Chapter 11

8:00:00 PM

Miley hesitated at first, but she was probably better off sitting here with Ashley, than anyone else. Ashley was sitting alone, and her head was resting on the seat, and her eyes were closed. But, she wasn't sleeping, she wasn't even tired. Ashley was thinking, think about the past week. So much had happened, in one week. Ashley shut her eyes, recalling the past events that had taken place in her life.

It all started when Amber won that singing competition. No, it probably started way before that, when Ashley met Amber. They instantly clicked, I mean, they were both rich, spoiled, and they were both pretty selfish. But Amber always was better than Ashley. She had a better voice, she had better looks, she had a better popularity status, she had better attitude. Amber even had more money than Ashley. Ashley was always the sidekick, or the fruit cup, while Amber was the hero, or the chocolate cake. Ashley always tried to be better than Amber, but she never succeeded. One thing that Amber got was all the guys. They all loved her, each one of them. Nerds, jocks, geeks, punks, skater-dudes, and so many more. But Ashley tried never to let it get to her. Though she envied Amber, she would stay loyal. And that's what she did, even last week, though Amber didn't know it.

Not many people know about the whole incident with Amber and Teddy, maybe just a few. But word hadn't spread, surprisingly. Teddy probably had something to do with it.

Teddy.

He was the whole cause of all of the mess. Though he may look innocent, he was just like all of those other jerks. A two-timer.

Flashback (Ashley's P.O.V.)

"Oh my gosh, Ashley! I still can't believe I won that contest! And I got to meet Hannah Montana!" said Amber.

"Yeah, I know, you've told me for the millionth time. It's on the radio, and in the TV, in fact, I've heard it too many times!" I was getting pretty tired of all that news. I guess you could say I was jealous.

"Sorry, it's just so –" Amber started

"Exciting!" We both said at the same time, with more enthusiasm in her voice, than in mine. My voice was dripping in sarcasm, but she was too proud to notice. What an ego, that girl had.

"Ooooh Tssssss!" we said, as we took our index finger, and crossed them together. We always did that, when we say the same thing. It was kind of like our signature, and we've been doing that since we first met each other.

Suddenly, in the corner of my eye, I spotted Teddy Rossman who appeared to be walking towards us. Teddy was this really cute football player. He looked like Jake Ryan, who was oh so hott. I've been crushing on Teddy for a while now. But I forgot about him, when I heard Jake was coming to our school. But then Jake left to shoot a few episodes for Zombie High, which by the way is my favorite show! Anyways, he left for about two weeks, and nothing was that exciting anymore, except for the fact that Amber had met Hannah Montana and all that stuff. While Jake was gone, I spotted Teddy, and redeveloped my crush on him. I hadn't seen him for a while, and his hair was a little more blonde, but there was still that dirty brown meshed in. He had grown taller too, and his body, don't let me get started.

Well anyways he was walking towards Amber and me. I patted my hair together, trying to flatten the frizz. And licked my lips to give it that shiny, I-am-wearing-lipgloss look. Then I flashed a brilliant smile at him. But as I thought he was coming towards me, he actually turned towards Amber, and then to my horror asked her out.

And of course, she said yes. I felt like punching her. How could she? Amber knew that I liked him, after that one night when we played truth or dare at her house. I felt so enraged! I took a few deep breaths, and I managed a smile. Maybe Amber forgot about what I told her. I avoided Amber the whole rest of the day, which was kind of hard, since we most of the same classes. And if we didn't have the same classes, than we would have classes close to each other, which meant that we would usually walk together. But I took another route. Amber didn't even notice. She was so involved with herself, and she was obsessing about Teddy Rossman, and gushing about how cute he was. Before he even asked her out, she didn't even acknowledge him.

I went to biology for 7th period. Teddy was in that class with me, except we sat far away from each other since the stupid teacher always assigned everything. Like partners. She assigned us all partners because we were dissecting frogs. I was with Oliver….ughhhh. I wrinkled my nose and frowned. But thankfully, I was saved by Becca Weller.

"Hey Amber, can we switch partners?" Becca asked quietly in my ear.

"Of course!" I said, without even asking her who her partner was.

It was Teddy Rossman. Oh boy.

I didn't really feel like talking to Teddy. I was kind of mad at him. I mean, I didn't really have a reason to be, but I just wished that he had asked me out instead of Amber. Teddy flashed me a wide grin that would make my heart melt, but how could it melt when it was already broken?

He pulled the chair closer towards me, and touched my hand, with his soft fingers, tracing small circles on it. I shivered. What the hell was he doing? I pulled my hand away. Even though I was angry at Amber, I would never flirt with her boyfriend. But he obviously would flirt with someone other than his girlfriend, like what he was doing to me right now. I scooted my chair away from him, just as the teacher handed out the little glass containers with the dead frogs. Gross. I grabbed the forceps, and I put on my goggles, and I started to poke it.

"That's not how you do it." He said softly in my ear. I didn't even realize how close we were now. His body was pressed into my back, and he was looking over my shoulder. I tried to move away, but his hand took my hand, and he moved the forceps to a really squishy area to the frog. I pulled away so suddenly, I knocked the container with the frog, and it shattered to pieces. The shards of glass were everywhere. Luckily I didn't get hurt, since I was wearing gloves, but he did. His hand was pretty gory.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!" I said loudly, as the teacher walked towards us to help clean the glass up.

