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Chapter Six
"Your hair. It's so.. blue," was the first thing Wendy, the woman that was supposed to be fixing my hair, said when she saw me. "How did this happen?"
"My little brother," I exclaimed, rolling my eyes. "It's blue Kool- Aid. Is there any hope left for me, or am I ruined forever?"
"Not forever," Wendy assured me. "It does look a little sticky. Good thing you wore a hat. Bees fly to that stuff like it was honey."
"That's the last thing I need," I replied with a sigh. "Can you make my hair go back to normal?"
"Well, I will certainly try," Wendy said. "I think we should wash and condition your hair, run some blonde enhancing gel through it while it's wet, and then blow dry. If that doesn't work, we're going to have to either dye your hair its original color, or you're going to have to learn to love baseball caps for the next two weeks."
*Toon Lizzie- Love baseball caps? No way!*
Wendy washed and conditioned my hair, and then ran the blonde goo through it and brushed and blow dried it straight. It was still a little blue, so after getting Mom's permission, she dyed it the exact same color as my hair was before. When it was done, I looked just like I did before, and she gave me a little bottle of extra dye in case Matt decided to pull another evil prank on me and my hair before my hair was normal again.
When we were done at the salon, Mom took me home to pack my things. The water had been drained from the floor, but there were still little puddles of water around and the floor was all wet, as were the bottoms of my dressers and the things that had been on the floor when the flooding began. Fortunately, all of my clothes and shoes were fine, so I packed enough things for two or three days, and then Mom dropped me off at Miranda's.
"Hi, Lizzie," Mrs. Sanchez greeted me at the door. "We're so glad you can be staying with us! Your mom told us all about what Matt did."
"Thanks for letting me stay here," I replied politely. "I don't think I could last another night on the living room couch."
"We ordered Chinese for dinner, and Miranda's upstairs in her room on the phone," she said, gesturing towards the stairs. "Why don't you go up? She's been excited about your little sleep over party."
I smiled and nodded and ran upstairs, wondering who Miranda could be on the phone with. When she saw me come into her room with my overnight bag, she smiled and held the phone to her shoulder. "Hey, Liz! Gordo's on the phone. He probably wants to talk to you." She handed me the phone and took my bag, leaving it on the floor by her bed.
"Hey," I said, taking the phone from Miranda. "It's me. I thought you were going to your aunt's for dinner tonight or something?"
"I was," replied Gordo, sounding like he had a slightly stuffy nose. "Until my dad got so excited about finally catching a fish that he knocked me out of the boat. I fell into the water, and I've got a cold."
"How do you get a cold from warm water?" I asked, confused. "It's summer in California. It's not exactly Alaska out here."
"I'm just as confused as you are," Gordo answered. "I'm really sorry, but I have to cancel on tomorrow."
"Oh no!" I exclaimed, feeling really disappointed. "I was really looking forward to tomorrow night!"
"Me too. Hey, I gotta go. My mom wants me to go to bed early. Tell Miranda bye."
"Okay. I'll call you tomorrow to see how you're doing."
I hung up the phone and turned to Miranda. "He had to cancel our date because he's sick," I said with a sigh. "I was really looking forward to it."
"Awww, that's too bad," Miranda said, looking sorry for both of us. "A sleepover is just what you need to make you feel better!"
"You know what? I think you're right!" I stated optimistically with a smile. "We're going to have a great time! Where do we start? Mall?"
"Mall," Miranda confirmed, smiling, and off we went to beg her parents for a ride.
Hours later, we returned from the mall, loaded down under the weight of all our shopping bags. Miranda's parents had just gone to bed after they'd gotten home from picking us up, so the house was silent and still. We got into our pajamas and went downstairs in the living room with our sleeping bags and sat down on top of them.
"Let's play truth or dare!" I suggested as soon as I thought of the idea. It sounded like fun, and we were having a good old classic sleepover, weren't we?
"Truth or dare?" Miranda asked, saying the words like she just wanted to get them over with. "I haven't played that since, like, sixth grade!"
"I just thought it sounded like fun..."
"It does! We'll play. Only if I can go first."
