So Stanford was different. Here I wasn't a celebrity but just another student. This was partly due to the fact that I could call Campus Police if I ever had a problem with people. Part of going to college was being normal. That is why I didn't sign up for any music classes. I probably wasn't going to major in music. Unfortunately I didn't know what I was going to major in. I looked at Lilly. I knew that she had declared a major but at the moment I was drawing a blank on what it was. I would have to ask her when she got back from the food court. I didn't have to wait long because soon she returned with a bag from Applebee's. Apparently they had a limited menu but still good food.
"Looks good." I remarked as I took a whiff. "Smells good too."
"It's the joy of having unlimited credits." Lilly remarked.
"Careful Lilly, we need to avoid the Freshman 15." I warned her.
"That's nothing but a myth." Lilly replied as she took a bite into her burger. "Besides you know how much I exercise."
"Yeah a lot of that included surfing." I pointed out. "We're not by the beach anymore."
"Yeah but there is a gym on campus." Lilly countered. "And we're also gonna be walking to classes."
"So what was your major again?" I asked.
"I'm majoring in business." Lilly replied. "Have you decided on anything yet?"
"No I think I'm just gonna wait out the semester to decide." I said taking a bite. "I know I have to take my Gen. Ed. classes right now anyway. Maybe I'll find something I like in one of those."
"So what classes are you taking this semester?" She asked.
"I'm taking Sociology 101, Geometry 101, English 101 and Spanish 101." I answered. "What about you?"
"Biology 101, English 101, Intro to Business, and Algebra 101." She told me. "Maybe you shouldn't have waited till the last day to sign up. Or maybe you should have just majored in music."
"I didn't want to take the easy route." I explained. "I want something challenging. "Besides, I don't need a degree in music. I'm already good at it. It's too bad that we're not in any of the same classes."
"Yeah." Lilly agreed before the two of us heard the sound of loud music coming from the room next store. I banged on the wall but the sound did go down.
"Let me take care of this." I suggested as I walked out of the room and over to the next door. I banged on the door and that got me an answer. The door opened but I didn't look up at the person. "Okay I don't know who you are but you need to turn down you music."
"Sure thing, Hannah!" The girl responded. Oh no why did it have to be her? Of the schools in the country, she had to go to this one?
"Mikayla…I didn't know you were coming here." I stammered.
"Yeah it was a secret." She spat. "But you must know a thing about keeping secrets. You know if you would have told me, I might actually still like you but you fucking played me. I bet you were thrilled when my movie got cancelled and my career went down the drain."
I didn't know what to say. I really didn't know what to say.
"And by the way, don't coming knocking on my door anymore." Mikayla added. "Also if you turn up any music, I will report you to the RA."
Then she slammed the door in my face. Mikayla officially hates me again. I walked back into my room to see Lilly hang up her phone.
"Guess what?" She asked excitedly. I decided I would play her game.
"You have a gynecologist appointment?" I guessed, having purposely selected something far off.
"No." Lilly replied as she gave me a strange look. "Oliver's gonna be playing a show here next week."
"That sounds great." I replied. Damn I was kind of hoping that he would be on tour for a while since I had just dumped my beard. I came back because I was in love with Lilly after all.
The next morning, I woke up to go to my Sociology class. After a shower and breakfast, I headed down there. Being so late to register, I was stuck with my mostly morning and night classes while Lilly got to sleep.
The class I was in was actually quite large. It was one of those stadium style classrooms so there had to be at least 10 students in the class. I decided to stand by the front of the class while everyone filed in. I needed to say something before the class started. The teacher allowed it.
"Okay attention everybody." I announced as they all looked at me. "Hi. I basically just want you to know that I don't want to be treated any differently and that includes from our professor. Anyway just treat the way you would any other student, even if that means ignoring me. Oh, and to any desperate guys, no I will not go out with you. Thank you for your time."
I then took a seat and the teacher or Professor as I think they liked to be here start his lecture. He was definitely a good looking guy.
