Chapter 9

Agreements

Jackson had just left for his physical therapy appointment and Miley was at ends what to do. However, her dad had the answer for that one.

"Bud, you need to go change into Hannah." Robbie Ray said as he come from the hallway that his office was in.

"Why do I need to change?" Miley asked as she moved to the stairs.

"I forgot to tell you that we have a meeting today with the producers of Zombie High. It seems that want to have Hannah back on a reoccurring bases."

"Are you serious?" Miley asked with excitement.

"Would I have you change into Hannah if I wasn't?" Robbie Ray chuckled.

"No." Miley answered.

"Then what are you waiting for bud? Get going." Robbie swatted at Miley.

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Jake walked into the meeting room. He was excited and was there early. No one else was in the room yet. Jake looked around and found where Miley…oops…Hannah was going to sit. He saw that he was going to seat across from her.

"Oh! I didn't expect you to be here this early Jake." Mari Kirkpatrick, the head producer, said as she came into the meeting room.

Jake heard another sound at the door before he could answer. An intern came in to set up food and drinks. Soon after that, the other people of the production staff came into the room along with Roger and his assistant. This was the pre-meeting. Jake didn't have to be here for this one, but he was just to excited to wait. However, his excitement only last about five minutes into this meeting. Jake forgot how boring the pre-meetings could be. He was just staring at the seat that Miley...oops…Hannah was going to be sitting in when he heard his name.

"Jake? Hello, Jake." John Perry, the head writer, was trying to get his attention.

"Oh, sorry John, what were you saying?"

"I was asking you if you think Hannah would sign on for a movie series to end the show with as appose to ending it on the show's format."

"End the show with? What are you talking about? I thought the ratings were great." Jake was confused.

"Yes they are Jake." Mari added. "We are just looking into the future. I mean, you are growing up and the show will have to come to an end eventually."

"Oh, yeah, I guess I wasn't thinking about that. I really don't know. I mean she did like the guest spot last season and had fun with it, and given the fact that she is coming to talk about more time on the show, I guess there is a chance of her agreeing to a movie series."

"Lets hope so." Scott Martin, Mari's assistant, added.

So, it went and until Jake almost fall asleep. Lucky for him, the meeting ended and started to break up. The meeting with Hannah and her manager would be in one hour.

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"…and this is Roger's assistant Karen Shafer." Mari introduced the last person in the room. Mari shuffled through some papers and returned her attention back to Mr. Montana.

"Now the reason we asked for this meeting was to see if there interest in Hannah having a reoccurring role on Zombie High as Zoranda, the zombie princess." Mari started. Jake on the other hand zoned out again. This time Jake was not looking at an empty chair. This time the chair had someone in it. The chair held the one person that he had been obsessing about for the last year. It was hard enough for Jake to get through the last school year with the way he felt about her. Then came his break when her friend Maggie had been here for her operation that saved her life. That had been an up and down roller coaster for her but when the ride was over, he knew more about her. More then what the public at large knew. Matter of fact, now that he thought about it, there was probably a very small number of people that actually really knew her. Her best friends had to know from the way they acted and the ones in her band. Her security people must know too. That meant twenty or fewer people knew who she was.

Jake had found out from Maggie. Not that Maggie had told him. It was just that he was there when the medicines she was on let it slip out. Maggie probably didn't even know that she did it. Then came the day that he would never forget. He was having a argument over who was trying to make whom jealous. The fight ended with them kissing and him telling her that he was leaving for four months to film a movie. Jake had return to school with two weeks left in the school year. Two weeks after school was out, she left for her tour, but she was back now and sitting across from him. Slowly, Jake became aware of the fact that Hannah was looking back at him with a strange look on her face.

'What's wrong?' Hannah mouthed to Jake.

'What?' Jake mouthed back.

'Why are you staring at me?'

'I wasn't staring.' The color started to rise in Jake's face as he realized that he was caught.

'Then way are you blushing?'

"What do you think bud?" Mr. Montana asked Hannah for her opinion.

"What? Oh, yeah. Ah, sounds great daddy."

"You sure about all of this? The reoccurring role and the movie series?"

Hannah stop to think about what she had heard and what she had might have missed when she was 'talking' to Jake. The reoccurring role to set-up the series for the time it would come to an end and the movie series to explain the end of the show. After a moment of thought, she decided it would be a good experience.

"Yeah daddy, I'm sure." Hannah nodded her head. Across the table, Jake smiled.

"Okay then, I think this is a good stopping point for this meeting. Would you agree Mr. Montana?" Mari asked.

"I do. You have the number of our lawyers still?" Mari looks at her papers.

"Yes we do." Answered Scott, Mari's assistant.

"Good. I'll let them that your people will be calling them."

"Alright. Then lets set a time for signing the contact then."

Hannah looked back to Jake as they started to talk times for the next meeting.

'Stop staring me.' Hannah mouth again.

'Sorry. Just bored.' Jake lied.

"Then I guess were done here." Mari said and started to stand up and walk over to Mr. Montana to shake hands.

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Jake got up and walked over to Hannah.

"Are you sure your okay?" Hannah asked Jake, as he got closer.

"Yeah. Sorry about that. I just zone out sometimes in these meetings"

"I'm kind of excited about working on the show with you again."

"Yeah, me too." Jake smiled.

"So you still going to public school?" Hannah asked.

"Yeah. High school this year."

"Sounds like you have some more fans to break in to your presents." Hannah observed.

"That's what my friend Lilly said too." Jake laughed.

"Lilly huh?" Hannah nudged Jake's shoulder.

"It's not like that. We're just friends."

"Just like with that other girl?"

"What other girl?" Jake asked a little confused.

"The one that you told me about when I was on the show last year." Hannah looked away from Jake when she said this.

"Oh, you mean Miley." Jake smiled as he saw what Hannah was looking for. It amazed Jake how good of an actress that Miley was. Being able to talk about herself, Miley, as she was dressed as Hannah. It could be very confusing as he thought about it.

"Yeah that's her. Miley." Hannah said and smiled.

"Well, we haven't had a date yet, but we did kiss."

"What? You kissed her but you two haven't gone out?" Hannah asked in a surprised voice.

"Well, it was a heat of the moment kiss. The reason we haven't gone out is because I had to leave to make a movie and when I got back she had to go to Tennessee to visit family."

"So you are dating now?"

"We talked and decided to go slow for now." It amazed Jake that he was talking to Miley. It really was like he was talking to another person.

"Going slow. Does that mean no dating other girls?" Jake caught a little bit of color rising in Hannah's cheeks.

"Well, I never thought about it that way, but I guess so." Jake smiled his little smile.

"Well, that Miley is some lucky girl." Hannah smiled and pushed Jake.

"No. I'm the lucky one."

"Awww…that's so sweet Jake." Hannah's smile got even bigger.

"You ready to go bud?" Mr. Montana asked as he came up behind Hannah and Jake.

"Yeah, I am daddy. So you later Jake."

"Bye Hannah." Jake watched as Hannah and her dad left.

"See you on the beach tomorrow Miley." Jake said to his self.