A/N: This is for robtaymattlouned, who so nicely forced me into updating, by bribing me with the next chapter of Standing In. I hope you all appreciate this quick update, and please review both this story, and robtaymattlouned's. The next one will be up tomorrow, in honour of Daydreamer_022's second birthday in a week, and it's the one where Michael spills all. Enjoy!

Michael's POV:

Lilly just got back to me, and apparently, Mia's coming over tonight for a sleepover. Usually, Mia's mom – Mrs Thermopolis – doesn't let Mia come and sleep over at our place on weeknights, but Lilly explained the situation and Mrs T got all excited and happy for her daughter, so she let her.

Which is good for me. Or not good … depends what happens really.

Lilly was unusually cheerful though, considering it's Monday and she still had a faint outline of a beard and moustache (heh, heh). Thank god no one's said anything about that, Lilly swore to me that if one single person mentioned that, she'd strangle me. Which, you know, is great incentive for me. To keep myself alive – Lilly doesn't joke when she makes death threats – I've basically spent all day going around to all her friends and telling them not to say a word. I think I told everybody.

Except Mia.

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Author's POV:

So this is how Michael came to be looking all over AEHS for Princess Amelia Renaldo. After looking in the G&T room, the cafeteria and the girls' bathroom, (Mia's friend, Tina kindly offered to look) he finally found her sitting in the library, writing in her journal and biting her lip … as usual.

"Hey Mia." He managed to get out before collapsing in exhaustion in the chair next to her. Michael may have a great body, but it doesn't mean he's very healthy. Eight years of eating hidden Mars Bars and bits of month old chocolate will do that to you.

"Oh, Hey Michael!" she exclaimed, snapping her Journal shut. ' I wonder if she was writing about me …' Michael thought, eyeing Mia and the journal oddly.

"So … not being ungrateful or anything, but … why are you here?" she asked carefully.

"Huh?" he'd forgotten what he came here to tell her at the wonderful sight of Mia chewing on her pen as she thought about what to write.

"Well?" she asked again slowly, tilting her head to the side.

"Oh right! Well, if you hadn't noticed already, that little joke we played on Lilly – which I still haven't gotten over – hasn't exactly … washed off completely." As he said this, he grinned, and his eyes misted over, as if he was remembering the whole prank all over again.

"Ohh." She giggles. "Poor Lilly."

"Yeah … Poor, poor Lilly."

They sat in silence for a few seconds before bursting out in loud peels of laughter at the same time. This earned a hefty glare from the librarian, who just pointed to a sign that read 'No Talking. Respect Others.'

They ignored this and Mia managed to get out "She still has …" before collapsing in another round of giggles.

"Yeah!" Michael tried to breathe and talk, which resulted in a very loud snort. This, of course, set them off laughing again.

Once they'd both stopped laughing and calmed down enough to string a coherent sentence together, Michael asked

"So are you coming overt tonight?"

"Yup. I don't know why my mom let me come though. We usually have a rule where I can't go out on weeknights to anything except Princess stuff. Not that I'm complaining of course!" she rambled, smiling at Michael the whole time.

"Cool. I'll see you tonight then?"

"Won't you be in G&T?"

"Nope, I've got a Computer Club thingy to do. Judith is forcing all the members into room 305 after lunch. Fun, fun."

"Oh. Ok. I'll see you tonight then." Mia couldn't help but feel disappointed. Michael couldn't help her with her algebra because of Judith.

Amelia Renaldo, for the first time, was jealous.

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Mia's POV:

So I'm sitting here in G&T, doing absolutely nothing because Michael has that Computer Club thing with Judith, and Lilly is bouncing off the walls about something.

All she says when we ask her what's up is "Wooo! Yes, Yes, Yes!!!" Which is so unlike Lilly it's not even funny.

Tom's in this class too though. He's sitting across from where I am and tapping out this little rhythm on the table with his headphones on.

I did try asking him what was up with Lilly though, and all he did, was smile this little smile and say

"Oh, I have no idea. Maybe she got some good news?!" then he started silently laughing. I don't see what's so funny. Must be a private joke I guess.

I also asked him if he knew what was up with Michael, as he'd gotten a lot closer today. It's not really like him. Tom just said he had no idea, but he had the secretive smile on again, so I'm not exactly sure whether to believe him. He did ask me why Lilly had grown a beard and moustache though.

Heh, heh, heh.

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Lilly's POV:

Woo! Tom likes me! Me!

I know I don't usually act like this but … Tom likes me! The actual guy I like, likes me back! This is great! Ok, excessive use of the exclamation mark there. I wonder what he'll do next. The ball is definitely in his court though, I know that much.

I also asked Mia's mom if Mia could sleep over. She seemed a bit hesitant to begin with, but once I'd explained about what Michael was going to do, she agreed fully, and even wished us luck. A mother's love is so nice to see. I think Mrs Thermopolis is a huge fan of the Lifetime Movie Channel though. Well, you know what they say … like mother like daughter.

Or in this case, like famous artist, like New York Princess.

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