Ok, a little drama in this chapter.

The Things I Do For Love

Spying is Bad, Very bad

"I'm bored," Sharpay said after they finished their conversation.

"You know, the hotel takes forever to get people seated for dinner," Zack said.

"Yeah, so?"

"These Troy and Gabriella people probably haven't started their conversation yet."

"They're right, let's go."

They head off toward the restaurant. When they got there, Troy and Gabi were just being seated for dinner, outside. Everybody hid behind the bush. "A waiter will be with you in a moment," the host said, walking away.

"So, what's up?" Troy asked.

"Uhh, nothing really."

"Oh, that's…good, I guess."

"Yeah."

"So, are you exited for tomorrow's Hannah Montana concert?" he asked. They were all going.

"Yes, I love her, what about you?"

"She's ok, I think she's more hot than anything." This got an angry expression on Jake's face, considering he was her boyfriend. Chad noticed this and realized something.

"Troy!" Gabi complained.

"Jealous?"

"No!" she said way too quickly, blushing madly.

"Oh, yes, you are, come on, you like me!"

"What, no, of course not!

"Oh," he said, a little disappointed.

There was an awkward silence. "So," Troy broke the silence. "Don't we got backstage passes?"

"Yeah…we do."

"Cool."

"Yeah."

"Have you ever been to one of her concerts before?"

"No."

"What's your favorite song?"

"Uhh…If We Were a Movie, I think it's so cute."

"Yeah, I was actually listening to the words yesterday." Gabi laughed.

She took a sip of water. "Oh, you know what it's been reminding me of lately?"

"What?"

"Jake Ryan." Miley raised her eyes at Jake.

"You like Jake Ryan?" It was Troy's turn to be jealous.

"Nah, I could never take another guy's girl's guy." Her eye brows went back down.

"Then, why'd it make you think of him?"

"Well, I couldn't steal another girl's guy, but…maybe Hannah could."

Everybody behind the bushes eyes darted to Jake and Miley.

"Why do you say that?" Troy asked her.

"Well, because, for starters, they're, like, really good friends. I've seen multiple pictures of them together, and then, the dancing at that party."

"True."

"Then, the words to the song."

"What do you mean?"

"Think about it, 'talkin cinematic', 'got everybody starstruck', 'charming'."

"You said you didn't like him?"

"Oh no, I don't, but he is pretty charming, I have to admit, I can see why Hannah would have a thing for him."

"Yeah, whatever."

"Oh, and then, there's that part about that other girl, that other girl could be Miley."

"Wait, how do you know she even wrote the song?"

"It said on her album."

"Oh."

"Oh, and what makes me think this most of all, is something I found in the lobby yesterday."

"What?"

"It was a picture and a tape recorder."

"So?"

"I think some paparazzi may have lost them."

"What's the picture of?"

"Look," she said, taking the picture out of her purse. "Oh my god," he said looking at the picture. "Is that Hannah Montana and Jake Ryan, holding hands?"

Miley's eyes widened. She knew where this would go. Chad's, Taylor's, Jason's, Kelsi's, Ryan's, Sharpay's, and Zeke's eyes were on them.

"What's on the tape recorder?" Troy asked.

"Here, listen." There was nobody else eating outside.

"Remind me why I keep you around?" Miley, I mean, Hannah, joked to Jake.

"Cause you love me."

"Whatever."

Let's just say Troy and Gabi weren't the only ones to hear it.

"How can you be sure that's Hannah, and not Miley?"

"I can't be."

"It might be Miley."

"Yeah, I guess, but that doesn't explain the picture."

"Uh huh, why didn't you tell anybody about this stuff before?"

"Because I wasn't about to accuse Jake Ryan of cheating, especially in front of his girlfriend."

"So, what do you think of cheating?"

"Huh?"

"Ok, I'll give you a hypothetical situation."

"Ok."

"We started dating." Gabi smiled, hoping this situation wouldn't always be hypothetical.

"Then, I cheated on you with…Sharpay, what would you do?"

"Well, first of all, I would check you for brain damage, Sharpay, really?"

Sharpay looked kind of hurt by this comment, but of course, Gabi didn't see this.

"Gabriella, hypothetical, what would you do?"

"I guess I would dump you, I mean, cheating is kind of unforgivable."

"That's all you would do, you wouldn't yell at me or anything?"

"Well, maybe a little, but Troy, I know you would never do anything to intentionally hurt me."

"I wouldn't." She smiled.

"Thanks."

"So, anyway, do you really think that Jake is cheating on Miley with Hannah?"

"I dunno, but it's a possibility."

"Yeah, if he's not, I'm sure he has feelings for her."

Although you can't see this, they were giving each other flirty looks the whole time, and obviously flirting with each other, even if it wasn't in their conversation.

"Ya know what would totally suck?"

"What?"

"If the rest of the gang had heard our entire conversation."

"Yeah, that would suck, big time."

"Well," a sort of thick Tennessee accent came from the doors. "Then I guess it sucks big time."

Troy and Gabi turned around to see a woman with big blonde hair. "What do you mean," Troy asked her.

"Well, this little girl that you obviously have a thing for, said that it would totally suck if everybody else heard your entire conversation, well, then it totally sucks."

"You don't mean…"

He didn't need to finish because she pointed toward the bushes, where everybody was standing up. "Aunt Dolly, what'd you do that for?" Miley asked.

"Sorry, sugar, they were gonna find out anyway."

"Wait, you guys were spying on us!" Gabriella pretended to be mad, although she felt more guilty than anything right now. I would really hate to be the cause of the destruction of their relationship.

"Don't try and turn this around!" Miley exclaimed. She knew she probably shouldn't be mad at them, but her only other choice would be to dump… no, don't think like that. "Not only are you talking behind our backs, but you're basically calling me blind, my boyfriend a cheater, and our relationship a lie!"

"No, Miley, we didn't mean it like that…"

"You know what, I don't care!" she nearly yelled. She ran out of the restaurant, tears streaming down her face.

Why am I crying? None of this is true, Jake's not cheating. He does have feelings for Hannah Montana, but…well…I'm glad he does.

Jake ran after her, shooting Troy and Gabi a quick, undeserved dirty look.

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Oh, I hate to end it there, but I have, to. Like I said, I kinda traveled to drama a little bit there. It's kind of easier to write for me, because I'm sorta a drama queen, sorta. But, I love comedy, too, and that's what this story mainly is, I think, so, yeah.

Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with Suite Life, HSM, or Hm.

R&R

Paige