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"I wonder who that is." Lizzie wondered out loud as she waited while one of her best friends, Miranda Sanchez, pulled her algebra book out of her locker. Miranda looked up from what she was doing in the direction that Lizzie was staring at.

"I don't know." She said as she finished shoving her book into her backpack. "She must be new."

"Probably," replied Lizzie as she continued to stare at the new girl. She was very pretty, with short, bouncy brown hair which covered her face as she looked down to shove a book into her backpack. The girl was wearing a pair of dark blue-flared jeans that had laces up the front. On top was a yellow T-shirt that had something on it, which Lizzie could not see.

"So," Miranda continued as she closed her locker. "As I was saying, I saw Ethan Craft at the mall yesterday, and I was completely mortified that he saw me with my mom." She looked up at her life long best friend, who appeared to not be paying attention. "Lizzie, you there?" There was no answer from her friend. "You who, Lizzie!" She tried again while she waved her hand in front of her face.

"Oh, what?" Lizzie said as she snapped out of her trance.

"I was telling you about my embarrassing day at the mall. Anyway."

"Actually Miranda, do you think you could hold that thought for a second. I'm going to go introduce myself to that new girl. It doesn't look like she's met anyone yet."

"Whatever, I guess my Ethan story can wait." She said slightly disappointed.

"Great, I'll see you in homeroom." Lizzie replied as she hurried off in the direction of the girl. Miranda turned in the other direction and found herself face to face with her other best friend, Gordo. She jumped back. "Dang it Gordo! Don't do that! You scared the heck out of me." She yelled at him.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to. Where's Lizzie going?"

"She wanted to talk to that new girl over there. She's being the typical Lizzie, nice to everyone, especially those who have no friends."

"Oh, who is that girl anyway?" Gordo asked as he looked up at Lizzie and the girl she was talking to.

"I just said that Lizzie is going to meet her. We think she's new, but we don't know who she is. Jeez, is today national 'Don't listen to Miranda day' or something?"

"Oh sorry. Well, we should probably get to class. I can meet her then."

"You mean WE can meet her then."

"Yeah, we." Gordo trailed off. He couldn't wait until homeroom so that Lizzie could tell him about that girl. There was just something about her that drew him in. He might like her even more then he liked Lizzie, which was a lot, even though he'd never told anyone about that secret crush.

**Meanwhile**

"Um, excuse me?" Lizzie said to the girl who was busy in her locker. She didn't look up. "Um," Lizzie said as she tapped on her shoulder.

"Huh?" The girl asked, exasperated as she quickly looked up. Lizzie noticed that girl had extremely bright blue eyes. She was even prettier up close.

"Hi, I'm Lizzie. You're new, right?"

'Oh, yeah, hi, I'm Michelle." She said as she stood up a little straighter. She barely caught her red-one-shoulder backpack, as it slid down her leg and almost hit the floor. In her other hand she was barely holding a large algebra book. "Sorry, I'd shake your hand or something, but they're kind of full at the moment."

"Oh, let me help you." Lizzie said as she grabbed the book out of Michelle's hand.

'Thanks, my hand was about to break."

"No problem." Lizzie replied as she helped put the book into Michelle's backpack. "So, who do you have for homeroom?"

"Um, Ms. Baker, I think."

'Oh, that's who I have too. But we have Mr. Diggs today, he's a substitute, but don't worry, he's really cool."

"Oh, cool."

"You can sit with me and my best friends Gordo and Miranda." Lizzie said as Michelle closed her locker and through her backpack over her shoulder.

"Thank you so much, you're the first person to actually talk to me today, other then this really tall cheerleader with an attitude problem, and some creepy guy that hit on me.

"Oh, you must have had a close encounter with the third and fourth kinds, Kate and Tudgeman." The girls began to walk down the hall to their first class. Lizzie told Michelle all about the different groups of the school and about Gordo and Miranda. She even told her about her little crush on Gordo in the fourth grade, but assured her that was all over.

They finally made it to the class. Lizzie led Michelle to her group's usual seats in homeroom in the middle of the class. Miranda looked up as they neared. She took one look at Michelle and screamed, "You!"

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