Homecoming Queen:
Chapter Two:
A ten year old brown-haired girl ran forward towards a light-haired girl of the same age. The light-haired girl had a paper part hat on her head, and a giant "I'm 10" badge pinned to her dress. Identical smiles filled the two girls faces as they wrapped their arms around each other.
If anyone had told Lilly then that in just over 6 years time she would be wondering if she even wanted to be friends with Miley she wouldn't have believed it. She knew exactly how she would've reacted, she wouldn't got all defensive and mean, insisting her and Miley would be friends forever because nothing could ever come between them. She knew that was what she always believed. And yet 6 years later that was exactly where she was.
She sighed and turned off the home video. She wasn't really sure why she had been watching it. Maybe she wanted to prove to herself that the girl she thought Miley was did once really exist. As she thought that she wondered if she was being too harsh. Miley hadn't done anything wrong exactly, but at the same time she had done so much.
Lilly flicked on the radio, not wanting to sit in complete silence. "I'm just a girl with a dream that gone the best of me", she could've screamed when she heard Hannah Montana playing, but she didn't. She stopped and thought about the line. It explained Miley so perfectly. Lilly wondered if when Robby Ray had written this song for 'Hannah' he had seen Miley the same way she was now seeing her. As thought becoming Hannah had changed her.
Hannah had changed Miley, but it hadn't always been so obvious. At times it had even been good, Lilly had been given the chance to see both worlds, through Lola. But the fact was always there, Lola was just Hannah Montana's friend. Just her friend, nothing more, and that was a pretty big shadow to fall behind.
Now though, Miley hadn't done anything, not through choice, not intentionally. It was just that because of this thing that had happened now, Lilly found herself unable to cope, she found herself thinking about all the times Miley had hurt her and let her down. This wasn't even Miley's fault, though, in fact she knew this was Miley's worst nightmare.
Lilly mentally shook her head, her thoughts were running and rambling and making no sense. She needed to make sense of them. Though it barely did make any sense, Lilly wasn't even sure how it happened. Miley's secret had been revealed, a girl who had been in Tennessee was on vacation and had recognised her and screamed 'oh, my god, you're Hannah Montana' and it all kicked off after that, the rumour started to spread. The girl, not being the nicest or smartest cookie, proved the rumour to be correct by showing a picture of Hannah taking her wig off. And then…?
Nothing bad happened. Not really, seriously, life-alteringly bad anyway. Miley practically became Miss Popular over night. Everyone wanted to be her best friend - especially Amber and Ashley. Everyone loved her, and Lilly found herself hating Hannah.
Lilly loved Miley, because she was her best but she hated Hannah for what she had done to their friendship.
If she was completely honest with herself, she had never completely forgiven Miley for the Hannah incident at her 16th. Maybe it was selfish, but Lilly had wanted her sweet 16th to actually be about her. They had been planning it for years, they knew exactly how it was going to be. It was going to be epic. Hannah made it epic all right, an epic disaster. She always wondered if she was being petty, Miley had apologised after all, and Lilly wasn't exactly Miss Innocent. She had spoke to the reporter. It wasn't just the 16th birthday though. Miley had betrayed, lied to and hurt Lilly a number of times, all because of Hannah.
The worst part was Lilly knew Miley well enough to know that whenever she acted, she attempted to do the right thing, or put it right when she did the wrong thing. Which made it hard to stay mad at her, which was why Lilly always forgave and forgot.
Except she never quite forgot. Miley's heart being in the right place was part of the reason Lilly had stuck with her for so long. She could put up with and cope with all the Hannah issues as long as at the end of the day she had Miley. Which was why Lilly wasn't coping with Miley's secret being revealed and which was why she was left wondering if she still wanted to be friends with Miley. Because was becoming more and more unsure if Miley was still there underneath all the Hannah drama.
A little harshly Lilly couldn't help but think it was Miley's own fault that her secret was out. She was the one who pulled the wig off in Tennessee. Lilly knew she didn't really think like that though, it was just confusion and anger talking. She wanted someone to talk to out all this. She wanted some advice on what she should do about Miley. But Miley was always the one she spoke to, Miley was always he one who gave her advice. The only other option was Oliver and he was a boy, and Lilly knew straight off that he would be no help whatsoever. He never understand why girls made friendships so complicated.
Lilly felt tears prick at her eyes. Miley and her had been friends practically forever, she used to think that it would always be as simple and easy as it was when they were young. She hated that anything could come between them, but the fact that it was Miley's dream made it even worse. Lilly now wondered if they were destined to be like Todd and Copper from The Fox and The Hound. They were The Popstar and The Normal Girl. The loyalty would always be there, neither would ever destroy the other but the friendship would be completely over in not very long. As she thought about it, Lilly became almost sure that that would happen.
The tears fell from Lilly's eyes then. She wiped then away with her hand, but fresh ones fell again. She felt like her heart was breaking in two. Miley was like a sister to her, she was closer than close to her. She realised that it wasn't just a boyfriend who could break a girl's heart. Anyone they got close to could. Miley was breaking Lilly's heart and Lilly knew she probably didn't even realise there was a problem.
Lilly lay down on her bed, on her stomach with her head buried underneath her pillow and tried to take her mind off her so-called best friend. A task that proved horribly hard.
