Chapter 11

High School

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Miley reached over, hit the snooze button on her alarm clock, and rolled over. Soon her dad came in to wake her up.Miley reached with her hand and started to push his nose hoping it would turn him off. However, this didn't work and she was up and ready for school in good time.

Miley was waiting for Oliver and Lilly at their corner. Normally, Jackson would give Cooper and Helen a ride to school, which left no room in his small car, but since Jackson's foot was not healed, Cooper was driving and he was using Jackson's car since he didn't have one yet. Miley only had to wait a few minutes before Lilly showed up.

"Hi Lilly. Already for are first day?"

"I am. I don't know about Oliver."

"What's up with Oliver?"

"I don't know. He just called and told me that we could walk on ahead of him to school and he would got there soon enough."

"I tell you Lilly that boy is stranger than a skunk at a cat show."

"And sometimes he even smells like one too." Lilly agreed as they walked to school.

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When Lilly and Miley got to school the first place they went was to the activities sign-up board. Lilly went straight to the cheerleader sign up sheet and put her name down for freshmen cheerleading.

"Lilly, can I use your pencil?" Miley asked. Lilly handed her pencil to Miley with a questioning look on her face but didn't say anything. Miley walked up to the show choir sheet and looked at it. Lilly watched Miley and didn't make a sound. Miley didn't notice that Lilly was watching her as she chased all the advice around in her head. However, in the end, she did what everyone that she asked had told her to do. She gave so much to everyone else as Hannah, it was time for her to do something for herself and live a little as Miley. She lifted the pencil to the sheet of paper and with a firm and sure stroke, Miley wrote her name on the paper. Miley then turned and gave the pencil back to Lilly.

"What are you smiling at?" Miley asked Lilly.

"You did it. You signed up for show choir." Lilly gushed.

"Chilax Lilly. You're going to make everyone stare."

"I'm just so happy for you. What made you change your mind?"

"Well, Maddie told me too, Frank told me too, Mr. Aaron told me too, Daddy told me too, Oliver told me too, and you told me too. I guess if everyone I asked told me too, what right do I have not to do it." Miley shrugged her shoulders as they walked to the center courtyard of the school.

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"I still can't believe I thought Rico found out my secret. I should have known better." Miley ranted as they walked home.

"He didn't so just relax." Oliver advised.

"I am so going to get him for that kiss too! I was doing him a favor and how does he thank me?"

"He turned your cheek kiss into as lip lock is how." Oliver piped up.

Lilly and Miley hit Oliver on the shoulders.

"OW!"

"That was a rhetorical question donut!" Lilly told Oliver.

"I know that."

"Whatever. The real question is what am I going to do." Miley asked as they went into her house. Jackson was already home and was working on schoolwork already when he noticed Miley, Lilly, and Oliver came in.

"Is it true what I hear going around school Miles?" Jackson asked.

"Is what true and what did you hear?"

"That Rico trick you into kissing him?"

"Trick me…"

"Not Miley…" Lilly added.

"Phss…no…Miley…Rico…phss" Oliver wasn't sure what he was trying to say.

"Well?" Jackson insisted.

"Okay, fine, he did." Miley caved.

"You are going to get even? Aren't you?"

"Well, duh." Miley tried to cover.

"We just don't know what to do." Oliver admitted. Miley turned and grabbed Oliver by the shirt.

"Why did you have to tell Jackson we didn't know what to do?" Miley growled.

"Well we don't." Whined Oliver, "and let go of my only chest hair." Miley let go of Oliver.

"I'm never going to have more than one chest hair at a time thanks to you Miley." Oliver complained.

"Get over it Oliver. What's more important is how to get back at Rico. Nothing to bad, just a little something that says don't mess with me."

"This sounds like a job for the Jacksonnator."

"It does?" Miley asked.

"Hey, you think I let Rico get away with all the crap he pulled on me?"

"Well, yeah." Answered Lilly.

"Well, you would be wrong. I've pulled my share of fast ones on Rico and know all of his soft spots." Jackson laughed at some of his memories.

"I don't want to be mean to Rico Jackson, just teach him a small lesson." Miley said.

"Relax Miles, it wouldn't be much just a little something. Okay?"

"Well I'll be the judge of that. Lets hear it." Miley ordered.

"Well, I was thinking about a little bit of water might do the trick here." Jackson started to explain what he had in mind and after listening to it, our trio had to agree that it sent the right message, don't mess with us, because it could have been worse.

