Ok this is my first Hannah Montana story, I haven't seen all the episodes so sorry if I get anything wrong. Anyway this story is AU or whatever you call it. Miley's Mom never died and she grew up with her and never knew her dad at all. She's NOT Hannah Montana in the story because she never grew up with Robbie Ray or got the chance to sing. She might be a little out of character at first but I think she would be a bit different of a person if she didn't grow up with Robby and she's moving so that's not always fun.
The Places That You've Come To Fear The Most
Chapter 1-Moving Back
"Miley we're going, c'mon." A female voice called from downstairs. Miley Stewart stood in her room or well what used to be her room. The light from the small window shone through making the room look bigger and lonelier. Miley picked up the last of her stuff to put them into an open box. It was an old red tank top she had for about three years, her blue teddy bear that she had gotten when she was three years old or well that's what her mom had said anyway and a mix CD her friends had made for her last Christmas. After she put the things in, she closed the box and made her way downstairs.
"Sweetie you ready?" A woman with long brunette hair similar to Miley's said as she kissed Miley on the forehead.
"I guess..." Miley said sulkily as she carried the box outside with her mom following her.
The moving van was outside and the rest of her clothes and other things were already packed and put in. Miley hated moving although she was used to it. It was just her and her mom and they had moved four times before. Her mom was Susan Stewart, a surgeon and often moved to different hospitals around the country.
"Ah Miley, you'll love Malibu, you did when we lived there before." Susan said happily as she closed up the house and the movers finished closing the van. Miley walked over to their car and leaned against it, sighing heavily she thought 'It's going to be a long drive from Boston to Malibu...' So they were moving back to Malibu. Miley was told by her mom that's where she was born and lived until she was four, and then they moved to Nashville where Susan was original from and still had family there. After that they moved to Seattle when Susan was offered a higher position in one of the hospitals. Miley was eight when she moved to Seattle but four years living in Tennessee with her mom, cousins and other family, Miley developed a southern accent that she still has today. After Seattle they moved to Boston when Miley was 12 and now two and a half years later for some unknown reason Miley's mom wants to move again, back to Malibu.
Just then Miley noticed a blonde girl about 16 or 17 years old, running down the street towards her house, well not her house anymore since they were selling it. The girl stopped a few feet from Miley and smiled.
"Glad I'd didn't miss you." she said and she embraced Miley into a hug. "I'm going to miss you..." She said then pulled back from the hug. "We all are."
Miley smiled. "Malibu's not that far we'll still see each other..." Miley said knowing this wasn't true. "I'm really going to miss you guys..." Miley said sadly then seen that her friend was on her own. "Where are the others?" She asked a little confused.
"The Twins are grounded for the whole 'surprise going away party' and I think London is getting her hair done or her nails... but they send they're love." The girl said with a cheesy smile. Miley laughed when she heard this.
"Maddie, that party last night was crazy! Best going 'away party' ever. No wonder they're grounded." Miley laughed thinking of her friends cleaning the cake of the ceiling of the hotel. Her friend Maddie joined her in laughing.
"Glad I'm not working today." Maddie laughed, Then Susan came over and said hello to Maddie. Miley and her mom got in the car after they said their goodbyes to Maddie. The car drove away and Miley looked out the window and seen her friend standing waving goodbye. After they were away from the house Miley sat back in the passenger seat and huffed, she really hated moving.
Hours of driving later they had stopped for dinner, now they were back on the road again with the moving van behind them. Miley hated moved every time she'd move she had to be the 'new kid' or the weirdo no one liked much or the kid that's mom was never home. Then when she would make any friends they moved. She liked Boston because it was the first place where she had a group of friends not just one or two. Her friends in Boston even threw her a party, sure they would get in trouble but they usually do anyway. The twins, Zack and Cody were in her class in school and were the same age as her. She was 14 almost 15. Then she got to meet their friends Maddie Fitzpatrick and London Tipton. Soon they were all friends. She spent a lot of time in the hotel when her mom worked. Miley was pulled from her daydream by her mother's voice.
"I think we're really going to like Malibu... You know I was able to get our old beach house there, so you can have your old room back..." Susan smiled happily.
"Great..." Miley rolled her eyes sarcastically. Susan frowned at this. She kept driving. Miley stared out the window. She wanted to ask but knew better than to bring up that topic so she left it. Sighing again mainly because of boredom but also to annoy her mom; she rested her head against the window. Soon Miley fell asleep.
Susan looked at her little girl, gently sleeping; she was annoying most of time especially since she found out about the move. Susan hated Miley's attitude problem lately, her sulkiness and mood swings were just frustrating. Susan hoped she would grow out of it and planned to stay in Malibu.