"Okay now onto me." He said. "That's quite a tough act to follow."
Everyone in the room laughed.
"Okay enough jokes. I'm Professor King." He stated. "I'm betting most of you are wondering what the hell is sociology? Luckily I can answer that for you. To put it simply, sociology is the study of society. It's kind of psychology except where psychology focuses on the individual, sociology cares more about groups and how they act. This first isn't really supposed to be a lecture. It's more of a getting to know people exercise. Now what I want you to do is for you to look at the person on left and have a conversation with them. Talk about interests, hobbies where they live whatever you need to know. Now in a class this size, I don't have time for you to introduce each other so I want to write a short summary about him or her. I want at least two paragraphs and this will go towards your participation grade. You have till the end of class and both papers must be turned in together but you may leave after you and your partner are finished. If you have any questions, feel free to come up and ask me. You may begin."
So the person beside me was a girl with dark brown hair wearing a blouse and black skirt. She looked pretty professional for a college student.
"Hi." I greeted.
"Hey I'm Drew." She stated with a smile.
"So you're not gonna go relaying what I tell you to the tabloids, are you?" I joked.
"No because you said to treat you like any other student and I don't think they would be interested in any of these other students." She quipped. I already knew that I was going to like this girl. "So let's start with your non-singing hobbies."
"Well I like horseback riding, dancing and definitely don't like sports." I responded.
"Yeah I'm pretty sure that viral video of you playing tennis could speak for that." Drew remarked. "Anyway I like writing, jai alai, and shopping."
"So what's your major?" I questioned.
"Sociology actually." Drew replied with a laugh. "What about you? Music?"
"I haven't decided on a major yet." I explained as I pushed some hair out of my eyes. "But I can tell you that it's not going to be music."
"Why not?" Drew asked clutching her pencil as if ready to write.
"Because I want something more challenging." I told her. "Music already comes easy to me and I don't need to go to college for that. I want to learn something new here and I figure that majoring in something other than music gives me the best shot of that."
"Okay yeah that makes sense." She agreed. "What dorm are you staying in?"
"I'm in FloMo." I replied. It was short for Florence Moore but everyone on campus called it FloMo so I figured that I should do the same.
"Really what floor?" She asked excitedly. If I had to guess I would say she was also staying there.
"I'm on the second floor." I answered as she lit up even more.
"What room?" She asked.
"234." I said,
"I'm in 232." She responded. "That makes us neighbors."
"So then that would make you Mikayla's roommate?" I asked a little uneasily.
"Yes, why?" Drew responded with a look of confusion on her face.
"Mikayla and I don't really get along." I explained "See she always hated Hannah but also knew me as Miley and she's really upset that I didn't tell her that we were the same person."
"Well I don't quite understand that." Drew commented. "In the few days that I've been living with her, she's been really nice to me."
"I guess she just picks her friends." I remarked as I finished writing my paper. "So are you almost done?"
"Yeah almost." The girl replied as moved her pencil. "Do you wanna do something after we're done?"
I checked the clock on my phone. "Well my roommate and friend should be going to class about now so I guess I'm free." I told her. "What did you have in mind?"
"I was thinking maybe we could go get some food." She suggested. "I haven't eaten in a few hours. It doesn't have to be lunch. But I could really go for a bagel right now."
"I think they have those at Starbucks and I guess I could use some coffee right about now." I said as I got up.
Drew got up as well and we walked our papers to the professor's desk.
"Congratulations Ms. Brown, Ms. Stewart." Professor King said, reading Drew's paper because he already knew who I was. "You two are the first ones finished. You girls must have really connected."
The two of us smiled as we walked out the door.
"So he seems like a cool guy." I commented. "All of my high school students were less cool, especially my biology teacher. You know it seems like she was my only teacher sometimes."
""Well my biology teacher was my dad." Drew told me. "Quite a disaster that was."
"At least you didn't have to worry about passing." I joked. "If I was your mother and he failed you, he would not be getting laid."
