It All Changes
After the last class of the day I quickly said goodbye to Gordo and Miranda..and Larry.
I ran to my locker and stuffed in my binder, grabbed my purse and ran to the bathroom.
I made sure nobody was in the stalls, and then walked up to the sink and looked at myself in the mirror. If I wanted to make cheerleading try-outs, I atleast had to look decent. I pulled out my mascara and brushed it on. Then after a few dabbs of my cappichino lip-gloss, I was on my way to the gym.
As I pushed open the door, nobody was there so I looked at my watch and discovered that I was a little early so I spotted a seat on the bleachers and sat down. While waiting for everybody to arrive, thoughts started wandering into my mind. Thoughts like what would happen if I became cheerleader. Just like Miranda said, I didn't want to turn into Kate. But if I became a cheerleader, would I only hang out with 'cheerleaders'? Would I be popular? Would I get to date jocks?
I started daydreaming, daydreaming about how cool it would be and picturing myself as a cheerleader.
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. I heard the door opening so I looked up and saw Kate entering along with a few other cheerleaders. I caught my breath. What was I doing here? All the other girls were pretty and super skinny. I had no chance! I unlocked my sweaty palms and took the paper that Kate was passing around. I blew my bangs out of my face and began to read. There was a freshman, JV, and Varsity squad. They were to pick atleast 5 new girls for each squad. They would pick people today, and if made, you had to come to every practice, on mondays and fridays after school. I stoped reading and looked up when I heard the coach speaking.
"For todays try-outs we will..." She paused while taking the sheet Kate offered. "We will learn how to do a toe-touch and a cartwheel, a cheer, and finally, a dance routine."
I had a feeling today was going to be a long day.
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Meanwhile before try-outs started....
"Hey Gordo, are we-"
"Shhh!!" Gordo hissed at Miranda.
Miranda shutup and quietly tip toed back, giving Gordo a confused look. Gordo turned away from her quickly and focused his attention on the other side of the halls. Miranda was going to ask him why he was hiding behind stairs, but then when she looked were he was looking, she knew the answer. Yep, he was spying on somebody, but this is Gordo! He's not the type to just 'spy'. There's really nobody to spy on either so..
I quickly locked out my thoughs when I heard Kate's demanding voice.
"So, YOU make her fall for you, I make her cheerleader, she becomes MY friend, and then she'll get what's coming to her!"
What? What's that supposed to mean? Who is going to get what?!?!
I was just about to ask Gordo but I soon heard another voice follwoing her own.
"Right! That's the plan!"
I coudln't make out who was saying it, because the stairway was blocking him, and the hall lights weren't on. I knew it was a guy though because of the voice. The problem was though-I couldn't recognise his voice! I've heard it somewhere, but I can't put my finger on it. I heard footsteps coming our way so I pulled Gordo back behind the stairs and watched as Kate and 'the guy' walked past us.
All we could see was the back of the guy's head, and Kate walking towards the gym, where the try-outs were held. Gordo and I glanced at eachother.
"Gordo, who were they talking about?" I quickly whispered.
"Lizzie..." He softly answered.
My eyes popped out of my head. "What? How can you be so sure?"
"Because" He paused. "I could recognize those voices anwhere" He stopped just long enough to lick his lips and then he started again. "Who wanted Lizzie to come to try-outs? Kate. Who was being so nice to Lizzie? Kate." He finished.
I rolled my eyes. "So what! IT wasn't just 'Kate' there. She obviously wasn't talking to herself" I answered throwing my hands around.
He sighed. "No Miranda she wasn't. She was talking to CHRIS!" He shouted, impatiently.
How could he know Chris's voice so well? He hardly even talked to him..unless..
"Gordo what are we going to do?" I replied.
"We have to tell Lizzie!" He said while standing up.
I quickly stood up after. "Gordo we can't just tell her! She's not going to believe us, then she's going to be hurt that Chris was just using her! And..and-"
"Miranda! I am not going to stand by and let them hurt Lizzie!" he shouted while walking towards his locker.
I opened my mouth "So you really do care about her don't you?"
He quickly turned around, his face was growing red by the second, and he started playing with hands. "I have no idea what you're talking about" He stuttered and quickly turned back around and kept walking.
