Disclaimer: All of the characters in this story belong to Meg Cabot. The song HEY DAD belongs to the band Good Charlette. However the story line belongs to me.
Summery: This is sort of a 'what if' story. This is my interpretation of what would happen if Mia had never met her father until she was 15. She has alot of pent up anger about him because he never tried to contact her and now he's wanting to be part of her life.
A/N: Chapter 1 was inspired by the Good Charlette song Hey Dad. Keep in mind that this song was written and preformed by a guy so you have to turn man into woman and son into daugther but you still get the same point. If I say anthing more, then I'll give the whole thing away.
You might notice a few similarites of this story and Miss You Love. Unfortunitly I got a really big writer's block on Miss You Love and still am not sure how to continue it, I promise once I figure it out I will up load more of it. I took a few of my idea's from Miss You Love and put them in this story.
HEY DAD
Hey dad where you been for so long?
Why won' you look at me?
Is there something wrong?
Do you remember me, the son that you concieved
Why won't you look at me?
The son that you decived.
Oh God, what did I do to deserve this?
A man I never knew
A man I cannot miss
How can we start all over when we never began?
How can you be a father?
When your not even a man.
I gave you many chances, many that you took
Now I stand before you, you won't even look
So then same kids of my own
I was their for them
I am the man you couldn't be (I didn't learn from him.)
Where is he now I don't even know at all
I don't even remember
The last time he called.
~CHAPTER ONE~
To say that Mia Thermopolis has had a complet life would be a lie. She was raised by her mother who was a really great artist, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Greenwhich Village to be exact. Unfortunitly Mia had never met her father. Sure she has pictures of him from when he and her mother was in college together. They looked really great together, and very much in love. The reason that they wasn't happily married is because of Mia's grandmother. She forced him to break all ties with Mia and Helen. All Mia really knew about her father was his name was Phillipee Renaldo and he was a politian in Genovia. Also that her mother was still in love with him.
When Mia was a little girl she didn't understand the whole dady thing. When she would go to Lilly's house (her bestfriend) she didn't understand why their was a man always their. She use to get jelouse of her friend and Michael (Lilly's brother) alot mostly when Lilly would come to school and tell her about the nice things her dad would do for her and Michael. Mia always wanted a father. She use to pretend that she was part of the Moscovitz family. Though now she knew that that wasn't possible unless she and Michael-and that would never happen because Michael was Lily's older brother. Mia hated her father with every fiber of her being. She hated him for leaving her life empty and for leaving her and her mother.
Mia 's life was almost pathetic, it revolved around her friends (Lilly, Tina, and Shemeeka) and being hopelessly in love with Michael Moscovitiz (Lilly's older brother). Not that Mia even had a chance with Michael seeing as how he was a senior and she was a lowly freshmen, besides Michael would never see her as anything than Lilly's best friend.. Then their was Fat Louie Mia's cat who had a fedish for eating socks. Ofcorse only when he's been deprived of the attention that he so desires.
Mia wasn't the type of girl who thought it was the end of the world when another girl came to school wearing the same hair clip or finger nail polish she was. Since Albert Enstien High was a private school they had the pleasure of wearing uniforms. Mia had a simple life and she didn't like anything to complicate it.
Mia was leaving for school when her mother stopped her. "Mia wait!"
"What is it Mom? I'm gonna be late meeting Lilly." Mia said.
"This came for you yesterday." Helen handed Mia a very thick envelope.
Mia looked it over reading the name and the return address, it was from Phillippe Rendaldo. "Just throw it away." Mia handed it back to her mother.
"Mia, ready the letter, you should atlest see what he has to say. " Helen handing the letter back.
"I don't care what he has to say. He could have written or called me several times. This time it's too late. He had to wait 15 years to do it."
"Mia, Phillippe isn't a bad man. He drew up very diffrent than the way I did, for that matter he grew up diffrent from you have."
"No matter how hard he tries I will always hate him." Mia tried to hand the letter back to Helen.