"Actually…my dad's gay." She informed me. Okay so that joke doesn't work at all.
"Okay then…" I said, needing to change the subject quickly. Not that I had any problems with gay people, especially since I was gay myself. "So, I got A's in all in my classes. I don't think the fact that I had just revealed my secret before graduation had anything to do with it at all."
Drew broke out into a fit of laughter.
"Yeah they probably would have tried to make me valedictorian if they could have." I added as we arrived at the entrance to Starbucks. "But that's a legal thing so they couldn't do that."
"So I never did ask where you were from." Drew stated.
"I thought you would have known from all of the shows." I remarked. "I lived in Malibu but I was practically in LA all of the time."
"I'm from Sacramento." Drew explained. "I only went to LA once and it was a pretty big waste of time."
With that the two of us walked into Starbucks. Drew ordered a caramel macchiato and I got a standard mochaccino. I didn't like to dress up my coffee really. The caffeine was the most important thing to me.
"So what's your roommate like?" Drew asked after we were seated at our table.
"Well my roommate is actually my best friend. We requested them and I know that the people in the office love me." I declared. "Everyone seems to love me."
"Well I completely hate your guts." She replied with a smile to let me know she wasn't seriously.
"That's great because I'm not very fond of you either." I said, barely able to hold my giggles. "But anyway her name is Lilly Truscott and I've known her since I was 11. She was the first person to find out my secret."
"Well I've never had a best friend like that." Drew replied. "Must be nice."
After we were done with our coffee, both of us headed back to the dorm.
"So if you're not busy later, maybe you could join me and Lilly for dinner." I suggested to Drew.
"Yeah sure I'll come by." She agreed before I headed into my room.
The room was, for lack of a better word, a mess. It looked like it had been torn apart. I found Lilly on the floor. She too looked like a mess.
"Lilly, are you okay?" I asked in concern.
"It's gone!" Lilly bawled.
"What's gone?" I questioned.
"My mom's necklace is gone!" She cried.
"Where was the last place that you remember having it?" I questioned.
"I went to the bathroom down the hall and took it off for a shower." Lilly replied.
"Did you check in the bathroom?" I asked.
"Yeah and then I thought I might have left it in the room but it's not here either." The blonde explained.
"Was there anyone else in the bathroom with you?" I asked.
"Just one girl." Lilly said as I waited for her to describe said girl. "She had dark hair almost black and tan skin. She was gone when I was finished."
"Okay so the first thing we need to do is see if we can find this girl." I suggested. "Why don't we check the dorm Facebook page to see if we can find her?"
Lilly wiped her nose. "Okay" She agreed.
I took out my laptop and opened up the page. After going through a few pages, Lilly stuck her finger out.
"That's her!" She exclaimed.
"Helena Grey." I read. "Okay now we need to go to the info desk and get a copy of her schedule."
"You really think they'll do that?" Lilly asked.
"We'll just have to find out." I stated.
I went down to the info desk with a smile on my face.
"Hi, Melanie." I said, reading the girl's name tag. "I was wondering if I could get a schedule."
"Did you lose yours already, Miley?" Melanie asked me.
"Well it's not for me." I replied. "I actually need a schedule for Helena Grey."
"I'm really only supposed to give you yours." Melanie stated.
I saw a pen and a piece of paper. I smiled and signed it.
"Will this change your mind?" I asked as I handed it to her.
The printer started printing suddenly and Melanie handed me Helena's schedule.
"This never happened." Melanie told me and I nodded.
It seemed that Helena was in Art right about now. I walked down to the art building to see if I could catch her coming out of it. That's exactly what happened.
"Helena Grey?" I asked.
"What do you want?" Helena asked. She had a British accent. That was unexpected.
"I was looking my for my friend Lilly's necklace." I answered. "She's blonde about my height. She said you were in the bathroom at FloMo with her this morning."
