A/N : Okay, let's start with the reviews;

To Kia and Cal - no offence taken, thanx for the review

To Dez - if you don't like Kenny you might not like where this stories heading but please keep reading anyway

To sapofbks2002 - thanx

To max4cast - sorry I shocked you, please keep reading

To Meg* - A Michael chapter should be coming soon

To caroline - I'm continuing as fast as I can

To anastasia - thanx

To athena - thanx

To Angelgirlfm - sorry, but I have other plans at the mo. but please keep reading cos I might change my mind, you never know!

I think I mentioned everybody, you are all v. kind for reviewing my little fic.

Now on with the story...

Disclaimer : Meg Cabot owns the lot - not me!

At the back of a cafe, not far from the Plaza, Princess Amelia Mignotte Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo sat sipping coffee and tryng to stay calm whilst her ex-boyfriend from more than six years ago, Kenny Showalter, held her hand to aid her comfort. Her bodyguard, Lars, sat at the next table, so as not to draw attention to the bewildered royal and her friend.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Kenny asked Mia, gently.

"Talk about what?" Mia asked him, as if she didn't know what he menat.

"The reason you're upset, I mena, it's hardly normal for a princess to give her bodyguard the slip and walk out into the path of oncoming traffic"

"There's nothing normal about being a princess at all" she said, before a few more tears escaped her eyes. Mia knew her 'problem' was supposed to be a royal secret. If the puvlic and/or the press found out they would have a field day. She hadn't seen Kenny since they had graduated from Albert Einstein High. They had tried to stay friends after they'd stopped being boyfriend and girlfriend but it was hard. Mia knew Kenny still loved her and she just couldn't feel the same, she only loved one man and that was Michael. Kenny knew how Mia felt too, but he had never stopped loving her, even now as they sat in the cafe, her in tears and him desperate to help if he could.

For no apparent reason, Mia told him everything. Really, it was a stupid thing to do because he could have told anybody, she had no idea if she could still trust him especially with this kind of secret, but she had to talk to someone. She had lost touch with so mnay of her old friends - Ling Su, Shamila, even Tina Hakim-Baba and now Lilly, because of the whole Michael thing. Mia understood that Lilly had to take her brothers side, family comes first, but it didn't make the fact that she'd lost her best friend any less painful.

Kenny sat and listened carefully as Mia told him everything, not just the last few weeks but the highs and lows of her whole life since high school. She ended by explaining about Michael and the baby and her Grandmere and the whole marriage fiasco. When she finally finished retelling the saga that was her life, Kenny loooked astonished.

"I can't beleive all that has happened to you since high school!"

Mia cried some more. She wished she could go back in time nad back to high school. The problems she thought she had then then were nothing compared to the problems she had now. She cried harder and Kenny put a sympathetic arm around her shoulders. It was nice to be held and to feel at least a little bit safe. Mia responded and hugged Kenny. He was surprised, but wrapped his other arm around her and held her tight. Then he had a thought.

"Mia, I want to help you and I think I know a way. Look," he pulled away from her and she looked up at him, "thsi is not exactly my style and this is not excalty a romantic setting but, will you marry me?"

To say Mia looked shocked would be an understatemnet. Her mind could not take in what she had heard. Kenny wanted to marry her? She said it to herseflf a few times. 'Kenny wants to marry me, he wasnts to MARRY me, he wants to marry ME!' It started to sink in and she thought seriiulsy about it. Who it be so bad? If grandmere approved it, and Mia could see no reason why she wouldn't, Kenny was a decent type of guy, why couldn't she marry Kenny. He loved her, she knew that, but she didn't love him. Perhaps she could in time. She hadn't been able to before but things were different now. At least she knew Kenny, surely marrying him would be better than marrying a prince or someone she hardly knew. Kenny seemed to read her thoughts.

"Mia, you can't marry someone you don't know, you have to marry for love. I still love you and I am willing to marry you and bring up your child as my own, if you want me to"

A/N : The more you review, the faster I update - that's all I'm saying!