It was a sunny day in Malibu like always. I was at Rico's, my regular hangout at the beach. My friend Jackson was working behind the counter, trying to ignore little Rico Jr., who was trying to boss him around. Rico was so short that I could only see the top of his head as he stood behind the bar. My other friends Cooper and Max were checking out girls and looked sort of glassy-eyed. I just sat leaning against the bar, slurping a soda. Checking out girls wasn't my sort of thing.

"Hey guys!" Oliver Oken walked up to us. He was a freshman, but he was always trying to hang out with us juniors. I guess he was pretty cool. Cooper and Max ignored him as they had spotted a girl who was bending over to rummage through her beach bag. I gave a little wave to him, still sipping my soda. It went unnoticed because he had also spotted the girl. I wonder what's so elusive inside that bag.

"I told you, Rico, I'm not gonna—Sweeeeet NIBLETS!" Jackson said, running to the counter and joining in on the girl ogling. I rolled my eyes and looked over to see what the big deal was. The girl was still bent over, bringing obvious attention to her booty. I opened my mouth to tell them that if they took a picture it would last longer, but instead a loud burp came out. Everyone's gaze snapped suddenly to me, all traces of "girl ogling eyes" gone.

"Well, that was relieving." I said, blushing a little. Cooper, Max and Jackson looked sort of impressed.

"Okay, you've been hanging out with guys a little too much." Oliver said.

"Pssh. Don't be jealous!" I said, and put my empty cup on the counter. "Hit me with a refill, Jackson."

"Don't you think one 32 ounce is enough, Callie?" Jackson said, looking amused.

"Are you kidding me? I don't even have a sugar high yet! Keep 'em coming!" I said. Jackson's little sister Miley and her friend Lilly walked up.

"Hey guys! Hey Callie!" said Lilly. I opened my mouth to greet them, but out came another burp. I covered my mouth as everyone made sounds of disgust.

"That's it, you're drinking water from now on!" said Jackson, throwing out my soda cup and placing a bottle of water in front of me. I stuck my tongue out at him when he wasn't looking. Miley sat in the stool next to me.

"Hey, Callie, what's up?" she said. I grinned.

"Not much. Just wasting the afternoon away waiting for the Hannah Montana concert tonight. I heard Phaedra Faye is opening for her tonight. I won a backstage pass from the radio." I said. I gave a secret wink to Lilly and Miley.

"Hey, isn't Phaedra Faye that hot rocker chick with the amazing eyes?" Max said.

"Her and Hannah Montana on the same stage? Double hot!" Cooper said. Miley, Lilly, and I rolled our eyes.

"Boys." Miley said, her Tennessee twang sounding out. "Is that all they're good for?"

I looked in the mirror after putting in my contacts making sure my hair was in place and my makeup and outfit was in order. I had to be extra careful not to trip because I was wearing platform boots. I heard a sharp knock on my door.

"Hurry up! One minute!" I gave one last look at the mirror before walking out of the room.

I quickly made my way through the darkened hallway and then burst through the beaded curtains at the end to be greeted with the sound of a whole stadium cheering.

"What's up, Malibu?!" I yelled. "Are you ready to rock?!" The crowd went crazy. I picked up my electric guitar and began to play. I played four songs from my new album and then introduced Hannah Montana to the stage.

"C'mon, Malibu, scream your lungs out for the one the only Hannah Montana!" I yelled. Hannah ran out, greeted by wild cheering. I was supposed to leave the stage, but she held me back. I looked at her, confused.

"Thanks, Phaedra! Everyone give it up for Phaedra Faye!" Hannah yelled. Everyone cheered once more. "Phaedra, would you do me the honor of singing one more song with me?" The crowd screamed ecstatically and I smiled.

"Sure! I'm up for one more! What'll it be?"

"The Boys of Summer!" I started playing the guitar and we both started to rock out.

"GOODNIGHT MALIBU!" I yelled, and ran off the stage to leave the show to Hannah. Lola was waiting right backstage.

"That last song was AWESOME!" she gushed. "You guys sounded great! Don Henley would've been proud!" I laughed.

