I can't believe how long this has taken me – useless I know. My brain has literally stopped working and I'm doing my best to kick it back in to action! This chapter is setting up for the next few instalments, a filler basically. I'm really not happy with it but I need it to move on. Sorry! I just wanted to say thank you to the people who are still reading/reviewing. I really appreciate it! I promise I'll try and get the next chapter up quicker!

Bon Jovi – Welcome To Wherever You Are

Welcome to wherever you are
This is your life, you made it this far
Welcome, you gotta believe
That right here right now, you're exactly where you're supposed to be
Welcome, to wherever you are.

"Miley!" A young girl screamed as the door flew open, banged on the wall before a small child launched herself on to the bed.

"Fuuu... Flippin' hell!" Miley screamed as she quickly rolled off Lilly, realising who the intruder was. "Molly!" She said with a harsh tone, fortunately for Miley the girl didn't seem to notice and continued to bounce up and down on the bed.

"Miley!" The little girl yelled once more before jumping down for a hug, nearly knocking Miley's breath out of her in the process.

"Hey." Miley did her best to hug Molly with arm, all the while trying to preserve her modesty with her other. "Hey Sweetie, listen,I know you're excited to see me and everything, but do you think you could go back outside until I say you can come in." Miley gave her a big smile.

"Why?"

"Well, I just need to get up and sort something out. Then you can come back in. Okay?" Miley though that trying to explain that she was naked and desperately needed to put on some clothes probably wouldn't be the best idea.

"Okay. How long?"

"A couple of minutes, tell you what, why don't you go and get Mr. Bunny? I'd like to see him again."

"Okay!" Molly said excitedly as she jumped off the bed and ran out of the door.

Miley quickly moved from the bed and shut the door.

"You better explain this one." Lilly said leaning over the bed and grabbing her t-shirt and shorts.

"She's my youngest cousin on Dad's side of the family, she adores me for some reason and ever since I came out as Hannah she's glued herself to me."

Lilly raised an eyebrow as she slipped her shorts on. "Great, just what I wanted at half seven in the morning. I thought I was getting something else."

"Sorry Lil." Miley said rushing over and placing a kiss on Lilly's lips. "She's only 7; she loves being around me." Miley pulled on her pyjama pants and shirt, opened the door and just managed to hop back in to bed by the time Molly came rushing back in, launching herself on the bed once more.

"Here's Mr. Bunny!" Molly breathed heavily before thrusting a stuffed rabbit in Miley's face.

"Hey there." Miley shook the bunny's paw.

"Who's that?" Molly said rather obnoxiously pointing a finger at Lilly, only just realising that she was there.

"This is Lilly." Miley said with a smile.

"And is she your friend?"

"Yeah, she is."

"But why is she in your bed?"

"Because she's my girlfriend." Miley said as a matter of fact, the less she made a big deal about her and Lilly to younger children the less they cared she discovered.

"Hey." Lilly said at last.

The child looked at Lilly for a moment or two before pushing herself in-between her and Miley. "Hi. Do you like my bunny?" She said shoving the rabbit in Lilly's face, Lilly tried to not look disgusted at the smell, the only thing Lilly planned on having her face in this morning was Miley.

"Yeah, I do, I used to have a rabbit just like him."

"A real one?" Molly looked at Lilly with wide, disbelieving eyes.

"Yeah, a real one." Lilly smiled softly.

Molly turned back to Miley. "I like her."

"Seems like you've got at least one of my cousins approval."

Two days later and Miley's patience was wearing thin, not to mention Lilly who was almost at boiling point.

"Can't we ditch your cousin for half an hour?" Lilly hissed through gritted teeth.

"Believe me, I wish we could." Miley turned her head so Molly couldn't lip read what she was saying. "I don't know why Aunt Helen has left her with me. I don't mind babysitting but this is just ridiculous."

"Tell me about it." Lilly rolled her eyes. "Can't we just send her away to do something?"

"It's worth a try." Miley gave a shrug and stood up from the hay bale she and Lilly were sitting on. "Hey Molly?"