"I think I'll go to the nurse. Can you come with me?" he asked me. I couldn't say no, after hurting him, so I nodded my head. We walked through the empty halls towards the nurse's office. Suddenly he pulled me with his clean hand, and took me to a janitors closet.

"What are you doing? Why did you take me here, in this filthy closet." I said disgusted. There were dust bunnies everywhere, and the floor was dirty. If that stupid janitor can clean the whole school, why can't even clean his closet? Back to the closet…what was he trying to do?

"Ashley, I've always liked you, I wanted you! Will you go out with me?" He leaned in to kiss me, but I pushed him back.

"What the hell! You are dating Amber! And if you wanted me so bad, than why did you ask her?" I shouted at him. My blood was boiling now. I was about to open the door, when he opened his mouth.

"Well, I'm not really dating her, I mean we didn't make it official or anything." He said a little nervously.

"You asked her to be your girlfriend. I was there when you asked." I said angrily.

"I know, but now that I realize it, I don't think she is the one for me, I think you are. I mean, yeah Amber's pretty and all, but I've had my eyes on you. And first thing, school is over, I think I'm going to end things with Amber, and tell her about us. I really want this to work, and I know that you may say no, but I hope you don't." He smiled sweetly.

"I don't know Teddy, Amber will be pretty hurt when she finds out you're breaking up with her for me."

"Okay, maybe I should wait a little bit until I break up with her, but until then will you consider it?" then Teddy gave me those puppy down eyes. I turned away.

"Maybe, I'll think about it."

"I knew you would." And Teddy kissed me on the cheek, and opened the door. I felt really happy, but yet, I felt like I was betraying Amber. I followed Teddy silently to the nurse's office. She wasn't there, so Teddy went to the bathroom to wash his hands.

One Week Later

I was heading towards Rico's because Teddy had some great news he wanted to tell me, and he called me. After the whole closet thing, he flirted shamelessly with me. I was a little nervous today. I think he called me because it probably had something to do with Amber and him. I hadn't seen Amber for most of my classes that day, because she was getting her invisible braces tightened. Yeah, that's right, she has invisible braces. Nobody knew about them, because her lips were kind of pouty, which covered her lips most of the time. It sounds weird, but it's true. When I arrived at Rico's I put my pink Vera Bradley purse, on my lap, and sat down on the tall stools. Of course Amber's Vera Bradley was better, because it cost more, and it was brand new. She opened like 14 of them each. And she got a new one every other week. I only had 4 of them, which according to Amber were so last season.

I waited for a while, and I was so fed up, I walked along the beach. I took out my cell phone to see what time it was. It was quarter past four; I had come at 3:30. Suddenly a big wave splashed, and I tried to run away, but my cell phone slipped in the process. It landed in the water. Uh-oh. It was a new pink razor. I rolled up my pants, and wadded through the water. I fished it out, and flipped it on. It wasn't working. I was going to be grounded, that razor was pretty new. I got it because Amber had one too. But after I got mine, she got hers studded with Australian diamonds. I headed back to Rico's and Teddy was standing there. He had his cell phone, and was turning it off.

"Hi, what's the big news?"

"Well, I talked to Amber, and she decided it was a good idea to break up. She said something about Jake Ryan and something else, I don't remember. Then I asked her about us, and she said it was a great idea, and that we were meant to be!" Teddy said obviously lying. But I didn't know that…yet.

"Are you sure she's okay with it?" I asked really excited. I was so happy!

"A hundred-percent sure." Then he slowly moved closer to me, and his lips met mine. We stayed like that for a few minutes, and the kissing intensified, and it turned out like a make-out session. Then suddenly I heard a gasp. We broke a part, and there stood Amber, in shock. She came right up to Teddy and slapped him.

"How could you both do this to me?" she screamed, as tears rolled down her cheek. I was really confused. Had we done something wrong. I thought Teddy and her both broke up. Then I realized what Teddy did. Before I could say anything to Amber, she was gone. I slapped Teddy than ran after her.

Ashley tried calling Amber about 20 times, but Amber blocked all of her calls. Ashley also tried to talk to her in school and explain what happened. But Amber, and her new group of friends, would just ignore her, and gossip about her calling her a slut and a backstabber, and other nasty comments. As for Teddy, he realized what he did, and he tried apologizing to Amber, but she ignored him. He also tried to talk to Ashley, but she would just run away whenever she saw him. Ashley opened her eyes, which were by now tearing, and saw Miley standing there.

"What do you want?" Amber said quickly wiping her tears.

"I was wondering if I could sit here? Hey, are you okay?" Miley asked, when she noticed Ashley wiping her tears.

"Yes I'm fine." Ashley said, her voice cracking. Suddenly she erupted into tears, just like Miley had done hours earlier with Jake. Miley sat down next to Ashley and for the first time in her life, she hugged Ashley. Ashley, the girl who had always been enemies with her. But as Miley comforted Ashley, she realized Ashley never did anything. It was always Amber who acted bitchy. Ashley was just there. Yeah sure, sometimes she would say something, but usually she was just like Amber's weak sidekick. And as Miley hugged Ashley, Ashley only cried harder, finally uncovering all her emotions she had been holding in for the past week, and she didn't even try to push Miley away. She just sat there, and cried her heart out, which would never melt again by Teddy, and would always be broken with Amber.

A/N So I officially declare this to be my longest chapter, it was 5 pages, not too long, but it is the longest in the story. I know this Amber/Ashley stuff is pretty boring, but next chapter will be more about Jake and Miley!! And maybe some Lilly/Oliver stuff...until then review!!!