Chapter nine: The show must go on part two
Hannah has just finish putting on a purple and black horizontal stripe shirt that is sleeveless on the left and has a butterfly style sleeve on the right and a three-layer black skirt with purple, white and sky blue stars on the skirt, along with white military boots with silver stars on the boots. She is now looking into the full length mirror on the locker room wall and is also putting on a white belt with a tan oval shape buckle and wishing that she had skipped dinner, because her stomach has been upset since finished ate the meal. Hannah stomach starts gurgling and Lola is laying on the bench that in between the third and fourth rows of lockers, thinking about if she wants to go through with the pregnancy or end the pregnancy or does she want to have the baby and give it up for adoption. Or does she want to keep the baby herself and raise the children with or without Oliver help.
By now Hannah has finished putting on the belt, she looks in the mirror one last time and she sees that she looks peaked. Hannah walks over to the chair that at the makeup table with her right hand on her stomach and left hand on her forehead. She reaches the chair and pulls it out using her right hand. Hannah sits down on the chair, then lean back in the chair and put her hand back on her stomach and at the same time Hannah stomach starts gurgling again.
"Hannah, make your stomach stop gurgling, because I can't think with your stomach making that sound?"
"I am sorry Lola, my stomach been upset since I ate dinner. I don't think the chickpea salad, fruit salad, sweet potato, turkey and apple pie agree with my stomach, I think that I should have just eaten a baked potato and nothing else (belches twice)."
"Hannah's that not very lady like and it smells awful!"
"Excuse me, that chickpea salad is really disagreeing with my stomach tonight!"
"I need to go pee really badly, Hannah's so I'm going to use the restroom and you should touch up your makeup, because you are looking very pale!"
"Ok!"
Lola sits up, then stands up from the bench and heads to the restroom sections of the locker room. At the same time Hannah gets to work on redoing her makeup. Hannah is also trying to block out how upset her stomach is and is hoping that her upset stomach is a result of being nervous about the benefit concert tonight and not part of the bug she is fighting. Lola walks out from the restroom sections, as Hannah finish touching up her makeup. Lola walks over to the bench she was laying on before having to use the restroom and sits down on the bench.
"I never notice till tonight, but I think that all school locker rooms look alike and have the odors of dirty gym socks and a moldy smell."
"You are so pregnant, because I don't smell the gym socks or the moldy smell."
"You are sick and your nose is all stuffed up Hannah and that means that you couldn't smell Jackson's nasty fart, if your brother was here in the locker room and let one!"
"That not true sniffling, the dead and buried could smell Jackson's fart!"
"Ok you get me on that one, Hannah!"
Both girls start laughing, which cause Hannah to start coughing. She grabs a couple tissues out of the travel pack on the table and coughs up a large glob of greenish yellow mucus into the tissue. Hannah has just stop coughing up mucus when both girls hear feet steps coming up to the girls' locker room door. A few second later there is a knock on the locker room door.
"Ahem, who is it?"
"Your father, are you dress because Isabella Sara Rose, Mr. Tommy Rose, Mrs. Kathy Rose, younger sister Grace Izzy Rose and twin brothers' Adam Lee and Jason Lee Rose's are with me and they want to come in and see you, Hannah?"
"I am dress the seven of you can come in."
"Ok."
Hannah grabs another tissue from the travel park of tissue on the table and blows her nose. At the same time Mr. Montana opens the locker room door, he then walks into the locker room/Hannah dressing room. Mr. Montana is followed by Isabella, Tommy, Kathy, Grace, Adam and Jason, all but Isabella walk up to Hannah and Lola, who have just stand up. Isabella hangs back, so she is at lest 6 feet from Hannah to help prevent her from catching Hannah cold. Hannah and Lola see the twin boys first and the two girls notice the twins are tall and have green eyes. They also notice that the twin boys have chestnut color hair. Mr. Rose walks up beside the twins and Hannah and Lola sees that the twins look like they father. Lola and Hannah then see Isabella and Grace who both have curling light brown hair and brown eyes and Hannah and Lola notice that the girls look just like they mother. Lola and Hannah then notice that Isabella is wearing a lavender surgical mask with Hannah Montana spelled out in gold studs across the front of the mask to help prevent her from catching any germs. Lola and Hannah also notice that Isabella is small for her age, which is 16 years old as of yesterday. Grace who is only five years old comes running over to Hannah and gives her a big hug. Hannah hugs Grace back and the little girl gives her a huge smile. Hannah smiles at Grace and at the same time Mrs. Rose walks over to Hannah and her youngest child. Mrs. Rose then unwraps her daughter arms from Hannah legs and picks up Grace.
