Call Me Lizzie
by BeQwerTeep
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the show Lizzie McGuire, or its cast and crew. I am making no profit on this story, it is just a mindless ramble of a fan.
Chapter 1: The Breakups
"Do you hear me, Jesse? We're through!" Liz stomped to the door, angrily grabbing her duffel bag.
"You can't leave. You can't just walk out." Jesse stated matter-of-factly. Liz turned and looked at him with mock incredulity.
"Oh I can't, can I?" Her face turned angry. "Watch me!"
"I was the best goddamn fuck of your life!" Jesse yelled as he grabbed her wrist, causing her to drop her bag. With that, Liz turned, stared pointedly at his hand touching hers, and wrenched her arm away from his grip, pulling herself up to her full 5'5 stature.
"You were the only goddamn fuck of my life, because unlike you, I was faithful to this relationship!" When Liz was finished, she had tears in her eyes. She pulled away from him, picked her duffel bag back up, and opened the door. "I'm leaving. Good-bye."
Jesse ran out the door after her and began racing down the apartment stairs, but he halted when all he saw was her blue Miata gunning out of the parking lot. He hit the stairway railing in his anger.
"Fuck!"
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Liz quietly let herself into Gordo's darkened apartment, sighing with relief when she closed the door. She was shaken, hurt, and angry, but she knew she was safe in her best friend's apartment. She started to go pour herself something to drink, thought better of it, and made her way to Gordo's couch instead.
How did things go so wrong? she thought as she adjusted the pillows. She wasn't going anywhere soon, and decided to make herself as comfortable as possible. As Liz snuggled into the pillows, she thought about everything that had led up to this day.
She had been so upset when Miranda had decided to go across the country to an art school in New York. She had been tempted to follow her best friend, but ultimately decided that she wasn't cut out for the Big Apple. Instead she had applied to several colleges in California, not really sure what she wanted to do or where she wanted to go. When both she and Gordo got into UCLA, they were psyched.
Soon after they moved into the coed dorm house on campus, their friendship status upped a bit to the friends-with-benefits status, but they never did much more than kiss. During the first part of their freshman year, they were still pretty much just semi-geeks in the social status of school, but then one of Gordo's films made it into the Sundance Film Festival that January, and he soared to the top of the social ladder, leaving Lizzie behind. She was okay with that, until she came home to their dorm one night, and found him in bed with one of his new found friends.
She had promptly moved out of the coed dorm into the single-sex dorm, when she became The Project to her roommate. That was when Lizzie changed her name. Her roommate, Tisha, said that "Lizzie" was too young sounding, and that "Liz" suited her new self. Tisha went on a mission to turn Lizzie into something like herself: a club hopper who screwed every dick on campus, skipped most of her classes, and got raging drunk nearly every night. The only reason she passed her classes was because she screwed most of her teachers, including the female ones.
Lizzie never quite turned into that girl, but she did change her name. Lizzie belonged to Gordo and her past, while Liz belonged to her future.
Eventually, she did hook up with one of Tisha's more distant friends, Jesse, and the summer before her sophomore year, she moved into Jesse's off-campus apartment, settled into a part-time job, and did surprisingly well in all of her classes. She had lost touch with both Gordo and Miranda after her separation from Gordo, but she knew that Gordo had hated his new roommate, so he began renting a small off-campus apartment not far from where Liz lived with her new boyfriend. Christmas of her sophomore year, Liz received a videotape from Gordo that held nearly two hours of footage of the trio when they were in middle and high school. At the end was an apology clip from the grown up Gordo, a college boy.-~-
"Lizzie, I'm so sorry. I never meant for you see that. I never even meant to do such a thing. But it seemed... okay at the time. Lizzie, it was wrong, and I don't deserve your friendship, but I just can't throw away nearly 2 decades of my life for one mistake. You have always been my best friend, and life seems so... bleak without you in it. Please forgive me the unforgivable. If you can find it in you, I promise to never hurt you again.
"I hope watching this tape made you realize the bonds we had, and will continue to have, if only you'll forgive me. I don't deserve it, but, damn, do I want it. I love you, buddy. Come back to me, Lizzie."-~-
Lizzie instantly forgave him and sent a copy of the video, minus the apology clip, to Miranda. The trio was once again back in business.
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Wow, do you know how long it took me to upload this document? Over an hour! I could not figure out this HTML thing, and it took my almost 10 uploads to get it right!!! If anyone has a Mac, and they know an easy way to upload, please tell me and I will be your best friend forever.
That's all folks! Well, for now, anyways. I hope you like it so far, cuz it's my first fanfic EVER to be posted on the internet. Please review if you liked it, or send me flames if you didn't. I will gladly receive either. For those of you who liked it, I will probably be posting again either tonight or tomorrow.