Author's Note: Hey, sorry for the slower than usual update. I've been out all day with friends.
Anyway, this chapter is a little different then the others, but it is fun. It's about how certain characters' reaction to a certain movie 'grins widely.'
Please enjoy.

Chapter Four

"OH MY GOD!"

Lilly's scream from the den reached me all the way to the spare room/study that was at the moment acting as my room at the back of Grandma's and Pop's condo.

I could hear her through my headphone as I listen to Linkin Park. I could hear her overLinkinPark! LINKIN PARK! Over all their screaming lyrics and insane drum-beats! That's how flipping loud her screaming is.

I knew I should have brought my Breaking Benjamin CD with me too. Nothing drowns Lil out better than Linkin Park and Breaking Benjamin combined. Might end up giving me a headache, and possible deafness in my later future, but I suffer (or am going to suffer later on in my life) those things from facing Lil.

If I'm going to get a headache and go deaf, I want to do it my way and not because of my pain in the ass little sister!

"MICHAEL! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE! RIGHT NOW!" I snorted, as if. If she had asked nicely… nah, I would still probably not go down.

"Michael!" She came barrelling into my room, scaring Pavlov under my bed as she grabbed my arm and purposefully tried to drag me out of the room, almost strangling me on my headphones.

"What's your problem?" I gagged out once I managed to remove my headphones from around my neck.

"Just come on. I need to show you something." She was looking positively outraged about something, but then, what's new about that.

"No, you don't need to show me anything. Get lost." I said as I tried to yank my arm from Lil's tight grip on it.

"I do." She insisted. "They made a movie!" She snapped in outraged.

I just stared at her.

"They made a movie?"

"Hollywood."

"No, really? Funny enough, Lil, that's what they're known to do, make movies!"

"ON HER LIFE!" Lilly screamed at me in complete frustration.

I just stared back at her, completely bewildered.

"Who's life? What are you on about?"

"Mia! They've made a movie about MIA!" That stopped me.

"Wh-what?"

"Uh huh. About her life…."

"Oh crap." Was all I could think to say.

They made a movie about her? About her life? Oh god, why? Why would they do that? To her, I mean? And how did they get permission to make a movie? Oh, right her grandmother. Though there was one thing…

"That was fast." I said trying to get my head around this new piece of hell that Mia was going to have to face when she got back because you can be as sure as hell, it was going to be hell for her.

Lil gave me an odd look.

"How do you mean?"

"Well, the world didn't find out about Mia being a princess until October and it's January now."

"So?"

"So? Lil do you have any idea how long it takes to make a movie, even one straight to television?" She shook her head. "It's about six months, all up. You know, what with the pre-production, the filming and post production. They've had three months… ish, to make this film. It's going to be a pile of crap. And at Mia's expense too." I finished grouchily, quite ready to beat in the faces of all the people who were involved in the making of this film.

"Wanna go watch?"

"Not particularly." But she still dragged me to the den anyway.

It wasn't exactly as terrible as I thought it might have been, but it was still cringe worthy. They changed the last names of certain people and got completely rid of others. They renamed Lars to the name of our school mascot, which is a Lion that is dubbed Joe (for some bizarre reason) and they changed the ages of basically everyone. Like for a perfect example of both name and age changing, all of a sudden Josh, who's last name is Bryant in the movie (Lana Weinberger, who is portrayed surprising well, last name has been changed Thomas) and me are in the same year as Mia and Lil.

Lil and I got to keep our last names, much to our and our parents, who knew as much about this movie as we did, which is zilch, shock.

It took me a while to figure out why the guy who is playing me was bugging me so much, until I clicked.

"Hey," I said with some, ok a great deal of disbelief, "He's from Rooney!" I was greeted with a ray of 'huh's in response.

"He's from a band." I explained, rather pleased that I was played by someone musical when no one beside a few select people actually knew I could play an instrument (though not the harmonica (and no, I'm not going to start because of this) and never a piano with M&M scattered all over the keys. Or eaten a pizza with M&M scattered over. What is their obsession with M&M's in this movie? Serious… Oh M&M right, that's why. Face palm!). The two girls playing Lil and Mia were also pretty actresses, though one thing did bother me.

"Why is she brunette?" I complained for the umpteenth time, which costed me to be pegged with a cushion by Lil.

"That's the biggest thing you find wrong with this film!" She snapped at me in annoyance. "Her hair colour?"

