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The next morning came sooner than expected, and this time, it was the kids who were ready to get up. The parents...not so much.

"Mommy!", Belle repeated for the fifth time, shaking her mother in an attempt to wake her up.

"Huh? What is it, Belle?", Miley muttered, still not wanting to open her eyes.

"It's time to get up! You said we could go to the pool this morning."

Lilly sighed, sitting up in the other bed. "It's okay, Miley. I'll take her. Just let me throw some clothes on, sweetie."

"Thank you", Miley uttered, getting comfortable again.

"Mommy!" Lilly heard her son's voice combined with a rapping on the door. She was willing to bet that Joe and Nick didn't want to get up either.

She opened the door quickly. "Myles, get in here! You're going to be waking up half the hotel."

The little boy complied. As Lilly walked into the bathroom to get ready, he and Belle went to sit by the window that overlooked the pool.

"It's so pretty. I can't wait to go down there", she said excitedly.

"Me too", he agreed.

"My mommy was supposed to come, but I think she's too tired", Belle said, glancing at a sleeping Miley.

That's all it took for Myles to remember what his uncle had said the previous night. He thought it was cool that his Uncle Nick liked his Aunt Miley. But he had said he wouldn't tell. The little boy smiled. He had said he wouldn't tell Miley.

"Hey Belle, wanna know a secret?"

A few hours later, they were nearing the front of a line. They had been standing there for what seemed like forever. To have a picture taken with some sweaty guy in a Mickey Mouse costume. Not that they could tell the kids that. Miley sipped on a cup of lemonade as she listened to the others debate their favorite Disney villains. She wasn't exactly sure how this topic came up.

"Yeah, but I still think Ursula is the best", Lilly remarked to some comment Nick had made.

"She didn't scare anybody, Lilly", Joe pointed out. "How can you be a good villain if you can't even scare little kids?"

Miley sighed. "Why don't you guys settle this by asking actual kids?", she suggested, motioning to Belle and Myles who were giggling about something.

"Good idea", Nick grinned. He leaned down to the kids' level. "Hey, guys. Who do you think is the best Disney villain?"

"Plankton!", Myles replied enthusiastically.

"Spongebob's not Disney, bud", Lilly commented. She turned to the others. "Wow, I don't think there are any good villains for their generation. They're all such wusses now."

"Sad", Joe agreed.

"Hey, we're next!", Belle exclaimed. She and Myles ran ahead, and practically launched themselves at the guy in the Mickey Mouse suit.

After tearing the kids off of the poor guy, Lilly and Joe positioned themselves on one side with Myles and Miley stood behind Belle on the other side. Nick wasn't really sure what to do.

"Nick! Get in the picture, man!", Joe called.

Belle ran over to him, and looked up at him sweetly. Almost in a sneaky way. "You should come stand by me and mommy." She grabbed his hand, and led him over to Miley. They shared a small smile.

"Alright, are we ready?", the photographer asked.

"Yeah!", everyone yelled in unison.

"Okay...say Mickey!"

"Mickey!"

As they were waiting in line for lunch, Myles and Belle managed to get a few feet away from the adults.

"We gotta find a way to get them alone together", Myles said quietly, looking at Miley and Nick.

"How do we do that?", Belle whispered.

Joe appeared seemingly out of nowhere, causing them both to jump. "What are you two being all sneaky about?" Neither of them responded. "Uh-huh. See, I notice these things. Come on. I want in on the secret."

"Daddy, you're already in on the secret", Myles uttered. "That Uncle Nick likes Aunt Miley."

Joe rolled his eyes. He knew that Myles wouldn't be able to keep his mouth shut. "Son, who all have you told about this?"

"Just Belle. I didn't tell Aunt Miley. I promise I didn't."

"Hey, Myles. Maybe Uncle Joe could help us", Belle pointed out.

The little boy's eyes widened. "Could you, daddy?"

