A Party For Three
Chapter 1: Morning After.
The sun peaks in the window because it was morning, and Lizzie's asleep in her bed. She soon wakes by the sound of someone vomiting in her bathroom. The brightness makes her squint and cause her to get a headache, so she decides to cover her face with the blanket. Within a few seconds, she almost falls back asleep until she hears someone on the floor snoring. She lifts up causing her to squint once more, then she looks down and sees Gordo curled up in a sleeping bag and Mr. Snuggles, her stuffed pig in his arms. She wonders why he's here.
Suddenly, she sees someone come out of the bathroom, groaning. It was Miranda.
"Hi, Lizzie." Miranda said, lying down on the bed with her, then asks, "Why is Gordo here?"
Lizzie was confused. "What happened last night?" The last thing that she remembers is saying goodbye to her parents, Sam and Jo as they left for a cruise for business and they wouldn't be back until today.
"I'm guessing we had some fun, for I just puked my guts out." Miranda said as she air quoted the word fun.
"Yeah, the raging headache explains it." Lizzie rubbed her forehead.
"Parties are fun, but the hangovers suck big time."
Lizzie eyes widen and realizes something. "Party! That equals damage… to the house!" She quickly jumps out of bed and starts darting for downstairs. Then she suddenly stops because she sees Matt coming out of his room while he yawns. "Matt, I thought you were at Lanny's?"
"Oh, hi Lizzie." He spoke. "And I was until his mom got mad at me and drove me home about midnight."
"What happened?"
He sighs heavily. "It's too long to explain. And I'm not awake enough to think that much."
Lizzie laughs as she and him walk downstairs. It wasn't really a mess, her animated-self thought and imagined. Though that was only because she had her eyes closed. When she opened them, it was a nightmare.
"Wow, Lizzie, what happened last night?" Matt asked while shivering at the thought of the sight he wishes he had never seen last night. He then, walks to the kitchen where he gets a glass and pours himself some milk.
"I have no clue." Lizzie followed.
"You guys must had a fun night as I see many empty bottles on coffee table." Matt said as he gotten the bread down from the cabinet and put two pieces into the toaster.
"Yup." Lizzie doesn't seem too thrilled. "I feel like crap."
Matt just laughs.
"Whatever. I'm going back to bed." Lizzie starts to head back up stairs. But then she quickly makes a left turn to the bathroom instead, and to the toilet bowl she aimed for. Let the vomiting begin, her animated-self thought.
Meanwhile upstairs, Miranda was just lying on the bed, listening to Gordo's loud snoring. It was impossible for her to go back to sleep. She kept sighing heavily, and had enough with it, though-for, a pillow was thrown at him. "Live clowns!" he yells, still fast asleep. Miranda just makes a funny face and laughs to herself, "What?" She sits up on the bed, reaches over and tickles him. A sight chuckle squeals from him. She keeps tickling him until she slides off the bed and onto him. Gordo opens his eyes and sees her face to his. He smiles. There is a moment of silence between them.
Gordo speaks up, "I've gotta pee. Let me up!"
She stands and extends her hand to help him up. He, then darts for the bathroom, and she falls back onto the bed once more to go back to sleep.
The phone suddenly rings and Matt answers. "Hello."
"Matt, what're doing there? I thought we dropped you off at Lanny's."
"Hi, Mom. I was brought home due to Lanny's mom yelling at me."
"What did you do this time, Matt?"
"Nothing." Matt said. "I just gave their dog a bath…"
"Okay… I'm sure there's more to that story, honey." Jo sounded serious. "But is Lizzie up?"
Matt just sighs, "Yes. I'll go get her." Walking to the bathroom, and with the door still open, he stuck his head around the corner seeing Lizzie resting her head on the toilet seat. "Uh, Lizzie, Mom's on the phone." he whispered.
Lizzie groans as she raises her head and says softly, "Tell her I don't feel good. I think I'm getting the flu." She wasn't exactly lying.
"Hold on, Mom." Matt said as he holds his hand over the speaker. He gets a big smile on his face. "Twenty bucks and I won't say a thing about your little fun time last night."
"No!" Lizzie mouthed and gave a mean look.
"Alright, Mom…" Matt almost puts the phone back up to his ear, though Lizzie gives in with rolling her eyes and nodding her head as a signal for, okay you win. He put the phone up to his ear anyway and says, "She isn't feeling very well."
"Poor Lizzie. Why?"
"Probably coming down with the flu. It's going around, you know."
"That's true," Jo said with a worry tone in her voice. "We should be back around dinner time. But tell her to call me whenever she starts to feel a little better."
"Will do. Love you Mom." Jo said bye, and Matt hangs up, smiling. "Mom and Dad are coming home in a little bit."
She quickly raises her head back up as it was lying on the seat again, and begins to stand up. "We gotta clean this place up."
"We? I hope you're talking about Gordo and Miranda, 'cause I'm not doing any thing. Superhero starts in ten minutes." Matt starts to walk out. "I'll be on the couch, eating my old Halloween candy. Don't bother me."
Lizzie catches him by his shirt. "Nuh-uh, little brother. You're helping. Or you're not getting the money!" Lizzie demanded.
"Then you're going be grounded." He smirked.
She gives him a mean look again, but he just kept that smirk on his face.
"Look, Matt, please. We gotta get this place spotless, and it'll go faster if more people help us."
He thinks for a moment and then says, "No, see ya." He, again starts to walk out the door.
"Will five more dollars do the trick?" She hated the fact that she's giving him her money.
He turns to her. "I don't know. Will it?"
"Fine. Ten." She sighed.
He nods. "But hand over the dough first."
"No, you weasel!" She folds her arms. "I promise I will give you it when we're finished."
He narrows his eyes at her. "You better keep that promise, Lizzie McGuire, or you'll secret will be exposed!"
She just sighs. "Whatever, I will." and rolled her eyes.
They both head back upstairs to get Miranda and Gordo.
What the heck happened last night? - thought animated Lizzie.
Stay tuned.