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~A/N this chapter is kinda long, but it's a good one! Thanks for reading!~

After searching for ten minutes, Miranda finally found Shelley in the library. She was sitting in a big arm chair crying. Without saying a word, Miranda walked up to Shelley, kneeled beside her and just gave her a big hug. Shelley immediately recognized who was hugging her and returned it. Then Miranda whispered to her, "I'm so sorry she said that. She had no right. I am so sorry." She just kept saying that she was sorry, which was exactly what Shelley needed to hear. After a few minutes of this, Shelley had finally settled down enough to talk. She pulled out of the hug and smiled a Miranda while wiping her tears.

"Thank you for finding me. I really needed that."

"No problem, that's what friends are for."

"But are things going to be ok between you three?"

"I don't know, but I hope so."

"I would feel so horrible if I tore you guys apart again."

"What do you mean again?" Miranda asked suspiciously.

"Oh, nothing, I don't know what I'm saying, you know me." Shelley remembered the promise she had made to Gordo about his story. He had told her that he trusted her, and she wasn't about to break that trust, she had kind of growing to like that boy.

Miranda laughed and said, "Oh yeah I'd almost forgot.' She hugged Shelley one last time before the bell rang to show that lunch was over.

The rest of the day didn't go quite as smoothly as the morning had. Of the three classes she had after lunch, Shelley had only one with Miranda and Gordo and one without any of the three. In her last class of the day, Shelley was very disappointed to learn that she had biology with both Lizzie and Kate. Although she sat as far away as possible from both of them as possible, she didn't think that this class could get any worse, until it did.

"Today I will assign partners for tomorrows frog dissection." Announced Mr. Glennwald, the teacher. He began calling out the names of people in pairs, most of which Shelley didn't recognize. She was only half-paying attention when she heard her name called. "And Michelle, our new student, will be paired with, let's see, ahh, Miss McGuire."

"What?" Shelley asked as she snapped to attention.

"I said that you and Lizzie are going to be partnering for tomorrows lab." Mr. Glennwald replied, annoyed that he had to repeat himself.

"Oh," she said as she sunk back into her chair, and then added in a mumble. "That's what I was afraid of." The rest of the class was spent with Mr. Glennwald explaining the procedure for the next day and the occasional dirty look exchanged between Shelley and Lizzie. When the bell rang to announce the end of the day, Shelley was relieved to finally be able to leave the tension of her last period class. She quickly stood up, collected her things, and headed for the door, which led to the hallway. As she approached it, she was cut off by the last person she wanted to see, Larry Tudgeman.

"Why hello there Shelley." He said, trying to sound smooth.

"What do you want Larry?" Shelley said as she shifted her wait from one foot to the other.

"Just to be graced by you're presence Friday night at dinner." Just then, the only other person that could have made the situation worse walked up. It was Kate and her squad of sheep-like cheerleaders.

"Oh, how sweet!' Kate said in her annoyingly squeaky voice. "Tudgeman finally found the perfect match in the new freak girl here!"

"Awww!" Said her sheep in unison. Then the group erupted in laughter as they walked off into the hall.

"Screw you Kate!" Shelley yelled toward the over developed cheerleader. "Look Larry, I don't want to be mean or anything, but we don't really know each other at all, and I really have to get going, so, bye." She quickly waved and tried to leave the room, but was stopped by Tudgeman's greasy hand on her upper arm.

"We can get to know each other," he said, trying to be convincing. "I'm really a good guy!'

She turned back to him and tried to wipe the slimy handprint off of her arm. "I'm sure you are, Larry, but you're just not, um, my type. I have to go." She quickly turned and began to walk. This time she got away, but not without hearing Tudgeman yell from behind her "But I can change! I can change!"

As Shelley entered the hallway, she immediately spotted Gordo. She ran up to him and panted, "Tell me he's not following me." Her back was in the direction that she had just come from and Gordo was facing the other way.

"You mean Tudgeman? Oh yeah, he's still coming." Gordo said as he sustained a laugh.

"Dang it! Save me!" She pleaded.