"Thanks, Lola." We both started walking toward my dressing room. "I love concert nights." Lola grabbed my arm, causing me to stop and nearly fall over my boots. I looked at her quizzically and she nodded in the direction of my dressing room. I looked and saw Jackson standing right by my dressing room door flirting with Traci Vanhorn and a few of her friends. I turned around and we exchanged panicked looks. "I didn't know he was gonna be here! What do I do?!"

"Just get dressed and come back as you and say that you were late!" Lola said.

"One problem. My clothes are in my dressing room! HE'S standing right by it! He can't see me! He'll recognize me if I'm like 'thisclose' to him!"

"Why don't you just tell him already, then? He's one of your best friends. Trust me, you can't keep it from him forever."

"But I don't want him to—"

"Phaedra! I haven't seen you for so long!" Traci said, walking over to me. We air kissed and then she took my arm and started leading me towards Jackson and her friends. "I have a few people for you to meet!

"But—" I felt something being put in my hand and looked back to see that Lola had given me dark black sunglasses to wear. I put them on and let myself be pulled towards the group.

"OH MY GAW. Phaedra Faye, you are so awesome!" One blonde haired girl said.

"OH MY GAW. Are those sunglasses Juicy?" Another girl with black hair said.

"OH MY GAW! IT'S PHAEDRA FAYE!" The girl standing nearest to me screamed, jumping in place. Everyone gave her a weird look.

"I'm holding an after party. You must come! All the big celebrities are going to be there." Traci said. I remembered that I still had a lot of homework to finish that night.

"I'd love to, Traci, but I've got an interview and photo shoot tonight and I just can't miss it!" I said. The girls groaned in disappointment.

"Good one." Lola whispered in my ear. Jackson then walked up to me looking star struck and mumbled something totally incoherent.

"Hey!" I said. "You're Hannah's friend Jackson! Nice to meet you!" Jackson blinked and muttered something that sounded like "sweet niblets." I tried not to laugh.

"Are you okay?" Lola asked, giving him a weird look. He seemed to snap back to reality.

"Of course I'm okay!" He said. He turned back to me and got that star struck look again. "Uh…my Jackson name is hi!" Both me and Lola raised our eyebrows at him.

"Oookay." Lola said. "Phaedra needs to change now. Buh-bye."

"Wait!" Jackson said. "Can I have your autograph?" He held out a pullout of me from Teen Magazine.

"Sure thing, dude." I said, signing it. I handed it back to him.

"Thanks dude!" He squeaked. I ducked into my dressing room and shut the door behind me so he couldn't see me laughing at him.

"Smooth, Jackson, your voice just cracked." Lola said.

The next day I walked into homeroom and sat down by Cooper and Thor, who had Snowball in his cage and was cooing at him.

"Hey! Callie! How was the concert? Was Phaedra hot?" Cooper asked me all in one breath.

"Whoa. Slow down, Coop! I couldn't come to the concert because I got in trouble with my parents. They sold the pass to my neighbor's daughter." I put my head in my hands, pretending to be bummed.

"That Phaedra Faye's one girl that'll make a mighty fine farm wife, don'tcha know!" Thor said. Snowball squawked. Jackson walked in looking really smug.

"I've got one thing to say to you guys. Read it and weep!" He dropped the autographed pullout.

"Dude, you got her autograph? Sweet!" Cooper said. He picked up the picture. "You are so hot!" He kissed his finger and touched it to the picture.

"Aw, great, what else did I miss?" I said, trying to sound and look miserable. I folded my arms on my desk and hid my face.

"Hey, when I said 'read it and weep,' I didn't mean to actually weep, alright?" Jackson said. "I thought you had backstage passes?"

"I got in trouble and my parents wouldn't let me go!" I said. I lifted my head up. "How was it?"

"Awesome! The best part was when Hannah and Phaedra both sang Boys of Summer!"

"Yeah, I loved that." I muttered, grinning at the memory.

"What?"

"Um…I love that song!"

"Yeah, isn't it awesome?" Jackson looked over at Cooper. "Uh…Coop?" Cooper looked up. "You're getting slobber all over my Phaedra picture."

Well, that's it for now! Please tell me what you think and feel free to make suggestions!