CHAPTER TEN

Apologies.

All of us were back at the hotel, and you could say that I have calmed down a bit. I mean, even though Mikayla is slowly but surly ruining my life, I'm dealing with it the best way I can.

Just recently I found out that her hotel room is right next to mine, which couldn't be worse. Now I will have to make sure to keep my wig on, or in reaching distance due to the fact that she could knock on the door at any given moment. And if Mikayla found out I was Miley, well my career and personal life would be over.

"Guys, I think I'm going to go over to Nick's room for awhile," I told Lilly and Oliver, who were sitting on the couch watching television. I couldn't even begin to imagine how boring this must be for them. I mean, sure it was fun and exciting when we were on the television set, but when in the hotel room all we did was watch television and sit around.

"Sure, bye," Lilly said absentmindedly, not taking her eyes off the screen.

"Later," Oliver gave me a small wave as I turned on my heels to walk out the door. My wig was on, and as I walked out the door and was about to knock on the door I thought I heard crying from a distance.

Looking over my shoulder, I tried to find out where it was coming from.

"But why can't you make it? You know this is the biggest thing that could happen to me," I heard from down the hallway. There were a few more sniffles, and then I heard a phone snap shut. I decided to check it out, because I knew that if I was sitting somewhere crying, I might have wanted someone to talk to.

Following the sniffles, they lead me to the ice room where Nick and I used to talk.

"Mikayla?" I asked, my mouth almost dropping to the floor. So she was an actual person, and not just some robot whose main mission was to destroy my life.

I watched as she quickly rubbed her mascara stained eyes, and looked up at me from her spot on the floor. "What do you want?" She snapped.

"I heard crying and thought I should see – wait, why am I being nice to you if all you're going to do is snap out on me?" I asked, crossing my arms across my chest. There was no reason for me to be nice to her after everything that has happened.

"When did I say you needed to be nice to me? I was alone, and in no way asking you to come and feel sorry for me," She looked down at her closed cell phone.

"Its common courtesy for someone to try to help someone in need. Someone could have been hurt, but I know when I'm not wanted, so whatever," I turned around, in no mood to be yelled at for trying to be nice. I had no idea what her problem was! What had I ever done to make her hate me so much?

"I don't need your help Miss. Perfect," She called after me, but I ignored her. She didn't want my help, then she wasn't going to get it.

Quickly I made my way back to Nick's hotel door and knocked on it, and waited for him to answer.

"Hey!" Joe said as he pulled the door open.

"Hey Joe, um is Nick here?" I asked, trying to look past him and inside the room.

"He's a little busy right now, how about you come back later?"

Busy? What could he be doing that was keeping him so busy? Moving from side to side, I tried to get a look into the hotel room, but failed as Joe just mimicked me.

"Joe, can I just come in?" I sighed, crossing my arms across my chest.

"Hmm… no, access denied," He replied, making his voice sound as if he were a robot.

"Come on, pretty please!" I begged, clasping my hands together.

"Sorry, try again later," He reached out to pinch my cheeks, but I dodged his hands.

"Fine, tell him to come talk to me when he's done." Joe just nodded and quickly closed the door before I could look inside. What the heck was going on? First Mikayla crying by the ice dispenser, and now Joe was hiding something.

"Please, can you please try to make it out here? I need you right now daddy," I heard Mikayla whine. Ok so why was I feeling bad for her? She is evil! But I just really wanted to go over and see what was wrong, and making her cry.

Why did I have to be such a good person?

Running down the short hallway and into the ice room I quickly sat down across from her before she could say anything to me.

"Mikayla," I looked right into her tear stained eyes as I said this, and waited for her response which was most likely to be something snappy and rude.

"What the heck to do you want? Can't you see I want to be alone?!" She shouted, causing me to jerk back a bit. She was angry and taking it out on me!

"Sometimes it's better to be with someone," I shrugged my shoulders. "Whenever I'm sad or upset, I surround myself with people who make me feel better."

Mikayla laughed sarcastically at me, and rolled her eyes. "News flash Miss. Perfect, I don't have anyone. My manager bailed on me, my mom is off in Paris with some new husband that will last as long as Brittney Spears career, and my dad refuses to come down here to stay with me. I, unlike you don't have a bunch of friends and family to surround myself with. I hate you, you hate me, Nick hates me because you hate me, who knows what Joe or Kevin think since they never talk to me, and your friends well… take a wild guess," And then she burst out in tears all over again. I watched as her shoulders shook, and she placed her head in her hands and cried.

There was nothing I could say to make her feel better, because well… because it was true. I couldn't lie and say I didn't hate her because I did; the boys disliked her because of me, along with Oliver and Lilly.

A few minutes later, Mikayla stopped crying long enough to look up at me. "Well, sometimes you come off a little cold and unapproachable. Maybe if you lighten up a bit people will come to you," I suggested, hoping to god that it would make it a little better.

To be honest, it was a little awkward sitting here watching her cry like this. Before I didn't even know she could cry.

She didn't answer right away, but instead looked like she was thinking it over.

"Impossible."

"What do you mean impossible? Mikayla, the first thing you said to me was 'Well I hate you', how do you think that makes you look?" I asked, pulling my knees up to my chest.

"I hate you because you're so perfect. There is nothing wrong with you Hannah, you don't have anything to hide, and you have great friends all around you. Your dad cares about you. You don't know how good you have it," She sniffled and blew her nose into the tissue she was holding in her hand.

"Oh boy, I am so far from perfect!" I leant back against the cold wall and kept my eyes fixed on her. She looked so hurt and vulnerable right now. She looked like a regular human being. "My suggestion to you is to be nicer. Mikayla you come off cold and no one wants to be friends with someone cold and heartless."

She looked up at me before responding. "So if I'm nice, I'll have friends like you?" She asked, sniffling.

"I'm saying that people will want to hang around you," Well I wasn't to sure about that, but hey if it made her feel better then what the heck.

"Ok, well maybe I'll try it out," She stood up and turned her back to me before straightening out, and starting to walk down the hall. I stood up as well, and rolled my eyes. Not even a thank you? Jeeze, some people are never able to change.

I walked out into the hall and ran a hand through my brown hair before making my way back to my room. Once I reached the door, I heard Mikayla unlock hers and saw her head appear.

"Hey Hannah?" She asked, stepping out of her room.

"Yah?"

She looked away, trying her hardest to avoid eye contact. This was killing her, I knew it.

"Thanks," She gave me a very small smile before returning into her room.

Mikayla apologized – Mikayla apologized to me!

What a strange world we live in.

A/N: So here is the next chapter! Ok, so there will be no Mikayla/Nick in the story, so don't worry about that haha! So anyways in this chapter we now see that she is human! Ok, so really I haven't been paying much attention to Lilly and Oliver, and I was thinking of taking them out of the story - what do you guys think? Do you have any ideas for them, because I feel like I'm ignoring them haha. Thank you so much for the reviews, favorites, and author/story alerts! They do mean soo so much to me, and even though I say this in every chapter, I just want you all to know that your reviews make me smile! So please tell me what you think of this, in a review! The next chapter will be up hopefully soon, but I haven't started writing it so I'm not sure when it will be posted. Anyways, please review! Tah-tah.