"Mommy Hannah's hug me back."
"I know, Grace. Hannah, our family is very grateful for everything that you are doing to help us raises money for all of Isabella Sara Rose medical bill and medical need."
"It's the least that I could do for your family Kathy, you have made some of the best outfits that I wear on stage and to Hannah relation events. In fact all the outfits that I plan on wearing tonight are ones that you have made for me. Have you heard back from the house and business insurance companies on if they are going to pay to rebuild your house and the clothing boutique?"
"Yes, we have Hannah and the insurance companies are paying to rebuilding both and the outfit you are wearing right now looks great on you. Isabella was right about that, I thought that the stars on the skirt and boots might be too young for someone your age, but with the black and purple horizontal stripe shirt that is sleeveless on the left and butterfly style sleeve on the right makes you look older, Just like my oldest daughter says there would."
"That great to hear that the insurance companies are paying to rebuild the house and the clothing boutique Kathy. I love this outfit Kathy and Isabella and Isabella, I love the surgical mask you are wearing. How are you doing?"
"Thank you and I'm doing all right. My lung performance was down for a couple of weeks, but my lung performance is better now after spent a couple days in the hospital having tests run. It turns out that I am allergic to my aunt and my uncles' cats and kittens, which were making me have allergic induced asthma attack, so we (me, my mom, dad, brothers and sister) left my aunt and uncle house and are now staying at my grandmother Rose's house."
"I am sorry to hear that you found out you are allergic to cats, but it is good that you were able to get your lung performance back up. Its getting near to the show time, which means that I need to aks all of you to leave the locker room, so I can finish getting ready for the concert. But I will see Isabella, Tommy, Kathy, Grace, Adam and Jason's again, when I call the six of you to join me on the stage."
"(Rose family) Ok, Hannah."
Isabella, Tommy, Kathy and Grace turn around then start walking to the door of the locker room right away, but Adam and Jason take one last long look at Lola and Hannah before they turn around and walk to the door of the locker room. Mr. Montana looks at his daughter and can't tell Hannah needs sometime alone with just Lola before the show, so he leaves the locker room too.
Once the locker room door has closed, Hannah sits down in the chair that by the makeup table and puts her head down on the table, she then coughs into her right hand. Lola walks over to her best friend and feels Hannah's forehead.
"I think your fever went back up and you are starting to look green!"
"That what I thought Lola gagging."
Hannah stands up from the chair and at the same time puts her right hand over her mouth and runs into the restroom section of the locker room. She runs into the first restroom stall and kneels down in front of the toilet and she is just in time, because she starts throwing up right away. Lola comes up behind her best friend and holds her hair, so it does not get in her face. When Hannah has stop throwing up, Lola lets go of her best friends' hair and Hannah stands up. Hannah then walks over to the restroom sink and turns the water on, then rinses her mouth out and she is hoping that she will not end up having to throwing up, when she on stage. Hannah turns the water off and then Lola gives her a breath mint.
"Thanks for the breath mint."
"No big deal, you would do the same thing for me. But Hannah, maybe you should cancel tonight, concert?"
"It's too late to cancel the concert, I am going to have to tough it out tonight and do the show even though I am sick. But on a different note, my stomach not upset any more."
"That good, lets hope that it stays that way, Hannah."
"Me too, Lola. I have to head out to the stage now, the band going to start playing soon."
