Chapter 13
Lilly was surprised how quickly the final month of school went and she was more surprised by how chocked up the thought of leaving made her. She wanted to go and she was so excited about touring with Oliver but she was shocked when she realised how much she was going to miss East Northumberland High. So much had happened at that school both good and bad and never going there again would be such a major difference to her life.
Still, she thought as she packed the final of her stuff into a suitcase, she was going with the guy she loved, travelling for music. It was going to be fantastic, it would be worth it. She picked up her suitcase, and carried it downstairs to put with the rest of her stuff.
"Ready for this?" her Mom asked as she reached the bottom of the stairs.
Lilly smiled, "Definitely."
Her Mom pulled her into a hug, "Make sure you call me regularly and let me know how it's going."
"I will, Mom, I promise."
"I'm going to miss you, Lil" her Mom told her.
"I'll miss you too," Lilly admitted.
Miley arrived a few minutes later ready to see Lilly off, "I can't believe you're going." She said, tears lining her eyes, "Dang it, I promised myself I wouldn't cry."
"You better not!" Lilly told her, "Or you'll start me off."
"Don't lose touch." Miley said.
"As if I could" Lilly told her, "I'm gonna be texting you so often you'll be fed up of me."
"I'll hold you to that." Miley told her.
A horn beep outside causing all three of them to jump.
"Oliver's here!" Lilly announced, jumping up and down excitedly before stopping suddenly, "oh, my god this is really happening, like, right now."
"Don't go getting nervous now, Lilly," Miley told her, "You just go out there and show the world how great you are."
"The world?" Lilly laughed slightly, "We're touring the state."
"First stop Cali, next stop the world." Miley told her, "That's how it'll go."
"We'll see."
"It will, trust me on this."
Oliver opened the door and came him, "Your chariot waits." He announced, grinning at Lilly.
Lilly laughed, and her Mom started to carry her stuff onto the tour bus for her. Miley pulled both Oliver and Lilly into a hug, "Now remember, I want to hear about every new song, everything bit of drama than happened, I swear I want to know everything." She looked between the two seriously, "Everything. And if I find out something happened which I didn't know about I'm not going to be happy."
"Yes, Ma'am." Oliver agreed.
"I'm gonna miss you guys," Miley told them, "School's not going to be the same without you, you know that?"
Oliver smiled smugly, "Of course we know, it's going to be a boring hell without us to make your day interesting."
Miley rolled her eyes, "Yeah, pretty much." She laughed. She pulled out of the hug, "Anyway you two should get off, don't want you missing your bus."
Lilly and Oliver smiled before heading towards the bus.
"Oh and guys, when my next televised concert is on? Do me a favour and watch it?" Miley added, causing both to turn around and look at her questioningly but she didn't say anything more about it. "And make sure you have fun."
OG
Oliver and Lilly did as Miley asked and watched Hannah Montana's next televised concert, and through the first set of songs they couldn't understand why she'd told them to. Then she introduced the final song:
"I've got a new song for y'all tonight," she told the audience and the world, "I wrote it about something that happened recently and what I learnt from it. And I want to dedicate it to my friend Lola and Mike, they couldn't be here with me tonight, but I know wherever they are they'll understand it. It's called Ordinary Girl."
Lilly and Oliver exchanged a quick glance before turning back to the screen to listen and watch Miley:
Uhoo oh yeah,
La da a da
Don't get me wrong,
I love who I am
I don't wanna be ungrateful
It probably sounds strange
I really love the role I play
The songs I sing
But with all the fame
The things that seem so simple,
suddenly, so far out of reach
Wish that they could see that underneath...
I'm just an ordinary girl!
Lilly couldn't help but smile at the lyrics, Miley was right they did get it, how could they not. It explained so well how out of touch Miley had got but how she was still Miley.
Sometimes I'm lazy
I get bored
I get scared
I feel ignored
I feel happy, I get silly
I choke on my own words
I make wishes, I have Dreams
And I still want to believe
Anything can happen in this world,
For an ordinary girl
(Like you, Like me)
For an ordinary girl
(Like you, Like me)
On stage, Miley knew that outside of her family, Lilly and Oliver would probably be the only people who would even begin to understand the meaning behind this song. She knew most people would assume that everything was great for a famous teenager. But that was ok because Lilly and Oliver understood.
How are you?
Hello, Good-bye
One day here, One day there
And again it's time to go
Miss popular always on the road
Put my best foot forward
Gotta get on with the show
Strike a pose for the front cover of a magazine
Everywhere I arrive, I get high-5's
They paint me larger than life
(Yeaheaaaa)
I'm just an ordinary girl
She had never thought about being famous as being a bad thing until the secret came out at home. She still didn't see it completely as a bad thing, she still loved her life, but she wanted to express how it wasn't always as fantastic as it seemed.
Sometimes I'm lazy
I get bored
I get scared
I feel ignored (Yeah)
I feel happy, I get silly
I choke on my own words
I make wishes, I have Dreams
And I still want to believe
Anything can happen in this world,
For an ordinary girl
She thought it was quite ironic how most people dreamt of being famous but she dreamt of being seen as the ordinary girl she was singing about.
So give it everything or nothin' at all
Get back on your feet when
You stumble and fall
A little luck can go a long way
So don't you worry about what people say
Who knows when the wind may blow
For an ordinary girl..(Mmmm)
I'm just an ordinary girl
She'd thought about Lilly when she wrote about luck, she knew she was so lucky to have a friend like her, she was so lucky to have the life she had, she was so lucky with everything. And she wanted to get the message out to her fans, even if, like most people at her school, they weren't actually listening to her lyrics, that it didn't matter what people thought it was just about being yourself.
Sometimes I'm lazy
I get bored
I get scared
I feel ignored
I feel happy, I get silly
I choke on my own words
I make wishes, I have Dreams
And I still want to believe
Anything can happen in this world,
For an ordinary girl
(Like you, Like me)
(Yeah)
For an ordinary girl
(Like you, Like me)
For an ordinary girl
(Mmmmm)
For an ordinary girl
Like me, like you...
Lilly couldn't keep the smile off her face by the time Miley came to the end of her song. She knew now without any doubt what she was almost sure of before; Miley was still the same Miley. Everything was still going to be exactly the same. She had her best friend back.
The End
A/N: Thank you to everyone who's read and reviewed especially those who have stuck with me since I started Homecoming Queen.
