A/N: I reread this story after a long time of leaving it alone and I realize how badly written it is. The thing I was focusing on is the story and while I knew that it wasn't written very well from the start, I had no idea it was this bad. I guess it takes an outside view of something to truly get it. Anywho… Im going to stay true to the original writing style, and finish it. I think the story itself is a really good one, despite the cheesiness. This part of it I wrote a long time ago and while searching through my old files, I found it. Forget the bad grammar and terrible descriptions. Forget the cheesiness. Focus on the core part of it: the story. And please please enjoy.
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While the rest of the group left for the show, Pilla and Micheal lay completely naked in each others arms. Micheal had a good time, but now he was feeling somewhat guilty. "Wow…. Micheal….you're…. Good at that" Pilla said through a fit of giggles.
"And you're definitely not a virgin," Micheal replied. Pilla was talented for being so young.
She giggled and rolled herself on top of him. "Did you think I was?"
Her long hair lightly grazed his chest as she held herself above him. She was a very sexy girl, but for some reason, at that moment, he had never been less attracted to someone. Kissing and giggles formed in his mind of a girl that he once loved and a boy he knew nothing of. Rage formed in his heart and he knew he had to continue on with Pilla if he was ever to get the satisfaction that he needed. She kissed him again, removed herself from on top of him and walked out the bedroom door completely naked. It didn't matter, no one was there anyway. Micheal lay in bed for a while, he had no one to prove anything to, no one to show. He didn't want to be near her when he didn't have to. All of a sudden he heard a high pitch scream escape Pilla's mouth as she came dashing into the room. She leaped on the bed, grabbed the sheet that covered Micheal and wrapped herself in it. "Pilla! What is it? What's wrong?" Micheal exclaimed.
"Ra….Ra…. ROBERT…. is….HERE! And he saw me…. NAKED!"
Micheal quickly threw on a pair of boxers and ran out the door. There, standing with an utterly stunned expression captivating his face, Robert's image formed from the downstairs just below the balcony. At the sight of Micheal, Robert was removed from his trance. "Ya….Ya…. YOOOOU! YOU DID THIS TO HER! YOU TOOK HER INNOCENCE YOU BASTARD! DON'T YOU KNOW ANYTHING! THIS IS NOT-"
Robert was cut off by the ringing of the telephone. Micheal ran into the nearest room and picked up the phone. In as calm a tone as possible he said, "Home of Lillian Moscovitz, how can I help you?"
On the other end was Mia, "Oh…. Uh….. Micheal? How is-"
Micheal couldn't hear the rest of what she said because Robert had stormed up the stairs and was now yelling in his face. "YOU ARE TOO GOOD TO FIGHT ME TOUGH GUY! A LITTLE RINGING OF THE TELEPHONE IS MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING! YOU ARE NOT GETTING OUT OF THIS ONE!" Robert rambled on and on.
When Mia finally returned to speaking she said, "Micheal, why is Robert yelling at you? What's going on? I knew this was a bad idea. I should have stayed home like Grandmere wanted. Stay home like a good princess, she said. But did I listen. No. I had to see Lilly. I had to see you. And its all causing me more pain than I need. AHH! What is he rambling about! Give the phone to Robert"
Micheal was surprised by this new assertive Mia. He handed the phone to Robert without saying a word. He slowly crept back into his own room where Pilla still stood, stunned at the fact that Robert had caught her "losing her virginity" for about the 7th time that month. "I am…. So…. Sorry?" Pilla tried to spill out.
Micheal was furious. "Just…. I need a nap. You're welcome to join me if you'd like." And so, Pilla reapplied her pajamas and they lay down together to take a much needed, and deserved, nap.
"WHAT?" Mia exclaimed as Robert told her the news, "WHHHHHAAAAAT?" Mia was pissed. She had never had such a mix of anger, sadness, betrayal, and jealousy. It was the worst feeling she had ever had, even worse than THAT NIGHT. She dropped the phone and sank to the floor. Tears rolled down her face as she pounded her fists against the ground. How could she! How could HE? She hated them both. All she wanted to do was lay down and die. Right there. Just die and sink slowly into the ground never to be seen again. Forgotten, hopefully no one would cry for her. She would just be gone and so would the pain.
