Author's Note: THis is officially longer than the original. But I had to show some development in the characters so that's okay. There are about five or six more depending on how long I make them. Then you get to suffere through yet another one of my stories, aren't you excited?

Still Michael:

We walked out of my room so we could eat dinner (after a make out fueled shower), and Denis was cooking some burgers. "You guys want?"
He didn't seem surprised to see Mia there.
"I'll have some cereal," Mia offered. She was biting her tongue about the burger issue.
"I'll have one," I said.
"Where's Lilly?" Mia asked, taking some Captain Crunch from the cabinet.
"She was taping today. When did you get back?"
"Early today."
"Good to see ya Princess," he said with a wink at me.
"Uh sure."

We ate dinner together, the three of us. Denis ate with his mouth open, as usual. Mia couldn't hold back. "You should really picture that burger walking around on a farm grazing."
I laughed.
"Michael, what's so funny?" she demanded.
"Just picturing the cow walking around with lots of ketchup and maybe a little bit of cheese on it."
"The other cows would tease it," Denis piped up, laughing.
"And then my cow would get mad and beat the crap out of your cow."
Mia rolled her eyes. I held her hand under the table. "I should be getting you back home-"
"Lars is coming to get me in a few minutes."
"Oh. Okay then. Where is he meeting you?"

"Here silly," she said as she finished off the milk in her bowl. "I should make sure I have everything. I'll be right back."

Once she left the room Denis looked at me with a smile. "So that's why you've been holed up in your room all day and blew us guys off, huh?"
I shrugged and tried not to smile.
"So the moaning wasn't you all alone?" he asked.
I glared at him. This was private.
"Michael, I'm your best friend. I'm not gonna tell anyone."
"I'd rather not talk about it. Sorry."

I walked into my room where Mia was on her cell phone. "No, Tina, I'm not gonna talk about this with you. I- I gotta go...I'll see you later...okay, bye."
I came up behind her and laid down on my bed. "Enquiring minds...."
She laughed. "I had a good day today."
The expression on her face was priceless. "I'm happy."
"Me too."
"I adore you Mia Thermopolis."
"And I you, Michael Moscovitz."

I was walking on air after that afternoon. Not a single thing could make me be in a bad mood, except of course one thing. "I'm sorry, Michael. I just can't go out this weekend. My mom was soooo mad that I didn't go home instead of your place. She's still freaking out about reporters seeing me there."
"So what, you aren't allowed here, EVER?" I asked.
"I am, but not at night...not alone. If Lilly is there it is okay..."
"This is bull shit. Complete and utter bullshit."
I heard her shut her door. "Look, just come over here. She won't know. Lars can cover for us too."
"How is that?"
"I'll have him go over some plans for my security. I'll get to stay in my room and you can come up through the fire escape."
"Okay. Fine. I gotta go. I love you."

I got off work early on Thursday, our eight month anniversary, and decided to go see Mia during her lunch. I had class later on that day but I would have some time to see her. All the teacher's loved me there so they would let me in so I could see her.
I poked around her locker in between the periods. Then I realized that she probably wouldn't be coming back to her locker before she went to lunch, so I walked to the lunchroom and sat where she used to sit last year.
Kids started piling in quickly. A few gave me strange looks. Who wouldn't give strange looks to a guy carrying eight roses? I saw her enter the room with Eddie. I really don't trust that guy at all. Can't trust a man with a funny unexplainable accent. Lilly walked in behind them and saw me right away. She tapped Mia on the shoulder and pointed at me. Mia looked surprised.
She ran over to me, "What are you doing here?" she asked, hugging me tightly.
"Why don't you get a room?" Lana asked walking by.
"To give you eight roses. One for each month that you have been my girlfriend."
She smiled, "I thought you had forgotten!"
"How could I? That night was the most amazing evening of my entire life."
She looked around at the stares we were getting, then took my hand and led me out of the lunch room.
We walked into the G&T room. "We had some good times in here, huh?" I teased.
"I thought you had work today?"
"Geez, you sound really happy to see me. Sorry I'm messing up your day."
"No, not at all. Sorry, I'm just surprised, that's all. I just started getting used to having you NOT here and suddenly you are. A happy surprise," she promised.
I kissed her forehead. "How've you been feeling?" I asked. I had been worried that she'd still be in some pain after what we'd done. I hear a lot of girls are even after four days.
"Fine. I'm not a china doll, ya know. I can take it."
I smiled mischeviously, "Think you could tomorrow night?"
"If you successfully come to my room without my mom or Mr. G finding out, sure."
"Okay. Can I eat lunch with you?"
She nodded and led me back to the lunch room where we ate tofu burgers with French fries.

Can I just say how much I loathe and detest mid-terms? If not I am going to anyways because I can. My classes in general aren't too hard, but I just can't stand the exams. You write an essay, but the questions they ask you to write about can be simply stated in only a few sentences. Then you sit there and notice that everyone else is writing more than you did. You get paranoid and wonder if you had forgotten something. So you start writing again, adding more bullshit than you had originally planned. Vent concluded.
I hated studying all night long , but it was the only chance I had. I worked all day and tried to maintain a respectable standing in Halo. I am a loser. Plus, I hadn't gotten a chance to talk to Mia at all. I am a terrible boyfriend. I definitely do not deserve a girl who is as cool as Mia. A girl who will send a card once a week to my apartment so that I get some fun mail. She's amazing.
"Whatcha doing?" Sheila, from computers asked me, coming up behind me in the library.
"Trying to write a program..." I said, concentrating.
"Can I interest you in some coffee?"
I shook my head, "No, I hafta get this done. Thanks anyways. Say hi to everyone for me..." This girl had an obession with going for coffee.
She sat there for another minute, then got up and left. She was kind of weird.

