[Disclaimer: I don't own "Lizzie McGuire" or any of its characters. I do own, however, the characters you don't recognize from the series, except Ashley, Deniece, and Kristin. They are based on real people. Real people who absolutely rock, in my eyes. So don't diss them too much, okay? Heh, thanks. Onto the story.]
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AROUND 8:15 AM.
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-FADE INTO MIRANDA'S GROUP IN THEIR USUAL SPOT, IN THE COMPUTER LAB.-
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MIRANDA You guys know the tradition. Get out your pen and paper.
DENIECE Technically, it's not a tradition yet.
MIRANDA Oh, shut it, Deni.
Deniece hushes up.
BONNIE I forgot my paper.
ASHLEY I forgot my pen.
Everyone turns towards Charlotte. She looks up and quickly realizes why they're staring at her.
CHARLOTTE No! No, I am not supplying you guys again! Get your own stuff!
PARKER Here you go, guys.
Parker passes a piece of paper to Bonnie and tosses a pen to Ashley.
PARKER Don't mind Charlotte. Something's up her ass today.
KRISTIN Yeah, Charlotte's PMSing.
DENIECE That's your answer to everything, Kezzy.
KRISTIN I know.
Kristin grins like a madwoman.
MIRANDA Okay, let's try to stay on topic here. Everybody ready?
Everyone else nods in affirmation.
MIRANDA We've got until 8:45. Nowbegin!
All the girls begin to jot down their thoughts. It was a tradition they were beginning this year. On the first day of school, they would write down anything they wanted for the school year: hopes, dreams, goals, resolutions, whatever they wanted. It seemed a little stupid, since they knew each other so well anyway, and could probably guess everything on each other's lists. But no one held back. Everything would come out.
----THIRTY MINUTES LATER.----
MIRANDA Time's up. All pencils down.
CHARLOTTE (sarcastically) Ooh, look Miranda's getting all authoritative on us!
BONNIE I'm shaking in my little designer boots!
MIRANDA Ha, ha, you're so funny. (Pauses.) Not.
BONNIE Ooh, that stung, Randa.
Charlotte looks over in Kristin's direction.
CHARLOTTE Kristin, she said pencils down.
Kristin ignores her and continues writing. Eventually, Charlotte steals her paper and looks at it.
CHARLOTTE Kris, you've only got one line.
KRISTIN: That's my third page.
DENIECE Holy crap.
PARKER You're kidding, right?
KRISTIN Uh. No.
Ashley gets up and starts collecting papers.
ASHLEY You're crazy, Kristy.
KRISTIN You did not just call me KristyAshy!
CHARLOTTE That makes no sense.
KRISTIN Shut up, Charry.
ASHLEY Let's seeKristy, Ashy, Charry, Parky, Denny, Mirry, and Bonny. We're the Y Girls!
They all stare at her.
MIRANDA That is undescribably lame.
PARKER Your lame factor just went waaaay up.
DENIECE And with that comment, so did yours, Parker.
MIRANDA Let's get one thing straight, people. My name is not Randa, Randy, Andy, Anda, Mir, Mirand, Mira, or.Mirry. It's Miranda. M. I. R. A.
Miranda pauses.
DENIECE Miranda forgot how to spell her name!
Everyone except Miranda starts cracking up.
MIRANDA No, I didn't!
ASHLEY Suuure.
MIRANDA Well, I figured you knew how to spell my name.
DENIECE Mmhmm. Denial's not just a river in Egypt, you know.
CHARLOTTE It's a river in Sudan, too.
DENIECE Thank you very much, Charlotte. Your comments are greatly unappreciated.
CHARLOTTE Anytime.
ASHLEY Try not to forgot how to spell my name, too, Miranda.
PARKER Ashley's lame factor' has just reached an all time high.
Suddenly, the door cracks open to reveal a handsome, short boy with a camera around his neck, standing in the doorway.
BOY Um, hi, um, sorry to interrupt you, but um, I'm taking um, a photography class and um, I'm a freshmen and um
CHARLOTTE And you need some pictures of people?
BOY Umyeah. M-my name's Gregory, by the um, way.
Ashley walks over and greets him.
ASHLEY Well, Greggy, let's get to work, shall we?
BONNIE Ooh, ooh, me first!
A 4'10" black girl bounces over to Gregory. She is rather busty but you can tell it works for her. She's loud, hyper and extremely extroverted. She has long black hair and deep brown eyes.
GREGORY Okay, um, why don't we go over um, here where there's more um, sunlight?
BONNIE Alrighty then!
They walk over towards the window and stop. Gregory picks up his camera off his chest and adjusts it a bit. Meanwhile, Bonnie is striking a pose and grinning so wide, it's scary.
GREGORY All right. Say umcheese.
BONNIE Cha-eeeeeese!
The camera flashes and makes a weird "whirring" noise, signifying that the picture has been taken.
ASHLEY Me next, me next!
Ashley skips over to where Bonnie was. Ashley is an adorable, social girl who's rather blunt but still so kind. She's a boy-crazy girl originally from Toronto, Canada. Like Bonnie, she has an hour-glass figure but you can tell she'd look odd any other way. Her hair is shoulder-length and light brown, and her eyes are a pretty light hazel.
Ashley crosses her eyes and sticks out her tongue as the camera flashes off.
PARKER My turn, my turn!
