Chapter 2

At the Party

"Hey Hannah" Traci hugged me as I entered the party room. "Thank you for coming to my party!"

"Happy Birthday Traci!" I handed her the present smiled at her. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

"Well get comfortable. Snacks are over there with drinks and what not and get ready to mingle EL OH EL." Traci laughed and left me to greet other people coming to her party.

I looked around for dad and saw him talking to Traci's parents in a really deep conversation. I walked around for about an hour greeting and talking to people. I was getting tired of walking so I decided to go to the snack table and get something to nibble on. Meeting over a hundred people can get boring, I admit, but that's how the famous life is and I sometimes hate being apart of it.

I filled my plate of food and started to eat as I leaned against the table staring at the people eating and dancing. It was quite boring since I wasn't really close with Traci's friends and other famous people around here.

Then I heard someone call out for my name so I turned around seeing that it was Jake Ryan. He was walking toward me with a big smile pasted on his face. 'Oh great' I sighed and put down my snacks and forced a smile on my face "Hi Jake!"

"Hi Hannah! Isn't this party fun?" He smiled at me and I felt myself melt.

Oh how I love his smile, yet everything he does just hurts me bit by bit knowing that he has a girlfriend. I mean, I only knew because he went to the same school as me, but he didn't need to know that little detail.

"Word on the street is that you got yourself a girlfriend" I tried so hard not to crack my voice.

"Yeah…. She's great. Her name is Rachel" He sort of frowned saying her name.

"That's cool. What about that other girl… Umm… The one with the very unusual name… uhhh" I said trying to figure out my own name.

"Who Miley?" He questioned and I nodded "She has been really cool" He smiled this time and sighed dreamily.

"Really? That's good to know. I guess you've gotten over Miley since you know, you're dating Rachel." We started to walk outside into the backyard and continued on talking.

"Not really. To tell you the truth, I really so still like Miley it's just that… well… she doesn't like me. I thought maybe I'd forget about her, but I was wrong. It's so hard to be with Rachel because all I could do was think about Miley." He said completely frowning. Jake sat down on a bench we found around back which was hidden behind a bush.

I could feel my heart jolt wit excitement, yet feeling sad for Jake. "Maybe you can ask her out, only as a friend that is. Maybe she does actually like you, but she's just hiding it."

"Yeah Maybe, but there's still Rachel. She's with me practically every day."

I sat down next to him "Just do whatever your heart tells you to." I smiled sweetly at him hoping that I helped him out. For some reason, I know I'm being selfish, but I hoped his heart told him to dump Rachel and date me.

He grasped on my hand and smiled back at me. "Thanks for the advice. You're such a good friend."

"Anything to drink" Asked a waiter as he came up to us, totally interrupting out conversation.

I pulled my hand away from Jake and shyly looked at the waiter. "No, thank you."

"I'm good" Jake replied and the waiter left finally left us alone.

Jake finally broke the silence and started to talk once again. "What about you Ms. Montana?" He stared directly into my eyes and felt my cheeks burn up.

"What about me?" I asked and looked away from his gaze.

"Got any boy issues? Anything?"

I looked down into my lap "No…" he chuckled and I looked up to him. "Why are you laughing?"

"Seems like you do, now spill" He had his boyish grin on and I shook my head.

"Well… I don't know… I'll tell you another time." I said smirking a bit.

"Okay well I'm here for you whenever you need me."

"Right…" I looked at the time "Oh crap it's 11:30!" I was shocked at how late it was. It just felt like it was, like, 9 a few minutes ago. Where did the time go?

"Dammit" He swore under his breath "I have school tomorrow and a project due, which I

haven't even started." He rubbed his palms against his eyes and grumbled.

"I know! Mr. Preckle always stacks loads of homework in one day." I forgot I was Hannah "I.. I.. mean my.. my friend told me" I stuttered.

"Ohh yeah.. I better be off then" He said and stood up.

"Yeah me too." I stood up as well and started walking when I tripped. I put my hands forward and shut my eyes trying to make my fall less hard when I felt arms catch my fall.

I opened my eyes to see Jake holding me. I put my hands on his shoulders to steady myself up. his arms were around my waist now and our faces just inches apart.

"Jake." I whispered lightly staring straight into his eyes slightly blushing. My stomach fluttered with butterflies and my heart beating quickly. He inched his face closer bring his lips closer to me. He shut his eyes and lightly pressed his lips against mine and I felt myself go weak.

I swore I could've died in his arms right there, but gladly I didn't. I felt myself relax a little bit and started to shut my eyes when I saw a flash come from the corner of my eye.

We sprang apart quickly and looked around the area seeing no one at all. I just hoped that it wasn't from what I think it is.