"Wakey, Wakey, Smiley Miley"
Miley woke up in the car, her neck strained and hurting from a bad night's sleep. She could hear the annoying, high pitched voice of her mother. She could feel the warm sun on her face, beaming through the window, she opened her eyes and seen the car pull up in a huge housing estate. Miley sat up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, there were beach houses everywhere, she seen shops and a beautiful beach, there was a skate park and in the distance she could see what looked like a mall.
"You're up." Susan smiled as she watched Miley look amazed at their neighbourhood. They turned a corner to see more giant beach houses, all which had access to the beach.
"We live here?" Miley asked in disbelieve as they pulled up at their old house. Susan smiled. They got out and started unpacking, the moving van came soon after them and the movers lifted things into the house.
Miley ran upstairs wanting to see her room but not wanting her mom to know she might be excited.
Susan was already upstairs standing in Miley's old room. It was big and empty. Inside the closest there was a bigger room concealed behind big white doors. Susan didn't want Miley to know about the bigger closet. She stood looking at the floor in Miley's room; she pulled back the rug and looked at a huge dent in the wooden floor. Covering it back up she left the room closing the door behind her, then she locked it.
Miley ran up onto the landing and seen her mom. "Hey is this my room?" She asked pointing to the door Susan was standing at.
"No your room is down the hall." Susan answered pointing to a different room. a/n What would be Jackson's room in the show.
Miley smiled and ran down the hall to her room to unpack.
Susan went to get the rest of the boxes that were in the car. She saw a group of women standing across the road talking intensely. Susan had lived on this road for 4 years so she knew well enough that women gossip a lot around here especially if there's new neighbours. There were five women standing by the white picket fence, drinking coffee. Susan waved in friendly way with a fake smiled and took one of the boxes out; the women looked over and waved back at her.
Susan was walking into the house with the boxes, when one of the women came running up behind her. She was tall, long blonde hair.
"Hey is that you Susan?" The woman asked cheerfully. Susan turned around to look at the woman. "Susan Stewart! It's good to see you." Susan smiled and put the box down by her feet as the woman hugged her.
"Heather, it's great to see you again, doesn't look like the neighbourhood's changed much." Susan laughed looking to the other women. Heather looked back at them too.
"Oh there my friends, new neighbours that moved in over the years, when you were gone." Heather said looking at her old friend.
"Yeah but were back now for good." Susan said happily.
"When did you get here? I got your e-mail that you were moving back but I thought you were going back next week." Heather asked.
"This morning, were drove down. We decided to come back a week earlier... to get settle...you know for Miley..." Susan answered.
"Well come on I'll introduce you to the others...I'm sure you'll be friends with them in no time." Heather said pulling Susan's hand towards her friends.
Miley was looking around the house, it was huge much bigger that the two bedroom they had in Boston. She looked out the window of her bedroom and could see the beach, it looked nice but Miley wasn't much of a beach girl. She had few friends and found it hard to make friends. She always felt that they treated her differently maybe because she moved so much or because she usually sat alone in school. In Boston she had friends, now she felt alone again. Outside she could see a small boy standing at a beach shack, which looked like it sold food and drinks. The boy was yelled at the worker and bossing people around.
Two girls one was Asian and the other African-American were giggling together, reading some magazine as they sat on the beach. Then she saw two boys rollerblading across the hard pavement away from the beach. One had dark, kind of longish hair in his face, wearing baggy clothes the other had a colourful hat and light blonde hair and was wearing a baggy t-shirt and shorts, as they got closer Miley realised that one of them was a girl; she had long blonde hair tied in plats toward the front. Miley couldn't believe she thought she was a boy, looking again she seen the girl was pretty and thought she had the potential to be really stunning if she wore some more girly clothes, maybe a tiny bit of make-up.
The boy with her...wait he is a boy...yes he is... don't want to make the same mistake twice; looked really funny, he kept fall or doing stupid things. This seemed to annoy the girl somewhat but then Miley seen her laughing when the boy wasn't looking. She thought they looked really cute together and presumed he was her boyfriend. Then the girl did a weird thing where she held her left arm out straight and let the rest of her arm from the elbow down swing back and forth like it was a hinge. It looked creepy and like her arm was broken or about to fall off. Miley thought she looked strange but funny.
The boy laughed at this. Miley thought that maybe she doesn't need make-up or new clothes. She already had a great looking guy who seems to like her the way she is. Miley decided to stop being creepy and stop looking at the two. She went back down stairs to find her mom. It looked like she was outside. Miley stepped outside to see her mom talking to neighbours, and then Susan and one of the women walked over to Miley at the door step.