"Do what ever you want with it. I won't have part of it." Helen handed the letter back to Mia.
"I have to go Mom." Mia hugged her mother than left.
Lilly was waiting outside of her appartment building when Mia came. "It's about time." Lilly laughed as she walked towards Mia.
"Sorry, family matters." Mia handed Lilly the unopened letter.
"Oh," Lilly looked at the name. "You haven't opened it."
"I can't bring myself to." Mia said.
"I don't blame you." Lilly handed the letter back to Mia.
"I'm scared to death Lilly, this is the first time he's even tried to make contact with me." Mia put the letter in her back pack.
"You might as well see what he has to say." Lilly said.
"That's what Mom said. I need sometime to think about it." Mia said.
The whole day the pro's and con's of reading the letter wieghed on Mia's mind. Even Lana Wienburger was affected by it. She sorta got upset when Mia wouldn't argue with her during algebra. Then in English Mia lost tract of what Act they were reading in ROMEO AND JULIET and she had been enjoying that play up until then. She was setting in Gifted & Talented with her Algebra book opened on top of her not book was the still un-read letter. She was in a trance when Michael came in and set down beside her. "Hey Mia," He said sliding her textbook in front of himself so he could see what she was working on. "Where's your notes?"
"What notes?" Mia asked.
"You know...Mr. Guianni talks and you write down everything important he says, or writes on the board." Michael tried to refreash her memorey.
"Sorry, I sorta forgot to take them." Mia said.
"What's this?" Michael picked up the letter.
"It's from my father." Mia said.
"It's not opened, I thought you were looking forward to hearing from him."
"I was when I was younger. Michael, I haven't written to him since I was 12. It's been three year since I stopped writting him, I gave up, then I got this letter, it came to me as a shock."
"You should read it, I'm sure that he has some reason for not writing you back sooner." Michael tried to comfort Mia.
"I can't bring myself too. I'm so scared of what he might say." Mia admited.
"I'm sure that whatever he has to say I'm sure it's nothing bad. Your an amazing person Mia, even if he was writting something cruel to you nothing he could say would be true. THeir's nothing bad about you." Michael brushed a piece of hair from Mia's face.
"It's been so long, since I have written him. He cuold have written me anytime, he waits 15 years. I have excepted that my father doesn't want anything to do with me. I had adjusted my life and now he decides he wants to contact me. I'm not even sure if I want to read this." Mia explained.
"Do you want me to read it to you?"
"Would you?" Mia asked.
"Of course." Michael picked up the letter and opened it. Mia's heart was pounding fast as Michael began to read. "My Dear Amelia, I hope this letter finds you and your mother well. I want to apoligies for all my short comings as a father. I know you will find recieving this letter strange as I feel strang writing it. Amelia know that I love you and your mother very much, and never ment to hurt either of you,
"I know it's been many long years since you have written me. I kept all of your letters and read them often. I wrote you every day since the time you were born. I never had the heart to send them." Michael looked up and saw her crying. "Mia, do you want me to stop?"
"No, please go on." She sniffled as she whiped her eyes.
"I know that you have a wonderful life filled with wonderful people. I hope that you will find it in your heart to forgive me,
"There is more my daughter, I have just been diagnoised with cancer. There's more I have to tell you. I cannot tell you by mail or phone, but in person. I have scheduled a trip to New York, I will be their on September the 8th. I will call once I have reached the Plaza. I look forward meeting you for the first time, and seeing your mother again. Please forgive me Amelia. Your Loving Father, Phillippe." Michael looked up at Mia.
"Excuse me." Mia got up and ran out the class and to into the bathroom. She went into one of the stalls and locked the door, and began to cry harder.
Michael who had ran after Mia was now standing outside of the bathroom. 'Should I go after her?' he wondered to himself. Knowing that Mia didn't need to be alone he took a deep breath and walked in to the restroom. The sound of her crying was ripping his heart."Mia, are you okay?" He knocked on the only door that had feet behind it.
