AN/ I do not own Hannah Montana

Oliver, Lilly, and Miley were at the beach drinking smoothies from Rico's.

"It's extremely windy today!" Miley said.

The palm trees by them were roaring in the wind.

Lilly said, "Your hat is about to blow aw--"

Miley's hat flew away and Miley leapt up and chased after it. Suddenly there was silence at Rico's.

"So...Lilly," Oliver said nervously.

Lilly asked, "Yes?"

Oliver couldn't think of anything interesting. "How is your day going?"

Lilly laughed. "Fine?? Oliver, how is your day going?"

Lilly was mocking him.

"Very funny. Its alright, I like spending my days with you." Oliver said.

Lilly looked flattered.

Oliver was shocked that he said that out loud. "And Miley! Yes both of you, together."

Lilly's face seemed to sadden.

Miley came back out of breathe.

"It blew into the ocean!" She told the two of them.

"That stinks. I got to go. Maybe we should hang tomorrow," Lilly said in a rush.

"Uh, alright whatever."

Oliver quickly replied. "I think I am going to go too. See ya!"

"Um...okay?"

Miley was confused as to what happened when she was chasing after her hat.

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Jake was talking in the park to a girl who was in the grade above him; they had been good friends before he transferred schools.

Jake confided in her. "I am worried, about my friend."

Freya looked engrossed. "Why?"

"Well she might be in danger," He said.

"A little more information please!"

Jake wanted to trust her but he just couldn't. "I really need to talk about this, but I can't."

Freya thought she could budge it out of him. "You can tell me anything!"

"Not this. I want to, but I just can't!"

Freya was annoyed. "Whatever, I got to go...I wish I could help but you won't let me."

Freya left feeling kind of aggravated.

I have to talk to Miley. I have to explain that I think her secret is in danger. I just hope she listens.

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Miley yelled, "Hey Jake!"

Miley was still at Rico's, finishing her smoothie when she saw Jake coming over.

"Oh hey!" Now is my chance.

"What's up? You look a little blue."

Jake just wanted to get it over with. "Nothing. Listen Miley we have to talk."

Miley sipped her smoothie. "Shoot."

Jake looked worried. "Well I think Brooke told someone."

Miley rolled her eyes. "We already talked about this! Nothing has happened for weeks!"

"Something might though, Miles."

Miley just wanted to change the subject. "Alright Jake, I told you I would keep my eye out. Now just drop this."

Jake couldn't help but think, What am I going to do. I have this feeling that someone is researching this right now...

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Jill cackled evilly. "This article is going to be the greatest one I have ever written!"

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"MILEY! GET YOURSELF DOWNSTAIRS NOW!" Robbie Ray shouted.

Miley was up in her room and froze in her tracks. "Uh oh." What did I do? I forgot. Hmm? This could be bad...

Miley went downstairs awaiting what her father was about to yell at her for.

"Read this," Robbie said irritably.

Robbie threw a newspaper across a table towards Miley. He looked extremely angry with her. In fact, he was extremely angry with her.

Robbie was worried. How could she have done this? What was she THINKING! She didn't even tell me how she thought her secret was in danger. She should have told me. What will happen now. This girl better have an amazing explanation for this.

Miley was confused. "What?"

Robbie changed his mind. He grabbed the paper and began reading out loud.

""Hannah Montana's secret identity has been figured out! After doing some research I have come to the conclusion that our favorite teen pop sensation, Hannah Montana, has another side to her named Miley Stewart."" Robbie read. "Miley! I bet you could guess what the words are from there!"

Miley felt tears build up in her eyes. "Daddy! I didn't know! What am I going to do?"

"It's over Miles. This lady has proof! We can't save your secret anymore!"

"I have to get ready for school. I can't think about this." No. No. This can't be happening. I told myself this wouldn't happen. I told myself I would keep an eye out. I should have listened to Jackson, and Jake. Jake knew Brooke! I should have listened! I should have listened. I should have listened...

Robbie didn't know what to tell her. "Go one, leave."

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Miley turned the handle to her front door and immediately reporters were flooding her with questions and paparazzi were clicking their cameras. Nothing would ever be the same.

