This is my first try at a LwD story I apologize if any of the character seem OOC or I get some details wrong.

Disclaimer- I own nothing unfortunately except for Nicole.

Lizzie's POV

Lizzie was lying curled on her bed crying. Why? Why does he have to like stupid Nicole?? What does she have that I don't!? And why does he only think of me as a sister?

Lizzie had no idea when or why she fell in love with Edwin it had hit her like a pile of bricks. And what was worse only 3 days after she realized that she was in love with him Edwin and Nicole had started dating. That was 2 weeks ago.Edwin hadn't said to her that he had only thought of her as a sister, but ever since Nicole and Edwin had become a couple he had been acting towards Lizzie in a manner a brother would act towards a sister.

She had followed the same cycle since that time. Wake up, Shower, Go to school, come home, do homework, cry until dinner only leaving her room to use the bathroom, eat, cry until sleep.

She heard footstep and the door started to open.

"Lizzie." Casey began as she walked through the door.

Lizzie quickly wiped her eyes and sat and faced her sister.

"Liz? What's wrong?" Casey said as she took a few steps forward and sat next to her on her bed.

"Nothing." Lizzie said her voice slightly raspy from the crying. She turned away from Casey and looked at the wall hugging her knees close to her body.

"Then why are you crying?"

" Its none of your business!"

"Liz I'm just trying to help…"

"Well I didn't ask for your goddamn help! Get the hell out of my room! Now!" Lizzie screamed.

Casey stood slowly and took a couple of steps towards the door. "Remember Liz if you ever want to talk to me I'm here."

"I. Said. Get. The. Hell. Out. Of. My. Room!" Lizzie said punctuating each word for emphasis.

Casey closed the door behind her sighing.

Edwin's POV

"Bye Nicole." Edwin said then he hung up the phone he stretched and yawned. It was almost 7:00pm so dinner would be soon Edwin thought as he went downstairs from his attic bedroom to put the cordless phone on the charger. He liked Nicole a lot she was pretty cute and smart.

"Uh-oh little bro got game what's that the third time this week she has called?" Derek said as he walked pass. Edwin bowed his head slightly and was blushed feverishly as he put the phone down.

Marti giggled at Edwin. "Nicole and Edwin sittin' in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G first comes love then come marriage then comes the baby in the baby carriage!"

Derek laughed as well. And Edwin turned an even brighter shade of red if that was even possible. After recovering from being made fun of he began to make his way up the stairs as he was coming up the stairs he heard: "Well I didn't ask for your goddamn help! Get the hell out of my room! Now!" then he heard Casey say something then Lizzie yelling at her to get out.

He made it to the top of the stairs as Casey was closing Lizzie's door.

"What's up with Lizzie?" Edwin asked

"I think there is something wrong she was crying and she yelled at me."

"Come to think of it she has been lock in her room for the last 2 weeks I thought she was working on her science project but I guess not." Edwin said thinking out loud.

"Well I hope you can get through to her because I had no luck."

"LIZZIE! EDWIN! CASEY! DINNER!" Nora called upstairs

Casey went down alone as Edwin went to Lizzie's door.

"Lizzie?" he said as he knocked softly " Its time for dinner."

When he heard nothing he slowly opened the door to find Lizzie sitting in front of her mirror putting on make-up to cover the tear stains on her cheeks and the puffiness and redness of her eyes.

"Lizzie?" He said again.

"I'll be down in a second." She called a little loudly she didn't even notice that the door was open.

"Okay."

He went downstairs and sat at his respective spot at the table. Casey gave him a look saying: Don't bring it up or you'll worry mom and you know what will happen and Lizzie would hate us.

Edwin gave a look back saying that he understood.

"Where is Lizzie?" Nora asked

"She was doing some homework she said she would be down in a minute." Edwin lied.

"She had better come down quick or her spaghetti will get cold."

Lizzie's POV

She finished applying her make up and fix her hair a bit to make her look normal. She left her room and as she went down the stairs she silently prayed that Casey hadn't told anyone she was crying.

She made her way to the table and sat in her chair looking around to her surprise Casey hadn't brought it up because Marti was telling a story about how the teacher had given her a sticker for getting a 100 of the spelling test.

The rest of dinner continued that way with people telling stories about there day (except for Lizzie), Derek and Casey arguing a little and after she was done she asked to be excused and retreated back to her room. She wiped the make up from her face and sat back on her bed and once again began to cry again.

Edwin's POV

Edwin watched as Lizzie retreated upstairs. I'm gunna have to talk to her he though.

He rushed through the rest of his dinner and excused himself from the table. He went upstairs and stood in front of he door thinking about how she had been distant for awhile and he had been to busy with Nicole to realize it. Sure he liked Nicole a lot but Lizzie was his best friend in the world and now he was worried about her.

He knocked on the door.

"Go away." He heard Lizzie say.

He opened the door a crack and said "Lizzie it's me." He saw her sitting on her bed hugging her knees close to her.