"Michael, go away, this is a lady's room. It's a federal affence for you to be in her." Mia said between sobbs.
"Come on Mia you have to talk to someone. Besides I don't care if it's a federal affense. You don't need to be alone right now."
"I'm fine Michael, please leave me alone." she pleaded.
"Mia, if you were okay then why are you crying? Besides, I can't just leave you alone." Michael was trying to think of away to get the stall unlocked if it came down to it.
"Why should I come out?"
'Because I love you!' Michael thought then desided against telling her that, it wasnt' the time or the place. "Because your one of my best friends Mia and I care about you."
Mia unlocked the door and fell into Michael's arm crying hysterically. "Mia, it's okay. You don't have to meet him if you don't want."
"It's not just meeting him, it's him trying to spend time with me just because he has cancer. It's almost like I didn't matter until he got sick and now I'm the most important thing on his to do list. He's known about my exsitance for 15 years. In those years he's only found time to write me once."
"Shh...Mia....it's going to be okay. YOu don't owe him anything. He's never been a father to you...hell my father has been more of one than that bastard. You have nothing to be upset about." Michael was angry at her father, he hated to see Mia hurting like this.
"I have hated him all my life, and now I almost feel guilty about it. I feel like his cancer is my fault. You have no idea how many time I have set in my room crying cursing him because he missed another Birthday, or Christmas."
Michael held Mia's cheeks in his hands, "This isn't your fault, you had nothing to do with your father getting sick. " He said looking deep into Mia's eyes, it was all he could do to keep from kissing her. He pulled her against him and hugged her tightly again, taking a deep breath and in haling her the freah aroma of her hair. The perfume of it was like a poison and he kept breathing it in. "Why don't we cut the rest of the day, it will make you feel better." Michael suggested.
"That would be great." Mia sniffled.
A/N: Incase your wondering it really is a federal affense for a man to be in the ladies' room, or for a woman to go in the men's room. A woman got arested after the Super Bowl a few years ago.
Summery: This is sort of a 'what if' story. This is my interpretation of what would happen if Mia had never met her father until she was 15. She has alot of pent up anger about him because he never tried to contact her and now he's wanting to be part of her life.
A/N: Chapter 1 was inspired by the Good Charlette song Hey Dad. Keep in mind that this song was written and preformed by a guy so you have to turn man into woman and son into daugther but you still get the same point. If I say anthing more, then I'll give the whole thing away.
You might notice a few similarites of this story and Miss You Love. Unfortunitly I got a really big writer's block on Miss You Love and still am not sure how to continue it, I promise once I figure it out I will up load more of it. I took a few of my idea's from Miss You Love and put them in this story.
HEY DAD
Hey dad where you been for so long?
Why won' you look at me?
Is there something wrong?
Do you remember me, the son that you concieved
Why won't you look at me?
The son that you decived.
Oh God, what did I do to deserve this?
A man I never knew
A man I cannot miss
How can we start all over when we never began?
How can you be a father?
When your not even a man.
I gave you many chances, many that you took
Now I stand before you, you won't even look
So then same kids of my own
I was their for them
I am the man you couldn't be (I didn't learn from him.)
Where is he now I don't even know at all
I don't even remember
The last time he called.
~CHAPTER ONE~
To say that Mia Thermopolis has had a complet life would be a lie. She was raised by her mother who was a really great artist, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Greenwhich Village to be exact. Unfortunitly Mia had never met her father. Sure she has pictures of him from when he and her mother was in college together. They looked really great together, and very much in love. The reason that they wasn't happily married is because of Mia's grandmother. She forced him to break all ties with Mia and Helen. All Mia really knew about her father was his name was Phillipee Renaldo and he was a politian in Genovia. Also that her mother was still in love with him.
