* = Toon Lizzie

Chapter 5

"Hey Lizzie, can I ask you something?" It looked as though Miranda had been thinking hard about whether or not she should ask.

"Um, sure; what is it?" Miranda scrunched up her eyes still thinking in confusion. "Miranda?" Lizzie waved her hands up and down in front of Miranda's face. "You wanted to ask me something?"

"Oh, yeah; you remember yesterday when you told me to promise you I wouldn't tell Gordo that you were going to the prom with Ronny?"

"Yeah…"

"Well, how come you don't want Gordo to know that you're going with Ronny again?" Miranda had stumped Lizzie.

*What is she getting at?*

"I don't know."

"Why did you even get back with Ronny?"

*(Toon Lizzie is in a small room with a bright light shinning in her face) I have the right to remain silent.*

"What's with all the questions? How about I ask you a question instead?" The girls walked to the school courtyard.

"Okay." As they walked down the stairs Kate was walking up with her posse.

"Oh look, here's Loozie and her little friend. Where's the other dork? Begging girls go to prom with him?" Lizzie and Miranda rolled their eyes.

"Good one." Clair and Kate did their high-five flip hair thing as they smiled.

"Oh yeah … just to let you know, I'm going to the prom with Ethan this year." At that Kate and the other girls walked up the stairs smiling.

"That wasn't even funny." Lizzie said while rolling her eyes.

"I know… plus I think everyone knows she's going to the prom with Ethan already. So what were you saying before Kate interrupted?" They sat at the table they usually sat at.

"My question for you is why are you all of a sudden trying to get Gordo and I together? I mean you weren't doing this a week ago."

"Well up until a week ago, I didn't know what I know now."

"What?" Lizzie shook her head in confusion.

"The only reason why I kept hinting for you to go to the prom with Gordo was because of what happened the other day."

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FLASHBACK

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"Well I gotta motor; I guess I'll see you around."

"Yeah; I'm sorry." Parker smirked and walked down the hall just as Miranda walked up beside Gordo.

"What was that about?" Gordo put his books into his locker.

"Oh, nothing." He then closed it and began to walk, Miranda following behind looking at him strangely.

"Gordo, that was Parker; it's never nothing with Parker."

"She just asked me to the prom." Miranda began to smile.

"That's great; two down, one to go. Now all we have to do is find Lizzie a date." Gordo stopped in his steps and looked back at Miranda.

"I told her no." She stared back at him dumbfounded.

"You what?"

"I told her I couldn't go with her." The more Gordo talked, the more Miranda was surprised.

"Why?" She still hadn't soaked everything in.

"Uhh, because I didn't want to go with her. Why else would I say no?" He rolled his eyes out of annoyance as Miranda followed his every move.

"But, you could have had a date. It's too late in the game for you to go with anyone else. Now you are stuck with your best friend." Gordo reached the boys bathroom.

"So… that's fine with me." He stopped by the door waiting for Miranda to finish talking so he could enter.

"What do you mean, 'so that's fine with me'? You want to go to the dance with Lizzie, don't you?" She began to smile once more as Gordo shook his head in denial.

"What's with all the questions? I meant so that's fine with me; anything's better than going to the dance with Parker."

"But that's not what you said."

"But that's what I meant."

"Gordo, I know you too well, and I know when you're making things up. Since when do you not like Parker? Also, the other day you told me that this dance was different; this dance you weren't going to go dateless… and that the first person that asks you to go with them, you'll say yes." Miranda did have a point.

"And how do you get me wanting to go to the dance with Lizzie out of that?"

"Like I just did!" Miranda almost yelled out.

"You don't know what you're talking about; I don't want to go to the dance with Lizzie as more than a friend. I have no other choice. Just because I didn't say yes to the first person that asks, doesn't mean I'm waiting to go with her." Two boys already left the restroom and five more came in as Gordo and Miranda continued to talk.

"That wasn't the first girl to ask you; more like the third." It looked as though Gordo knew Miranda was getting at something but continued to roll his eyes.

"I have to go." He opened the boy's restroom door and walked in as Miranda yelled after him.

"Don't walk away from me Gordo! Don't make me come in there!"

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END OF FLASHBACK

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"I, I didn't know." She stuttered out.

"Exactly; that's why I kept telling you to go to the prom with Gordo." Miranda smiled wanting so badly to say 'I told you so'.

"No, I meant, I didn't know three girls asked Gordo to the dance." She then stopped smiling and looked at Lizzie flabbergasted.

*Since when did Gordo become a Lady's Man?*

"What? Tell me you still don't think Gordo likes you likes you after I just told you that story!" Lizzie shook her head.

"I still don't think Gordo likes me likes me after you told me that story; I'm sorry… It's just too unbelievable. I mean, its Gordo; my best friend… plus if he did he would just tell me." Lizzie opened her coke as Miranda continued to stare at Lizzie like she was clueless.

"Oh sure… Why didn't I think of that? Of course Gordo would tell you if he liked you. 'Hey Lizzie, what's up? Oh by the way I like you." Miranda rolled her eyes.

"Okay, so maybe he wouldn't."

"I could be wrong about this whole thing."

"Yeah, you could. So until Gordo gives me some kind of hint that he might like me, you're not allowed to say 'I told you so'."

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[A/N]: Are the chapters long enough? Please review.. Reviews make me feel like my reading is appreciated. Also, one more thing… to the people that e-mailed me giving me suggestions with the story, thanks a lot.. But I have this story planned out from head to toe and already know what's going to come of it.