Disclaimer: I do not own Hannah Montana.
Author's note: This story is set in an alternate reality that is different from the main reality, but there's also many things that are similar.
Birth of a Star!
Miley Ray Stewart sat on her bed in the Stewart family's beach-house in Malibu. A week ago she'd been to an audition at some record-company and now she was waiting for an answer to see if she would get a record-deal or not.
"Miley, I've got some great news for ya!" her dad called from downstairs.
A smile spread across Miley's face and she got up from her bed and ran downstairs. She didn't know what it was, but she sure knew what she wanted this to be about.
"It has to be about me gettin' a record-deal...it has to be!" she said to herself.
When she came downstairs her dad, Robby Ray Stewart smiled at her.
"Tell me, daddy!" Miley couldn't wait to find out what the great news was. "Is it...?"
"The record-company called. You've got yourself your own record-deal, bud!"
Miley's heart went wild. She was so happy. This had been her dream for a long time and now it was real.
"Yeay, yeay, yeay!" the young girl screamed while jumping up and down in happiness.
"I knew you'd make it, bud!" her dad said and gave Miley a hug. "I need to tell Lilly!"
Miley ran back up to her room and grabbed her cell phone on the nightstand. She couldn't wait to tell her best friend that she was going to record her own album.
"Lilly speaking!"
"Hi Lilly, it's Miley!"
"Hi, Miley!"
"You know that I went on this audition for a big record-company last week..."
"Yeah...?" Lilly asked.
"I did it!" "I got a record-deal, Lilly!" Miley said in a loud clear voice.
"Cool, I'm on my way over! See ya!" Lilly said before she hung up.
Miley ran back downstairs. She was so happy that she didn't notice Jackson who was on his way up to his room. She almost knocked him down.
"What's the hurry, Miles?"
"Sorry Jackson, can't talk right now..."
Robby Ray was reading an e-mail from the record-company. "Ya know that it aint goin' to be easy to go to regular school and have normal friends if this goes the way you want to, right?" he said when he saw Miley coming down the stairs.
"Daddy say what?"
"If you become a famous pop-star you're goin' to be noticed wherever you go!"
Miley looked at her dad. She hadn't thought about that before.
"To be a star isn't easy." Robby Ray said.
"I don't wanna lose Lilly and Oliver!"
"I know, but it's gonna be difficult to keep your friendship with both of them if become a famous pop-star."
Miley didn't know what to say. A small tear fell from her eye.
"If you become a star photographers are gonna be after you more or less 24/7, bud!" Robby said as he sat down next to his daughter.
"What about school?"
"Ya know, bud. You can always be home-schooled."
"No, dad. I wanna go to school like a normal kid." Miley said, and began to cry.
"Hang on there, bud. I think I know how to deal with this problem."
Miley tried to hold back her tears. "How?"
"You could create an alter-ego. Your alter-ego would be the pop-star while Miley could go on being a normal kid with normal friends."
"Dad, that's just...perfect!" Miley said, now happy again.
At that very moment Lilly flew in through the door on her skateboard. "And Truscott is in the house!"
"Hi Lils!"
"Congratulations, Miley!" Lilly said as she took off her helmet and put up her skateboard against the wall by the door.
"Thanks, Lilly!"
Suddenly Lilly noticed the messy look of Miley's make-up caused by her tears. "Eh... Have you been crying?" she asked and put her hand on Miley's shoulder.
"Yeah, but I'm fine now."
A moment later the two girls were on the floor in Miley's room.
"This could make me a pop-star, Lilly." Miley said to her blonde friend.
"That's great!"
"There's only one little problem though..."
"What?"
"I need to create some kind of alter-ego. Otherwise I can't go to normal school anymore and hang out with you and Oliver."
"That shouldn't be that hard."
"Any suggestions?"
"Remember that book my mom read to us about the girl who found a magical dog?" asked Lilly.
"Of course, I love that book!"
"And that means you'll be..." said Lilly, waiting for Miley to say the rest.
"Bibbie the dog?" said Miley with that are you crazy-look she always had when Lilly said something weird.
"No, not the dog's name!"
First Miley seemed even more confused, then she knew what Lilly was talking about.
"Ah, I'm Hannah!" said Miley when she remembered the name of the girl in the book.
"Yeah, exactly!"
"Wait, I need a last name too!"
"What about Hannah Banana?"
"I'm not Hannah Banana!"
"Hannah Tropicana?"
"Weird, but better!" said Miley and rolled her eyes.
"Hannah Savannah?"
"Why would I wanna be Hannah Savannah?"
"Sorry, my bad!" said Lilly and looked at her friend right in front of her.
"It's okey!" said Miley, who started to giggle.
"Maybe you could be Hannah Rowena..."
"No kids would want to buy a CD by someone called Hannah Rowena!"
"Hannah Bandanna?"
"Have ya ever seen me wearin' a bandanna?"
"No...!"
Lilly was deep in thought for a moment. Then she said "What about Hannah Montana?"
Miley smiled. "I love it!"
Miley and Lilly did a happy-dance.
Later at dinner Miley told her dad the name she had picked for her alter-ego.
"I'm gonna be Hannah Montana!"
"That's a great name, bud!"
"Thanks, Lilly suggested it to me!"
"Now you need new clothes and a wig to make Hannah look different from Miley!"
"Okey!"
"We'll stop by 'Wig City' tomorrow when I pick you up after school."
"I wrote a new song for ya today!"
"What's it called?"
"Best of Both Worlds!" said Robby Ray.
"I wanna hear it! I go get Lucky Lulu!"
Miley ran over and to the guitars on the podium. She grabbed her dad's Gibson 'Doves in Flight' guitar and handed it to Robby.
"Ready, bud?"
"Ready!" said a very excited Miley.
"Here we go!"
Robby Ray starts to play and sing. After the song he puts down his guitar and ask his daughter "What ya think, bud?"
"I love it! The best you've written!"
"I wrote it just for you, bud!" said Robby and made the puppy dog-face.
"Thanks dad!" said Miley and gave her dad a big hug.
"Oh no, dad's little girl is goin' at it again!" It was Jackson who just returned home from his date with a girl named Sandy.
"Your date went really bad again, stupid disappointment to the entire Stewart-family?"
"Yes, it did, don't wanna talk about it, okey?"
"Sure, whatever you say, Jerkson!"
Jackson gave Miley an angry look and went up to his room.
Robby Ray looked towards his son. "Thinkin' about how I am, how could the boy become so...weird?"
"At least you got one kid who'll always love you!"
"Who?"
"Me, dad!"
"My little girl's growin' up so fast!"
"Daddy, I'm always goin' to be your little girl."
A few hours later a very happy Miley went to bed.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only...Hannah Montana!" she said using her hairbrush as a michrophone. She did a few cool dance-moves in front of the mirror.
The next morning Miley was still happy about her record-deal when she came down the stairs ready for school.
"Morning, bud!"
"Morning dad!"
"Have you told Oliver about the Hannah-thing?"
"No and I'm not going to either!"
"Why?"
"Because he would tell everyone that Hannah is Miley!"
"If that's the way you want it, we're not gonna tell him!"
"Thanks, daddy!"
Miley grabbed her book bag and ran out to meet Lilly on the way to school.
