A/N: Here's the next chapter. Thanks for all the reviews! I love you guys!! lol. As I said previously I'm thinking about starting some new fics but I'm trying to think up some really good plots, so it may be awhile before anything new gets posted. But for now, I have this one going, it's not quite half done, I think.

The Prince You Charmed

Chapter 8: Unleashed Emotions

Lizzie stepped onto the bus the next morning with a bright smile over her face. She walked straight past Miranda and Gordo, hoping they wouldn't noticed her. But they did.

"Hey Lizzie," Gordo started, and Lizzie cut him off.

"Uh, I hope you two don't think I'm sitting with you guys. I mean, come one, why would I sit with you when I can sit with the popular?"

"What's that supposed to mean, Lizzie?" Miranda exclaimed, mad.

"Okay, if you didn't understand that, then you need to go back to elementary school."

Miranda rolled her eyes. "I understood the words just fine, thank you very much, Lizzie. Why are you still sitting with them when you're not with Ryan?"

"Not with Ryan? Are you nuts?"

Gordo gave a clueless looked, followed by Miranda. "What about what happened last night?" Gordo questioned her, speaking in a soft voice.

"Yeah about that, you know, thanks for the pep talk and whatever, but I won't be needing them anymore. Ryan stopped by and apologized. After he begged, I took him back. So it looks like I won't be needing the two of you anytime soon."

Miranda swallowed, holding back tears. "You know Lizzie, I'm thinking maybe you're the one that needs to go back to elementary school. You're starting to remind me of a certain fourth grader."

The words stung Lizzie, and left her speechless and without a comeback. So instead, she glared, sneered, flipped her hair, and headed towards the back of the bus. She stopped in her tracks only momentarily as she realized she was right back where she had been the day before.

She looked to Kate as Kate looked back at her and shook her head. Lizzie sat beside Kate and Kate took no time in starting a very motherly lecture. "Oh my God Lizzie. I seriously don't think I just heard what you said. I'm really hoping maybe I was just hallucinating. Those are your lifetime friends and you just treated them like dirt. You're being pathetic, you know that? All they've done is constantly be nice to you and you treat them like that? I thought I knew you better than that, Lizzie McGuire. I thought you had a good heart."

Lizzie was taken aback by Kate's words. "I didn't want to say those things, they just came out," she replied, pathetically. Kate shook her head.

"Miranda's right, you know. You're reminding me a lot of me when I was in fourth grade, and I've already told you how much I regret that. I can't believe you're still going to do the same thing."

Lizzie walked down the hall, Ryan's arm around her shoulders. They left the school and found a table outside to eat lunch at. Lizzie noticed that Sarah was sitting with Miranda and Gordo again, and she couldn't help but feel jealous.

What if Gordo started liking her?

What if Miranda started confiding in her?

"Quit it, Lizzie," Ryan told her, "You're staring at them."

She felt heat rise in her cheeks. "I know I'm staring at them, but I don't like her and I don't want them around her."

"It's their choice to make, you know. I can't believe you're this jealous over it."

Lizzie shook her head but kept her mouth shut. Against her better judgment, she continued to watch the trio. She heard Ryan get up and walk away and thought about chasing after him. But she didn't want to, right now, she felt like she had to watch Sarah. Sarah glanced her way quickly and Lizzie looked down. She prayed that Sarah hadn't noticed her staring.

Sarah turned back, said a few words to Miranda, and then to Gordo, and headed off. Lizzie turned to talk to Ryan before remembering that he had walked away. So instead, she went over to Kate's table and sat with them.

"This is horrible," Miranda stated, "That's twice that she's ditched us for the popular. And can you believe she actually took Ryan back?" Miranda ranted to Gordo.

Gordo shook his head, equally angry with Lizzie. "I didn't think she could be that stupid. She's just going to get hurt again, and then she's going to come crawling back to us."

Miranda stayed silent, decided that it was Gordo's turn to rant. "I don't want her to get hurt Miranda, but what's it going to take for her to realize that he's no good?"

Miranda shrugged. "I don't now, Gordo. I don't know."

Lizzie couldn't believe her luck. She had been a second late for class and the teacher made her stay 15 minutes after school. She'd missed the bus, and now she would have to walk.

Lizzie walked to her locker, grumbling incoherent sentences under her breath. She looked up and noticed Gordo by his locker, looking just as mad as she felt. She took a deep breath and continued towards him.

Gordo couldn't believe his luck. A few seconds late for class and he had to stay 15 minutes after school. And now he couldn't even get his locker open fast enough to get away from what he knew was coming.

A fight with Lizzie. He had seen her stop dead in her tracks in the middle of the hallway. That's when he noticed that the two of them must have been the only two left in the entire school.

Great, he thought, no one to break up the fight, either.

Lizzie opened her locker and shoved her stuff in, angrily. She noticed Gordo look over at her for a second. She rotated her head and body so that she was facing him.

"Do you have a problem?" she asked bitterly.

He rolled his eyes, "I'm not going to get into this, Lizzie."

"Get into what?"

He sighed heavily. Was she trying to start a fight? He turned, facing her. "Get into a fight with you."

"Who said anything about fighting?"

"Never mind. Just never mind."

"Whatever, Gordo," Lizzie responded. She honestly hoped that that was the end of it, but yet she knew better. She turned and left the school before he could get in another word.

Instead, she headed to the Digital Bean, calling her mom on the way there and telling her she was meeting some people, and she'd be home later. A small white lie, but Lizzie needed some time to sit down and think. Although the Digital Bean wasn't the best place to think, it was the first place that had entered her mind.

Once there she ordered her usual strawberry smoothie and sat down. Thoughts went through her mind so fast she couldn't even concentrate on most of them. She ran her hand through her hair and sighed loudly.

She heard the door open and turned around to see who had just come in, out of habit. She immediately regretted it when she saw Gordo walk through the door. He eyed her and then began to walk towards her.

"Okay, Lizzie," he began, continuing the earlier argument, "You want to argue, then we'll argue. What is with you lately?"

"With me? What are you talking about?"

"Don't play your dumb card on me Lizzie, I know you to well for that. You've been acting exactly like Kate for the past week, and I'm getting sick of it."

Lizzie looked at Gordo with her eyes narrowed. "Yeah, well, you didn't seem to have a problem replacing me any to fast."

"Replacing you? What in the world are you talking about?"

"Uh, gee, I don't know. Oh wait, yes I do. It comes in the name of Sarah Pearson."

Gordo's eyes widened. "You're concerned about Sarah eating lunch with us? My God, Lizzie. You really do jump to conclusions way to fast. She ate lunch with us for two days, no big deal. What's a big deal is you taking Ryan back after what he did."

"He apologized."

"Okay, so the word 'sorry' makes everything okay again?"

"No. You know that's not what I meant."

"Well that's sure what it sounded like. I can't believe you just took him back like that," he said, but he seemed to have calmed down a bit. Lizzie, however, hadn't.

"Okay Gordo, you know what? I'm not going to waste my time with you right now. We're fighting like little kids and it's stupid. I'm leaving."

"Yeah, and that's real mature too, Lizzie."

"It's better than fighting with you," she exclaimed, angrily.

Gordo threw his hands up in the air. "Fine, Lizzie. Just leave. Just walk away from our 15 years of friendship."

Lizzie was quiet for a second and then she looked up at him. "Fine. I will," she told him quietly, walking out of the Digital Bean.

A/N: End of Chapter 8. Please review and let me know what you think.