Chapter 7

Partners

The next day at school, once everyone saw Jake, it was like the same old stuff all over again. Fan girls trying to get his attention whereas the boys wanted to hang out with him.

I left Jake at the main office as he as soon as his new crowd left him. He said he's going to try and be in as much classes as he could with me and I'm okay with that. Just as long as I could spend more time with him, then I'll be happier.

I was at my locker, getting my things for biology when Freddy came up to me.

"Hello Miley." He smiled and leaned against the locker next to me.

"Hey." I said and shoved my biology book into my bag and shut my locker closed.

I faced him and leaned against my own locker.

"Well, I was wondering if we could probably practice during the weekend or something…" He asked and I nodded.

"Sounds pretty good." I replied and watched as a person put up a flier on the bulletin board across of the hall.

Freddy walked over to the flier and read it.

"The school's homecoming rally is coming up. Nominations for court are going up and end on September 3rd.

"That's like, three weeks from now. When is the rally?" I asked and he fingered the piece of paper.

"September 21." He replied. "Are you going to try out?" He asked and I frantically shook my head.

"No way." I laughed. "I'm not pretty enough."

"I think you're prettier than all the other girls." He smirked and I felt my face heat up.

"Pfft, you think so?" I asked and he nodded. "Then you must be blind." I stuck my tongue at him.

"Come on, you're so cute, most girls would be jealous because of it." He winked and I rolled my eyes.

"Ugh, yeah right. Anyway, I have to go. I'll see you during music." I said and he sighed.

"Okay, see you in music." He smiled and I walked off.

I never really thought of it, but Freddy never came to talk to me like that before. Hmm, I wonder what's on his mind. Maybe I should do a little more snooping. I shrugged and entered my biology class.

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I didn't find Jake during my first two periods or recess; he must've been busy meeting up with all these people. Maybe he couldn't get into my classes. Ohh well, I knew he wouldn't be able to be in those classes anyway.

I was walking toward Oliver's locker, seeing both Lilly and Oliver wrapped up in a deep conversation. They were talking in hushed tones and once they saw me, they stopped talking.

"Hey guys, what are you all up to?" I asked and Lilly laughed.

"Nothing, we're just talking."

"Oh. Did you see Jake anywhere? I've been looking for him, but I couldn't find him." I said and Oliver shrugged.

"Yeah, he's still in the office." Oliver said.

They looked uncomfortable with me there so I decided to leave and go to class early.

I walked into my music class and found Mrs. Rodrigues writing down two dates on the board. The warning bell signaling everyone to go to class rang and I took my seat near the door. A few people were already in class and talking about Jake being here, typical.

As the students piled into the class, Freddy came in the class early for once.

"Hello." He smiled at me and took his seat next to me.

"Hey, you're here early for once." I chuckled and he grinned.

"Yeah, I didn't have to go to the counselors today. Did you get any song ideas for the project?" He asked and I shook my head.

"No way, I was too busy." I blushed. I spent the rest of the night talking to Jake, just catching up on what happened in the past few months. I didn't do any of my homework for my classes just because of Jake. Then again, it's really good seeing Jake.

"Mhmm, with Jake?" He asked and I felt my face turn even hotter.

"Uhh, yeah." I looked at my desk and he laughed.

"Don't need to be embarrassed." He said as I covered my red face, but it made me even more embarrassed.

"I'm not." I said and he laughed again.

"Yeah right, your face is totally red right now. He must've done something last night to get you like this."

I looked at him and he grinned. Was he assuming that I… "No, we didn't do anything bad! We just talked and it was nice." I smiled and he sighed.

"Okay, sorry. I just find it amazing that he's dating an ordinary girl when he could get any famous people out there. It's been somewhat my dream to date a really hot famous person like Hannah Montana." He chuckled.

"You must really like Hannah Montana."

He looked at me and nodded.

"She's amazing. I find her work so great. I would love to meet her one day." His smile grew.

"We-" I started, but Mrs. Rodrigues took over my voice.

"Good morning class, I would like to start off today with two dates I put up on the board." She said and we all groaned. We knew these dates were bad. She always starts things off with bad things and end with the easiest.

"Why do we have dates on the board and a project when school just started a few days ago?" A boy asked from the back.

"Well, Jeremy, it's good to warn you in the beginning. This project isn't even due until next month, which is why it has brought us to this topic." She took out a stick and pointed to the first date on the board.

"On August 31st you have-" The door opened and Mrs. Rodrigues stopped talking. Her attention went to the door as she got ready to scream to the one person that interrupted her speech.