"Hey Miles, did ya finish unpacking?" Susan asked Miley replied with a looked that told Susan she was still not happy about the move. "This is one of my old friends Heather Truscott." Miley smiled politely.
"Is that little Miley?" Heather asked in baby talk way. "You know Lilly will be so happy to see you again." Miley looked confused. She didn't know a Lilly.
"Who's Lilly?" Miley asked in confused yet board way. Heather seemed a tiny bit shocked but Susan quickly jumped in.
"Miley dear don't you remember? Lilly was your best friend when we lived here, don't you remember?" Susan said cheerfully. This made Miley more confused she never remembered having a best friend or really anything about living here before.
"Oh it doesn't matter. They were four. You can see Lilly later and I'm sure you'll remember." Heather said quickly see Miley looking confused. "The two you should come over for dinner later, I'm sure you didn't have time to go shopping yet." Heather offered turning to Susan.
"We have lots to unpack and you're busy... Maybe another time." Susan replied politely.
"Nonsense, the two of you can come over later and Miley you can meet Lilly." Heather said happily.
"Well if you're sure?" Susan began but Heather nodded and then told them the time to come over. Then she left. Miley and Susan went back inside.
Miley decide to go for a walk to look around the area. She was walking down the sidewalk toward the shopping district, when she seen the girl from earlier walking towards her. She didn't have rollerblades on anymore, she had red converses and she was wearing black shorts, with a cute red Squirdward t-shirt that read 'Life is so Lame'. Miley had changed her clothes from the ones she wore while moving. She was wearing a bright pink tank-top with a giant red strawberry on it that said 'strawberries' and blue jean shorts.
The girl looked strangely at Miley as they neared each other. She was alone this time; the boy she was with before didn't seem to be around. Miley hoped she hadn't seen her looking out the window at her earlier. Miley kept her eyes on her feet as she walked quickly feeling the girl staring at her. Miley walked by her as they pasted only for the girl to stop her.
"Miley?" The girl asked shocked but still sounding happy. Miley looked completely confused, 'how did she know my name?'
"Eh...? Yeah?" Miley finally said confused staring at the blonde girl.
"It's me Lilly? OMG I knew it was you. I didn't know you were coming back...whoa this is so cool! God you look so different...but in a good way of course." Lilly said happily and getting more and more excited as she talked. While Miley realizing this was the girl her mother was talking about earlier felt slightly creped out. This girl could really talk... And she seem very excited to see her...someone she supposedly knew years ago... then why didn't she remember this girl?
"I'm sorry I don't know you." Miley said quickly trying to get Lilly to slow down. Lilly's face dropped and Miley noticed. "I mean like I don't remember... but your mom was over and mentioned-" Lilly quickly looked up and cut across Miley.
"My Mom was over? She knew you were here?" Lilly said sounding somewhat annoyed. Miley shrugged her shoulders. Then Lilly continued. "You don't remember me at all?" Miley nodded. "Nothing about here or living here or anything?" Lilly said waving her hand pointing toward the different areas.
"Nothing... this place is... all new to me. I don't remember anything." Miley said looking at the girl, and then she started to feel bad, this girl remember her but she didn't remember her... why?
"That's weird..." Lilly said then with a big smile she said. "Well I guess I'll have to show you around." Miley's eyes brightened up, the girl didn't' seem mad that she forgot her. At least she had someone to show her around.
"Yeah, Okay, that sound cool... when do you-" Miley started by was stopped short by Lilly grabbing her arm and pulling her towards the beach.
"Now! C'mon." Lilly said quickly as she dragged her forgetful friend. Lilly knew she had a lot to do to get Miley's memory back. At first she was disappointed that her best friend didn't remember her but she was going to get her to remember her.
Lilly took Miley to the beach, they hung out and talking mostly about normal things. Miley thought it was really strange for her to make a friend so quickly. It always took her awhile to make new friends. Lilly found it weird how Miley act like they never met. She knew people forget things... I mean they were four last the time they hung out but Miley acted like she knew nothing about the first four years of her life. Lilly hoped something would make her remember something about Malibu.
"So you're telling me you don't remember Amber Addison or Ashley Dewitt?" Lilly was saying as her and Miley sat at one of the table outside Rico's shack. Miley looked confused again, Lilly point to two girls, an Asian girl and African-American girl. Miley shock her head.
"Nope don't remember them either." Miley said simply as Lilly looked shocked.
"They used be in our pre-school, they always pulled bits of our hair when they stood behind us? How can you not remember?" Lilly stressed waving her arms dramatically. Miley shuck her head. Then another girl walked by.
