Chapter 1: Stuck on You!

Flashback:
"Okay...do you want to go out with me - four months from this Saturday?"

"Sure, that's sounds...HUH!?"

"Frankie Muniz was gonna do this movie and he dropped out. I fly to Romania tonight!"

"But...you can't just leave. Ya kissed me!"

"Hey, it's not my fault I got a major part in a movie!"

"Yeah...BUT YA KISSED ME!"

"I know, and it was great, and now I don't have to leave for four months wondering what it would have been like."

"Yeah, it would have been a real downer for you to have left without planting one on me."

"Exactly!"

"Well, it is four months, so I'm gonna give you a little something to remember me by...That's how I plant one."

The next day...

"He's gone?" exclaimed Lilly during homeroom.

"Yow! Turn it down, Lilly, you nearly blew my ears off!" said Miley, rolling her eyes.

"He's gone?" whispered, Lilly, her voice straining in disbelief.

"Attention, class!" said the drama teacher, stepping up front. "I have a small announcement. Jake Ryan has left us to go film a movie in Romania."

"Awwww," said the whole class, almost in unison. Miley didn't say anything.

The teacher began to do his job, overdramatically, as usual. Miley really wasn't listening, even when the teacher began teaching about some composer or another. She was still thinking about Jake. She couldn't decide whether she was happy or sad that he was gone.

That guy has such nerve, kissing me and running off! Who does he think he is? A celebrity? Okay, yeah, sure he is a celebrity, but he's not in TV land, where people can get away with that stuff! Oh, but he was so sweet...Oh, stop it Miley, just forget him! No, I can't! Yes you can! No...

"Miss Stewart!" said the teacher.

"Jake Ryan!" exclaimed Miley, snapping out of her trance.

"No! Mozart!" exclaimed the teacher, matching Miley's loud tone. Miley's eyes widened in embarrassment. The teacher had been asking her a question about Mozart! She made a weird face, inwardly cursing her love-sick conscience.

The teacher turned away, muttering something as though he didn't want the class to hear, when he was speaking loud enough for them all to hear. "Maybe if my class actually paid ATTENTION, they might be big famous actors flying to Romania!"

Miley bit her lip. Oops.