"Ok."
Hannah and Lola walk to the door of the locker room and Lola open up the door. Hannah walks out first and Lola follows her out of the locker room. Then the two of them walk to the door that lead outside to the football stadium. When they reach the outside doors Mr. Montana opens up one of the door, Hannah walks out the door first and then Lola walks out the door. Mr. Montana hands Hannah her microphone and he looks at his daughter. He can tell that she is not feeling well at all, but he knows that Hannah (a.k.a. Miley) is not going to let the fact that she is sick, stop her from doing the show. He watches Hannah as she walks toward the steps that lead up to the stage and Mr. Montana (a.k.a. Robby) is hoping that his daughter will make it through the show, because his daughters' look a little green to him. The band starts to play the first song, which is life's what you make it. Hannah runs up the steps and onto the stages, then starts singing the song and dancing. When the first song ends the band start to play the second song right away and Hannah start signing Just Like You and when the second songs end, the band gives Hannah a moment to catch her breath and get a drink of water.
Once Hannah has caught her breath and takes a few drinks of water, the band starts to play I miss you. Hannah start singing the song and dancing the dance that goes with the song and when Hannah finish singing I miss you, the band start playing bigger than us, Hannah start dance first and then begins to sing the song and once she finishes singing bigger than us, the crowd starts screaming.
"(The whole crowd) we love you, Hannah Montana."
At the same time Hannah walks to the front of the stages and puts the microphone on the microphone stands. Hannah waits for the crowd to quiet down and use the moment to catch her breath, she is also trying to avoid sneezing. But she is unable to avoid sneezing, she sneezing five time in a row, Jay (the blonde hair and blue eye drummer) stand up and walks over to Hannah. When he reaches Hannah's Jay hands the singer a tissue and Hannah takes the tissue from Jay.
"Thank you."
"You are welcome."
Hannah blows her nose several times and by the time she has finish blowing her nose the crowd has because quiet. Hannah grabs her water bottle and after taking the cap off, she takes a few sips of water. She puts the cap back onto the water bottle and set the bottle of water down by the microphone stand.
"Thank you everyone for coming out tonight and it is for a very good cause. All the money from the ticket sales, concession stands and the all the vendor stands that are selling Hannah Montana relation items are going to help Isabella Rose and her family pay for Isabella medical bills and the medicines that she takes every day. Ahem, It will also help pay for the device Isabella use to help clear her airway, which is called the vest. This device has two parts the air pulse generator and inflatable vest that you hook up two tubes to the vest that connects the vest to the generator that makes the vest vibrate. I am going to let Isabella and her family come onto the stage now and they will tell you about the vest and Isabella will tell you what an average day is like for her. As Isabella and her family talk to you, I am going to go change into my second outfit of the night. Also, I am sorry about the sneezing fit that I had a few minutes ago and having to clear my throat. I am fighting a really bad head and chest cold right now."
"(The audience) That fine Hannah!"
At the same time the Rose's family stands up from their front row seats. Then the six of them walk over to the stairs leading to the stage and walk up the stairs. Then the six members of the Rose family walk onto the stage. Isabella walks up to the microphone stand and Hannah's lower the stand for Isabella, because it is too high. Mr. and Mrs. Rose, Jason, Adam and Grace who in mom arms stand behind Isabella.
Once Isabella start talking, Hannah walks to the back of the stages and walk down the steps. A minute later she heads through the doors that lead into the gym hallway that the locker rooms are in. Hannah heads into the girls' locker room to found Lola has lied out her second outfit for her, which is a pair of blue spandex legging, a tight black tank top. There is also a long loose fitting black tank top, which has square, circles and odd shapes in pink, blue and yellow. There is also, black studs on the long black tank top. She also notices that Lola has put the platform boots on the floor next to her outfit. The boots are silver, but the heel sections of each of the boot are clear. Hannah walks over to the makeup table first and grabs a tissue, then blows her nose several times. She grabs a second tissue and start coughing up mucus into a tissue. Once she has stopped coughing, Hannah threw the used tissues, included the one she used on stage into the trash can. She then open up her purse and get a cough drop out of her purse. Hannah unwraps the cough drop and then puts the cough drop into her mouth, Hannah throws the wrapper into the trash can and then she walks over to the first bench, which is where the outfit is lying out. Hannah gets changes and when she has finish getting dress, she sits on the bench and put the boots on. Once her boots are on Hannah sees Lola standing across from her with a worry look on her face.
