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Michael Moscovitz was at home, his parents were at a banquet for one of the

many causes they supported, but he didn't know which one exactly. But he did know that

his sister was in her room next door with her best friend, Mia Thermopolis. He had heard

the doorbell, and knew it was Mia, this was the reason why he got to the door before

Lilly, and let her in the apartment. As soon as he had opened the door and saw Mia's

cheeks turn light pink, he realized he'd forgotten to put on a shirt.

Michaels POV

"Come in Thermopolis." Why do i call her that? "Lilly's around here

somewhere." Then as if on cue Lilly shouted from her room, "Quit flirting with Michael,

and get your butt back here. We have to get this weeks show ready."

At this Mia's cheeks turned a darker shade of red, and I know my cheeks were

pretty pink also. Luckily Mia said something, or we both would have stood there blushing

for hours. "O.K. Lil, I'm coming!", then to me, "Thanks Michael, talk to you later." She

gave me a small smile then walked back to Lilly's room. And that's where she is now,

while I'm in my room bored. God, how did I get a crush on my little sister's best friend?

Even I don't know the answer to that one. I just know that I've liked her for a while now,

it's not like she'd ever like me back. I'm her best friend's geeky older brother, but still I

can't help it. I'm such a loser. I'm sick of being in my room... I'm going to go watch Star

Wars, and I think I'll leave the shirt off, just in case.

No POV

"Mia, earth to Mia!" Suddenly Mia snapped back into reality. She had been

thinking about a certain senior, someone who she'd had a crush on for a long time, and

was afraid nothing would ever come of it. But she wasn't paying attention to Lilly... uh

oh.

"Sorry Lilly, I guess I lost my concentration." Lilly let out an annoyed sigh,

"Right Mia, anyways as I was saying, we need..." Lilly's voice slowly began to fade out

as Mia started to think about that certain someone, how she wished she could run her

fingers through his hair, and...

"Mia! Never mind. We're not getting anything done, what's the matter with you

tonight?"

"Nothing Lil. Just tired that's all."

"Tired? It's only 9:30.

"Sorry, Princess lessons took a lot out of me." She offered meekly. "Can we go

watch a movie? A nice chick-flick might be the cure.

"We might as well. We're not doing anything in here, except turn oxygen into

carbon dioxide." Lilly got up and left the room, with Mia following a second later.

Lilly's POV

But of course, Michael, my pathetic brother was in there already watching Star

Wars. "Michael can we please have the TV room, Mia's had a long day and the verdict is,

she needs a chick-flick." He looked at me like I'd grown another head, "Lilly, I'm

already here....oh, never mind, here you go." And then he left. My brother didn't put up a

fight, oh my gosh, it's a miracle. "OK Mia, what do you want to watch? Mia?" I turned

around, and she was gone... where did she go? "Mia!" I yelled, but of course got no

answer, maybe she's in the bathroom.

Mia's POV

I felt really bad for Michael. When I'd suggested watching a movie, I had no idea

that he was already in there. So I followed him out of the room and when Lilly couldn't

hear I said, "I'm so sorry Michael. When I suggested we watch a movie, I was just trying

to get Lilly off my back, I didn't even realize that you might be watching something

already."

"Don't worry about it Thermopolis, it's no big deal, really." Why does he call me

that?

"I just wanted to tell you, I didn't mean to just come in and kick you out, sorry." I

turned to leave.

"Quit apologizing, you have no reason to be sorry, I didn't want to fight with

Lilly, so i turned over the TV, If I was up for it though I bet you and I could get her to

cave and watch Star Wars." Then he looked thoughtful for a second, "Nah, she said

specifically, 'chick-flick'. Star Wars is definitely not a chick flick. Sorry." I had to laugh,

I don't know why-I just started and couldn't stop. "Thermopolis are you okay?" More

laughing from me. "Thermopolis? What's so funny....I know I'm funny, but not that

funny." I was laughing so hard I started to fall back, then to try to get my balance I threw

myself forward.... a little too hard. Michael put his hands on my arms, at least until I got

my balance. Then unfortunately he let go. "Um... thanks." That's all I could say. 'um...

thanks', how lame.

"No problem Mia, wouldn't want you to hurt yourself..." I didn't hear the rest of

what he said, because I realized he said, Mia, not Thermopolis, but he called me Mia!

Then I was grinning, I was happy, I couldn't help it. Of course Michael noticed this gave

me a weird look and said, "Are you OK? You're acting weird, Lilly wasn't kidding when

she said you had a long day. Why are you grinning?"

"Oh... um... I'm fine, just tired from princess lessons. Grandmere needs to take a

vacation, for her sake, and mine." Michael let out a small laugh, "She's that bad? How

bad can one little old lady be?" He asked so I told him, all of it, even about tilting the

bowl away from you to get the last few drops. About her constant nagging about

everything I do. All he did in response was take me by the shoulders and lead me back

into the TV room, and sit me down on their big fluffy couch, and then plop himself down

right next to me, I got a questioning glance from Lilly, but before I could say anything,

Michael said, "So...what are we watching?" With another glance at me, she finally

replied, "Star Wars." I looked at her in surprise, Lilly doesn't like Star Wars as much as

Michael and I do. I looked over at Michael, and he was just as surprised, but recovered

faster than I did and jumped up "to get some popcorn" and told me to stay put.

