Crazy Things We Do

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MIRANDA'S POV

"Ummm." I said awkwardly, trying to begin.

I was sitting on a moving box marked 'bathroom', and Lizzie was sitting in between two boxes with her back leaning on the wall. She was holding her apartment finder guide in her hands and slowly ripping off little pieces, I think not realizing what she was doing.

"So," Lizzie said, and then dropped off.

"Yeah, um. So you're looking for an apartment?" I said before realizing how stupid it sounds, since not only is she holding an apartment finder guide, but she and Mary almost mowed me down while they were on a tour of the apartment.

"Yeah." Lizzie said, nodding, seeming grateful for a piece of conversation she could hold onto. "I'm going to be going to Hillridge University."

"Really? Cool." Great. We had spent most of our high school years making a talent out of avoiding each other, and now we'll be going to the same college. Well, here's four more years of awkwardness. Unless we can maybe fix what happened. "I'll be going there too."

"Oh, that's great! We're going to the same school." Lizzie said with an enthusiasm that actually seemed genuine. "Listen, Miranda. About that party, you know, that one…."

"Lizzie, we don't have to talk about." I said nervously. It'd been so long. "That was such a long time ago, we should just forget about it."

"No, we can't!" Lizzie said, surprisingly forcefully. "I'm sorry, but say we actually become friends again, which I hope we can. What do we do about what happened at that party? Never talk about it, but know what went wrong is still there? If we just ignore it, then when we get into an argument, we'll be so much more likely to get so angry and never talk to each other again, because we'll still be kind of angry over how we acted towards each other in middle school! Don't you understand? Acting like something never happened isn't going to make it disappear! If it was something so bad that it made us ignore each other for almost all of our high school years, then it's just to big to act like we can ignore it!"

"Okay, sorry, Lizzie. I understand." I said, kind of hurt. Lizzie and I had just kind of made up, and she was already yelling. But I knew what she was saying was true. "I'm so sorry about what happened. I really was going to tell you what Kate was doing. But I'd already had so much to drink, and you know the kind of effect Ethan had on us back in those days."

"Yeah, I know…. It's just that….. Well, I don't know what it was. I guess that I'd had too much to drink too, and seeing Gordo with Kate like that just made me go off. And when you told me you knew about it, I didn't want to hear your explanation, I just wanted to hurt someone else like I had been hurt." Lizzie said, looking sad. "But going off with Cameron like that, that was just wrong."

"I know Lizzie." I said, reaching for her hand. "And we shouldn't forget about it, but we should move past it. It really was a long time ago, and we shouldn't have let it break us up. But we were young, or actually, just younger, and I guess we all had too much pride to apologize."

"Yeah." Lizzie said. "I guess we were all so hurt, we weren't sure that we could just go back and start from the way we were. But it was probably a bad thing for me to date Gordo. I mean, we were all best friends, and it really kind of messed things up when we started going out. I mean, I know you had absolutely no problem with it, but this wouldn't have happened if I had found myself a boyfriend who wasn't my best friend."

"Yeah, I guess. Or no. Well, I don't know." I said. "This could have happened with any guy. But I guess what's important now is that me and you are back together. And maybe, hopefully, we can get to back to where we used to be."

"Yeah," Lizzie said with a faint smile on her face. "Hopefully."

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