"How are you holding up Hannah?"
"I'm doing all right Lola. I only had one sneeze fit, that I sneezes five time in a row and I had to clear my throat once. But my throat is sore and my right knee is sore too, I am also having some tightness in my chest when I'm dancing. I am also still making a wheezing sound, but I think that I will make it through the show."
"How is your stomach doing?"
"It's a little upset again, but I don't think that I'm going to throw up again!"
"That good, Hannah. Also it sounds like you keep the cold medicine down, since you are not coughing or sneezing every few seconds."
"I throw up mostly mucus and a little of dinner. How are you doing?"
"I am doing all right. I have not made up my mind on anything yet. But I am lean toward having the baby, but I am not sure. I want to do some research online about all my options."
"That a good idea, I need to head back to the stage now."
"Ok."
Hannah and Lola leave the locker room and head to the football stadium. Lola stands next to Mr. Montana by the steps, as Hannah walks onto the stage. Hannah waits for Isabella to finish talking and then walk up beside Isabella and her family. Isabella's step away from the microphone and Hannah takes it off the stands.
"Thanks for sharing your story Isabella, I hope that you and your family enjoy the rest of the concert."
The Rose family walks off the stage and head back to their front row seats. The band and Hannah wait for all the Rose family members to take their seats and then the band starts to play pumpin' up the party. Hannah starts singing the song along with jumping up and down, but when she pushes off the stage floor and jump up for the third time Hannah feels and hears her right knee pop, along with making a creaking sound. Hannah also feels something tear above her right knee and below her right knee and when her feet hit the floor again, her right leg gives out and she falls down, but she keeps singing the song, as she slower stands up and walks over to the microphone stand. She continues to sing as she puts the microphone onto the stand and then uses the stand to support her weight and when she finishes singing pumpin up the party, the band starts playing the song don't wanna be torn right away and Hannah start singing the song and takes the microphone off the stand. She then starts tenderly dancing the dance that goes with song and is now trying to hide how much pain she is in along with hiding how awful she feels because of the cold she fighting from everyone in the audience. Once the song ends she limps over to the band and all the band members give her a worried look.
"I want to change the song order I am going to do three of the new songs next in this order butterfly fly away, the climb and then Dream. Are you guys all right with that?"
"(The whole band) yes, are you all right Hannah?"
"Yes, I just twist my right knee is all and need to slow it down for a few minutes."
"(Band Members) that fine Hannah."
Hannah walks over to the microphone stand and puts the microphone onto the stand. She looks at the band and they start playing butterfly fly away and Hannah starts to sing the first of the new songs that have never been perform at concerts before. She sings the next two songs and it has now reached the intermission, so Hannah walks off the stages and looks for her father, but can't find him. She walks up to the doors leading into the gym and walks through the left door and once she in the gym locker room hallway, Hannah stop trying to hide how much pain she in. Hannah limps down the hallway and into the girls locker room. Hannah then sits down on the first bench and puts her legs up. She sees that her right knee is fatter then the left knee and it look like her kneecap is now off to the outsides of the knee and not where it should be at.
"Lola will you grab me the orange dress that has the draped neckline and the short butterfly sleeves? And will you bring the dress over to me?"
"Sure Hannah, but maybe you should end the show early and go to the ER? Because your right knee is very swelling, also you can hardly walk on it. In addition it looks like you are in a lot of pain!"
"No, I am going to finish the show and what ER, there no hospital in town. The near hospital is two towns over!"
"Ok!"
