Chapter 6

Jake and the Letters

"I can't believe Jarren tried to kiss me!" 'AGAIN!' I added in my head. I threw my hands up in the air once I finished telling Lilly the story on what happened yesterday and why I was screaming at that one point.

We were in my room just talking about random things when Lilly asked what happened yesterday and why I was acting weird yesterday.

"Dude, that's so freaky! SCARY BEAUTFUL STRIKES AGAIN!" She said and pointed her index finger up.

"Lilly, I'm serious! Should I get a restraining order or something? He's so "Scary". When he wants something, he has to get it and that's so freaky." I said and used air quotes as I said scary.

"Do whatever that makes you feel better. If I were you, I would've called security the moment Jarren stepped into the room." Lilly started to laugh and walked backwards falling onto my bed. (Thanks for the line mileymontana :P)

"Ugh, I know I should've done that! But Jake was in there! I thought he would be there in my dressing room once I got off stage so that I could change, but Jarren said someone was calling you guys or something?" I looked up trying to remember what Jarren had said the night before, but what he said before he left was haunting me at this moment.

Seeing his facial expression when he said "You're making a big mistake." just got me freaked out. He looked really serious, but I don't know what he's going to do. Is he going to hurt Jake or is he going to do something bad to me? He's just so hard to read.

"That's total bull, he said your dad told him to tell us to meet you outside by where the stage manager was." Lilly started to throw my small flower shaped pillow up in the air.

"I have no respect for him anymore. He's so fake. Ugh we're mean! We're not supposed to be talking behind someone's back like this! Its bad, we're way better than that." I sat on my bed.

"Well, we have a good reason to. By the way, do you have a Hannah thing tonight?" She asked and I turned to look at her.

"No. Not for this week, but I will next week, I think. Hey which reminds me, Monday we have to vote for homecoming court. Damn, I hope no one votes for me, stupid Jarren for even bringing me into this mess."

"Well, we know we have a better chance at winning because of the talent show. Amber and Ashley sucked, and I have no clue on who else is going to be in it."

"Let's just hope that they won't vote for me okay and then I'll be happy."

"I'll vote for you, and why didn't you just drop out? You could've like a long time ago but now you cant because of the voting."

I turned at Lilly and she was occupied with my stress ball. "We could drop out? Why didn't you tell me that like yesterday?"

"I'm sorry! I want you to be in it. You have to be more confident with you as Miley. Sometimes I think your confidence only goes to when you're Hannah. You had so much fun with the talent show, don't let this make your confidence level go down because you think you're not pretty enough or anything like that." She sat up looking at me.

"It's not that I think I'm not pretty enough or I'm more confident when I'm Hannah, I think it's not fair if I win because I already have everything I want unlike other people out there, you know?"

"Just do it for fun. You don't need to be serious with it. This is our last year as middle school students and we should have fun and make good memories, not bad." Lilly gave me a supporting smile and hugged me.

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Monday at school was freaky. I didn't realize that so many students were so excited to find out who was in the homecoming list. We only vote for the people in our year so nothing bad would happen.

"Hey Miley, you excited?" Jake asked once we reached homeroom. Almost everyone was there, even Jarren was there, which is kind of weird since last week, his first week of school, he's been late 4 our of the 5 days.

"Nope, not at all. I don't want anyone to vote for me." I openly admitted hoping people heard me.

"I know me too. Well, just hope no one votes for us because I hear that we actually have to put on a show or whatever like what they do in other schools." Jake said.

"Well, if you weren't off in Romania last year then you would've seen what we usually do. Yeah there's a show, but like it's more like.. You'll see. I can't explain it." I said and the warning bell for homeroom rang.

"Since everyone seems to be in class early, let's get this stupid voting over with." Mr. Grayson said and passed out the slips for us to vote.

