A/N: Thanks to those who reviewed and here is the next chapter! Anyways, this story will probably vary in POV's but its supposed to be mostly Michael's POV for the record, just so you know that now. It will change, but he's the main person for this fic as it tells how he feels about Mia and his thoughts on her being a princess and all that. So, yeah... R&R!

Disclaimer: Princess Diaries isn't mine.

Invisible

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Chapter Three: Confusion and Feelings

That night, Michael attempted to work on the song he had thought of earlier, but he found that he was easily distracted that night. Despite his better efforts to focus entirely in song writing, he found he just couldn't think of anything to write. Looking at his clock and seeing it was getting late, he sighed and turned off the lamp next to his bed. He'd try writing again another day. As he attempted to sleep, he found he couldn't even do that. His mind kept drifting to earlier that day when Josh Bryant had sat on Mia, and how angry Michael had felt. It drifted to thinking of Mia in his room, bringing up pizza— with the M&M's, of course. He fell asleep finally, but his mind never drifted from Mia, and he couldn't explain why. He asked himself, as if expecting an answer, but none came. Finally, he decided he'd think about it in the morning.

—

That morning when Mia woke up, she got dressed in her school uniform as she normally did and stopped in front of the mirror in her room. She stared at the image of herself reflecting in the mirror, and she sighed. I'm as good as I'm going to get. She thought to herself. She attempted to do something with her hair, but when that failed, she sighed in defeat and slid down the pole into the main room. She saw her mother sitting at the table, sipping coffee, and Mia grabbed a piece of toast quickly.

"Hey mom, sorry I'm supposed to meet Lilly and Michael, see you after school," she replied. She hugged her mother, went outside, hopped on her scooter and put the toast in her mouth as she made her way to Lily's house.

When she arrived there, she saw that Michael was standing outside with his guitar, waiting for Lilly to come out.

"Hurry up, Lilly!" Michael called inside finally. He leaned against the wall, staring into space. Mia raised her hand.

"Hey, Michael," she greeted. Michael looked up at her, and stared at her for a moment, before quickly looking away.

"Hey," he replied finally. Mia looked at him, confused, but didn't have time to question his strange behaviour as Lilly bounced out of the house and jogged up to Mia.

"Hey, you've finally got here!" Lilly replied. She started walking in the direction of school, and Mia rode slowly on her scooter. Michael was walking behind them, but kept silent throughout the way to school. Lilly occasionally turned around to face him, usually when she had something to say about him.

"Michael, why did you bother coming with us if you were going to follow behind us and not say anything?" she asked. Michael laughed, and shook his head.

"Funny, normally all you want is for me to shutup. Now that I have, you just want me to talk. Having difficulties making up your mind?" he asked her. Lilly rolled her eyes and faced forward again. Mia hopped off of her scooter as they reached the huge hill on the shortcut to school. She had always hated this way to school, but when she was running late it was the best way to go.

"So Michael," Mia called back. She turned around a moment to see that she had caught his attention, and then faced forward again.

"Yeah?" he asked quietly.

"Has your band got any new songs lately?" she asked him. He sighed and walked faster so that he was walking with them instead of behind them, as he normally did.

"I was supposed to write one yesterday, or at least start, but I haven't had too much inspiration for a song so I just left it." he replied. He turned to Lilly and wrapped an arm around her, intending to annoy her.

"Do you mind?" she asked him. She attempted to walk away, but he held a firm grip on her.

"Ah, not at all. I was just wondering, what did you say was wrong with you yesterday? You know, the day you couldn't go to school?" he asked her. "I mean, I was unsure so I just told everyone about... well, your condition." he whispered. Mia looked at Lilly, amused at the expression on her face. Lilly had turned white, but it was clear that she was becoming agitated.

"What... condition?" she asked finally. Michael whispered something in her ear, and then ran ahead as Lilly screamed.

"MICHAEL!" she shouted. She glared at his back, and he turned around and waved to both of them. His gaze lingered for a moment on Mia, before he turned around and headed inside of the school. Mia turned to Lilly, and was about to ask what he had said when Lilly said she didn't want to talk about it.

"Oh, okay," Mia replied. She bit her lower lip and looked around for Josh, but he was nowhere to be found, so she kicked at a stone on the ground and sighed. Lilly noticed the sudden change in Mia's attitude, and dragged her off to the side away from the crowd at school.

"What's gotten into you?" she asked. Mia began walking towards the school.

"Nothing, what do you mean? Does it seem like something's gotten into me?" Mia asked. She walked up the stairs, and stopped, turning around as she realized Lilly was not following her. Instead, she was standing in the doorway, her arms crossed. "What?" Mia asked innocently.

