Totally Crushed

The first story is about how Larry Tudgeman, considered to be a major geek, develops a crush on Lizzie and how they actually end up going out on a date. Lizzie finds out he's not quite as bad as he seems, but he's still not quite what she's looking for in a boyfriend or as a status symbol.

In the second story, Lizzie and her once-best-friend Kate end up having to work together on a school project. They have to prepare a food from a foreign country and to do that they are going to have to actually work together.

This greatly upsets both. Kate's snobbish friends are quite nasty about it, of course, but when Kate and Lizzie actually end up at her house working together, they actually enjoy it. The problem is that peer pressure, basically, forces Kate to keep acting like she hates Lizzie when at school, which goes to show just how much peer pressure can affect how people behave.

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