They may take it well or they may hate me, we'll never know until they know." Miley looked down at their hands before looking back up to Lilly.

"I don't want my parents to hate me." Lilly felt herself being to cry, sniffing, she tried to hold back.

"They'll never hate you."

"You don't know Miley!" Lilly raised her voice.

"Okay, no I don't but have a little faith Lilly. I know I'll get through this because I've got you at the end of it."

Lilly looked up at Miley and smiled. "That is so cheesy." Miley grinned. "But I know it's true."

"So has my pep talk worked?"

"A bit."

Miley held out her hand and joined it with her girlfriends. "Let's do this."

Lilly and Miley were last to the table and arrived with everyone looking at them. "Take your time darlin', it's not like we're hungry or anything."

"Mother!" Robbie said.

"Oh hush porky." Lori let out a small snicker.

Miley and Lilly took their respective seats and before either one of them could get a word out Heather jumped in. "So what's the big news?"

"Give the girls a chance." Ken said giving his ex wife a sideways glance.

"Well they bring us all here, and I'm sure we all want to know why!" She exclaimed.

"Alright Mother." Lilly said with a low voice.

"Lillian, be nice." Miley said placing a hand on Lilly's shoulder before turning her head so her lips where next to her girlfriend's ears. "You want to do this now?" Lilly gave a curt nod. Miley stood up and looked at everyone. "I know you're all wondering what on earth this is all about but you've got to know that however y'all react it isn't going to make a difference to me."

"Or me." Lilly said standing next to Miley.

"What do you mean?" Grandma Ruby piped up. "Is this about college?"

"No it's not."

"This is so hard." Miley whispered to Lilly.

"Miles, Lilly, you can do it." Jackson said with a soft, encouraging voice.

Their eyes flicked between each other. "We're dating." They said in unison as the linked hands with one another.

Oliver felt himself choke. "W-w-what?" He stammered out.

"What do you mean you're dating?" Ken said.

"It means that they are a couple you idiot." Mamaw said dryly. "And about time too." Nearly everyone at the table tuned and stared at Miley's Grandma.

"Mamaw?" Miley looked at her in complete surprise.

"Oh girls, you are so hopeless. I've been watching you both for the last year, some of the things you do would only be done out of love."

"That's true; Ruthie and I always said your friendship was closer than others." Aunt Dolly said, chiming in.

"By the way Dolly, you owe me twenty bucks."

"You bet on us?" Miley and Lilly said simultaneously.

"Hold on, how can you notice that and not me?" Robbie said staring at his mother and Dolly.

"It's a girl thing."

"So it would seem." Heather said with a smile. "Well this is a turn up. But I did have my suspicions earlier. Miley you weren't very subtle."

"Told you." Lilly nudged her girlfriend with her elbow. "So you're okay with us?" She said sceptically.

"Lillian, date who you want to date, I don't mind. You could come home with a purple alien and I wouldn't mind as long as you're happy."

Lilly gave her Mum a soft smile. "Thank you. Dad?" She said switching her gaze. Ken just snuffled into his serviette. "Well I don't think Dad's too bothered." Lilly let out a long breath that seemed to lift the weight of her shoulders that had been pulling her down the past week.

"Maybe we should sit down." Miley said. "We look like a right pair of idiots."

"You are." Oliver muttered and all heads turned to him.

"Sorry?" Lilly wasn't quite sure if she heard that right.

"You heard." He said standing up and walking out the door.

Lilly stood up to go after him. "Leave him for a bit." Miley gripped on to Lilly's arm.

"Okay." She said quietly with a nod as the rest of the table looked at her.

The rest of the evening went fairly smoothly; there were the obvious questions from Mamaw and Grandma Ruby, "What about the Grandkids?" and other questions from everyone else. Lilly noticed her mother looking at her; she raised her eyebrows at Heather, wondering what on earth she wanted. Heather gave Lilly eye contact before flicking them towards the back of the room.

"I'll be right back." Lilly said to Miley as she stood up.

