[Disclaimer: I don't own any of the "Lizzie McGuire" characters. I do own, however, any characters you don't recognize from the series. Except Ashley, Kristin, and Deniece. They are based on real people. Real people who rock. But they ain't even in this chapter. So oh well. Onto the story.]

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AROUND 9:15 AM.

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--FADE INTO LIZZIE'S GROUP IN THE AV ROOM.–

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RACHEL Um, the bell rang like, 15 minutes ago! Where is that girl?

SETH Shut up, Rachel, she'll be here.

RACHEL I hate being in this stupid room. It makes me feel like a loser.

LARRY Uh, Rachel, you kinda.are.

RACHEL Excuse me? Rachel Bowman is not a loser. Rachel Bowman is popular materialnot AV dork material.

LIZZIE And I thought I was vain.

RUDY Lizzie? Vain? (laughing) Yeah, right.

LIZZIE Oh, you'd be surprised. Larry knows what I'm talking about.

LARRY Well, you weren'tvain, per se

LIZZIE Yeah, I was just a self-centered, narcissistic, egotistical brat.

RUDY I don't believe that for a second.

SETH I do.

Lizzie hits Seth playfully.

LIZZIE (smiling) Not cool.

SETH I was just kidding! No need to get all violent on me

RACHEL I can't believe I hang out with you people.

SETH (whispers to Rudy) I can't believe we let her in.

RACHEL I heard that, you know!

LIZZIE (ignoring her) I can't believe we're letting in another person. Isn't our group big enough as is?

RUDY Once we throw Rachel out, they'll be plenty of room.

SETH Well, Linda told me she knew this cool freshmen guy that she used to know.

LARRY He couldn't possibly be cooler thanle Tudge.

Lizzie starts to laugh.

LIZZIE You were only "le Tudge" when you were going out with me, buddy boy. Don't think that you can just be "le Tudge" whenever you wanna be. There are rules, you know.

RUDY Waityou guyswent out?

SETH When was this?

LARRY Seventh grade. She totally wanted me.

LIZZIE In your dreams.

RUDY Ohso it wasn't anythingserious, right?

LARRY Sure, it was serious.

LIZZIE (empathic) No, it wasn't.

LARRY I was in love with you, Lizzie McGuire! You broke my heart!

LIZZIE And I was in love with Ethan Craft!

Larry pauses from their pretend-fight and ponders.

LARRY Whatever happened to that kid?

LIZZIE Who knows?

LARRY Cause of death: morbid stupidity.

Lizzie and Larry start cracking up. That's when they notice Rudy, Seth, and Rachel staring at them.

LIZZIE Uh, sorry. Just a littlereminiscing.

SETH Yeahwe noticed.

RACHEL (mumbles) Freaks.

Suddenly, the door opens, and in walks Linda with a boy behind her.

LINDA He's heeeere!

The boy comes out from behind Linda. He's pretty short, about 5'3", and has a very boyish-looking face. His head is covered in tufts of light brown curls, and his eyes are a light green.

BOY Hi.

LINDA Guys, meetCarson Ickley.

RACHEL Ickley? What kind of name is that?

Seth turns to Rachel.

SETH Shut up.

Seth gets up and walks over to Carson and high-fives him.

SETH I'm Seth Underwood, yooo.

Seth is the friendliest of their group. He's a junior, and he laughs a lot, gives people high-fives a lot, and acts wigger-ish a lot. Only his friends know that he's kidding. He's pale and has spiky black hair and deep blue eyes. He was frighteningly tall. Okay, actually, he was only 5'11", but if you haven't noticed by now, everyone in this school is short.

Rudy walks over and shakes his hand.

RUDY Rudy Domanski here.

Rudy is the sweet, quiet one of the group. Like Seth, he's a junior, too, but he's quite opinionated, but introverted. Kinda goofy at times, but completely normal (when necessary). He's 5'1", has dark green eyes and shaggy, almost wavy dark brown hair covered by his gray baseball cap.

Carson looks slightly befuddled but continues to shake people's hands, et cetera.

LARRY Tudgeman. Larry Tudgeman.

Larry, as all the others did, shakes Carson's hand before putting on his sunglasses and swaggering back over to his seat. Larry is the same weirdo as he'd always been but he toned it down a bit. And he wore different T-shirts on a day-to-day basis, which is always a good thing.

LIZZIE Hi, Carson! I'm Lizzie McGuire, but you can call me Lizzie! Or um, Liz, or McGuire or. whatever you want!

Lizzie was overly excited to meet this new guy. She, like Larry, was pretty much the samesame long blonde hair, same big hazel eyes, same shortness. The only thing different was her crowd. She had become less interested in being popular and more interested in just being herself.

CARSON W ell, then, hey, McGuire.

Rachel kept sitting there with her arms folded across her chest. Finally, Seth nudged her hard in the ribcage, and she spoke upalthough not too politely.

RACHEL Rachel Bowman. Pleased to meet you, CarsonWhatever.

Rachel is the biggest bitch in their group. She is a sophomore and a bossy, oversensitive one at that. She's a strange, strange girl, with her dark red bob and yellowish green eyes, but was practically the tallest girl in the grade: 5'9".

Linda sneers at Rachel, then turns back to Carson pleasantly.

LINDA And I believe you know me, Linda Santorini.

Linda smiled widely. She was the picture-perfect junior girl of their little clique. She was extremely intelligent and opinionated, but she could get a little boisterous and ultimately, got on teacher's nervesa lot. But she was very pretty at 5'5", with her long dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes.

It seemed that Lizzie was the only one Carson really seemed to click' with at first. But who knows what events lied in the future of these seven kids?

SETH So Carsonyou um.

Seth paused.

SETH Nevermind.

LARRY I smell awkwardness.

LIZZIE No, that's my perfume.

LINDA Oh, Lizzie, you're so funny.

LIZZIE I know. It's my forte.

Rudy and Carson both laugh, then look at each other and turn away.

RUDY Uh, I think I

LINDA You

RUDY I think the bell's gonna ring.

Rudy gets up.

LIZZIE Rudy, the bell doesn't ring for another 25 minutes.

RUDY Oh. Well, then, um, I've gotta

Rudy runs out the door.

CARSON What's up with him, McGuire?

Lizzie stares after him thoughtfully.

LIZZIE II don't know.

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[A/N: Wassup with the new kid? And wassup with Rudy?

The next chapter may not be up for quite a while, seeing as how I need to take a while to figure out where I'm going with this story. But in the meantime, go read another one of my stories. Do it. Do it!

Lemme know what you think of THIS story: please review. Thanks!]