In the last chapter:

"Jake… I'm coming right out and saying that… I love you… Ever since the day you first started school, right when you walked in, I felt so… different. I can't explain it, but it's just so hard for me to say it. Now that you're gone, I can never tell you this ever again." I frowned hard. I felt a presence behind me, but I ignored it and continued feeling like all this was my fault

"Is this really how you feel about me?"

Chapter 20: I Love You

I turned around finding myself looking into the eyes I thought I would never see again.

"Jake!" I cried and lunged forward at him making him fall backwards and hugged him tightly. "I swear if you ever do that again, I'm going to kill you."

"Heh, isn't it too early for sarcasm?" He groaned and sat up with me still holding on to him.

"Gosh Jake, you're such an idiot! I was so scared that you'd actually fallen off the cliff!" I pressed my forehead against his chest with tears still trickling down my cheeks.

"Miley…" He put his hand on my shoulder.

"I thought I would never get to see you again, I wouldn't be able to live like that knowing that you died because of me."

"Miley…"

"I thought I would never get a chance to tell you how I truly felt about you."

"Miley" he said once again.

I looked up at him and his eyes were glistening with a very stern look on his face. I started pouting, trying to hold in everything before I start bursting into tears once again.

He put his hand on my face thumbing my bottom lip. "I never knew that I would've hurt you so much if I actually gone though this. I thought you hated me so much and did this just to make fun of me."

"There's just some things in my life that I cant tell you that I'm slowly trying to get away from, which is why I couldn't tell you I was Hannah. I thought you would've hated me even more." I replied.

"I can never hate you. I'm too in love with you to do hate you. This… was just something I had to do to get away from all my stupid problems and to get away from my stupid parents. I told you before, they never cared about me." he bit down on his lip

"Well if you don't know, your parents are looking for you right now. They're worried sick."

"I guess they really do care." He chuckled. "Oww." and he put his hand on his stomach.

"What's wrong?" I said worriedly

"I'm a little hurt." he gasped out and started coughing.

I moved a little back and had a full view of his body. His shirt was ripped from the center down exposing his chest. He had some scratches and bruises on his chest, arms, and legs with a huge gash on the right side of his hip. He had a black eye and some dried up blood in his nose. His pants had holes in it and overall his clothes were dirty.

"What happened?" I asked lightly running my fingers through his exposed chest trying not to hurt him.

"I was mobbed. When I was trying to jump off, these two guys pulled me back on the ground and started yelling at me. Then they started kicking me calling me a stupid emotional suicidal rich boy who thinks nothing in life is good or something like that. They punched me and pushed me into the trees and I fainted. It was horrible, but I did get to hear their names. There was this other guy calling them out on the other side of the park."

I hugged him once again. "At least you're still alive."

"Thanks for caring. I really appreciate it." He looked deep into my eyes and leaned forward for a kiss.

All of a sudden my phone started ringing. "Shit." I said under my breath.

"Ignore it."

"I cant, it might be Lilly, Oliver, or your parents." I said and picked up my phone.

"Hello?"

"Miley, any sign of him?" said the voice on the other line.

"Actually Lilly yeah." I paused for a second "It was more like he found me." I smiled.

"Okay good! Mr. and Mrs. Ryan are freaky. Where are you guys at? We'll pick you up." She replied.

I gave her the directions on how to get here.

"Ohh, we're near that place. I'll see you in a bit." She said and hung up.

"We better go walk to the entrance, they're coming right now." I stood up, but he pulled me back down.

"What was that…"

He kissed me. The kiss lasted which seemed like forever, but soon drifted apart hearing voices and laughter approaching us.

"I guess we should go then." He said once we parted.

"Yeah…" I stood up once again and took his bag. He wrapped his arm around my shoulder and I helped him walk toward the entrance because he was limping.

Once we got to the entrance, everyone was already there. Jakes parents took Jake away from me and were hugging him. I walked over to Oliver, Jackson, and Lilly and they looked very relieved.

"Good thing you came here without anyone hurting you, you wouldn't know how much freaks come here to beat people up at night." Lilly said hugging me.

"Yeah…" I said and we got into Jackson's car while Jake got into his parents car.

We followed them to the hospital and I watched Jake being taken away into one of the rooms. It felt like hours before the let us all in, but we were all let in one at a time since he had a private room.

I walked into the room and he looked very pale. He had an IV on and tubes in this nose.

"Hey." He said and weakly smiled at me.

"I didn't know you were that hurt." I replied and walked up next to him.

"Yeah, after viewing the x-rays, they saw I had some broken ribs and one of them was pressing up against my lungs or something like that, so they want me to stay and see how it heals before they let me go."

"Oww."

There was complete silence between both of us for a long time until the doctor came in. "10 more minutes okay, visiting hours are almost over." and left.

"Jake" "Miley." We both said at the same time.

"You go first." He said.

"Jake, I just want to say. I really really like you. I have for the longest time and I really don't know how to deal with it. I just want to say I think I actually love you and I don't want anyone else going between us. I hate it when all those girls go hanging all over you and I hate how much I hurt you so bad when you found out my secret. I just want me and you to be together." I confessed.

"Miley, you know I feel the same way. Ever since the day I told you on Zombie High about how I feel, I still feel that way. I do want us to be together also."

I smiled and took his hand.

"So Miley and Hannah, will to be my girlfriend?" He smiled brightly.

"Yes Jake, as Miley and as Hannah I would love to be your girlfriend." I laughed

"I love you Miley." He said looking deep into my eyes.

"I love you too Jakey." I smiled and kissed him passionately.

I guess one day, I'll be more confident and tell the whole world my secret, but until then I'll just be Miley Stewart living a normal life with a secret identity as Hannah Montana.

A/N: No school today so yay!! LOL Thank you all for reading and reviewing my story! I hope you liked it :) Corny ending I know LOL, but I did say it was going to be a little corny :-P

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