Sorr if this chapter is a little dull, but I'm not in that much of a creative mood! I'll try and make the next one a little better!
Lizzie went back up to her room. "Sorry about that guys. Can you believe Kate came here and gave a congratulations card to my mom?"
"No way." Gordo replied, with his eyebrows raised. "Are you sure it wasn't a trick? Maybe she sprayed some perfume that your allergic to in it or something?"
"Gordo, she gave it to my mom, not me!" Lizzie told him, rolling her eyes. "And since when am I allergic to perfume?"
"I don't know. I just don't think that Kate would actually be that nice." Gordo said with a shrug.
After they were done looking at Lizzie's parent's ideas for the nursery, Miranda suggested they go to the mall. "I saw these really, really cute pair of jeans at the Style Shack!"
"Oh no. Not that again." Lizzie groaned.
"No, really! They're not as expensive as the last ones you bought there. And that would give us more time to talk about my time with Ethan! We never did get to talk much about it." Miranda replied, taking a sip of the soda Lizzie had poured for her.
Gordo sighed under his breath. Why do I even bother to come along? Whenever they're together, it seems like they're always talking about girl stuff and completely leaving me out. Gordo thought almost angrily. I am so tired of it!
"Gordo, what's with the scowling?" Lizzie asked him.
He hasn't even realized he'd been scowling. "Um... nothing." He said, and then felt like smacking himself. Why didn't you just tell them? If they're really my best friends, they'll understand!
"Okay..." Lizzie said, not really believing him. They all started putting their shoes on to go to the mall. Lizzie took her jean purse with fades on it from her closet, and gave her hair a quick brush through. "I think we're all ready!" Gordo and Miranda nodded.
Lizzie looked at the jeans in the Style Shack window, the tag on them read, $55.99. "That's still a little pricey to pay for jeans." Lizzie said.
"Well don't ask me for any money. The last time you did, you ruined the jeans!" Gordo told her.
"Gordo, you know that wasn't my fault!" Lizzie insisted.
Lizzie sighed. The jeans were really cute... "Well, I'll at least try them on in the dressing room. Just to see how they look."
They went inside the Style Shack, and the clerk took them from the window and handed them to Lizzie.
"Thank you!" Lizzie told her, and scurried to a dressing room. She put them on, and looked at herself in the full-length mirror.
Toon Lizzie: These look so good on me! I just have to get them!
She came out of the dressing room, and Miranda and Gordo were waiting for her. "Wow, those look awesome!" Miranda said, looking longingly at them. Why didn't I buy them? She thought to herself.
"What do you think, Gordo?" Lizzie asked, wanting another opinion just to make sure.
"You look good in anything, Lizzie." He said smiling.
"Maybe I should buy them." Lizzie said, still looking at them happily.
"You know, if we split the cost, we could share them!" Miranda said suddenly. "We do wear the same size."
Toon Lizzie: Hey, I thought we were talking about me here!
"And you did say that they're a little to expensive for you." Miranda continued.
"You want them now, don't you?" Lizzie replied with a laugh. "Fine, we'll share."
"Great!" Miranda told her, and pulled her wallet out of her purse. They walked up to the register, and paid for the jeans.
They walked out of the Style Shack. "Where to now?" Gordo asked the girls. They looked around.
"Hey, how about the video rental shop? We could rent a movie to watch when we get back Lizzie's." Miranda suggested, already imagining eating buttery popcorn while watching a movie late at night.
"That's a good idea. But I just spent the last of my money on those jeans. Can I pay someone my share when I get some more cash?" Lizzie asked them.
"I'm broke now too." Miranda said, looking through her purse to make sure she didn't have any extra loose change. They both looked at Gordo.
"Okay, okay. I'll pay. But I get to pick the movie!" Gordo replied, and they walked into the store. They looked around.
"Oh, this one looks good." Lizzie said, showing them a romance.
"Nah, too boring. You've seen one romance, you've seen 'em all." Gordo replied.
Toon Lizzie: (Puts hands on hips) Not true!
He picked up a movie about an earthquake that destroyed five cities. "This looks cool."
Miranda looked at it. "Gordo, that does not look cool. It looks lame! Can't you find something more interesting?"
"Oh, alright." He said reluctantly. He picked up Cheaper By the Dozen. "Hey, we never did see this in the theaters. I had amnesia then." He told them.
"Looks good to me. Let's get it!" Lizzie replied. Gordo paid for it, and they called Jo to tell her that they were ready to be picked up. While they were waiting for them to come, Lizzie and Miranda talked about Miranda's date with Ethan.
Gordo, in the mean time, went to a store with video cameras and other electronics, not wanting to hear about Ethan. At least Lizzie doesn't like him anymore. That's a start. Gordo thought to himself.
He then thought with a frown that Lizzie and him hadn't planned another time to something together. He tried to think of ideas to suggest to her if they got to talk alone that day. Ice-skating? That's fun. But there are a lot of people around us, so we wouldn't really be alone. But then again, if we are alone, Lizzie might think of it as a date and not want to come. Maybe ice- skating is my best bet.
Miranda snapped him out of his thoughts. "Gordo, Mrs. McGuire is here!" She called to him from outside the electronics store.
"Okay!" Gordo called back. Once they were all back at the McGuire's, they found that construction people were there, working on the new room.
They watched for a few minutes, but then stopped. It was kind of boring to see. But Matt thought just the opposite. He was enthralled by it.
The construction workers even let him hammer away part of the old wall with a sledgehammer, until Jo came in and told him to stop because she didn't want him to accidentally get hurt.
"I never get to do anything fun!" Matt complained. Just then, he hit his foot on a hammer. "Ow." He said, rubbing his foot.
"See what I mean, Matt? Just let them be so they can get their work done." Jo said. She decided to look in the fridge for a snack. Just when she was about to open the door, she heard a scream from upstairs.
