Chapter 13

The Hospital

"I'm going to stop by Oliver's and Lilly's house so they can drop off their stuff. You guys can also tell your parents where you're going." Debbie told them.

"Oh, Miley, Zack and Cody, your parents are already at the hospital."

After plans were set with Lilly's and Oliver's parents, Debbie took everyone to the hospital.

"Hey! Wait just one minute!" Zack said out of the clear blue.

"What now Zack?" Cody asked.

"If Miley's Hannah Montana does that mean Lilly is Lola?"

"I'm impressed, Zack! You figured that out all in the same day!" Cody replied sarcastically.

"I'll take that as a yes."

Lilly looked over at Miley and started to say something but Miley cut her off.

"I know, I know. You just gotta love him." Then Miley rolled her eyes to Cody.

"If two people were over made for each other…"

Cody just smiled and nodded his head.

"I almost forgot! I have a concert Saturday to announce the winner of the contest. Do you guys want to come?"

"Do we!" Zack and Cody replied together.

"I think I just might know someone who knows someone that just might know someone who might be able to get some backstage passes, too." Lilly giggled at her own joke.

"Who?" asked Zack, all serious.

Miley and Lilly looked at Cody.

"He's serious."

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Debbie dropped them off at the front door and left to go home. Our little group walked into the hospital and to the information desk. After receiving directions on how to get to Maggie's room, they set off. When they got to Maggie's room, Miley noticed that Maggie had her Hannah picture on the side table. Zack did too. That's when he did something to make Miley question telling him that she's Hannah.

"Mom! Would you believe that Miley told me she's Hannah Montana?"

Then Zack remembered that there were other people in the room who just might not know here secret.

"Oops!"

"Zack! Maybe there was a reason she didn't tell you until now."

"Well, this time there was no harm done, Zack. Everyone in this room knows." Robbie Ray told him. "But it's really important that you don't do that again."

"Sorry, Miley."

"Well, now that you kids are here, why don't you keep Maggie company while Carey and I take Sara out to eat."

"That sounds like a good idea since Maggie can't eat anything. Is that alright with you Maggie?" Sara asked her daughter.

"That'll be fine, Mom. Miley, the nurse said that there are board games here. Maybe you can go get one?"

"I'm on it." With that Miley went to the nurse's station to get a game. A few minutes later she came back with Monopoly. They had to roll the dice to see who got what token. It was agreed that the game would last for two hours because of the number of players.

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One hour into the game, Miley was out. Maggie followed twenty minutes later. The others moved the board away from the bed so Miley and Maggie could talk.

"Your dad was telling me that you can do the remake of my song." Maggie started.

"That's great! I'll have to talk to him about it when he gets back. Maybe we can have a demo done before you go home."

"That would be awesome."

"How you feeling?"

"Scared."

"Me too."

"What do you do when you're scared?"

"I sing sometimes."

"Would you now?"

Miley got up from the bed and went over to the door to the room and closed it. Then she came back and sat on the bed.

"What do you want to hear?"

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

Miley started out very slow and quiet. Soon, a sadness could be heard in her words. As she sang, the others in the room stopped playing and turned to listen too. The words started to get stronger and faster as Miley moved through the melody. As she approached the ending, the words became quiet, slow and sad again. When she sang the last word, she let it trail out until she had used up the breath she had taken. Maggie, with tears running down her face, watched Miley the whole time. Miley smiled and gently wiped the tears away with her fingertips. Miley could hear Lilly sniffle behind her. The room was totally quiet.

"That was beautiful, bud."

Miley turned to see her dad standing in the entrance way with Carey and Sara. Both the women where crying too.

"Thanks, Daddy."

"Thanks for the song, Miley."

"Your welcome………little sis." Miley smile and hugged Maggie.

"Okay you four, get the game put away and we'll slap the feed bag on you."

"What?" Zack asked.

"They're going to get dinner for us." Lilly told him.

"Good! I'm hungry."

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Everyone was sitting in the limo as they drive to a pizza place. Didn't matter where, just as long as it was pizza.

"So Daddy, when can we get started on the song?"

"Hold up there bud. We have to decide how we want to arrange the music first."

"I want to do something different Daddy. I want it to be a tear jerker."

"Well, I can write the music that way, but it's going to take your voice and feelings to make it that way bud. You think you're up to the challenge?"

"Yeah, I believe I am." I have too for Maggie.

"Mom?"

"What is it, honey?"

"Can I have some paper and a pen? I want to write letters to Miley, Lilly, and Oliver."

"Okay honey." Sara found some paper and gave them and a pen to Maggie.

"Can I ask why you want to write them letters when you just saw them?"

"I want to write just-in-case letters, Mom."

"I understand, honey." Sara smiled with a small amount of sadness.

Sara sat down and watched as her daughter started to write what were obviously goodbye letters to three of the greatest friends her daughter had ever had. She remembered the pure fear that they had gone through when they thought they had lost Maggie in the mall. She also remembered the joy they felt when she and Jim where found by mall security to be informed that three teens had found their daughter and had taken her to the security station. When she and Jim went into the room where their daughter was, they both were surprised that the three teens that had found her had stayed with her until they had shown up. Upon meeting the three teens, she could tell that there was something special about these three.

That was confirmed the next day when Maggie had runaway so she could go to the Hannah Montana concert. Because of a mistake at the hospital, they were going to have to miss the concert. Maggie was afraid she would die before getting another chance to go to another concert. She would have, too. In running away, she had over heated herself. But once again our trio had found her at the beach shack stand that she was sitting at and took her to the hospital. Not just any hospital, but the right hospital at that. Once again our trio stayed with Maggie until she and Jim came to the hospital. Then they went far beyond anything that could be expected and stayed with Maggie until after the televised concert of Hannah Montana was over. Miley had apologized for not being able to stay, but the reason had become perfectly clear the next day.

Sara would always remember that day for as long as she would live. There was one person that Maggie wanted most to meet and it turned out that she already had. She just didn't know it then. But the pure look of surprise, joy, happiness, and love on her daughter's face was burned into Sara's memory forever. That was the day that Maggie found out that Miley Stewart was Hannah Montana. Then Miley changed into Hannah Montana and sang until Maggie had no more songs to request. Miley even gave Maggie a Hannah wig that was too small for her to wear on stage anymore for Maggie to wear when she lost her hair. The list of all the things these three did for Maggie was too long to count now. But it was an underpinning that had helped Maggie make it this far, and hopeful past next week.

"Here, Mom. Can you hold these for me please?"

"Sure. I'll be glad too."

Sara took the letters and put them in her suitcase. Then she sat down by Maggie and held her hand until she went to sleep. Sara fell asleep looking at the picture of Hannah Montana that Maggie took with her everywhere she went.