Chapter 3
[Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Lizzie McGuire characters or Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream.]
The next day at school, there was an enormous crowd around Mr. Diggs' door. Lizzie couldn't get anywhere near it. She started jumping up and down, in hopes of seeing the list. No such luck. Then, someone grabbed her shoulder. Lizzie spun around.
"Have you seen it yet?" Miranda asked anxiously.
"No," Lizzie answered, "I can't get anywhere near it.
All of a sudden, Ethan Craft walked through the crowd. "Lizzay. Mirandaaa. What's up?"
"Hey Ethan," they said simultaneously. They both giggled. As he walked away, Lizzie blurted out, "Ethan! Did you get a part?"
"Oh, yeah. I'm Dem...Demet..."
"Demetrius?" Miranda asked.
"Yeah! That's him!" Ethan waved and walked away.
By that time the crowd was thinning. Lizzie and Miranda pushed their way to the front and started scaling the list for their names. But the first name made them both stop.
"Matt McGuire as PUCK?!?!"
"Lizzie, what's going on?"
Lizzie explained the whole thing to her with clenched teeth.
::Cartoon Lizzie:: (dressed as a tree) Great! Matt got a lead role and I probably got Tree #3!
"Okay, forget about it," Miranda reassured her, "Let's keep looking."
They went down the list.
"Okay, so Kate's Titania, queen of the fairies. Of course, Kate's the queen. Let's see...Larry Tudgeman as Lysander...MIRANDA SANCHEZ AS HERMIA!!!!!!!"
They both started squealing and jumping up and down.
::Cartoon Lizzie:: (in a cheerleader outfit) YEAH MIRANDA!!!!!!!!
After they calmed down, they started looking again. They saw Ethan's name, and then, right below it was the unthinkable - LIZZIE'S NAME WAS ON IT!
"I'm Helena," Lizzie stammered, dumbfounded. "That means I-"
"That means you and Ethan Craft play a couple!" Miranda screeched.
::Cartoon Lizzie:: Whoa.
Miranda and Gordo had first period English together. Gordo practically pounced on her. "Well?!?!"
Miranda laughed. "We both got in."
"Well, I knew that! But what parts did you get?"
"Okay, are you ready for this? I got Hermia and Lizzie got Helena!!!"
"That's awesome! Congratulations! And who play your love interests?"
"Well, I'm with Tudgeman-"
Gordo laughed.
"It's not funny, Gordo! He already came up to me and gave me flowers."
Gordo looked over at Miranda's stuff. "Where are they?"
"I gave them to Mr. Diggs"
"Right. What about Lizzie?" Gordo asked impatiently.
This was the news Miranda was not looking forward to delivering. She didn't know if she could bear to see the heartbreaking look in her best friend's eyes after she told him. "Well...umm.."
Gordo glanced at how uncomfortable Miranda was and then suddenly it hit him. "Ethan?"
"Yeah, Gordo."
Gordo did his best to cover up the ache he felt in his stomach. "Wow, that's great. Maybe now she has a shot with him."
Miranda just looked at Gordo and wanted to cry. Gordo went and sat down at his desk.
Meanwhile, Lizzie was in Algebra. With Ethan. With Ethan Craft. With Ethan Craft, her scene partner. With Ethan Craft, her scene partner who -
"Hey Lizzay. Looks like we're together in this play thing."
Lizzie looked up to see Ethan towering over her. She opened her mouth, hoping words would come out.
"Yeah. It looks like."
::Cartoon Lizzie:: Dumb Lizzie! Stupid Lizzie!
Ethan walked off and class began. Lizzie sighed, amazed once again at her stupidity. 'Oh well,' she thought, 'I'll make up for it at play practice today.'
