Here's my very first Princess Diaries fic – I'm normally a Harry Potter gal (Lily and James !!!) It's just a short little ficlet about how Michael fell for Mia. It's really quite bad, I'm not that happy with it, but tell me what you think. It's really short too, it just popped into my head during my lunch hour at work. Anyway, enough waffle, here you go :
Bittersweet
I can tell you when it began. I can pin-point the exact moment if you want. I was ten. She was six. It was my sister Lily's seventh birthday party.
I was annoyed because my mum had made me come down and play stupid party games instead of letting me stay in my room playing on my gameboy. I considered myself far too mature for musical statues and pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, but I was still partial to pass-the-parcel. Therefore, I had cheered up by the time my mum brought out the parcel, helped along by copious quantities of fairy cakes filched from the kitchen. I noticed that the girl sitting next to me was kind of pretty, with pale brown curls, warm grey eyes and an infectious laugh. As we passed the parcel round, my fingers brushed hers and I hesitated and blushed. At that moment the music stopped. I looked upa t her, my gaze questioning, both of us still clutching the parcel. She looked at me, down at the parcel and back at me again. She sighed and hslf-smiled. ''You can have it,'' she said with a self-sacrificing air. I beamed, and decided she wasn't too bad, for a girl.
At teatime, as everybody helped themselves to crisps and cookies while pointedly ignoring the sandwiches, I pulled her hair to show her I liked her (Not hard enough for her to cry, though). She stared at me, expressionless, before a mischevious glint appeared in her eye, and she picked up her spoon, loaded it with jelly and icecream, and flicked it across the table at me. It landed squarely in my right eye, and that was the moment, right there, that I fell in love with Mia Thermopolis. Smitten – hit not with a gelatine missile, but with Cupid's arrow. A jelly-and-icecream projectile right to the heart.
There you go. Hope you liked it. If you did, please read my other fics (both HP Lily/James stories) Tears of Flame and A Right Royal Mix-up...
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