The young child looked at Miley with such innocence that her resolve nearly broke, a quick kick from Lilly reminded Miley. "Yes?"

Miley desperately racked her brains for a job she knew would take a good half an hour. "Have you picked up the poo in the round pen yet?"

"No." The child looked quizzical. "I don't do that." She said in a pretentious manner.

"Well, you're a big enough girl now; you need to learn that if you ride a horse you have other responsibilities."

"But it's nasty." Molly wrinkled her nose.

"Well that's just something you'll have get used to. Now go and get a wheelbarrow, a fork and get shovelling." Miley gave her cousin a bright smile.

"Okay." She said begrudgingly. "Would you like a fork?"

"No thank you."

"Why not?"

"I've got some bits to sort out with Lilly; I'll be down after to see how you're doing."

"Okay." Molly got up and wandered out of the back of the barn and towards the pens.

Miley let her breath out. "Thank God. You fancy a bit of Miley and Lilly time?"

"Of course." Lilly smiled as Miley held out her hand. "You do realise that I'm so tired that I will probably fall asleep?"

"Honestly," Miley paused for a moment. "So will I, but I'll relish some peace and quiet for a bit." She said pulling herself to the top of the hay loft ladder. "C'mon Lil."

"Jesus, I'm coming women!" She said heaving herself that last few runs.

"Bliss!" Miley said flopping back on the deep pile of hay.

Lilly plonked her tired body down next to Miley. "Any chance that we can speak to Mamaw about having a lie in tomorrow? And maybe a lock on our door that works? I can't stand not being able to have sex in the morning in case Molly comes in. It must be like a whole..." Lilly tried to count on her fingers.

Miley gave a laugh. "Three days Lil, I think that's probably the norm for most people."

Lilly smiled as she tucked herself into her girlfriend's side. "I can't help it. I have a high sex drive. We're teenagers; we're supposed to screw like bunnies."

Miley laughed out loud once more, it felt like music to Lilly's ears. "I'd love to tell Jackson and Sienna that the next time we can hear them shouting at us."

"I'd love to know how your Dad doesn't hear us, or them for that matter I mean we can hear them. God, I've just realised how sorry I feel for your Dad."

"Earplugs." Miley smiled as she wrapped a comforting around Lilly. "Found them when I was looking for a CD."

"I don't know whether to be embarrassed or laugh."

"How did we even get on this subject?" Miley shook her head.

"Because we're sex starved."

"We are so having a lie in tomorrow, I think the markets tomorrow so they'll all be off early. You can moan as loud as you want."

Lilly laughed and looked at Miley. "What do you mean?"

Miley turned too. "I mean when you're about to come and you want to moan and scream. Here you bite down on your lip."

"Don't tell me this! I don't want to know!" Lilly hid her face.

"Well, I'm just telling you. We can have a Molly free day, or at least morning."

"Sounds quite harsh when you put it like that." Lilly wrinkled her nose in thought.

"I know and I don't mean it to be, I just feel that we're being used. She's a sweet kid, I love her but we need some time to ourselves."

"Why don't we go out in to town in the evening, that way we'll have the evening to ourselves as well." Lilly suggested.

"Oh Lillian, are you asking me out on a date?" Miley mocked.

"Oh shut up." Lilly pinched Miley's side, forcing a squeak. "Don't make me anymore embarrassed."

"Lillian, it's me, you can do anything and it wouldn't phase me. What happened to that tomboy skater chick?"

"She's still here. I've just learnt to be little more lady like." Lilly held a serious face for a moment before both of them burst out laughing. Hooking a leg over Lilly sat astride Miley.

"What ya gonna do?" Miley felt both her hands be taken from her sides and pulled up. "Lilly?"

Twenty minutes later the two girls climbed down the loft ladder and headed towards the house. Lilly was picking out various pieces of hay out of her hair and Miley was attempting to do up her shirt.

"Do you realise your shirt is buttoned up wonky?" Lilly said looking at the two holes Miley had missed.

