Author's note: After reading TPD2 again, I realised that this POV wasn't really like Kenny at all. In fact, it was as far from his character as possible. I mean, he seems to be a pretty good guy in the book, and in this, I made him sound like a jerk. So, since I've got an obsession with making the person I'm writing about sound like themselves, I decided to rewrite this. Hope you like it.
You really need to work on your acting skills, Michael. It's pretty obvious that you're crazy about Mia. Head-over-heels in love with her. Plain as daylight. It's written all over your face.
I'd be lying if I said that it didn't bother me. It does. You've always been cool to me, you were the one who brought me into the Computer Club, for crying out loud, and the fact that you've got a thing for my girlfriend really bugs me.
But not as much as the fact that she's got a thing for you too.
I really do care about her, and it's driving me nuts that I can't make her forget about you.
It's amazing what I see. I see the glare that Mia's bodyguard, Lars is giving me. He doesn't think I'm good enough for Mia. Which also bugs me. A lot. I'm not really sure what he's got against you, though. Especially since it looked for a while there that you and he seemed to be getting along really well.
Honestly, sometimes I think that I'm the only one with eyes that actually work in this school.
Sometimes, I think you and everyone else here is blind. You'd have to be, not to see the looks that Mia used to give you. That she still gives you.
I didn't think it would take this long for her to forget about you, I really didn't. I underestimated her feelings for you. I really underestimated her feelings for you.
I probably should have figured out eariler that you had a thing for Mia. I mean, whenever she walks into a room, your face instantly lights up. Something it never does when Judith walks in.
Do you really think that Judith doesn't know that you really don't think of her in that way? She's not an idiot, Michael. I mean, come on, the girl cloned a fruit fly in her room. Yeah, she puts up a pretty good front, but sometimes it slips, and I can see the hurt in her eyes.
Like now.
I know our kiss right now really bugged you. For just a few seconds, I can see the resentment in your eyes as you look at me. Yes, a part of me is gloating. But the bigger part of me wishes that it wasn't like this. That you didn't have a thing for Mia, and we could still be friends. But that's not going to happen.
Mia smiles up at me. God, she's got a beautiful smile, one that lights up her face and makes her eyes glow.
Everything about her amazes me, everything. Her honesty, her kindness, her naivete, and her complete and total inability to see how beautiful she really is.
For the life of me, I can't figure out what kind of hold you have on her. What you did to make her care so deeply for you, even though you're dating someone else.
So what do I do? I can't have it all, I know that. I can't have your friendship and Mia at the same time. Hell, I really don't even have Mia now.
So what am I supposed to do? Say, 'Here Michael, take her?' I don't want to do that, and as unrealistic as it sounds, a part of me still thinks that Mia's going to get over you.
Yeah, right. The girl's been in love with you for years.
So what do I do now? I'm going out with the girl of my dreams, but she really doesn't like me, my so-called friend's got a thing for her, and her bodyguard hates my guts.
What a great life I've got, huh?