Chapter 4 - Drama and Spiders
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"Jake, I'm Hannah Montana." Miley said. His jaw dropped.
"So-so when I told her about-you, that was-you?"
"Yeah!"
"Wow. This-this fixes a lot of things." He stammered.
"But you have to promise not to tell anyone." She said.
"Of course I wouldn't tell anyone." He smiled.
"Well, I look forward to shooting the next episode with you!" Miley smiled back.
"I look forward to it too." Jake said.
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Seeing as it was Sunday, they all had school the next day.
Miley was getting her books out of her locker when two hands covered her eyes.
"Guess who!"
"Hmm…Lilly?" She said playfully.
"Try again!"
"Oliver!"
"Nope."
"Hmm, who else could it be? Oh, I know, Jake!" they laughed, and he uncovered her eyes.
"Yuck, drama first." her voice dropped to a whisper. "It'll give me practice!"
"Acting isn't that bad, I should know!"
"Yeah, but when it's Shakespeare, it's bad." Miley said.
"Romeo and Juliet isn't that bad." he said.
"That ends horribly, remember?"
"Oh, right." They began walking down the hall, hand in hand, to the drama room. They met up with Lilly and Oliver on the way. Luckily, all their schedules were the same.
In drama, they had the mirror exercises again, and picked partners for another project they wouldn't start till Friday.
Lilly and Oliver watched Miley and Jake mirror each other.
"Ah, Miley's moved on from her dorks of friends." Lilly said.
"Yep."
"Partner?"
"Partner." They high-fived unenthusiastically and got to work.
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At lunch, Amber and Ashley sat at a table nearby theirs, snickering. They kept looking over at their table, then burst into laughter and went back to their lunch.
"What's wrong with them?" Lilly said, then stared at her lunch in horror. "O-O-Oliver get it!"
"Get what?"
"The spider!" A big spider was crawling across Lilly's lunch tray. Miley looked down at her tray and nearly screamed. An even BIGGER spider was on her lunch.
"Eww, eww, eww, eww!" She pointed at the spider, shaking. The whole cafeteria had their attention on their table now.
"Yeah, see, me and spider's don't exactly mix!" Oliver said.
Jake was simply staring at them in horror.
A fly swatter came down between him and Miley so fast, she fell off the bench. It moved on to Lilly's and hit the other spider as well.
"You girls can come get a new lunch, if you want." the lunch lady said, wiping the fly swatter off on a paper towel.
"I've kinda lost my appetite." Miley said, still on the ground.
"Yeah, same here." Lilly said, staring at the spider guts on her tray disgustedly.
"Okay then." and she went back to her job.
Jake helped Miley up, then she marched over to Amber and Ashley. They were laughing, and really hard too.
"Putting a SPIDER in my lunch? That's so-so-juvenile!" Miley said.
"You should have seen you're face!" Amber laughed.
Ashley did a pitiful impression of Miley's voice. "Eww, Jake, there's a spider on my lunch! Get it get it!"
"Weren't there spiders all over the place back in Kentucky?" Amber said.
"Tennessee!" Miley replied. "And no, we didn't live in a little farm house or anything, we lived in a nice house, in a real city, with lots of people, and a school bigger than this one!"
Jake came up behind her. "Miley, how bout we just go sit down-"
She followed, reluctantly. "I'm so sick of them making fun of where I come from, when they've never even been there themselves."
"You've just gotta ignore them, and life moves on." Oliver said.
"Wow Oliver, that actually makes sense!" Miley said.
"They used to make fun of me too." he mumbled.
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"So, you order the x's by their powers, ignore all negative or positive, and put the extra variables and numbers at the end." Jake explained. Miley completely did not get polynomials, so Jake was explaining it to her after school. Lilly and Oliver were talking to Mr. Stewart.
"I think I get it now!" She said in disbelief.
"My mom had the math gene too." He smiled.
"Had?" Miley said.
"She died a couple years ago." Jake said quietly.
Miley hugged him. "My mom did too." A tear slid down her cheek, and Jake wiped it away.
"Now, get to work on your polynomials! They aren't gonna do themselves, you know!" He teased.
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A/N: Dinolove453 demanded me to post, so, here ya go! Have fun!
Andrea3