"Shit." She said quickly fumbling around, trying to straighten her clothes out.

"Yeah, that's it; make it look obvious when we're almost at the porch." She laughed.

"Lillian! I wanna talk to Mamaw."

"And why would you two want to talk to me?" She said swinging open the door. "Come on, in you come. Lilly, I need you to test my cake mixture."

Lilly looked delighted. "No problem Mamaw! You know me!" Lilly fixed her eyes on the bowl on the counter.

"Hello girls." Miley's Aunt Helen said in her low voice. "Where's my Molly?"

"Oh," Miley stumbled for a moment. "We sent her to pick up the poo in the pens."

Helen nodded, not exactly enthralled with this piece of knowledge. "Don't you think she's a bit young?"

"Gotta learn someday." Mamaw said with a shrug before looking back at Lilly. "How's this?" She offered Lilly the spoon.

"Hey Mamaw, about tomorrow..." Miley began.

"Oh my God this is good." Lilly said happily as she dropped it down her chin before eating the rest of the mixture off the spoon.

"Lil, please."

"Sorry."

"Would you mind if Lilly and I had a lie in tomorrow, I know it's market day, but we're both so tired and..."

"Oh," Aunt Helen interrupted.

"What?" Miley said looking at her Aunt. She didn't mean to be quite so rude or blunt, but she was fed up of her Aunt palming her child off on anybody within range.

"Well I wanted you to look after Molly until the evening."

Lilly sighed and looked at her now scowling girlfriend. "Sorry Aunt Helen, I have got to get some sleep, I just need some time to chill out."

"I don't see why not, you two have worked hard over the past ten days."

"But Mother..." Aunt Helen begun.

"Oh hush up. These two have been very good to Molly and very useful around the farm. Maybe you should try and look after her instead of plying her off on everyone all the time. Grow up."

Lilly and Miley looked at one another, there was obviously some tension underlying between the two of them. Before anything else was said Molly came running in to the kitchen. "Miley! I did it!"

"Well done. Did you pick all the poo up in Silver's pen?" The little girl nodded proudly. "Good girl."

"What are we doing next?" She said excitedly.

"Well I'm going upstairs to have a shower."

"Isn't Lilly?"

"What?" Miley looked confused at the strange question her cousin posed to her.

"Well earlier you said Lilly was a 'dirty girl.'"

Lilly stopped licking her spoon and Miley froze. "W-w-what?" She choked out.

"You said Lilly was a 'dirty girl.'"

"I don't think so." Miley said, avoiding the scrutinizing gaze of her Mamaw and her Aunt.

"You did, I heard you in the barn, right before you screamed. You didn't find a rat did you? I don't like them."

"Err, yeah I did. The rat ran across Lilly, rats are dirty aren't they?"

"Yeah." She nodded.

Lilly nearly swallowed the whole spoon to stop herself laughing out loud.

"Run along Molly, we need to have a grown up talk; can you go and play with your cousins for a bit?" She nodded and Helen stood up and closed the door behind her. "What on EARTH do you two think you we're doing?" She shouted at Miley and Lilly.

"I assume that is pretty obvious." Miley said raising her eyebrow.

"Don't be so insolent! You are disgusting! How could you let my daughter hear that?"

"Well it wasn't intentional, maybe if you gave Lilly and I a break this wouldn't have happened! Do you realise that she comes in to our bedroom every morning at 7am and doesn't leave until 10pm! If she has a nightmare she always comes to me! Exactly where does that leave time for me and Lils? This is supposed to be our holiday too! Do you have any idea what it's like to actually work?"

Helen snorted. "Yeah, having millions turn into more millions must be taxing."

"I've worked for every cent, fought for everything I have done, why don't you try?" Miley stood upright, making her appear far taller and much older. "Because it must be so hard having everything given to you."

"That's rich!"

