A WEEK LATER

Everyone stood outside the school with anticipation. Ashley continued to fan herself while she sat on her big, pink suitcase.

Oliver leaned on Lilly's shoulder drowsily, "I don't see why we have to be here at six in the morning." He yawned.

Lilly pushed Oliver back up before replying, "because either we get here early in the morning, or there late at night."

"Either way we get no sleep. I really don't want to be here."

"That makes two of us."

"Plus one."

Miley walked over sat down next to the two and gently rested her head on Oliver's chest. His cheeks started to turn a deep crimson and when he tried to put his head on Lilly's shoulder again, she moved away so he collapsed to the ground.

"What was that for?"

"You're not comfy," Lilly responded bitterly.

Over in the other corner, a couple of girls kept talking to Jake.

"So, are you single?"

He wanted to say no. He wanted to tell them how he was with Miley but no. He couldn't. She was just there. A goddess which a lot of guys would look at but could not touch. But Oliver seemed as if he was doing something right.

"Yes," he replied reluctantly. He soon regretted.

"Oh my god awesome," the ginger haired girl exclaimed, "then how do you feel about sushi?"

Jake looked over. The girl was attractive, but she certainly was no Miley. He shook his head, "I'm sorry, I'm personally attached."

While the girl didn't understand, she still took it how it should have. A no. She slowly walked away. Realising that he was alone and he moved over to Amber and Ashley.

"Hey girls."

Amber's eyes lit up but Ashley merely sighed. She wasn't in the mood to be in love. She wasn't in the mood for this entire camping trip. What was the point in staying around here? She could spend the weekend sitting by the pool!

"Hey Jake," Amber shyly said.

"Dude, you're Jake Ryan!" Daniel said as he carried a couple more of Ashley's bags.

"Jake, this is my cousin Daniel."

"So dude what agency are you on? I really want to get out there."

"Well I can give you my one's number."

Jake took out his cell phone and wrote down Rhonda, his agent's, number.

Daniel grabbed the number with glee, "thanks dude!"

Looking over, Jake sighed. Jake didn't care what Miley was laughing at, but her laugh was just delightful.

"So Jake," Jake once again became alert as Amber continued, "did you have a good time at the party last week?"

Jake nodded his head, "Not that I can remember much, but from what I heard, it was one amazing party."

"You talked to Miley much?"

Ashley elbowed Amber and shook her head. Jake looked at the two, puzzled, "why, should I?"

"No." Ashley quickly replied, "Amber was just curious. Weren't you Amber?" she said in a sour tone.

Amber then nodded her head, "yeah. Just curious," sadly Amber couldn't hide the mischievous grin that spread to both sides of her face.

Jake raised his eyebrow but then shrugged it off. It wasn't Amber and Ashley's style to keep a secret if it was worth talking about. Or could they?

Miss Courts came over, "right class. Now's the time to go but I've just looked at the coach's space and we don't have enough places."

The whole class groaned but Miss Courts continued, "Don't worry class. I have two extra cars ready to take the remaining students." She said pointing to the two cars to her left.

"Now I've picked from random this list so car 1: Lilly Truscott, Oliver Oken, Jake Ryan and Ashley Dewit."

Amber looked around, "then where am I if I'm not with Ashley?"

"You're in car 2 along with: Daniel Shires and Miley Stewart."

Miley's mouth hung open. She could not believe that she was going to be alone in a car with Amber for over 5 hours.

Ashley looked at her nails as the car drove on. Looking around, she started to feel concerned, "I can't see any of the buses or cars."

Oliver gazed out of the window to find out that Ashley was right. It was completely deserted and no other cars were in site.

Mr. Perry shook his head, "I've read the map precisely, we're going the right way."

Jake took the map and sighed, "Mr. Perry."

"Yes?"

"The map's upside down."

"Maybe that's how you took it."

"Well the title's at the top so I highly doubt it."

"So we're outta gas. What's the problem?"

Amber stared at Mrs Cassel as she exited the problem, "usually, I wouldn't answer back but we're in the middle of no-where!"

