It All Changes
I had butterflies racing in my stomach...
My heart was beating one hundred mph...
And my head was far up in the clouds...
As we walked down the high school halls, heads turned and looked in amazement. Heads that belonged to girls anyways. They starred in complete ashtonishment. Complete awe, and gave complete dreamful eyes.
Was there somebody famous taking steps in our High School? No, there was just Chris and I. However each time we walked pass a girl, she would look star-strucked at Chris, as if he were some big pop star. Who knows really. He could be a star in another country, he sure was cute enough. As we passed, I noticed that girls would glance at him and smile so innocently but then look at me and glare so devily.
Were they jealous?...
Of me? Little 'Loozie' McGuire?...
Surely not. I'm klumzy, shy, not really pretty, not really developed, and not POPULAR...
Ok so maybe they just didn't like what I was wearing today. Maybe not...
But I knew the look they gave me, it's the same look Miranda and I use to give Kate whenever we'd see her walking with Ethan. No, we weren't positively, entriely jealous of 'her'. We were just jealous of any blonde bimbo Ethan would share his walks with. But we soon got over it because Ethan was just....ok I'll come rite out and say it. Ethan was dumb!
I started feeling really nervous because Chris had been talking this whole time to me about something and I wasn't even paying attention. I hope he hadn't noticed, but oh well if he did, I could always blame it on something. Who knows, he might actually buy it too! I figured I'd better listen to what he was saying, if I wanted to walk with him again.
I looked up at him and watched his lips move as he talked. "Yeah so then I moved here from Los Angeles,"
I gasped mentally in my head. He lived in L.A? Only rich or wealthy people lived in L.A.
"That's so cool Chris!" I exclaimed.
He quickly nodded and when I looked ahead I stopped walking. Great it's Kate. I wanted to turn around and stear him in the other way because I knew when Kate saw me, she would try cracking some joke. I didn't mind it that much but I wasn't with Gordo or Miranda. I was with Chris. And I didn't want Chris thinking I was some 'loser'. I was just about to suggest that we take a different way, but his voice interupted me.
Somehow, some reason, he was calling Kate's name. And when she turned around at the greeting she called his name back and ran over to us.
He knows KATE?
KATE knows Chris?
THEY know eachother?
That just wasn't registering in my mind. I started feeling uncomfertable and felt my palms sweating.
I just stood there in silense as Kate approached. She ignored me at first, but then when Chris introduced me as his 'friend', she acted so nice. She smiled at me and actually said something nice. She complemented me on my hair, and acted as if we were some kind of friends...other than some kind of enimies.
I was confused and my mind was anticipating with questions.
Until I discovered what she was doing....
The whole thing was an 'act'. She was only being nice to me because Chris mentioned me as his friend. Of course she didn't want him to think she was being the snobby person she is, so she pretended to be nice. I'm kind of glad though, I mean, I didn't want him to think the most popular girl in school thought I, me Lizzie McGuire was a 'loser'. Sense Kate was being nice, and not acting her usual self, and was putting on a real good act, I decided to join and be nice to her as well. Until the 5 minute bell rang, when she said her goodbyes and walked about with her posse.
I used this time, sense we were alone to speak. "So you know K-Kate?" I still couldn't believe it.
He looked down at me slyly. "Yeah," he paused. "For about 2 years now,"
I looked down at the ground. She knew him for that long and never mentioned him to anybody?
When I said nothing, obviously still in shock about the whole thing, he continued. "Each year, our families go to this sky resort in Lake Tahoe. Sense we kept seeing eachother all the time, we decided to talk and then we just became friends. She's a really nice person huh?"
This was just to much for a person to take all at once. "Yeah..." I sighed.
"I didn't know you two knew eachother. Wow, what a small world!" He protested.
No, it's a very big world! Huge infact! I was glad that we had walked inside class because I didn't want to hear anymore about Kate. I found two empty seats near Miranda and Gordo. I noticed Larry picked a desk near Miranda's. So maybe Gordo was right about him liking her. I sat down and smiled when Chris sat down in front of me. Good, he still thinks I'm cool.
After the teacher had givin us an aissignment and walked out of the room, I decided to jot down a small quite note to Gordo. He still kind of looked uneasy about something.
Gordo-
Are you okay today? I noticed you looked kind of distant today. You can always talk to me about it.
-Lizzie.
I took one final look towards the door, folded up my note and threw it on Gordo's desk. I watched as he quickly opened it up, read it, wrote back and handed it to me, and during this whole time he didn't even take one look at me.
Was he mad at me?
