The Princess Diaries
(Version 3.4)

Title: Mia, Oh Mia

The Intro

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Hi everybody, my name is Amelia Thermopolis. Actually, it's Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, Princess of Genovia. What a long name eh? Well, you can call me babe for short. Nah. Just kidding, you guys can call me Mia for short. Now I want you to guess my age. No, I'm not 20, I was that years ago. But neither am I 60 either. Gosh, you people are real nutters. How can a 60-year old woman have such flawless skin like I do? Happy guessing then.

But then again, since I'm in such a good mood, I shall enlighten you people. Be happy. I am 44 years old today! Aren't I young and pretty? Mind you, I bet I could pose as your older sister and know one would know a thing.

WHAT!!! You guys don't believe that I am the PRINCESS OF GENOVIA??? But I am!!! I REALLY AM!!! You people are really TOO MUCH!!! I shan't tell you anything anymore. Period.

But then again, something nice happened to me exactly 30 years ago, which I hope to share with you. So, you're forgiven. Again.

Those were the best days of my life. Ever. It all started when.

It was the summer of 2003-

" the bridges got burn, now it's your turn, to cry, cry me a river.!!!''

" Oh Mia, please shut up! Before the neighbours start to grumble!"

" Oops.sorry mum!"

" Now please get ready for school!"

" Done!"

Mia whistled happily to herself as she made her way past the living room into the cozy kitchen. She then planted herself into her favourite seat by the window before helping herself to some toast.

As she reached for second helping of toast, she clumsily knocked against the milk jug. Milk flowed fast and free, dirtying the tablecloth.

" Ooops.I'm so sorry!" " Here, let me help" As she said that, her leg kicked against the leg of the table, causing the table to shake which in turn caused the coffee from the tea cups to spill over.

Her mother stood still, mouth wide open. Her face was a livid red. For a while, there was absolute silence in the house, except for the ticking of the grandfather clock in the hallway.

Mia knew she was in deep trouble. She knew how much her mother loved that tablecloth. Her dead father gave the beautiful tablecloth to his wife. Now she, Mia, had spoiled the only memory of her father.

Mia looked up at her mum, fearing for the worst. But all her mother said as calmly as she could was: " Shouldn't you be on your way to school?"

"Yeah"

Mia got her bag and headed for the door.

I am such a mushroom head! Now I have made her both sad and angry.

Mia trudged along the sidewalk, her good temper turning bad.

" Yo, Mia!" "Wait up!" the voice belonged to her best friend, Lily Moscovitz.

" Huh? What? Oh, hi" Mia said in a dull tone.

" Hey, wassup mate? You don't look too happy to see me."

" It's not that, it's just.I made my mum angry again."

" Oh.so that's what bothering you, cheer up mate, listen, guess what Harry did yesterday?"

" What did he do yesterday?"

"Oh.he was so sweet to me yesterday.he brought me to this chic little restaurant an."

Mia tuned out Lily's chatter, in a world of her own. Soon, they reached the entrance of Elbert Einstein high school.

" .and then we kissed."

"Hey! Were you even listening to me? I bet you weren't right? What is wrong with you today?"

" I'm sorry, I was just thinking about mum"

" So you only care about your mum is it? What about me? Your best friend? Or should I say ex-best friend?

With that, Lily stomped off, leaving Mia all alone in the sea of people.

Great, now my best friend's also angry with me.I have a really bad feeling that today's gonna suck.

And boy, was she right.

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Mia felt her face turning red for the millionth time. All day long, whenever a teacher called upon her to answer her question, she would just shrug her shoulders because she wasn't paying attention. How could she pay attention when everything in her life was so disorientated? So horrible or so to speak, ew? And every time she got caught, her classmates would just snigger especially Lily the loudest.

It was as though everyone was out to get her.

"I.I don't know the answer, sir."" Mia said in defeat.

"Well, well, well, what have we here? A dumb student!" said the Professor. "It is such a simple question yet you don't know the answer? You have utterly disappointed me, Mia."

"And I thought you had the potential." " I guess I was wrong"

The rest of the class acted as if on cue and began to snigger loudly.

" Brr.ing. Brr.ing."

" Ah, you may think this is all over, Mia, but it's not!"

" You will still get your punishment!"

" To make it fair, everyone but Mia will have no homework for today!"

The whole class cheered loudly.

" As for you.you shall write an essay on this topic, no less than 1000 words, to be handed in to me by the next lesson, is that understood?"

" Yes sir," Mia said rather meekly.

Mia packed her stuff, grabbed her bag and ran out of sight. She ran as fast as she could, wanting to get away from her beautiful life turned horribly wrong. As she ran past every corner and every street, her torrent of tears flowed fast and free.

Mia was unaware about her surroundings, one minute she was crossing the road, the next minute she was sprawled on the other side of the road. Someone had pushed her out of harm's way. The driver of the truck that had nearly knocked her down stuck his head out of the window and swore at her.

Mia could only thank her lucky stars that she was still alive.

" Need a hand?" said an unfamiliar voice.

Mia looked up into the eyes of her saviour, and time seemed to stop.

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Author's Note: Yo people, how do you find my third story? Hope it's not that bad, I had been on hiatus for a while, but now I'm back! No matter how bad it is, please R&R! Thanks!

Disclaimer's Note: I do not own Mia or Lily, but I own the sniggers, the classmates, the horrible professor and her saviour. Plus more to come.