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"  Forever Princess, the last book in the Princess Diaries series (for the time being, at least!), went through a lot of revisions before I came up with a final draft I felt happy with. Since it was such an important book in the series (Mia turns 18, chooses a college, graduates from high school, publishes a historical romance novel, and ultimately picks which guy she thinks might be The One for her), I rewrote it so many times I can&amp;#039;t even count how many drafts I went through. I ended up with multiple versions of scenes, or scenes I threw out because they simply didn&amp;#039;t work. I saved them all because ... well, you never know!   Below are a few scenes that didn&amp;#039;t make the final cut of Forever Princess, Volume X of The Princess Diaries:  In this first scene, Mia (FtLouie) is IM&amp;#039;ing with her friend Tina Hakim Baba (Iluvromance), who drops the bombshell that Mia&amp;#039;s ex-boyfriend, Michael Moscovitz, has come back to town. ____________________________  Iluvromance: I mean, this stuff about your dad, and Michael coming back and all. You must be freaking out, at least a little.    FtLouie: Wait ... what about Michael?    Iluvromance: Oh, he didn&amp;#039;t mention it? I thought you guys were e-mailing each other.    FtLouie: We are. I mean, we&amp;#039;re friends. But he didn&amp;#039;t mention anything about coming back. In fact, the last time I heard from him, he said he was working harder than ever. How did YOU know he was coming back?    Iluvromance: Well ... Boris told me. You know, Boris didn&amp;#039;t get his first choice of a single at Juilliard (big surprise, he lost his housing application, he&amp;#039;s so disorganized), so he&amp;#039;s been freaking out, he doesn&amp;#039;t want to live with someone he doesn&amp;#039;t know. But it&amp;#039;s going to be OK, because he told me Michael said he could crash with him in his new loft in TriBeCa until he finds a place of his own!     Wait. Oh, my God. This ... does ... not ... compute.    FtLouie: Michael&amp;#039;s back? In town?     Iluvromance: Yeah! I really hope they&amp;#039;re going to have a robotic butler! You know, like in that movie Benchwarmers? Not that I like that movie, of course, but my little brother watches it all the time. And the rich guy in it, he has a robotic butler. And since Michael invented that robotic arm, I bet he could make a robotic butler.     FtLouie: Michael&amp;#039;s back? In town?    Iluvromance: Oh ... wait. You didn&amp;#039;t know? I&amp;#039;m sorry! I thought you did. His surgical robotic arm thingie has been all over the news. Oh, wait, here&amp;#039;s an article I just saw about it, I&amp;#039;ll send it.       NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Robotic arms are the future for surgery, and one in particular, dubbed the CardioArm, will be revolutionizing cardiac surgery, already making its creator \u2014 Michael Moscovitz, 21, Manhattan \u2014 a very wealthy man.   Moscovitz spent two years leading a team of Japanese scientists in designing the CardioArm, which is billed as the first surgical robot compatible with advanced imaging technology.     The stock of Pavlov Surgical, Moscovitz&amp;#039;s high-tech company with a monopoly on selling robotic surgical arms in the United States, has surged nearly 500 percent over the last year. Analysts believe that the rally is far from over.    That&amp;#039;s because demand for Moscovitz&amp;#039;s product is growing, and so far his small company has the market all to itself.    The surgical arm, which is controlled remotely by surgeons, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for general surgery last year.    The CardioArm system is considered to be more precise and less invasive than traditional surgical tools that include small handheld surgical cameras inserted into the body during surgery. Recovery from surgery performed by the CardioArm system is considerably faster than recovery from traditional surgery.    &amp;quot;What you can do with the robotic arm \u2014 with the capabilities in manipulation and visualization \u2014 you just can&amp;#039;t do any other way,&amp;quot; said Dr. Arthur Ward, head of cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center.    There are already 50 CardioArms operating in American hospitals, with a waiting list of hundreds more, but with a price tag ranging from $1 million to $1.5 million, the systems don&amp;#039;t come cheap. Moscovitz has donated several CardioArm systems to children&amp;#039;s hospitals nationwide, and will be donating a new one to Columbia University Medical Center this weekend, a fact for which the university, his alma mater, is grateful.    &amp;quot;This is a highly perfected, highly sought after, very unique technology,&amp;quot; said Ward. &amp;quot;In terms of robotics, CardioArm is the clear leader. Moscovitz has done something extraordinary for the field of surgical medicine.&amp;quot;      Iluvromance: Isn&amp;#039;t that amazing, Mia? It&amp;#039;s exactly what he said he was going to do! And the part about his donating the arm this weekend to Columbia! Isn&amp;#039;t that sweet?    I think I&amp;#039;m going to throw up.    FtLouie: Yeah. Completely. Sweet.    Iluvromance: You know, if you think about it, it&amp;#039;s really like that story we read in Ms. Martinez&amp;#039;s class, Gift of the Magi, where the girl cuts her hair to buy a watch case for the guy, and the guy sells his watch to buy hair combs for the girl. Only not really. But I mean, Michael went to Japan to do something great to prove he was worthy of you, and you brought democracy to Genovia to prove there was more to you than just being a princess. It&amp;#039;s so romantic. Except for the part where you two broke up.    That&amp;#039;s the part where the throwing up comes in.    FtLouie: Ha. Yeah.    Iluvromance: So, you really didn&amp;#039;t know he was back? He didn&amp;#039;t tell you? That is so weird. I wonder if it&amp;#039;s because the sight of you causes him to burn with an inner passion that he knows he must deny, but dare not name. You two are going to get together for old time&amp;#039;s sake, right? You have to invite him to your birthday soiree, at least. Because, I mean, you&amp;#039;re still friends.    FtLouie: Right. Totally.     __________________________________   In the final version of the book, I decided this scene, though comic, didn&amp;#039;t work. The news about Michael&amp;#039;s return to town was much too big for Mia&amp;#039;s friend to simply tell her in a text message. It ends up being delivered by Mia&amp;#039;s father, the Prince of Genovia, with a great deal of pomp (I was sorry to lose the part about the robotic butler, though)!    I also deleted the following scene, which originally occurred some time after Mia&amp;#039;s 18th birthday and Michael&amp;#039;s return from Japan, but before Mia&amp;#039;s prom, which she was due to attend with her boyfriend, J.P.:    _______________________________    In the limo on the way home from Dr. Fung&amp;#039;s office      Well. That was totally mortifying.    Can I just say it was completely weird to be at my pediatrician&amp;#039;s office without my mother?    Also, to be there as a legal adult? With my bodyguard? Who, okay, didn&amp;#039;t know WHY we were there? But it was still embarrassing.    There were all these totally whiny, runny-nosed kids all over the waiting room, and there was nothing to read in there but Highlights. For kids! Of course, I remember when I used to love Highlights. Goofus and Gallant! I was such a Goofus until Grandmere took me under her wing.    But whatever. You&amp;#039;d think they&amp;#039;d have a copy of Seventeen or something.    Anyway, after waiting like half an hour (so much for making an appointment), the nurse finally called me in, and after weighing me (WHY DO THEY ALWAYS DO THIS????), and taking my blood pressure and temperature, Dr. Fung finally came in and was like, &amp;quot;Mia! So good to see you! How are you? What can I do for you today?&amp;quot;    I figured there was no point in beating around the bush. A patient is a paying customer and doctors are providing a service. Besides, I&amp;#039;d concocted a story. Sort of.    &amp;quot;Hi, Dr. Fung,&amp;quot; I said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m fine. I&amp;#039;ve seen all those commercials on TV about how you can have your period for only three days every three months or something if you go on the Pill, so I&amp;#039;d like to try that now.&amp;quot;    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!    Yeah. Okay. I know. It sounded totally fake to me, too.    But apparently not to Dr. Fung.    &amp;quot;Okay,&amp;quot; Dr. Fung said, not even skipping a beat. