Disclaimer: Okay the characters in this story belongs to Meg Cabot, except Prince Briceon Alexander Dante Stward, and Patrick. The song NOVEMBER RAIN belongs to the band Guns 'N Roses. The story line is mine.

Summary: Begins where chapter 2 leaves off. Brice is at the cabin. Can't say anything else or it will give the chapter away.

A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up, I have been on my death bed (I don't take being sick well).

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~Chapter Three~

As soon as the door to the cabin was unlocked Mia grabbed Brice's had a durg him to her room. "Are you that pleased to see me?" Brice asked.

"No, actully I'm not happy at all. What the hell are you doing here?" Mia folded her arms.

"I wanted to suprise you." Brice tried to kiss Mia but she pulled away.

"You were suppose to give me four days to be with my friends. You came here to spy on me." Mia glared at him.

"Ofcorse not, but for me to say that I am enjoying the fact that my wife is staying in the same cabin as her former lover would be a lie." Brice replied.

"Hold up! First of all I'm not your wife yet! Secondly, Michael my be my former lover, he was and always will be a close friend. You have no reason to question that." Mia exclaimed.

"I'm soory, I just wanted to spend time with you and your friends." Brice tried to kiss her again but Mia pulled away again.

'He's as bad as Kenny was!' Mia thought. That's when she noticed the a rose and the picture laying on the bed. "Um...Brice, why odn't you go down stairs and get aquanted with my friends. I'm going to change." Mia smiled.

"Oh sure, don't be too long." he saind as he walked out of the room making sure the door was still cracked.. 'I don't know how long I can stand the peasants myself.' he thought. Brice watched Mia undress, that's when he noticed something he hadn't seen before. Mia had a tattoo of a heart on her hip, there were letters written across it. It took him a minute to read it, Brice was out raged. He was seeing red as he walked down stairs.

Mia changed into a pair of cut off jean shorts, her Greenpeace tee shirt, and a pair of flip flops. She pulled her hair into a pony tail. Then she picked to the rose and the picture and put them into her night stand.

Michael was outside one th lower deck firing up the grill. Him and Lars had planned to grill some hamburgers and hot dogs (of course they bought specail veggie burgers to gril for Mia). To his suprise Brice came out thier. "What's going on?" Michael tried to play nice.

"I just wanted to make sure that we had an understanding about Mia." Brice said.

"And what would that be?" It was everything Michael could do to keep from knocking the shit out of Brice.

"That once you all leave this cabin you will not try to contact her, you won't call, or write, or e-mail, or instant messeneg, you will have nothing more to do with her." Michael said.

"It must really piss you off knowing that I have a peice of Mia that you'll never be able to touch." Michael said.

"It doesn't bother me that you had sex with her. Everyone makes mistakes." Brice said.

"I'm not talking about making love to her, even though that was really great." Michael said knowing that he struck a nerve, "I was talking about her heart. I still have her heart. I know that you have tried to make her fall in love with you. You gave her Harry Winston dimonds, and all kinds of expensive gifts. Mia isn't a material girl. You have to open up to her."

"You may have her heart, but she belongs to me. Stay away from her." Brice walked back into the cabin and into Lars.

Lars walked out on to the deck. "Lars, I don't know see how you put up with that asshole." Michael set down in one of the chairs.

"It's hard, but I have been putting up with royals for a long time. What bothers me is the fact that I think of Miss Mia as a daughter and I know that all Prince Briceon is going to is hurt her." Lars said. "Miss Mia is the easiest assignment I have had."

"I'm sure we gave you a few problems." Michael smiled.

"Not really." Lars smiled. "The only problem I had was when Miss Mia was a freshmen at Harvard and you came in for the weekend. She spent the night at your hotel and Prince Phillipe came to the dorm at around 8 in the morning to see her."

"I remember that, we were so busted. I still don't know how you pulled off getting us out of trouble." Michael laughed. "We had some good times though."

"Yeah, I would much rather be protecting you and Miss Mia than that pompus ass!" Lars said.

"Mary Poppins doesn't show Mia that side does he?" Michael asked.

"Of course not, he treats her good, but it's a lie." Lars said.

"He'll slip up."

"I hope that it doesn't come to that." Lars replied.

"Do you think I should tell her the truth?"

Brice went back into the cabin and found Mia sitting with Lilly and Tina (who was reading another romance novel) in the living room. "Brice," Mia smiled, "This is Lilly and Tina, my best friends."

"It's nice to meet you." Brice smiled. "Mia I was wondering if we were going our to dinner tonight?"