"Oh, fine. Go ahead."
"Okay..... truth or dare?"
"Umm..... truth!"
"Let's see... what's your deepest, darkest secret?"
"I've already told you all of mine!"
*Toon Lizzie- Except for one...*
"Okay, um, then... how long have you liked Gordo and how long do you think he's liked you?"
A Gordo question. I knew she was going to come out with one of these. That Miranda, she is so predictable sometimes. Even though I knew the answer to at least the first question, I pretended to be thinking long and hard about my answer. That way, if I took my time, maybe she'd get bored and move on, or a diversion would be created and we'd forget all about truth or dare.
But from the way Miranda was staring at me, impatiently waiting for me to answer her, I could tell that she wasn't going to let this go. So I decided to answer her honestly, since she's my best friend and I know she's not going to tell anyone anything that's discussed at a sleepover party.
*Toon Lizzie- Yeah. It's part of the girl code.*
"Since fourth grade," I admitted, blushing a little. "And I don't know the answer to the other question."
"Fourth grade?!" Miranda questioned, seemingly surprised at my answer. "Fourth grade! And no one tells me this because...."
"You knew about it then. I told you, remember?"
"Well, yeah... but I thought that when Ethan moved here in the end of the year you started liking him and not Gordo."
"Um, kind of... I don't know. Can't we move on to your truth or dare now?"
"No. I asked you another question! How long do you think Gordo's liked you?"
"Uh, I, um," I began nervously. I had no idea what I should say. I only figured it out at Ethan's murder mystery party, but Kate had to point it out to me. That was almost two months ago. "Two months, I think, two months."
Miranda began to laugh so hard she almost spit out her coke. "Two months? Why in the world do you think it was only two months?"
"Well, that's when Kate told me, anyway," I replied. "I didn't know before then, if he did like me before then...."
"Kate told you?" Miranda asked wonderously, with a lot more surprise in her voice than I would ever have suspected.
"Yeah, remember, the murder mys-" I stopped myself when I realized that all that time, Miranda had been in Mexico City on early vacation with her family. She didn't know about anything that had happened before Rome after she had left! "I can't believe I totally forgot to tell you about everything! Oh my gosh!"
"Please do! It's got to be interesting..."
"Okay. It all started at the murder mystery party Ethan was hosting at my house, because his was all bug-gassed out. Anyway, the whole night, Gordo was trying to impress me, but I didn't know it yet. When I was just about to win, Kate pulled me into my room and told me how everyone knew that he liked me but me. So I let him win."
"Wow. You leave town for a month, and all the exciting things happen...."
"That's not even the end of it! We were talking out on my front porch, and he was just about to tell me how he felt about me when Dad came out and interrupted us. But then at school, on the last day, he wrote this really sweet thing in my yearbook that explained exactly how he felt. So I kissed him during the school picture."
"You didn't! I don't believe you!"
"They sent you your yearbook and your class picture in the mail, didn't they?"
"Well, yeah, they're upstairs on my desk. I haven't gotten a chance to look through it yet, though."
"I'll be right back!" I called behind me as I ran up the stairs and retrieved Miranda's yearbook. I sat back down and pulled the class picture, which had been printed on a piece of photo paper and stuck in a plastic sleeve, and pointed to where Gordo and I had been standing.
"Wow. You really did it!"
"Yeah. That was only the first time."
"What?"
"Well, Rome was the only other time I kissed him. He's never kissed me."
"Never?"
"Nope. I've kissed him, though, so I guess it's the same thing."
*Toon Lizzie- It is, right?*
"I guess..."
"Girls!" Mrs. Sanchez came down the stairs to see us still wide awake and talking, and already it was past midnight. "You two better get some sleep, okay?"
We nodded and called back to her that we would, and she went back to bed.
Of course we wouldn't.
A/N. Hope you liked that one, I know it was a little boring, but I needed a filler chapter for what's going to happen next in the story. I think you'll like it, it's going to be the main conflict in the story. You might not like it while you read it, but you'll figure things out when everything gets resolved again. I'll get the next chapter out ASAP, keep reading and keep reviewing! Love ya!! xoxo nicole*
Chapter Six
"Your hair. It's so.. blue," was the first thing Wendy, the woman that was supposed to be fixing my hair, said when she saw me. "How did this happen?"