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Miley got past all the paparazzi and she was now at school in the bathroom. Amber, Ashley, Lilly, Oliver, Jake, and a crowd of people were in the lunchroom.

"No way! I don't believe this!" Amber said angrily.

"Listen; can we not make this a big deal?" Lilly pleaded.

Ashley scoffed, "Your joking right? Miley is Hannah Montana! How can we not make this a big deal?"

Oliver just wanted the bickering to end. "Look, she is just a normal girl!"

"A normal girl? SHE IS HANNAH MONTANA! Where is she anyways?" Amber wondered.

Jake sighed. "She is scared. She is scared everyone will bombard her when she shows her face!"

Ashley begged them. "We won't, we promise!"

"I highly doubt that considering what happened when I came…" Jake replied.

The crowd of students behind them were nodding their heads expectantly. Lilly decided it was about time to look for Miley.

She walks through the halls searching each classroom.

Lilly opened a door and yelped. "MILEY!"

She yelled her name. All of the sudden she heard whimpers coming from the girls bathroom. Lilly cautiously opened the door.

"Miley?"

Miley shouted at Lilly. "You told me nothing bad would happen! You lied to me!"

Lilly was shocked and sympathetic. "I didn't know Miley!"

"If you didn't know you shouldn't have said anything. This is your fault! I shouldn't have listened to you!"

Lilly lost her sympathy and was now bewildered by Miley's knack to always put the blame on someone other than herself. "You can't pin this on me!"

Miley continued to cry. "You don't seem to understand that I am really ruined this time! Everyone knows who I am! Things will never be the same! Just LEAVE Lilly, your no help."

"I come here to try and comfort you and all you can do is blame me for your mistake."

"My mistake? How is this my mistake?" Miley asked her.

"How is this MINE! You shouldn't have told Jake!" Lilly screamed.

Miley was fed up. "LEAVE!"

Lilly smirked. "This is a public bathroom; I can stay here as long as I want!"

"Fine, I will leave! BYE!"

Lilly pretended she didn't care. "See ya!"

Miley leaves and slams the bathroom door. She takes a look around and exits through the back door of the school. She sees a bench near by and takes a seat on it. Tears still come pouring down her face.

I ruined my friendship, I have ruined my life! I wish I could just stop being Hannah Montana...

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Miley was sitting in her house determined to finally break-up with Jake. He ruined her life, she decided that this was his fault.

Miley paced in her bedroom. She began talking to herself. "Just walk over to his house, ask to sit and talk, and break the news to him. He should understand I mean he was the one who told my secret."

Miley got up. She was positive this was a good move. She peeked through a curtain before she left her house. She saw about 20 reporters standing like tigers ready to pounce, and Miley was the prey. There was no way she was going to leave through that door. So she walked up stairs, grabbed a hat and a pair of sunglasses and put them on. Then she climbed out of her window. She steadily placed her foot on the roof of their garage. She bent down and jumped. She let out a scream. All of the sudden she sees a group of reporters coming around the side of the house.

"THERE SHE IS! GET HER!" One of the reporters bellowed.

They instantaneously started chasing after her.

CRAP!

Miley was running as fast as she could. She tried to take short cuts to get rid of them, but she couldn't. A few reporters got tired and stopped chasing but there were still 10 of them following her. Miley was, too, getting tired and she had to stop running. And as soon as she did, breathy questions were coming out of the reporter's mouths as camera men got everything on film.

"How and why did you keep it a secret for so long?" A reporter asked.

Miley decided it was time to give these reporters answers. How else would they leave her alone?

Miley took a deep breath. "I was careful, I didn't want to be followed by reporters and I wanted people to like me for me, not me for Hannah Montana."

"You obviously let your guard down. How did this happen?" A different reporter held the microphone to Miley's mouth.

"My boyfriend accidentally told this gossip that he just found out he was dating Hannah Montana and I guess she must have told that reporter."

"That reporter must have done some digging, didn't you notice anything?" Another reporter hollered behind the crowd.