Parker marches up to the picture spot. She places her hands on her hips and grins almost as wide as Bonnie, though her mouth doesn't stretch that far. If you can get past her loud, shrill voice and the fact that she's a little shallow sometimes, she was actually a really amusing person. She was pretty smart but sort of weird in her demeanor. She is a very skinny girl with plain brown hair and plain brown eyes.
Gregory takes her picture.
DENIECE Um, guess I'll go.
Deniece saunters slowly over to the post and stands there boringly with a slight smile on her face. She is a Korean-American girl with shoulder-length jet black hair and pretty dark eyes. She was short, too, only a couple inches taller than Bonnie. She was constantly sarcastic and had a perverted sense of humor. But when she was in a serious mood, she could get really deep. She easily gets hurt and confused by boys, but instead of complaining, she'll sit and listen to you babble on for hours.
The camera flashed off, and Deniece walked away quietly.
CHARLOTTE I'll go!
Charlotte walked quickly over to the place near Gregory.
CHARLOTTE I'm ready for my close-up!
Though she doesn't look it, Charlotte is actually part African American and part Creek Indian. She is the tallest of the bunch, 5'7", and has a wavy dark brown bob and blue eyes, covered by those "I'm-trying-to-look-intellectual" sort of glasses. Not that she needs to pretend. She is very intellectual, something she brags about often. She is a book worm and a perfectionist, and weirdly, she wants to be popular. Desperately.
The camera makes the funny noise and Charlotte skips off.
KRISTIN Eh. My turn?
Kristin drags herself near Gregory.
KRISTIN Let's just get this over with.
Kristin was lovable, though it's hard to believe. Some days, she is incredibly goofy and odd and says weird things, and the next day, she'll be deep, dark and brooding. The transition was sort of frightening. But she was always opinionated and blunt. She was originally from Paraguay, and had long, dark brown curly hair and dark brown eyes. She was fairly short, something she complained about often.
Her picture was taken (she didn't smile at all) and she was on her way.
MIRANDA I guess I'm last, huh?
Miranda walked happily to Gregory. She slips him a dollar.
MIRANDA Thanks for putting up with us.
She winks at him. He's befuddled but manages to adjust his camera accordingly.
Miranda is the funky, outrageous, unique girl that she had always been. She was not afraid of anything, and even if she was, she didn't show it. She had a weird way of being mature but childish at the same time. She was of Mexican descent and had short black hair and deep brown eyes and although short, was the second tallest of them all.
The picture is taken.
The girls all gather together into one big group to say goodbye.
GREGORY Well, um, thank you guys, um, a lot. You um, really helped.
BONNIE Anytime, boy-ee.
MIRANDA And if anyone asks, we're the PC Group.
GREGORY Oh. The um, personal computer group?
DENIECE No, the politically correct group.
Gregory chuckles quietly.
GREGORY Gotta um, go.
EVERYONE [except Gregory] Bye!!
GREGORY Um, bye.
Gregory exits.
ASHLEY Wow, what an absolute hottie.
DENIECE Rawer.
CHARLOTTE Oh, come on, he's clearly an idiot. Um, um, um..." What's up with that?
PARKER Way to be judgmenatl, Charlotte.
MIRANDA Like you should talk, Parker.
Parker ignores her.
KRISTIN Are we gonna share our papers, or what?
BONNIE No need to freak, girl. We don't got no classes today.
DENIECE So tell me again why I bothered coming to school?
MIRANDA To do this stupid tradition thing, that's why.
PARKER I could be at home, in my pajamas, eating hard-boiled eggs and watching "The Crocodile Hunter" right now.
They all give her strange looks.
PARKER What? I think he's kinda cute. Especially with that accent.
Miranda laughs.
MIRANDA I see it all now.
PARKER What?
MIRANDA You like ugly guys!
PARKER What?! Do not!
MIRANDA That's why you rejected Gordo in 8th grade! He was too cute for you!
PARKER (scoffs) Well, that's one opinion.
DENIECE Whoa, whoa, whoa, back it up a minute. Did you say Gordo?
ASHLEY As inDavid Gordon?
PARKER (gloating) Yep, Gordo asked me out in 8th grade.
MIRANDA Yeah, back when he was a loser.
PARKER If he was such a loser, why'd you hang out with him?
MIRANDA Cause I was a loser, too?
CHARLOTTE Wait, you hung out with him?
PARKER Does that mean Lizzie was a loser, too?
MIRANDA Uh, basically, yeah!
BONNIE Lizzie Loser' McGuire? You hung out with her, too?
DENIECE That means thatLizzie and Gordo hung out together.
ASHLEY Eww.
KRISTIN That is beyond freaky.
CHARLOTTE I never though we'd ever use those two names in the same sentence.
Miranda sighs.
MIRANDA I don't really feel like explaining all of it. It's a long story, guys.
BONNIE We've got all day, you know.
ASHLEY I've gotta hear this one.
PARKER (deviously) Yeah, Miranda, tell us about it.
MIRANDA Let's drop this subject, shall we?
PARKER Oh, but we soooo want to hear your story, Miranda!
MIRANDA Parkerdrop it.
Parker and all of the other girls hush up as Miranda stares out the window.
MIRANDA I will tell it to you. Some other time. Justnot now.
Miranda sighs and the other girls, though they are confused, sit quietly and sympathetically until the bell rings.
--FADE OUT.–
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[A/N: Hey. Very cool. I'm happy. I finished this. Now I can work on QU chapter 5 or TTATODZG chapter 12 or my Parker songfic or something completely different! Yayyy, I hope I can get an update of this up real soon.
Please lemme know what you think: pleaseee review. Thanks!]