"Oh what about Sarah, do you remember her?" Lilly asked pointing to the girl. Miley shuck her head again. "Em what about Mrs. Tumblety, she use to live across the road from you, she always gave us sweets... remember?" Lilly said but Miley again shuck her head. Lilly started to look disappointed, she had tried reminding Miley of some of the old things they did together but Miley still couldn't remember.
"Sorry... I can't remember anything." Miley said feeling bad. She had really tried to think of things but couldn't, it was weird. Lilly smiled. Then a boy, the one that was with Lilly earlier walked up to them. He seen Lilly with another girl but he sat down beside Lilly anyway. Miley felt a little uncomfortable thinking he was probably her boyfriend.
"Hey Lils, Hi" He said to Lilly, then to Miley. "Sooo... who's this?" He asked Lilly meaning Miley.
"Oliver ya idiot it's MILEY!" Lilly shouted excitedly again. Miley felt weird again, Lilly was really excited that she was back but Miley still had no idea who anybody was here. The boy, Oliver his eyes widened when Lilly said this, he looked shocked but the happily kind of shocked.
"MILEY! OMG where've you been. It's great to see you." Oliver shrieked. Miley was taken back a bit. Another person who was really glad to see her. Why was she so popular here? Lilly noticed Miley's confusion.
"She doesn't know who you are, ya donut!" Lilly said as she hit Oliver's arm. Miley laughed at this.
"What? It's me Smoken-Oken, the Olley Trolley-" Oliver went on until Lilly cut across him sharply.
"Shut up!" Lilly said as Miley giggled at them.
"You really don't remember me? Oliver?" Oliver asked Miley a little concerned.
"If she doesn't remember me, she's not going remember you." Lilly laughed.
"Sorry I don't remember you or anything from when I lived here." Miley said sadly.
"We were all best friends... the three of us..." Oliver said slowly pointing to himself, Miley and Lilly. "Me, you and Lils..."
"Yeah, then you left and it was just me and Oliver..." Lilly said. Miley felt worse now, they seemed like they really missed her. She was starting to wish she could remember. They talking for another while before Miley had to go home but she said she would see Lilly at dinner. As Miley was leaving, she really felt like she had made some new friends today. Oliver and Lilly were really funny together; they acted like Miley was their best friend that had been around for years. It felt good but strange because they were complete strangers to her but after today she hoped they could be friends like the four year olds, lilly and Oliver said they were like.
Lilly opened her back door and stepped inside, her mom was in the kitchen making dinner. Lilly was really happy Miley was back but now she just felt disappointed. She liked Miley, she was a nice girl but something was not right. It wasn't the same anymore.
"Hey Lilly, I have some news for you." Heather began as she turned to see her daughter.
"I know Miley's coming over for dinner with her mom." Lilly replied. Then seeing her mom's slightly confused face she added. "I seen Miley today, I know she's back."
"You did? That's great I wanted to surprise you, that why I didn't tell you when I found out they were moving back. Did the two of you have fun?" Heather asked
"Yeah it was fun..." Lilly said not all that convincing. Heather looked at her daughter who was sitting on one of the chairs in the kitchen now.
"Are you okay?" Heather asked a little worried. Lilly stood up and without looking at her mother she spoke.
"Miley wasn't really Miley... she couldn't remember things... she's not the same girl." Lilly said slowly, while her mother looked more confused.
"What do you not the same girl? It's been 10 years, she was only four when she was here last you can't expect her to remember things perfectly." Heather said.
"No, I mean she doesn't remember anything. I spent the whole day with her, she's not the same girl, and she doesn't act like the Miley I knew." Lilly agued back frustrated.
"Look, Lilly. People change over time. She's the same girl but she grew up, just like you did." Heather said trying to comfort her daughter.
"I know we grew up, it's just not the same Miley!" Lilly snapped. Heather looked annoyed.
"Lillian, you don't actually mean to tell me, this is a different girl than the one you used to play with when you were four?" Heather said sternly.
"I don't know, she nice and I like her but I still feel like something changed... Like she's not the same girl..." Lilly said feeling disappointed.
I hope you liked the first chapter and yeah slight suite life cross-over, I didn't know what job Susan had so I went with surgeon.
The title 'The Places That You've Come To Fear The Most' is taken from the song by Dashboard Confessional.
I want to update soon and I have a really good idea with this story, like where it's going. I hope you click the 'review button', it would be very nice. I unfortunately won't be able to update for probably two weeks because I'm going to America on Thursday yey! Guess what part? Montana lol isn't it funny, kinda why I decided to write the story.
Anyway I'd like at least 5 reviews before I update (you have two weeks!) if you want, they're well appreciated! So please review and I hope you enjoyed the story so far. Tell me what you think, good or bad.