**I don't own anyone from the show, sadly, I'm not rich enough to**

"Lizzie!" Gordo said startled. He quickly dropped Shelley's face and stepped away from her. Shelley quickly wiped the tears away that had been forming in her eyes.

"I, um," Lizzie stuttered. There was a look of shock on her face at what she had just seen. For all she knew, she had barely stopped a kiss from happening. "Uh," her eyes shot between Shelley and Gordo. Then she quickly turned and left the room. She hurried down the deserted hallway to join Miranda who was waiting for her.

"I thought you were getting your purse?" She asked, confused by Lizzie's urgency.

"Let's just go." She grabbed Miranda's arm and forced her down the hall.

"Lizzie, what's wrong?"

"I'll tell you later, hurry."

***Meanwhile***

"I have to get her." Gordo said as he began to hurry out of the classroom.

"But Gordo, wait!" Shelley yelled to him.

"Did you see the look on her face?" Gordo had stopped and turned back to face Shelley. "I have to find her and make sure she knows what happened." With that, he hurried out and into the hall to the echoes of Shelley calling him back. He ran down the hall in the direction that he thought Lizzie had gone. He had to stop her before she got the wrong idea.

Back in the classroom, Shelley was left standing alone and shocked. She had no idea what had just happened. One minute she was running from Larry Tudgeman and the next she was hiding in a teacher's office eaves dropping on one of her very best friends. Then when she thought things were perking up, when she was having that wonderful moment with Gordo, everything came crashing down again when Lizzie walked in. This day had been one of the worst she'd had in her life; surpassed only by the day she'd left New Mexico, and the day she'd learned that it would be necessary. She slowly began to walk out of the classroom when she noticed a purse laying on one of the desks. She picked it up and inspected it. It was a small round handbag with a small handle. She opened it up to see if there was a name anywhere in it. She found the usual, a couple things of lip-gloss, a pack of gum, and a couple hair scrunches. Then she found what she was looking for. It was a small, purple wallet. She buttoned it so she could find a name or something to tell her who it belonged to. She found ten dollars in the wallet and some pictures, but no I.D. She looked through the pictures, hoping for a clue. She found pictures of people that she recognized from seeing at school. Then she found a school picture of Miranda and read the back. It said the usual thing that you write on your best friend's picture, hey Lizzie, we'll be friends forever, things like that. "Oh, it's Lizzie's purse, I should have been able to guess that." Shelley said out loud to herself. Even though she knew whose purse it was, she continued to look through the pictures. When she got to Gordo's picture, she was surprised and amazed at what she saw. "Oh my god!"

***Meanwhile***

"Lizzie!" Gordo yelled as he spotted the two girls rushing down the hall. Lizzie glanced back but continued to hurry Miranda outside.

"Aren't you going to wait for him?" Miranda asked as she tried to resist Lizzie's forceful pull on her.

"No, come on!" She tried to continue pulling Miranda, but she had stopped in her tracks. She was stronger then Lizzie, so it was easy for her to resist movement.

"Please Miranda, Let's just go." She was looking over Miranda's head at the quickly approaching Gordo.

"He's our best friend Lizzie, we should at least wait for him to catch up.'

""But he's who I'm running from." She let go of Miranda's arm. 'You coming or not, because I'm out of here." Miranda didn't move so Lizzie just rushed off on her own. Miranda was left in the middle to decide between her two best friends. She decided that she better go find Lizzie, who seemed to be really worried, so she began to run in the direction Lizzie had gone in. When she came to the end of the hall, she decided to go right, hoping that she'd chosen the correct direction. She started down the new hall, but her forward progress was interrupted by an arm shooting out from a broom closet and pulling her in.

"Ouch!' Miranda yelled, "What the heck?"

"Shhh!' She heard Lizzie's voice whisper. "It's me. I'm hiding from Gordo, so be quiet." The two girls stood in silence as they waited for any sign that the coast was clear. They heard Gordo's feet rush by. Then he stopped and the two girls could hear him panting.

Outside of the closet, Gordo was looking around. He was panting and holding his side where a cramp had formed from the running. He knew he had seen Miranda turn this direction, but he had no clue what happened to her. He saw at the end of the hall was a door that led to the outside. He guessed that the girls had gone out there and headed home. He reluctantly surged up enough strength to run outside and try to catch the girls at home.

When they heard the door slam closed, the girls decided they were safe and cautiously exited their hiding spot. They stumbled out of the dark broom closet into the hall flooded with light from the many windows. "Mind telling me what that was all about?" Miranda asked Lizzie as they began to walk outside.

"I don't know, I just had to get away from him. You have no idea what I saw!" Lizzie said as she opened the door to the outside and walked through it.

'You're right, so why don't you just tell me?" Miranda replied.

"Well," Lizzie began as the two began to walk to the Digital Bean. "When I walked back into that classroom to get my purse, I saw Shelley and Gordo sitting there!" She paused to see Miranda's reaction.

"And," Miranda urged Lizzie to continue. She wasn't as livid as Lizzie seemed to be.

"He was holding her face!" Lizzie screamed.

'Oh my god, we have to call the cops!" Miranda said sarcastically.

"Miranda!" Lizzie whined. "I'm serious!"

"I know, but I don't see what the big deal is."

"He was holding her face like they were about to kiss!"

"Go Gordo," Miranda looked pleased with his good taste.

"No, not 'go, Gordo'! What if they actually start dating or something?"

"Then I think Shelley has an odd taste in guys, and we should be happy for Gordo."

"No! We can't be happy for Gordo! He's not supposed to have a girlfriend! Especially her!" Lizzie was obviously very freaked out by the thought of Gordo and Shelley being involved.

"Don't you think you're over reacting a little?" Miranda asked. "It's not like you have feelings for." Suddenly Miranda's eyes got very wide and she covered her mouth with her hand.

"What?"

"You like Gordo!"

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