Lola goes and gets the dress for Hannah and brings the dress over to her best friend. Hannah takes off the boots and then slowly stands up, as Lola walks over to her. Hannah changes into the dress, then sits down on the bench and is now trying to bend her knee, but can only bend the knee a tiny bit. At the same time Lola is kneeling and going through the duffle bag with all the shoes in it and holding up different pair of shoes for Hannah to see.
A few minutes later Lola has been through half the bag and Hannah keeps shaken her head no to all of them. Lola pulls a pair of gold flip-flops out and Hannah's shake her head yes. Lola stands up and walks over to her best friend with the flip-flop in her right-hand. Lola set the flip-flops down in front of Hannah and Hannah slips her foot into the flip-flop. Lola looks at her best friend right knee, up close for the first time and sees Hannah's right knee is swelling and the kneecap looks like it is out of place. Lola also, notices that Hannah's right knee is starting to bruise.
"(Whispers) Miley's are you sure that you can walk and put pressure on the right leg long enough to finish the concert?"
"No, but I have to try Lilly. Can you grab me, a handful of tissues?"
"Sure."
"Thanks, sniffling."
Lilly walks over to the table and grabs a handful of tissues out of the travel pack of tissues. Then walks over to her best friend and hand the tissues to her best friend, Hannah (a.k.a. Miley) takes the tissue for Lola (a.k.a. Lilly) and then Hannah blows her nose several times. When Hannah finish blowing her nose, Hannah starts coughing. Hannah puts a tissue over her mouth and when she has stopped coughing, she has coughed up three tissues full of mucus. Hannah then limps over to the trash can and throws the tissues into the trash can.
"Can you bend your knee?"
"I can only bend the knee a tiny bit, do you know where my dad is?"
"They are short staffed at the concession stands, so he helping out at the concession stand that on the visit team side of the football stadium."
"Ok, I hope that Jackson is enjoying his date tonight."
"I think Jackson is enjoying his date, because before I come back to the locker room, I show him kisses Jenny."
"Young love, I don't know what Jenny's see in my brother."
"Neither do I!"
"I am going to take a restroom break and then I have to start walking out to the stage, because its going to take me awhile to make it outside and up the steps leading up to the stage."
"Ok."
Hannah limps into the restroom sections and Lola watches her best friend as Hannah walks away from here. Lola knows that Hannah should not be putting weight on her right leg, but knows that her best friends not going to listen to her, so Lola does not even say anything.
Two minutes later Hannah's with Lola help is heading out of the locker room and to the doors that lead outside. Once they reach the doors, Lola opens the right door and Hannah limps out of the building and over to the staircase. Hannah looks back at Lola who is standing by the door and takes a deep breath, she then starts going up the stairs. When Hannah steps onto the stage, she sees everyone is in their seats. Hannah walks over to the band to let the band know what songs she performing in the last half of the show. She also let the band members know the order that she is going to sing the songs in. Hannah then walks over to the microphone stand and turns the microphone on.
"Let get this concerts going again and remember when you leave tonight, if you have not brought anything for the vendor stands selling Hannah Montana items' buy something. Because all the money that is earn tonight is going to a very good cause to help someone from your own town that really needs our help!"
The band starts to play and Hannah starts to sing the song let's do this, but she skips doing the dance that goes with the song because of her right knee being injury. Once the song end the band starts the next song right away and Hannah start singing the song old blue jeans. By now Mr. Montana has join Lola's back stage by the doors leading into the gym. Her looks at his daughter and see that Hannah is not doing the dance that goes with the song. He also notices that her right knee is very swelling.
"Lola, did Hannah twist her knee?"
"No I think Hannah really hurt her right knee on the third jump and when she fell down, as singing the song pumpin' up the party."
"That not good, but if she still continuing the show, her knee must not be bothering her too much."
