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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

--Erica Jong--

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"Mitchie, wait up!" Miley pleaded her anxious best friend while she tried to match the speed of her footsteps. I swear she's going a million miles an hour, Miley thought. Mitchie was really excited to get to school this particular Friday. Why? Because today was the day that the results for the play were going to be announced. Mitchie could barely keep in her anticipation, boy, was she impatient! Miley was in no hurry to get to school, Miley could barely walk steady, she was so sleepy! Thanks to Mitchie, Miley had been pulled out of her dreamland an hour earlier than she actually should have been and dragged to the place she called "school."

"Slow down!"

"No, you speed up!"

The two girls kept bickering all the way to school. Finally reaching their destination, Mitchie squealed in excitement as Miley pushed open the huge double doors admitting them into the school. Miley gave her best friend a weird look. But when they walked in; Miley was surprised to find the amount of kids crammed full around the usually unnoticed notice board. Maybe this drama/musical was deserved more credit than Miley was giving it. It seemed like a really big event in this school's extracurricular activities. The hallway was buzzing with excited conversations; most probably about this drama and who got the lead roles. Now, Miley had to admit she was kind of anxious too. Not that she was hoping she would be amongst them. She knew she was NOT going to be there, but just to find out who was the lucky someone.

Mitchie gave a Miley's hand a petite pull and they made their way towards the notice board. The huge crowd making it almost impracticable to budge. Miley gave the few girls looking at her with varied expressions an odd gaze and turned to look at the board. However, what she saw was totally startling that she just about choked on her own spit. Gasping, she read it again making sure what she was reading was not a fragment of her imagination. The efficiently computer printed handwriting on the yellow article holding the topic 'OFFICIAL RESULTS FOR SCHOOL DRAMA/MUSICAL' read:

Main Roles:

Conrad Sullivan: Nick Jonas

Kim MacAfee: Miley Stewart

…And then the rest.

Mitchie twisted around and hugged her best friend who was still staring at the paper in shock wondering if her eyes were playing tricks on her something like that. Finally snapping out of her weird stare fest, she looked at her best friend whose cheery face made her smile automatically.

"Oh My Gosh, Miley! This is SO cool." Gushed the keyed up girl.

"I know!" Miley said, catching on with Mitchie's contagious happiness.

The two girls celebrated by "happy-dancing" not worrying that people were looking at them like they were crazy.

"Yay! Now I'm your best friend in real life AND the play!" Mitchie said animation flooding her voice.

Just when the girls thought nothing could make them bring them into a better mood, they heard the obnoxious voice they knew so well commanding everybody to move. Of course; it was none other than our very own Alex Russo.

"Move. Move. MOVE!" she commanded everybody while pushing them all out of the way in order to get to the board. She held an air of confidence as if she knew for sure that she had the most important role in the play. Miley and Mitchie watched with amusement as they waited for her to get there and read. Pretty much everybody in the whole building heard her shriek. It was a really funny sight when you were watching from Miley and Mitchie's points of views. A panic-stricken expression crossed Alex's face as her eyes landed on the bottom most names on the entire listing.

Understudies:

…

Kim McAfee: Alex Russo

Miley and Mitchie laughed out loud not able to suppress it any longer as another shriek left Alex's mouth. Alex looked at them shooting them daggers through her eyes, well, if looks could kill, Miley and Mitchie would have been lifeless right at this instant. Her eyes were blazing and more or less turned scarlet. Letting out a sloppy 'Hmph', Alex flipped her sleek black hair and trudged away trying to look like she didn't care, but failing miserably since everyone watching her knew she was embarrassed. Miley clutched her abdomen as her sides began to throb from laughing so hard. Alex turned on her heel and shot her a look of pure hatred after which she swiftly dashed into the girls' toilet and banged the door.

A few minutes after that side-splitting episode, Nick strolled casually into the hallway with his hands tucked into his pockets.

"Nick!" Mitchie yelled trying to get his attention, which she did. Spotting them, he walked over coolly sporting a warm smile on his face.

"Guess what?!" Mitchie could only just hold in her exhilaration.

"What?"

"I said guess!"

Nick opened his mouth to say something, but before an utterance could depart his mouth, Mitchie being the keen girl he was blurted out, "You got the lead role in the drama!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, I was surprised too." Miley said making a snide remark causing Mitchie to give her a scolding look and mumbled an incoherent sorry to her shoes more than to Nick. Nick laughed good-naturedly and returned to his conversation with his girlfriend.

"And guess what else?" Mitchie gushed once again.

Once again Nick opened his mouth only to be cut off by Mitchie. "Alex isn't even in it! Well, not unless Miley drops out or something happens to her…" she added as an afterthought.

"Miley…?"

"Yeah. I forgot to tell you that. Miley's playing the female lead! Aint that great?"

"Yeah, I guess." Nick muttered with not half as excitement as Mitchie.

Mitchie shot Miley a glance her face boring the expression of a lost puppy as to why Nick was not sharing their enthusiasm.

Miley patted her back, "Boy brains." She explained simply causing Mitchie to giggle.

"Huh?" Nick muttered, evidently just returning from mars causing the duo to giggle even more until they were indulged in a fit of giggles.

"You know, it's rude to laugh at someone. Have your parents never taught you that?"

"No—not—r-rea--lly." Miley managed out.

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A/N: I reaalllllly wanted to write more. But I wanted to put this out, and I knew if I wanted to write more, god knows how long it woulda taken. I'm really busy, 9th grade is SO stressful. Sorry it sucks. And this chapter is kinda pointless, to me it is. Please review!
-Peace.