"That was so much fun!" Miley exclaimed to Lilly and Oliver as they left the fundraiser. "Without Amber and Ashley there, it was like I was a whole different person."

"Yeah," Oliver added. "But not a totally new person. Miley, you were acting like Hannah does."

"What?" Lilly asked. "But that would be weird."

"Omigod, Lilly, he's right. And you were like Lola."

"But I am Lola. I don't get it."

"When we're Hannah and Lola we don't worry about what people think of us because we're already famous. And we didn't care how we acted tonight because the school bullies weren't there. My alter ego is starting to take over my life, like tonight!" She gasped. "and I'm starting to take over my alter ego's life like yesterday." She gasped again and grabbed Lilly's arm. "We're becoming the same person!"

"Oh, chill Miley, and, ow." Lilly took Miley's hand off her arm, rubbing away the fingernail marks. "and maybe it is time to tell Jake the truth. Or at least figure out a way to contain your personalities. It's getting confusing."

Miley sighed. "You might be right. I made Jake show up, and I ignored him all night. I'm going to go apologize. He just went home right? It's on the way to your house Lilly. I'll talk with him and then catch up in a few minutes."

Lilly agreed and she turned off a street early from her friends determined to make things right.


She was approaching the guard station at Jake's home when the power went out. She hesitated before calling out to body man that she had become familiar with. "Hey, Wes?" She had flashlight shone into her face and she cringed.

"Oh sorry Miley, good to see you. Does Jake know that you're coming?"

"Naw, I was rude to him and I just wanted to see how he was doing." She looked around. "What just happened?"

From the light from the flashlight she could just see the man shrug and look up to the sky. "Power outage. Pretty dark night for it, huh." His cell phone buzzed and he pulled it out. "Uh, home office alert says it should be repaired in a few minutes, but this whole quarter of the city is out. Why don't you just go in, I'm going to do a quick sweep."

Miley knew that she was one of only a handful of people that were allowed walk in privileges – he often had people trying to sneak in or take incriminating photos of him, so she smiled at Wes and then continued to the front door, feeling her way along the sidewalk in the pitch darkness. She let herself in. "Jake?" she called softly.

"Hey." He was closer than she anticipated, and she could hear the smile in his voice. "I was just thinking about you."

"I was…"

"Shhhh. Come here."

Miley walked toward the voice, her arms stretched out in front of her so she wouldn't bump into anything and found the couch against her knee. She felt his hands reach out for hers, and she let herself sit down beside him, his hands still grasping hers. "Jake, I…"

"Shhhh." He repeated. "Just, listen. The night is so different when there are no lights humming or TVs blasting." They sat quietly for a few minutes and Miley felt him turn to her. Her hair had been pulled up to a bun on top of her head and she could feel his hand reach up and caress the back of her neck. Suddenly she was being pulled toward him and her lips met his.

She sank into him, forgetting that she was Miley and not Hannah, and letting her breath be pulled away. She delved deeper, her hands playing with his hair, his tongue brushing along her lips, more intimate than they had ever kissed before. She pulled away. "Jake…" she sighed.

"Hannah…"

"HANNAH?!?"

"…Miley?" The lights flickered back on and Jake panicked. "MILEY!?!" He bounded to his feet and jumped away from her. "What are you doing?" he yelped.

"What am I doing? What are YOU doing?" Miley sprung up to her feet and took a defensive stance. "You kissed me!"

"You… you let me kiss you!"

"You kissed me!" She was practically shaking, and couldn't keep her thoughts straight. "You're dating Hannah!" she gasped, speaking with more shock than anything else. "You cheated on Hannah!" She gasped again, this time in hurt and not just shock. "You cheated on Hannah with me!" She pointed her finger at him and was startled to see it was shaking. In fact, after a quick assessment, her entire body was shaking and her face felt wet. A bitter taste entered her mouth and her legs made an involentary bending motion, almost like she was about to spring at him. Not longer was she in a defensive pose, but her entire body had changed to the offensive. Without even thinking, attacking words were springing from her mouth and she couldn't connect her movements and words to her thoughts.

"You're dating Hannah!" She repeated, this time with more anger than shock or hurt, and her whole body was shaking again, straining to hold her stance instead of collapsing in tears. "You are NOT getting away with this!" She stood still for a minute, frazzled and in shock, and then turned on the spot and stomped out the door.

"Miley, no, wait! Let me explain!" She heard him chase after her to the end of the block, but her body was acting on its own accord and she took a few quick turns before she even processed that he was coming after her. She lost him and before she even knew she was climbing the stairs to Lilly's bedroom.

"Lilly," she gasped when she finally got there, and everything that just happened started processing in her brain at the same time. She felt like a truck had crashed into her, and she needed help. "I am in BIG trouble."


Hahaha, that was so much fun to write. Oooh, what's going to happen? 2 more chapters! Are you enjoying this? Please let me know!