The Princess Diaries: Part 6

By MEG CABOT

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life. She says the fact that I'm so upset about my mom and Mr G is a classic example.

`If you're upset about it, just tell your mom,' Lilly says. `Tell her you don't want her going out with him. I don't understand you, Mia. You're always going around, lying about how you feel. Why don't you assert yourself for a change? Your feelings have worth, you know.'

Oh, right. Like I'm going to bum my mom out like that. She's so totally happy about this date, it's enough to make me want to throw up. She goes around cooking all the time. I'm not even kidding. She made pasta for the first time last night in, like, months. I had already opened the Suzie's Chinese take-out menu, and she says, `Oh, no cold sesame noodles tonight, honey. I made pasta.'

Pasta! My mom made pasta!

She even observed my rights as a vegetarian and didn't put any meatballs in the sauce.

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: $14.95

Age group: 12-plus years


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