Demi carefully closed the door and turned back to her suddenly too quiet apartment. A cloud of sadness weighted over her. She knew she should’ve fought harder for Miley to stay but what could she have said?

And what was the point of her staying in L.A if the reason she came back is gone?

Joe Jonas…

Demi grit her teeth. She wanted nothing more than to find Joe but right at that moment it seemed like an impossibility.

Demi rolled her neck back to get the kinks out and sighed deeply. “Stupid…freaking…Jonas’…” saying the words like a mantra calmed her.

She walked away from the door and back towards a chair, “Stupid…freaking…Jonas’…”

Ring, ring, riiiiiiiiiing……

“I just can’t get any peace today”

Without even knowing she had a landline, Demi makes her way towards the phone on the dining table. Deciding between the responses ‘What!’ or ‘This better be good’, she clicked the phones green button.

“Please tell me Miley is with you!” Nick yelled over the phone.

Demi look at her closed door with wide eyes, “Ah oh”

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“Oh my God, Demi, I can’t believe you let her walk out!” Nick was ready to foam at the mouth.

“Hey, don’t pin this on me” Demi was standing, arm folded, nose to nose with Nick.

Olivia sat sulkily on the couch pouting her lips, “Don’t know why y’all care” she says grumpily, “She’s just a slut”

The withering looks she received at that very moment almost made her heart turn to dust.

“What is she doing her” Demi growled out to Nick.

“She is my girlfriend” Nick said, with some regret in his voice.

Demi refrained from glaring at Olivia and bite back her harsh comment. It would do no one any good if she lost her temper. She inhaled deeply and tried to get a grip of the situation.

The last they’d heard of their friend, she was on a plane to Brooklyn. Nick had been ready to drive his car right into the airport runway in a vain attempt to stop the plane.

Right now Demi wished she’d let him.

He’d shouted at her over the phone to run after Miley when she left the apartment but Demi shut him down immediately. She’d told him he was being ridiculous and he should stop acting like a psychopath.

Demi felt a pang of empathy for Olivia, the girl must be going through hell. The man you love and your dating is going crazy for another girl, and he’s showing it out in the open. Demi glance at her on the living room couch, arms folded, chin pushed out and jaw locked tight, lips pouted and quivering with a sad look in her eyes.

This is so not fair, she didn’t do anything to deserve this.

“Nick. A word, in the kitchen” she grabs his arm and pulled him away. Olivia was pushing herself off the couch to follow, “Alone.” Demi added firmly.

Olive plopped herself back down on the couch.

Dragging Nick by the skids of his feet she pushes him to the far corner of the kitchen, well out of earshot next to the fridge.

“This is so not fair” she whisper hisses at him.

“You’re telling me” Nick whisper hisses back, “This is all your fault!”

“Me!?” Demi whisper yells, “What the heck are you talking about? I meant this is not fair to Olivia!”

“Olivia?” Nick whisper questioned, “What does she got to do with this?”

Demi pinches the flesh at the top of Nick’s neck with her newly manicured nails for his unfeeling response.

“That’s the point!” she whisper yells as he rubs the stinging red swell on his neck, “She’s got absolutely nothing to do with any of this”

Nick gave her a confused look, “So? What’s your point?”

Demi yanked down on his ear, “Have you given any thought to how all this might be making her feel?”

The blank look he gave her was all the response Demi needed.

“All this must be very hard for her, and probably even harder to process” most of Demi’s anger diffused at Nick’s remorseful but still clueless expression.

“It’s not my fault my feelings are all jumbled up like this!” Nick tried to defend himself, “Are you sure I can’t just date both of them? Miley seems to be cool with it”

Aaaaaand all of Demi’s anger came back with a sparking rage.

“You can’t keep putting Olivia through all this, and seeing as you and your brother nearly broke Miley she’s confused and will go along with anything right now” Demi hissed viciously. “It’s not fair to Olivia if you continue like this and you’re taking advantage of Miley if you do”

“JUST BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE WHISPER-YELLING DOESN’T MEAN I DON’T HEAR THE PART YOU HISS OUT!” Olivia cried from the other room, “I MAY NOT KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT BUT I KNOW IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT”

Demi caught a smile tug at Nick’s lips, he was amused by Olivia’s cuteness. Demi knew Nick really liked Olivia, she just wished he’d thought things through about Miley first. Then maybe this whole mess might’ve been avoided.

“You have feelings for her” Demi whispered quietly, “You love her”

“But what I feel for Miley is different and stronger” Nick whisper innocently in a deadly voice, with eyes wide with honesty and raw with emotion.

Demi had never seen her friend like this, Nick’s emotions were usually locked up and he kept everything to himself. Seeing him like this threw Demi, and it made her wonder why her friend had been what he was like for so long

“Well you can’t have everything, Nick” Demi said solemnly.

“What…are you saying?” Nick said in an anxious tone.

“I’m saying you have to choose” Demi straightened her shoulders and looked Nick dead in the eyes. “Life is full of tough choices, and I guess this is yours”

Nick’s eyes light with understanding, “Please no,”

“When Miley gets back-”

“Don’t say it”

“Your gonna have to have made a decision-”

“Stop”

Demi grabbed onto Nick’s face for fear he’d have a panic attack, she cupped the side of his face in her hand and looked at him sadly, “You can’t continue like this,” she advised. “There can only be one, you can only have one. So you must choose-”

Nick sigh out deeply, “Olivia or Miley…”

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