Chapter 13

So Close

I woke up at around 5 in the morning when I felt something wrap around my waist. I squinted down seeing a body moving next to me. 'What?' I asked myself and sat up to turn on the lamp beside me.

I rubbed my eyes so that the blurriness would go away and saw Jake Ryan sound asleep. Then it all came back to me. 'He came over and I told him what happened and then we kissed and then… after that it was just a blur.' I lifted up my blanket just incase and saw that I was still fully clothed. 'Thank God!' I said and put my hands on my chest breathing in and out deeply.

"Jake." I whispered and shook him a little.

"Wait, five more minutes mom." Jake said with his words slurred and turned around with his back facing me.

'Hmm…' I said and got out of bed. I walked around the bed and kneeled down next to him. My face was just inches apart from him and I studied his face. 'He looks so peaceful, like he's never slept like this in forever.' I pushed back a few strands behind my ears and leaned in for a kiss.

I felt him jump a little and lean more into this kiss. I pulled back and saw him smile.

"Morning." he said.

"Morning. Now you have to get out of here before my dad wakes up." I stood up and pulled him up from my bed.

"But…" Jake started looking confused. He faced me and started to show me the puppy dog pout.

'Aww! No Miley, snap out of it you're not going to fall for this!' I thought to myself and shook my head. "When you were going to leave last night you said your parents were going to be worried aren't they worried now like so close to sending out a search team?" I took a deep breath and then I said. "Then we made out a few times and we fell asleep, which was a total accident. If you don't get out now and my dad comes by seeing you sleeping here, my ass is going to be kicked and my dad and brother might murder you so leave." I pushed Jake toward the window.

"Fine, I'll see you later in school then." Jake said and smiled at me before going out of the window. I closed the window and watched him run across the driveway and on to the side walk.

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When I walked into school, I found a few people gathering up at the bulletin board. I guess they were promoting for the dance because there was a poster of Hannah Montana on the board saying that she'll sing a few songs.

I smiled at how so many people took the forms from the table next to the board and hearing many people saying that they were excited.

I walked away and headed for Mr. Grayson's class finding Jake there with his guitar case and him looking through a few papers.

"Hey Jakey." I sat down next to him trying to look at what he was reading.

"Hi Miley, don t look." he said instantly and pulled away the papers from my sight.

"What is that?" I asked and he started to blush.

"Just a song I wrote. Maybe I'll sing it at the dance, I have to ask Ms. Allen if she'll approve." He said.

"Hey Jake, Hey Miley." We both turned our heads looking at the people who just said our names.

"Lilly, Oliver what's wrong with you?" I asked as they came inside dancing. Oliver winded Lilly and then swung her out sending her twirling out until she almost fell over my legs, which Jake and I caught her.

"Sorry, we were trying to perfect our spins." Lilly said as Oliver helped her up from our arms.

"You will never get it." Jake said as he held in her laugh.

"We will too." Oliver said whining like a girl.

I was about to laugh when something caught my eye by the door. I turned to the door and it looked like someone was watching us. I stood up and walked toward the door, but as I did this Jarren walked in.

I bumped into him and he blushed madly. "Sorry Miley." He kept his head down and walked to the other side of the room and sat down at the desk there.

"What's his problem?" I asked myself and remembered what David said the day before about him maybe crushing on me. 'Ohh… maybe that's it.' I stuck my tongue out and turned around with Jake, Oliver, and Lilly's eyes on me.

"What?" I asked and laughed as I sat down.

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After school Jake left early to go talk to Ma. Allen about the song he's going to sing for me so Lilly, Oliver, and I just walked around. We have about 5 minutes until we had to actually go to the meeting.

"I'm bored, can we just go already?" Oliver asked and Lilly slapped him across the shoulder. Not yet hello, Miley shouldn't hear Jake's song, she should be surprised." Lilly said as we walked down the hallway toward the gym.

"Well, we're already going there so why not just go. I mean I will still be surprised I just want to sit down, my legs are killing me." I lied. I want to hear Jake's song that he wants to sing to me.

"Fine, I guess." Lilly said and look down, I know she doesn't want to hear the song because I over heard Jake tell Lilly to keep me away from the gym until 3:00 and it was 2:55 right now.

Nearing the gym we could hear his guitar and him singing. I stopped dead in my tracks to hear what he was saying.