No he couldn't be because I didn't do anything!
The only thing I did was walk with Chris....
Uh-oh!
But why would Gordo get mad at me just for that? Unless he liked me.
Which he didn't. Who would like me?
I opened up the note and read that it said 'nothings wrong'. Ok so if he wasn't going to say anything, then I'd wait.
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I found myself scooting over, making room for Chris to sit down. It was lunch and he came over to eat with me, Gordo, Miranda, and Larry. I don't get this. The whole time I saw my two best friends, Larry was also in every image. Was there something I wasn't being included on? And why would Chris come over to sit with us? I had watched as the whole day went by and made a mental note that Chris was obviously popular, and found out from over-heard gossip that he was trying out for Captain of the football team, and was going to make it too.
"Hey Lizzie!" He greeted.
"Hey!" I said, trying to sound enthusiastic.
We didn't really get to chat because shortly after Chris had sat down, Kate had came over. Not to sit and eat, but she had to tell us something.
"Hey everybody" She chirped.
Miranda, Gordo, and Larry looked at me for an answer so I shrugged and greeted Kate back happily. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Miranda's eyes pop out.
"So Lizzie, cheerleading try-outs are today and I was thinking that you'd make a great cheerleader so maybe you'd think about coming?" She asked.
Wait! I knew Kate was trying to be nice to me because of Chris's sake.
But try-out for CHEERLEADING?!?! Had she lost her mind? This was crazy!
I looked around at every face before answering. "I don't know, Kate," I whispered.
Chris put his sandwhich down, took a sip of his soda and replied. "I think that's a great idea Lizzie! I think you'd make a perfect cheerleader!"
Now that he said it, it kind of made me re-think the whole thing. I needed more support so I looked at Gordo and Miranda.
"Lizzie, do you really want to be a cheerleader? You might turn into kate!" Miranda hissed quietly.
"Lizzie, being a cheerleader would be like living a fake life. You'll be just like everyone else," Gordo simply stated.
I looked over at Kate who was scrunching her nose and at Chris who was smirking...
And at Larry who was reading his "Star treck" magazine. I wanted to be somebody in High School. I wanted people to know me. I didn't want to have a boring life.
After thinking it over and listening to everyone's opinion, I made up my mind. "What time is try-outs Kate?" I asked and she smiled.
I had butterflies racing in my stomach...
My heart was beating one hundred mph...
And my head was far up in the clouds...
As we walked down the high school halls, heads turned and looked in amazement. Heads that belonged to girls anyways. They starred in complete ashtonishment. Complete awe, and gave complete dreamful eyes.
Was there somebody famous taking steps in our High School? No, there was just Chris and I. However each time we walked pass a girl, she would look star-strucked at Chris, as if he were some big pop star. Who knows really. He could be a star in another country, he sure was cute enough. As we passed, I noticed that girls would glance at him and smile so innocently but then look at me and glare so devily.
Were they jealous?...
Of me? Little 'Loozie' McGuire?...
Surely not. I'm klumzy, shy, not really pretty, not really developed, and not POPULAR...
Ok so maybe they just didn't like what I was wearing today. Maybe not...
But I knew the look they gave me, it's the same look Miranda and I use to give Kate whenever we'd see her walking with Ethan. No, we weren't positively, entriely jealous of 'her'. We were just jealous of any blonde bimbo Ethan would share his walks with. But we soon got over it because Ethan was just....ok I'll come rite out and say it. Ethan was dumb!
I started feeling really nervous because Chris had been talking this whole time to me about something and I wasn't even paying attention. I hope he hadn't noticed, but oh well if he did, I could always blame it on something. Who knows, he might actually buy it too! I figured I'd better listen to what he was saying, if I wanted to walk with him again.
I looked up at him and watched his lips move as he talked. "Yeah so then I moved here from Los Angeles,"
I gasped mentally in my head. He lived in L.A? Only rich or wealthy people lived in L.A.
"That's so cool Chris!" I exclaimed.
He quickly nodded and when I looked ahead I stopped walking. Great it's Kate. I wanted to turn around and stear him in the other way because I knew when Kate saw me, she would try cracking some joke. I didn't mind it that much but I wasn't with Gordo or Miranda. I was with Chris. And I didn't want Chris thinking I was some 'loser'. I was just about to suggest that we take a different way, but his voice interupted me.
Somehow, some reason, he was calling Kate's name. And when she turned around at the greeting she called his name back and ran over to us.
He knows KATE?
KATE knows Chris?
THEY know eachother?
That just wasn't registering in my mind. I started feeling uncomfertable and felt my palms sweating.
