Title: California, Here We Come

Rating: PG to be safe, but most likely G

Disclaimer: I do not own the Princess Diaries nor am in association with Meg Cabot. Although that would be cool hehe

A/N: This is actually part of the last chapter........I had actually made it much longer! I have no idea what is going on with my computer! It only published like a little of the story, so I'm so sorry that it looks so short............I was wondering why everyone was saying it was short. I mean I know its not long but its longer that lots of times, anyway here is the rest of the chapter that didn't get put up for some reason

mumbles to herself darn microsoft works lol

Michael's POV

Lilly has got to have the worst timing that exists. I think I just have no luck. Every time something is about to happen with Mia, someone walks in. Is this God's way of showing me that it will never work? That everything between us is hopeless?

Once we were already, we decided to walk to class. It wasn't far. We just had to walk out of the dorm building and across a little of the beach to the school building. It almost seems more like a college than a high school.

I didn't get to talk to Mia anymore this morning, because she went to get ready for class. Then on our way to class, she walked with Kenny. Darn Kenny! Who does he think he is. He doesn't even share Mia with anyway. Although if I had Mia, I wouldn't share her either, but that's a whole different story. Because I don't have Mia………yet. Oh, who am I kidding? Mia is with Kenny, and I don't see that changing any time soon, at least not for me.

I did at least get to see Mia and sit by her. We went to orientation for all of the temporary kids and I ended up next to her. It took some clever maneuvering to get everyone arranged so that I could sit next to her. Well ok, none really. Lars just said, "Hey Michael, sit here," and then winked at me. Lars is such an awesome guy. Although if he can tell that I have a crush on Mia, I wonder who else can. I hope she can't see it. I bet she can, and I bet she's grossed out by the thought of her best friends older brother even having romantic thoughts about her. It really seems that Lars likes me over Kenny though. I'm guessing that's good, I hope. Of course, Kenny ended up on Mia's others side. I tried not to let it bother me. I tried to imagine that I was sitting alone with Mia, which worked well until I saw Kenny's arm wrap around her and nudge me as he pulled her closer to him.

I glared at Kenny. I couldn't help it. I just couldn't stand to see his arm wrapped around Mia like that. I would rip my eyes out to spare myself the pain, but then I wouldn't be able to admire Mia when Kenny wasn't around. So I figured I'd have to deal for now.

They began to tell us all their rules, which really wasn't much. Respect the teachers. Be on time to class. Respect the property. Stuff like that. Then we were off. Boris and I headed off to Calculus, while everyone else headed towards Biology.

(A/N: Is Boris a Senior? Or older than Lilly? I should know this, but for some reason I forgot, and I thought it mentioned somewhere that he was older than Lilly. Anyway, if you could let me know, that'd be great! For now, he is!)

I wish I were in Biology right now. Well, not that I would want to take it over, but I don't want Mia alone with Kenny. I know there will be other people in her class, but still, I don't want her ending up as his partner at this school too. I just don't think that I could handle that.

I looked at the school map they had given us at orientation. Boris and I found the Calculus room and walked in. The students had begun to file into the room already. I scanned the room wondering whether to sit or wait for the teacher. I finally decided to take a seat as I scanned the room for an empty seat. My eyes landed on some girl waving me over to seat next to her, and Boris found a seat next to guy who as odd as it sounds, looked just like another Russian musician.

I took the seat next to the girl as she introduced herself. "Hey. My name's Krissy," she said smiling as she stuck out her hand. I politely obliged. "Michael," I said as I shook her hand. "That's a nice name," she said smiling. She was about to say something else as the teacher walked in.

"Hello class. Welcome to all the visitors. My name is Mr. O'Brien. I'm your Calculus teacher. Will all the new students please stand so that you can introduce yourselves?"

I reluctantly stood up and glanced around the room. There were about 3 other students standing up besides Boris and me. We went around the room, each saying our name and then sat back down.

Finally, after a while, it was lunch time. I walked into the cafeteria as I scanned the room for anyone from back home, especially Mia. Boris and I had gotten separated third period, so it was just me. I didn't see any of them, and I hoped that they were on this lunch period and were just being held up. I scanned the room once more and then my attention was drawn elsewhere.

"Michael!" I heard someone shout. I turned towards the sound and saw Krissy waving me over. I glanced once more for Mia, but I didn't notice her, so I headed over to Krissy's table.

"Hey Michael," she said as I sat down. "These are my friends Bridget and Amber. Bridget, Amber, this is Michael. He's visiting and he's in my Calculus class. He's from….." she trailed off. She had no idea where I was from.

"New York," I finished for her.