Back on stage the song old blue jeans have ended, the band has starts to play the song you and me together and Hannah start singing the song. Lola and Mr. Montana are watching Hannah closely as she sings the song you and me together and when the song end Hannah reaches down and grabs her water bottle and takes the cap off the bottle. She then takes several sips of water, before putting the cap back onto the bottle. Hannah set the water bottle down by the microphone stand and then looks at the band to let then know she is ready. The band starts to play you'll always find your way back home and Hannah begins to sing the song. When the song ends, everyone in the audience stands up and starts clapping. Hannah stay standing by the microphone that is on the microphone stand and waits for the crowd to quiet down, before she speaks again.
"I like to thank everyone for coming tonight, but there is also something else that I want to tell everyone and that the truth about whom Hannah Montana is? I know in my heart that I am able to trust my hometown of Crowley Corners and that you will not tell the newspapers, news stations, magazine or paparazzo, who Hannah Montana is, because I used a different name for my music career. So I can still have a normal life and be able to go to school and hang with my friends at the mall, at the beach, et cetera. If the world knows the truth, I will not be able to go anywhere without being followed by the paparazzo, I cannot lie to my friends in my hometown anymore, so this is who Hannah really is!"
Hannah pulls the blonde wing off of her head to reveal her brunette hair that pull up in a ponytail. She set the wig down next to the water bottle and then looks at everyone that is in the audience that she knew since she was a baby.
"Hannah Montana is really I, Miley Stewart from Crowley Corners and I did this concert tonight because I wanting to help a friend of mine from childhood and her family out."
"(The whole crowd) We will keep your secret Miley/Hannah!"
"Ahem, Thank you for keeping my secret ah-choo for being a great audience and help out with a great case."
"(The crowd) Bless you!"
"Thanks for coming out tonight to help ah-coo the Rose family! I want to wish everyone a safe drive home tonight and I hope everyone enjoy the rest of the weekend!"
Miley grabs her bottle of water and wig then she limps toward the stage staircase that are at the back of the stage and that lead to the gym doors. When she reaches the steps she starts to walk down the stairs, but her right knee gives out on her and Miley feels something tear above her right knee and below her right knee again. Miley's right knee also locks in the straight positions. Miley's father rash over to his daughter and picks her up and he notices that only the left knee is bent over his arms, but the right leg has stays straight. Lilly opens up the right door, as Robby walks toward the door carrying Miley in his arms. Robby walks through the door and Lilly follow her best friend dad into the hallway. Lilly speeds up and gets ahead of Miley dad, then opens up the locker room door. Robby walks into the locker room and he sits his daughter down on the bench that between the first and second rows of lockers. Miley puts her right leg up on the bench and starts crying.
"Lilly will you go find an ice pack or find a bag and some ice?"
"Sure, I will go right now."
Lilly runs out of the locker room and Mr. Stewart kneels down next to his daughter. He looks at his daughter, who is crying into her hands so hard that it's making her have a hard time catching her breath.
"Daddy's I can't bend my right knee and when I injured the knee jumping up, I felt something tear above my right knee and blow the right knee. I also hear the knee pop and make a creaking sound coughing and when the knee gave out going down the steps I felt something tear above my right knee and something tear below my right knee for a second time."
"It looks like your kneecap has pop out of place and by what you told me it sounds like you have torn your quadriceps tendon and your patellar tendon."
"That does not sound good ah-choo Dad!"
"It is not good, Miley!"
At the same time Lilly comes back into the locker room with a bag of ice in her left hand. Lilly walks over to Miley and Robby and set the bag of ice onto Miley's right knee and at the same time Jackson and his date Jenny walk into the locker room and over to Lilly, Miley and Robby.
"Dad the vendor stands workers and both the concession stand workers need you to come talk with them, so they can tell you how much they earn and add the money to the total from the ticket sales. Then you and Hannah need to give the money to the Rose family."
"Ok, go talk to them right now and I will give the Rose family the money, because Miley can't even put weight on her right knee without it giving out."
Robby stands up and walks out of the locker room, Jenny and Jackson leave the locker room to, which only leaves Lilly and Miley in the locker room. Lilly gets to work gathering up the outfits.