"Alright, come on." Gordo said as he looked around. He then grabbed Shelley's arm and the pair ducked into a classroom that appeared to be empty. They made their way to the back of the room where there was a small office. Gordo closed the door until it was barely cracked open.

'Thank you so much." Shelley said, very relieved. 'He just asked me out and I didn't want to hurt his feelings."

"So you ran away?" Gordo asked as he sat down in the large chair behind a desk.

"No!" She said as she shook her head. "Well, kind of, but not before I told him he wasn't my type."

"And that's so much better." He said sarcastically.

"Shut up!" Shelley shot back as she playfully hit him on the arm. They were silent for a few seconds when Shelley said, "you think he's gone?"

"Probably, I think we can go now." Gordo replied as he stood up. He was about to open the door when he heard the main door into the classroom open. He heard two sets of feet walk into the room. "Damn," he whispered. "Now we can't leave."

"Why not?" Shelley asked.

"Because we're not supposed to be in here and if we get caught we'll be in deep crap."

"Oh, well who's out there?"

"I don't know," he said.

The two leaned close to the door so that they could hear what the people in the classroom were saying. A girl was the first to speak, "Why did you want me to come in here with you? I don't want to talk to you right now."

"Oh my gosh, that's Miranda!" Shelley whispered.

"We need to talk." Said the other voice.

"And that's Lizzie," Gordo informed Shelley. The two new friends who were stuck in the small office were silent so that they could hear what was going on in the other room.

***In the classroom***

"What do we need to talk about? I already told you what I think." Miranda said as she sat down in one of the many desks in the room.

"I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry if I offended you when I was fighting with Shelley." Lizzie said. "I didn't mean to hurt you."

"Well, you know what Lizzie, you did. Shelley's my friend and when you say bad stuff about my friend, it hurts me. I would feel the same way if Kate ever said those things to you."

"Well, I guess I can't blame you for being mad, because I'm sure I would have reacted the same way, but I still feel like I was right. I know Shelley's your friend, but there's something about her that I don't like."

"What don't you like?" Miranda asked.

"I'm not really sure." Lizzie said as she walked around Miranda's desk to the one next to her and sat down. "I just feel like she's…well, I don't know, but something really bugs me about her."

"Can you please give her a chance? Whenever I used to tell her about you, she said that she would love to meet you one day. I just don't want to disappoint her by not meeting her expectations with the great Lizzie I always talked about."

"You told her I was great/"

"I told her a lot of really good things about you."

"Well then I guess w can't disappoint you now can we? But I'm warning you, I'm probably not going to like it."

'I didn't say you had to like it, I just asked that you give her a chance."

"I will, I promise." The two girls stood up and hugged each other and began to walk out of the room with their arms around each other's shoulders. Then Lizzie said as they walked, "It might be pretty hard for me to act like I like her. There's just something that I really hate about that girl…" her voice trailed off as they entered the hallway.

After the main door to the classroom could be heard closing, the two spies walked out of their hiding space. Shelley had a shocked look on her face as she slowly walked into the larger room.

"Well, that was, um, interesting," Gordo said as he followed Shelley out.

"I've never met anyone that really doesn't like me." Shelley kept looking strait ahead. "At least I don't think I have."

"I'm sure you haven't. And I'm sure that Lizzie didn't really mean what she said. She doesn't know you very well. And from what I can see, there's not much to dislike about you.'

"But you don't know me either," Shelley finally snapped out of her trance and looked at Gordo. "Maybe I really am somebody that's easy to hate. Maybe Lizzie's right." She sat down on top of a desk and looked down at her hands.

"Shelley," Gordo began, but he looked p and saw that Shelley was still looking down. He walked up to her and held her face in his hands. "Look at me." he said. She reluctantly looked up and into his brown eyes. "Lizzie didn't know what she was talking about. She's going against her own words by judging you before she knows you. You two haven't even had a real conversation, but the two of us have, which means that I know a hell of a lot more about what kind of person you are then she does." Just then Gordo heard a voice he recognized as Lizzie's from in the hall.

"Hold on Miranda, I just have to grab my…" She trailed off as she opened the door and saw Gordo standing there holding Shelley's face.

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