"And the fact that they made it ridiculously huge at the beginning of the movie." Along with giving her huge glasses that covered her whole face, though they've gotten rid of both the glasses and the big hair by now, so that now the girl who is playing Mia looks like a super model. Yeah, like this is going to help Mia's feelings about her image! I was hating them, the people involved with the creating of this film, all over again for that.

"Look how they're portraying us! Her!"

"I am." I replied and I was, cringing at the very realistic portrayal the actress playing Lilly was giving of Lil's explosion over actress- Mia's hair.

"I was never like that!" Lilly shrieked while I was trying not grin at the 'Just because your hair sucks, get off mine,' comment that actress Mia had snapped back at actress Lil.

"Stop laughing." Lil shrieked as she pegged another pillow at me.

"Hey! Stop that!"

"Well, stop laughing then!"

"Lil, the only way to get through this, is to laugh at it." I said, trying not to groan at the 'big reveal' of Mia's new hair to classroom and the fact that Mr. G has been replaced by a Mr. O'Connell who teaches History and debate.

"But…"

"Lil, just sit back and laugh ok, seriously, it'll make it less painless."

She did try. That is to follow my advice on just watching the movie and laughing at it and trying to disconnect from the fact that we had actually lived what they were portraying on the screen. There were quite a few moments when it was impossible not laugh like the when the actress playing Mia slipped on the wet basketball bleachers, because it was just something we could both see Mia herself doing quite easily, though Lil had something of a hissy fit when she heard that they had renamed her show from Lilly Tells It Like It Is to simply Shut Up and Listen.

"Which isn't actually a bad name, you know." I got another cushion hurled at me, which I good naturedly threw back at her, though my good, laughable mood quickly soured when I, was once again, thrown over for bloody Richter! And I actually asked her out in this… sort of, in a very round about way that again involved Pizza with M&M's on it, music and Cars (since when do I fix cars? Computers, I would get, because I do fix them. But cars?), but it was still an asking her out, even though actor me said it wasn't (felt like strangling him there even with the amusing 'WAIT FOR ME! No, not you - I don't even know you!' going on behind them by actress Lil).

"San Franciscobeaches look nice." Mom said when she walked back into the den with a bowl of popcorn and saw that both Lil and I were glaring at the screen. "Or not." She sighed as she handed the bowl to Lil.

The whole beach fiasco made me want to catch the first flight back toNew Yorkand beat Richter into a cream of wheat. Even though I know the true circumstance of Mia and Richter's kiss (hello, I was there, I witness it… shudder), this just pissed me off. How could they do that? Oh and wanted to do some serious social damage to Lana too!

"Kids," Dad said warningly because Lil and I must have been looking pretty murderous by this point, "it's just a movie. Calm down."

It was tempting to say 'no' but instead I did try to relax, though I tensed back up at the 'royally flushed' scene. I don't know why, but that pissed me off, but then maybe because it was reminding me of how I felt during those months when I really had felt like I had lost Mia forever, and funnily enough, I didn't like remembering those months or how I felt during them very much.

Anyway, the movie at least ended on a good note, surprisingly.

I was actually surprised when I finally clicked that I (meaning my actor) was going to ended up with Mia (actress that is). I honestly wasn't expecting that, even though, of course, I was pleased that it did happen, I just wasn't expecting it. Did they see that Mia and me were going to end up together even before we did or something? Why is it that the whole flipping world saw it before we did? How?

"Naw, so did Mia's foot pop when you kissed her?" Lil teased with disgust written all over her face.

"No." I replied with equal disgust, not because of the idea of Mia's foot popping (whatever that is. It was explained in the movie, but…) because I kissed her, but because of Lil's disgust at my kissing Mia.

"Well, I don't think it was that bad a movie." Mom cut in quickly, stopping the inevitable fight between Lil and me as fast as humanly possible. We both sent her 'are you kidding' looks before, grumbling loudly, headed for bed because there was seriously nothing else better to do.

"I'm going to write to them." Lil informed me as we headed upstairs.

"Huh? Write to who?" I asked, still trying to get my head around that stupid movie.

"To the studio who produced that pile of libellous trash, demanding that they write me a written apology for their disgraceful scriptwriting. I am going to fight for the honest portrayal of actual people and the events that they were involved in."

I just stared at her.

