A/N : Well, I told you didn't I? More reviews = faster updates! Here is the next chapter but before we get to that I'd just like to thank the following people who reveiwed chapter 10; anastasia, little-princess, WNtrumpet, max4cast, reyn, Meg*, Phoebe, sapofbks2002 and the one anonymous reviewer too.

Now onto the next chapter...

Disclaimer : Meg Cabot owns all the characters and I don't!

"You can still change your mind" Helen Thermopolis-Gianini assured her daughter as she noticed a single tear gauge a line through the previously perfect make-up on Mia's face.

"I can't" Mia told her, with a shaky voice, "I'm doing this for my baby and my country"

"You should be doing it for yourself too" her mother told her, but she acted as if she hadn't heard her and tried to fix the make-up that had been spoilt by the water from her eyes. She was only grateful that she had been allowed to get married in America and not Genovia. In the back of her mind she still hoped against hope that Michael might come back to her and she wouldn't actually have to go through with this marriage to Kenny, but if she was honest, she knew it wasn't going to happen.

"The cars here! The cars here!" Holly called, excitedly. Mia smiled, at least one person was truly happy about her wedding. The child came running into the room where her mother and half-sister were.

"The cars here!" she repeated, "Your Daddy wants to know if your ready"

"Yes" Mia told her, "Ready as I'll ever be"

As she stepped out of the room, her mother one side and Holly the other, she was met by her father (Phillippe), her Grandmere (Clarice), her step-father (Frank) and her bodyguard (Lars). They were all overwhelmed by how beautiful Mia looked in her wedding gown, with her styled hair and, now perfect again, make-up. Her father was as proud as he had ever been in his life, if not a little uncomfortable at the fact his daughter was marrying a man she did not love on the say so of her Grandmere and himself.

"Let's go" said Mia quietly, taking the arm her father offered her, and heading out of the front door into the crowds of press and public, towards the car that would take her to her wedding.

One hour.

Michael knew that in one hour Mia would be married and he would truly have lost her forever. For a whole week, he had thought about Mia and Kenny. He had tortured himself, telling himself to get over her because she probably loved Kenny and not him. he probably loved Kenny all the time, right from when she went out with him at high school, but he knew it wasn't true. He had to admit that Mia did love him and he loved Mia and the only reason it was Kenny at the alter today and not him was because he had been an idiot. Michael knew it was too late now, you can't change the past. He had refused to marry the girl he loved - how stupid was he? He had had reasons but were they enough to constitute living in pain like this?

Fifty minutes.

That's all there was before Mia became Mrs Showalter. All of a sudden Michael was on his feet, he felt sick, he felt dizzy, but he was up and active. His body was not used to sudden movement after so many days of stillness and when he threw open the curtains the light almost blinded him, but he was determined in what he was going to do. In minutes he had forced his body into a shower and the into the first clean clothes he could lay his hands on, before picking up the phone and dialling his sisters' number.

"Hello" she said.

"Lilly! Where is it?!"

"Michael?" Lilly was stunned to hear his voice. "What's going on? Where's what?"

"The wedding, where is Mia getting married?" Michael continued loudly and impatiently, desperately trying to tie his second shoe.

"Er, St. Joseph's ," Lilly told him, "but, why?" she asked. (A/N: I made up the name of the church)

She got no answer to her question. She heard him yell 'thankyou' and then the line went dead.

"Who was that?" Lilly's boyfriend, Boris, asked her as she hung up the phone.

"My brother" she smiled, now, "I think he may have finally come to his senses!"

A/N : Well, are you on the edge of your seats? If you are, hang in there cos the next chapter is coming soon. Just one more chapter and the epilogue, I think. Please don't forget to review.