"Enough!" Mamaw yelled, throwing another spoon down on the table. "Behave the pair of you! Miley, Lilly, I told you what I expected of you! I'm well aware that you two are having sex, hence why I gave you your own room, that is where I expect your intimate times to stay! And you Helen, need to pull your act together, you're 30 for goodness' sakes! You're a mother, act like one! These girls only want some time to themselves; ever thought that's why they're here for the summer? I've seen what Miley has to deal with and believe me, it ain't easy!"

"Sorry Mamaw." Miley and Lilly said in unison.

Mamaw nodded before looking at her youngest child. "What have you got to say for yourself?"

"Nothing." And with that Helen stood up and walked out the kitchen.

Mamaw watched before shaking her head and turning back to her cake. "Off you go girls, I need some time alone."

Miley sat down on the bed with a worried face. "What do you think that was all about?"

"I don't know." Lilly closed the door behind her and knelt down to look at the lock.

"What are you doing?"

"As we didn't get a chance to ask Mamaw about it, seeing if I can fix the lock it." Lilly opened the door once more and pushed the latch with her finger.

"You can't be serious, not again Lil, especially with everyone in the house."

"No, I don't you idiot. I was just thinking that I don't want your cousin bursting in again if I'm having a shower!"

Miley laughed. "Fair enough. I don't think I've ever heard you scream that loud in your life." Lilly gave Miley a stern look. "Mended it Lil?" Miley said mockingly.

"Nope, but I will do in..." Lilly looked around for a solid object, her gaze fell on the doorstop. She picked it up and whacked the lock. "...Two seconds."

"Lilly!" Miley yelled.

She checked the lock. "It works." She said with a shrug. "If in doubt, hit it. Now we can talk." She said going over to the edge of the bed.

"And a locked door is gonna make a difference?"

"It just does." She said lying back on the bed. "You know Miles; I have never heard Mamaw say anything like that. She's kinda scary."

Miley turned her head and rested her upper body on her right arm. "Only to Aunt Helen."

"But why?"

"She's just irresponsible. She had Molly when she was 23; it was an accident from a one night stand."

"Whoa." Lilly raised her eyebrows. "Does Molly know her Dad?"

"He was around for a little while, after that he just disappeared."

"Single parent huh? That must have been hard."

"Unlike your Mum Lils, she doesn't really work. She sponges off everyone and palms Molly on anybody. I feel so sorry for that kid."

"Is that why you spend so much time with her?" Miley gave a sad nod. "Come here." Lilly said pulling Miley down in to a hug.

"I just think even if I make her happy for a day or so, it will make a difference."

"You're so sweet." Lilly kissed the top of Miley's head. "Okay, tomorrow, when they're all back from the market we'll take her out, spoil her a bit and then go out later?"

"Sounds good, your treat?" Miley smiled, her blue eyes reflecting Lilly's.

Lilly rolled her eyes and smiled. "Yes."

Luanne had just arrived, greeting everyone with smiles, hugs and the occasional kiss. Mamaw had just been about to yell for Miley and Lilly, but Luanne had stopped her, insisting that she would go up and say hello herself. She placed her bag in her usual small room and crept along the landing, eavesdropping at her cousin's conversation. Luanne nearly gagged at Miley and Lilly as they playfully tormented one another, she wanted to wait before she walked in, after all she didn't want either of them to think she'd overheard them.

Luanne looked at her watch; she figured that two minutes would be fine. "Hey Couz!" She tried twisting the handle, but found herself smacking in to the door.

"And that's why we lock the door." Miley said with a hushed whisper as Lilly clamped her hand over her mouth. "Luanne?"

"The one and only!" She called back in a friendly tone. "Don't either of you wanna say hi to your Couz?" Luanne heard the lock click and tried to hide her grin. "How ya doing?" Miley just stood with her arms crossed, no smile, nor a hello. "Aren't you pleased to see me?"

"Since last time you tried to expose Miley, no." Lilly stood up.

"That was four years ago and Miley's no longer Hannah anymore." Luanne widened her fake smile.

"That's not really the point though, is it?"

