Chapter Sixteen

Nick's POV 4

"Right." Miley said smiling, looking down and shaking her head. "That girl..."

"Selena likes happy endings..."

Miley's smile faded. "I don't want to hear about your exes happy endings."

"She's your friend, isn't she?"

"Y-yeah, I guess but I don't want to talk about her with you."

"Miley."

She finally looked at him.

"What do you want to talk about?"

"I dont know. What do you want to talk about?" He could see she didn't want to go straight into what they were talking about before Selena interrupted them.

He just smiled at her. "Whatever you want to talk about."

Miley looked down. "What about that Justin Bieber kid? Isn't he cute?"

"Okay. I was wrong. I don't want to talk about Justin Bieber." Nick swung his gaze to her.

"What?" Miley asked innocently.

"You can't honestly expect me to answer that?" Nick stood up frustrated swiping his hand down his face. He wanted to talk about the kiss. He wanted to talk about their relationship.

"Going somewhere?" Miley asked warily.

"Not yet."

"Something wrong?"

Nick sat down next to Miley again. "Alright. Everything is good. Anything else you want to talk about?"

"Um...your parents. I really want you to tell them I'm sorry about...everything."

"Miley, that..doesn't have anything to do with us."

"Uh..I've been acting pretty bad towards them when they haven't even done anything. Of course it does-"

"Miley!"

Miley sighed. "Okay, so you don't want to be friends anymore?"

"Just friends. I don't want to be just friends."

Miley's eyes caught his out of the corner of her gaze. "You want to date me?"

"I want to...yes." Nick said. "I do."

"You sound unsure."

"But I'm not. We've had our bumpy relationships." Nick shrugged. "And I've talked to...people about this...and I AM sure."

Miley narrowed her eyes. "Who is people?"

Nick mumbled something.

"I didn't hear that."

"Joe. I...talked to Joe about this."

"I...don't know what to say to that."

"I know Joe can be a bit..." Nick stopped when he gazed at Miley's face.

Miley smiled. "I'm happy that you talked to your brother. I know how hard that was for you."

Nick smiled back at her.

"I...need a little time, though."

Nick just continued to smile at her glad she had even said that. She could have completely rejected him.

Miley started to squirm and look away. "Can you stop looking at me like that?"

Nick shrugged. "Like what?"

Miley just shook her head so Nick immediately looked to the floor.

"Listen. If it makes you uncomfortable, I won't look at you at all."

Miley laughed. "That's not going to work at all. Plus, it's not uncomfortable what I feel. You make me feel so many other things but not..." Miley trailed off as Nick leaned in for a kiss unable to resist. "Oh..." Miley pulled away and stood up touching her lips softly. "This is what I'm talking about. I can't think when you're here."

Nick stood up, too and nodded. "Youre right. I'll leave. But I'll be back. You need space right now." He headed to the door and stood by it for a moment with his eyes on Miley again. "Call me."

She nodded and watched Nick leave the hotel suite silently.