This Life

Chapter 1

The wind blowing hard across her tear-stained face, shivering head to foot in her soaked, skimpy clothing, make up running down her cheeks, Mia Thermopolis was trying to erase memories of the most horrible moments of her life, while walking alone along the street, in the chill weather and heavy rains at 2 a.m. in the morning.

She was making her way over to the Moscovitz's, after having escaped from a party held at the Richter's. What was supposed to be the best day of her life, after, of course the day she was gifted Fat Louie, turned out to be the worst. What she was thinking when she agreed to go to this party, even she didn't know. And now that horrible feeling dawned upon her. Not about what had happened at the party, but about what had happened before the party; even worse than having to face Josh Richter and his entourage at school, where she couldn't escape him, would be to face her friends, her faithful supporters who had warned her about this party, all right. Neither of them had liked the sound of it, and Lilly was literally begging her not to go, but she wouldn't listen.

Not because she'd thought it was okay to go, but because she couldn't think. She was blinded by his looks, numbed by his touch and deafened by his voice. Ever since she'd got him, she couldn't think of anything else at all. His effect on her had caused her to turn down her all her friends' requests and blindly agree to everything he asked her to do. Even if it included going to a party where people aimed at drowning themselves in drinks and even for that, these guys would drug some random girls' drinks carry them to one of the six bedrooms at Josh Richter's Non-parent-supervised home, and you know the rest of the story. ..

Mia's POV:

The worst part of the whole thing was that Michael had persuaded me not to go, more than anyone else had, and I hadn't talked to him ever since, and had hurt him beyond mine, yours, or anyone else's imagination. Now you would think that such kind of a guy would totally ignore you, right? But no, it seems that it wasn't the kind of thing that my sweet guy would do.

Oops. I just said my sweet guy! AGAIN!

So when I got to Michael's fire escape, because Lilly wasn't there, he seemed half surprised, half expecting me to be there. And then, when I looked into his eyes, something overtook me. It always happens; I go weak in the knees, and I seem to melt from the inside. But this time it was something more. Even though he's supposed to be hating me by now, his eyes didn't show it. In fact, all I could see in those peat bogs before I got lost in them was a soft expression of concern and some kind of shock upon seeing me there of course. So here's what I did:

I rushed over and hugged him, afraid of losing him. Oh my God! I think –I've lost it, HE'S NOT MINE! Not yet! So, I can't be losing him when I haven't even got him.

But I hope I'm getting near, because I saw a tiny ray of hope:

He was hugging me back, just as hard, tangling his fingers in my wet hair.

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