When Mia was a little girl she didn't understand the whole dady thing. When she would go to Lilly's house (her bestfriend) she didn't understand why their was a man always their. She use to get jelouse of her friend and Michael (Lilly's brother) alot mostly when Lilly would come to school and tell her about the nice things her dad would do for her and Michael. Mia always wanted a father. She use to pretend that she was part of the Moscovitz family. Though now she knew that that wasn't possible unless she and Michael-and that would never happen because Michael was Lily's older brother. Mia hated her father with every fiber of her being. She hated him for leaving her life empty and for leaving her and her mother.
Mia 's life was almost pathetic, it revolved around her friends (Lilly, Tina, and Shemeeka) and being hopelessly in love with Michael Moscovitiz (Lilly's older brother). Not that Mia even had a chance with Michael seeing as how he was a senior and she was a lowly freshmen, besides Michael would never see her as anything than Lilly's best friend.. Then their was Fat Louie Mia's cat who had a fedish for eating socks. Ofcorse only when he's been deprived of the attention that he so desires.
Mia wasn't the type of girl who thought it was the end of the world when another girl came to school wearing the same hair clip or finger nail polish she was. Since Albert Enstien High was a private school they had the pleasure of wearing uniforms. Mia had a simple life and she didn't like anything to complicate it.
Mia was leaving for school when her mother stopped her. "Mia wait!"
"What is it Mom? I'm gonna be late meeting Lilly." Mia said.
"This came for you yesterday." Helen handed Mia a very thick envelope.
Mia looked it over reading the name and the return address, it was from Phillippe Rendaldo. "Just throw it away." Mia handed it back to her mother.
"Mia, ready the letter, you should atlest see what he has to say. " Helen handing the letter back.
"I don't care what he has to say. He could have written or called me several times. This time it's too late. He had to wait 15 years to do it."
"Mia, Phillippe isn't a bad man. He drew up very diffrent than the way I did, for that matter he grew up diffrent from you have."
"No matter how hard he tries I will always hate him." Mia tried to hand the letter back to Helen.
"Do what ever you want with it. I won't have part of it." Helen handed the letter back to Mia.
"I have to go Mom." Mia hugged her mother than left.
Lilly was waiting outside of her appartment building when Mia came. "It's about time." Lilly laughed as she walked towards Mia.
"Sorry, family matters." Mia handed Lilly the unopened letter.
"Oh," Lilly looked at the name. "You haven't opened it."
"I can't bring myself to." Mia said.
"I don't blame you." Lilly handed the letter back to Mia.
"I'm scared to death Lilly, this is the first time he's even tried to make contact with me." Mia put the letter in her back pack.
"You might as well see what he has to say." Lilly said.
"That's what Mom said. I need sometime to think about it." Mia said.
The whole day the pro's and con's of reading the letter wieghed on Mia's mind. Even Lana Wienburger was affected by it. She sorta got upset when Mia wouldn't argue with her during algebra. Then in English Mia lost tract of what Act they were reading in ROMEO AND JULIET and she had been enjoying that play up until then. She was setting in Gifted & Talented with her Algebra book opened on top of her not book was the still un-read letter. She was in a trance when Michael came in and set down beside her. "Hey Mia," He said sliding her textbook in front of himself so he could see what she was working on. "Where's your notes?"
"What notes?" Mia asked.
"You know...Mr. Guianni talks and you write down everything important he says, or writes on the board." Michael tried to refreash her memorey.
"Sorry, I sorta forgot to take them." Mia said.
"What's this?" Michael picked up the letter.
"It's from my father." Mia said.
"It's not opened, I thought you were looking forward to hearing from him."
"I was when I was younger. Michael, I haven't written to him since I was 12. It's been three year since I stopped writting him, I gave up, then I got this letter, it came to me as a shock."
"You should read it, I'm sure that he has some reason for not writing you back sooner." Michael tried to comfort Mia.
"I can't bring myself too. I'm so scared of what he might say." Mia admited.
