Mia's POV
May 4th My ball is tomorrow! Lilly told me at school that both her and Michael were coming, and what should she wear?
I replied "you need a nice dress, shoes, and all of that stuff. Pretend it's the prom. And you can bring Boris...but make sure he doesn't tuck in his suit!" Lilly hit me for that one. I guess I deserved it.
"what about Michael? Suit or tux?" she asked.
"it doesn't matter," I said. "his choice. And I'll be by your house to pick up you four—"
"four?" Lilly asked.
"yeah. You and Boris and Michael and his" gulp "date."
"Michael doesn't have a date. He said he wanted to take you. Anyway, what time will you be picking us up?"
how could she be so calm when she just told me the love of my life wanted to TAKE ME TO MY BALL? "um, about six o'clock tomorrow night."
"see you then!" she said as she went to find Boris.
"bye," I said weakly to her retreating back. I sat down on the stone wall to try and figure out how to ask Michael about this without appearing desperate...that's it! I'll ask him what his date wants for dinner! Then he'll have to tell me!
I have these little cards that Grandmere gave me to had out to my guests. They have the menu on them, and information like "how many attending" and "allergies?" I'll give Michael two of these and ask him to fill them out for him and his date. How can he get out of it?
There he is!
"Michael! Michael, wait up!" I called. Lana looked at me and sneered, "you'll never get him. Don't even bother."
Up ahead, Michael had stopped and turned around. I caught up to him.
"Michael, here's two dinner cards. Fil out what you and your date want for dinner and give them to me as soon as you can."
"Um, Mia, I meant to talk to you about that –"
"you can come, can't you?" I asked alarmed.
"yes, I can come. That's not it. I was wondering...um...well, would you consider my going as your...date?" he asked slightly red-faced. MICHAEL MOSCOVITZ WANTS ME TO BE HIS DATE!
"Of course, Michael," I said trying, without success, to hide my excitement. He visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
"well," he said smiling, "I guess I'll only be needing one of these, then." He handed me back one of my dinner cards, then smiled again and walked away.
"yesss!" I screamed. I half danced down the hall and even gave LANA a hug, I was so happy!
"get your hads off of me, freak!" she sneered. But I was in such a good mood, it didn't bother me.
"he wants to take me, he wants to take me, HE WANTS TO TAKE ME!" I danced down the hall singing. I danced out to the limo, moved to the music inside, danced into my house, gave my mother a hug and danced upstairs. There, I put on my loudest love songs and danced to THEM!
Michael's POV
After I walked around the corner after asking Mia, I stuck back around just as she screamed "yesss!" and HUGGED LANA! Maybe (obviously) she likes me! Then she DANCED out to the limo! I guess she was happier than I thought she would be!
When I got home, I came in humming. Lilly looked at me with her "hugry for gossip" look and said, "so you finally asked her, I presume?"
I looked at her im amazement and asked her how she knew.
"Michael, I'm your sister, and Mia's best friend. I know these things. What are you going to wear for the ball?"
"a tux, probably. I don't want Mia to be embarrassed by me –"
"Michael, she won't be embarrassed by you. I know for a fact that she loves you. I overheard her in the bathroom talking to Tina Hakim Baba. She was telling her how much she loves you – and that's a lot! I am almost positive she has selections about you in her journal, too. But don't you dare look! The worst thing you can do to a girl, besides cheating on her, is go poking around in her journal!" she added.
Whoa.
Well, maybe I'll get online. Mia might be on...she's on!
CracKing – hey, Mia!
FtLouie – Hi, Michael, how are you?
CracKing – great! I just wanted to know if a tux is good?
FtLouie – a tux is fine. You'll look great! You always look great.
Man, she knows how to make a guy blush! Then again, if her Grandmere is any indication, she doesn't get it from her family.
CracKing – I'll see you tomorrow then? Six o'clock in front of our house? Sound good?
FtLouie – sounds great! Bye.
CracKing – bye, Mia.
Lilly's POV
Whoa. I expect I won't have to worry about my plan! They got together on their own. Now the only thing I have to do is get used to my best friend and brother DATING! I never would have expected this six months ago!
I called Boris and asked him to the ball. He's going to rent a tux and bring a flower. I white one, since my dress is purple. Mia was right – this is kind of like the prom. I've always said I'm against those things, but I actually find myself enjoying this! Strange. I won't tell my parents, though, because they'll try to psychoanalyze me.
Lana's POV
Well, I guess I was wrong. Maybe Mia DID get Michael. I have to admit, I was quite flattered when she hugged ME! I felt so bad calling her a freak, but Anna and Fontana were right there watching and snickering. Those girls are really getting on my nerves. They always have something rude to say. (
Mia's throwing a ball for her birthday. I have an idea! I'll show up and apologize to her publicly! I'm tired of going by what Mother's always telling me to do. I'll get her a nice birthday present, too. What should I get her? I know! She's been talking about wanting a cell phone! Mother will lend me her credit card, and I'll pay for it for three years ahead of time, and get her a good plan. If anyone were to read this journal, I suppose they wouldn't be able to tell I feel bad, huh?
I've got to dress nice. I'll wear my pink satin dress. The less flashy one. After all, it's Mia's birthday. She should get the spotlight. Mia will be so surprised!
And I'm going to break up with Josh. Tomorrow.
I've had it up to here with being someone I'm not.