As Gordo and Lizzie walked towards English class together, Gordo noticed that Lizzie was not at all in the greatest of moods. "Lizzie, honestly, what is wrong?" he asked. She looked up at him and gave a small smile.
"Nothing, just tired," she lied. Gordo knew that wasn't the truth.
"Lizzie, if you don't want to talk about it, then just say so. But you don't need to lie about it," he said. Lizzie stopped dead in her tracks.
"Gordo, honestly. I am just tired. But not the lack-of-sleep tired. Just tired of stress. You don't need to worry about it," she said. Then she leaned over and gave him a peck on the cheek and walked once again towards their classroom. He was still standing in the hallway, alone. He wasn't so sure why she was under stress lately, but he knew that he had to find out why.
Back at Lizzie's.......
As Lizzie entered the kitchen, her mom looked straight up and noticed something was wrong.
"Honey, what's wrong?" she asked her daughter softly.
"It's nothing mom. I just have a headache. That's all," Lizzie said. Then, in an instant, she left the room quickly to avoid a conversation. She walked up the stairs, merely missing her brother.
"Watch it, dork breath," Matt yelled out. Lizzie turned around and showed a frown that was placed on her face. Matt noticed this right away, but he didn't bother getting involved. He shook his head and ran down the stairs to watch his cartoons. As Lizzie continued up the stairs, tears began to roll down her face. She tried to wipe them away, but they kept on falling. She entered her room and sat there, crying. Then she heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" she asked. She tried to answer without the sound of sobs coming from her voice.
"It's Matt. Can I come in?" he asked.
"Yeah, sure." Matt walked in, only to see his sister, sitting on the bed, crying. He walked over and sat down next to her.
"Lizzie, I know I shouldn't be bothering you or anything, but to see my sister, tearing about something is bothering me. So I came up here to see what's the matter," Matt said. Lizzie looked up at him.
"This feels strange, but yet it is a whole lot better then talking to mom about it," Lizzie said.
"Well then...shoot away at it," Matt said. Lizzie took in a deep breath.
"Okay, Gordo and I are finally going out. But the hardest thing is, Ethan confronted me and said he had a crush on me. I am practically failing science and now Kate is blaming me for her worries about not getting a guy," Lizzie said. Matt looked at her and rolled his eyes.
"Okay, I know I am definitely not a girl, but I think I know a few hints I could give you. With Gordo now being your boyfriend, don't stress out too much. Try it out for a couple of weeks and see how it goes. If it doesn't go well, try someone else. At least you and him can still be friends, right?" Matt said. The tears on Lizzie's face had soon stopped.
"Thanks for that advice, but now, what am I suppose to do about science class?" she asked. Matt thought for awhile. Then an idea popped into his head.
"Lizzie, have you ever thought of going to the library and looking up random things related to science?" asked Matt.
"No. But how would you know? You never go to the library," Lizzie said.
"There's a lot of things you don't know about me," Matt said.
"Thank you Matt." Then Matt got up before anything else got mushy.
"Oh and beware. Mom's cooking tuna casserole tonight," Matt said. Lizzie's face turned from happy to disgust. Then Matt left.
I "Gross, tuna casserole. I think I might just become a vegetarian because of mom." /I
The phone rang and Lizzie picked it up.
"Lizzie. Just wanted to know how you were doing," Gordo's voice was heard through the speaker part of the phone.
"Hey, I'm just fine. Weirdest thing was, Matt actually helped me out," Lizzie said.
"Weird. So what was bothering you so much today?" asked Gordo.
"It's like I said, I was just stressed out. Nothing for you to be worried about."
"Okay, well gotta go. Love yea," Gordo said. Then a click was heard. Lizzie hung up the phone and then went down stairs to eat.