Chapter 4
Disclaimer: I do not own Drop Dead Fred or any characters
Fred couldn't believe this was Lizzie standing in front of him. HIS Lizzie. He couldn't believe she still remembered. That wasn't normal of Imaginary Friend charges. Once they said goodbye that was supposed to be it, for both of them. He sighed. Had she always been this pretty?
"Wait what?!", Fred shook his head violently as if to abolish the thought. "Where was this coming from?"
Natalie shaking his shoulders and calling his name brought him out of his trace. "Fred, Fred!"
"What?", he said, realising it had come out a little harsh. Luckily, she didn't seem to have noticed.
"You were like a statue", Natalie replied, mimicking Fred by standing still with her arms by her side and her eyes wide.
"Where's Lizzie?", he asked her.
"She's in the kitchen making some proper lunch", Nat told him. "I think sandwiches"
"I'll be right back", Fred told Natalie, and he began walking towards the kitchen when Natalie called out to him.
"Do you know her?"
"Know who?"
"Lizzie."
Fred sighed. "Yes. I was her imaginary friend, her best friend, before I came to you."
"Do you miss her?"
He sighed again. "Yes", he said softly.
"Well, just tell her", she told him.
"It's not that easy Nat. You see, I'm not her imaginary friend anymore, so she can't see or hear me. I can't talk to her."
"I'll tell her then", and before Fred could say anything Natalie ran off to the kitchen.
"Natalie wait!", he called to her, but when he got to the kitchen she was already talking to Lizzie.
"I have to tell you something important", Natalie was telling Lizzie, "It's very secret."
"Oh hell", Fred thought to himself.
"Just tell her I said hi"
"Fred says hi and that he misses you", Natalie told Lizzie.
"Natalie! What did I tell you?", Fred shouted.
Lizzie turned to Natalie, stunned. "What?"
"Fred told me he used to be your friend. Is that true?"
"Well, yes it is. Did he really say he missed me?"
"Yes, but I wasn't supposed to tell you"
"Well, you can go on ahead and tell him that I miss him too", she said, her heart fluttering.
Natalie didn't need to tell him though because he already heard. And he couldn't believe it.
"She actually missed him? What did that mean?", he asked himself.
He was going to say something else when there was a knock on the door. Lizzie went to answer it, and when she returned to the kitchen Mickey was following her.
"I thought you didn't normally get home till 5", she asked him, but as she said this she glanced at the clock and realised that is was in fact 5 o'clock.
"Wow time went fast. I'm sorry we didn't get to eat the sandwiches"
"That's okay", Mickey replied, "We can have them for dinner if Nat's ok with that"
"Yeah!", Nat said, jumping in the air.
"Well that settles it then, sandwiches for dinner", said Mickey. "Do you want to stay for dinner Lizzie?"
"I'd love to but I have to get home. Plus I'm on a diet at the moment so…"
"A diet!", Fred thought as he looked at Lizzie, "You don't need to be on a diet."
As if to contradict Fred entirely, Mickey said, "Yeah, I can see why you would be on a diet."
"How dare you say that to her", Fred thought, "She looks great."
"Yeah, well, I'm going to head off", Lizzie said, ignoring Mickey's comment, "I had a great time looking after Natalie."
She gave Nat a quick hug, and she was gone.
