Author: Jade Unicorn
Title: When The Thunder Rolls (Part Seven)
Rating: PG13 for some fluff and stuff.
E-mail: tenryu@excite.com
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Disclaimer: I don't own these characters; I'm just using them for fun. I'll put them back when I'm done, promise.
Note: This is written in Gordo and Kate's view.
~~~~~Gordo~~~~~
It was a betrayal. It was sickness that controlled them. I never understood why they became the perfect couple and I couldn't even get a date with Lizzie. All Miranda did was kiss her once and suddenly they were smitten. Now they were making plans on spending the rest of their lives together.

Maybe I was a jerk for walking away from them like I did. But how would you feel if the girl that you were in love with suddenly dumped you for another girl?

Lizzie was suddenly somebody that I couldn't recognize. I couldn't bare the thought of being with her, or near her for that matter. Everybody saw that I was in love with her. Hell even Ethan saw it and he was oblivious to the world around him. So how come everybody else saw that I was in love with her but she closed off her eyes to me?

What did Miranda have that I didn't? Besides the obvious. What made her the clear candidate for Lizzie's heart and not me? Had I not been there for her? Had I not given her great advice and been her shoulder to cry on? Had I not sat back and watched her flirt and lust over other guys all the while I was in love with her?

So what the fuck did Miranda Sanchez have that I didn't? Not a damn thing.

I watch them now, how they flirt with each other still. Trying to pretend that nothing is going on and they are oblivious to their feelings and then once class ends, they're back to kissing and holding hands. The other day after school had let out I was walking with some friends and I saw Lizzie with her back against her locker while Miranda was leaned over her playing with a strand of her hair and whispering something that I'm sure was nothing more than a declaration of love. It made me sick.

I just wanted to yell and scream and pull them apart. But instead I walked by them and said out loud, "Sluts." I could see the pain slide across Lizzie's face and the anger across Miranda's. You would think that having just said that to my two former best friends that I would feel at least a little guilty about it. You would think…
~~~~~Kate~~~~~
There was a three year period where I thought that popularity was so much more important than good friends to fall back on. Those were the saddest three years of my life.

No matter how hard I tried to pretend that my friendship with Lizzie was completely severed, it never was. When she helped me get back on the cheerleading squad after I messed up my arm, I realized then that I missed having friends who actually cared about me.

Claire and the other girls only wrecked my life. They convinced me that I wasn't skinny enough. I developed an eating disorder and by the time I made it to eighth grade, I was a walking skeleton. I got hospitalized for a while and snapped out of it all when Lizzie came and visited me.

We spoke of our friendship in the past and her relationship with Miranda. I broke down into tears as I realized that for the first time in my life I was alone. I begged her of her forgiveness. And I was pleased to know that she forgave me and allowed me back into her life.

A few weeks later I came up to them and I asked them how to deal with my own budding sexuality. So yes, Kate Sanders was becoming a lesbian. And I needed them to get me through it.

It was horrible how David treated them. How could a human being be so impassive and just turn their back on a friendship that they formed during elementary school? Of course, I'm one to talk. I did the same thing. But I didn't turn my back on them because they were in love. I did it for my own selfish reasons.

But through it all, Lizzie and Miranda will survive it. They will get over the scars that middle school and high school will leave and they will become better people because of it. And that's why I'm so proud to be their friend. Even if it took me a few years to get back to this point.
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Ok folks! That's it! That's all that she wrote! Hope you enjoyed it cause I'm working on tons of other stuff for other shows. Please read through my other stories if you will and review them as well. Thank you!