
As she runs off with Tina Kenny stops her and breaks up with her, believing that she is in love with Boris.

When Mia sees the program she screams and jumps back, believing that Michael is making fun of her.

Michael discovers from his sister that Mia is the one sending the notes and designs a computer program revealing his feelings to show her at the Nondenominational Winter Carnival. Mia decides to send Michael anonymous love notes the same way Kenny did for her, with the help of Tina and Lars. Mia still harbors a crush on Michael and asks multiple people for advice, including her father, her grandmother, Sebastiano, and Tina. With Kenny and Mia dating, Michael begins to spend time with Judith Gershner. As everyone piles into the limo Michael stops Mia and tells her that she looks really beautiful in her dress. After she somewhat reluctantly agrees he puts his arm around her, which alarms Michael and causes him to stand up and announce that he is ready to leave, even though not everyone had finished eating their food yet. Kenny ultimately reveals himself to be Mia's secret admirer and asks her out. She sits next to Michael at the movie and afterward at Round the Clock for pancakes, but Kenny Showalter ends up sitting on her other side. She is ultimately able to go and wear her pink bridesmaids dress that she had hoped Michael would be able to see her in. Michael invites her to attend Rocky Horror Picture Show on Halloween, though she is not sure if she can attend. When Mia begins receiving anonymous love notes she secretly hopes they are from Michael. Michael intends to ask Mia to the Cultural Diversity Dance, but is beaten to the punch by Josh Richter, which upsets Michael, though he is comforted by the knowledge that Mia's bodyguard, Lars, will be with them the whole time. In fact, Michael has had a crush on Mia since the first time he saw her on inline skates and she kept falling and getting back up, which he thought was cute. He is hinted at feeling the same way, though Mia doesn't realize it.

Around the beginning of her freshman year Mia develops a substantial crush on Michael. Mia claims to have been in love with Michael since first grade. Mia grew up spending lots of time in the Moscovitz home, due to her friendship with Lilly Moscovitz.