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s great. You know that the Pill has been clinically proven to reduce the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer, and it also greatly lessens menstrual cramping. However, there are some risks ... you can&amp;#039;t smoke while you&amp;#039;re on the Pill, and a very few women do have side effects, which you would need to let me know about right away. And you&amp;#039;ll need to see a gynecologist to get your prescription, since doctors can&amp;#039;t prescribe one without also giving you a pelvic exam \u2014 I can give you the name of a great OB-GYN. And she&amp;#039;ll be able to find the brand that best suits your needs.&amp;quot;    WHAT????    I stared at him in astonishment. &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t just write me a prescription right now?&amp;quot;    &amp;quot;Well,&amp;quot; Dr. Fung said. &amp;quot;No, Mia. I can&amp;#039;t. I&amp;#039;m a pediatrician, not a gynecologist.&amp;quot;    That was so BOGUS!    &amp;quot;But,&amp;quot; I said. Dr. Fung was my only hope! My only hope in my struggle to remain true to my boyfriend! &amp;quot;I need to go on the Pill! I need to go on the Pill RIGHT NOW!&amp;quot;    &amp;quot;Mia,&amp;quot; Dr. Fung said, looking startled. &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;re here about birth control, there are many other methods besides the Pill. Allow me to show you \u2014&amp;quot;    &amp;quot;THAT&amp;#039;S NOT WHY I NEED IT,&amp;quot; I practically yelled. I was so embarrassed. I mean, this was the man who had nursed me through the chicken pox. And he was getting out a little pamphlet on condoms. And spermicide! &amp;quot;I told you. I want to go on it to control my period. To, uh, never have it again. Because I heard they can do that now. Make you never have your period again. Until you go off the Pill, I mean. And that it&amp;#039;s perfectly healthy.&amp;quot;    &amp;quot;Well,&amp;quot; Dr. Fung said. &amp;quot;It is. And it can. But like I said, only a gynecologist \u2014&amp;quot;   It was at that point I pretended like I was receiving a very important phone call from the Genovian ambassador to France (and that my cell phone had been set on vibrate) and had to leave to go take it. Due to a very important international crisis. Between Genovia. And France.    Somehow I don&amp;#039;t think Dr. Fung believed me. Maybe due to the fact that my face was bright red.     But I don&amp;#039;t care.     WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW???? I will never be able to resist the smell of Michael&amp;#039;s neck now!!!!!     _________________________________  In the next scene, I had Mia and her friend Tina have this startling IM conversation (which I also eventually chose to delete):    _____________________________    Iluvromance: Mia! Where have you been?    FtLouie: Uh, I&amp;#039;ve just been to see Dr. Fung.     Iluvromance: Your doctor? Why did you go to the doctor? Are you sick???     FtLouie: I&amp;#039;m fine! I just wanted to go on the Pill. You know, it&amp;#039;s much better for you to be on the Pill, for health reasons. It stabilizes your period for one thing, so you always know exactly when you&amp;#039;re going to get it. Plus it helps lessen PMS and cramps, and prevents ovarian cancer. You can be on it for years and years. Of course, it takes a month to take effect.    Iluvromance: Mia, did you want to go on the Pill so you wouldn&amp;#039;t be affected by Michael&amp;#039;s smell? Because you read that women on the Pill aren&amp;#039;t affected by that major histocompatibility complex? And you&amp;#039;re worried you won&amp;#039;t be able to resist Michael&amp;#039;s smell and stay true to J.P.????    FtLouie: No! Don&amp;#039;t be silly! Of course not! I wanted to go on the Pill because all college girls are on the Pill!    Iluvromance: Are you sure it&amp;#039;s not because you burn with an inner passion for him that you know you must deny, but dare not name? And you knew the Pill would help you deny it?    FtLouie: No! No! Oh, alright ... yes. Yes!    ________________________    Sadly, I ended up ditching both these scenes because the book was already 400 pages long and something had to go (also ditched: a subplot where Mia&amp;#039;s grandmother has an affair with Mia&amp;#039;s therapist, which I ultimately felt was unlikely, since Dr. Knutz would never betray the patient-doctor relationship that way, by falling in love with Mia&amp;#039;s grandmother).    I hope you enjoyed these deleted scenes! To read the scenes that actually made it INTO the book (and believe me, they&amp;#039;re even dishier than the ones above), be sure to get a copy of Forever Princess while it&amp;#039;s hot!   Love,    Meg  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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