THE ROUGH DIAMOND
- Breakout
"But Miley, you always have a plan!" Lilly stood in front of me, not letting me pass.
"Not this time, I don't." I replied while trying to dodge past her. "Lilly, can you move? We have to go. We're gonna be late!"
"Fine." She moved out of the way and we headed out the door. "But we have to think of something. We always think of something!"
We trudged to school, unenthusiastically. "No, Lilly. I was late to school, I got detention. I have to go to it, even if it means missing out on my CD signing."
"But you already missed out on recording your songs! Come on Miley!" She pleaded. "What if Jesse McCartney was there? That means he could be at the CD signing too! But if you never go then you'll never have a chance at going out with him."
She stopped walking; giving me the puppy dog look and I rolled my eyes. "Lilly, I live two lives. These things are unavoidable."
"But Lola- and celebrities, and Jesse McCartney!" She looked at me, pleading.
I looked at her, confused. What is she talking about?
"Miley, there's gonna be tons of other celebrities there and Lola needs her celebrities!"
"Okay, are you trying to get me out of detention for me, or for you?"
"You…?"
I groaned. Of course that was what it was. How did that girl ever manage before she knew I was Hannah Montana?
"Okay, look at it this way. Your choices are going to detention. Sitting by yourself with no one to talk to, writing some boring essay about why you're there while Ms. Kunkle stares you down and yells at you. For an hour! Or, you could be at your CD signing having loads of fun with your best friend and a bunch of hot celebrities. One of them could be Jesse McCartney! And a bunch of fans making a huge deal of you and clients giving you a ton of really expensive stuff for free. Like shoes!" She lectured me, trying to do the whole inspirational speech.
And maybe it was working. I can't believe I'm giving in so easily, but Miss Lola Luftnagle was right. I got detention for no reason and I shouldn't have to spend an hour of my time with Ms. Kunkle! I should be doing something important. And I have to think about my fans as well.
"You're right Lilly." I told her, and looked over at her. "Lilly?"
"Cute shoes. Such cute, cute shoes!" She stared off into space.
"LILLY!"
"Yes?"
"It's time to come up with a plan for 'Operation Get Me Out Of Detention!'"
"YES!"
The bell went for the end of last period and the rest of the class sprinted out of the classroom as fast as we could. Although, I couldn't be happier that geography was over - it is worse that biology! - I still had to go to detention.
"So Miley, how come Mike Standley III isn't invited tonight?" Oliver questioned me as us and Lilly walked out of the classroom.
"C'mon Oliver, you're worse than Lilly!"
"HEY!" Lilly and Oliver both yelled in unison.
"Hey, just telling the truth here."
"Yeah, but Lilly always gets to go and you never invite me! Couldn't I for once be chosen first?"
"Yeah, expect I'm Miley's best friend, meaning I get first preference!" Lilly responded.
Not another one of their arguments! I didn't bother paying any attention to them. It was always the same thing:
Lilly: I'm her best friend! I get to go! And you are way worse around celebrities than me!
Oliver: I'm one of her best friends too, not just you! Oh, really? Then how come the last party you guys went to, there was a photo of jumping on top of Joe Jonas in the newspaper!"
Lilly: Yeah, well I'm best friends with Hannah Montana, didn't you know? Here's a photo of THE TWO OF US in A VERY EXCLUSIVE ROOM hanging out. Oh, so you want to go on a date with me? I'll have to check my schedule! Sure, I can fit you in! You only go to pick up chicks and get higher up on Amber and Ashley's "Cool List"!
Oliver: You're just jealous that I'm not dead last on the list! Yeah, well at least I don't stalk celebrities, with ice-cream all over my face and follow them into the bathroom! Because of you, Hannah isn't going to end up with any friends! I deserve to go!
Lilly: No I deserve to go!
Anyway, you get the picture.
"Soon neither of you will be able to come if you both don't show up!" I yelled at them and they both went dead silent straight away. "Oliver, you can come. I don't care. Well that's if we can pull this thing off!"
I slumped down in my very uncomfortable, wooden chair. I looked at Ms. Kunkle, sitting up the front. She was sitting on a big chair with lots of padding. Why is this school so cheap that they can't be nice chairs for the students as well? Anyway, that was the least of my problems. She had her eyes locked onto mine. This is going to be frigging hard to pull off! If we manage to do this, we're going to be legends!