"Where are you?
I've going to look all over the world baby
'Cuz I know you are out there
I know this might sound crazy,
But I think I love you
Where are you?"

"Aww!" Lilly and I said once he stopped playing and singing to his song.

I was grinning from ear to ear. 'That was so cute! I can't wait to hear the whole song!' I said to myself and started jumping like a maniac.

"Oh my gosh Miley, calm down it's just a song." Oliver said sounding a little jealous. I guess it was the fact that even Lilly loved what she heard and she was grinning as well.

"Aww is someone jealous?" I hear myself say and found Oliver's face turning red.

"No I'm not." Oliver crossed his arms over his chest and headed toward the entrance of the gym.

"Aww! I'm sorry Oliver, I loved it yeah, don't worry you'll always be better than him." Lilly said and kissed Oliver on the cheek.

'Weird, they're always so lovey dovey ever since they won the spots' I shook my head and opened the doors to the gym.

Seeing Jake sitting on the bench holding his guitar, He looked a little sad, but once he saw me, he smiled, you could tell it was a forced smile though.

"What's wrong Jake?" I asked and sat next to him on the bench.

"What are you talking about? Nothing is wrong." He laughed and put his guitar next to him and turned his body to him.

"Jake, I can tell something is wrong, you don't need to fake it." I said and he frowned.

"Okay, I can never lie to you." he took in a deep breath and said. "Ms. Allen said that my song was too sappy so I can't sing it to you on Friday. Oh well, I have another song anyways."

"That sucks. Ohh well, I can't wait to hear that song." I smiled at him and Ms. Allen came inside once again.

"Sorry Jake, but I looked over the other song and I really like the second one, but wouldn't your girlfriend be jealous of you for singing this song?" she asked and gave Jake a piece of paper I'm guessing was the lyrics of the song he will be singing on Friday.

"Nah, I think she'll be happy to hear it." he said and put the papers in his bag which was behind him.

"Okay, well anyway, lets get this rehearsal over with!" Ms. Allen said and walked over to the stereo which was on a table next to Jake and turned it on.

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After rehearsals for the homecoming thing, I had to go to rehearsals for the thing on Friday with me singing as Hannah. My dad picked me up with the limo in front of school and everyone except Jake, Oliver, and Lilly were shocked seeing me being picked up with this kind of ride.

Once we got to the studio, I had my wig on of course and I walked in with my band there.

"Hey Hannah!" Everyone said even the people working the sound systems.

"Hey ya'll, now come on and lets get this over with. I have some plans to do tonight." I said and soon we started to get things over with.

I was only performing 3 of my songs and 2 other songs that were requested from Ms. Allen. Oh what fun memorizing more crap.

About 3 hours later we were on our way back home. I remember I told Jake that I was going to tell my dad about this issue today. Sitting in the limo and fumbling with my cell phone, I looked over at my dad nervously.

"D-Dad." I started, but I couldn't get myself to say it.

"Yeah bud?" He asked and put his arm around my shoulders.

"W-well… uhh…" I wiped my forehead with the back of my hand and bit the inside of my cheek.

"What is it?" he asked once again and I looked up at him. He had this concern look in his eyes.

"Uhh… I just wanted to say that…" I wiped my nose seeing tiny spots of sweat on it.

"Yes?" He asked once again and I hesitated for a second.

"I just wanted to say that in school… there's this person that's been sending…" my head started to throb. I hate this right now and I'm scared of what he would say so I said. "…Lilly boxes of chocolate which is getting Oliver worried that she would break up with him. What should he do?" I let out a small giggle. I only laugh like that when I lie and I hope that he didn't notice it.

"Well, just tell him that nothing bad will happen and Lilly isn't mean and would leave him for some stranger. Don't worry bud, your friends will work this out."

"Thanks dad." I said and felt mad at myself for lying to my dad. 'Damn, I can't say it. I'm so close to telling him yet I'm scared… I'll just tell him another time I guess.' I frowned and just felt so let down and we finally reached the house.

A/N: Okay, well got all projects done and I'm so happy haha. Hope you liked this chapter. Well thank you for reviewing and reading and all that... I only picked the song "Where Are You" because the title of this fic reminds me of the song lol... anyways hope you liked it :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Hannah Montana, the characters, or the lyrics to Where are you.