"My little brother," I exclaimed, rolling my eyes. "It's blue Kool- Aid. Is there any hope left for me, or am I ruined forever?"
"Not forever," Wendy assured me. "It does look a little sticky. Good thing you wore a hat. Bees fly to that stuff like it was honey."
"That's the last thing I need," I replied with a sigh. "Can you make my hair go back to normal?"
"Well, I will certainly try," Wendy said. "I think we should wash and condition your hair, run some blonde enhancing gel through it while it's wet, and then blow dry. If that doesn't work, we're going to have to either dye your hair its original color, or you're going to have to learn to love baseball caps for the next two weeks."
*Toon Lizzie- Love baseball caps? No way!*
Wendy washed and conditioned my hair, and then ran the blonde goo through it and brushed and blow dried it straight. It was still a little blue, so after getting Mom's permission, she dyed it the exact same color as my hair was before. When it was done, I looked just like I did before, and she gave me a little bottle of extra dye in case Matt decided to pull another evil prank on me and my hair before my hair was normal again.
When we were done at the salon, Mom took me home to pack my things. The water had been drained from the floor, but there were still little puddles of water around and the floor was all wet, as were the bottoms of my dressers and the things that had been on the floor when the flooding began. Fortunately, all of my clothes and shoes were fine, so I packed enough things for two or three days, and then Mom dropped me off at Miranda's.
"Hi, Lizzie," Mrs. Sanchez greeted me at the door. "We're so glad you can be staying with us! Your mom told us all about what Matt did."
"Thanks for letting me stay here," I replied politely. "I don't think I could last another night on the living room couch."
"We ordered Chinese for dinner, and Miranda's upstairs in her room on the phone," she said, gesturing towards the stairs. "Why don't you go up? She's been excited about your little sleep over party."
I smiled and nodded and ran upstairs, wondering who Miranda could be on the phone with. When she saw me come into her room with my overnight bag, she smiled and held the phone to her shoulder. "Hey, Liz! Gordo's on the phone. He probably wants to talk to you." She handed me the phone and took my bag, leaving it on the floor by her bed.
"Hey," I said, taking the phone from Miranda. "It's me. I thought you were going to your aunt's for dinner tonight or something?"
"I was," replied Gordo, sounding like he had a slightly stuffy nose. "Until my dad got so excited about finally catching a fish that he knocked me out of the boat. I fell into the water, and I've got a cold."
"How do you get a cold from warm water?" I asked, confused. "It's summer in California. It's not exactly Alaska out here."
"I'm just as confused as you are," Gordo answered. "I'm really sorry, but I have to cancel on tomorrow."
"Oh no!" I exclaimed, feeling really disappointed. "I was really looking forward to tomorrow night!"
"Me too. Hey, I gotta go. My mom wants me to go to bed early. Tell Miranda bye."
"Okay. I'll call you tomorrow to see how you're doing."
I hung up the phone and turned to Miranda. "He had to cancel our date because he's sick," I said with a sigh. "I was really looking forward to it."
"Awww, that's too bad," Miranda said, looking sorry for both of us. "A sleepover is just what you need to make you feel better!"
"You know what? I think you're right!" I stated optimistically with a smile. "We're going to have a great time! Where do we start? Mall?"
"Mall," Miranda confirmed, smiling, and off we went to beg her parents for a ride.
Hours later, we returned from the mall, loaded down under the weight of all our shopping bags. Miranda's parents had just gone to bed after they'd gotten home from picking us up, so the house was silent and still. We got into our pajamas and went downstairs in the living room with our sleeping bags and sat down on top of them.
"Let's play truth or dare!" I suggested as soon as I thought of the idea. It sounded like fun, and we were having a good old classic sleepover, weren't we?
"Truth or dare?" Miranda asked, saying the words like she just wanted to get them over with. "I haven't played that since, like, sixth grade!"
"I just thought it sounded like fun..."
"It does! We'll play. Only if I can go first."