"Wow, all the way across the country," she said giggling. She seemed nice, but she seemed like an incredible flirt and I didn't know if I could handle it.

I averted my attention once more to look for Mia. Yes, I'm pathetic. I know. I finally saw her walking into the cafeteria. She was walking in with Tina, Seth, and………….Ryan. Of course, Lars and Wahim were trailing behind. Mia and Tina were laughing at something Ryan had just said and I found myself glaring at him. There was no way this was happening. I could not have another obstacle in the way of me getting to Mia.

"Michael. Michael! Hello?" Krissy said, waving her hand in front of my face.

"Oh, sorry." I answered while still concentrating on Mia.

"What were you looking at?" she asked suspiciously. She was pretty nosy for just having met someone.

"Oh nothing. My friends just walked in, that's all." I swallowed hard when I had labeled Mia as my friend. She was my friend, it wasn't that. The problem just was that I wanted her to be MORE than just my friend.

"Oh…….." she trailed off, looking over to where my attention was focused. "Do you mean those two girls over there with Ryan and Seth? I mean, the blonde and brunette guys…."

"Yeah, that's them. You know Ryan and Seth?" I asked, trying not to sound too interested.

"Who doesn't know them is the question. Ryan is one of the most attractive guys in the whole school. Every girl wishes that he were hers"

My stomach clenched. Great! Another Josh Richter, just what I need.

"Is that your girlfriend?" Krissy asked, looking over at Mia, where my attention was still focused.

"Oh, ummm no. She's my little sister's best friend," I said, trying to convince myself that that was all she was, but I had no luck.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" she asked curiously. She sure asked a lot of questions.

"Nope," I said reluctantly. I hoped that really soon the answer to that question would be yes, Mia Thermopolis is my girlfriend. But for now, the answer was just no.

"Oh I see," she said smiling.

Finally, Mia glanced over to me and smiled. Her gaze then drifted over to Krissy, who had somehow attached her arm onto mine. Mia almost looked jealous, but then her face dropped to what looked like disappointment and then she looked away. She whispered something to Tina, and I saw Tina turn around and look surprised too.

I finally decided to do something so I waved them over. Tina and Mia walked over to our table, unfortunately followed by Seth and Ryan, and of course Lars and Wahim.

"Hey Ryan. Hey Seth," Krissy said smiling. "This is Michael, he's my date for my party Friday night." She said pulling me closer to her by pulling on my arm.

It looked as though Mia's eyes were about to pop out of her head. I opened my mouth to protest.

"I…"

"Who are you friends?" she said, asking Ryan.

"This is Tina, and this is Mia. Mia just happens to be my dance to your party on Friday too," he said pulling her closer to him.

I gritted my teeth and glared at him. What did he think he was doing? Did he consider the fact that Mia had a boyfriend, or what about the fact that when Mia and her boyfriend were over that I was the next in line. No, he didn't. There was no way I was going to stand by and watch him try to take her right from under me.

Mia opened her mouth to say something, but again, Krissy interrupted. "Oh, well that's nice. Nice to meet you Tina. Mia. I'll see you guys Friday night then," she said, turning back to me.

"I……..Uhhhhh" Mia stuttered for words just as I started to speak "Krissy…..I"

"Come on, Mia, let's go sit down," Ryan said pulling on her arm. I clenched my fist tighter.

"Why don't you guys sit here?" I offered quickly before he could drag Mia off.

"Ok," Mia said quickly, pulling herself out of Ryan's grip and sitting in the chair next to me. I glared at Ryan triumphantly. I looked at him in a way that hopefully said, 'Mia is mine and she's off limits.'

Of course, the moment had to be ruined when Kenny, Lilly, and Boris walked in. Kenny's eyes landed immediately on Mia as he rushed over. Mia was conveniently seated between Ryan and me.

"Hey Mia," he said smiling at her and leaning in to kiss her. She turned her head so that he got her cheek instead. "Hey Kenny," she said as it looked as if she was forcing a smile.

Obviously, Kenny was going to want to sit by Mia. I figured since it would end up that way anyway, I would just help him out a little, while also helping myself. I got up and grabbed a chair for Kenny. I asked Mia to scoot over more towards my chair as I placed the chair between Mia and Ryan. I smiled triumphantly and glided back to my chair. I could feel Ryan's glare on my head, but I ignored it. If he thought I was going to hand Mia over to him, he was wrong. After Kenny was gone, she was all mine, and I was going to make that clear.

A/N: Eh, what do you think? I know I'm drawing out a few things, which I will probably draw out a few study halls but then I'll skip most of the week until the party and what not. I'll try to speed it up a little if you'd like. Let me know what you think and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make some suggestions…….

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