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I had no clue what i was doing! I had no clue how I was doing it either, but there I was, showing up people who thought I couldn't do anything. Mostly I was showing myself too. I had no clue that I could actually do a toe-touch and a cartwheel, AND catch on to the cheer and dance routine. People were actually asking me to help THEM. I was flattered. For once, I didn't feel like I was dumb. I felt like I had all the answers! After we were asked to sit down so they could make their decisions, my heart started pumping real, realy fast. The butterflies I once had were now returning. Soon after their heads shot up at us, and one lady announced that they'd post the papers the next morning. Every girl started smiling and whispering to one-another.
I started feeling uncomfertable so I quickly stood up from the bleachers, and made my way to the door. Before I could get out, I heard Kate's voice shuffeling through the air.
"Hi Lizzie!" Her cheerful voice said.
I tilted my head. "Hi Kate" I said sarcastically.
She gave me a bitter look. And threw her hand up to her chest. "I just wanted to tell you that you did a fantastic job today!" She paused and then continued to kiss up."I was watching as the judges made their selections and..between you and me...you're in!" She squealed.
Why is she so happy that I'm in? Maybe she wants to be friends like old times. Maybe she's sick of being 'miss popularity'! Maybe she's sick of getting peddicures and facials and..no what girl would be sick of that? I'de love to get pampered!
I quickly snapped out of my thoughs when I heard her foot tapping the floor. "Well I got to go Lizzie! Tons of stuff to do!" And she pranced back to her posse.
I blew my bangs away from my face and walked out of the gym. I was almost out of the hallway when I saw Chris just standing there. When he looked up from the floor, he spotted me and yelled out a quick hello. I smiled, and walked over.
"Hey Chris!" I greeted with a full, glamerous smile.
"Hey! Um so congradulations on making cheerleader!" As soon as he said that his facial image had changed, like he regretted what he said.
I looked at him funny and gave a goofy smile. "Um how did you know I made try-outs? Well I didn't really make them-I just-well-K-Kate told me I did and-"
"Yeah! K-Kate! I heard her talking to y-you!" Wow, now we're both stuttering! He must be as nervous as me! His pitch in voice started taking a nodge high.
"O-oh" I sighed.
He played with his fingers and then started talking. "So maybe I could take you out to celebrate tomorrow...sense it's saturday" He slowly asked, looking at me with those gorgeous blue eyes of his.
I started turning many colors of pink. Was he just asking me out? On a date? Me? "Umm..as in a date?" Ahh stupid me! I wasn't supposed to ask that!
"If you wanted it to..then yeah of course" I quickly looked up from the ground.
"That..that sounds okay to me" I said softly.
"Great! I'll call you later tonight..bye" He said while walking away at a slow pace.
I smiled and was jumping for joy inside.
I rushed home, ran inside, dashed up the stairs ignoring my mother's greeting, threw my backpack on the ground and flopped on my bed. I was utterly, completely jazzed about what happened with Chris. The most popular, hottest guy was asking out ME! Lizzie McGuire! I was just about to whip out my journal and recap about all of today's events when my phone rang.
I picked it up in a hurry thinking it was Chris. "Hello?!" I shouted.
"Lizzie...hey"
I sighed..it wasn't Chris...
"Hi Gordo...what's up"
"Um...well... I called for.." He stuttered.
"Gordo what is it!" I shouted impatiently.
"I..it's just that..Me and...uhh" He stuttered again.
Well sense he wasn't saying anything I decided to tell him about my date..I had to tell somebody!
"Well Gordo sense you can' t think up what to say..I've got something to say!" I paused. "Chris asked me out after try-outs today! Eeeek can you believe it Gordo! Oh and Kate said I made try-outs but you can't really believe anything she said but anyways! Chris asked ME out..ME!!!!" I shouted into the reciever.
He didn't say anything for a long time.
"Gordo?..."
"Um! Yeah, I'm here..umm Lizzie that's..really..nice"
Why do I get the feeling he doesn' t mean what he's saying?
"Nice?! Gordo it's so cool! He wants to date me! Nobody wants to date me! I never thought any boy in this entire universe liked me!" I shouted again..panting for breath.
"That's not true Lizzie...I..listen...I heard K-"
"Sorry Gordo, I have to go! Somebodie's on the other line! Tell me about it later ok? Bye" And I quickly hung up the phone, waiting to hear from the other person on the line.
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"So did you tell her?" Miranda asked.
Gordo sighed and shoved his hands in his pocket. "N-no..it's just that she seamed so happy..she-she got a date with him Miranda..I'm sorry but I couldn't tell her that he's using her..it'd hurt her..I just can't"
Miranda sighed and started thinking that maybe Gordo didn't just 'care for Lizzie'..maybe he 'loved Lizzie'
After the last class of the day I quickly said goodbye to Gordo and Miranda..and Larry.
