A/N: This is more or likely just a one-shot that came to me a while ago and I'm finally getting around to writing it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Hannah Montana. The show is owned by Disney.
"Dad, do we have any old family photos?" Miley asked her father as she came into the kitchen. "I need some for a school project."
"If we do they'll be down in the basement." He responded as he put the plates from breakfast into the dishwasher.
"Thanks daddy!" She exclaimed as the phone rang.
Jackson answered it. "Hello." He asked. He then hung up. "Lilly in five!" He exclaimed. Miley ran over to the door and Lilly came rolling into the Stewart's living room on her skate board.
"Hey Miley!" She exclaimed as she got off the board and unstrapped her helmet. "I got my stuff for the project!" She informed her friend while motioning to the pack she had on her back.
"Awesome!" Miley exclaimed. "We need to go down to the basement and find some stuff for my half."
The two girls made their way down into the dusty basement. "So why are coming down here?" Lilly asked as she and Miley walked down the steps that creaked every now and then.
"My dad said if there was any family photos they'd be down here." She replied as she reached the bottom and pulled the string on a light to turn it on.
"Oh." Lilly replied.
The two girls started to rummage through some boxes. "Look what I found!" Miley exclaimed as she pulled out an old box.
"What?" Lilly questioned enthusiastically.
Miley opened up the box and the smell of moth balls immediately hit her nose. "Some of my old baby clothes!" She said as she looked at the size of of the clothes that laid in the box.
"Wow! They look so small!" Lilly replied.
The two girls dug deeper into the box finding some photos of Miley as a baby and other keep sakes from that time.
"What's this?" Lilly asked as she pulled out a yellowed envelope.
"What's what?" Miley asked.
"This." Lilly answered as she handed Miley the paper.
Miley opened the envelope carefully. Inside she found a piece of white paper that had been protected by the envelope. "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, thank you for choosing us for your adoption..." Miley stopped. Adopted? Her? Jackson? Who? "We hope that you will be an even happier family now that Miley has joined your family-" She stopped.
"Miley? Hello? Are you there?" Lilly asked as she waved a hand in front of Miley's face.
"I can't believe this Lilly!" Miley exclaimed snapping back into reality. "I'm adopted! Why hadn't dad ever told me..." She wondered out loud.
"I really don't know." Lilly replied seeing the pain in her friends eyes and doing her best to make her feel better about this whole situation.
"Why didn't he just tell me!" Miley asked again. "How hard is it to tell someone that they're adopted!"
"Miley, I'm sure he had a good reason." Lilly offered.
"Like what Lilly?" Miley asked in a tone harsher then what she had planed.
"Sorry!" Lilly answered back some what offended.
"No, Lilly, I'm sorry, I shouldn't had said it as harshly as I did..." Miley started. "It's just that all my life I thought he and Jackson and my mom were my biological family... and now I find this." She said as he held up the envelope.
"I understand that you're frustrated but why don't you talk to him about all this." Lilly replied while laying a comforting hand on her friend.
"Thanks Lilly." Miley whispered as she hugged her friend. "I'm going to talk to him tonight."
The two girls placed the things back in the box other then the letter and put the box back where they had found it. They made their way up the stairs while turning out the lights as they went.
"I'll see you tomorrow Miley!" Lilly said acting as casual as she could so Mr. Stewart wouldn't suspect anything. She gave Miley a hug and grabbed her board and helmet and started her way back down the street to her home.
"Dad?" Miley asked.
"Yeah?" He asked back as he stirred the contents for dinner that were in a pot.
"Lilly and I found this in the basement today..." She held up the envelope, "How come you never told me?"
Robbie stopped stirring dinner and put down the spoon he was using. "Budd," he started, "We were going to tell you but then your mother got sick." He told her. "And then things started to get worse and it was sort of placed on the back burner."
"Something this important shouldn't be placed on the 'back burner' dad!" Miley protested while putting air quotes around back burner.
"Miley I'm sorry, I should have told you but it's just-" Robbie started before his daughter interrupted him.
"It's just what daddy?" She asked, "Not important or something! I don't know who my real parents are!"
"Miley, I'm your real parent." He tried to reason with her.
"No, you're my adopted parent." She stated. "Not my real parent." A silence fell in the room. "I'm going to my room. I'm not that hungry."
Robbie watch as his daughter left the room with the letter in her hand and walk quietly up to her room.
"Who are they?" Miley wondered as she sat on her bed later that night. "Why did they give me up?" Her cell phone went off bringing her out of her own world. "Hello?" She asked as she answered the phone.
"So, how did everything go?" She heard Lilly ask.
"I guess better then I would of thought... apparently he and my mom were going to tell me but then she got sick..." Miley said, almost in a whisper. "I just wish I knew who they were and why they gave me up."
"Do you know if they have an office here in California?" Lilly questioned.
"There's one in L.A. I think." Miley replied. "One second! I have to ask Jackson something!" She exclaimed as she realized that L.A. wasn't that far away from Malibu.
"Jackson!" She called as she knocked on his door to his room.
"What?" He asked as he flung the door open.
"I need you to drive Lilly and I down to L.A. tomorrow." She asked.
A/N: Okay, this will probably be at the most a three-shot. Also, I don't live in Cali so i'm not sure on the geography so if L.A. and Malibu aren't that close i'm sorry. Please review!