AN: Ok, here's the first chapter of Just Listen! This is in Miley's POV.

I gulped a little and pushed open the large doors to the schoolI was being forced to go back to by my father, who had told me that he didn't care how much I hated it here, I had to go.

I noticed almost right away that a few people were staring at me, and I looked down at my feet, unwilling to meet any of them in the eyes, knowing it would get me nothing but trouble if I did anyway.

"Mikayla!" a voice from behind me yelled, and I knew as soon as I heard it that it belonged to Lanie Johnston, a girl I had been friends with the previous year.

She stopped and looked at me for a moment, before running past me to where Mikayla was waiting for her.

Mikayla noticed me looking and walked towards me, purposely, because I knew for a fact her homeroom was in the other direction, and stopped in front of me, looking me directly in the eyes.

"Bitch" she said that one word, and my eyes shot to my feet, and I pushed my way through the now laughing crowd, trying to make it to my homeroom as quickly as possible.

Later that day, during lunch, I looked around the quad outside, desprete for a place to sit.

Everyone had their places at the tables. The jocks sat in one of the corners nearest to the football fields, while the nerds sat on the complete other side of the small area, placing them right outside the school doors.

Mikayla and Lanie were seated with the popular girls, and I sighed and walked over to 'the wall'.

It was a small brick wall that only two or three kids sat at during lunch, mostly the ones who were such outcast, they simply had nowhere else to go.

When I reached it, there were only to others there. On my left, sat Sarah Tompson, who was completely ignoring me, trying her hardest to not look up, since I knew she could tell I was staring at her.

Me and Sarah had once been really close, best friends, since we were in fifth grade and I moved from Tenessee, and some older boys had been making fun of me. Sarah had stood up for me.

But after what I did last year, I don't blame her for sitting there and acting like we never knew each other.

I turned to my right, and saw Lilly Truscott sitting there. My eyes widened and I turned to my lunch, sneaking glances at the blonde sitting to the right of me every so often.

She had her iPod earphones in, just like she always did. She could be in class, out of class, walking home, skating, or just sitting here at lunch, she never too her earphones out.

There was a lot of rumors flying around about Lilly too, and normally I wouldn't believe anything I just hear, but the rumors were about Lilly punching some kid in the parking lot last year and getting suspended for three weeks. When she came back, she was here for a about a month, until, according to the rumors, she punched someone else in the parking lot of a club, and got arrested.

Lilly's eyes snapped up and met mine, and I scrambled to get up as the bell rang, telling us to all get back to our classes.

As Lilly walked past me, she had the faintest hint of a smile on her face, and I scrunched up my eyebrows in confusion.

What the hell was she smiling at?

AN: Ok, it's not the best chapter in the world, but it'll do. What do you all think?