Whoa, review-happy, calm down. Breath. Lol. That was the second part of the last chapter, not the second part of the total LAST chapter. Sorry. There are twenty chapters altogether, so there's... three after this one.

Haha, two days is not an eternity. But anyway, I'll only make you wait half a day for this next chapter. Ok?

And YAY!!! Wildchild you read "Guitar Girl"!!! Check your email because there might be a little something in there for you (like the next chapter). So everyone else go out and get the book cos there's goodies for you too!

Disclaimer: Yada yada yada, Meg Cabot owns everything you recognise.

Oops, I just realised for most of my disclaimers I've been writing that she owns everyone you DON'T recognise. I'm such a dumbass, but I think you get that I mean she owns everyone you DO recognise. If I can be bothered I'll edit it, but meh, she's not gonna sue, right? Right?

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Michael's POV...

I am such an idiot.

I totally stuffed things up. I'd be surprised if Mia ever speaks to me again.

When she opened her door I acted like a total loser, whining about everything, "I stuffed things up... I can't manage to fix them.... I'm not assertive enough..." blah blah blah. I'm surprised she didn't tell me to grow up. I would have if I were her.

And then, fool that I am, I kissed her and she flipped out. That's right, she flipped out!

Not exactly the type of reaction I'd been hoping for.

So now what am I going to do now? Call Lilly and blame her? I can't do that, much as I'd like to. But she said I wasn't allowed to blame her any more, and besides, it's not her fault Mia flipped out. It's mine. I shouldn't have done anything about it. I should have just accepted the fact that she's with Alex, and that she's happy.

He's a good guy. At least he seems it anyway.

I hope they're happy together. I really, really do.

Or, maybe I really, really don't. But what am I going to do about it? What CAN I do about it?

Absolutly nothing.

* * *

It's been three days, and Mia has DISAPPEARED. I haven't seen her around school at all. I've been looking out for her, in case I see her, so I can go the other way, but I haven't seen her at all. Either she is doing the avoiding thing too, and is just better at it than me, or she hasn't been back to school since.

As far as I can tell, Lars isn't here either, so at least she has her bodyguard with her, just in case something did happen. Which I'm sure it didn't. I'm sure she's just doing a really good job of avoiding me. Right?

Unsure, I picked up the phone and dialed her dorm number.

"Hello?" a female voice I didn't recognise as Mia's picked up the phone.

"Hello! This is Rick from the College radio station, can I speak to Mia Thermopolis please? She has won an exciting prize!"

Ok, so it was a lie. But I couldn't call up to see if she was there as myself, could I? I just hope neither Mia or her room mate actually listen to the college radio, because I completly made up the name Rick, in fact, I don't even know if we have a school radio station.

"Oh wow! But Mia isn't here, can I accept the prize? What is it?"

"I'm sorry, this prize is for Mia only, do you know where she is or when she'll be getting back?" I said in my best MoviePhone guy impersonation.

"She called me yesterday, she's staying at her mom's for a few days because of something that happened the other night. She should be back soon though."

What? She's missing school to stay at her mom's for a few days because of what happened with me? This is bad. This is really bad. What if she drops out of school and never comes back, for fear of seeing me again? What if she ruins her life over this?

It's really great to know I've ruined not only my life, but her's too.

"Ok, I'll call back in a few days!" My happy MoviePhone tone had deflated. I hung up.

* * *

"Hey, man." Felix surprised me by coming up to me outside the school building.

"Felix! What are you doing here?" I asked, puzzled.

"I came to see how you're doing. I haven't spoken to you since the gig, and you seemed pretty messed up."

"Yeah, well not much has changed. Except they've seemed to go from bad to worse."

"Really? Do you want to talk about it?"

"You don't have to bother yourself with my problems, mate."

"It's no problem, I wouldn't mind hearing about someone elses problems for a change. I'm having problems with my girl too. Come on, let's go get a burger or something."

Promises of a burger wore me down, I followed him out of the school and into a local fast food place.

"So what's up?" he asked me.

Where to start?

"Um, I broke up with Holly."

"Good for you! I knew she was no good. I mean, sure she was hot, but she didn't have anything going on up there," Felix pointed to his head, indicating his brain.

"Yeah, you could say that," I thought, thinking of our computer classes, which she never resumed by the way.

"So what made you do it? Did your 'tall drink of water' finally show some signs of reciprocating your feelings?"

There was no point lying to him. What good would that do?

"Not exactly. I just figured I had to do something about it myself, take a chance."

"And how'd it go?"

"She flipped out."

"Ooh, burn!" he said enthusiastically.

"Yeah, tell me about it."

"So what are you going to do now?"

"Nothing. I don't think there is anything I can do. She obviously doesn't feel the same way, so even if she breaks up with this boyfriend of hers, I won't do anything about it. It's over."

"She has a boyfriend? And you still went after her? Dude, you are my hero! Too bad it didn't work out though."

At least I was someone's hero. Because I don't feel like much of a hero myself.

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