"If you're insinuating that I took it, then I'm appalled. You Americans think that you know everything and you're nowhere near as good a singer as Adele." Helena replied. "I didn't steal your friend's necklace but someone might have taken it while she was showering and left before she got out. Did you ever consider that?"
"I was claiming that you did take it." I stated, though after her outburst, I was now considering it. "I was just wondering if you've seen it."
I handed her a picture.
"Yes I did see someone wearing a necklace like that." Helena told me. "Fine I'll go and take you to her."
I walked with Helena to the food court and she showed me a blonde girl.
The girl in question was Renee. She claimed that she found the necklace outside our dorm window. She also claimed that it wasn't Lilly's necklace even though it was extremely similar. There was also the fact that she wouldn't let me see the back of the necklace to see if HT was inscribed on it. I definitely did not trust her and I would have to find a way of looking into this.
I returned to the info desk and saw that Melanie was still there.
"You don't need another schedule do you?" Melanie asked.
"No I just need to know if there's a girl named Renee staying in this dorm." I told her.
"There's a girl named Renee in room 225, why?" Melanie responded.
"I think she may have stolen my friend's necklace. There's not any way I can get access to her room, is there?" I questioned with a smile.
Melanie was able to let me into her room. I noticed a rather interesting sign on the door. It said 'Helena and Renee's room'. We look inside and saw about 6 cellphones, 3 laptops and a Gameboy DS.
"I'll call campus police." Melanie stated.
So Renee and Helena walked back to their room to get a rude awakening. It turned out that were grabbing whatever they could find. I grabbed Lilly's necklace off Renee's necklace and sure enough the letters were there. It seems that I just solved a mystery and was kind of fun doing it. Maybe I could major in criminal justice or something. It was just a thought for now.
So about a week later, I was eating lunch with Lilly and Drew.
"So do you wanna see my boyfriend Oliver's show tonight?" Lilly asked Drew. I had filled Drew in on Lilly's and Oliver's relationship and Oliver's Music career.
"No thanks, I don't really go for those American Idol types." Drew responded. "I am how good can he be if he didn't even make it past Hollywood?"
"Actually he dropped out of the competition to be with Lilly." I explained.
"Oh that's really romantic then." Drew remarked. "I don't know how smart it was but it was definitely romantic."
"Oliver is a good singer." I remarked. "I did put him through. He just chose to leave to be Lilly."
"You're not going to change my mind." Drew declared. "Besides I have a date tonight. A pretty hot date if you know what I mean."
"Probably more than we needed to know." I muttered. "Okay then have fun tonight."
That night, I decided that I would go by a little early to talk to Oliver before the show. The room wasn't very crowded. A few people were there including Amber and Ashley much to my chagrin. I noticed my favorite donut and went over to give him a hug.
"Hey Miles." Oliver greeted. "I think you made the right call by coming back here."
"I think so too." I agreed. "So how do you like touring?"
"It's a little hard being away from Lilly so much." Oliver stated. "That's why I'm glad you're around."
Would he be saying that if he knew I was in love with Lilly?
"So we gotta do the sound check right about now so it's gonna get really loud." Oliver said. I knew what a sound check was like.
"I'll go get a drink and come back when you're done." I told him as I left the room. I went to concession stand and heard music playing before I heard something that sounded like an explosion. Man that was a good effect.
It wasn't until after I returned that I noticed the people outside looking on in horror. That hadn't been a fake explosion. It was a real one. Everyone who had been inside the room was dead.
Okay so that was an intense first chapter. Yes Oliver is dead. I'm pretty sure that this is not how Hannah Montana would have continued but I don't care. I also know that I probably made a few things up about Stanford but FloMo is a real residence hall. Now for character introduction. Drew is played by JoJo. Professor King is played by Bradley Cooper but he's a better teacher than Phil. Melanie is played by Ashley Greene. And Helena and Renee are played by Naomi Scott and Aimee Teagarden. Oh and don't make any guesses at this point in your review. But do review. Please do review.