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The Prince You Charmed

Chapter 3: A Princess' Tears

Lizzie banged her head against the head of her bed lightly. High School was supposed to be the time of her life and so far, it wasn't close to that. She felt like a bad friend, a bad girlfriend, a bad person. She sighed loudly and let out a small whimper. Was she really trying to make this choice?

Her two best friends in the whole world or Ryan, her boyfriend? Her life was like a soap opera right now, pretty soon she'd be crying about having to leave town or something. But really, it did resemble a soap. Or any TV show for that matter. Lizzie shook her head and gently brushed the bangs out of her eyes.

She had seen it on TV millions of times. The new boyfriend making the girl choose between him and her friends. How many times had she yelled at the fictional characters to 'Not be and idiot and dump the boyfriend'. Numerous, she was sure. But now that she was in the situation, it suddenly wasn't so simple anymore. Watching these things on TV it was usually crystal clear what the right decision was but in real life judgment became clouded. You wanted one thing but then again you wanted another at the same time.

You wanted to have your cake and eat it too.

You wanted to make your bed and then sleep in it.

Standing up Lizzie felt consumed in her problems. She had to figure something out and began to rack her brain for answers. But unfortunately, she didn't have any. She inhaled deeply and began pacing around the room.

She couldn't blow off her best friends like that, could she? She had grown up with them and they'd stood by her through everything. And there'd be other boyfriends.

But not other Ryan's and that was what made this a hard decision. He seemed so perfect, everything she'd ever wanted. But a perfect boyfriend wouldn't make her choose, would he? She shook the thought from her head, he just wanted what was best for her. And Miranda and Gordo would understand, wouldn't they?

But could she really just ignore them like that? She glanced at the clock and sighed.

10:04. She really should get some sleep. Yeah, sleep. Maybe that was all she needed to clear her mind and make a final decision.

Lizzie tossed and turned in her bed. Feeling to hot and then to cold she just couldn't get comfortable. Sleeping in a dreamless sleep hot tears began to fall down her face. Half awake and half asleep Lizzie could still feel problems dwelling on her brain.

Suddenly she sat straight up and hugged Mr. Snuggles to her chest. This was an impossible decision to make. How was she ever supposed to make it?

"Okay Lizzie, calm down. Ryan was probably just mad that you were defending Gordo so much and got jealous or something. I'm sure he doesn't really want you to choose." For the first time in hours she smiled, assured that she wouldn't have to make the decision.

She fell backwards onto her pillow and fell into an easy sleep. She awoke when her alarm clock went of seven hours later.

"Um, Mom?" Lizzie questioned.

"Yeah, honey?"

"I was wondering, could you, could you maybe take me to school today?" Lizzie had been riding the bus to school everyday since the first day of school but today she just didn't feel ready to face Miranda and Gordo.

"Of course."

Lizzie sighed. Good, no questions asked about it. She turned, ready to head up to her room to get her backpack. Just then her mom began talking again and Lizzie turned to face her slowly.

"Everything alright with Gordo and Miranda."

"Good ol' mom, always knows what's wrong, it's like a sixth sense or something"

"Um, yeah. Fine."

Her mother looked up from the page in the newspaper. "You sure?"

Lizzie simply nodded slowly. "Okay, but remember, I'm here if you need to talk."

Once again, Lizzie nodded. "Thanks Mom, and I know."

"Okay, well you just about ready?"

"Yeah, just about."

Gordo slumped down in his chair in the back of the Geometry room. From where he sat he had a perfect view of Lizzie and it was making him not pay attention to the teacher at all. He'd thought about her all night, and what he'd told Miranda. That conversation was the first time he'd ever voiced that he loved Lizzie.

Gordo had also decided that whoever made up the saying 'It's better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all' was completely insane and had no clue what they were talking about. He had loved and not technically lost at all and it hurt more than he could have ever imagined.

He shook his head trying to free himself of thoughts of Lizzie but knew it was near impossible. Another question ran through his mind, why hadn't Lizzie rode the bus?

He calmed himself down by telling himself that she had probably ran late and her mom had brought her to school.

But why hadn't she talked to them at all before school, she had had numerous opportunities.

"Mr. Gordon?"

He snapped out of his thoughts. "Yes?" He questioned the teacher.

"Would you care to answer the question?"