"Something is up with you, Mia, and I will find out just what," Lilly promised. She headed towards her own locker and Mia sighed. There's nothing "up" with me, I'm just a little... distracted. Mia thought to herself. She entered her combination and opened her locker, grabbing her books for her first class. She saw Josh coming over, and held her breath, hoping he'd speak to her. When he left his locker, she let out her breath, and sighed. She shoved her book bag in her locker and saw Michael leaning against the locker next to hers, watching her.

"Hey Michael, what's up?" she asked grumpily. He looked over in the direction and saw him with Lana, and rolled his eyes. He turned his gaze back to Mia and smiled.

"Not much, but your mom wanted you to stop off at the garage today, it's sort of a... secret. Sorry, can't tell you why!" Michael replied when Mia opened her mouth to ask. She clamped it shut and grinned.

"Guess I'll find out, huh? So why did she ask you to tell me?" Mia asked, beginning to walk to class. Michael shrugged.

"I guess because I work there and I know you," he replied. Mia looked at him, confused.

"You work there?" she asked him, surprised. For some reason, Michael had never seemed much like the "work with cars" type of guy. Then again, there was probably a lot about Michael that Mia was unaware of.

"Well I put in some time and my band can practice there. So I was wondering if maybe you'd like to—" Michael was cut off by Josh running into Mia by accident and knocking all of her books over. She gasped, shocked at being so near to Josh, and knelt down and began picking up her books. She was even more stunned when Josh knelt down and passed her some of her books. Michael sighed, shook his head, and walked away. When Mia stood up, she muttered "thanks" to Josh who was soon joined by Lana, and she watched as he walked away.

"See that Michael? He helped me pick up my books! He's not so— Michael?" Mia looked around and sighed when she realized Michael had walked away. She headed to her class, and didn't see Michael again the rest of the afternoon.

—

After school was over, Mia was walking with Lilly alongside her scooter. When Lilly started to walk in the direction of their regular route home, she saw Mia heading a different way and jogged up to her.

"Where are you going, Mia?" she asked. Mia smiled and pointed down a small hill at the garage.

"The garage, Michael told me—"

"You're meeting MICHAEL?" Lilly exclaimed. She looked at Mia, confused. "Why?" she asked suddenly.

"No I'm not meeting Michael, well I mean yes he's going to be there, but that's not why I'm going. My mom told him, to tell me, to go to the garage, so I am." Mia replied. She began continuing to the garage, but then stopped when she realized Lilly hadn't moved. She turned around and sighed.

"What?" she asked. Lilly was staring at her, and it was beginning to bother her.

"Your mom wants you to go to the... garage?" Lilly asked excitedly. Mia nodded. "Well, Miss Thermopolis, did it ever occur to you that maybe she's got a car ready for you?" she asked, growing more excited as time went by.

"Has it ever occurred to you that I'm not even fifteen yet?" Mia asked. "I mean it's only a month away, but..."

"So she's getting you to check out some cars early!" Lilly exclaimed. Mia rolled her eyes.

"Whatever, listen Lilly I have to go, I'll call you later okay?" she replied. Lilly nodded and started making her way home. Mia continued to the garage and when she went inside she heard Michael's band practicing. She sat down on a stool, waiting for someone to come up to her, and listened to Michael singing.

I want to know, all there's to know about you

I want you to know, nothing about me

Although I'll give you a taste

When you think that you know me

I'll blow you away, so baby

Bow down Daisy Duke...

Mia smiled as she saw the M&M's on the keyboard as Michael was playing. She didn't know what was up with his strange obsession with M&M's, but it seemed they were everywhere he went.

Sit on my couch

Snuggle with me through the hard night

Well, I don't bite, baby

I'll be good to you in the morning

But don't you say no

To me baby, baby stay

I'll throw you away, so baby

Bow down Daisy Duke...

When the song was over, Michael came over to Mia and leaned against the wall.

"You guys sounded good," Mia told him. He smiled.

"Thanks, well that's the point of practicing, is to sound good." Michael replied. Just then Doc came over and Michael moved off to the side a bit, not noticing the older mans smile forming on his face.

"Ah, Mia, you're here. That's good, well your mother had a car picked out for you for your birthday, we just got it in and started doing some things with it when she said she wanted it for you. Would you like to see it?" he asked. Mia smiled and nodded, getting up off the stool. She looked back at Michael and mouthed, did you know about this? He just grinned and shrugged, walking back over to his band.

—

When Michael got back to their practice area, one of the guys in his band, Felix, came over to him and noticed that Michael was still staring in the direction that Mia had gone in. He grinned and shook his head, patting Michael on the back before leading him back to the keyboard.

"Listen Michael, I realize you can't do too much about it but lets say you focus on this band practice until five and then you can drool over some girl, alright?" he replied, teasing Michael. Michael turned back to him startled, and quickly went behind the keyboard and got out a few more warm up notes.

