Chapter 2

Dropping off the three at the high school and saying their goodbye's Celtic drove off as soon as the last door shut. Rain has sighed ad then spoke up. "I need my pills."

"Why, because you ate so much?" He asked as they stopped at a red light. Raine Glared at him. He was being an ass about her problem. "You really have to stop."

"I've tried and I just can't." She stared out the window of the car. The sky was clear. Not a single cloud was in the sky anymore. She could tell that it was going to be a fairly warm day.

"Well maybe you haven't tried hard enough." He flicked on the blinker and turned right onto a busy street.

"Oh really?" She looked at him. This was basically what they did four out of the seven days of the week. They fought about her drug problems.

"Maybe your sister should know about what your up to?" He eyed her.

"You wouldn't tell her!" This was the first time he had threatened her in any way. And her sister had looked up to her. Raine couldn't let her sister know what she did on her spare time.

"Maybe you can hit up a rehab place here for a few days while she is in school." Celtic suggested.

"Maybe. Or I can wait till I go home and start one there."

"That'll be in like a month!" He said stopping the car on the side of the road. He turned to her. "If you start it when you get home then you will soon quit it because you'll be too busy to go anymore." A moment of silence flew by and then Celtic spoke up again "Maybe you could take a break on modeling till you can stop paying for drugs and pay for Rehab."

"You're right but how does that stop my Bulimia?"

"Well, you haven't thrown up breakfast yet! So that's a start!" They both laughed a little and she called him an ass. "So your royal Highness." He got back onto the road and went back to driving back to her mom's house. "Should we pop pills, throw up, find someone who has weed or change our addictions to coffee?"

"Weed would be good right about now." She smiled. "My last time. I promise."

"Baby steps are good girl. Just think how much happier you'll be without drugs later on in life." He said to her. He pulled up into the driveway and turned the car off. Celtic got on the internet and looked for places nearby that had weed. Raine was upstairs crouched over the toilet while popping pills.

Celtic knocked on the bathroom door and told her that he'd be back. He was going to go out and get the Marijuana. She said ok and soon was out a few minutes after he left. She made her way down the stairs and laid on the couch. She was exhausted from throwing up and from the plane ride that took forever. She saw a magazine on the coffee table. Sitting up she opened it and turned the pages. She ran across a Hannah Montana picture and interview. Se read it over about twice and just stared at the picture. She looked familiar. Raine had never met Hannah before but there was someone that looked exactly like her.

Celtic walked right through the door and looked over her shoulder to see what she was reading. "Hannah Montana? Since when are you fascinated in her?" He asked. Putting the brown paper bag down on the table.

She eyed the bag and then shifted her gaze back to the Hannah picture. "I'm not. It's just she looks so familiar. Like someone we know." Celtic took a look at the picture himself.

"You'd think you'd remember that smile anywhere." He said "But whatever." He put down the magazine on the table and picked back up the bag. "Let's party." Raine laughed and got off of the couch, running upstairs and changing into her bathing suit. Jumping into the pool they both swam into the shallow end where they left the weed sitting on the edge and began to get high.


"So Lily, you think that your sister would like to go out to dinner with me tonight?" Jackson asked as He, Miley and Lily entered through the doors of the high school. Miley had rolled her eyes at Jackson's question and Lily just shook her head. "I don't know Jackson. You'd have to ask her that yourself." She answered him

"Hey Lils, I'll see you in class. Ryan is here." Miley had spotted her boyfriend of two months pulling things out of his locker.

"Good," Jackson said "Leaves me and Lily alone to talk about her sister." He smirked.

"Jackson, I'm not going to say yes so you'll get your hopes up and your dreams crushed. And I'm not saying no you'll be depressed and think that you will never have a chance with her. My sister changes each time I see her. Ask her out, don't ask me to ask her out for you. Be a man Jackson." Lily then walked off to go and find Oliver.

Miley greeted Ryan at his locker with a peck on the cheek "Hey Handsome!"

"You're late." He shut his locker and looked down at her. No it wasn't a bad day for him. He was like this every day. He was a mean person when it was just him and Miley but a fake in front of her friends and family.

"I know. And I'm sorry. Lily's sister was in town and she stopped by to say hi and-" She was stopped. He was covering her mouth with his hand.

