Lizzie fell on her bed with a relieved sigh. She always had such mixed emotions about school. It was truly exahusting. She never knew if she loved it because of all the time with her friends and the people there or if she hated it because of all the classes and bullies. All she could ever do when she got home was go to her bed and try to relax a little.

After a few minutes of relaxing Lizzie stretched her arm and felt around for her telephone. Once in grasp she pressed one of the speed dial numbers and waited for an answer. Twelve rings later she was still waiting. Lizzie looked at her phone disgusted. She couldn't think of any time when she couldn't talk to Miranda whenever she wanted. Weird. Shaking her head she hung up and pressed her second speed dial number. Gordo's phone was busy.

Every day after school Lizzie would either call Miranda or Gordo to go over the days events and to do homework over the phone. It was simply their routine. They had been doing it for so long that Lizzie had never thought about what she would do when she couldn't communicate with either one of them. She couldn't pin point a time when this had actually happened before.

Shaking her head she decided that there was no sense in putting off the misery and pulled out her homework. She wasn't more then one fourth through her math exercise when she felt a small pull in her head. Little Lizzie was at it again. 'Maybe Gordo's online! Log on! Log on!'. Unable to further concentrate on her homework Lizzie walked over to her computer and turned it on.

She enjoyed the soft clicking that her computer made while booting up. It was relaxing. Reassuring. Like listening to an old friend's voice over the phone. Something that simply brought a smile to her face. Once the computer was on and she dialed up and connected into the Internet Lizzie watched as her IM icon moved from disconnected the little happy face that was 'Online'.

She scanned her buddy list to see if Gordo was online. Nothing! Lizzie stared at the computer in shock. She had been sure she'd be able to find him there, at the very least. She stared blankly at her computer for a little while, trying to make sense out of everything. Finally a little ad at the bottom of the page grabbed her attention. 'Teen Chat'. Lizzie smiled, maybe she'd give that a try.