I looked at the paper finding Rachel Burns, Ashley Dewitt, Amber Simms, Miley Stewart, Lilly Truscott, and Becca Weller under Princess/Queens and Johnny Collins, Jarren Clarkson, Dandruff Danny, Donny Hoyt, Jake Ryan, and Oliver Oken under Prince/King.

'Wow, we have serious competition. The four Queen B's of the school against us. I can't believe Becca and Rachel are in it.' I turned and to see who Lilly was voting for. She obviously voted for herself and Oliver. 'Typical, I guess it wouldn't hurt to vote for myself.' I said and check marked the box next to my name and Jakes name.

As we passed up the papers after we voted and Mr. Grayson put them in a yellow envelope.

"Before you leave, the student government will be tallying them up today and tomorrow so that on Wednesday they will announce who's on court. Good Luck to Mr. Oken, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Clarkson, Ms. Truscott, Ms. Stewart, Ms. Dewitt, and Ms. Simms." Mr. Grayson said before letting us go.

I headed toward my locker and Jake followed me. The hallway was clear making it obvious that we were late to class.

"Miley, did you see who Jarren voted for?" Jake asked as I opened my locker.

"Nope, did you?" I opened it and a letter fell on the ground.

"Yeah, he voted for you and himself. I thought he would vote for one of his fans, but he voted for you." He said and bent down to pick up the letter. "What is this?"

"Wait Jake don't look at that!" He started to open the letter up and I tried to get it back from him, but he put it up high from my reach.

He started to read it and his jaw dropped.

"Jake, give it to me. What does it say?" I asked feeling a little nervous on what he was about to say.

"How long has this person known?" He turned pale.

I sighed and looked down. I guess I should tell him about it now. "Ever since he saw us kiss on stage when I took off my wig." I said in a small voice.

"Did he send you anything else other than this letter?" He asked.

I reached in my locker and found the first letter he sent me. I gave it to Jake and reached in my bag searching for the other letter. Once I found it, I also gave it to Jake. He read both letters and crumpled them with one hand.

"He's blackmailing you."

I finally looked up at him and his face was read. You could clearly see that he was angered by it.

"Wait, he didn't say what he was going to do yet. Yeah he's going to blackmail me, but I don't know what he's going to blackmail me with."

"He's going to make you visit him next Friday or he'll tell the world about your secret. Miley, we have to report this!" Jake said putting his hand on my shoulder.

"No Jake, it's too risky. I could expose my secret just by telling a teacher or the principal and they might be the ones telling the whole world who I am." I said my bottom lip started to quiver.

"I don't care anymore, this is a serious issue we have here. You should've told me about this right when it happened!"

"Jake calm down." I felt a stingy sensation in my eyes, I was about to cry.

"I'm sorry Miley, but we have to do something about it." Jake wrapped his arms around me.

"Yeah I know. I don't want to tell anyone yet, but I think we should see who it is before we do anything." I said in his chest.

"Dammit Miley, I shouldn't be agreeing with this, but whatever happens, happens and I'll go with you if you do end up meeting that freak who could be a pedophile that obsesses over teen singers like you." He whispered and stroked my hair.

"I know, and I might as well tell the whole world what happens than meet that weirdo." I replied and looked up into Jakes eyes. He looked worried, but he curved his lips upward forming a small smile. I gave him a quick peck on the lips before letting him go so we could go to our classes.

A/N I'm not really happy with this chapter because I had writers block XD and I was just writing anything that came to mind. Yeah. Well you'll probably find out who it is in the next few chapters. I'll still leave hints. I think I left a huge hint on who it might be in this chapter.

I totally agree with all of you when you say that Jarren is a total ass. He pisses me off big time too LOL.

mileymontana: I would do that too lol, and hey I used what you wrote in the review in this chapter if you don't mind lol.

try-to-sing-with-a-smile: Well, Jackson and Leah were… doing something really bad in the hot tub, think about it. What is worse than making out? And you have to wait and see if he finds out or not :P