"I don't care about your pathetic excuses Miley! You always have some dumb excuse that you think of on your way to school. I'm tired of it!" He pinned her up against the lockers. "Get here earlier next time or else we are over. And we all know that you won't be able to live without me." Miley just nodded her head and didn't try to say anything for fear of being hurt. She was scared like she was almost every morning that she saw him. Now was the time when she missed Jake and wished that he'd fly out of nowhere and save her. "I'm feeling nice today." Ryan scowled. He grabbed her by the arm roughly "Let me walk you to class." He then dragged her away. His fingers digging into her skin. Bruises would appear later on in the day.

Across the school Lily had found Oliver and she greeted him with a huge hug. "Well, someone certainly is happy." Oliver laughed and put his Algebra book in his bag.

"Well of course I am! My sister is in town." She opened her locker which was a few away from his.

"Oh how fun." He wasn't being sarcastic he was happy for her. Her sister was in town. "Wait," He turned to look at her. "You have a sister?!" He closed his locker and then went over to hers.

Lily smiled and nodded her head. "Yes I do. And she's the greatest sister ever!" She too pulled out her Algebra book. "I look up to her. She's my role model." Lily smiled and pulled a magazine out of her backpack. Thumbing through some of the pages she found what she was looking for and handed it over to Oliver. "That's her."

Oliver stood there staring at the picture. His jaw had dropped and then he tore his eyes away from the magazine. "Raine?" He asked shockingly "Raine Cromwell is your sister?" He still couldn't believe it. How could Lily have a sister and not tell him. Let alone her sister being Raine Cromwell. "But wait, why is her last name Cromwell and yours is Truscott?"

"Cromwell is my dad's last name. She decided to keep it after he died. She didn't ant to change it to Truscott." She explained to him. Oliver just nodded his head, understanding what she was saying. The bell soon rang and the two of them went off to class. Miley was already in her seat and had everything out. "Hey Miley" They both greeted her and they noticed her holding her arm with her other hand. Though she was wearing a jacket they couldn't see what was under there that she was trying to hide. Lily glanced over at Oliver who had taken out a folded piece of paper from his backpack. He opened it up and wrote down something. Then quickly shoving it back into his bag.

She always had seemed to be hiding something from them whenever she just came back from spending time with Ryan. Oliver and Lily were getting Suspicious, so on a piece of paper they'd write down each time they saw Miley clutching a body part of hers.

"You alright Miley?" Oliver asked concerned. He was one of her best friends and he knew she was hurt and he cared for her.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just ran into a locker door is all." She lied to him. It hurt her knowing that it was so simple for her to lie to him like that. He really did care for her, and so did Lily. She knew that but she couldn't find a way to tell him that.

Oliver and Lily weren't convinced at all. Not even the least bit. He took back out the piece of folded paper and wrote something else in it:

Miley's Injuries:

Monday- 8:00 Holding right arm. Claims to have run into a locker.

Above it, was other days of the last few weeks of her excuses. She had used the running into the locker excuse many times before. But she spread them out so it seemed like they wouldn't notice it. She used it at least once a week.

Miley had looked over at Oliver and he quickly folded it up and putting it back into his bag. She almost saw what was written on it. Hopefully she didn't see anything. "What was that?" She asked him Lily quickly glared at Oliver from Behind Miley.

"N-nothing. Just a piece of paper my mom left me this morning telling me to have a good day." He lied to her. Now he felt like more of an idiot for lying to her. Taking out a blank sheet of paper his book and a pen for notes he thought bout what Miley saw in Ryan. He was so much better. He just wished he could sweep Miley off of her feet and save her from the horrible monster.


Wasted and hanging onto the side of the pool was sitting on the steps Raine had mumbled to Celtic that they had to get out soon to pick up Miley, Jackson and Lily. Ten minutes later they climbed out of the pool and went into the bathroom to see how horrible they actually looked. They're eyes were all red and puffy and they didn't know how to get it to go away. They never had to make their red eyes quickly disappear.

"Maybe if we put damn paper towels over our eyes it would help." He suggested.

"I thought that was for crying and if you were cutting onions and your eyes were stinging?" She asked

"I guess you could say it's kind of the same thing. You cry your eyes get all red and puffy. You smoke, your eyes get all red and puffy. So why not try it?" He then left the bathroom and went into the kitchen.

"That might just work." She said following him. Raine was willing to try anything in order to make her not look so damn stoned when they picked up Lily and her friends.