"Could I what?", Joe asked cautiously. Whatever these two were trying to do, he knew that he probably didn't want to get involved.

"Help us get Uncle Nick and Aunt Miley alone together. They're never gonna fall in love and get married if they don't get to be alone", Myles stated. Belle nodded in agreement.

Joe couldn't help but smile. Kids saw things with such simplicity. He knew what he was about to say was against his better judgment. "Tell you what? I'll see what I can do. But you two gotta stop with all your scheming, okay?" The kids nodded.

Later that evening, Lilly walked out of the hotel bathroom wearing a stunning black dress. Her hair was swept up elegantly. Very rarely did Miley remember seeing her this dressed up.

"Wow, you look so beautiful", Miley gushed as she watched her friend put on a pair of diamond earrings.

"Thanks", Lilly smiled. "Are you sure you don't mind watching Myles? I know him and Belle are a handful when they're together."

"Oh, yeah, it's no problem. Besides, I'll have Nick to help me. You and Joe just go have a great time. Don't worry about a thing."

"I just feel kind of bad. Going out on the town while you and Nick are stuck here keeping kids entertained", Lilly admitted.

Miley gave her a hint of a smile. "Don't feel bad. Hey, I bet we have a better time than you guys. Just chillin', eating pizza, watching cartoons."

Lilly laughed as they heard a knock on the door. She smoothed her dress, and opened it. Nick and the kids walked past her, and then, she saw her husband. All decked out in a tuxedo with a single rose in his hand. He handed it to her. "For my beautiful wife."

"Awww, you're so sweet. Bye, Miley", she waved before closing the door behind her.

"Alone at last", Joe grinned, leaning down to kiss her.

"Mmm-hmm." She pulled back. "But we should probably be going. There will be a lot more time for that later."

"I'm gonna hold you to that."

"So", Nick uttered as he set a Wal-Mart bag of DVD's down on one of the beds. "I guess it was smart of Lilly to bring these after all. What are you guys feelin' tonight? We got your Lion King, your Little Mermaid, your...Twilight?" He shook his head. "Not sure how that one got in there."

"Oh, you're not a Twilight fan?", Miley teased, sitting down on the floor. Myles and Belle practically attacked the bag of movies.

"Yeah, I'm just gonna let you guys pick one out", Nick said as he sat down on the floor as well. "Nah, Twilight's not really my thing. I guess it's because I didn't find Jacob to be a total dreamboat like every girl in the theater."

She laughed. "Can I ask why you were in the theater watching Twilight in the first place?"

"An ill-advised date", he sighed. "And there didn't wind up being a second one."

"We found one!", Myles announced to them, holding up a copy of Titanic.

"It's a love movie", Belle informed them.

Nick and Miley exchanged puzzled looks. "You guys want to watch Titanic?", he repeated, just to make sure he was hearing this right.

They both nodded.

"No way. That is entirely too inappropriate for you two", Miley said, rejecting the movie. "Don't you want to watch a cartoon or something?"

The kids looked at each other. "No", they answered in unison.

"Okay", Nick relented, putting the DVD in the DVD player. "But we're going to have to skip through half the movie."

Belle grinned. "As long as we don't have to skip the love parts."

Lilly and Joe walked down the boardwalk, their hands laced together. She smiled as she looked at him. "I love you. You know that, right?"

"I love you too", he said softly, stopping to stare down at his wife. He tucked a piece of blond hair behind her ear. "You are so beautiful."

"Well, you're not too hard to look at yourself", she said playfully. "Oh, I'm so glad we got to do this. Don't get me wrong. I love spending time with Miley and Nick and the kids, but I need my Joe time."

He laughed. "And I need my Lilly time. But there's actually kind of something that I need to tell you real quick." She looked at him attentively. "You were right. Nick does like Miley."

Lilly clapped her hands together. "I knew it! He told you?"