"No, Michael and Lars are making grilled veggie burgers. Well, they are making real animal fat too." Mia said.

"Of course." Brice said then walked into the other room where Wahim and Patrick (Brices bodygaurd) were chatting. Mia didn't get it, How come all the bodygaurds know each other?

"So, do you think the Prince has ever had a grilled veggie burger?" Lilly laughed.

"No, he's a carnivor." Mia said.

"Him and all the other men on this trip!" Lilly laughed. "I still can't belive your getting married."

"I thought we wern't going to talk about it." Mia said.

"When he showed up here, that changed. I thought he knew it was a trip for you." Lilly said.

"I know know why he showed up." Mia said.

Tina looked up from her book, "He called while you were unpacking. He said that he was comeing and for me not to say anything. I thought you would be happy." Tina said.

"Come on." Mia said. "There's alot you need to know."

Knowing that Brice could come into Mia's room at anytime the girls went into Lilly's room. "Okay, what's going on? Why is it so bad that Brice is here?" Tina was really confused.

"A lot of things." Lilly said locking the door and setting down with Mia and Tina.

"I'm not marrying Brice because I want too. I sorta have too." Mia said.

"You mean, an arragened marrige?" Tina asked.

"Not exactly, I have to be married by my 21st Birthday." Mia said.

"I'm still not sure why marrying Brice is so horrible. He seems nice enough to me." Tina said.

"Tina, your telling me that after reading all those romance novels you still haven't figured out that Mia is still in love with Michael?" Lilly asked.

"Your kidding, really." Tina started to get all giggly.

"So much that our friend here has done something stupid for him." Lilly said. "Mia show her."

"Lilly you promised you would tell anyone." Mia said.

"Tina isn't anyone, she's our best friend." Lilly said.

"Okay." Mia got up held her shirt up and pulled her shorts down alittle to reveil a tattoo. It was a broken heart wraped around it was a banner that read 'Michael'.

"Mia, does Brice know about that?" Tina asked as Mia pulled her shorts back up.

"No, nobody knows except Lilly cause she was with me when I got it done and now you. It's a big secrate, you can't tell anyone." Mia said.

"I won't, but won't Brice find out about it on your honeymoon?"

"I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." Mia said.

"Mia, I don't understand all of the this. If you are in love with Michael then why won't you marry him?" Tina asked.

"Well, he fell out of love with me." Mia said sadly.

"Mia you can't fall out of love with someone." Tina argued.

"Michael did, that's the only explaination that would fit. We had a great relationship. We spent alot of time together, well as much as we could. I was a sophmore at Harvard when he broke up with me. We would spend Thanksgiving together in New York, at Christmas he would come with me to Genovia. Then for a month out of the summer he would come to Genvoia, and I had spring break in New York. Every other weekend he came to Boston.

"A month after I went to New York for Spring break Michael came to see me. I knew there was something wrong. I could feel it in the way he hugged me and the way he kissed me, and the fact that he barrly kissed me. We went back to his hotel room and he told me we need to talk. He told me that he loved me, but it wasn't enough to make our relationship work. He said that the traveling was getting hard on him and so was not seeing me everyday, and that he had to end the relationship." Mia explaied.

"That's it, that's the reason that you think he feel out of love with you?" Tina asked.

"Yeah." Mia's eyes were tearing.

"I think there some evil force behind this." Lilly said.

"I don't think Grandmere has that much nerve. She knew how much Michael ment to me. Besides, Dad told her if she stuck her nose into Michael and my relationship that she was in trouble." Mia sniffled.

"I thik she oes, after all she's pure evil. She's the wone who tried to make you eat meat, she gave to tourcher lessons, outed you to the media, tried to make you rmom have a big wedding, the there was the fac that she gave those pictures of you modling those dresses to the New York Times (A/N:I think that's right), when you and Michael got together she tried to give Michael a hair cut, and then-" Lilly rambled.

"Okay, I get the point, she's evil. Making my boyfriend break up with me isn't really her style."

"You mean she has style?" Lilly laughed.

A little while later dinner was served. Mia was walking out on the deck when Michael grabed her arm. "Mia, once Brice goes to sleep I need you to meet me on the up stairs deck on the swing. We need to talk." Michael told her.

"Okay." Mia said.

Late that night, Mia layed on the edge of her bed, with one butt cheek hanging off. There was no way she was about to get close to him, 'he might get ideas', she thought. Once she was sure Brice was asleep she walked out on the deck. Michael was setting on the sweing. "I didn't think would come." Michael hugged her tightly not wanting to let go.

To Be ConTiNueD????