Hey there! Thank you to the reviewers! The Unsung Dude4 – sex scene, hmm... it may pop up later, I honestly have to be in the mood to write them or it turns in to a load of codswallop! (Sorry, my English expressions come out occasionally!) There is a point much later in the story that will probably have one.

This is sort of 2 chapters in to one, I've done my best to link them but I'm not happy. I felt it was important to bring in Miley and Lilly's friends in at some point so that was what the latter half is about.

Anyho, hope you enjoy and keep reviewing, I love reading them =)

Disclaimer: I do not own any Hannah Montana characters, references or songs/bands/artists used I this story. No profit is made, this is purely for fun.

Staind – It's Been A While

And everything I can't remember
As fucked up as it all may seem to be, I know it's me
I cannot blame this on my father
He did the best he could for me

A night of passion had taken its toll on Miley and Lilly as they happily slept, that was until Robbie came in to their room. "Get up!" He said loudly. "We've got problems!"

Miley cracked open one eye and stared at her father who was breathing heavily. "What's the time?" She mumbled sleepily.

"Half six. Get up."

"Half six? Go away; we don't need to be up for another half an hour." She closed her eye again and tried to doze.

Robbie knew that he was gonna have trouble getting the two up and walked out to retrieve a bucket of water he had left by the door. He picked it up and walked over to the two girls. "Up!" He yelled as he poured the water on them.

"Fuck me!" Lilly screamed as the cold water hit her before falling out of bed.

"Dad, what the hell?" Miley wrapped the covers around her she sat up; she had had this done to her before. Miley looked at her girlfriend. It was a good job that Lilly was the other side of the bed or Robbie would have seen a lot more of Lilly than he'd bargained for. "It's not seven. Get out!" She yelled.

"No, get your butts in the kitchen, we've got problems, you too Lilly." Robbie walked out.

"What the actual fuck?" Lilly said pulling herself off the floor and reaching for some clothes. "Here Miles." She held out a pair of shorts and oversized shirt. "Can't see what's so important." Lilly was not happy. She hated being woken by anyone; a bucket of water was the absolute limit. "I'm gonna kill your Dad."

Miley and Lilly appeared in the kitchen two minutes later to find a stack of papers, a laptop and a seething Robbie Ray. "What are these?" Miley asked.

"Have a look for yourself." He said chucking them a paper.

Miley picked it up and read the title. "Horny Hannah." She read aloud. "No way." Her eyes flicked to the pictures. They depicted last night's hot tub session in various stages.

Lilly looked horrified at the pictures of her and Miley spread across the papers, she turned she her attention to the laptop. "What's on here?"

"A video." Robbie said. "Play it by all means."

Lilly hit the play button and saw last night's events right before her eyes. "Who the hell videoed this?" Miley leant over Lilly's shoulder and watched herself make out with her girlfriend. "Thank God they didn't see the rest of the night." Lilly said forgetting that Robbie was in the room, he cleared his throat. "Shit, sorry." She went a deep shade of crimson, hitting the pause button. "I don't wanna see anymore."

"Seems like you two had a good night, but the media has had an even better morning. You are everywhere." He switched on the television.

"Miley Stewart seems to be enjoying her new found freedom since coming as Hannah Montana, it appears she has another secret now – she's gay! This video was taken at her home in Malibu where she appears to be rather in to the girl next to her. Report states that the girl lives with her and has been friends for a number of years."

Robbie flicked it off. "Here's another paper. It seems they've taken a different approach to your news." He said chucking it at Miley; her eyes flicked across the headline. "A Role Model?" Miley read out. "What the f..." Miley let the last part of her sentence trail after a stern look from Robbie.

"Keep reading." Robbie said.

"They're saying I'm no longer good for young kids?" Miley refused to look at it any longer and threw it across the room. "This is a fucking joke!"

"Miley!"

"Well it is Dad I get the point. I'm all over the news." Miley sat down.

"What are you going to do?" Robbie said kindly to her. He knew that she was angry, the swearing was just her reaction.

Lilly walked over to her girlfriend and sat next to her, placing a comforting arm around her shoulders and squeezing. "I'm so sorry Miles."

"Why, it's not your fault, you didn't do anything." Miley rested her elbows on the table and placed her head in her hands. "Dad how on earth did they get any of this, I thought the gates were locked."

"They are. Someone must have got in, climbed a tree, telephoto lens, anything Miles. Did you two actually think that no one could get in?" Robbie gathered by the sheepish looks on their faces they hadn't. "You're gonna have to do some damage control."

"I know." Miley sighed. "Does this mean we don't have to go to school?" Miley looked at her Dad with hope.

"I'm not going to make you go..."

"I feel a 'but' coming on." Miley said.

"But you will have to go back at some point. I'll let you decide when you want to go back."

"Thanks Dad." Miley gave her Father a weak smile.

Robbie watched his daughter for a moment before turning to Lilly. "You ok?"

