Okay,

MY HIATUS IS OVER!!!!! I sincerely hope this is a good chapter. Please review either way.

PGP

Wednesday, September 15, English

Tina just passed me a note.

Mia, you look positively ecstatic…what's up? -T

Everything's going dreamy, at least so far! Michael was waiting with Lilly at the sidewalk this morning to speak to me. I've asked him to meet me at Ray's Pizza after school.

OK, but what about your princess lessons? Won't your grandmother blow if you're late? And we both know that you won't exactly be in a hurry to get away from Michael.

Yes, but I'm too happy to bother about her right now. I'll give her some excuse. She might guess that I ditched her for 'that boy', as she calls Michael, but then I'll already be late, so what can she do about it anyway?

Oh. Smart! So…what are you two going to talk about at Ray's Pizza?

It.

!!!!!! WHAT WILL YOU SAY

Um, that I want us to Do It?

Oh my God. Mia, I thought you were going to wait for HIM to ask you!!

You think I should do that?

According to me, I guess. But now that you've already made it evident that you want to talk to him about something in particular, you'll have to go ahead and ask him.

Um, OK.

But wait a sec, Mia. At that time, you had your grandmother's suite at The Ritz to Do It. But where are you guys going to Do It now?

Oh God!!!!!!! I never thought of that!!!!!!!!!!!! What do I do, Tina???????

Um…Mia, why don't you ask your grandmother to rent you a suite again? By the way you describe her, she shouldn't disapprove if you explain the story to her, right from the beginning. No offense, but she kind of seems… the sneaky type.

Ha ha. You don't know how right you are. Well…I guess I could do what you're suggesting, but princess lessons are AFTER I meet Michael!!!!

That's what cell phones are for!

You're right, Tina!! Seriously…I don't what I'd without you! You're, like, my right hand when it comes to my love life!

No problem! That's what F.R.I.E.N.D.S. are for! ;) What would be the use of reading so many romance novels if they weren't any help?

Wednesday, September 15, Lunch

This is SO unfair. J.P. is being totally childish. He doesn't even respond if I say hi to him, he just acts like I don't even exist. When Lilly caught me trying to get J.P. to talk to me, she was like, 'Oh my God, POG. You look like you're desperate to speak to him. What exactly happened with you two? Is he bugged at you about the whole I-like-you-but-you-still-like-your-boyfriend thing?' I started to open my mouth to tell her the whole deal that happened at Ray's Pizza, but she cut me off, 'Wait. I don't want to hear you go gabbing about everything that happened. Just show me your journal entry. What you write in your journal is always way more interesting and descriptive.' I just gaped, and Lilly just plucked the journal right out of my hands.

She read it up in three minutes, and gave it back to me, shaking her head. 'Juvenile,' she muttered under her breath. 'As usual.' I rolled my eyes. Is it ever possible that my best friend does not criticize my writing?

'Hey!' said Lilly, suddenly. 'Mia! Norman called again! Would you believe that? You'd think I'd shaken him off after the whole tickets and platform slippers thingy. But he's back.' I shook my head. I feel so sad for this poor Norman guy. He's Lilly's 'stalker', and he's TOTALLY OBSESSED, as in FIXATED, with Lilly's feet for some reason.

Anyway, bell's rung. Gotta go. More in G and T.

Wednesday, September 15, G and T

I–

Ooh…I just heard a loud bang…let's see what the matter is.

…It's Boris. He was practicing on his violin in the closet, and tripped on his own foot and fell out. That is so Boris. But I guess he kind of has a little trouble staying in the supply closet now that he's shot up about five inches. Now he's sitting on the floor, rubbing his head in bewilderment. J.P. is helping him up, and Shameeka and Ling Su are giving him his violin and bow.

Speaking of J.P., he's not exactly gone out of his way to say hi to me today. I tried to say hi to him in the morning, but he just pretended he didn't hear me, and walked off with some guy in his English class. It's kind of hard being normal around him since he confessed that he likes me. OK, super-hard. Lilly still keeps a distance from J.P., and I kind of feel sad, because honestly, I really like J.P., only not in the way HE likes ME. And I remember the other day when he told me in his note that I'm the best friend he's ever had. I seriously am bummed that I've lost such a terrific friend.

I feel kind of sorry for the people who belong to the same circle of friends, and fall in love, because if their relationship ends on a sour note, their friendship gets ruined, too. And that's exactly what happened with J.P. and Lilly, and now happening to J.P. from his own side. In the morning, I tried to talk Lilly into being nicer to him, like at least saying hi, but she flat-out refused. She says that J.P. deserves what he's getting, for stringing her along right from May, when she told him that she loved him. So she's going to be cold to him for God-knows-how-much-time. Probably FOREVER.

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