Chapter 9: Don't Think, Know

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When we last saw Lizzie, she had expressed her anger towards Gordo, and had not even attempted to with her cousin. Will she? How should you know? Why am I asking you such unanswerable questions? Why don't you just read for now?

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The day was over and Lizzie felt miserable. Not that she thought that being abanodned by her boyfriend, having her cousin lie to her and seeing Claire as happy as she was would make her happy. Not one iota. So, she was surprised at the knock on her bedroom door, and even more surprised to find out that it was no other than Matt standing in the shadows with a peace offering. Cookies.

(AN-- Why does everything in this house revolve around cookies?)

"Can I come in Lizzie? Mom sent me up." Lizzie nodded and reached for a tissue. Matt placed the cookies on her desk and paused. He had to do something. It was that good little angelic Matt inside of him. He sat down on Lizzie's floor, indian-style.

"Lizzie. What's up?" Lizzie looked at her brother, not sure what to make of the sudden new change in his personality. Maybe Matt was finally growing up. Lizzie shook her head, depressed, and thought: No, growing up only gets tougher, and in situations like this, I just wish that I was his age again.

"You don't know how complicated my life is twerp," Lizzie muttered with anger. Matt narrowed his eyes and brushed his spiky hair on top of his head with the back of his hand.

"Try me."

"Fine. But you wouldn't understand." Matt lowered his voice.

"Try me."

"Alright already. Gordo and I are having a...."

"Fight."

"Yeah, a fight. And it is about this thing...about the truth."

"Uh-huh."

"Yeah, about the truth, he is not telling me."

"So to sum it up, you think that Gordo is lying to you?"

"Not think, weasel, know."

"And how do you know?"

"I kind of saw him...lying."

"How can you see someone lying?" Lizzie threw up her hands.

"I saw him at this girls house." Matt nodded.

"And?..." Lizzie looked appalled.

"And?! And he hugged this girl, and he had been over at this girls house for the last week, and this girl is our cousin!" Matt looked even more appalled than Lizzie had.

"You think that Roxy and Gordo are...dating?" Lizzie looked at her feet and then back up at her brother.

"Not think, know." Suddenly, Trevor appeared into the room, calling Matt to rejoin him to play a video game. Matt left Lizzie's room in silence and shut the door. Trevor looked at Matt with question.

"Does she know yet?" Matt nodded his head.

"She does now."

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It was Christmas Eve and Lizzie tried to be cheerful as she could be while opening her gifts from her family as Santa Claus was absent from the family and had been for years. That night was scheduled to be Roxy's party. Lizzie took a shower and towel dried her hair and slipped on the perfect dress and the perfect necklace and the perfect shoes. Now all she needed to match it was the perfect smile, which she seemed to have misplaced under the piles of tears.

There was a knock on the door and Lizzie remembered that she was assigned to help Roxy with her make-up before the party. Would joy ever cease?

Roxy looked slightly nervous as she entered the bedroom. There was tension in the air between the cousins.

"Lizzie, Gordo told me what happened..." Roxy began with a glance at the mirror. Lizzie started to fume inwardly.

"Oh, and what did he tell you?" she asked twisting off the cap to her tube of lip gloss.

"Lizzie, it's not what you think..." Lizzie slammed the tube down and glared at her cousin.

"Not what I think? Then what is it Roxy?!" Roxy stared at her toes.

"I can't even begin to tell you how upset I am..."Roxy began again.

"How upset you are? God Roxy! Is that all you ever think about! Yourself?" Roxy's cheeks darkened.

"You are being such a..."

"Such a what Roxy? Cause I do know what you are being. You are being a creepy, boyfriend stealer who is jealous of me." Roxy shook her head in disgust.

"Me? Jealous of you Lizzie McGuire? You are the one who takes advice from Claure Miller! But you know what? Forget it. Because I could not even stand to look at you one more second Lizzie. You make me sick." And with that, Roxy slammed the door shut, as Lizzie turned pale. What had she done?

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Another cliff hanger! Torture I know. Let me know what you think! Later days! I'll be back with the finale soon!

xoxoxo

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