Title: When The Thunder Rolls (Part Four)
Rating: PG13 Warning: some rough language is ahead. It's fitting for the time, trust me.
E-mail: tenryu@excite.com
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/tigerwolf
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, I'm just using them for fun. I'll put them back when I'm done, promise. And I don't own the song Rest In Pieces by Saliva, its from their new album "Back Into Your System."
Lizzie sighed and tossed her hair around one more time. This time it landed in perfection and she smiled at her own reflection. "Absolutely gorgeous." She said about herself.
Today Lizzie was hell-bent on not letting Miranda get to her. Her former girlfriend and tried calling several times but Lizzie refused to speak to her. Jo and Sam were still unsure as to what was going on. Matt himself was starting to worry, his sister was being nice to him lately. Something was definitely wrong if Lizzie was being nice to her little brother.
It was still slightly summer but winter was slowly moving Lizzie observed as she stood outside waiting on the bus. When it came, her sudden confidence dropped, Miranda would be on the bus. But she wasn't going to let that ruin her day. Stepping on the bus in a hurry, Lizzie took no notice of anybody but the first person she came to. She quietly asked if she could sit down and breathed a sigh of relief when she was resting comfortably in the seat.
Somewhere in the back, Gordo sat in anger. He saw the blonde get on the bus, he watched her every move. As per usual, she didn't look for him. But, he was shocked to see, she also didn't look for Miranda. After their weekend together, he assumed that they would be all over each other every chance they got.
Those sluts. He thought to himself. It was his secret that the girls didn't know about.
*~*~*~*~* Flashback.....to a few nights ago.
Gordo softly treaded on the ground being sure that he didn't step on anything that would give away his presence, or break one of those ugly lawn gnomes. Stepping around one of the said gnomes, he involuntary shudder. "Freaking gnomes, I hate gnomes." He muttered to himself.
The warm glow of living room lights caught his attention. The curtains were drawn back slightly giving a view of the living room and if angled just right, a small view of the kitchen. But it was what he saw when he looked into the living room that turned his stomach upside down.
There on the small couch two bodies lay curled up together. At immediate glance he knew who it was, Miranda and Lizzie. He saw their lips nearly glued together and it made him sick. It's a girl thing Gordo. He mocked in his mind. Yeah, it looks like a girl thing. I can't believe them. Miranda is just doing this to make me jealous.
Storming off, Gordo couldn't shake the vision of the girls kissing. He would make them pay for this.
Lizzie was the first one off the bus and into the school. Her blood boiled when she heard the voice calling from behind her. "Lizzie! Wait up!"
"Miranda..." Lizzie grumbled to herself. How dare that girl try to talk to her now.
Look at me, my depth perception must be off againCause this hurts deeper than I thought it did
It has not healed with time
It just shot down my spine
You look so beautiful tonight
Reminds me how you laid us down
And gently smiled before you destroyed my life
Miranda came to a running stop when she caught up with Lizzie. "Hey." She said, slightly out of breath. "What's up? You haven't returned my phone calls and you didn't sit with me on the bus." Then she added in a singsong voice with a jab to Lizzie's ribs, "I was sitting behind Ethan Craft."
Looking unpleased Lizzie answered with, "And I care because..."
"Because Ethan's hot."
She gave a scoff. "He's disgusting."
Would you find it in your heartTo make this go away
And let me rest in pieces
Would you find it in your heart
To make this go away
And let me rest in pieces
"What is your problem?" Miranda asked.
"You're my problem." Lizzie said low so that the girl couldn't hear. She continued to walk off leaving her former friend behind. If Miranda was going to worry about her reputation, she better hold on to it because Lizzie was fixing to create one hell of gossip ring about her.
Look at me, my depth perception must be off againYou got much closer that I thought you did
I'm in your reach
You held me in your hands
But could you find it in your heart
To make this go away
And let me rest pieces
Lizzie walked into the school with a brave new attitude. She had plans of destroying Miranda's precious reputation. But could she actually do that to her ex-friend? Breaking her heart was one thing, but could Lizzie actually go so far as to ruin Miranda for the sake of revenge?