Lilly was right. Ms. Kunkle handed me a sheet of lined paper and a blunt pencil. "500 words on why you are given detention, why you deserve and how you will make sure it doesn't happen again."
"Hmm, kay." I replied with a groan, picked up the pencil and started writing.
I was in the middle of writing a bunch of crap of why I should be in detention when I heard an announcement over the PA system.
"Karen Kunkle, could you please report to the main office. Karen Kunkle, report to the main office. Thank you."
She walked to the door, when she stopped and glared at me, and continued walking, locking the door on her way out.
Just a few minutes later there was a knock on the door. I grinned and ran over to the door, unlocking it and letting Lilly in.
"Hey! So Part One, complete?" She nodded and a huge grin spread across her face. "By the way, where is Oliver?"
"He's talking to Ms. Kunkle on the phone. Pretending to be another one of the staff members about some emergency bio thing in the staffroom. He said that Mr. Cleary would take over detention."
I high-fived Lilly. "You are awesome! Now all we have to do is wait for Oliver."
We heard footsteps come down the corridor. "Oliver, yes! Now time for Lola Luftnagle to meet some celebrities!"
Lilly was about to run over to him when I grabbed her. "I don't think that's Oliver." I heard a click of a heel.
"Lilly, hide, quick!" I ran back into the classroom and sat down in my seat, pretending to be writing.
Ms. Kunkle walked in, looking at me suspiciously. "Didn't I lock this door before?"
"Uhh… I don't know. I wasn't paying attention. Too busy, really getting into this essay! Weew!" I tried not making eye contact with her.
I saw Lilly's head looking through at me through the window, worriedly.
How am I going to get out of this one?
Maybe she'll just leave. She might just assume that Mr. Cleary will be here soon.
Do you really think that? It's Ms. Kunkle!
We had one of our telepathic conversations.
"Mr. Cleary will be here soon to take over. I have to work on some things for biology with Mrs. Reid."
"So, I guess you'll just leave now? I'm sure Mr. Cleary will be here in a minute."
"Yes, I'm sure he will. That's why I'll be waiting for him to get here first." Shit!
I looked back at Lilly. Oliver was with her now. Help me! She's not going to leave until Mr. Cleary gets here!
I watched the two of them as they glanced at each other and Oliver ran off. What is this crazy thing they have come up with? I thought anxiously.
About 10 minutes later, Mr. Cleary walked in and I heard Ms. Kunkle whisper under her breath 'Thank god!' Obviously, she really didn't want to be here either.
"So, I was told that you needed some work to look-"
"Yes, yes. Thank you. This is great. Bye!" Ms. Kunkle said hurriedly and walked out hastily, barely staying to finish her sentence.
A confused Mr. Cleary stood there, talking to himself. Now the hard bit is over, I can easily get out now! Mr. Cleary is the biggest idiot. He'll believe anything. How he became a teacher, beats me!
"Hi, so I'm going to leave. Detention's just finished. So, bye!" I scurried out before he could answer back.
"Bye?"
Ms. Kunkle is going to get to Mrs. Reid and there is going to be a hell of a lot confusion going on, but that, I will deal with next week. Now, off to the CD signing!
The three of us made it just in time to the signing, even with us changing in the car. Lilly readjusted my wig for me and we walked inside. Everyone else was already there. Including dad, Roxy and "Celebrities!" Oliver and Lilly yelled.
Oh god! This is going to be one embarrassing day!
Jake Ryan, UGHH! Mikayla, DOUBLE UGHH! And the Jonas Brothers Nick! Hottie! Were there. No Jesse, though.
We started the CD signing, and all six of us were giving out autographs to our fans.
To Rhiannon, Best of luck! Love, Hannah Montana xoxo I wrote on one of my CDs to the last fan and afterwards we got to mingle with everyone. I managed to stay away from Mikayla as much as possible and she seemed to be doing the same thing.
One of my fans walked over to me. He went to my school, in my year level, and he was so hot! "Hey Hannah, I'm Johnny."
"Hey Johnny, it's good to meet you." We got to know had a long discussion; I had never spent this much time with him at school before and he was really fun to hang out with.
There was some obvious flirting coming from him and I squealed a bit inside. He likes me! Johnny Collins likes me! Despite, detention today - although I was only there for a very minimal time - and nearly getting caught out, this has been an awesome day!