I ran to my locker and stuffed in my binder, grabbed my purse and ran to the bathroom.
I made sure nobody was in the stalls, and then walked up to the sink and looked at myself in the mirror. If I wanted to make cheerleading try-outs, I atleast had to look decent. I pulled out my mascara and brushed it on. Then after a few dabbs of my cappichino lip-gloss, I was on my way to the gym.
As I pushed open the door, nobody was there so I looked at my watch and discovered that I was a little early so I spotted a seat on the bleachers and sat down. While waiting for everybody to arrive, thoughts started wandering into my mind. Thoughts like what would happen if I became cheerleader. Just like Miranda said, I didn't want to turn into Kate. But if I became a cheerleader, would I only hang out with 'cheerleaders'? Would I be popular? Would I get to date jocks?
I started daydreaming, daydreaming about how cool it would be and picturing myself as a cheerleader.
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. I heard the door opening so I looked up and saw Kate entering along with a few other cheerleaders. I caught my breath. What was I doing here? All the other girls were pretty and super skinny. I had no chance! I unlocked my sweaty palms and took the paper that Kate was passing around. I blew my bangs out of my face and began to read. There was a freshman, JV, and Varsity squad. They were to pick atleast 5 new girls for each squad. They would pick people today, and if made, you had to come to every practice, on mondays and fridays after school. I stoped reading and looked up when I heard the coach speaking.
"For todays try-outs we will..." She paused while taking the sheet Kate offered. "We will learn how to do a toe-touch and a cartwheel, a cheer, and finally, a dance routine."
I had a feeling today was going to be a long day.
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Meanwhile before try-outs started....
"Hey Gordo, are we-"
"Shhh!!" Gordo hissed at Miranda.
Miranda shutup and quietly tip toed back, giving Gordo a confused look. Gordo turned away from her quickly and focused his attention on the other side of the halls. Miranda was going to ask him why he was hiding behind stairs, but then when she looked were he was looking, she knew the answer. Yep, he was spying on somebody, but this is Gordo! He's not the type to just 'spy'. There's really nobody to spy on either so..
I quickly locked out my thoughs when I heard Kate's demanding voice.
"So, YOU make her fall for you, I make her cheerleader, she becomes MY friend, and then she'll get what's coming to her!"
What? What's that supposed to mean? Who is going to get what?!?!
I was just about to ask Gordo but I soon heard another voice follwoing her own.
"Right! That's the plan!"
I coudln't make out who was saying it, because the stairway was blocking him, and the hall lights weren't on. I knew it was a guy though because of the voice. The problem was though-I couldn't recognise his voice! I've heard it somewhere, but I can't put my finger on it. I heard footsteps coming our way so I pulled Gordo back behind the stairs and watched as Kate and 'the guy' walked past us.
All we could see was the back of the guy's head, and Kate walking towards the gym, where the try-outs were held. Gordo and I glanced at eachother.
"Gordo, who were they talking about?" I quickly whispered.
"Lizzie..." He softly answered.
My eyes popped out of my head. "What? How can you be so sure?"
"Because" He paused. "I could recognize those voices anwhere" He stopped just long enough to lick his lips and then he started again. "Who wanted Lizzie to come to try-outs? Kate. Who was being so nice to Lizzie? Kate." He finished.
I rolled my eyes. "So what! IT wasn't just 'Kate' there. She obviously wasn't talking to herself" I answered throwing my hands around.
He sighed. "No Miranda she wasn't. She was talking to CHRIS!" He shouted, impatiently.
How could he know Chris's voice so well? He hardly even talked to him..unless..
"Gordo what are we going to do?" I replied.
"We have to tell Lizzie!" He said while standing up.
I quickly stood up after. "Gordo we can't just tell her! She's not going to believe us, then she's going to be hurt that Chris was just using her! And..and-"
"Miranda! I am not going to stand by and let them hurt Lizzie!" he shouted while walking towards his locker.
I opened my mouth "So you really do care about her don't you?"
He quickly turned around, his face was growing red by the second, and he started playing with hands. "I have no idea what you're talking about" He stuttered and quickly turned back around and kept walking.
