Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fanfic.

My Fair Lady 2

~Chapter 9~

The next ten hours or so passed pretty quickly. Lizzie and I, being teenagers, fell asleep and didn't wake until about 7 o'clock, when we had almost arrived in front of our hotel.

We sat and blinked while Mr. McGuire parked the van, then followed him inside to the front desk—where Mrs. McGuire was exclaiming, "What do you mean you don't have our reservations? It's 7:30!" Hmm…that seems to be happening more and more frequently. Anyway, it was just as this was taking place that a girl, a little taller then Lizzie, with long, golden, curly hair, and a dazzling smile strode into the lobby.

"Lizzie McGuire?" she said, walking towards us.

Lizzie blinked and shook her head in disbelief. People knew who she was! "Yeah. Yeah, that's me."

The blonde looked delighted. She held out her hand and Lizzie shook it. "Hi. You can call me Kat. I'm your escort for the Fair."

"Hi, Kat," Lizzie said.

"Hey," I said, giving her a half-wave and a smile.

"This is…" Lizzie began.

"You must be Gordo," Kat said knowingly. I knew my face was giving away my shock. I was surprised that anyone recognized me. And not just because we were in Minnesota, either. There were people in Hillridge who didn't recognize me. Anyway, Kat bubbled on about how nice it was to meet us and she even offered to let us stay at her house, since the Radisson had lost our reservations. We quickly agreed, but before we left, Kat pulled me aside and said, "Hey, Miranda told me all about you—and Lizzie. I knew it was you because she described you as the one who would be glued to Lizzie's side. And she was right!" Now wait. Before you try and wonder how Kat knew Miranda, I'll tell you.

"I'm Miranda's cousin, by the way." This sounded ridiculous, as they looked nothing alike, but whatever.

"She told me to give you this." Kat placed a tiny purple cell phone in my hand.

"Happy birthday?" I guessed.

"Nope. Miranda said that she's sure something's going to happen on this trip and she wants to be in on it."

"Something's going to happen?"And it involves me?  Shouldn't I know about this? "What did she have in mind?" You just never know with Miranda.

"No idea," answered Kat. Now, I had only known her for about 5 minutes, but I could tell that she knew exactly what Miranda thought was going to happen. I would have pressed, but I was too jet lagged (car lagged?) from the drive to care. "But she says there's definitely something going on between you and Lizzie."

I bit my lip to ward off the blush creeping over my face.

"We'll see if she's right," Kat said, smirking, turning to leave.

I stood for a moment before following dumbly her out the door.

A Note: So??? What do you think? Is Kat awesome or what? Well, maybe not yet, but I swear she will be. Or at least I think so. I'm going to try really really hard to update a new chapter every day. With any luck, this should take a week or so. I just really don't want this fic to end, even though you probably all do, so you can find out what happens in the end.

Well, I'm off to keep typing again.

Lots of love to all my readers,

~Bethany Katherine~