I just stood there in silense as Kate approached. She ignored me at first, but then when Chris introduced me as his 'friend', she acted so nice. She smiled at me and actually said something nice. She complemented me on my hair, and acted as if we were some kind of friends...other than some kind of enimies.
I was confused and my mind was anticipating with questions.
Until I discovered what she was doing....
The whole thing was an 'act'. She was only being nice to me because Chris mentioned me as his friend. Of course she didn't want him to think she was being the snobby person she is, so she pretended to be nice. I'm kind of glad though, I mean, I didn't want him to think the most popular girl in school thought I, me Lizzie McGuire was a 'loser'. Sense Kate was being nice, and not acting her usual self, and was putting on a real good act, I decided to join and be nice to her as well. Until the 5 minute bell rang, when she said her goodbyes and walked about with her posse.
I used this time, sense we were alone to speak. "So you know K-Kate?" I still couldn't believe it.
He looked down at me slyly. "Yeah," he paused. "For about 2 years now,"
I looked down at the ground. She knew him for that long and never mentioned him to anybody?
When I said nothing, obviously still in shock about the whole thing, he continued. "Each year, our families go to this sky resort in Lake Tahoe. Sense we kept seeing eachother all the time, we decided to talk and then we just became friends. She's a really nice person huh?"
This was just to much for a person to take all at once. "Yeah..." I sighed.
"I didn't know you two knew eachother. Wow, what a small world!" He protested.
No, it's a very big world! Huge infact! I was glad that we had walked inside class because I didn't want to hear anymore about Kate. I found two empty seats near Miranda and Gordo. I noticed Larry picked a desk near Miranda's. So maybe Gordo was right about him liking her. I sat down and smiled when Chris sat down in front of me. Good, he still thinks I'm cool.
After the teacher had givin us an aissignment and walked out of the room, I decided to jot down a small quite note to Gordo. He still kind of looked uneasy about something.
Gordo-
Are you okay today? I noticed you looked kind of distant today. You can always talk to me about it.
-Lizzie.
I took one final look towards the door, folded up my note and threw it on Gordo's desk. I watched as he quickly opened it up, read it, wrote back and handed it to me, and during this whole time he didn't even take one look at me.
Was he mad at me?
No he couldn't be because I didn't do anything!
The only thing I did was walk with Chris....
Uh-oh!
But why would Gordo get mad at me just for that? Unless he liked me.
Which he didn't. Who would like me?
I opened up the note and read that it said 'nothings wrong'. Ok so if he wasn't going to say anything, then I'd wait.
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I found myself scooting over, making room for Chris to sit down. It was lunch and he came over to eat with me, Gordo, Miranda, and Larry. I don't get this. The whole time I saw my two best friends, Larry was also in every image. Was there something I wasn't being included on? And why would Chris come over to sit with us? I had watched as the whole day went by and made a mental note that Chris was obviously popular, and found out from over-heard gossip that he was trying out for Captain of the football team, and was going to make it too.
"Hey Lizzie!" He greeted.
"Hey!" I said, trying to sound enthusiastic.
We didn't really get to chat because shortly after Chris had sat down, Kate had came over. Not to sit and eat, but she had to tell us something.
"Hey everybody" She chirped.
Miranda, Gordo, and Larry looked at me for an answer so I shrugged and greeted Kate back happily. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Miranda's eyes pop out.
"So Lizzie, cheerleading try-outs are today and I was thinking that you'd make a great cheerleader so maybe you'd think about coming?" She asked.
Wait! I knew Kate was trying to be nice to me because of Chris's sake.
But try-out for CHEERLEADING?!?! Had she lost her mind? This was crazy!
I looked around at every face before answering. "I don't know, Kate," I whispered.
Chris put his sandwhich down, took a sip of his soda and replied. "I think that's a great idea Lizzie! I think you'd make a perfect cheerleader!"
Now that he said it, it kind of made me re-think the whole thing. I needed more support so I looked at Gordo and Miranda.
"Lizzie, do you really want to be a cheerleader? You might turn into kate!" Miranda hissed quietly.
"Lizzie, being a cheerleader would be like living a fake life. You'll be just like everyone else," Gordo simply stated.
I looked over at Kate who was scrunching her nose and at Chris who was smirking...
And at Larry who was reading his "Star treck" magazine. I wanted to be somebody in High School. I wanted people to know me. I didn't want to have a boring life.
After thinking it over and listening to everyone's opinion, I made up my mind. "What time is try-outs Kate?" I asked and she smiled.