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A/N: Thanks Black Knight 03! Crap I didn't ad a DIS. Or my thanks! gasp I know oh well thanks so much for the help on this! Luv Ya'! (in a totally non-freaky sort of way!)

"BZZZZZZZ!!!!" The juke box shaped alarm clock, in Miranda's room went off loudly.

"Mughhhhh" she mumbled as she thrashed her arm about trying to shut it off. Finally she hit the 'snooze' button and it quit buzzing.

"BZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!" the alarm went off again a few minuets later.

"Saturday, no school!" Miranda mumbled pissed off, as she fumbled for the off button, and then threw the clock to other side of her room, once it shut up.

"Miranda! Phone!" Mrs. Sanchez called out about a half hour later.

"This 'better' be good" she mumbled agitated expecting Gordo at the other end of the line, "Kay! Thanks Mom I got it!" Miranda called back once she picked up the receiver.

"Yes Gordo?" she asked into the phone.

"Um, Miranda? Hi. Sorry I'm not Gordo." said the voice a bit unsurely. Miranda's eyes widened, why would she be calling me? And now?

"Um, hey Kate. Sorry. Umm is there something you needed?" she asked awkwardly, this was the first time her and Kate had spoken on the phone since sixth grade.

"Well, yeah sorta, I know we're not that close but well, I'm in a bind and I was wondering if you could help?" she asked hopefully.

"Um, yeah sure. If I can, I'll try. What is it?" Why am I agreeing to this? she thought immediately after, Right must help Gordo!

"Well I'm in charge of the dance and well, I was wondering if you could help with the decorations? The school has a pretty small budget this year, and I don't want a 'Spring Fling' repeat, but I do want it to look nice, and since you're creative I thought maybe you wouldn't mind helping? Please?" she asked, sincerely.

"Sure, why not?" Miranda replied, she knew she might be agreeing to something she would later regret, but she couldn't help but believe Kate.

"Really? Um we're sorta pressed for time and, we still need a theme and stuff, so why don't you come over, say about noon-ish? We can grab a bite over here while we work if ya' want?" she said relieved.

"Kay, so see ya then?"

"Yeah, bye... oh and Sanchez? Thanks." She said sincerely.

"Your welcome. Bye." She said hanging up. So maybe by helping Gordo, she could re-establish her friendship with Kate. Okay maybe not that far, but they could at least help each other out, for old times sake right?

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Miranda and Kate sat in the Saunders living room discussing the dance. They'd already shot down about ten ideas, all the good ones were expensive and the ones within budget, sucked.

"Ah, this isn't working, we need something original, and we need something we can afford." Kate wined frustrated at the fact that after two hours, a pizza, two bags of chips, and a few sodas, they were no where near finding a suitable theme for the dance.

"Cards!" Miranda exclaimed seemingly out of nowhere.

"Cards?" Kate asked bewildered, eyeing Miranda as if she'd sprouted an extra head.

"Yeah the theme could be a deck of cards. Think about it; it's original, it's inexpensive, and we could get all the students involved." she proclaimed, excited.

"Um, I get the original, but inexpensive? And how will we get the students involved?" she asked uncertainly.

"Okay well, the decorations, we could make a lot of them our selves, we could go to like the 'dollar store' and get some decks of cards and other red and black stuff, to use for the decorations. And to enhance the theme we could write the title of a card on each ticket (2 hearts), and have students dress according to there card. That way we don't spend too much but it still looks like we did because every one will be dressed like cards!" She said in rush overcome by excitement.

"Sanchez," Kate practically sneered, "I love it!" she exclaimed switching to a smile.

"Really?"

"Yeah, this could really work, it's original, won't cost much if we do the decorations ourselves, and if everyone else dresses up then we won't have to do too much work to pull it off ." she said obviously thinking the idea through in her head.

"Okay well it would take work to do this, we can make a lot of the stuff, and if you want I could come up with a few sketches for decorations, but we're going to need help putting it up and maybe making some of it."

"Well Lizzie said she'd help set up. And I'm sure she'll get Danny to do so as well, and I could probably get Ethan, to help too, so that's already five of us,"

"Oh and I could get Gordo," Miranda cut in.

"Okay, cool. So that's six, it should be enough to set up, and make the decorations, do you think we should, figure out what we want first, or should we go see what we can find?"

"Um, we should figure out what we want and need. Then we should go buy the stuff to make it. We don't have to have the specifics, but a general idea then just work with what we can get." Miranda said, already writing down places they should go to find stuff.

They spent hours working on ideas, for decorations, and places they could go to find stuff they needed. The decided they'd ransack there houses for old stuff they could use, they planed on reusing the Valentines dace decorations; they could use some hearts, and convert others into spades.

After they had most of that figured out they started talking randomly about school, then eventually that led to boys.

"So, Miranda, do you have a boyfriend?" Kate asked with a smirk.

"Na, not at the moment" Miranda replied trying to flip the conversation over to Gordo. "How about you?"

"Not officially." Miranda's heart sank, she sorta had a boy friend, how could she sell Gordo to her now? Oh well she had to try, right?

"That's cool, um Kate?" Miranda asked uncertainly I can't believe I'm doing this she thought.

"Yeah?" She asked grabbing for another chip.

"What do you think of Gordo?" Okay, I did it

"Gordo? Well he's cute, I guess, in a smart sorta way, why do you ask?" She aid raising an eye brow, "You like him!" she exclaimed the thought suddenly hitting her.

"Wh...What no, no I don't I was just wondering if you'd ever consider going out with him like to the dance, of whatever." she blurted out. Smooth, Sanchez, smooth, she thought sarcastically.

"Um, I never really thought of it, but I guess I would if I weren't already going with Ethan, why do you ask?" Miranda rushed to find an excuse.

"Uh... no reason really, just wondering if girls thought he was attractive enough to ask to the dance, you know just looking out for my best friend." Miranda said hoping she sounded convincing.

"Oh, like I said he's cute enough, and he's nice. So I don't see a problem with him finding a date, but if you're so worried why don't you just ask him your self?" Kate asked seemingly oblivious to the intended yenta-ing.

"Oh, naw. I wouldn't want him to think I don't trust he could get a date." Miranda said trying to add credibility to her story.

"Good idea, guys are weird like that. You try to do them a favor and it'll blow up in your face"

Both girls laughed and did some more guy bashing, until, it was time for Miranda to go home. They agreed to get together later on in the week to go shopping for dance, decorations. Somehow, in that day, they became much closer than they had been. There friendship still wasn't fully mended, but they could freely discus clothes and boys...well most boys any ways.

A/N: Hey flame or review it's up to you! OH and visit my site if ya want to see sketches for this fic...the site isn't really dune yet but it's still got my fics and some of my pics ! won't sow link here but i'll try to get it on my profile, i think it's there as my home page!