So here's the next installment of my story. I hope you're all enjoying it! Please review so I can know what you think. Your reviews thus far have been both helpful and encouraging so thanks!

I don't own anything remotely to do with Lizzie Maguire. If I did...well i'd probably have more money than i do but you don't care about that.

Lizzie sat down in the salon and picked up one of the many magazines from the small glass table in front of her. She stared blankly at it and thought about Miranda going over to Gordo's to help out with his movies. It wasn't unusual for any of them to hang out in pairs when one of them wasn't there but she had never heard Miranda be so eager about helping Gordo with his movies.

Lizzie loved to spend time with Gordo but when he got into his movies it could all get a bit boring since he was so pedantic about them. She just couldn't figure out why it bothered her so much. It couldn't be jealousy; she was going to be alone with him playing Mini Golf later. So what was it? Jo sat down beside her daughter.

"Hey sweetie. Are you okay?"

Why is it she can always tell when something's up?

"Nothing mom. I was just wondering what Miranda and Gordo are up to right now."

"I thought you said they were just going to hang out and work on Gordo's movies."

"They are its just well..."

"What? Sweetie is something going on with Miranda and Gordo?"

"No mom. Don't be crazy. We're all just friends."

"I see. So it's not that you're jealous or anything?"

"Mom! No!"

"Okay. Okay. It's just that I always thought that you and Gordo would make the cutest couple."

"Mom. Please. He's my best friend!"

"He's best friends with Miranda too."

"Nothing's going on with them either they're just working on his movies without me because I'm here, just like later when it'll just be me and Gordo playing Mini Golf cause Miranda has a family thing to do. It doesn't mean anything."

"You and Gordo are going out on a date?"

"No! Mom didn't you hear a word I just said? We're just good friends. Just like Gordo and Miranda are just good friends and nothing else. Okay

"Okay, honey I'll drop the subject. We're here to be pampered so lets just enjoy ourselves and forget about anything else that might be going on. Like what trouble Matt and your father are getting in to at home alone."

Lizzie and Jo laughed and got ready for their beauty treatment. Lizzie was having such a good time with her mom but she just couldn't shake a slight worried feeling she had had all morning. After talking to her mom and trying to convince her that Gordo and her we're just friends and even more worryingly that Miranda and Gordo were just friends too, she was worried that it wasn't really her mom she had been trying to convince but rather that she had been trying to convince herself that this was the truth.

Miranda stood looking at Gordo's door. She had thought this would be easy. Go over to Gordo's, convince him to tell Lizzie how he felt about her and leave but now that she was standing there, she couldn't bring herself to knock on the door.

It had been nearly ten minutes since she had arrived at the door but just before she had raised her hand to knock she had suddenly realised that she had no real plan as to how she was going to convince Gordo that he should tell Lizzie how he felt about her. The original idea had been to just march in and be completely direct.

Look Gordo. I've had enough of you and Lizzie dancing around the issue. You like her and she likes you and it's about time you did something about it

That's not going to work. I can't just tell him like that. I need to make him think it's his own idea. I need to push him in the right direction but he needs to be the one who realises what he needs to do and why he should tell Lizzie how he feels. Crap this is going to be harder than I thought. And then even if I convince him to do something it still may all go wrong if I haven't had a chance to plant the seed in Lizzie's mind

So it getting close to nearly fifteen minutes that Miranda had found herself standing in front of Gordo's door no longer sure if she was going to be able to do this. Little did she now that across town Lizzie's mom was fighting Miranda's side by planting ideas in Lizzie's mind. Miranda really wanted to turn around and go home. She would phone Gordo and tell him she had to change her plans but she was sorry.

She wanted to leave but found that she couldn't. She wasn't the type of girl who just backed down from something just cause it was hard and usually the only time she got this nervous was when she had a crush on some one but that wasn't the case here. It wasn't! If anything she was just worried that if Gordo and Lizzie got together that she would be forgotten about and that they would leave her out of stuff all the time. That had to be it. That's why she was nervous about getting Lizzie and Gordo together. It had to be.

Lizzie and Gordo are meant to be together everyone knows it and I'm sick of waiting for them to figure it out so that's why it's up to me to force the issue with them. So why can't I just knock on this door and get the ball rolling on this? C'mon Miranda just raise your hand and knock

Miranda suddenly jumped as the door opened as if she had willed it open. Gordo was standing there in front of her with a bag of trash to throw out. He looked probably just as shocked to see her as she felt she must have looked.

"Hey Miranda. That was pretty good timing. Did you just get here as I was opening the door?" Gordo said as he put the trash out.

Miranda took a second to respond to the question. "Uh, yeah that's weird freaky timing you opening the door just as I got here. I mean wow."

"Yeah you kind of scared me when I opened the door it was like you had been waiting outside for me to open the door."

"Ha ha. That would have been crazy. Well are you going to invite me in?" Miranda quickly added to avoid any further talk of how long she had been standing on his porch.

"Yeah sorry. C'mon in there's a lot of work to do."

You're telling me!

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