Lilly looked up and sighed. "Not really but there's nothing that's gonna help. I've watched Miley in the spotlight for long enough now, I know we can only tell the truth and try and make people understand our situation." Lilly pulled Miley in to a hug. Miley grasped Lilly's waist tightly and buried her head in her lover's side. Right now Miley wanted nothing more than to crawl under a rock and hide until all this mess had gone away.

Robbie regarded Lilly's statement for a moment. "Lilly, from a young woman that is an incredibly mature statement."

"I'm not sure if that's good or bad."

Miley pulled herself away from Lilly and looked in to the matching blue orbs. "Good. It means you're thinking exactly like Dad. He's gonna do that."

Lilly nodded. She didn't know what to say, she assumed that she was stating the obvious. Feeling slightly awkward Lilly looked at Robbie. "I'm gonna go and take a shower, you coming?" She said looking back at her girlfriend.

"Yeah." Miley grasped Lilly's hand and they slowly made their way up the stairs. Lilly turned the corner and headed in to their bathroom before feeling Miley's hand pulling away from her own. She looked down the hallway and saw Miley disappear in to her old Tennessee bedroom. "Miles?" Lilly called out; when no reply came she headed down the hall. "Miles?" She said as she leant on the doorframe, noticing that Miley had an old photo frame in her hands Miley looked up to see her girlfriend staring at her with concern, tears filled her eyes. "Oh Miley." Lilly went over and knelt down in front of Miley.

"I know, I'm being stupid, we always knew that this could happen. I just didn't want it to happen like this." She wiped the tears away from her face, Lilly noticed that the photo that Miley held was of her Mother but chose not to say anything.

"You're not stupid. Miley listen to me, it will be okay."

"You don't know that."

Lilly sighed. "Okay, so I don't know. But I know you. You're the strongest person I know and together we'll get through this." She waited for an answer. "Miley?"

"Yeah, we will." She placed a soft hand against Lilly's cheek. "What would I do without you?"

"Still not feeling school?" Lilly said brushing Miley's hair out of her face as she propped herself up on one elbow.

"I'd rather get my interview out the way first so every knows what's going on."

"Okay." Lilly gave a nod. "I've got my work so it doesn't really matter."

"We're still gonna be stared at, whispered, gossiped about." Miley moved her eyes from the ceiling to Lilly. "Still wanna be with me?"

"What kind of question is that?" Lilly placed a soft kiss on Miley's lips. "I'll still be with you when we're shuffling around in an old folk's home in our incontinent pants."

Miley laughed. "Lovely image." As she conjured up the mental picture Lilly's phone beeped, leaning over she picked it up and handed it to Lilly who read the text with a bemused expression. "What? Who is it?"

Lilly turned her phone round so Miley could see.

From : Joannie

LILLY! YOU AND MILEY! DETAILS! =)

"Well at least she's straight to the point." Miley said with a chuckle. "What are you texting her back?" She said, handing the phone back.

"She could come over?" Lilly gave a shrug. "It's been four days; some human contact might be good."

"You've had plenty of human contact."

"Very funny." Lilly said dryly. "She might as well come and ask what you know she'll ask anyway."

"True." Miley thought for a second. "Trouble is the paparazzi will be like a swarm of wasps when she comes up to the gate."

"Oh shit. Tell her to ignore them and give us a ring when she gets here, we'll have to buzz her in."

"Alright." Lilly tapped away on her buttons. "That's sent." Lilly's free hand wandered over to Miley's body, lightly skimming her skin.

"What cha doing?"

"Don't know." Lilly rolled Miley on to her back and allowed her small hips to settle in between her girlfriend's legs. "Shall we just find out?" She kissed Miley, still allowing her hands to roam.

A sharp knock on the door made both girls freeze. "You two, get up, as you're not a school you can do the horses, get your butts in gear!" Robbie yelled through the door, experience had taught him it was easier and far less embarrassing this way.

"But Dad..." Miley began to moan before Lilly put her hand over Miley's mouth. She pulled it away and looked at Lilly. "I'm famous and I still get to shovel horse shit. Woohoo."

Joannie had been at school for the morning and she couldn't believe the amount of gossip she was hearing about her two friends, there were the expected comments of "They're so hot," and "Do you'll reckon they'll make out in front of us?" and some really nasty ones that Joannie couldn't even begin to believe. Sitting in her last class of the day she wondered what on earth she would actually say to Miley and Lilly, there were the obvious questions that she really wanted to ask but even she felt that she couldn't just dive in and ask them. Twiddling her pen round she rolled her eyes and Kunkle droned on about the importance of low and high ecological validity.

"I'm sorry Miss Palumbo, am I boring you?" Karen Kunkle's eyes bored in to Joannie's head.

"Sorry, was thinking that's all."

"Yes, I can see that, but it clearly isn't about the class is it?"

Any other teacher Joannie would have rolled her eyes again, but old Kunkle would have caught it and probably given her a double detention. The women had eyes that were made for finding trouble. "Sorry Miss." She stopped twirling her pen and wrote down the crap on the board, at least then she wouldn't have a blank page if Kunkle came round looking. Midway through writing Joannie felt a small ball of paper hit her head, looking around with a scowl she tried to fathom who had thrown it. She saw Rachel sitting in the far left corner giving her a subtle wave, nodding she opened it up and placed it in her book.

