"This time I really am going to squash you, Matt!" Jo heard Lizzie scream from upstairs, who was now covered in pink foam.

Matt, who was trying to look for a place to hide from Lizzie, spotted the fireplace. "Aha!" He said with a grin.

Meanwhile, Jo had gone upstairs to see what was wrong. She opened the door to Lizzie's room and found her flicking foam off of her saying, "Get it off me! Get it off me!"

Jo brought her into the bathroom, where she wet a towel and gave it to Lizzie to wipe herself off with. "Mom, Matt had better get punished for this!" Lizzie told her angrily. "These are our brand new jeans!"

"Our?" Jo asked, puzzled.

"They're Miranda's and mine because we both split the cost. There was only one pair of them, and we both wanted them. So we were going to share them." Lizzie explained. "And now because of Matt, they're ruined!"

As Jo asked Lizzie try to get off all of the foam, she asked, "What did Matt do?"

"I don't know! But as soon as I pushed the 'ON' button on my remote, foam sprayed all over me instead of turning on the TV!" Lizzie told her angrily.

Matt had rigged Lizzie's remote to turn on a battery-powered toy car to come out from under her bed, and spray foam up right where he measured Lizzie would be standing.

Miranda and Gordo had volunteered to clean up the floor in Lizzie's room. All this time, I've been thinking of myself. I keep wanting Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie. Gordo thought while he was cleaning. But I don't want Miranda to feel left out if I ask Lizzie to go skating with me and not her. She is one of my best friends. Maybe I should tell her. But what if she gets mad or something?

"Gordo, is something wrong? You looked confused." Miranda asked him.

"Well of course I'm confused!" Gordo exclaimed. Oops... I didn't mean for that to actually come out. He thought embarrassedly.

Miranda took a deep breath. "Gordo, ever since you came back from video camp, you've seemed to act different to me." Miranda said, finally getting out what she wanted to say to him. "And I want to know if something's bothering you." She said.

"Bothering me? Why would... anything bother me?" He replied with a nervous chuckle.

"Gordo, stop lying and tell me what your problem is! We're best friends, and if there's something wrong, I want to help you." Miranda told him.

Yeah, but will you try to help me out by telling Lizzie? The last thing I want is for Lizzie to know. Or do I? Gordo thought to himself.

Just then, Lizzie came back into her room. "Thank goodness, I'm foam free." She told them.

"We'll talk later." Miranda mouthed to Gordo while Lizzie had her head turned away. Gordo sighed. How was he going to get out of this one?

"Have you two seen Matt?" She asked, really upset about the jeans.

"Uh... no. My guess is that he's somewhere very far away from you, trying to hide so that he will get neither punished or 'squashed'." Gordo replied.

"Well in the end, he's going to get one of those, if not both!" Lizzie said. "I'm going downstairs to look for him."

"We'll help you look!" Gordo said, mopping up the last of the foam. They all headed downstairs. Just when they were on their last step, they heard the doorbell ring.

"I'll get it." Lizzie told them, and walked over to the front door. She looked out the window, and groaned. "Guys, it's Kate." She whispered. She opened the door. "Uh, hi... Kate." Lizzie said.

"Hi Lizzie. You're mom said I could come over sometime... would this be an okay time?" She asked Lizzie, hoping she'd say yes. She didn't care about her pride now. I don't care if Lizzie's kind of dorky. I have no friends besides Tudgemen. He's okay now, but I don't have any girls to talk to. She thought miserably.

"Uh... I don't know." Lizzie replied, looking at Miranda and Gordo. They shrugged. "I'll go ask my mom."

She walked to the living room, where she found Jo lying on the couch. She was eating watermelon with ice cream on top of it., with cheese sprinkles on top of the ice cream.

Toon Lizzie: Okay, I know women sometimes get cravings for weird foods when they're pregnant, but this has got to be the weirdest!

"Uh... hi Mom." Lizzie said, still eyeing the strange combination of food.

"Hey, Lizzie." Jo replied. "What's up?"

"Well, Kate's here. She wants to know if now is a good time to come over." Lizzie told her, hoping she'd say no.

Toon Lizzie: If Kate wants to be friends again, that's fine. But right now I'm trying to find Matt, so I can pulverize him! (Stomps foot)

"Sure sweetie. She can even stay for dinner if she'd like to." Jo said. She wanted to get used to having more kids around, so she would be prepared for the twins.

"Okay." Lizzie said, trying to hide her disappointment. She walked back to the front door where Kate was waiting for her. "My mom says it's fine." She told her, purposely not mentioning the part about staying for dinner.

"Great." Kate said.

Gordo was eyeing her suspiciously, just in case this was a trick.

"What are you staring at, Gor-dork?" Kate immediately clamped her hand over her mouth. "Sorry. I'm so used to being mean to Lizzie and her friends." She told him.

After a moment of thinking, Gordo finally said, "It's okay." He didn't want to start trusting her until he knew for sure.

"Want to help me find my pesky brother? Because when we do, we're going to turn the tables around and think of an evil plan for him!" Lizzie told Kate.

"Sure! When I was a child, I was a hide-and-seek champion." She replied with a toss of her hair.

"If we split up, we'll find him faster." Miranda said, ignoring Kate's boastfulness.

Matt, who had hid partially in the chimney and partially behind the screen of the fireplace, was trying not to cough. It smelled really bad in there, and he wanted to get out!

He suddenly had to sneeze, but stopped it just in time. How am I going to gt out of here? What was I thinking?!

Gordo looked under beds, Miranda looked behind furniture, Lizzie looked outside, and Kate was looking in other places, like under the table and behind shower curtains. None of them could find him.

I wish Lanny was over right now. He could help me to try and help sneak out! Matt thought while trying to swallow a cough.

"Come out, you little worm!" Lizzie yelled from outside. She sighed. Miranda, Gordo, and Kate were all also getting tired of looking.

Toon Lizzie: I don't care how long it takes me to find him. And when I do, he is so going to pay for those pants!