Crackhead in Love
Chapter Seven: Date With the Night
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Oh, by the way, the next two chapters will be the last ones and then, this story will be finished. =)
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Saturday, December 13, 4:30 p.m.
A supplement was featured in the Sunday Times today.
And not just any supplement:
A SUPPLEMENT INCLUDING MIA!!!!!!
Seriously. She was in the newspaper, seeming to be modeling off these dresses.
I was at school for the afternoon, working even more on the computer program with the rest of the Computer Club (excluding Judith) when Judith walked in twenty minutes late and slammed the latest issue down in front of me.
"What?" I said, bemused. I looked down and saw Mia gracing the pages. My jaw must've dropped because Judith said:
"Well, it's not that surprising, Michael. I mean, she is a princess, after all. Isn't that what they do? Endorse things?" I looked at her like she was crazy.
"That's not like Mia," I said defensively. "At all. She is definitely not the type to go off and model someone's clothes."
"Well," Judith said, her nose wrinkled. She didn't seem too happy at me acting so hostile toward her. "I guess she is. It's right before your eyes."
I ignored her for the next hour until we all left.
The computer program is just about done. All of our working has definitely paid off.
My own private computer program for Mia is almost done as well. I just need to add a few minor details and it'll be finished. I wonder what she'll do…what she'll say…
When I came home, Lilly greeted me with the news (well, it wasn't really news anymore, seeing as I had seen it hours earlier).
"Yeah, I saw it," I said.
"Mia modeling…Never thought I'd see the day," Lilly said, proceeding to tell me about Mia's reaction.
Is it just me or has Lilly been acting nice lately?
Saturday, December 13, 6 p.m.
I sent Mia four e-mails, three of them including jokes and the one asking her about the supplement, wondering if she was thinking about abdicating. Ha ha.
I've been studying for my finals for the last ninety minutes. Isn't it convenient that Reading Day is on the second day of finals (sarcasm)? I don't suppose the finals will be too difficult. Not to brag, but I've passed with flying colors the previous three years here at AEHS.
Saturday, December 13, 8 p.m., the park
You know, it's not really the safest thing, being out in New York when it's dark out. But I've lived here my whole life and I have yet to be kidnapped so I guess that it isn't so dangerous. It's nice getting out of the apartment and just having a walk. It can really clear your thoughts…
Well, forget that part actually. I can't stop thinking about the Winter Carnival. How will Mia react to my computer program? What will she say? "I love you too, Michael," or "Oh…my…god. Ew…"
I realized I had a crush on Mia when I was a freshman. She was a sixth grader. Yeah, good going, Moscovitz. You're an obsessed stalker and a pedophile. It was never a particularly big crush though. But I found, during sophomore year, that my crush on her had grown bigger. Before Mia, I had had a crush on Samantha Baker. I had thought that she might like me back until she showed up at school one day, hand in hand with Josh Richter.
No wonder why I've always hated Josh.
Anyway, I was going to the movie theater and dinner with Lilly, Mia, and Felix (Lilly and Mia needed a ride, seeing as they were bored and it was raining really hard outside). I managed to sit next to Mia during the movie. Lilly didn't look too content at being stuck with Felix but he didn't seem to mind too much. It was a comedy…Mia makes this really cute face when she laughs. I kept looking at her to see if she was laughing at the parts I found funny too.
And she was.
My crush just sort of progressed from there and, last year, I realized that I had fallen madly in love with Mia.
Wow, how cliché does that sound?
It's getting colder by the second. I had better get back to the apartment.
Sunday, December 14, 11:50 a.m.
Lilly is at Mia's house to study. Boris just called and I guess he's going over to her loft too. I wish I could go. Why did God have to make me so old? Or, rather, older than Mia.
How did I fall in love with Mia? My younger sister's best friend? Honestly, how could I not? Mia's just…words can't explain it. She's so nice and sweet and so beautiful. Though she may have a lack of assertiveness, she's still such a great person to talk to, to be around.
No wonder why I love her.
Exams start tomorrow. I think I'll do well. People usually get so worked up about the finals but, really, it's no big deal. Especially since I already got excepted to Columbia, which was my first-choice college.
The Secret Snowflake exchange starts tomorrow. You're supposed to leave little gifts for your Snowflake and then, on the last day (which happens to be the day of the Winter Carnival and the Nondenominational Winter Dance), you have to get your Snowflake a big gift and reveal that you're their sender Snowflake person. Judith tried to get me to sign up but in the end, she gave up and huffily signed up herself.
Sunday, December 14, 12:20 p.m.
Paul just called me.
Me: Hello?
Paul: Hey, Michael. Did you see that supplement in the Su—
Me: (interrupting him) Yes.
Paul: Dude, Mia totally sold out.
Me: No, she didn't.
Paul: Then maybe you didn't see the same supplement as I did.
Me: Well, Lilly told me that Mia didn't know she was being photographed and the Sebastiano guy gave the pictures to the Times.
Paul: Yeah sure…she sol—
Me: (interrupting again) Bye, Paul.
And I hung up.
I hope that Mia doesn't believe that she "sold out." Because she didn't.
Damn Sebastiano.
Sunday, December 14, 3 p.m.
I just thought something.
Maybe Lilly was lying to me about Mia loving me and she wants to see me be humiliated in front of the entire AEHS student body. And maybe, probably, Kenny already asked Mia to the dance and she accepted. Because she loves him, not me. Why would she love me anyway?
I need to stop being so pessimistic.
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