A/N : Wow, I am so happy - I only posted chapter 3 yesterday (29th) and I've already got 9 reviews on it! Thanx so much to all those who reviewed - CrzyDazy, max4cast, Clavel, Soryteller55, Sunkisses643, Cass, Lemon, Angel, Meg* - you are all wonderful and v.kind.

Here is chapter 4, for you and everyone else too. (Apologies that it's a bit short!)

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Mia cried all the way home. Life had been complicated ever since she'd found out she was a princess at the age of fourteen. Now she had got used to idea, plus she had Michael, which made things easier, but life was still not as simple as it might have been.

Mia's family had agreed that until she was actually needed in Genovia to rule (i.e. when her grandmother and/or father passed away) she could continue to live with her Mom in New York.

She had stayed at home, with her Mom and her Mom's husband, Frank Gianini, until she left school. She was then considered old enough by everyone concerned to move in with her boyfriend, Michael, at his rented apartment.

Mia was required to have a limousine and a bodyguard (Lars was happy to remain as the princess's protector) and she was never permitted to go out alone. There were rules as to her behaviour in public and there were specific times when press conferences and trips to Genovia were vital, but, to a certain extent, Amelia Mignotte Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo was allowed to be just plain Mia Thermopolis.

Now it seemed that her family, or at least her Grandmere, now it seemed her life was going to be taken over by the Genovian royals simply because she was going to have a child. It scared her a little, the whole being pregnant and giving birth thing, but she had seen her Mom go through it when she had Frank Gianini's baby.

Mia thought about that baby, her half-sister, Holly, who was now four years old. She loved her half-sister very much but she couldn't help but envy her just a little bit, knowing that Holly would never grow up to be told one day she was in fact the Princess of some European country she'd never heard of!

It had happened to Mia, and it would happen to her child too, she knew that, but this was not the only thing that worried her. There were two other points that bothered Mia more than anything else.

One was that she knew her Grandmere would never allow the child to have a normal life and the other was Michael.

Why didn't he want to marry her?

Didn't he love her enough?

They had been together five years now and were secretly in love with each other for years before that, so why should marriage be such a problem? Mia knew she should just ask him about it but he was still so angry and upset, she didn't really want to.

She decided to wait until tomorrow, to give Michael a chance to calm down and think about everything that had happened, then she would ask him about it. She was afraid of the answer but the question would have to be asked;

'Why don't you want to marry me, Michael?' she rehearsed in the mirror, later that day, but no amount of preparation could have prepared her for the reaction she got.

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