Miley placed a hand on top of Lilly's. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah." Lilly walked over to the back of the lounge and tilted her head for Heather to follow her.

"I've never been in here." Heather said gazing round at all the musical instruments and various other pieces of equipment she had no clue as to what they did. "Can Miley play all of these?"

"Some and I'm pretty sure that you didn't come in here to talk about Miley's ability to play instruments." Lilly said with a kind smile.

"True." Heather took a seat on the arm of a chair. "But what I did come in here to talk about is you and Miley."

"Please say that you are still okay with us?"

"Oh Lilly, don't say that sweetheart, of course I am, I just wanted to talk to you."

"About?"

"Well, if you actually let me say without interrupting then we'd get there a lot faster."

"Sorry."

"I know how embarrassed you're gonna be but just hear me out." Lilly looked worried. "Okay, well remember we had that talk about sex when you and Oliver first started going out?"

"Oh God. Mum, I really hate you if you start this."

"Then you're going to hate me. I only want to say a couple of things. I'm not concerned what you did or didn't do with Oliver..."

"I didn't." Lilly mumbled quietly.

"Really?" Heather said quickly. "Sorry, you caught me off guard. I just thought that you had, you'd been with him for a while. Still, everything I said when you were dating Oliver still applies. I want you to respect your body."

"We have." Lilly said. She had no idea what made her tell her Mum what she and Miley had done, but somehow she felt it would save an awkward conversation at a later date. When Heather said nothing Lilly looked up. "Mum?"

"Sorry Lilly, wasn't quite expecting you to be so honest."

"Well?"

"Well there's not a lot to say, I'm just glad you were in a relationship, I hope it meant something to you."

Lilly tried to hide the smile that was tugging on her lips that the memory brought up. "It was really special Mum."

"I'm glad, now come here and give your Mum a hug." Heather opened her arms and embraced her daughter.

Lilly held on tightly. "I love you Mum."

"Even when I embarrass you?"

"Even then."

"Ollie?" Lilly sat down next to her former boyfriend.

"Just leave me alone, go back to your girlfriend." He spat out the last part of the sentence with venom.

Lilly didn't move. "Oliver, I know this is hard to swallow..."

"You have no idea!" He stood up and shouted at her. "You left me! You didn't even give me a reason, I guess now I know why. God Lilly! You could have at least told me!" He ran his hands through his hair.

"Believe me Ollie I would have done, it was just so strange and new, I wasn't sure what to do!" Lilly said standing up and looking at Oliver square on.

"Oh come off it Lilly, you kept drifting away from me, I knew something was up and now I know exactly what it was." Oliver paused for thought and Lilly remained silent. "Did you cheat on me?" He said with an unnervingly calm voice. Lilly refused to give Oliver any eye contact. "I'll take that as a yes. You know Lillian, all the times I could have had a girl on tour I didn't, because of you. Now I wish I had. At least I would have got something from them!"

The next thing Oliver felt was pain exploding through his face. "Don't you ever say that Oliver!" She shouted. Lilly had never had a proper fall out with Oliver and she knew that with the punch she had delivered him, she had now. Lilly was seriously angry now. "I wanted our first time to be special! I wanted you to do something romantic for me, every time I hoped you would you would fob me off with some excuse! Do you not understand what my virginity meant to me?" Oliver pinched his nose, attempting to stem the blood and what Lilly said next nearly did. "I'm so glad I gave it to someone I can trust." And with that statement Lilly left Oliver and went to find the rest of her family.

Lilly walked in the side door with a face like thunder. "How'd it go?" Miley placed a soft hand on a tense shoulder.

"Not good."

"Oh God Lilly, what did you do?"

"I hit him."

"Lilly!"

"I'll go find him." Jackson said as he slipped out the door.

"What did you do that for?" Miley hissed, she was trying to avoiding bringing anymore attention to them.

"He just said some stuff, I just snapped." Lilly looked at the floor.

"Lils? What did he say?"

"Don't worry about it."

"I do." She reached for Lilly's hand and tugged her up the stairs. "What did he say? I know you Lilly; you wouldn't ever hit someone unless they cut you deep."