Lilly spotted her lying on the ground, her cell phone lying next to her. Lilly bent down, picked up the cell phone to hear that annoying man that was supposedly Mia's boyfriend. Lilly didn't feel like dealing with him, she just wanted to make Mia better. So, she hung up the phone, and she laid down next to Mia. "Mia, what happened?"
"I…. I…. I should have just stayed home." She cried as she rested her head on Lilly's arm. With her free hand, Lilly stroked Mia's head. It was a protective thing to do. Mia needed that protection from her. The two of them had always had that connection, whether they admitted it or not. They loved each other in the way only a best friend could and that love would never cease to exist.
"Mia…. Mia…. Seriously Mia sit up. We need to talk….right now," Lilly told her, assertively.
Mia sat up sniffling. She looked Lilly straight in the eyes and began her story….
Mia Thermopolis sat in her bedroom in the apartment she shared with her mom, her step-dad, and her baby brother. She had just gotten home from school and was working on her senior project. It was a Friday, and Micheal would be coming home. She couldn't wait to see him, and show him what an awesome teacher he was for helping her with the assignment. The phone rang and she absentmindedly grabbed it and said "hello"
"Amelia?"
Mia groaned inside. What did Grandmere want NOW? "Grandmere…. Princess lessons arent until Monday. What is going on?"
"We need to have tea tomorrow morning. Your father has flown in and he would like to see you."
Mia groaned again, though this time, outloud, "Grandmere, Lilly and I have plans. I have to help her film her PROJECT in the park"
"I think your country is a little more important than that silly girl. You WILL be there Amelia. 9 am….sharp." A click sounded at the other end. No 'goodbye', no 'see you soon', no 'I love you' (not that she expected that out of Grandmere), she had just hung up the phone. She clicked her phone down and threw it on her bed. She really didn't want to help Lilly with her project, but they rarely saw each other anymore because Mia spent all her time with Grandmere on Princess Lessons during the weekdays, and with Micheal on the weekends. She and Lilly had plans and Lilly would be furious that they had to be broken. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in!" Mia yelled. A tall young man with brown floppy hair and brown eyes burst through the door with a bouquet of pink carnations and daisies, Mia's favorite flowers. " MICHEAL!" she cried as she threw herself in his arms. He fell on top of her on her bed as he kissed her all over her face. She hadn't seen him for a whole WEEK, and she loved him sooo much!
Laughing, Micheal pulled himself to a sitting position and pulled her up with him. He sat next to her and picked up the crumpled flowers from the floor and handed them to her. "Mia I missed you so much!" he said as he squeezed her tight. Mia giggled. She sniffed the flowers and put them on her dresser. She would get a vase with water later. She wanted to see Micheal. She kissed him on the cheek, then the other cheek, and then the lips as they crashed down on the bed together, making out like the hormonal teenagers they were when they first started dating. He stroked her back as they lay face to face staring into each others eyes. "How has school been?"
"Oh….SOOO busy," Mia replied, "My senior project is coming along great. Do you wanna see?" Mia started to get up but Micheal pulled her down on top of him.
"not right now…. First I wanna see YOU!" he said as he started to unbutton her blouse. Mia pulled away.
"don't forget where we are Micheal Moscovitz. This is saved for your own apartment"
"You mean they still don't know"
"Of course they know. They just refuse to allow it in this house. And don't give me that….if your parents ever found out…."
"I wouldn't get to go to college anymore…. They wouldn't give me the money" He said laughing. Mia buttoned her blouse and grabbed his hand. They went to the computer and she showed him the program she had created. It was designed to be a "what if" type of thing. It started with a picture of a tiger and a fur coat. If you clicked on the tiger, smily faces would burst all over the screen. If you clicked on a fur it would bring you to another screen that showed bread or meat. The whole thing was to explain about the evils of the use of dead animals. Statistics popped up everywhere at the end if you were an "animal killer".
"Wow Mia…. You are so amazing." Micheal said.
"I know…tee hee….just kidding….but I am pretty proud of this program…."
"No! Not the program Mia…. You! You care so much about this that you are doing your senior project on it. Most girls do it on "the joys of high school" or "How my relationships changed my life". You are such a wonderful person"
"Aww…. Micheal!" Mia said as she stood on her tip-toes and kissed him square on the lips.
Micheal Groaned. "Mia…. don't do that to me…. If we cant …."
Mia giggled again…. Boys were so funny. As she pulled away from him, she lightly brushed her hand on the inside of his thigh.