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I had no clue what i was doing! I had no clue how I was doing it either, but there I was, showing up people who thought I couldn't do anything. Mostly I was showing myself too. I had no clue that I could actually do a toe-touch and a cartwheel, AND catch on to the cheer and dance routine. People were actually asking me to help THEM. I was flattered. For once, I didn't feel like I was dumb. I felt like I had all the answers! After we were asked to sit down so they could make their decisions, my heart started pumping real, realy fast. The butterflies I once had were now returning. Soon after their heads shot up at us, and one lady announced that they'd post the papers the next morning. Every girl started smiling and whispering to one-another.
I started feeling uncomfertable so I quickly stood up from the bleachers, and made my way to the door. Before I could get out, I heard Kate's voice shuffeling through the air.
"Hi Lizzie!" Her cheerful voice said.
I tilted my head. "Hi Kate" I said sarcastically.
She gave me a bitter look. And threw her hand up to her chest. "I just wanted to tell you that you did a fantastic job today!" She paused and then continued to kiss up."I was watching as the judges made their selections and..between you and me...you're in!" She squealed.
Why is she so happy that I'm in? Maybe she wants to be friends like old times. Maybe she's sick of being 'miss popularity'! Maybe she's sick of getting peddicures and facials and..no what girl would be sick of that? I'de love to get pampered!
I quickly snapped out of my thoughs when I heard her foot tapping the floor. "Well I got to go Lizzie! Tons of stuff to do!" And she pranced back to her posse.
I blew my bangs away from my face and walked out of the gym. I was almost out of the hallway when I saw Chris just standing there. When he looked up from the floor, he spotted me and yelled out a quick hello. I smiled, and walked over.
"Hey Chris!" I greeted with a full, glamerous smile.
"Hey! Um so congradulations on making cheerleader!" As soon as he said that his facial image had changed, like he regretted what he said.
I looked at him funny and gave a goofy smile. "Um how did you know I made try-outs? Well I didn't really make them-I just-well-K-Kate told me I did and-"
"Yeah! K-Kate! I heard her talking to y-you!" Wow, now we're both stuttering! He must be as nervous as me! His pitch in voice started taking a nodge high.
"O-oh" I sighed.
He played with his fingers and then started talking. "So maybe I could take you out to celebrate tomorrow...sense it's saturday" He slowly asked, looking at me with those gorgeous blue eyes of his.
I started turning many colors of pink. Was he just asking me out? On a date? Me? "Umm..as in a date?" Ahh stupid me! I wasn't supposed to ask that!
"If you wanted it to..then yeah of course" I quickly looked up from the ground.
"That..that sounds okay to me" I said softly.
"Great! I'll call you later tonight..bye" He said while walking away at a slow pace.
I smiled and was jumping for joy inside.
I rushed home, ran inside, dashed up the stairs ignoring my mother's greeting, threw my backpack on the ground and flopped on my bed. I was utterly, completely jazzed about what happened with Chris. The most popular, hottest guy was asking out ME! Lizzie McGuire! I was just about to whip out my journal and recap about all of today's events when my phone rang.
I picked it up in a hurry thinking it was Chris. "Hello?!" I shouted.
"Lizzie...hey"
I sighed..it wasn't Chris...
"Hi Gordo...what's up"
"Um...well... I called for.." He stuttered.
"Gordo what is it!" I shouted impatiently.
"I..it's just that..Me and...uhh" He stuttered again.
Well sense he wasn't saying anything I decided to tell him about my date..I had to tell somebody!
"Well Gordo sense you can' t think up what to say..I've got something to say!" I paused. "Chris asked me out after try-outs today! Eeeek can you believe it Gordo! Oh and Kate said I made try-outs but you can't really believe anything she said but anyways! Chris asked ME out..ME!!!!" I shouted into the reciever.
He didn't say anything for a long time.
"Gordo?..."
"Um! Yeah, I'm here..umm Lizzie that's..really..nice"
Why do I get the feeling he doesn' t mean what he's saying?
"Nice?! Gordo it's so cool! He wants to date me! Nobody wants to date me! I never thought any boy in this entire universe liked me!" I shouted again..panting for breath.
"That's not true Lizzie...I..listen...I heard K-"
"Sorry Gordo, I have to go! Somebodie's on the other line! Tell me about it later ok? Bye" And I quickly hung up the phone, waiting to hear from the other person on the line.
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"So did you tell her?" Miranda asked.
Gordo sighed and shoved his hands in his pocket. "N-no..it's just that she seamed so happy..she-she got a date with him Miranda..I'm sorry but I couldn't tell her that he's using her..it'd hurt her..I just can't"
Miranda sighed and started thinking that maybe Gordo didn't just 'care for Lizzie'..maybe he 'loved Lizzie'