Miley stood in her Hannah closet deciding what to wear to her concert tonight. She had so much to wear yet at the same time she had nothing to wear. She ultimately decided to wear a forest green mini-skirt and a black camisole lined with diamonds (yes, real diamonds) and a pair of sleek velvet black boots. She grabbed a blue-jean jacket off-handedly and ran downstairs to catch her limo.

Once she got to the concert hall she was performing at, she got her guitar ready in the rehearsal/sound-check room back-stage and then she ran on stage and screamed, "Are you ready to rock tonight!!?!!?!?!" and the whole audience screamed "Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and Miley started off her concert the way she started off all of her concerts, with her song called "The Best of Both Worlds." She smiled, and then sang "This is The Life" and "I've Got Nerve." She concluded her concert with one of her newest songs, "If We Were a Movie". After her concert, she went back stage and talked to Lilly, who was dressed as Lola Loftnagle.

Both of them still wondered what was up with Oliver. He had acted so weird earlier today. "What do you think he's hiding?" Miley asked Lilly. Lilly said, "I don't know, but it can't possibly be as big as your secret. I mean, shah, its not like he's secretly a billionaire or something like that!" "I know, right!!!" Miley said, laughing, "That would be so absurd. I mean, he's so bumbly and awkward and clumsy. He's a nut-head." Lilly laughed. Then she said, "Wait a minute….what's a "nut-head"??" Miley said, "Oliver, duh!" "Oh yeah," Lilly said laughing, "How could I be such a donut?!?! Oliver's the donut, not me!"

The girls walked out of the dressing room, still Hannah and Lola, and got into the limo that was waiting for them. They got in the back seat. Once they were out of sight of all of the fans, they finally were able to take their wigs off and breathe. Miley smiled. "That was fun," Lilly said. "It always is," Miley replied, and the girls laughed and put their i-pods in their ears.

The next day, Miley decided to call Oliver. Yesterday had been so freaky. He was definitely hiding something. She could see it in his eyes, and Miley had been confounded. Hadn't she let him in on her biggest secret in the world?!?!?! She felt bereft and empty. She felt like some part of Oliver was missing; an entire side of him that he was deliberately keeping from Miley and Lilly. "Well," Miley said to herself softly, "I guess I'm being a little bit too dramatic." She slowly dialed Oliver's phone number and listened to the dial tone as she waited for Oliver to pick up the phone on the other end of the line.

"Hi Oliver," Miley said.

"Hi Miley," Oliver said. His voice seemed slightly aloof, like he wasn't all there.

"How was your lesson??" Miley asked, trying to get Oliver to admit something. Something, anything…because Miley just didn't like being left in the dark. It made her feel cold and slippery and slimy….and like she didn't know where she was going, and someone was going to trip her any moment. Maybe it would be on purpose, maybe it would be on accident, but either way, she would still fall.

"Wha…what…..? Oh yeah, that…um, fine I guess," Oliver said, stuttering, because he was obviously shielding his true voice, protecting his real identity. 'Well,' Miley thought admittedly, 'I guess I shouldn't be jumping to conclusions that his secret has something to do with identity. Just because mine did, doesn't mean his has to!'

"Why can't you tell me your secret? I told you mine!" Miley asked, a little bit agitated.

"I don't have a secret!!!" Oliver protested.

"Come 'on, Oliver. I know you do," Miley said dogmatically

"No, I don't. Really," Oliver said, probably a little too forcibly.

"Well, fine," Miley said, "I know you'll tell me when you're ready…"… Miley paused, letting silence hover in the air between the two phones… "…Just like I did."

"Whatever," Oliver said.

Both of them hung up the phone, and the line went dead. Well, at least they had avoided getting into a huge fight. But Oliver couldn't elude his secret forever, just like Miley couldn't.

But what was his secret, and what was so bad about it that he didn't want anyone to know….not even Miley, one of his best friends?

Miley felt bereft, confounded, and bemused. She walked into her Hannah closet and put on a cool outfit, and then ran down to the beach to by a strawberry smoothie at some stand. She called Lilly on her cell phone and told her about her conversation with Oliver. "He's definitely hiding something, then," Lilly said after Miley finished telling Lilly everything. Miley decided, since she was good at covert-ness and everything, she would do a little spy work. After all, it couldn't hurt. As long as Oliver didn't find out, it couldn't ruin their friendship...right?

Miley took a final sip of her smoothie and then through the empty glass in the garbage can. Where would she start? How big exactly was Oliver's secret? Where was Oliver? Did he have another "lesson" thingy or was it a one-time occasion? There was so much that was a mystery to Miley.

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"No one knows."

"Good. I'm hoping it will stay that way."

"It will. It has to."

"Are you ready for your training?"

"Do I have to?"

"Remember the video?"

He cringed, pain evident in his face. For a minute his skin looked pallid and bereft, but he forced the color to return to his cheeks. Then he said in an austere, somber, almost determined voice, "Okay. Let's do it."

"You know what you have to do?"

"I know what I have to do."

"And will you do it?"

"I haven't figured out how yet but I will. Someone has to. I don't want anyone else to end up like..." he paused, leaving his voice hanging there, like a train that came to the end of the train-tracks...like a derailed train. It hurt him too much to say it...and he didn't want to have everything that he had...but he did...and it was useless...and lying was the only way...

"Good, Master Queen."