Chapter 18

Surprises

The concert was awesome on Friday. Everything went good and the fans were great. The weekend went well as well with nothing going wrong. Freddy came over a few times and we practiced our song together. This time, we did get some singing done and we did pretty darn well at it too.

With the soundtrack, I could sing it with no problem, but with out the music playing, it was hard. You had to have a tune playing to get the right notes, and I couldn't really get it. I only caught on the chorus, but nothing else after that. It took me about 15 times before I finally got the first verse done. It usually doesn't take me that long to memorize a part, but it was a duet, and I don't really do well with duets.

It was Wednesday and nothing bad had happened yet, but I could sense that something was going to happen soon. It was weird, but something always happened wrong when you're having a good day.

I was at my locker with Lilly feeling slightly nervous. "Lilly, what time is it?" I asked and she took out her cell phone.

"7:49, why?" She asked and I shrugged.

"Just wondering."

"Hey Miley." I jumped, hearing a voice behind me.

I looked back and saw Freddy walking toward us.

"Hey Lilly." He said once he reached us. She waved at him and smiled.

"What brings you here?" I asked Freddy and he shrugged.

"Nothing, but after yesterday's practice; I wanted to see if you got the lyrics down." He said and I nodded.

"Yeah, I practiced a lot yesterday. Why?" I asked and he shrugged.

"I have this weird feeling today so it's kind of worrying me." He admitted.

"Me too. I don't know why, it's just kind of freaking me out." I said and looked at Lilly, who was soon greeted by Oliver. They were talking about something, which I couldn't really hear since I was with Freddy.

"Just try to keep yourself occupied. It will probably get your mind off of it." He said and I relaxed a little bit.

"I guess you're right."

"Okay, well I'll see you in third period. Bye kiddo." He lightly punched my shoulder and walked off.

"Bye." I said softly and closed my eyes, leaning back into my locker.

'What to do to keep me occupied?' I asked myself and sighed.

"Screw this." I said, gaining Oliver and Lilly's attention.

"You okay Lilly?" Oliver said as he hung his arm loosely on Lilly's shoulders.

"Yeah. I'm going to class; I'll see you two later." I said.

"Bye." They both said and I left them going to my first period.

'I really hope nothing bad happens today.' I thought to myself as I walked the rest of the way to my class.

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Soon, it was third period. Jake, Freddy, and I were walking to our class, but the door to the music class was closed.

"What the heck?" Freddy said and we saw a note on the door.

"Period 3 music 2 students meet in the auditorium." Jake said, reading it from the paper.

"What are we doing in the auditorium?" I asked and Freddy shrugged.

"I hadn't talked to Mrs. Rodrigues since the last class session." He said and we started to walk in the direction of the auditorium.

"This is weird." Jake said, shaking his head.

"Why is that?" I asked and he looked at me and took my hand.

"I don't know, maybe because we're going to the auditorium during class. Maybe she has something big planned for us?"

We finally reached the auditorium and saw a few people push the doors open, going into the place.

"Maybe, maybe not. We'll just have to wait and see." Freddy said and pushed the door open and held it as we got inside.

We walked down the aisle, finding almost all the students in the class in there. We went into an empty row, where Jake's partner was and sat next to her.

"Do you know what we're doing here?" Jake asked Nina and she blushed, shaking her head.

"Okay thanks." He said and she nodded.

The late bell to class finally rang and we sat there quietly, waiting for something to happen.

"Where is Mrs. Rodrigues?" I asked Freddy and he shrugged.

"You think I would know where she is when I just came in here with you?" He asked sounding confused.

"Haha, yeah sorry about that." I shook my head and looked at the stage.

"Remember when we were last in here?" I asked him and he nodded, smiling.

"I caught you singing that Ashley Tisdale song. You were so into it and I didn't want to bother you. It was beautiful." Freddy said and nudged my elbow with his.

"Hey, watch what you say with my girlfriend." Jake said sounding irritated.

"Yeah, sorry about that." Freddy muttered and looked to the side of the stage.

"There she is." Nina said with her little voice.

We all looked on the stage and saw that she came out from the side of the stage, behind the curtains, holding up two microphones.

"Hello students." She said through one of the microphones.

"Hello." We replied and she smiled with her rare smiles

That's when we knew that she had something big set up for us.

"You're all probably wondering why I asked you all to come in here right?" a few of us replied with a yes and she smirked. "Well, think of it as a pop quiz."

I looked at her feeling confused. 'What did she mean by thinking of it as a pop quiz?' I asked myself and shushed Freddy as he tried to talk to me.

"You're all going to come up here and perform the first few verses of your song until the end of the first chorus in front of everyone."