"I'm sure that whatever he has to say I'm sure it's nothing bad. Your an amazing person Mia, even if he was writting something cruel to you nothing he could say would be true. THeir's nothing bad about you." Michael brushed a piece of hair from Mia's face.
"It's been so long, since I have written him. He cuold have written me anytime, he waits 15 years. I have excepted that my father doesn't want anything to do with me. I had adjusted my life and now he decides he wants to contact me. I'm not even sure if I want to read this." Mia explained.
"Do you want me to read it to you?"
"Would you?" Mia asked.
"Of course." Michael picked up the letter and opened it. Mia's heart was pounding fast as Michael began to read. "My Dear Amelia, I hope this letter finds you and your mother well. I want to apoligies for all my short comings as a father. I know you will find recieving this letter strange as I feel strang writing it. Amelia know that I love you and your mother very much, and never ment to hurt either of you,
"I know it's been many long years since you have written me. I kept all of your letters and read them often. I wrote you every day since the time you were born. I never had the heart to send them." Michael looked up and saw her crying. "Mia, do you want me to stop?"
"No, please go on." She sniffled as she whiped her eyes.
"I know that you have a wonderful life filled with wonderful people. I hope that you will find it in your heart to forgive me,
"There is more my daughter, I have just been diagnoised with cancer. There's more I have to tell you. I cannot tell you by mail or phone, but in person. I have scheduled a trip to New York, I will be their on September the 8th. I will call once I have reached the Plaza. I look forward meeting you for the first time, and seeing your mother again. Please forgive me Amelia. Your Loving Father, Phillippe." Michael looked up at Mia.
"Excuse me." Mia got up and ran out the class and to into the bathroom. She went into one of the stalls and locked the door, and began to cry harder.
Michael who had ran after Mia was now standing outside of the bathroom. 'Should I go after her?' he wondered to himself. Knowing that Mia didn't need to be alone he took a deep breath and walked in to the restroom. The sound of her crying was ripping his heart."Mia, are you okay?" He knocked on the only door that had feet behind it.
"Michael, go away, this is a lady's room. It's a federal affence for you to be in her." Mia said between sobbs.
"Come on Mia you have to talk to someone. Besides I don't care if it's a federal affense. You don't need to be alone right now."
"I'm fine Michael, please leave me alone." she pleaded.
"Mia, if you were okay then why are you crying? Besides, I can't just leave you alone." Michael was trying to think of away to get the stall unlocked if it came down to it.
"Why should I come out?"
'Because I love you!' Michael thought then desided against telling her that, it wasnt' the time or the place. "Because your one of my best friends Mia and I care about you."
Mia unlocked the door and fell into Michael's arm crying hysterically. "Mia, it's okay. You don't have to meet him if you don't want."
"It's not just meeting him, it's him trying to spend time with me just because he has cancer. It's almost like I didn't matter until he got sick and now I'm the most important thing on his to do list. He's known about my exsitance for 15 years. In those years he's only found time to write me once."
"Shh...Mia....it's going to be okay. YOu don't owe him anything. He's never been a father to you...hell my father has been more of one than that bastard. You have nothing to be upset about." Michael was angry at her father, he hated to see Mia hurting like this.
"I have hated him all my life, and now I almost feel guilty about it. I feel like his cancer is my fault. You have no idea how many time I have set in my room crying cursing him because he missed another Birthday, or Christmas."
Michael held Mia's cheeks in his hands, "This isn't your fault, you had nothing to do with your father getting sick. " He said looking deep into Mia's eyes, it was all he could do to keep from kissing her. He pulled her against him and hugged her tightly again, taking a deep breath and in haling her the freah aroma of her hair. The perfume of it was like a poison and he kept breathing it in. "Why don't we cut the rest of the day, it will make you feel better." Michael suggested.
"That would be great." Mia sniffled.
A/N: Incase your wondering it really is a federal affense for a man to be in the ladies' room, or for a woman to go in the men's room. A woman got arested after the Super Bowl a few years ago.