"So McGuire, I heard something very intriguing about you last night." Kate Sanders oh to familiar voice echoed down the hall. Hoping that if she ignored the cheerleader she would go away, Lizzie concentrated more on her locker combination. Once getting it open, she shoved her book bag inside only to hear Kate's voice call again.
"So, is it true?" She came to stand beside the blonde.
"Is what true Kate? That if you count all the brain cells of the cheerleaders and add them together that you would still be in single digits? Because that's definitely true."
"No," Her voice held a bit irritation which pleased Lizzie. "That you and Sanchez were caught making out. I hear that you two have a little fling going on. So you're a lesbian now huh?"
Here was her chance, she could be open about something she wasn't entirely sure about. Or cower and hide and lie and say that it was all a mistake. Taking in a deep breath Lizzie answered.
"Are you serious?" Ethan stood there completely baffled, as always. "Is she really a lesbian?"
"Yes she is. And her girlfriend is Miranda Sanchez."
"Wow." He scratched his head for a minute. "Wait, how do you know for sure Gordo?"
"Because," Gordo replied coolly, "They told me themselves."
"Actually, yes I am Kate. What's it to you? You want to make something of it?" Lizzie dared the girl to say something, anything that was even remotely close to an insult.
Kate, shocked at the girl's honesty, was quite, then scoffed. "That is so last season. Catch up with the time McGuire." She waved her hand as to brush off the conversation and walked off.
Being proud of herself, Lizzie smiled. She may just have made the biggest mistake of her life or done the most courageous thing known to middle school kids across the nation.
Miranda pushed her way through the crowd of people heading towards the cafeteria. Right now she wasn't hungry for food, she was out for blood, Lizzie's blood.
The rumors had made their way back to Miranda and wasn't at all pleased at the fact that Lizzie outed herself to the whole school and brought Miranda down with her.
Miranda quickly found the girl and made a beeline towards her. She slammed her books down on the table next to the blonde. Lizzie jumped from the unexpected loud noise.
Miranda stood there, nose flaring in anger. "What the fuck is you problem? Do think you're God or something?"
Lizzie looked irritated. "What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about you telling everybody about..." She stopped herself because of Lizzie's company. A few people that Miranda didn't know right off was sitting with Lizzie. "About you know what."
Puzzled and with one eyebrow raised, Lizzie said the words that made Miranda cringe. "About what? About the fact that I'm a lesbian and you don't know what you are?"
"Aw, look, the love birds!" Kate Sanders' voice echoed out. "Sanchez and McGuire, in love forever."
"Fuck you Kate." Lizzie was beyond caring what she said or what was said about her anymore. "Miranda and I aren't even friends anymore."
"So who are you dating now?" Kate asked.
"What's it to you?" Miranda placed her hands on her hips.
"Don't take up for me." Lizzie stood so that she was eye to eye with her former girlfriend.
"I'll do what I want to." Miranda countered back.
"Why, you don't want anything to do with me." Lizzie raised her voice slightly, not hiding her anger in the slightest.
"That's not true!"
"Bullshit! You only care about yourself! You don't care about me!"
"I love you!" Miranda's eyes filled with tears that spilled over on her face. The cafeteria was quite was Miranda had shouted her statement. Her voice lowered, almost in shame, as she continued. "Don't you think about how I feel?"
"Don't you think about my feelings?" Lizzie answered calmly.
"I do. Believe I do, but I'm just confused." Miranda rubbed her forehead. She turned her back to the table only to see that the school was watching her every move. Unexpectedly she felt a wave of panic come over her. This was the reason why she did not want to tell people about her relationship with Lizzie. Her heart rate became faster and her breathing became shallower. The last thing she clearly remembered was falling fast to the ground.
"Miranda!" Lizzie's anger faded when she saw her friend fall to the ground. Suddenly she wasn't worried about other people or about their fight or about Kate Sanders, all she cared about in this moment was that the girl she still had feelings for was unconscious on the ground.
Will Miranda's passing out affect Lizzie's feelings for her? Will things between the two girls change? Stay tuned to find out.
To Be Continued...
Stick with me. I'm getting there.