Miley thought about it for a moment. "I guess I did, I just didn't think I was in danger. My brother warned me, my boyfriend warned me. I just didn't listen to them when I should have."

"How are things different?"

"Me and my best friend got in a fight, everyone at school wants to be my friend, and I was just about to make the mistake of blaming it all on my boyfriend."

One of the reporters was confused and asked, "It is his fault though, right?"

"Wrong. It's everyone's, we all contributed into this and I shouldn't just blame Jake, or just blame Lilly. It's as much their fault as it is mine. And now, if there are no more questions I would like to go apologize to my best friend."

She walked away feeling enlightened.

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Ding dong went the sound of Lilly's doorbell ringing. Miley stood there pleading that Lilly would answer the door. Lilly looked through the peep hole and saw Miley. You could tell she wasn't willing to answer the door. She did anyways.

Lilly sounded pissed off. "What?"

Miley understood why should would be angry. Hopefully she would accept her apology. "I wanted to apologize for yelling at you. I was wrong."

Lilly nodded. "Yes, yes you were."

Miley obviously had to explain. "I am so sorry Lilly. I didn't mean anything I said, I was stupid. I was aggravated and angry and I was sick of this. I really have to talk to you though."

Lilly smiled. "Okay, I accept the apology, what do you want to talk about?"

"Hannah Montana. Can I come in?" Miley asked.

"Sure, sure."

Miley stepped in and Lilly guided her to her bedroom.

Miley watched Lilly sit on her bed. Miley continued to stand. "Listen, I think I want to take a break from being Hannah Montana."

Lilly jumped up immediately. "WHAT! What do you mean "take a break". Like for a week? Month? Year? Or are you talking about forever? Miley you can't!"

"Lilly chill, I am thinking a year...ish."

"A YEAR! No, Miley I won't let you. You can't give up, just because the going gets tough!"

"WHAT? You think I am giving up because there is a glitch in my smooth plan?"

"Yeah, yeah I do! You are giving up because you don't want to deal with being a celebrity. It makes sense and you know it!"

Miley was astonished. "You're wrong!"

"Get out!"

"See, Gosh Lilly, we just made up and here you go again!

"Go ahead; blame it on me once more. Get. Out."

"Fine."

Miley leaved her house in a distressed manor.

Not again. Miley thought.

She couldn't help but feel that maybe, Lilly was right.

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Lilly called Oliver after Miley had left.

"Oliver? Hey it's Lilly, I have to talk."

Oliver noticed she sounded upset. "Uh...sure! Come on over!"

Lilly was whimpering and trying to fight back tears. "Okay."

She left her house and slowly aligned her heel to her toe as she walked. She was in no hurry to get to Oliver's house; actually she was a little nervous. She continued walking slowly to his house, each step getting a little tenser. She didn't know why but she has gotten more and more attracted to Oliver.

Oliver was anxious for Lilly to come over. He started fixing up his room. Then he started wondering, why on earth was he fixing his room! He never fixed his room when Lilly used to come over. Oliver figured something has changed that he never thought would, he had gotten more and more attracted to Lilly.

Oliver heard a knock on the door. He raced to the door, smoothed his hair down and opened it.

"Hey Lilly!"

"He-he-hey Oliver," Lilly said.

You could detect the nervousness in her voice.

"Come on in," Oliver said welcomingly.

Lilly stepped inside. Her and Oliver both walked up to his bedroom and took a seat on his bed.

"What did you want to talk about?" Oliver asked.

"Miley, I think she is making a big mistake. She wants to take a break from being Hannah Montana, and then we got into this huge argument for the second time in two days. She is giving up on her dream! I told her that but then she got really mad at me and I told her to leave and," Lilly said really fast. She slowed down her words and started to cry. "I don't want to fight with her Oliver!"

"Okay calm down."

Then, before either of them knew it Oliver was hugging Lilly. Oliver backed away to see a smile upon Lilly's face. Lilly and Oliver were starting at each other. Lilly then leaned in and quickly planted a kiss on Oliver.

"I-I am sorry!" Lilly sqeaked.

Lilly got up and ran out of Oliver's house.

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AT SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY

"I am sick of school," Jake said.

