I'm back! Since many people have threatened not to review unless I continue, I kinda have to. I live for your guy's reviews! It gives me an ego trip! Review, review…please review! Ok, I'm done now. I will go back my sane self…enjoy.

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9 February – 6 am

I hate Wednesdays. They're not as bad as Mondays, but since they're at the middle of the week...it's like a taunt, it's like being stuck in limbo…between weekends. Not at one or the other. Yeah, this makes almost no sense, especially for the start of such a historic day.

Oh well, historic to no-one except me. Today is the day that Michael Moscovitz will stop being such a wuss- a.k.a a wimp; a loser; basically a sad, pathetic low-life. Yep, surprising how many words there are to describe me and how many adjectives I leave behind when I finally become… (fanfare music) A MAN! Ok, well, technically, I became a man when I had my Bar Mitzvah, but whatever.

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9 February – 3 pm

I did it! I did it! I did it! I did it! I did it! Yup, I know I sound like a broken cheerleader but I'm so happy! I'm a free man (emphasis on the word 'man') Judith finally got the message (albeit in a slightly misconstructed way) but the point is that she doesn't want me anymore.

Ok, I'm gonna start from the beginning.

I got a ride from Mia this morning, Lilly was civil and Mia was quite friendly. I guess she got over the PMS that she must've been inflicted with. Ok, so we got to school...blah, blah…I went to my locker and Judith was waiting for me. I just walk past her and open my locker door. I guess that confused Judith since very few people ignore her and live to tell the tale.

She squeaks from behind me "Michael?"
I turn around and act all surprised as if I only just noticed her "Oh, hi Judith", I get my Trig textbook and start walking towards my class.
Judith hurries to catch up with me and grabs my arm "Michael, where are we going? I have Biology, it's the other way."
I shake my head "I'm going to my class, Judith, and I might be late if you don't let go of my arm."
She lets go of my arm.
Leaving Judith like that, I start to walk off, but then I remember that I have to talk to her "Hey Judith? I need to talk to you…see you at lunch."

She nods and I go to trig (which btw, I wasn't even remotely late for but who wants to spend more time with Judith than they have to?)

Let's just fast-forward the next few hours (imagine streaky pictures zipping across your vision). It's finally lunch and I spent the whole day rehearsing, in my mind, ways to dump Judith without hurting her feelings too bad yet leaving me with enough manhood to boast about.

Now that we're all in our normal places in the cafeteria, Judith and me are sitting far away from Mia and her friends. Judith sits there innocently and turns to me when I come from the lunch line. She flutters her eye-lashes "So, Michael, what did you want to talk to me about? Is this slow-moving relationship too slow for you?"
I grimace "Er, no…"
I could feel the wienie in me coming out, the one that was saying 'you'll break her heart, don't be so mean.' I pushed that thought down.

I took a deep breath "Judith, I want you to understand that you're a very nice person and you deserved to be loved…"
So much for pushing that wienie down.
"Yeah, so I just wanted to say that I don't like you in the romantic sense and I say we shouldn't see each other under that capacity." I let that out kinda fast in one long breath.
Judith just smiled and nodded.
I looked at her and her weirdly emotionless, unblinking face. Was this some kind of look that girls pulled when they were being dumped?
She blinked, then her face turned into the epitome of shock "Wait, WHAT?"

Oh, come on! I had to do this twice? As if once wasn't bad enough.

As much as I didn't want to, I put my hand on Judith's arm in what was hopefully a consolatory way "Judith, I don't like you, I'm not attracted to you" I know that was harsh but Judith had shown that she was too thick-skinned to understand anything but the most basic and clear language.
Judith just stared at me for a while than slowly nodded "Ok Michael, I understand."
I grinned "Good…" I stood up and looked down at her "…so I'll see you later."

She nodded again and so I started to walk away.

Here's the really weird and disturbing part though:
"Michael?" Judith called from behind me; I turned around, "I was just wondering, how long have you been gay for?"

I'm pretty sure there was a world record in how much my eyes bugged out, but then as I stood there thinking how it would be so much easier if Judith thought I was gay. Apparently, her ego couldn't take the strain of a heterosexual guy not being attracted to her. But Judith's a notorious gossip and I'm pretty sure she would spread it around the whole school as fast as possible.

"Judith, I'm not." I said simply
"You're not?" she squawked
"No." and I walked out of the lunchroom as quickly as I could, before Judith could interrogate me further.

Fast Forward, whizzing frames…stops abruptly outside temporary G & T project room that Mia and I work in.

