Disclaimer: all the characters in here belong to Meg Cabot.

Author's note: this is my first fan fiction so if it's really bad please refrain from flaming me.

Wednesday December 6th

My bedroom after school

1 I hate my life! Fine, I get a boyfriend. A boyfriend that liked me before I was a princess. A boyfriend that likes to put his arm around me at the movies (gagging in the background). A boyfriend that happens to be Kenny. Not that there's anything wrong with Kenny, just that he isn't Michael. He isn't even interesting, like tomorrow he's going to take me to watch some Japanese anime after school (Grandmere cancelled princess lessons). I find that very boring. I can't go out with him again, I know I said I would but I can't. So tomorrow when he comes over after school, I'll tell him that I'm very sorry that I said I would go out with him again and that I think we should just be friends, because when Kenny is my friend he isn't that dull.

Plus it will free me up for Michael. That is if he ever thinks of me as more than a friend. Yeah right.

Thursday 7th December

My room

I think Michael caught the drift that I wasn't paying the slightest attention to what he was saying.

Michael: (waving his hands in front of my face) Mia??? Hello? Mia????

Me: (blushing) oh sorry Michael! Um….. so back to the ……………… quadratic formula?

Michael: we weren't doing the quadratic formula. What's up? You seem totally out of it.

Me: um sorry. I was just thinking about the fact I have to break up with Kenny this afternoon.

Michael: (I could swear he was grinning) oh yeah? How come?

Me: (I think I may have been speaking a bit fast) because he's annoying, he's boring, I can't stand Japanese anime, and I think if he tries to kiss me again I'm going to vomit.

Michael: (sounding slightly confused) ok, good list.

1.1 He gave up trying to help me then and we just talked. Lilly had seen that we had given up, and came over to talk to us.

Lilly: what happened to algebra?

Michael: Mia was having a few concentration problems.

Me: (blushing)

Lilly: what were the problems this time? And how come my brother knows before I do?

Me: I've got to break up with Kenny this afternoon, and Michael knows before you because of my concentration problems.

Lilly: (sounding exasperated) finally

Michael: what's the finally for?

Lilly: she's been talking about breaking up with him since she first went out with him.

Me: hello? I am sitting here

Lilly: oh yeah, Mia I'm having a sleepover on Saturday, will you come?

Me: sure

Then the bell rang and we had to go. As usual Josh and Lana were having a suck face ritual. I ignored it.

I wish it was Michael who was my boyfriend, he wouldn't make me watch boring Japanese anime, he wouldn't try to kiss me every five seconds (not that it would be that bad), and he wouldn't go around whining.

I wish it had been Michael sending me those notes and not Kenny. Then Kenny would still be just my biology partner who always gave me the answers, and it would be Michael that was my boyfriend.

Kenny is now standing outside my door asking if he can come in. I have to break up with him…NOW.

Later Thursday

Lilly's house, in the bathroom.

In some ways what just happened is very good, in others I feel like whacking Kenny. You might want to know why I feel like whacking Kenny.

Okay, so I let Kenny come in my room and then I went to brush my hair, which was for some reason sticking up in all directions. This is where Kenny went out of his mind. I'd accidentally forgotten to close this book, and so it was left open on my bed. Anyway when I went to get my hair sorted out, Kenny had a really stupid idea. He went and read a few pages of this book, which just happened to contain my love of Michael and my need to break up with him.

When I came back, having given up on my hair and deciding to wear a hat, I saw Kenny holding my diary, looking very hurt and on the verge of tears. I asked him what he thought he was doing.

Kenny: why didn't you just say no when I asked you out?

Me: I don't know because I didn't want to hurt your feelings probably. Why the hell did you read my diary????

Kenny: I wanted to know what you thought of me. I had no idea it was this. I knew I shouldn't have let you be friends with Michael Moscovitz.

Me: what do you mean you shouldn't have let me be friends with Michael Moscovitz? It's not like I'd choose you over him.

Kenny: (he looked like he was about to cry) Mia, he likes you

Me: (slightly confused) yes, he likes me we're friends

Kenny: no, he likes you, like I liked you

Me: trust me he doesn't. Kenny, can we still be friends? Because I think we would be much better friends.

Kenny: I think we should be friends too.

Me: there are just two more things. One, never ever read my diary again, and two, please don't tell Michael about this!!!

Kenny: OK. But I don't see why you don't want Michael to know.

Me: please stop being delusional Kenny

Then Lilly called me and asked if I would come over to help her edit this week's episode of "Lilly tells it like it is". I said sure, that's where I am now.



Even Later Thursday

My bedroom

While I was at Lilly's I told her what had happened (apart from the Michael part). She told me it was great that for once in my life I was being assertive.

Me: I was assertive because he read my diary, I would have been a bumbling mess otherwise.

Lilly: well the point is that you managed to break up with him.

Me: I guess.

Lilly: (for some reason she had one of those annoying grins on her face) will you come over at about five on Saturday, so we can talk, we never get to just talk anymore.

Me: we're talking now.

Lilly: but we're also editing the next episode of Lilly tells it like it is.

Me: (knowing she was up to something, but deciding to go along with it) okay.

I wonder what she has planned; hopefully it won't be something to hideously embarrass me.