"I said go away!"

"Lizzie?" Edwin said softly as he entered the room and closed the door behind him. He walked over to her bed where she sat crying and wrapped an arm around her. " What's wrong?"

Lizzie shrugged his arm off her and said, "I'm fine goddamn it! Can't you just leave me alone!?"

"No! I'm not leaving until you tell me what's wrong!"

"There isn't anything wrong!"

"Then why have you lock yourself in you room for the past 2 weeks and done nothing but cry?"

"It's nothing! Just go." She said the tears began to flow harder and she began sobbing.

Edwin pulled her into a hug and she began to cry against his chest. He sat holding her for a good 10 minutes until she wasn't crying all the time whispering into her hair "it's okay shhhh it's okay."

"So are you gunna tell me what's bothering you?"

Lizzie pulled out of his hug sniffled a few times and said, "I told you to go away!"

"And I told you I'm not leaving until I have some answers!"

"Just leave me alone."

"Do you know how much it hurts to see my best friend in the entire world like this!?" tears gleaming in his eyes threatening to fall. " I may not have noticed before because I thought you were doing a science project but after what Casey told me I think different. I think that you have been sitting in here crying like this for the past 2 weeks and I demand to know why!"

"Stop acting like you actually care!"

"I do care Lizzie!"

"I didn't want to do this Edwin but you have left me no choice."

"Do what? Huh?"

All of a sudden Edwin felt a sharp pain in his …area and he fell off the bed and dropped to the floor crying out in pain. Lizzie had kneed him there and it hurt like hell. She grabbed him by his shoulder and pulled him out into the hallway and went back into her room slamming the door and leaving Edwin holding his groin and in pain.

He saw Nora come up the stairs.

"I heard yelling what's going on…" Nora began then she saw Edwin lying on the floor "Oh dear god what happened?"

"N-noth-hing" Edwin sputtered out.

"Something happened or else you wouldn't be laying there doing what you're doing."

He stood up slowly as the pain was beginning to subside.

"She kicked you there? Didn't she." Nora said.

Edwin looked down and was blushing slightly.

Nora sighed then said "Lizzie get out here. Now."

Lizzie's POV

Lizzie had lain back down and was thinking why does he have to act like he cares? All he cares about is that stupid Nicole girl. Ugh!

Lizzie heard some talking outside her door it was her mom and Edwin.

"Lizzie get out here. Now." She heard her mom call.

Lizzie stood up and exited her room to find Edwin there slightly hunched over obviously still in pain.

"Yes mom?" Lizzie said innocently

"Why did you kick Edwin there?" Her mom asked

"I didn't." Hey it wasn't a lie after all she didn't kick him she kneed him.

Her mom rolled her eyes before saying, "Kneed same difference."

"Actually being kneed and kicked are two different things." Edwin began.

"Edwin."

"Yes?"

"Shut up."

"Okay."

"Now Lizzie tell me why you kneed him."

"Simple he was bothering me."

"I was not!" Edwin said

"Even if he was that is no excuse to knee a boy there. You both are grounded until further notice.

"What?!" Edwin said "I didn't do anything wrong!"

"No arguments. Now both of you bed. Now!"

"Whatever." Lizzie said going to the bathroom brushing her teeth then going back to her room and changing.

Edwin's POV

"Nora! This is so unfair I didn't do anything!" Edwin tried to argue trying to get ungrounded because his date with Nicole was Friday, which was tomorrow. Little did he know Nicole was Lizzie's problem.

"I told you no argument. Lizzie wouldn't have kneed you without having a good reason. I'm not saying what she did was right but she wouldn't do it without a good reason."

"But Nora!"

"BED NOW." George boomed clearly annoyed having to leave what him, Derek, and Casey were watching Marti already having been put in bed.

He ran upstairs with out another word. He brushed his teeth, then went to his room and changed.

Later that night (still Edwin's POV)

Edwin laid there staring at the ceiling thinking about what Lizzie had said to him. "Stop acting like you actually care!" Is that what she thought? That he didn't care?

He rolled over in to a more comfortable position. She should know that I care about her a lot that she is my best friend in the world. I'm gunna have to have a talk with her.

Lizzie's POV

Even Later that night.

It was almost midnight and Lizzie was crying. No one cares about me! Not Edwin! Not anyone!

Then a crazy thought popped into her head: Runaway.

She stood up changed into some jeans and a T-shirt walked over to her book bag and dumped the contents on the floor.

She went downstairs quietly knowing that everyone would be asleep. She walked over to the pantry taking some fruit, some assorted snacks, and some bottles of water. She took a light jacket as well even thought it was summer it was still on the cool side.

She walked out the front door and closed it quietly. She walked until she was out in the street and turned around and looked at the house. The house she had fallen in love with Edwin in. The house where no one cared about her.

(A/N) I hope you enjoyed it. And I'm sorry if any of the characters were OOC especially Lizzie when she gets mad at Casey and Edwin for trying to help. I will try and update soon. Review Please!