"Oh my gosh, it's Jake Ryan!" A girl from the back shouted.

I looked at the door and felt myself smile. Jake came inside, holding his schedule in his hand and holding his backpack in his other hand. He saw me and winked at me before walking up to Mrs. Rodrigues.

"Hi, umm, I'm in this class." He said.

I could hear the other girls sigh and I rolled my eyes.

"Looks like we have our own celebrity joining my little class." Mrs. Rodrigues giggled and took his schedule from his hands.

'Whoa, she just laughed. For a mean scary teachers, she loves famous people.' I rolled my eyes and watched as Mrs. Rodrigues talked to Jake.

"Mr. Jake Ryan, we weren't expecting you to be back so soon after you did just finish working on the film you were working on in the last few weeks." Her eyebrows raised as she looked over his schedule. "If I wasn't mistaken, from what it says in the newspapers, the film you were in had just finished on Monday and we were expecting you back tomorrow. Today is Thursday, so you must've caught an early flight." She said and wrote down his name on a piece of paper on her desk.

"Yeah, I wanted to be back early, I missed home." He said and looked over at me and Freddy. Freddy smiled at him and he smiled back. He looked at me and mouthed out something I couldn't make out. I just smiled and he nodded.

"Okay, well Mr. Ryan, we were just about to get to this final project I have you all do with a partner." She looked around the class as she handed Jake his schedule.

"Who here doesn't have a partner?" She said and more than half the girls in the class raised their hands.

"I'm being serious, who doesn't have a partner?"

I looked behind me to see if anyone still had their hand up and a tiny girl with big glasses had her hand up. Her face was red and she put her head down.

"Okay Jake, meet your partner." Mrs. Rodrigues said as she pointed at the girl. There was an empty desk right next to her and Mrs. Rodrigues pointed to that seat. "Take the seat next to her please."

Jake frowned and walked to the seat. He sat down and Freddy raised his hand.

"Mrs. Rodrigues, maybe me and Jake could switch partners?" Freddy said and Mrs. Rodrigues raised her eyebrows.

"No, I want her to be with you. Why do you want to change partners?" She asked and he shrugged.

"Maybe Miley would like to be with him or something." He mumbled and Mrs. Rodrigues started to laugh.

"Ooh, I want to switch partners!" A girl said from the back. Soon a whole bunch of people started to talk, asking to switch partners when Mrs. Rodrigues finally raised her voice.

"Stop talking or I'll assign an even bigger project!" She screamed and everyone quieted down. She put her attention back to Freddy.

"Did she ask to change partners?" She then looked at me. "Just to be with the famous Jake Ryan huh? You must be a real big fan of his." She said to me and I blushed.

"No, she had nothing to do with this; I just thought she would feel more comfortable with him." He said.

She shook his head. "I think I'd be bothering Jake if I told him to switch partners with a lovestruck fan of his."

'What! Did she really just say that?' My face tuned a darker shade of red.

"No, it wouldn't bother me at all Mrs. Rodrigues, I really think I could work well with Miley." Jake said and Mrs. Rodrigues raised her hand.

"Enough of this, I will not allow you to change partners!" She barked and we stayed quiet. I felt even more embarrassed.

'Stupid class, stupid class.' I repeated in my head and she went back to the board.

"Now that we've settled down, August 31st is when you're song choice is due for this project. You will be performing in front of an audience on September 28th, which gives you a long time until you present it. You have three weeks until the song is due, so if I were you, I would start early until the last minute. Your voices have to be perfect." She said. "Now, I'll give you the rest of the period to talk about your project. Miss…" She pointed to Jakes partner.

"Nina." She replied with her small voice.

"Ah yes, Nina Watson. Please tell your partner about this project." Mrs. Rodrigues said and sat at her desk to look over a few papers.

"Why'd you do that?" I asked and Freddy looked over at me.

"Do what?" He asked and I rolled my eyes.

"The whole switch partners episode. That was so embarrassing!" I exclaimed and he laughed.

"I just thought you would like to be with your boyfriend." He shrugged.

"Well next time just don't do anything okay?" I said and said and he nodded.

He didn't talk to me for the rest of the period. He could probably sense that I was pissed off at him for embarrassing me like that. Good thing Jake was there to comfort me. If not, I would've thrown a fit at Freddy after class.

A/N hmm, interesting. Lol. Anyway next chapter there's going to be some singing and other stuff that I don't want to spoil XP

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