A/N: Sorry for the long wait, I've just been busy. Thanks for reviewing and here's the next chapter. Hopefully I'll get the next on up soon!!

Disclaimer: I realized I haven't done ANY of these yet, so I'm saying it in this chapter and it goes for the whole story!! I don't own anything pertaining to Lizzie McGuire products, except for Ryan and I don't really want to own him, maybe I can trade him in for Gordo. Anyways, I don't own anything.

The Prince You Charmed

Chapter 7: Betrayal

Miranda squinted as she watched Gordo and Lizzie sit down against the big oak tree, his arms around her. She noted that Lizzie was crying and Gordo looked troubled and began to jog towards them, millions of thoughts running through her head.

"Hey Gordo, Lizzie?" she said, unsurely.

Lizzie looked up, her eyes red from crying and she bit her lip for a second. "Hey Miranda," she responded simply, standing up to face her. Lizzie let a small smile fall upon her lips as she lunged forward and engulfed Miranda in a hug.

"What's wrong?" Miranda asked when Lizzie pulled away and resumed her position next to Gordo. Miranda sat down, knowing this would be a long story. Lizzie took a deep breath and started.

"Ryan and I, we got in a fight."

Miranda nodded, she had seen that coming. "About what?"

Lizzie shook her head, foolishly. "You guys."

Gordo looked surprised. She hadn't told him what the fight was about, but before he could question her, she started up again. "Well, actually, not about you guys," Lizzie looked up for a few seconds. "Am I being confusing?"

Miranda and Gordo nodded. "Okay, I had a talk with Kate the other day and then Ryan came in and said he overheard you two talking about something and he said you were talking about me and," Lizzie trailed off, feeling childish.

"And what?" Miranda asked, soothingly.

"Well he said he heard you guys saying that you had never liked me and all these other things," Lizzie paused. She didn't know how much she should tell them.

"And you believed him?" Gordo asked.

Lizzie nodded, "Yeah, I'm sorry."

"Lizzie, you should know that we love you."

Lizzie stayed silent and Miranda took up a new opportunity to ask more questions. "So what exactly was the fight about?"

"We started talking about, well, just something, and I found out he lied."

Miranda leaned over and hugged Lizzie. "I'm sorry, Liz." It was at this moment that Miranda noticed that Gordo had been holding on to Lizzie's hand throughout the entire thing, as though he was afraid to lose her again. Miranda smiled and was secretly afraid of the same thing.

Three hours later the trio stood up from there spot under the tree and headed in different directions.

Ryan stared up at the ceiling. How was he supposed to fix this mess? He knew he had really screwed up, letting Lizzie know he had lied. But he couldn't believe she had gotten so mad over it, it was just a little lie. And she had slapped him.

Perfect girlfriends weren't suppose to slap their boyfriends. He'd have to do something about that, but first he had to figure out how to get her to forgive him.

He still wanted his perfect girlfriend and decided that he'd have to give Lizzie a second chance to be perfect. All he had to do was talk to her. With that thought, he headed out the front door of his house to find her somewhere.

Lizzie looked up, surprised. She squinted her eyes and then glared. What was Ryan doing in front of her house?

She walked a few more steps so that they were in a communicable distance of each other. She bit her lip angrily and kept her eyes narrowed. "What are you doing here?" She spat out.

"I wanted to talk."

"You wanted to talk ,huh? Well guess what? I don't."

"Lizzie, please, listen to me," he seemed to be pleading.

"No."

"What?" He asked her, as though he had heard her wrong.

"You heard me just fine. You lied to me. I don't think there's anything to talk about. You tried to turn me against my two best friends in the whole entire world, with a lie. Don't you get how wrong that is?"

"Yes, Lizzie. I get it. And I'm sorry, okay. I really am," he lied, again. "I just want you to be my girlfriend again. Please?" he begged, using puppy dog eyes.

"You think that apologizing just makes everything okay?"

"Well, no. But Lizzie, I don't know what else to do," he responded, playing the sad card. Lizzie stayed silent for awhile as tears formed behind her closed eyelids.

When had everything gotten so confusing?

