Chapter 12

Should I Tell Someone?

Early Monday morning I walked into Mr. Grayson's class and no one was in there except Mr. Grayson himself.

"Hey Mr. Grayson, did Jake, Lilly, or Oliver come by yet?" I asked and sat down on my desk.

He looked up and smiled and I smiled back. He stood up and walked over to me. "No, they didn't come yet. You're quite early, do you have a reason for coming so early?" He asks. His had a glint in his eyes like he wanted to ask me something, but he didn't.

'Strange. He never talked to me like this before.' I shrugged it off and said "Umm, my dad couldn't give me a ride and I didn't feel like walking here so I had to ride with my brother and my brother loves to go to school early." I laughed, yeah right, I forced Jackson to bring me to school early.

"Okay." He eyed me up and down and his smile widened. "Did you forget this week is spirit week?" He asked and tilted his head at me leaning on the table beside me.

"That was today? Oh my gosh, I forgot!" I covered my mouth and looked at the board seeing that today was PJ day.

"Don't worry about it, just don't forget about it tomorrow." He laughed and stood up. "Well I'm going out for a second, so watch my class okay? And I'm happy that you're the queen. I think you deserved it." He put his hand on my shoulder and squeezed it right before leaving.

"That was awkward." I rolled my eyes and pulled my bag on my desk. I looked inside of it trying to find the letter that Jake found in my locker on Friday. I still hadn't looked at it since I was busy this weekend with the mall and rehearsal for the dance.

I finally found it buried under papers at the bottom of my bag. I pulled it out putting it on my desk and smoothen it out. I unfolded it and looked at it before reading it. This time the guy wrote it out instead f his usual typing. I silently read it to myself.

'Congratulations on winning the spot as Queen.'

"He knew I won as Queen?" I said to myself and continued on reading.

'You are definitely my queen. I can't wait for Friday when I can see you all dressed up and dancing. It's too bad that you have to dance with that Jake Ryan. I despise him, he is really lucky to have you. You're such a beautiful little girl and I can't wait to have you all to myself on Friday. Now, what I want you to do. After you perform as Hannah, I want you to meet me once you have your break. We can meet behind your school gym and it doesn't matter if you dress as Hannah or as yourself, just make sure that you meet me or I'll tell everyone your secret, you understand me? And don't forget, you're letting me do anything, ANYTHING to you even if it's only for 5 minutes. Until Friday my love.'

"… and he knows that I'm performing… What the hell does he want from me? I can't take it anymore, I should just fricken call the police or something…" I covered my face with my hands. What a way to start off the week. Friday is the freaking dance and I already forgot this week was spirit week.

"Miiiiiilllleeeeyyyyy…" a voice called my name in the hallway.

I was this close to tears when I turned around finding Lilly skipping into the class room wearing her PJ's. Once she saw me, she stopped in her tracks. I guess she could tell that I was about to cry, and soon I felt the tears trickling down my cheeks.

"Miley, what's wrong?" She rushed over and wrapped her arms around me.

I felt around my desk for the letter and passed it to her. She lay a hand on my head as she took the letter with her other hand.

I silently cried into her chest as she read it. Hearing her gasp, I looked up at her and seeing that she was shocked.

"Miley! Please can you just do something about it? I'm scared for you, I don't want this freak to hurt you." she put the paper down and looked at me.

"I know Lilly, I want to tell someone, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to live the normal life if I told someone." I looked down slouching lacing my hands together on my lap.

"Think of this, what is more important, being safe by telling someone, or going through this and getting hurt or raped. He wants to do something to you Miley, I just don't want to see you get hurt." she said and sat down on the table next to me.

"I know Lilly, and I know what you want me to say. I know I should tell the police or my dad, but if I my dad, he'll tell the police. If I tell the police, they'll tell the whole world who I am. This is such a good secret, but who ever I tell may tell someone and I don't want to end it like this yet." I said and placed my head down on the desk.