'What's up with you? You're even more angsty to get out than usual.'

Joannie write back in her messy script. 'Going to see Miley and Lilly after this; wanna be out here ASAP!'

"Oh do you now?" Miss Kunkle read the note over Joannie's shoulder while everyone else in the class turned their head to stare.

"Oh fuck." Joannie said out loud, half the class gave a snigger while the other half's jaws hit the floor, they were in for a treat.

"I'm sorry, what did you just say?"

"Oh fuck." She offered flatly, Joannie really couldn't be bothered to care at this point in time.

"That was a rhetorical question Miss Palumbo and for that you have got after school detention, you can also take Miss Stewart's and Miss Truscott's work with you."

"Great, thanks Miss for announcing that to the whole class." She gave her a sarcastic thumbs up.

"That's another afternoons detention, would you care for another?" Joannie sighed and picked up her pen once more. "I didn't think so. You've got ten minutes left, I expect that page filled."

Packing up a lesson had never felt so good for Joannie, she desperately wanted to see her friends and get the low down. "Miss Palumbo?"

"Oh great." She muttered under her breath. "Yes?" She shoved her last book in her bag with a considerable amount of force before turning round.

"Miss Stewart and Miss Truscott's work."

"Right, thanks." She said taking the pile of notes and putting them in her bag before sliding it on to her shoulder. Joannie noticed Miss Knuckle hovering. "Something else?"

Karen felt awkward for a moment, she never showed any affection for students, but genuinely felt sorry for the two girls, whatever the case maybe. "When you see Miley and Lilly, tell them if they need more time just email me for the work."

Joannie raised her eyebrows. "Okay."

"Yo Lilly, open up these gates, I'm coming up your drive!" Joannie said with her phone in one hand and gripping the steering wheel with the other. "Dude, you would not believe the amount of people out here." Joannie honked her horn. "MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!" She yelled at them through the window. "Hey Lilly, how much will you pay me to run this idiots over?" Joannie heard chuckling from the other end of line. "Yeah, yeah, open the gates." Joannie pulled up and stopped as the gates opened. She was nearly blinded by flashes as the paparazzi got close up to the windows. "Fuck off." She said before putting her foot on the gas and speeding off.

Joannie saw Miley and Lilly standing outside the front of the house, waiting with smiles on their faces. "What?" She said stepping out of the car and slamming the door.

"Nothing, but you on the phone is the best laugh we've had in ages."

Joannie smiled. "I can run them over on the way back if you like?" She offered.

"We'll think about it. Come on in Joannie." Miley turned her back and walked through the door.

"Have you got any food?" She said dumping her bag to the side of the doorway and following Lilly to the couch. "I'm starved."

"It's like having a second Lilly." Miley said dryly. "Dad's got some left over pie in the fridge if you want?" Miley offered.

"Thanks."

"I'll some too Miles."

"What did your last slave die of?" Miley called from the fridge.

"So come on, the juicy stuff! Everything that everyone is talking about!" Joannie said leaning forward.

"I think not Joannie." Miley said as she placed the food in front of the two.

Joannie frowned for a moment. "Eww! No! I did not mean that." She paused for a second time. "Wait, that means..." Lilly rolled her eyes as she tucked in to her pie. "I have got some images in my head that shouldn't be there. Thanks guys."

"Hey, we didn't conjure them." Lilly pointed out in-between mouthfuls.

"So come on, give me the low down." She looked at Miley and Lilly.

"What do you want to know?" Miley gave a smile as she leant back in to the couch.

"Well, for starters, I suppose the question that everyone at school is asking, are you actually dating?"

"Hell yes." Lilly looked at Miley. "Too enthusiastic?"

"No." Miley said with a smile before kissing Lilly on the cheek. She turned herself back to find Joannie staring. "Sorry, too weird?"

"Not really..." Joannie looked at her friends. She didn't quite know what to say.

"Yeah it is Joannie; we can see it on your face." Lilly laughed, as she placed her now empty plate on the coffee table.

"Okay, yeah it's a bit weird. I never would have had either of you pegged as gay. Last I heard Hannah Montana over there was dating Jake."

"You need to Google the break up then." Lilly laughed. "Best moment of my life."

"Are you guys gonna make it official, I don't wanna say anything at school if you don't want me too, although Kunkle has probably doomed me."

"What's she done?"

"Caught me writing a note and told everyone that I was going to see you which means I'll probably get bombarded by a million people tomorrow."

"Welcome to our world." Miley said.

"Sorry, oh and the old bat gave me your work that you have missed out on it's in my bag. She said to email or something if you were missing out on anymore school."

"Thanks Joannie."

"Do you know when you're coming back, gym is so boring without you Lilly, I'm stuck against morons who can't even catch a ball!" Joannie moaned as Miley and Lilly laughed. "I'm serious; they're about as good as Miley!"

"Hey!" She replied indignantly.

"Sorry, wait – do I have to be nice to Miley as she's your girlfriend now?"

"About gym? No way!"