"I'd like to think that I've grown up since then. I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry and could we start with a clean plate?" Luanne watched as Miley and Lilly looked at one another. They almost seemed to be having a silent conversation.

"Okay." Miley finally said. "But this doesn't mean I trust you, that is something that has to be earned."

"That's all I ask." Luanne smiled once more; she tried to suppress the smirk. "Oh, Mamaw said she'd like everyone down for cake in half an hour." Luanne turned around and headed towards her room.

"Okay, thanks." The soft, friendly tone of Miley's voice reminded her of when they were much younger. Luanne almost stopped, but she forced herself to continue walking. Miley was a bitch and she would have her revenge.

Miley and Lilly plonked themselves on the sofa furthest away from the door and nearest to where the cake would be placed. "Where's everyone?" Lilly turned her head to look out the window behind her.

"Probably half way across the big field, they'll be here."

"Hey Couz, they're coming in now Lilly." Luanne sat heavily on the sofa, making it an uncomfortable squeeze.

Miley gave an awkward cough and budged Lilly further up the sofa. "What do you want me to do, mount the arm?" Lilly said with a smile.

"Sorry." Miley looked up to see a very harsh stare coming from her Aunt Helen. She raised her eyebrows at her, never breaking the eye contact; she wouldn't be the first to look away. Helen gave a look of disgust before turning her back.

"Awkward." Mumbled Lilly.

"What's up there?" Luanne asked.

"Minor disagreement."

"Didn't look minor to me."

"It's private." Miley said harshly.

"Okay, sorry." Luanne tried to look as hurt as she could manage, despite her face Miley didn't apologise to her. "Bitch." Luanne thought.

Thankfully Mamaw came in with a large tray full of different cakes to distract everyone's attention. "Here you are, Lilly, you wait." Mamaw said with a grin and a cheeky one straight back from Lilly.

"I'll behave, would you like a hand?"

"No thanks Darlin', Earl and Robbie are in the kitchen, I better see if we've got anything left."

Lilly reached forward before feeling a sharp sting. "Lillian." Miley grabbed her hand and sat on it.

"There's a crumb."

"Nice try."

Lilly gave a snort. "Well can you get off my hand?"

"No, I don't trust you." Lilly moved her index finger; she knew she could taunt her. "Please."

Miley glared at Lilly. The look just read 'you dare.' Unfortunately for Miley she would, until she let her hand up. Lilly used her finger and pushed.

"Okay, okay!" Miley said lifting her cheek up.

Luanne felt really uncomfortable, she had guessed straight away what her cousin and girlfriend were doing and it made her feel sick to her stomach. Thankfully the rest of their family came in so Luanne, Miley and Lilly didn't have to fill the awkward silence.

"Cake, tea, coffee, sit your butts down and help yourselves." The room suddenly filled up with a lot of people, making it quite a squish.

"Hey Jackson can you pass me some coffee please?" Miley asked.

"Only if you want it with spit." He grinned.

"Don't be so disgusting." Mamaw clouted the back of Jackson's head.

He rubbed it with a frown. "I forgot you did that."

"It's okay, I'll get it." Luanne stood up. "Would you like some too Lilly?" With cheeks like a hamsters, Lilly nodded.

"Thanks Lu." Miley smiled.

The sound of Miley calling her "Lu" made Luanne almost stop in her tracks, she hadn't called her that since they were small. Passing them each a coffee, she perched on the end of the sofa once more before turning towards them. "Hey, you guys fancy coming out to dinner with me tonight?" Luanne asked while passing Lilly yet another slice of cake.

"No thanks Luanne, Lilly and I are going out on our own."

"Ah come on." Robbie said in-between mouthfuls. "Take Luanne out, you guys could do with some bonding."

Miley scowled. "Dad!" She hissed.

"Robbie's right, it will be good for you girls to do some bonding, you never see each other." Mamaw said brightly.

"Fine." Miley grumbled. "Better cancel the restaurant Lil." Miley whispered, looking at Lilly, she saw a scowl.