Chapter 15: The Truth: Part 1

After chatting with Larry and Caleb for a few minutes, Kate finally asked them the question everyone was wondering.

"So guys, why were you going to break up Lizzie and Gordo?"

Caleb choked on his soda. "What? Huh?"

"It's okay Caleb!" exclaimed Kate as she slapped him on the back. "We're not going to kill you." Everyone laughed.

"I didn't think you were, but you kind of caught he off guard with that question." he stated after calming down.

"Sorry about that." Kate said with a giggle. "I was just getting impatient." She gave him a wink.

"Well, I'll tell you the whole story, how about that?" asked Larry.

"Sure, go ahead." Miranda said.

"It's kind of a long story, so if anyone needs to use the bathroom, I ask them to do it now because I'm not stopping." Everyone laughed, and waited for him to start. "Okay, it started after Lizzie and Gordo got together. I was walking down the hall at school as I had a late night meeting with the Math Club." Lizzie giggled. "I know, that's funny... Anyway, I heard someone whisper my name, and I turned around and couldn't see anyone. Then, I caught site of someone in the doorway of Mrs. Marks classroom. I walked towards the door and there stood Joshua. I asked him what he was doing and he told me. I walked into the room and there was Kate, Caleb, Claire, Heather, and Matthew." Larry took a sip of his soda, and continued. "So, that night we began our little group."

"Wait... I thought you were the ringleader?" asked Miranda. She looked over at Kate with a questioning look.

"He was made the ringleader since he was the brainy one. Joshua started everything." Kate explained.

"Yeah, they made me the ringleader. I didn't want to do it, but I thought I was in too far to get out." Larry stated. "Any way, the next day we all met during lunch and began work on a plan. We decided to make up all these nasty rumors and manipulate photos to make it look like they were both cheating on one another. Since Caleb was good at graphics and photo manipulation we made him the head of that, and Heather and Claire were good at making up rumors so they were going to do that. I was going to come up with more stuff in case those didn't work."

"What were you supposed to do, Kate?" asked Gordo.

"I was supposed to basically rub it all in, and Joshua was too." she said.

"Oh..." was all Gordo could say.

"Yeah, but you guys got us before we got you." They all laughed.

"But... why did you all want to break us up?" asked Lizzie.