Moving On

Thirty-Eight

October 10th, 2028

Malibu, USA

Miley's POV

Nick and I have been together for some time now. At this point my family knew about us, Nick's family knew, Liam knew, and Priyanka knew. Nick told me that when he told her she took it better than expected, but I don't think I can believe him. I know how much Priyanka hates me, there's no way she took it "just fine".

Nick and I were lying in bed together, we have a whole day to ourselves since the boys were at Liam's. 

"I don't wanna move from here, I'm comfortable." I say, lying my head on Nick's chest.

"Then let's not move."

"We will have to eventually, hunger exists."

"What do you want to do today? We have the whole day to ourselves." Nick asks.

"Hmm..."

"I might have an idea." Nick kisses my lips and my neck, I pull away and smile.

"We've been doing a lot of this lately."

"Do you not want to?"

"I never said that...how about we do something else?" I suggest.

"Like go out on a date?"

"What? Nick, we can't just- go out...the world doesn't know about us..."

"Well let's tell them by going out to lunch and having your favorite pizza." He says.

"Nick..."

"What? C'mon, let's tell them. The world will know eventually. Let's tell them our way instead of the media telling the world for us. Deal?" I smile and kiss him passionately on the lips.

"Deal. You're lucky you suggested my favorite pizza." I joke, making Nick laugh.

"Lucky guess?"

"Or you just know me all too well."

"I've known you practically our whole lives, do you really think I wouldn't know your favorite pizza place?" I smile and kiss him again. He kisses me back, this time I don't pull away.

"What about lunch?" I ask in between kisses.

"We don't have a specific time to be there."

"Well how about we go now? I'm in the mood for pizza."

"Me too. We should probably put some clothes on first..." I laugh at Nick's response and get up. 

When we got to the pizza place Nick and I got seated and ordered drinks and pizza. I was nervous to be out in public with Nick because of what people might say, but I love Nick. I love Nick more than how much I care about the public's opinions. While we sat there eating and talked, I noticed some people glancing our direction. 

"Don't worry about them." Nick says. "If anyone has an issue with us that's their problem." I smile and take out my phone.

"Come here." Nick scoots closer to me and I take a selfie of us to post on Instagram. I captioned it "lunch with my man" and tagged Nick. Soon the comments and likes started rolling in. "Oh boy..."

"Don't pay attention to the comments, let's eat our non-judgmental pizza."

"No, I said oh boy because...well look for yourself." 

I hand Nick my phone and he scrolls through the comments. There were hardly any negative ones, almost all of them were positive in some way. Congratulating us on being together, being excited for us, being happy for us, and how great we looked together. Nick smiles and hands my phone back to me. I put it away and kiss him.