"Tell me about it..." Miley agreed.

A silence fell at their lockers.

Jake looked at Miley. "Uh, you two okay?"

"Yeah, I am going to go to class," Lilly told them.

"We have 8 minutes until first period starts!" Miley replied.

Lilly quickly thought of an excuse. "I have to...go to the bathroom."

"Alright. Do you want to sit outside for a bit Miles?" Jake asked.

"Sure!"

Miley and Jake leave the scene and Oliver looks ahead to see Lilly walking to the Bathroom.

Oliver ran to catch up. "Lilly? Wait! Can I talk to you?"

"Oliver, I am really sorry. I didn't mean it!"

"You didn't?" Oliver sounded disappointed.

Lilly lied, "Uh, no I didn't."

"Oh. Really? Why? Well I mean, why did you do it then?"

"I don't know! Listen can you just accept my apology?"

"No."

"Why not?" Lilly asked him.

"Because I don't think you didn't mean it. Well at lest I hope you didn't."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I waited so long for you to kiss me. And if that didn't mean anything than that wouldn't make me feel too great."

"Oh." Lilly didn't know what to say.

"Oh? Oh? I guess I was wrong."

Oliver started to walk away.

Lilly yelled to stop him. "Wait! I was just surprised. I didn't know! And it did mean something; I just didn't want to be turned down."

Oliver sighed in relief. "Phew, that's good!"

"So what does this mean?"

"Are we going out?"

"I guess so!" Lilly exclaimed.

Lilly and Oliver walk down the hallway holding hands.

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Miley and Jake still haven't gone to first period. They are talking on a bench out in the front of school.

"So things seem to have cooled down. What about that fight with Lilly?" Jake inquired.

"I don't know! I guess we just both ignored it, pretended like it never happened. I think it's better than arguing but we probably should have discussed it first. But oh well. Yeah and the Hannah Montana thing, I guess it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I only get the occasional questions of how I did it, and why, and if I am going to change Hannah's name to mine now that everyone knows, and if I have been on the red carpet, and how I study when I am at concerts, and which famous people I have met, and all this stuff. A couple of people who didn't like me are trying to be-friend me so they can get into parties, but that's pretty much all!"

Jake laughed. "Ha-ha, okay then! Uh...there is some boy staring at you..."

Miley turned around and notice a boy who looked like he was in a trance. He gazed at her. He looked about 16, had dark brown hair, a black tee shirt, and baggy pants, and Miley was creeped out.

"Um, hello? What do you want?" Miley asked the guy.

He didn't reply. Miley got frustrated and walked towards him. She took two fingers and snapped a couple times in front of his face. "Helloo??"

Corey shook his head and jumped. "Oh!" He got startled. Immediately he began breathing very heavily. "Are...you...really...Hannah...Montana?"

Miley looked at Jake and rolled her eyes. "Yes."

"Woooww that's really cool."

"Thanks. Listen, sorry but I have to go! But maybe we can talk later!"

"Okay...when?"

"I don't know, just later!" Miley smiled and linked arms with Jake.

"That was weird." Jake said.

"You're tellin' me."

Jake laughed and they walked to first period. They entered the class room and noticed that Oliver and Lilly seemed very touchy feely.

"What's up with you guys?" Miley asked.

"Miley! Guess what?" Lilly exclaimed.

"No, it doesn't work that way, I asked you first!"

"Okay...play the first grade card...me and Oliver are...do you want to tell them Oliver?"

"Sure! We are...dating!" He sounded ecstatic.

"That's great!" Jake said.

"Finally! That took yall' forever!"

The teacher walked in with a girl in tow. "Class! Take your seats! We have a new student! Miss Lacey May!"

Lacey walked in the room, she had blonde hair and poise about her that you just couldn't place.

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Lacey looked a bit shy. She looked around the classroom at all of her new peers and she felt she was going to fit in there just fine.

Sarah welcomed the new girl with a smile. "Hey Lacey! There is a seat next to me!"

"Thanks."

Lacey went and sat next to her. They shared a bond between them. Miley was unusually a bit jealous. All the new girls come to me! I have gotten great at touring people around this school...Why Sarah?

