Chapter 20

A/N Okok- I haven't updated any time recently, but finals are next week! And I actually care a great deal about my scores, seeing I will probably be disowned by my fanily if I don't get an A at minimum... just to keep my readers (anyone?) satisfied until then, I've written this chapter! So then, this review is for my reviewers- Sasha, Amazonchick88, Frankie, Cherry Daze, and PrincessVampire.

Disclaimer: I own neither Nicola and the Viscount, nor The Princess Diaries.

Mia sat cross-legged on her bed, frowning at the diagram. There were lines, going through the spaces between squares, but one big rectangle lay in its path -or perhaps was the destination-, and on that rectangle was a big cross and a question mark. Mia squinted to read the small print, and was schocked and confused to read Genovian Royal Park.

The Genovian Royal Park was one of the most beautiful areas in Genovia, the lovely flowers spread vast and thickly, there were quiet walks along streams, ducks to feed at the crystal lake, and hills in abundance. It was a huge park graced with amazing beauty and Mia wondere what the Richters had to do with it.

Mia squinted harder, and made out the words theme park. What was a theme park? Suddenly, Mia undestood all the business about the rollercoaster. The Richters were going to build a bunch of rollercoasters in the Genovian Royal Park! Such hideous machines, people everywhere, and rubbish polluting Mia's favourite place... but they would never get to it. She would never let them... the cheek, to think of such a horrible thing!

How had they planned to get hold of the Genovian Royal Park, anyway? Only members of the Genovian Royal family had a claim over the park... and their spouses, of course.

Mia felt disgusted. When she married Josh, that meant he'd have a claim over the Genovian Royal park... and he was free to do whatever monstrous things he could come up with! He'd still have to fight Mia for it, though, because she was the one with Genovian blood. Unless he was counting on her to be love-sick enough to give in. Mia cursed herself.

Josh was right, though, she was infatuated with him. She hated him for being so rightly confident of himself, haten him for his deviousness. Had it not bee for Michael's warning, the beautiful Genovian Royal Park would soon become nothing more than a getaway for excitement- seekers. It would be a tourist attraction still- but for its theme park, and not for its beauty. Thankfully, Michael had warned her.... Michael.

Mia knew she had to get away for the Richters immediately, and denounce her acceptance of Josh's proposal. Her family was away, and Mia had nowhere to go, but to the Moscovitzes. Mia gathered her possessions in her suitcase, hoping that Michael would not gloat about how she'd been wrong all along about Josh, and began her lonely walk to his home.