Joe nodded. "Yeah. And I wanted to tell you when he told me, but he didn't want me to tell you because he thought you would run straight to Miley with it. But then, Myles overheard us talking about it, and he told Belle about it. And now, they're trying to play matchmaker, and I think they're kind of assuming that I'm going to help them."

"Whoa, slow down", she said, sitting down on the nearest bench. He sat down next to her. "So, Myles and Belle know that Nick likes Miley?"

"Well, yeah. And if Nick doesn't tell Miley how he feels soon, one of them is bound to spill the beans", he pointed out. "They want me to set the two of them up."

Lilly couldn't help but smile. "Aw, that's sweet of them. But Joe, I'm not sure that we should get involved. I know Nick's a wonderful guy, but Miley is just starting to get over everything that happened with Jake. It might be too much too soon for her."

"You could be right", Joe admitted. "But you do know the kind of guy Nick is. He would never hurt Miley. He just needs a chance to prove that to her."

She gave him a thoughtful look. "I guess you have a point. I don't want Miley to get hurt again, and I don't think that would happen with Nick. So, lets say we do set them up this once. But after that, we never interfere again."

He grinned. "Sounds like a plan. I guess I just want them to be as happy as us, you know?"

"I know", Lilly agreed. "I feel so lucky that I actually found the guy who I'm meant to spend the rest of my life with. And who knows? Maybe Nick will turn out to be that guy for Miley."

It didn't take the kids ten minutes to fall asleep after the movie started. Miley and Nick had been chatting through most of it. They had talked about everything under the sun really. Their families, favorite bands, where they wanted their lives to go. She really hadn't been paying that much attention to the movie. Until the sound of a stinging slap captured her attention. She wanted so much to ignore it. But her eyes went back to the screen, and tears threatened to well up in them. No. She wouldn't cry. Not over a movie and not in front of Nick.

He couldn't help but notice the expression on her face. The smile that had been there just a few moments ago was replaced by a look of utter anguish. "Miley...are you okay?", he asked gently.

She slowly turned back to him. "He...hit her", she stated quietly. "I mean, I know it's just a movie. It's not real..."

"It was to you", Nick said softly. "Hey, it's okay. You don't have to pretend with me. I should have remembered that part was in the movie. I'm sorry", he apologized, pressing the pause button on the remote.

"No, you didn't do anything wrong", Miley tried to assure him. "I'm being over-sensitive. I can't keep letting stuff like this get to me."

"You're not being over-sensitive. You've been through a lot of things that no one should have to go through. But you're safe now, Miley. I will make sure that he never hurts you again", he vowed, staring directly into her eyes. "You have my word on that."

She allowed a tear to fall down her cheek as he put his arm around her in an attempt to comfort her. Her eyes stared up into his, and she was sure that she had never trusted someone so much in her entire life.

"I believe you", she said honestly. "You've been so wonderful to me, and I don't think I can ever tell you just how much it means to me...how much you mean to me."

"You mean a lot to me too." Nick wished that he could tell her that his feelings for her ran deeper than those of friendship. He just couldn't bring himself to do it. Not until he knew that she was fully ready to hear something like that.

She smiled at him, and then glanced over at the kids who were sprawled out on the floor. "We should probably get them in bed", she stated, reluctantly standing up. He stood up as well.

"We should", he agreed before realizing that he had left his hotel key in the other room. "But there may be a little problem with that."

"What?"

"I left my room key in the room, and I'm not sure when Lilly and Joe are going to be back."

Miley nodded. "Well, that's okay. You and Myles can just stay in here with us for the night."

Nick looked at her unsurely. "Miley, I don't know..."

"Nick, it's fine", she assured him. And it was. She completely trusted him. Miley got Belle settled in one bed while Nick got Myles situated in the other.

"Miley?", he said before turning off the lamp.

"Yeah?"

"Good night."

She smiled to herself. "Good night, Nick."

So, I hope you guys liked it. Please let me know what you think!