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"Mom?" Lizzie asked. "Can I talk to you?" She walked into the kitchen.

"Sure honey, what about?" Jo McGuire said, setting a plate down on the table.

"Well, I have this friend." Lizzie began.

"A friend?" Jo asked.

"Yes a friend." Jo gave Lizzie a pointed look.

"Alright, what about this friend?"

*"How is it that parents always know about the friend thing, yet they always play along?"*

"Well, she wants to impress this guy she has a crush on, but she knows her best friend also has a crush on her. Well, one day when she's around him, she feels something more than friendship. What should I- I mean she do?" Lizzie finished.

"Well," Jo replied, setting out some glasses on the table. "You're friend should figure out how she really feels about her best friend and if she does like him as more then a friend, she should tell him."

"Thanks mom." Lizzie said, and then went upstairs to change into her school clothes.

Once she did that, she left her room. She heard the thumps and bumps coming from Matt's room, but decided to ignore it.

The McGuires were having spaghetti for dinner, along with salad. Jo tried to serve Lizzie some spaghetti, but Lizzie said, "No thanks mom, I'll just have a salad. I'm going on a little diet."

"Lizzie, you're not fat!" Jo cried. "Eat!"

"Mom, I'm fine! I just want to eat healthier and stuff. Chill out!"

Jo looked doubtful, but said, "Fine, you can just have salad. But you'd better not go on one of those scary starvation diets. You remember what happened with Miranda. Be careful."

"That's exactly what Gordo said."

Jo smiled to herself a bit knowingly and set out spaghetti and salad for everyone else. "Matt, Sam, dinner!" She yelled and the guys came running to the table. They all sat down and ate.

The next morning, Lizzie woke up extra early so she could go running. She changed into shorts and a tee shirt and went out.

She shivered in the early morning chill and started to jog. Some how, she ended up in front of Gordo's house. She considered stopping by and saying hello, but he would probably still be asleep.

Little did Lizzie know, Gordo was watching her from his bedroom window.

Lizzie went back to her house to get ready for school. She did, but she decided to skip breakfast. One meal wasn't going to hurt her any.

The morning passed quickly and before Lizzie knew it, it was lunchtime. Miranda was avoiding both Gordo and Lizzie, so it was only the two amigos today.

"So...Lizzie..." Gordo began. "How is your diet going?"

A girl with brown hair and blue eyes came up to them- Lauren. She giggled flirtatiously. "Hi Gordo." she said, giving a finger wave. "Lizzie. Whose diet?"

"Mine." Lizzie said. "Just a little thing. Maybe Ethan will drop Kate for me."

"He already has." Lauren pointed out.

"Huh?"

"Dropped Kate, I mean. Look, that new girl is practically on his lap, and he's totally into it. Kate's off with her cheerleader friends." she explained.

Lizzie looked to where Lauren pointed, and sure enough, Melia, the new girl, was right next to him. Ethan kissed her on the cheek and whispered something in her ear. Melia giggled and poked him in the side.

"That proves it." Lizzie said suddenly.

"What?" asked Lauren and Gordo at the same time, Gordo with his mouth full. Unlike Lauren and Lizzie, he was eating. Lauren already had.

"That Ethan likes skinny girls. Look how much Melia eats, yet she's still small. Smaller than me." Lizzie was rather upset. Everywhere she looked were girls that were thinner than she was. She had to get down to their size, and then Ethan would like her.

"Lizzie, come on. You're beautiful already, you don't need to be thinner!" Gordo cried.

"Woo, do I sense a crush here?" Lauren asked. Both Gordo and Lizzie flushed red.

"No!" they both yelled.

Lauren retorted in a singsong voice, "De-ni-al!"

Gordo ignored Lauren and begged Lizzie, "Lizzie, please eat. I thought you weren't going on a starvation diet!"

Lizzie rolled her eyes. "I'm not! I just- had a big breakfast is all!" Lizzie didn't quite sure know why she was lying to her best friend. This was Gordo, she had known his address before she had known her own! For some reason, she couldn't bring herself to tell Gordo that she wasn't eating one day. After all, how much harm could one day do?

Gordo brought Lizzie out of her thoughts. "So Lizzie, why don't you come over after school today?"

"Alright. I shouldn't have too much homework." Lizzie replied.

Only half joking, Gordo said, "Yeah, like you'd actually do it if you did."

Lizzie smacked Gordo on the arm playfully. "Hey! I do my homework! I'm just not obsessed with it, like you are."

"Hey guys, looks like Kate's got a new boyfriend too!" Lauren interrupted the two.

The three looked over to the cheerleader's table. Sure enough, a guy with dirty blonde hair and a nice upper body was sitting with Kate. They were whispering to each other.

"Hey, isn't that Kevin? I think he's in my Math class. He always struck me as a pretty nice guy, I wonder why he's hanging out with Kate and her posse of mutant teenage cheerleaders." Lizzie spoke up.

Gordo smiled his goofy grin at her and she nearly melted. Wait a sec. She didn't like Gordo like that; he was like her big brother! She was in love with Ethan! Lizzie sighed. Her life was so confusing!

Just then, the bell rang; lunch was over. "See you guys later." Lauren said, getting up from the table. She finger-waved at Gordo and giggled. "Bye Gordo!"

Lizzie and Gordo didn't have the next class together, or the one after. "So I'll see you at your house later?" Lizzie asked.

"See you then," Gordo confirmed. They both walked away in separate directions.

Lizzie's stomach was growling all through sixth bell, but she tried to ignore it. (A/N- I'm not sure what bell they have lunch, or how many bells they have, but in this story, there are seven bells and lunch is fifth.) It was getting hard to ignore in seventh bell. She could hardly concentrate on her history notes.

She was feeling rather weak and was glad when the bell rang and school was over for the day. She went to her locker quickly and went out to the buses. She was avoiding Gordo because she knew if he heard her stomach rumbling like that, he's give her a lecture.

Lizzie still wanted to go for her run, so she figured she could grab an apple and eat it before she left. So that's exactly what she did. She went upstairs first to change into some running clothes first. But this time, she decided to bring some clothes to change into when she got there. She wasn't completely sure why, it wasn't like Gordo would care.

Lizzie shrugged to her self and left, but not before yelling a quick, "I'm going to Gordo's, mom!" to her mother. She started off at a walk, like usual and then went faster. Before long, she became lightheaded and had to sit down on the curb for a moment. Her stomach was growling worse then ever, but she paid it no mind. Good thing she was almost to Gordo's.

She went off again, feeling unusually tired. She didn't dwell on it, and before she knew it, she was ringing Gordo's doorbell. She was lightheaded-she felt like she was walking on air.

Gordo answered the door, grinning. But his grin faded when Lizzie swayed on her feet and fell forward into his arms.

The next thing Lizzie knew, Gordo was carrying her to the couch in his living room.

"Lizzie, what's wrong?" he asked, kneeling beside her. Lizzie was only half consiece of him talking to her.

"I'm fine," Lizzie mumbled, but Gordo didn't believe her for a second. Suddenly, he realized.

"Lizzie, you said you weren't going on a starvation diet!" Gordo cried.

"I'm not." Lizzie muttered.

"Lizzie," Gordo said pointedly. "Tell me the truth."

So, like? I'm rather proud of this chapter! Please review, I'll love you forever!

Oh yeah, and Melia and Kevin were new this chapter.