Inside The Warped Minds of the Moscovitz Family
Summary: All four of the Moscovitzes are writing in their journals after Michael and Mia were caught in the janitor's closet. Since I don't know the Drs. Moscovitz first names, I'm making them up.
Characters: All four members of the Moscovitz family.
Disclaimer: Basically, anything and anyone you recognise belongs to Meg Cabot.
Lilly's POV:
Monday, November 16th
Fact: My brother has a thing for my best friend and vice versa.
Fact: They made out while my brother (hearby known as Michael) was supposed to be tutoring my best friend (hearby known as Mia).
Fact: At the time, Mia had a boyfriend.
Fact: After making out with Michael, Mia broke up with said boyfriend.
Fact: Michael and Mia avoided each other all day after said make-out fest.
Fact: Michael and Mia ended up making out in the janitor's closet after school, somehow managing to give Mia's bodyguard, Lars, the slip. (Don't ask me how they did it, because I have no idea.)
Fact: They got caught by Principal Gupta.
Fact: Both are in major trouble with their parents.
Fact: Neither one of them has bothered to tell me.
Fact: After writing all of the above down, I still can't believe it!
Okay, now that it's in cold writing, I'm really trying to accept this.
HOW COULD THEY DO THIS????!!!! AND HOW COULD THEY NOT TELL ME!!??!!??!!
As you can obviously tell, I am not in the acceptance faze.
How come I'm always the last one to know, hmmm? I mean, since Mia and I are best friends, you'd thing she'd observe the law that says you tell your best friend everything, and before anyone else. (Okay, I may not observe this all the time, but when does Mia observe this? Hardly ever.)
But nooo, I don't get special privileges just because we're best friends and have known each other forever.
You think this is a one-time thing? Hah!
First, the whole princess thing. Then, going out with Josh Richter. (Ew.) Then, the fact that she was getting interviewed by Beverly Bellerieve. Then, the fact that her mother had been impregnated by Mr. Gianini.
And now this. God, before you know it, they'll be pulling a Josh Richter/Lana Weinburger on me and start having suck-face fests 24/7!
How did I find out? Simple. I overheard Mom and Dad talking, confronted them, and dragged the truth out until I knew everything. I came here to my room to try and take this calmly.
Hasn't worked yet.
Okay, that's it. I am a self-actualized being, unlike some people I could mention. I do not have a fear of confrontation. I am going to go to Michael's room and tell him calmly and rationally how I feel.
Then I'm going to beat the stuffing out of him.
Michael's POV:
Monday, November 16th
I'm still a little bit in shock. I mean, Mia's my-well, I guess she's my girlfriend. I'm dating Mia Thermopolis. God, does it feel good to write that! No more jealously of Kenny, no more having to annoy Lilly while Mia's here just to get her attention…
This is great! So I have detention for a week. So what? I'm dating Mia Thermopolis. And I made out with her. Twice.
I've been looking for a CD to listen to that matches my mood, but so far, nothing. Linkin Park's album is mostly harsh, angry stuff that I listen to when I'm in a really pissed-off mood. Staind, uh-uh. Too depressing. P.O.D's song Alive would be good, but I lent that to one of my friends.
Unfortunately, Lilly found out. And boy, is she pissed. This is worse than the time I flushed her teddy bear down the toilet and it got stuck and we had to call the plumber, who charged a fortune and made my father shake his head over the state of the world and its children today.
I don't think it's so much the fact that it's Mia I made out with, but that neither of us filled her in. At least, that's what I gathered from her ranting.
After reading me the riot act, Lilly warned that if I ever, EVER hurt Mia in any way, she would be forced to to kill me and then hide the chopped-up remains of my body in the walls of the apartment.
Right now, she's on the phone giving Mia the same warning.
All things considered, she took this pretty well.
Kate Moscovitz's POV:
Monday, November 16th
My son made out with the princess of Genovia. Twice.
I can't believe this!
I mean, every day I help women who can't believe what their children have done. But still…
I should be taking this calmly and rationally. I mean, my son may be practically a genius, but he's still a bunch of walking hormones. And putting an attractive girl like Mia in front of him all the time…well, it was practically inevitable that something like this would happen.
But the realization that my son has had feelings for this girl for eight years…Good Lord, most people can't even manage to stay married for eight years! And he was nine. Nine! How is it possible that my son fell in love when he was nine years old and managed to stay in love with the same girl for eight years?
Of course, I know that Michael's not to be judged by other people's behavior. His mission in life is to go against the grain and to be as much of a non-conformer as possible. Which is great, since all the great minds in history were non-comformists, but honestly!
I have to admit, I'm a little alarmed. The fact that Michael's a senior and Mia's a freshmen is a matter for concern. Not to mention the fact that Mia's father looked ready to explode in the principal's office.
I'm still trying to figure out how they managed to get rid of Mia's bodyguard at the school to make out in the janitor's closet. I mean, I've seen the man. And his gun.
I always knew Michael had ingenuity, still, I'm at a loss.
And the janitor's closet. Good grief, of all the places to-well, really, I know Paul and I did the same thing in college, but for the love of God-
Oh, I'm too emotional to deal with this right now. Michael's got to be punished, I know that, but how do you punish your child for confronting his problems head-on and dealing with his emotions? I mean, I've been complaining for years that Michael's got a problem with verbalizing his emotions. Rather like Mia, now that I come to think about it…
I almost forgot, Lilly found out. And as I'd feared, she threw a fit. I can't really blame the girl, since her brother had fallen for her best friend, of all people.
However, I'm almost positive we'll get complaints from the neighbors about Lilly's yelling. I really must talk to her tomorrow about her problem with verbalizing her emotions calmly. As much as I hate to admit it, Lilly does have a borderline authoritarian personality disorder.
Tomorrow, I'll write more. Now, I'm just too tired. Thank God for Maya, since I couldn't handle cleaning up after dinner right now.
Paul Moscovitz's POV:
11/16
I'm really trying to take this calmly. There is really no point in getting upset over this. This does not reflect on my abilities as a parent or a psychoanalyst. Michael has always been secretive. That's just how he is.
But how can this NOT reflect on my abilities? Somewhere over the past eight years, I should have realised that Michael had feelings for Mia.
Now that I think about it, they were signs all over the place. The way his face lit up whenever Mia would walk in, why he'd always find excuses to go into Lilly's room when Mia was here, why he was tutoring her in algebra when he could be working on Crackhead! …Michael loves working on Crackhead!, and he gave up time he usually spent on that to help Mia.
For some reason, I didn't realise that his reasons weren't exactly altruistic.
I'm really not sure now why I didn't see this coming. Mia is a very attractive girl, and Michael's only human, after all. Something was bound to happen.
I really hope her parents aren't too upset. Helen Thermopolis and Kate have become friends over the years, and I'd really hate something like this to ruin their friendship.
Lilly, obviously, didn't take it well. Actually, for her she did. Lilly never really has a problem speaking her mind, and the uppermost thing on her mind, evidently was making up a list called Fifty Ways To Decapitate Your Sibling.
What a day. Kate and I still have to come up with a reasonable punishment. On one hand, it is a good thing, him facing his emotions and acting on them, which is what we've been preaching to Michael and Lilly all their lives. But really though, the janitor's closet? So Kate and I did the same thing in college. We were in college and we were adults. But Mia's the princess of Genovia, for God's sake.
We'll decide tomorrow morning. Thank God, Principal Gupta is so discreet, otherwise this would be on the front page of the New York Post tomorrow.