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After school and the meeting I walked to home alone. I couldn't talk to Jake the whole day. He didn't come in because he had a photo shoot and a filming for one of his episodes for Zombie High.

I entered my house and found David in there cooking with my dad. They were singing to one of my dad's old songs back when my dad was famous.

"Hey Miley, welcome home." David said as I walked in the house.

"School is going good I guess." I replied and sat down on the counter tables.

"I hope Jarren isn't causing much trouble for you and your friends." He said as he sprinkled some salt on the pan of food he was cooking.

"No, not at all." I lied. 'Jarren, also known as Scary Beautiful, is the reason why there are so much problems between Jake and I.' I said to myself and tapped my fingers on the countertop.

"Hey Miles, do you have a partner for your homecoming? Maybe you can take Jarren as your date." My dad suggested.

"That would be a superb idea. Please Miley, take him." David said and nodded his head.

"Sorry, Jake is taking me because he's my partner for homecoming court." I replied and stood up.

"Aw, shucks." David snapped his fingers.

The phone started to ring and my dad wiped his hands on his apron and walked into his office to answer it.

"So Miley, do you have any interest in my son?" David said and walked next to me putting his arm around my shoulders squeezing my arm.

"Uhh… No, sorry. I kind of got my eye on someone else." I forced myself to smile. This is weird.

"Ohh that would break his heart, I think he likes you, maybe you could give him a chance you know?" David said and tightened his hand against my shoulder.

"I don't know, I'll think about it." I winced in pain, he was hurting me. "Well I'm going upstairs to do my homework, I'll see you later." I said and shook my arm my way away from him headed upstairs.

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It was about 11 at night when I heard someone knocking on my window. I walked over to it and slightly opened it seeing Jake hanging from the side of the window sill.

"Miley, let me in." Jake said and I fully opened it up.

"What are you doing in here?" I asked as he entered. I hugged myself feeling kind of naked wearing this top and shorts.

"I wanted to talk to you, I was so busy, so I came here right after work. I knew your dad would be mad at me for visiting this late and I wanted to see you before I go to sleep." he said as he shut my window.

'Aww, he wanted to see me.' I grinned as he said that. He can be really sweet at times.

He turned around and his eyes widened as he saw me. "Is that what you wore today for PJ day?"

"No, I forgot today was pajama day and I wouldn't wear something this revealing to school." I gave him a weird face and walked backwards until hitting my bed.

He chuckled and walked forward until he was right in front of me. "For some reason something told me that you were feeling troubled, but you don't seem like it right now." put his hand on my cheek.

I looked up at him and frowned. "Yeah, something is getting me worried. I read the letter you found in my locker and it made me break down in front of Lilly."

"What did it say?" He asked with a more serious voice this time.

"It said that he couldn't wait to spend time with me and I have to do whatever he wants to do to me. I have to meet him after my first break when I sing as Hannah at the dance." I said in a small voice.

He was quiet for a few seconds and I saw his facial expressions. You could see that he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it.

"Jake…" I said and held his hand.

"I don't know what to say. I want to report this and yet you don't want your secret to be exposed. You're going through a lot right now, and when you're ready, tell someone before it actually happens." he said. "I know you're not ready to tell anyone your secret, but sooner or later you'll have to tell someone."

'Wow, I can't believe he's holding back just because of me.' I said to myself and lifted my hand up until it reached the collar of his shirt. I pulled him down and kissed him.

As I kissed him and thought about it. I pulled back and said "Thanks Jake, you're always so supportive. Maybe I'll tell my dad tomorrow."

"Okay, just do it when you're ready, but I better go now, my parents are probably worried for me." He said, but I pulled him down into another kiss. He put his hand on my back and leaned forward until I lay on my back.

A/N Hope you liked it lol… will Miley get to tell her dad about it? Oh and if you guys think you know who it is, keep it to yourself lol.

try-to-sing-with-a-smile: Hey, well I'm almost done with my sequel with "PO" and yeah lol… I know I said I was going to put it up last week, but I'll try put it up this week. I'm still not sure if I should put the story line like that.