"What are you talking about? Who said I was drooling over some girl?" Michael asked. He had just been looking to see if... if he could see the car that Mia's mother had gotten her. But you've already seen it, the evil voice in his head argued. Michael shook his head. Okay well I wanted to see her reaction when she saw the car, that's all. Michael thought. Ahh, but you'd only see the back of her head. The evil voice added. Michael groaned. I'm not going to argue with some voice that's inside my head!

"You were drooling over some girl, Thermopolis, to be exact. You've got a bit of a Plain Jane taste, but I guess since she's friends with your sister, it's hard to not get to know her, huh? Well just see if she'll stay until the end of practice, huh?" Felix replied. He put the guitar on again and stepped up to the microphone, but Michael didn't start playing. Felix turned back to him.

"What?" he asked him.

"I don't like Mia," Michael told him firmly. Felix rolled his eyes.

"That's what your problem is? Man I don't care either way, let's just do this!" he replied. He started playing on the guitar, and eventually Michael started on the keyboard, but he continued glancing at Felix. He didn't dare look in Mia's direction now, because it had been brought up that he "liked" her. What was with that, anyways? Was it wrong to happen to know someone and be curious about them? Michael didn't like her, and sure she had been on his mind most of the day, but... Michael missed his cue to start singing and Felix turned to him, annoyed.

"Michael? That was your cue," he told him.

"Thanks, I wasn't aware of it.." Michael muttered.

"Well what's gotten into you? Come on guys, from the top, and Michael, try to pay attention, we have a gig coming up soon and we need the extra practice," Felix replied. Michael looked at him, confused.

"Gig? Where?" Michael asked. How come nobody had told him this before? He hadn't been aware that there was a gig coming up.

"At the highschool, for the dance that's coming up. They wanted us to sing there, so we agreed. Okay, now are you ready this time?" Felix asked tiredly. Michael nodded, and began playing. The rest of the band started up as well, and this time, Michael didn't miss his cue. Felix and another band member, Alex, began singing, "I'm a terrible person... I'm a terrible person..." and then Michael cut in.

I'm a terrible person

'Cause I've made up my mind

I'm a terrible person

'Cause I've led her on

And I'm the only one

Who knows what I've done to her,

Oh yeah

I'm much smarter now

I won't tell her friends before her...

Oh, I'm afraid...

Michael sang, and then he, Felix and Alex started singing the chorus, "It's gonna be a bad day come Sunday, it's gonna be a bad day come Sunday, it's gonna be a bad day come Sunday, it's gonna be a bad day come Sunday..."

Finally at the end of the song, Michael sat down on the couch and sighed. What was going on with him lately? He couldn't like Mia, she was not only his friend, but his sister's best friend— his younger sister, and Mia was the same age! Okay so it's only a small age difference, Michael told himself, but that's still not the point. We're friends, and I could ruin that friendship. And it would make things awkward because she comes over often since she's friends with Lilly. Besides, I don't like her. I'm just... worried about her, that's all. Michael sighed and saw that Mia was sitting on the stool again. He stood up and walked over to her.

"So, what did you think of your new 'stang?" he asked her. She smiled.

"I like it, obviously. So, are you guys done practicing now?" she asked him. Michael turned around and saw that the rest of the band was packing up and sighed.

"Yeah, guess so. Normally we practice longer, but I was kind of out of it today and screwed up a bit, so I guess they figured today's practice was pointless." Michael replied. He didn't bother telling Mia what Felix had said to him, and instead started walking to the door. Mia hopped up off the stool and followed.

"My mom's on another date tonight," Mia replied, sighing. "So do you think your parents will care if I come over tonight again? I hate being at home by myself all night, and Lilly doesn't have any homework since we worked on it at lunch." Mia replied.

"Nah, they never care," he told her. He saw Felix watching him, and told Mia he'd be right back. He walked over to Felix, who was standing off by himself.

"Listen, Felix, I'm really sorry about today. You caught me off guard by saying I liked Mia, and then after you mentioned it, it was kind of on my mind and I lost concentration. I... I'll be ready for the gig, and I'll make sure I don't get distracted again." Michael replied.

"Why tell me? I'm not the leader of this band, Moscovitz. You are. Tell yourself you won't get distracted, you don't owe us any explanation, do you?" Felix asked. He walked over to the other band members and they left together. Michael sighed and caught up to Mia. She saw that he was deep in thought, and was smart enough to allow him some space for the time being. She walked with him, but she didn't say a word the entire way to his house.

A/N: Well there's the latest chapter of Invisible for you, hope you enjoyed and I should have an update ready for you soon (hopefully!). Let me know what you thought of this chapter, or even the whole story altogether— don't be afraid to be harsh, because I can handle it and I can't hope to improve anything if people don't tell me what they thought was wrong with it. R&R.