Mia and I didn't get to see one another that weekend. She had to go to a benefit on Saturday night, and I had a gig in New Jersey on Friday night.
That was only a preview of the upcoming weeks. We would hardly ever got to see each other anymore. But I made sure one November day that I saw her.
I didn't tell her I was coming over. I wanted to surprise her completely. I walked up to her apartment, wearing layers of clothing because of the extreme temperature drop. I knocked on her door and her mom answered, "Oh, hi Michael. It's been awhile. Where've you been?" she asked, opening the door wide for me to get into the house.
"Busy with school and stuff. Is Mia around?"
"She's in her room with Eddie."
I must have made a weird face because then she said, "They have some big French project to work on that is due on Tuesday. You can go ahead in."
I walked down the hall and then knocked on her door.
"Mom, what is it?" Mia asked, opening the door wide. Her eyes grew big, "MICHAEL! It's so great to finally see you!" she exclaimed wrapping her arms around me, "I've missed you!"
"It's been awhile," I said softly. "Are you almost done here?"
"I can be," she said with a wink. "Eddie, can we do this like, tomorrow or something?"
He gave me a dirty look. "I can't. Mama and Papa are coming. We have mass, remember?"
She made a face. "Oh, right. But um, I haven't seen my boyfriend in a while, think I could leave for a little while?"
He rolled his eyes, "Fine. Whatever."
She smiled, "Where we going?" she asked, grabbing her coat.
"Get mittens."
She did.
"And your skates."
"Oh my gosh! I forgot! Today is the opening of the rink! Okay, must find skates..."
While she looked through her closet I looked at Eddie who was staring off into space. "So, where was it that you are from?" I asked him. "You just transferred here, right?"
"From New Hampshire," he said immediately.
Hadn't Mia said that he was from some place near Genovia? "Oh really, what part?"
"Near Nashua."
"Nice area."
"I know."
"So how close is that to Genovia anyways?"
His eyes turned huge, "What do you mean?"
"Well-"
"Come on Michael. Let's go. I'll be back later, okay Eddie?"

MIA:

We didn't discuss Eddie while we were skating though. We simply enjoyed on another's company. We held hands and kissed frequently. I tried to figure out why we hadn't seen each other in such a long time. Oh, that's right, because I'm a stupid princess, I forgot.
"Dinner?" he asked.
"No, I gotta get back to Eddie."
I saw hurt in his eyes. "Oh, right."
"But I'll be at your gig tonight," I promised. "And then we can go to your place and do whatever you want, okay?"
"Anything?" he teased as he kissed my forehead.
I looped my index fingers around his belt loops, "Anything."
"Do you have any idea how sexy you sound right now?" he whispered.
I smiled and bit my lip, "I try."
"I really have to let you go back to that weirdo upstairs?"
I rolled my eyes, "Don't be all jealous. He's only a friend."
"Where did you say he was from?"
"Cabonia," I replied instantly realizing that Eddie said something totally different. I couldn't remember though. "Well, originally. I forget where he just came from."
"Right. I'll see you tonight?"
"Absolutely," I replied.
"I love you."
"You too."

I went to the show with Lilly, Tina, Shameeka and Eddie. I noticed that some other girl was sitting in my seat. Well, I haven't been there in awhile, that's probably why. I wasn't going to say anything though. But Lilly did.
"Uh, hello, you are gonna have to move," Lilly said, walking up to the girl.
"E-Excuse me? No I don't. I am with the band."
"Oh really? How close are you to them?" Lilly said with her pug face.
"I'm good friends with the lead singer. So you can back it up a little honey."
"And what is your name?" Lilly continued.
"Sheila, not that it's your business."
"Well, Michael is my brother," she started, "And her boyfriend. Mia, have you ever heard him mention a Sheila?" Lilly asked me.
I shook my head. I didn't want to be mean to the girl. She just didn't know that you don't sit in those seats. But Michael sure did meet some winners while he was at school.
"So why don't you just back off, honey?" Lilly snapped.
"I was here first. I'm sure Michael will back me up on it-"
"Hey babe," he said, coming up behind me and kissing my neck. "Glad you made it."
I could swear Sheila threw a death look at me.
"Hey hon. I like the shirt," I said turning toward him. He was wearing the farting t-shirt I had given him last year.
"Some crazy chick gave it to me." He turned to Lilly and then saw his other friend, "Oh, hey Sheila. Didn't see you there. Where are you sitting?" he asked, tossing my coat onto my usual chair that Sheila had stood up from. "What about the kids from school?"
She opened her mouth to say something. "But I thought maybe we could..."
"Go get coffee afterwards?" he teased.
She laughed. What the hell? "Well, no. Maybe catch a movie or something."
"Well, I kind of have my girlfriend here. But the other guys are going with you, right?"
She didn't answer.
"Okay, Mia, I have an idea. Why don't you sit right behind this curtain? You can get the best look from there. Lilly should too...for Denis ya know? Shameeka, Eddie and Tina can sit at this table," Michael suggested, ignoring the red head.
He had never suggested this before so I agreed and Lilly and I went backstage with him. She went off to find Denis so Michael and I could be alone.
"Who is that chick?" I asked after he kissed me more sufficiently.
"Oh, just some girl from computer class. Is it bad that I want to skip my gig and make out with you instead?"
I put on a dramatic face, "Hmmm, no. Because I want you to do that as well."
"Okay, just stay here and I'll be back in an hour or two, okay?"
I kissed him softly, "I'll wait."