"We just have to wait till someone can toe the car back."

"And how long will that take?"

Mrs Cassel bit her bottom lip, "I don't know."

Daniel came back, "well I called them up. They said to call them back when we knew where we were."

"Well we do know," Miley said but then her heart sank, "don't we?"

"Well I did tell Amber that we should have waited and parked on the junction but no. Here we are."

"Can't we walk to a gas station or something?"

"A gas station could be miles away. And we can't leave the car on its own."

Amber looked the car up and down before saying, "oh yeah. Because someone would definitely steal this."

Mrs Cassel frowned. Miley then grabbed her cell phone out, "I'll call Lilly. I'm sure they can come back for us."

Lilly picked up her cell phone, "hello?"

"Lilly, it's Miley."

"Oh Miley, thank god!"

"Look I need a favour. We're lost and out of gas."

"Oh fantastic!"

"It won't be that much problem if you could come and pick us up could it? We know about which road we were at."

"Well Miles, I'm sure we'd love to help you."

"Thank god!"

"if we knew where the hell we were."

"What?"

"Turns out," Lilly said turning to an embarrassed Mr. Perry, "our driver doesn't understand which way up the map is."

"So where are you?"

"Well we thought we were then going the right way. We were wrong so now we don't even know which way to look at the map. If that wasn't enough someone dropped a pair of nail scissors, insisted we went back for it. We then ran over it and now we have a burst tire."

Ashley shot her head up, "that is what a spare is for!"

"Okay Ashley. So I was planning on calling you guys to see if you could pick us up."

"Well that's just great." Miley said sarcastically.

"Took the words right out of my mouth."

Lilly hung up the phone, "well our saviour is also lost."

Oliver banged his head against the car, "well how long are we here for?"

"Well all we have to do is call the company Mr. Perry is with in these sort of situations."

Lilly and the rest of the group looked round to Mr. Perry who looked worried, "well kids. You really never see this coming so –"

"I've just go my permit and I know that you're the worst driver ever!"

"Don't worry kids. If we go off to find help."

"And leave the car?" Jake questioned.

"Well I'll go."

"But we'll be unsupervised."

Oliver rolled his eyes, "of course Lilly. Because Mr. Perry has proved to be a responsible adult."

Mr. Perry nodded his head, "it's true."

As he began to walk off, the group started to talk.

"Do you think he's ever going to come back?"

Jake shook his head, "I think that's the last we're gonna see of him for a long time."

Oliver rubbed his stomach, "does anyone have any food?"

The group looked around, all shrugging their shoulders.

"Well that's it," Ashley said, sitting on the ground, "we're gonna die."

"Of course we're not –" Jake then re-thought the situation, "yeah we're gonna die."

"Guys," Lilly said, stepping on a rock, "we will survive, I'm sure –"

"Lilly get off the rock." Oliver demanded.

Lilly frowned and she climbed back on the ground.

"So, what now?"

"What's in our back packs?"

Ashley got the bags out of the back and dumped them on the ground. Everyone looked in awe as practically Ashley's whole room fell out of the bag.

"Who thinks I over packed now?" Ashley asked.

The entire group shook their heads as they scrambled through the pile on the ground. Lilly picked up the bar.

"Chocolate!"

Jake took the bar off Lilly and put it in a separate bag, "we're rationing now."

Oliver scowled, "come on Jake! Just one square."

Jake sighed as he gave a square of chocolate to Oliver.

"Hey!" Lilly shouted, "he got some!"

"Do you want him whining all day?"

"No."

"Then that's settled."

Lilly murmured in the corner. Ashley then curiously asked, "anyone got any batteries?"

"Why?"

Ashley picked out the microwave, "I have a few microwave meals here which was gonna last me this weekend. We can have it work with battery."

Oliver smiled, "I love how out of touch with nature you are!"

Ashley smiled, "I know!"

Lilly shrugged her shoulders, "sure it's great for now. But what about when we run out of this stuff?"

Everyone looked at one another. This was not going to be anywhere near as easy as they were making it out to be.