Micheal coughed and Mia laughed again. "Come here", she said as she waved a 'come-hither' finger at him. He slowly walked towards her and grabbed her, kissing her as if he would never kiss her again. She pulled away and walked out the door and into her car. He got in afterward and they drove off to his apartment. 3 hours later, they were completely naked, Micheal laying on top of Mia with a dumbfounded expression on his face. There was nothing like it…. Nothing like her.
Mia giggled and pushed him off of her "Oh Micheal…. I love you." she said, still giggling as she kissed him on the cheek. She got up and began to dress herself. Micheal fell asleep and Mia lay next to him. Her phone rang from her purse. She got up to grab it and on the other end was her father.
"Mia I need you to come to the embassy"
"Right now?….Dad…. Im at Micheals and hes uh…. Making us dinner…. Cant it wait until the morning?"
"no…. it cant. Its GENOVIAN business," her father replied.
In a huff she hung up the phone, kissed Micheal goodbye and headed off to the embassy.
When she arrived, Grandmere and her father were waiting in the lobby. The news seemed to be urgent. "Pack your bags" her father said, without even a 'hello'.
"What? Why?"
"and please end things with Micheal. Genovian parliament has made a decision. You are to be betrothed to Robert of Calibra. You know relationships with Calibra have been shaky these past few decades, and this marriage will bring peace to our two countries once and for all. Frankly…. I don't know why parliament didn't think of it before."
"wait….what? I don't understand…. No…. I mean….. I was promised, when I accepted this whole princess thing that I would have no arranged marriage. I was told I could choose whomever I wanted to be my prince consort…. And I choose Micheal. I just…. No arranged marriages ….remember?" Mia babbled on and on. If she could shut up, shed be speechless….she wasn't angry…. Just baffled.
"I specifically remember him saying PROBABLY not, dear" her grandmere piped in, "Wars have ended between our two countries and we are united and allied as before. You should be happy to do this service for your country. Parliament needs you to live in Genovia. it's a condition they have arranged with Calibra. You will finish your schooling there. You leave tomorrow at dawn"
Mia couldn't say or do anything. There was no way this could be happening. She and Micheal were to be married. She did the only thing she could think to do. She ran. She ran as fast as she could through the pouring rain. The stars still managed to shine. She ran to the penguin house and laid down on a bench. She let her feelings go and she cried the most tears she had ever cried before. When she returned to the embassy, she was a new person. A cold, unfeeling person. She had cried away her soul and had made a decision from that day forward to live only for her country. Otherwise, she would be hurt again. Lars went to fetch a few of her things. Her father arranged the rest of her affairs, and in the morning she left her home, without a goodbye to anyone.
"oh my god mia…. Oh my god. I had no idea…. I am so so sorry." Lilly said, saying as much and as little as she could all at the same time. She could never know what it was like to have to give up everything for an entire country…. And Mia had only been 18 years old. She now saw Mia in the light of Queen Elizabeth I of England instead of the silly teenage girl that had reigned in her mind for the past 6 years.
"No lilly no." Mia said as she rocked back and forth in Lilly's arms, horrible tears falling quickly, "I am so so sorry to have done that to you. I am so so sorry to have done that to Micheal. I guess it is naïve of me to think that the two of you missed me the way that I refused to miss you, but no matter how you felt, what I did was the most cold, unfeeling, horrific thing any person could do to any other person. It's just that you have to understand. As much as I loved you ….as much as I loved Micheal…. I had a duty to Genovia….a far greater thing than a duty to myself. But the thing I did not think about was the duty I had to the two of you. I should have called…. I should have wrote…. Someone should have said something to you…. Im sorry that you never knew…. That you never understood…. But now you do and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. Robert is a good man….and you are welcome to the wedding , which will be held next year. You know….I have never talked about this before…. Never gotten this out…. And even tho we havent spoken in 6 long years…. You are still my very best friend in the entire world. That love could never ever end. The hell that I have gone through, trying to forget you and honestly, trying to forget Michel for the past six years was erased just now, when you grabbed me and held me as I cried. I love you." She said this last sentence as she choked back another bout of tears, which came anyway.
By this time, Lilly was crying to. But the show had to go on. She composed herself and composed Mia and together, they walked into the studio, as if they had never parted that long time ago.