"Oh, fine. Go ahead."
"Okay..... truth or dare?"
"Umm..... truth!"
"Let's see... what's your deepest, darkest secret?"
"I've already told you all of mine!"
*Toon Lizzie- Except for one...*
"Okay, um, then... how long have you liked Gordo and how long do you think he's liked you?"
A Gordo question. I knew she was going to come out with one of these. That Miranda, she is so predictable sometimes. Even though I knew the answer to at least the first question, I pretended to be thinking long and hard about my answer. That way, if I took my time, maybe she'd get bored and move on, or a diversion would be created and we'd forget all about truth or dare.
But from the way Miranda was staring at me, impatiently waiting for me to answer her, I could tell that she wasn't going to let this go. So I decided to answer her honestly, since she's my best friend and I know she's not going to tell anyone anything that's discussed at a sleepover party.
*Toon Lizzie- Yeah. It's part of the girl code.*
"Since fourth grade," I admitted, blushing a little. "And I don't know the answer to the other question."
"Fourth grade?!" Miranda questioned, seemingly surprised at my answer. "Fourth grade! And no one tells me this because...."
"You knew about it then. I told you, remember?"
"Well, yeah... but I thought that when Ethan moved here in the end of the year you started liking him and not Gordo."
"Um, kind of... I don't know. Can't we move on to your truth or dare now?"
"No. I asked you another question! How long do you think Gordo's liked you?"
"Uh, I, um," I began nervously. I had no idea what I should say. I only figured it out at Ethan's murder mystery party, but Kate had to point it out to me. That was almost two months ago. "Two months, I think, two months."
Miranda began to laugh so hard she almost spit out her coke. "Two months? Why in the world do you think it was only two months?"
"Well, that's when Kate told me, anyway," I replied. "I didn't know before then, if he did like me before then...."
"Kate told you?" Miranda asked wonderously, with a lot more surprise in her voice than I would ever have suspected.
"Yeah, remember, the murder mys-" I stopped myself when I realized that all that time, Miranda had been in Mexico City on early vacation with her family. She didn't know about anything that had happened before Rome after she had left! "I can't believe I totally forgot to tell you about everything! Oh my gosh!"
"Please do! It's got to be interesting..."
"Okay. It all started at the murder mystery party Ethan was hosting at my house, because his was all bug-gassed out. Anyway, the whole night, Gordo was trying to impress me, but I didn't know it yet. When I was just about to win, Kate pulled me into my room and told me how everyone knew that he liked me but me. So I let him win."
"Wow. You leave town for a month, and all the exciting things happen...."
"That's not even the end of it! We were talking out on my front porch, and he was just about to tell me how he felt about me when Dad came out and interrupted us. But then at school, on the last day, he wrote this really sweet thing in my yearbook that explained exactly how he felt. So I kissed him during the school picture."
"You didn't! I don't believe you!"
"They sent you your yearbook and your class picture in the mail, didn't they?"
"Well, yeah, they're upstairs on my desk. I haven't gotten a chance to look through it yet, though."
"I'll be right back!" I called behind me as I ran up the stairs and retrieved Miranda's yearbook. I sat back down and pulled the class picture, which had been printed on a piece of photo paper and stuck in a plastic sleeve, and pointed to where Gordo and I had been standing.
"Wow. You really did it!"
"Yeah. That was only the first time."
"What?"
"Well, Rome was the only other time I kissed him. He's never kissed me."
"Never?"
"Nope. I've kissed him, though, so I guess it's the same thing."
*Toon Lizzie- It is, right?*
"I guess..."
"Girls!" Mrs. Sanchez came down the stairs to see us still wide awake and talking, and already it was past midnight. "You two better get some sleep, okay?"
We nodded and called back to her that we would, and she went back to bed.
Of course we wouldn't.
A/N. Hope you liked that one, I know it was a little boring, but I needed a filler chapter for what's going to happen next in the story. I think you'll like it, it's going to be the main conflict in the story. You might not like it while you read it, but you'll figure things out when everything gets resolved again. I'll get the next chapter out ASAP, keep reading and keep reviewing! Love ya!! xoxo nicole*