"Hey" I greeted Mia as I entered that classroom, she was already there.
She looked up from the slips of paper that she was sorting out. "Hi" she replied smiling, "What's up?"
"Nothing much" I grinned as I responded (I couldn't help it! I was so glad to be rid of Judith despite her disturbing conclusion of my sexual orientation.)
Mia raised her eyebrow, "Nothing, huh? So why do you look so happy?"
I wiped the grin off my face and raised my hands defensively "Hey, can't I just be happy for no apparent reason?"
She shrugged and turned back to the papers "You know, Michael, we better get these into some kind of actual display."
"Erm, sure, whatever, I'll bring my laptop tomorrow and we'll work it out together." I really wanted to tell Mia that I had broken up with Judith, but I didn't know how to bring it up.

Mia lifted a piece of paper "Awww, look at this one, its so sweet." and she recited in her clear voice:
"One day you will ask me: What is more important to you, me or your life?
I will say: my life
You will walk away from me without knowing that you are my life!"

I cleared my throat "Yeah, I guess that is pretty nice…"
Mia nodded "Uh-huh, you know, that makes me think of how people want to say something but because of a misunderstanding, neither of them understand or say anything…"

Could she have said it any more clearly?

I shake my head "Tell me about it."
Mia looked up at me "Huh?"
"Uuuhhh" Why can't I say anything articulate when it actually matters?

Then I see Mia's hand reaching up (to wrap around my neck? To lead to passionate kissing? It could've happened!)
But then I notice that she's not looking at me, well, not at my face anyway.
She pulls something from my hair and waves a small feather in my face "It was just some down or something."

I'm such an idiot, I still didn't totally get the situation yet and I'm looking down at her in this goofy, dreamy kinda way, still thinking that she was gonna kiss me.
Maybe something did happen because at that moment, Mia's eyes met mine and she froze for, like, 5 seconds. Then she turned her face and flicked the feather away. That must've been my imagination, right?

"Speaking of misunderstandings, I broke up with Judith today." I blurted out (I dunno where that came from; I guess I just couldn't keep it inside me anymore and I had to tell her.)
Mia looked at me with a poker face (where do girls learn this face? Or does it come built-in with their mentality when they're born?) "Oh, that's too bad"
(What! That's all she had to say? I would have preferred a "That's nice" or a "You were too good for her, you'd be better off with me"!)
"Why?" she interrupted my thoughts, "Why did she break up with you?"
"She didn't break up with me, I broke up with her!" I protested (sounding bloody immature btw)
"Oh" was all that Mia said.
"I didn't really like her" I continued lamely
Up went that eyebrow again "You didn't?"
"I didn't" I declared adamantly

"You didn't what?" asked an unfamiliar voice behind me.
I turned, it was Kenny.
"Hi Kenny" I turned back to Mia and rolled my eyes, she giggled.
Then she spoke to Kenny "What are you doing here?"
Kenny shrugged "I had study hall, I didn't feel like studying"
Mia giggled again "Who ever did feel like studying?"
Kenny laughed a horsy laugh "Yeah, so I thought I'd spend some quality time with you."
Mia's grin faded a bit "Quality time?"
Then Kenny turned to me "So dude, if you guys aren't too busy with this project…" and he indicated that he wanted me to leave.
I looked over Kenny's shoulder, at Mia, and she was shaking her head like crazy. Apparently, she didn't want to be left alone with Kenny.
I turned my gaze back to Kenny "Sorry dude, we do have a lot of work to get through, can this quality time with Thermopolis wait?"
I think Kenny was trying to outstare me, that guy has been watching too much TV. Then he turned back to Mia "Ok princess, since nerd-boy here wants to work on his project, I guess you have to help him. I'll wait for you after school."

I was seething; I should've punched him there and then. With that, Kenny sauntered out of the classroom, carefully not making eye-contact with me.

Mia blushed and looked embarrassed when he was gone "I'm so sorry Michael, I don't know what's gotten into him…"
I took a breath "Don't worry princess; he's just a load of hot air."
Mia looked at the closed door worriedly "Yeah, I guess…" she glanced at me "…and don't call me that."
"What?"
"Don't call me 'princess', it's barely true."
"Being the princess of a small European principality isn't truth enough for you?" I teased.
She laughed "Believe me; my grandmother will never actually admit that I know all the etiquette to be a princess."
"There's more to being a princess that just etiquette, you know"
She sighed "Try telling my grandmother that."

And the rest of the lesson was spent talking about what a princess is really all about. The final bell rang and it was finally time to go home and that's why I'm sitting at my computer typing out my events for the day.

COMPUTER SHUTDOWN

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Hope you liked it. I'm in the middle of exams right now, so I'm not 100 sure when I'll update again…maybe if you asked nicely?(hint,hint). I know this is a bit late to ask this, but I'm worried that Michael's character isn't 'guyish' enough, I mean, as a general rule, guys are obsessed with sex, Michael doesn't talk much about it. Should I put in more sexual connotations and guy stuff or leave it as it is?

Next Chapter: Michael and Kenny have a fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Yay, stay tuned and as always, all reviews are appreciated. Peace Out