Lilly's POV

OK what is going on, Mia disappears, and then Michael comes in steering her by

the arms. He's up to something, and I'm going to figure out what it is. As soon as

Michael left to get popcorn, I told Mia I was going to go get drinks. "What are you up

to?"

"What are you talking about Lilly? I'm making popcorn."

"Michael don't give me that. I know you're in love with Mia.... you have been for

a while."

"Lilly, I'm not in love with Mia. She told me about her day, and so I brought her

in here and decided to stay. That's all."

"I know you like her, you've liked her for a long time, why don't you do

something about it?"

"Like what Lilly? Hypothetically speaking, if I did like her, if I said anything to

her, she'd probably run away screaming."

"Oh Michael, I wouldn't be so sure." Then I gave him a small smile and went

back to Mia.

Michael's POV

What is he talking about? She's just trying to get me to think Mia might like me.

My sister can be so cruel...geez, what's taking the popcorn so long?

No ones POV

Once everyone got into the TV room, all set with popcorn and soda, Star Wars

was finally turned on. Mia was aware of Michael being right beside her. What were

Michael and Lilly talking about in the kitchen, Lilly disappeared ad I know they were

talking about something. Am I imagining things or does Michael seem to be getting

closer to me. Ha. Must be imagining things. Wait what was that, oh my God, something

just touched my hand, I jerked it away. Then I looked at Michael to see if he felt it too, he

didn't look back at me but I could tell he was blushing, Michael touched my hand! I

didn't want him to think i was upset with him or anything, so I moved my hand to where

his was and slipped mine into it. I never took my eyes off his face, and when I put my

hand in his, his head turned so fast I thought he was going to hurt himself. I just gave him

a smile, and then turned back to the movie, but I can still feel his eyes on me, and I'm

starting to blush myself...

Michael's POV

Oh my goodness.... what does it mean? anything? nothing? ok...breathe. I'm back

in my room, the movie ended a couple of hours ago, and I just can't sleep. I had been

thinking about what Lilly said, and I scooted closer to Mia, and started to reach for her

hand, but she jerked it away. I saw her look at me out of the corner of my eye, but I kept

watching the movie. Then something amazing happened. She took my hand, she just put

her hand in mine and held it. I looked over at her, and she smiled. Then she started

watching the movie again. I looked at her for a couple of minutes. I couldn't help it, she's

beautiful. When the movie ended(way too soon), I relaxed my hand just a little. I didn't

want to be the first one to let go (cheesy I know, but so true), so we sat there watching the

ending credits, holding hands. Until Lilly asked Mia to go with her to work on the show

some more. Mia looked over at me gave me one of those beautiful smiles, and then

followed Lilly out of the room. So I took the movie out, and headed to bed...I've been

trying to make sense of it ever since.

Mia's POV

Ugh, it's only 3:30, I can't sleep. I keep thinking about holding Michael's hand,

ahhh. I think I'm going to get some Ice cream.

Michael's POV

Oh man, I've been tossing and turning all night, wait, its still dark... it's only 3:38.

Yikes, well if I'm going to be awake I might as well get something to eat.

No POV

Michael walked into the kitchen and since he knew his way around like the back

of his hand, so he didn't even turn on a light. but when he shut the cabinet, Mia, who's

been in the next room, got worried. so she crept back into the dark kitchen and she saw

someone over by the sink, so she crept around to the opposite counter, where the person

couldn't see her. But her plan to not be seen seemed to fail because right then the person

came right towards her. She edged over just enough for the person to get a spoon out of

the drawer and breathed a sigh of relief as they went into the dining room. Micheal sat in

the dark eating his ice cream, thinking about Mia. Of course, Mia was all he seemed to

think about. "Man, she's so beautiful. Why would she want to be with me? It'll never

happen." He sighed and started humming a couple of bars from "Tall Drink of Water".

Mia heard the mysterious person talking, and moved closer to hear what they were

saying, "Why would she want to be with me? It'll never happen." The voice sounded a

lot like Michael's but Mia convinced herself it couldn't be. Then *he* started humming a

song that sounded familiar, finally it registered. The song was the one Michael wrote,

"Tall Drink of Water", Michael was the one talking, and he was talking about her. He

liked Her. Then before she knew it she was walking up behind him, she tok a seet at the

table, "Oh, Michael, what are you doing up? I couldn't sleep, what else is there to do...

eat ice cream."

"Yeah....I couldn't sleep. Just thinking. How long have you been up?"

"Oh a while, I don't think I ever fell asleep."

"Yeah, I hear you, well I think I'm about done."

"Me too." They walked into the kitchen. Mia following closely behind Michael,

when she heard him drop her dishes into the sink, she moved forward put hers in then

said, "Well Michael, I should probably get to sleep. Lilly will probably be up nice and

early."

"Yeah, sure. Wait, Mia? about tonight...well...you weren't upset at me were you?"

He had taken a step closer.

"No, of course not." She took a step closer, afraid that Michael would be able to

hear her heartbeat. Now they were only inches apart.

"OK, that's good. Great actually." Michael leaned forward and closed up the

remaining space, and pressed his lips to hers. Tentatively at first, afraid she would pull

away, but instead she just smiled into the kiss, as they deepened it.

Mia's POV

Michael kissed me!! we were both in the kitchen and it just happened after about

20 minutes of kissing and whispering to each other, I told him I really did need to go to

bed...

Michael's POV

She said she had to go to bed...I didn't want her to go anywhere. I just grinned at

her, "I'm just praying this isn't a dream." Mia just smiled and then kissed me - she kissed

me!!