"Look Lil, I know that, overall, the film was a pile of crap, but don't you think you're going a little overboard? I mean, yeah, they got things wrong about what actually happened, but they probably had to change stuff to keep them from breaching a whole bunch of security and privacy laws. Like, how they changed people's names and their hair colour." I couldn't help but grumble out the last part.

"Oh my god!" Lil shrieked. "That's what you're most upset about? Her hair colour, seriously?"

"They could have found a blonde actress," I responded before tilting my head to one side, "but what are you really upset about?"

"Their untrue portrayal of the people involved." She growled and I clicked on.

I rolled my eyes.

"And by people, you mean, you, because you think they did an unjust portrayal of you, right?" she glared up at me and I rolled my eyes again. Of course. Of course, it was only her characterisation that she was upset about, not anybody else's.

"I think she portrayed you just fine, actually she may have even been a bit too nice for you." I got a hard, shin-shattering kick for that which caused me to yelp.

"I was never like that." She snarled at me. With slightly watering eyes I gave her 'you're joking me, right' look. "I wasn't!"

"Suuuuuure." I said, continuing up the stairs, though this time limping because of Lil's kick. Little, over-emotional, self-centre bitch!

"I wasn't! If I was ever hard on Mia, it was only for her own good." I didn't even bother responding to that. Wasn't like anything I could say would change her mind about this.

"You just wait until Mia hears about this. She will be rightfully…"

"Wait," I said turning back to her in horror, "you're not going to tell her about this, are you?"

"Duh."

"No, Lil, come on. Like she needs to hear about something like this when she's over in Genovia trying to make the right impression to her people. She'll start freaking out about her appearance and all that crap if you tell her about that pile of junk!" I said, panicking for Mia's sake. Lil simply gave me a disgusted look.

"You're a horrible boyfriend, you know that." She sneered at me.

"Oh yeah, how?" I was a little hurt by that, but I tried to not let it show.

"Because you don't want to tell her about this! She has a right to know!"

"When she comes back from Genovia but not right now, she doesn't need to, not with everything else she has to do. She has enough on her plate without worrying about this."

Lil's disgusted look only grew deeper and without a word, she shoved past me heading for her room, slamming the door behind her. Wonderful, but I'm right, Mia doesn't need to know about that movie right this very moment, when she came back to America and got home, then we'd tell her about it before anyone else has a shot, but not now.

How does my wanting to protect her make me a horrible boyfriend? What's wrong with wanting to protect her from people who are out to hurt and humiliate her? Why can't Lil simply understand that this is something that Mia will, when she does find out about it, want to forget about as fast as she possibly can, honesty to the actual people involved be damned.

Why can't they just leave her alone?

Author's Note: Hehehe, Yeah I was watching the first PD movie (Which, despite what you might think from this chapter, I do quite like the movie. I was writing Michael's and Lil's reactions to it, not my own.) when I was writing the first couple of chapters of this fic and thought 'hey, what the hell, why not write a chapter about their reactions to the movie', and so I did. It was quite fun to write and am tempted to write one of those fics about you know the book characters watch the movie's or TV series based on their books. I think it would be quite amusing, but I won't do it for a awhile, not until I've written a few more of these fics first. I hope none of you mind my using the movie in here and some of the comments I made about it, I know that it's pretty 50-50 out there for those who like the movie and those who don't. I do like the movie, but I know, as we all know from the books, Michael and especially Lilly don't like it, so that's how I wrote it.
If any of you are wondering why I made Michael be a Linkin Park and Breaking Benjamin fan (Disclaimer: which I obvious don't own either bands or any of their material, well besides their CDs), 1) they were around in 2003-2004 and 2) I like them, so I made it so that he liked them too and 3) I needed a loud and drum filled band that Lil can still be heard over. Even through headphones. The Linkin Park CD that Michael was listening too at the beginning of this chapter is Meteora (because I was listening to it when I was both writing this chapter and also periodically while writing these fics, along with other bands like Breaking Benjamin, Trading Yesterday, 3 Doors Down, OneRepublic, Owl City, Nickelback and so on. I should do up a playlist for these fics, but they's be too flipping long, lol. I listen to a lot of music and obviously a lot of Rock and Alternate stuff.) which came out in 2003.
Anyway, I am tired so I'm going to get some shut eye.
Hope you all enjoyed and I'll update again soon. It's me, you know I will. Lol, like tomorrow probably.
Disclaimer: Do not own Princess Diaries movie or the bands Rooney or Linkin Park or Breaking Benjamin.