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The Prince You Charmed

Chapter 10: Shocked

"Okay, what about?" Lizzie questioned, trying to keep an open mind.

"Do you want to sit?" Gordo asked, motioning slightly to a chair.

Lizzie shook her head. She just wanted to get this over with. Whatever they had to say wasn't going to be good news, and taking the time to sit and get comfortable would just delay the delivery longer.

"Okay, well after you left I saw Ryan."

"Really?"

"Yeah, he was, um, with someone."

"That's nice. What does this have to do with anything?" Lizzie questioned, her naive side taking over.

Gordo sighed. The words weren't coming out right, Lizzie wasn't making it easy at all, and Miranda wasn't doing a thing, which was the problem.

"He was with Sarah Pearson," he told her. Lizzie made a sour face at the mention of her name. She wondered why her boyfriend was with Sarah, but still her naivety took over, and she didn't think about what could have been happening between the two of them.

"Yeah, so?" Lizzie pretended to be uninterested.

"They were kissing."

Lizzie's eyes widened, and Gordo knew that whatever she had been expecting to hear, that wasn't it.

She shook her head in denial. "No way. You're lying to me."

Gordo copied her action. "I would never lie to you, you should know that."

"Ryan wouldn't cheat on me, I know that."

"Well, he was. I saw it with my own two eyes," Gordo hated to be so blunt with her, but he knew that's what he had to do.

"No," Lizzie said quietly, as if questioning herself.

"Lizzie, I'm sorry," Gordo began.

"No you're not," Lizzie told him. "You're not sorry, so don't say that you are. You're making this up just to hurt me, and I can't believe that you'd do that to me."

"I swear, I'm not making it up."

"You're not a good liar, Gordo. I can always tell when you're lying."

"Then I guess that means that right now, you can tell that I'm not lying. Which is why you have that 'I'm-in-denial' expression on your face right now."

"I'm not in denial, Ryan is not cheating on me," Lizzie exclaimed, eyes wide. She turned to Miranda.

"Did you see it?" She grilled.

Miranda shook her head. "No, I didn't," Miranda spoke quietly, and acted as if she regretted saying that she didn't see it.

Lizzie looked back at Gordo, "See, you are making it up," she accused.

"I didn't see it because I wasn't here yet, but I do believe him," Miranda stated, adding a shrug to the end of her sentence.

"No you don't," Lizzie notified her.

Miranda shot her a look. "Yes, Lizzie, I do."

Lizzie looked around and didn't know what else to say. She didn't know what to believe. She didn't know whether she wanted to laugh or cry. Lizzie felt emotions flying all over inside of her, and she was completely lost right now. She settled on the emotion of disagreement.

"I don't believe you. Ryan wouldn't do that," Lizzie said, again. She watched as Gordo's calm expression turned into a frustrated one.

"I seriously cannot believe that you're going to believe him over me. We've been best friends since the day you were born, Lizzie. You just met him a few weeks ago. He's just going to hurt you, you know that, don't you? I thought you had more common sense than that, Lizzie McGuire. I thought I knew you perfectly, but obviously, I never knew you at all. You're just one big lie."

Gordo saw hurt pass through her eyes and instantly wished life came with a remote, so he could rewind. "Lizzie, I'm sorry. I didn't want that to come out that way."

Lizzie looked at Gordo and shook her head. "I don't care what you wanted Gordo, okay? In fact, right now, I don't care about you at all. I can't believe that you're so mad at me for having a boyfriend. Why do you care so much anyways?"

Lizzie couldn't believe she had just told Gordo that she didn't care about him because she knew that was the biggest lie ever. He was one of the most important people to her. She regretted the words, but didn't take them back. She just couldn't bring herself to do it. She looked into Gordo's eyes and saw an emotion she had never seen him hold in his eyes before.

Complete and utter pain.

Hurt.

Torment.

And she had caused it. All of it. Right now, Lizzie felt the lowest she could ever feel. She wanted to run home and hide under the covers and never come back out.

She was completely positive that she couldn't feel any worse than she did right that second.

Gordo was silent for a few seconds before answering her, but when he finally opened his mouth, he prayed that his voice wouldn't crack. And before he knew what he was saying, the words came flying out of his mouth, " Why do I care so much? I care so much because you're my best friend. Because I care about you. Because you mean the world to me and I can't stand seeing you cry over him. And because I love you more than anything in this entire universe. That's why, Lizzie, and I can't believe that you were to blind to see it. You're to blind to see that Ryan's going to do nothing but hurt you. You're to blind to see that I would love you so much more than he would." Once he had finished talking, he immediately wished for that remote again.

He shook his head, and walked past Lizzie and out of the Digital Bean.

Lizzie wiped the tears off of her cheeks as she watched him leave the building.

She had been wrong, she could feel lower.

Lizzie looked at Miranda. She didn't know why she immediately turned to Miranda. Probably for comfort, for consoling words. Lizzie wanted to hear that this wasn't all her fault. All she needed was a certain look of sympathy from Miranda, and Lizzie would know that this wasn't all her fault. But Miranda refused to look at Lizzie. Slowly, Miranda glanced up. "That's was low, Lizzie. Really low. You've changed and I don't like this new Lizzie, not one bit," with that said, Miranda walked out of the Digital Bean.

Lizzie sat down and tried to wipe her tears away before calling her mom to come get her.

Lizzie had never felt more horrible in her entire life.

Once at home, Lizzie subjected herself to a nice, long, hot shower. The pressure helped her relax for a few seconds but her problems never left her mind.

How could she have been so mean to Gordo?

Had he really deserved anything she said to him? Lizzie snorted. No way, she knew right away that he didn't deserve it.

And Kate had been right, Gordo did love her.

Miranda had never been so mad at Lizzie, ever.

And Ryan was most likely cheating on her. Gordo had been right, Lizzie could tell that Gordo wasn't lying. But she still held onto the hope that Gordo had been wrong. Which had happened a few times before.

Lizzie lied in her bed and tried to fall asleep. A few hours after falling asleep, she was awoken by the ringing of the phone. Lizzie slowly opened her eyes and was surprised to see it still dark outside. She rolled over and looked at the phone, which was still ringing. Lizzie picked it up and pushed the talk button.

"Hello?" She asked, only half awake.

"Lizzie?" the voice started, and Lizzie immediately recognized it at Mrs.. Gordon, and she sat straight up in bed, now fully awake, "Lizzie, there's been an accident."

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