“I knew going into this that it wasn’t going to be easy, Mia,” Michael said. “I mean, aside from the age difference and your being my sister’s best friend, there’s the whole princess aspect to it…the constant-hounding-bypaparazzi/can’t-go-anywhere-without-a-bodyguard thing. A lesser man might find all that daunting. I, on the other hand, have always enjoyed a challenge. Besides which, I love you, so it’s all worth it to me.”
I practically melted right there on the spot. I mean, seriously. Has any guy EVER said anything so sweet?
But then he went on.
“It’s not that I’m trying to rush you into something you aren’t ready for,” Michael said, as matter-of-factly as if he were discussing the next move he planned on making in Rebel Strike. How do boys do this, by the way? “It’s just that I know it takes you a while to get used to things. So, I want you to start getting used to this: You’re the girl I want. One day, you WILL be mine.”
Now my face was REDDER than the pizza sauce. At least, that’s what it felt like.
“Um,” I said. “Okay.” Because what else COULD I say to that????
Besides, it wasn’t like I was displeased. I WANT Michael to want me.
It’s just, you know, for him to SAY it like that was actually kind of…I don’t know.
Hot.
“So long as that’s clear,” Michael said.
“Crystal,” I said, after I’d choked for a while.
Then, he said as far as Doing It went, I was off the hook for the time being, but he expected periodic re-evaluation of our stances on that issue.
I asked how often he thought we should re-evaluate our stances, and he said about once a month, and I said I thought six-month evaluations might be better, and then he said two, and I said three, and then he said, “Deal.”
Then, he got up and went to offer Lars another slice and got sucked into a conversation Lars is having with the guy behind the counter about the Yankees’ chances in the World Series this year, even though to my knowledge, Michael has never watched a baseball game in his life.
He did, however, design a computer model in which you can input all the statistics concerning a team, and it will then tell you what their chances are of beating another team to within a two-point spread.
The fact is, I love him. He’s the boy I want. And one day, he WILL be mine.
And now he wants to know if I want to go get a gelato.
I said:
“I most certainly do.”ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many thanks to Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown, Barb Cabot, Laura Langlie, Abigail McAden and, especially, Benjamin Egnatz.About the Author
MEG CABOT is the author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed Princess Diaries books, which were made into the wildly popular Disney movies of the same name. Her other books for teens include the Mediator series, the 1-800-Where-R-You books, ALL-AMERICAN GIRL, TEEN IDOL, NICOLA AND THE VISCOUNT, and VICTORIA AND THE ROGUE. Meg’s books for older readers include THE BOY NEXT DOOR, BOY MEETS GIRL, and EVERY BOY’S GOT ONE. She is still waiting for her real parents, the king and queen, to restore her to her rightful throne. She lives in Key West and New York City with her husband and a one-eyed cat named Henrietta.
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Books by MEG CABOT
The Princess Diaries
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME II:
Princess in the Spotlight
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME III:
Princess in Love
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME IV:
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME IV AND A HALF:
Project Princess
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME V:
Princess in Pink
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME VI:
Princess in Training
The Princess Present:
A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK
Princess Lessons:
A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK
Perfect Princess:
A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK
THE MEDIATOR BOOKS:
THE MEDIATOR 1: SHADOWLAND
THE MEDIATOR 2: NINTH KEY
THE MEDIATOR 3: REUNION
THE MEDIATOR 4: DARKEST HOUR
THE MEDIATOR 5: HAUNTED
THE MEDIATOR 6: TWILIGHT
ALL-AMERICAN GIRL
TEEN IDOL
NICOLA AND THE VISCOUNT
VICTORIA AND THE ROGUE
THE BOY NEXT DOOR
BOY MEETS GIRL
EVERY BOY’S GOT ONE
THE 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU BOOKS:
WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES
CODE NAME CASSANDRA
SANCTUARY
Credits
Jacket art © 2005 by Howard Huang
Jacket design by Amy Ryan
Jacket © 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.COPYRIGHT
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Microsoft Reader March 2005 ISBN 0-06-083904-X
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cabot, Meg.
Princess in training / by Meg Cabot.—1st ed.
p. cm. — (The princess diaries; v. 6)
Summary: High school sophomore Princess Mia records in her diary her struggles with geometry, the expectations of being a college student's girlfriend, running for president of the student council, and a potential ecological disaster in her native land, Genovia.
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