AN: Hey guys hope you stll like this! Also I would like at least two reveiws before I update agin and before I give out shoutouts. Have fun reading!


Lizzie walked into the cafeteria not at all hungry. Actually she wanted to hide in the girls bathroom and cry her heart out. As though tripping and getting detention wasn't bad enough. She hadn't seen Paolo since science. She passed him once in the hall way but she wasn't sure if it was him. He obviously didn't want to talk to her. She thought of how she had almost imagined that he liked her! What a stupid idea!

She passed a table and noticed something strange. People where talking in hushed voices and when she walked by the conversations would stop abruptly. The blonde fourteen year old searched for her friends. She suddenly started catching segments of what everyone was saying. "Lizzie said that they" "Paolo told you that?...who did?" "Lizzie;...Paolo...he doesn't" "I herd that Lizzie...in Rome"

Rome? Paolo? Her? Lizzie had no idea what was going on but no one wanted her to no about it. "Lizzie!" Lizzie spun around. "Gordo what is going on?"

"Do you know what they are saying?"

"What?"

"Everyone is saying that you are in love with Paolo! They say that you asked him out but he refused to go out with you and all that stuff!"

"What but how in the world?" Suddenly Lizzie thought of something. Paolo was mad t her. Maybe this was some stupid way to get back at her.

FLASH BACK

"So you knew that I would agree to go?"

"I hoped you would."

END FLASH BACK

Lizzie felt a hot pain stab at her heart. No one had any reason to believe that she had it hot for Paolo. So everyone wouldn't be talking about it unless he told them. That day in her house she had wondered who and when had said those words. Now she knew.

FLASH BACK

"I just thought you should see Rome the way the Romans do" Paolo smiled holding up a helmet. Lizzie felt herself melt.

"So you knew that I would come?"

"I hoped you would"

END FALSH BACK

That day when Lizzie first snuck out to see the boy that had her falling head over heals for him at first site Paolo had showed her the mopeds and used that very exact pick up line. In the end it all turned out a big lie. And now he had her again except this time he had been more successful and his plane came through. He had embarrassed her and now everyone thought she had it bad for a guy who didn't care about her and guy that mean people would say she was beneath.

"He doesn't care to alternate his pick up lines does heâ€the creep!"

"Who?" Miranda asked. She had joined Lizzie and Gordo.

"Sis you hear what they are saying?" Lizzie sobbed.

"That you like Paolo?"

"Yes and he told them that so he could get back at her for what happened in Rome!"

"Well you o like him Lizzie" Miranda reasoned.

"She likes Paolo?" Gordo asked stunned.

"And you didn't know about this?" Miranda gave Gordo a look.

"It's not like I told him or like I told anyone. It's not like it was obvious right so he made it up!"

Miranda thought hard. There was a thought at the back of her head that kept bugging her. She couldn't quite think of what it was. But it just seemed like maybe Paolo just might be innocent.