A/N : Okay, so the cliffhanger was mean but it keeps you redaing so I'm not going to apologise for it. Anyway, thanx for all the great reviews - sapofbks2002, CrazyNut2002, Angelgirlfm, max4cast, melmarie89, princess miki, Meg*, Dez, Janie, lil-lost-angel, athena, Bluegirl18 - you guys are the best. Also thanx to athena for the offer of help, I'm okay at the moment but if I get stuck your the first person I'll email. And to all of you who mentioned Michael, I've already started the next chapter but I promise the one after that will explain what's going on with our Mikey, okay?
So, on with the story...
Disclaimer : I'm not Meg Cabot, so these characters aren't mine!
Mia knew she could never love Kenny the way he loved her, but she at least knew him and liked him. Was that a good basis for a marriage?
"Kenny," she said quietly, "I don't feel the same way about you as you do about me..." He interrupted her.
"I know that, I think I've always known that, but I'm still willing to marry you on any terms that you and your family have"
Mia didn't know what to say. This guy was willing to give up his life, his privacy and everything just to help her solve her problems and make her life more bearable.
"Then yes, Kenny," she said, "Thankyou, I will marry you"
He wanted to kiss her, he was so happy, but he refrained from doing so. Lars who had heard the whole thing felt awful. He knew how the princess felt about Kenny and he knew she was only marrying him for the sake of her family, her country and her child.
There was silence between the couple and so Lars intervened.
"Excuse me, Princess, but may I suggest we tell the Dowager Princess your plans before the subject is discussed further"
Mia nodded, knowing that nothing could ever be firmly settled without her Grandmere's approval.
"I'll use the phone in the limo" she said, "to call my Mom and Frank. I haven't even told them about Michael yet, let alone the fact I have to find a husband" just saying Michael's name made her want to cry again, but she was running out of tears and emotion, she felt almost completely numb as she walked out to the car, Lars on one side of her and her 'fiancé' on the other.
"Clarice said what?!" Helen Thermopolis-Gianini, screamed into the phone. She couldn't believe that her ex-mother-in-law was asking Mia to marry a stranger just because she was pregnant and the father of her child refused to be her consort.
"Mom, calm down, it's okay, really" Mia tried, "I've found a guy who'll marry me, someone I know" Kenny grinned widely as Mia said this, but Mia barely looked at him. "Now, I need you to come to the Plaza, I want to introduce him to everyone at once, that means you need to bring Frank and Holly too"
Helen agreed and once Mia had finished the call to her mother, she rang ahead to the Plaza and informed her Grandmere and her father that she was returning there and that her mother, Frank and Holly would be coming too. She did not tell them about Kenny. She simply said she had reached her decision about what she was going to do with her life.
By the time Mia got off the phone for the second time, the limo had pulled up outside the Plaza.
"Before we go in" Mia spoke to Kenny, "I have one more favour to ask you"
"Anything" Kenny smiled at her.
"If my baby is a boy, I know he must be called Phillippe after my father but his middle name will be Michael, I think even my Grandmere will allow me that, okay?"
"Mia, I will bring up your baby as my own but it will be first and foremost your child, you can call him or her any name you wish"
Mia smiled, she knew Kenny would understand. She got up and stepped out of the car door that Lars had recently opened for her.
"And Mia," Kenny said to her as he followed her out of the car, "If it's a girl, how about Michelle?"
"Thankyou" Mia smiled, taking hold of Kenny's hand, "for that and for everything you are doing for me and my child"
A/N : Please keep reviewing and I will post again ASAP!