Gordo walked home, a goofy grin placed on his face. His hand still tingled from holding onto Lizzie's hand for so long. Unfortunately, he knew that nothing would come of that. She was dealing with a lot of problems right now and she probably didn't want to go out with him at all.

But still, that didn't stop his hand from tingling.

The grin stayed on his face even as he walked into the front door of his house. His step seemed to have an extra bounce to it, and he noticed his parents watching him out of the corner of their eyes'. He bounded up the stairs to his room. Gordo tried desperately to wipe the grin off of his face, but with every thought that entered his mind, Lizzie was somewhere in it, and all that did was put the grin right back on his face.

He looked down at his hand and sighed. Maybe love wasn't so bad after all, he thought. All though, it'd be a lot better if she loved him too.

"Um, Lizzie? Are you there?" Ryan questioned. She'd been quiet for an awfully long time.

"Yeah, Ryan," she said, bitterly. "I'm thinking, is that okay with you?"

He simply nodded. Lizzie sighed, inwardly. He looked so innocent and guilty but yet, what he had done had no excuse. He'd lied to her and made her change herself for him. She was completely lost right now and the only thing that kept floating into her mind was the memory of Gordo hugging her and holding on to her hand.

Miranda grinned. Lizzie finally seemed to be back to normal and with any luck, there would be no Ryan in the picture anymore.

Or Sarah, for that matter. Miranda had liked Sarah on the first impression, but the questions on Lizzie got a little weird, and Miranda got this bizarre feeling that she was up to something.

But she had just moved here, what exactly could she be up to?

Miranda shook her head. Right now, that didn't matter. What mattered was the fact that she felt the happiest she had in a long time. She was getting her best friend back and Lizzie and Gordo were slowly falling for each other.

Okay, so Gordo had fallen a long time ago and unfortunately, not at a very good time. But that was okay now, because it had reassured Miranda that Gordo would always love Lizzie, no matter what. And as soon as Lizzie saw how great of a guy Gordo was, she'd be head over heels too.

Miranda squealed. For the first time since high school had started, everything seemed to be going right. A strange feeling came over her, and she felt like the happiness wasn't going to last to long. She sighed, what could go wrong right now?

About a million thoughts came to her head, but the one that stuck out the most was Lizzie and Ryan. Confused, Miranda thought through the situation. Lizzie had seemed really mad at Ryan and not about to talk to him anytime soon. And about the only thing that would convince Lizzie to take him back was if he begged.

"Come on, Lizzie, please?"

Lizzie glanced up, biting her lip for the numerous time in the last few minutes. Take him back or not? The question ran through her mind at 100 miles per second and she had no clue what to do.

She looked around, nervously, as if searching for an easy answer. "Liz? Please? I'm begging you. Give me another chance."

Ryan smiled as he watched her face soften a bit, but as soon as she looked back up at him he put on his best 'I'm so hurt right now' face. He inwardly rolled his eyes, here he was looking like an idiot asking Lizzie for another chance when she should be begging him for another chance.

She had gotten mad at him, she'd been the jealous one, she'd been the one that had slapped him. He shook his head and kept his masked face on. It seemed to be working like a charm.

Lizzie softened her expression.

'I know what he did was wrong, but he does look really sincere and I guess everyone deserves a second chance,' she thought to herself, and she looked up and smiled at him.

"Okay, I'll give you one more chance."

His face broke out into a grin. "Thanks Lizzie, that's great."

"So, um," she began to question, "can I eat with Gordo and Miranda tomorrow?"

"No, Liz," he said simply.

"Why not?"

"Because, well, we just got back together after a big fight and I think it'd be better if you stay around me and Kate. I know Gordo and Miranda will try to change your mind about this. And I still don't think they're good for you. You do know that I only want what's best for you, right?"

Lizzie nodded, smiling. "Yeah, Ryan, I know."

And suddenly, she was sucked back into his trap.

A/N: Hmm, I'm really starting to dislike my own characters, lol. I'm not even to fond of Lizzie right now and she's my main character. But remember, she's confused, so don't hate her to much. Don't think that she really wants Ryan more than Miranda and Gordo, more that he's just putting all these thoughts in her head, or something. I don't know exactly what I'm talking about so I'm going to stop and let you review.