Gordo sighed. It was going to be a long week. "Uh- could you repeat the question, please?"

Lizzie tapped her pen lightly against the Geometry book making sure it didn't make any noise. Once she had arrived at school she'd ran straight into Ryan and he had asked her if she had made her decision yet. She was sure she had stared at him for an extra long time as she realized that he hadn't been kidding.

"You're not serious, are you?" She had asked.

"Of course I am," he'd responded, "Did you think I was just joking around? I don't joke about things like that."

Lizzie looked up with dread on her face. "So," Ryan continued, "You hanging out with me today, beings your so called friends have some sort of problem with us?"

Lizzie sighed. Ryan had made a point, they shouldn't have gotten mad at her for having a boyfriend. But hadn't Ryan had a problem with Gordo and Miranda too? She shook her head, of course not. He just wanted what was best for her.

She nodded. "Yeah, of course."

So for the rest of the morning she had ignored them both. But she missed her friends already and it was only halfway through first hour. How was she supposed to survive the rest of her life?

She grunted quietly. The rest of her life? She was overreacting, it wasn't going to last that long. Hopefully.

Lunch eventually came and Lizzie sat next to Ryan, fighting the urge to run over to Miranda and Gordo, give them both huge hugs, and sit with them.

"See Lizzie? Being without those losers doesn't do any harm, does it?"

Lizzie narrowed her eyes. "They aren't losers Ryan. They're my best friends."

"Not anymore they aren't."

"What's that suppose to mean."

"I told you Lizzie, it was them or me, and if you were going to leave me, you'd be gone already. So now you can just go back to being the happy Lizzie that I asked out, the one without extra problems."

Lizzie glanced down, fighting back tears. He only wanted what was best for her. She repeated the sentence over and over, just as he had said it to her for the previous two weeks since they'd been dating. She repeated it so many times that she really believed it.

"Why is she sitting with him instead of us?" Miranda hissed to Gordo. Gordo looked up sadly.

"How should I know?"

"Is she ditching us for the popular?"

Alarmed, Gordo looked up. Lizzie wouldn't do that, would she. He shook his head fiercely. "No. No way. That's something Kate would do. Lizzie's a good person."

"I know she is Gordo, but Ryan isn't. He's like, brainwashing her or something."

Gordo looked as though he was ready to kill Ryan. "Is he really? Cuz if he hurts Lizzie I'll kill him."

Miranda glanced at Gordo. He'd never resorted to violence before. She shook her head. "Of course not, Gordo. That's ridiculous."

He nodded. "Yeah, of course it is. But seriously, something's up."

"I know. He must be telling her something, she wouldn't just abandon us like this."

Gordo shrugged sadly. "Maybe she just really really likes him." Miranda placed a hand on his shoulder.

"It's gonna be okay, promise."

She was more determined than ever to get Lizzie away from Ryan. "I'll be right back, okay?"

Miranda got up and walked over to Lizzie, lightly tapping her on the shoulder.

"Hey Lizzie."

Lizzie smiled, then frowned. "What do you want?" She asked cruelly.

"I was wondering why you weren't sitting with us, I mean, we always eat lunch together."

For a second Lizzie forgot all about Ryan, all she wanted to do was go back and sit with Miranda. She glanced to Ryan, as if asking for approval and he shook his head.

"Correction," Lizzie began, "We used to eat lunch together. I've moved on Miranda. I don't need you to."

Ryan watched, impressed. She'd really go far in the popular crowd. Lizzie watched the hurt go through Miranda's eyes as she spoke the words, surprised herself at how cruel she could be. She felt really horrible and wished instantly that she could take all the words back. That she could just rewind and pretend it never happened.

Miranda looked up at Lizzie, tears shining in her eyes. "You really are turning into Kate," she stated simply and walked away. The words stung Lizzie.

She didn't want to be like Kate.

But if that was what Ryan thought was best, then it must be best.

A/N: This chapter was pretty bad, sorry about that. I was kind of at a stand still. It's basically a filler chapter and hopefully the next on will be more interesting. There might be quite a few filler chapters but they'll all have some sort of importance to the story, and hopefully be interesting. Whatever, I'm just totally babbling now. I figured it out and there should be about 21 chapters plus the epilogue so it'll be longer than I thought but I may end up combining some of them....

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