I covered my mouth. 'We had to sing out loud in front of everyone?' I stared, wide-eyed, at Mrs. Rodrigues while she gave us the instructions.

"I'll call on you and your partner randomly and you'll come up here and perform acapella, which is singing without music. You'll have to sing like how you're going to sing when you perform in front of the whole school by the end of this month. The rules are, you can't sing with you music sheet, if you need it, you and your partner will be deducted points from this quiz. This is about 50 percent of your grade, good luck." She said and walked down the stairs of the stage and onto the first seat.

"First up, Ryan Piano and Jessica Smith." She said and two people, who were sitting in the front started to walk toward the stage. Just as they got to the stairs, Mrs. Rodrigues handed them the microphones and they got on stage, looking nervous.

"Oh, I forgot. Say the song you're going to perform and then, once everyone has settled down, you decide whether or not you're ready to sing." She said out loud so that everyone could hear.

The group said that they were singing Anytime by Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini and soon started to sing.

I nervously looked at Freddy and he weakly smiled at me.

"What am I going to do?" I whispered and he shrugged.

"I don't know. Just sing like how you would sing in a normal concert, I don't know why you're so nervous." Freddy said and I bit on my lip.

"I can't sing like how I usually sing in a concert-" I hissed and he looked at me, as if he didn't care.

"Miley, just relax. You have to sing your best. I really doubt people are going to notice you sound exactly like Hannah Montana." Freddy whispered.

"Shut up." I lightly hit him on his shoulder and I felt Jake grip on my hand.

"Freddy, we could hear you all the way over here, don't say or do anything you'd regret. Think about Jackson." Jake said and Freddy nodded.

"Yeah, but I don't get what's the big deal, I mean it's not like everyone is going to notice right away. It took me about 3 times before I realized who she was." He said quietly and I shrugged.

"But-" Jake started and I sighed.

"Maybe." I said and soon heard Mrs. Rodrigues whistle.

"Who is talking back there?" She said and I looked down at my lap, hoping that she wouldn't know that it was us.

"Miley Stewart and Freddy Greendale, you're up." She said and I froze.

"No." I whispered, but felt Freddy tugging at my arm.

"We have to go." Freddy said and I closed my eyes for a moment, before standing up and walking with Freddy to the stage area. We walked up the stairs and Jessica handed me the microphone.

"Good luck." She said just before walking down the stairs to go to her seat.

I slowly walked to the center of the stage and looked over at my classmates. I felt nervous, how do I sing? I don't want to sing bad so that I practically fail, but I don't want to sing good so that people would probably figure out who I am. What to do…

"Anytime now Miley and Freddy." Mrs. Rodrigues said, sounding tired from the both of us stalling.

I felt Freddy put his hand on my arm.

I looked at him and he smiled.

"Just sing the way your heart wants you to sing." Was all he said and I nodded.

I looked back at the crowd and said through the microphone, "Some Day We'll Know by Mandy Moore and Jonathan Foreman." I closed my eyes, blocking out every noise I could hear and then started to sing.

Ninety miles outside Chicago
Can't stop driving I don't know why
So many questions, I need an answer
Two years later you're still on my mind

I sang, feeling like it was only me. I couldn't tell if I hit the right notes. I just sang to what my heart was telling me to, just like what Freddy said.

Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart?
Who holds the stars up in the sky?
Is true love just once in a lifetime?

I stopped singing and still held my eyes closed.

I soon heard Freddy singing and I relaxed a bit, feeling as though it was only the both of us in the auditorium, just like how we usually are when we're practicing.

Did the captain of the Titanic cry?
Oh, Someday we'll know

I started to sing with his voice, as I bobbed my head.

If love can move a mountain

Freddy's voice dropped and I sang myself.

Someday we'll know

His voice sang with me.

Why the sky is blue

I stopped singing so that Freddy could say his line and then got ready for the next two lines.

Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you...

Our voices conjoined and faded as we ended the song, I opened my eyes and looked at Freddy. His face was in shock, and weakly smiled at me.

'Did I do that bad?' I asked myself, too afraid to look at my audience.

I could hear the students talking and I took in a deep breath, looking at the crowd. The students looked shocked, just like how Freddy looked.

'Why are they looking at me like that?' I asked and soon I heard the one name I dreaded to hear just before I sang this song. The one name I was afraid that people would say while I sang up here today.

'Hannah Montana'

A/N Wow. Do you think they found out? Hmm, interesting XP

Anyway, I hope you liked it and more coming up soon, obviously lol.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Hannah Montana, the song Anytime or the song Someday We'll Know.