Lilly leaned over to Miley. "She seems nice," Lilly whispered.

"Yeah...nice."

"Are you guys talking about the fish stick special on for lunch...because let me tell you, it ISN'T nice," Oliver butted in.

"No you idiot! They were talking about Lacey!" Jake said.

"Oh that really pretty blonde sitting next to Sarah?" Oliver asked.

"Oliver! You are dating me now; there are no other pretty blondes besides your GIRLFRIEND! Hah! I love the sound of that. Girlfriend." Lilly continued talking to herself and Miley pretended that she wasn't jealous of Sarah and Lacey's bond.

AFTER CLASS

Miley decided to confront Lacey. "Hey Lacey! My name is Miley. I could see you fitting in here well. Me and my friends would love to have another person join the group! Do you want to have lunch with us?"

"Oh..sorry Miley, that's really nice of you but Sarah already asked me to sit with her at lunch.

"Oh okay. Well we should talk sometime!"

"Sure!"

Lacey walked away, she felt sorry for Miley. Miley thought she thought that. She probably thinks I have no friends! Great!

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LUNCH ROOM

"Gosh, look at them. Laughing...bonding. That should be me," Miley mumbled.

"What?" Jake asked.

"Huh? Did I say that out loud? Whoops."

"What is the big deal, at least she didn't fall in the group with Amber and Ashley," Lilly told her.

Miley shrugged. "I guess."

"OH GOSH THESE FISH STICKS ARE AWFUL! KILL ME NOW!" Oliver choked dramatically.

AFTER LUNCH

Miley walks up to Lacey.

"Oh, hi Miley," Lacey said.

Miley wanted to get straight to the point. "Hey, well me and my friends are going bowling tomorr-"

"We are?" Lilly wondered.

"Yes and I was wondering if you wanted to come?" Miley asked Lacey.

"Sorry Miley, I am going to see a documentary on how the world would be different without war with Sarah!"

"Oh okay then..."

Lacey shrugged and walked off.

What is wrong with me? Why do I have this need to make friends with this girl??

"Let's go Miles." Lilly tugged on Miley's arm.

"Okay."

They walked out and to their next class.

AFTER SCHOOL

Corey was waiting outside of where Miley normally leaves from.

"Hey! Remember me? I thought we could talk now," Corey said.

"Uh...how about tomorrow?"

"Oh sure, I am free whenever. How does lunch sound?"

Miley was creeped out and flattered at the same time. "Sure...lunch."

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AT MILEY'S HOUSE

"I am sure he is just a big fan," Lilly reassured Miley.

"It seems like he wants to be more or something."

"He isn't that bad looking, what is the problem?"

Miley rolled her eyes. "Lilly? I am dating Jake..."

"Oh right sorry. Well he knows that! Maybe he just wants to talk."

Miley didn't want to talk about him anymore. "Let's just change the subject. What about that Lacey girl?"

"What about her?"

"I don't know..."

"You seemed up tight about her and Sarah at lunch today."

"Yeah, I don't know why."

"Maybe because you want to the friend of the new girl, and Sarah beat you to it."

"If I had a seat next to me open then Lacey would be going bowling instead of watching some stupid documentary!"

"Did you ever think that Lacey might like documentaries...I don't see the big deal."

"Look I don't know! I am just the friendly type who welcome's people."

"And Sarah stole your thunder."

"Whatever. Let's change the subject again."

"What about me and Oliver?" Lilly asked.

"I know! That is so great! It has taken you two forever!!"

"Yes, I am so excited! We can finally have a trusting relationship filled with dates and kissing!!! My first boyfriend!! I love saying it! BOYFRIEND!!!"

MEANWHILE AT THE BEACH

Oliver was staring at a girl. "Whoa, check out that babe!"

Jake looked uneasy. "You are dating Lilly."

"That girl is a BABE!"

"Try and break the habit of getting girls to ride on the "Olly-Trolly" because you have a girlfriend..."

"Maybe Lilly isn't for me you know?"

"No, I don't. You are perfect for each other."

"Something about it doesn't feel right man..."

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