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The trio left for school early the next day. They had to get there before Jackson did with Cooper driving him. Once there, it was just a matter of a few knocks and moves by Oliver before Rico's locker door popped open. Taking the stuff the Jackson brought with him and following his instructions, Miley quickly set-up Rico's surprise. Once done, Miley carefully closed the door. Jackson and Cooper moved off to do what they did. Our trio moved to a place where they could watch what would happen.

As time passed and they waited, with a towel because Miley didn't want to be to mean to Rico, other students started showing up. Two students that our trio didn't want anything to do with just happen to come around the corner, Amber and Ashley.

"Why look Amber, it's the loser patrol." Ashley said and laughed.

"And there is their head cheerleader to lead them in a losing cheer." Amber belittled.

"Give us a loser cheer!" Both girls said at the same time.

"OOOooo…Tssss." They said together and touched fingers.

"Did I hear someone say cheerleader?" Carol Jordan asked as she came around the corner. Carol was a senior on the varsity cheerleading squad and was extremely popular. Amber and Ashley quickly adjusted their selves.

"Hi. I'm Amber. I won on Singing with the Stars and a close personal friend of Hannah Montana."

"What about me?" Ashley asked.

"And this is Ashley." Amber said as she tried to get close to Carol.

"Aren't you one of the 8th grade cheerleaders?" Carol asked Lilly.

"Yeah. I even signed up for this year too. I can't wait for tryouts." Lilly said.

"Hey, I'm the rich popular one here. I'm friends with Hannah Montana after all." Amber said.

"If that is the case, then why is it that we only see Lola with her and not you?" Carol asked and crossed her arms and tapped her foot. Amber didn't know what to say so she left with Ashley close behind her.

"Snubs like that drive me crazy. Hi. My name is Carol Jordan. I saw you cheerleading when I watched my brother play basketball." Carol held her hand out to Lilly.

"I'm Lilly Truscott and these are my friends Oliver Oken and Miley Stewart." Lilly shook hands with Carol as she introduce her friends.

"Wait! You're Brad Jordan's sister?" Lilly asked.

"Guilty. And you must be Jackson's little sister?" She asked as she turned to Miley.

"Unfortunately." Miley answered and Carol laughed.

"I guess I know how you feel about our brother. I do have one too. Well, it was nice meeting you all, but I have to get to my locker. Later Lilly." With that, Carol started for her locker to start her day. Carol walked by Rico as he came to his locker. Our trio focused in on what was about to happen. Rico stepped on his step stool and started to work his combination. When he hit the last number, Rico open his locker door. What he didn't see was the string that was connected to the door. The string was connected to a small cork stopper. As the string became tight, it pulled the stopper out of the bottle that it was in. When the stopper was clear of the bottle, the water that was inside the bottle came gushing out and landed on Rico before he could react. By the time Rico reacted to the water that came pouring onto his head, the bottle was empty. Amber and Ashley saw the whole thing and started to laugh and make fun of Rico. The look on his face broke Miley's heart. Our trio quickly ran to his defense.

"Why don't you two go and bother someone else." Miley told them as she started to dry Rico off.

"Look Ashley, the losers have a pet loser now."

"Why don't you two rich snubs move on and leave them alone or high school just might become a very sad place for you." Carol said as she walked up behind Amber and Ashley. Amber and Ashley jumped and turned around to see Carol with two other girls. All three of them looked like they meant business.

"Fine, but you well never be as popular as us." Amber said as they walked away.

"Sorry Rico." Miley apologized. "This was just a little pay back for that trick you played on me with that kiss."

"Oh, you so deserve this." Carol laughed.

"Sorry, Miley. I guess I do." Rico laughed too.

"Friends Rico?" Miley asked.

"Okay. Friends." Rico said after some thought.

"If those two keep bugging you Rico, just let us know, okay?" Carol asked. Rico nodded his head.

"This is Lilly that I was tell you guys about." Carol said to the two girls with her.

"This is Beth Lisi and Erin Jones." Carol introduce them to Lilly as they shook hands. "They are follow cheerleaders too Lilly. Why don't you come with us and we can talk about what the freshman tryouts will be like."

"Great! I see you guys later." Lilly told Miley and Oliver. The four cheerleaders left talking about cheerleading as Miley watched her best friend head off into a new world with out her.