"He got mad; he wanted to know if I cheated on him."

"Did you tell him?"

"I didn't but I think he guessed from me not saying anything." Miley remained silent, her eyes searching Lilly's face for an answer. "He said I was drifting from him. I mean, I know I was, my thoughts were all about you."

"You wouldn't hit him for that Lil, be honest tell me."

"He said that he'd been faithful to me, he said he could have had any girl on tour but he didn't because of me. Oliver told me he wished he had because then he would have got some action."

Miley didn't know how to react with Lilly's revelation. "He said what?"

"He didn't say much else; that was when I hit him."

"If that hadn't have come from you then I would never believe that Oliver would have said it."

"I feel awful for hitting him, but he knew what it meant to me."

"He deserved it Lilly, he should never had said that, whether he wanted to or not."

"He would always try it with me Miley, I wanted to give in but Ollie just didn't get how much it meant to me."

"Lil, you did the right thing."

Lilly looked up at her girlfriend. "Can I have a hug now?"

"Come here." Miley said wrapping her arms tightly around her lover. "You feel that bad?"

Lilly nodded as she tightened her arms around Miley. "I wanna say sorry but I may hit him again."

"Leave him with Jackson for a bit, let them have a talk. Just let him cool off for the night and we'll talk to him tomorrow."

"Do you think he'll stay?"

"Well..." Miley said drawing back from the hug. "That will be a bit difficult if he doesn't have these." She held the car keys up in front of Lilly's face. "Let's go back downstairs with everyone else; we'll deal with Oliver later."

Jackson had found Oliver sitting by the poolside still attempting to stop his nose from bleeding.

"Hey Oliver." He said sitting down and offering his friend a towel. "Try this, it should help."

"Hey man. Thanks." He said taking the towel and pressing it to his face. "Ouch." He moaned. "Lilly can really pack a punch." He scoffed to himself.

"Haven't been unlucky enough yet to be hit."

"I really fucked up Jackson." He sighed.

"What did you do?"

"You don't already know? I would have thought Lilly would have told you." He mused to himself.

"She said she hit you. That's all." Jackson shrugged and looked at Oliver.

"I was so out of order to her; I have basically called her frigid. Man, what have I done?"

"So you and Lilly never..." Jackson furrowed his brow. He always assumed that after a year and a bit together that they would have, hell, Miley and Lilly had only been dating a couple of months and they screwed like bunnies.

Oliver shook his head. "I really wanted to, I loved her so much but every time I'd suggest it she'd back out."

"Where did I go wrong? I mean what did Miley do to make it special?"

"Whoa dude, you're over stepping the mark just a bit don't you think?" Jackson didn't know exactly what Oliver was trying to achieve by asking all these questions. "And I certainly don't want to know any of the answers to the questions you've just posed."

"Okay, how about some guy to guy advice?" Jackson gave a nod. "What would you do?"

"What would I do?" Jackson mulled this question over carefully before answering. "I would take her out, make her feel special, talked to her about it."

"Talk?" Oliver looked puzzled.

"Yeah you know, communicating with words? You did talk right?" Jackson pressed the issue here, if not for Lilly's sake for the next girl Oliver met.

"No not really. I just thought get on with it and see what happens."

"You're an idiot." Jackson whacked Oliver round the back of his head.

"Jackson! What on earth was that for?" Oliver rubbed the back of his head.

"It's not like a film dude. Sex doesn't just magically happen. You shouldn't have pressed the fact you wanted it so badly."

Oliver didn't answer for a while. "Shit."

"Yeah, shit Oliver. Dude, you're one of my mates but sometimes you seriously need to think with your head instead of your pants."

He went quite for a moment or two. "I feel bad for Lilly, I mean she seems happy." Oliver shrugged.

"They are." Jackson said standing up. "Don't go fucking it up for them." Jackson lowered his voice. "And if you do, you'll regret it."

Oliver continued to sit by the pool. He wasn't sure how to approach his ex girlfriend and her current girlfriend. "What do I do?" He muttered to himself.