Chapter Thirteen
Nick's POV 3
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November 14th
Nick tapped lightly on his brother's front door before letting himself in. "Joe?"
He heard a puzzled, "In...here," before Joe appeared in the entryway. "Hey.."
"How you been doing?" He asked slowly and awkwardly. Nick thought Joe was probably wondering what he was doing here.
"Uh...fine. You?"
Nick scratched the back of his neck. "I sort of...can't say the same." Nick sighed.
"What's...up?" Joe said, stepping forward.
"It's Miley."
Joe shook his head. "Oh no." Then he turned and walked out of the room.
Nick followed him straight to the kitchen. "What do you mean 'oh no'?"
"Well, everytime a sentence starts with Miley, it's never good."
"Huh. She said something similar about you but...she said some other things as well, that were nice."
Joe turned from the blender he was about to cut on to Nick, "Miley said something nice about me?" Nick nodded and Joe asked, "What was it?"
"I don't know if she wants you to know, but she said that you and her were a lot alike and if you hadn't...used her best friend's heart in your long train of girls...her words...then you guys might be...friends."
"Alike? There's no way Miley and I are alike." Joe said shaking his head and turning back around to make his smoothie.
"You guys are exactly alike and that what worries me."
"Why?"
"If Miley is a person who is searching for herself in another person and doesn't really know what she wants then...I'm screwed." Nick said. "Im in love with her."
Joe opened his mouth, probably to protest that description but he closed it.
"I...think Miley knows what she wants." Joe said after a minute. "If you keep going back to something, odds are you belong there. If Miley keeps coming back to you, maybe that's where and who she really wants to be with."
Nick looked down contemplating then looked back up at his brother. "You want to get some lunch? I thought I'd get some Fred Segel's."
"Sure. I love that place."
November 15th
Nick tapped his fingers on the door of Miley's hotel room quietly thinking if knocking. He leaned hisself against the hallway wall thinking to himself, 'what am I doing? This girl is obviously a heart breaker. You're setting yourself up for sadness and an endless bout of crying,' which he had never had over Selena. But was that a good thing or a bad thing?
"Nick?" Nick glanced up to see Miley standing at the the door looking down at him puzzled. "What are you doing?"
He stood up slowly not really knowing the answer to that question. "I...was..."
He sighed. "I don't know."
She looked at him for a minute and Nick half expected her to shoo him away for good but she just smiled and said, "Come on in."
Nick followed her into the suite where they sat on the couch together, touching knees while facing each other and staring intently at each other.
"How's your family? Nothings happened, right?"
"Nope. Even had a talk with Joe."
Miley nodded. "That's great."
"Is it?"
"Yeah. That's...what you wanted isn't it?"
Nick slowly grinned. "I think you were right about the Joe thing. He is trying to find himself in other people. I had to tell him the same thing I told you."
Miley smiled. "You told Joe he was beautiful, gorgeous and sexy? Go Joe. Everyone needs to hear that once in awhile."
Nick laughed. "No. I told him there's no such thing as finding yourself. You are who you are." Nick took Miley's hand. "I don't want you to forget that." He said staring deeply into her gaze.
