Chapter 10

It took quite some time but the two then Gordo called for the waiter so that he and Lizzie could order the food and drinks they had decided on. Being a true gentleman like he always he let his date order first: "I'll take the Pizza Diabolo and a coke to drink." After the waiter had quickly written down the order from her on the little notepad in his hand Gordo said: "I'll take a Coke too and the Spaghetti Amore." Then the waiter left, what meant that they were once again alone and as he took a quick look at his watch he thought: * Just one more hour until Miss Jacobs is starting to sing and I hope that Lizzie is going to like the little surprise that I've prepared for her.*

"Are you looking forward to starting high school as much as I do? Of course to be honest with you I'm also a little nervous about it also but I guess that's normal before the first day at the new school." Of course Lizzie was looking forward to the first day at Hillridge high school but she also would miss Middle School a little bit, because not only was life at Middle School much easier than it would it at high school and the periods with Mister Digg were always something that she had enjoyed very much during her time at Hillridge Middle School. "Yes I'm looking forward to start high school with you and Miranda a lot and somehow I still can't believe how fast the time went by in Middle School. " She certainly had also been through a lot of relationship drama: Chasing after Ethan Craft, the heartthrob of the Middle School for quite a while and also getting her heart broken by the cute Ronny Jacobs.

Especially the whole way how quick things had ended in a very bad way with Ronny had left her emotionally scarred and she had been lucky to have someone to talk to at this difficult time: Gordo, who happened to be her boyfriend now. Of course in the end it wasn't any use to think about any of those "what if" scenarios but maybe she could have avoided a lot of trouble if she had realized sooner that her best friend wanted to be something more than just friends. Gordo would also maybe miss some things from Middle School but one person he wouldn't miss: Kate Sanders, who had been very good in torturing them the most time at Middle School but was surprisingly also able to be nice to her fellow students: She had been the one to tell Lizzie about his feelings for his other best friend and had also helped Lizzie sneaking away from the rest of the class during their graduation trip to Europe.

As she had told him all that, he couldn't help but ask himself on the flight back home if they really talked about the same Kate Sanders after all because this all seemed to be so unimaginable for him that he had such a hard time to wrap his around that surprise revelation. "We still have a lot left of our summer break before high school starts and I don't know about you but I want to enjoy this time as much as possible with you and of course Miranda." Gordo said with a smile on his face and he really looked forward to spending the rest of the Summer Break with Miranda and his girlfriend Lizzie.

She smiled back at him and said: "I'm so grateful that I'm able to spend the rest of the summer break outside after my parents actually wanted to ground me for the rest of it." Then the waiter brought them their drinks, they thanked him and after he had left again Lizzie said:

"Do you think that our parents may have already expected a little bit that we would end up as a couple after the trip to Rome?"

"Somehow I wouldn't be surprised one bit if they had bets going on behind our backs when we would finally be together." Gordo chuckled and she couldn't help but reply jokingly: "I really hope that my parents won the bet over yours." The two just kept laughing for a few minutes until Gordo raised his glass and said in a more serious tone: "I can't express it in words how happy I am to be your boyfriend and one thing will never change, I'll always have an open ear for your problems expect all that girly stuff because Miranda is the better person for that to talk to. Now I raise my glass to you Lizzie and a wonderful evening that we remember for a long time."

For a slight moment she had a shiver running up her spine but the positive one, because she was so touched by this sweet gesture from him and it took her some time to recompose herself again. Then she raised her glass too and both of them took one short sip of their glass of Coca Cola. As he put his glass back down on the table he thought about how his date would react to his special surprise for her, he was sure that she would love it very much in the end and for them tonight would surely be a memorable one.

One hour later

As they still were busy with eating the singer of the little restaurant had stepped onto the stage and after a short greeting of the guests she and the band started to play the first song of the night. Gordo got a little bit distracted from eating as he took a moment to listen to the wonderful voice of the lady on stage and to him it kind of felt like he was walking on Cloud Nine right now. After a while he concentrated back on eating and he couldn't help but also be a little bit nervous because of the surprise for his date.

The two finished their meals in silence but in the middle of doing that, Gordo smeared some tomato sauce on his cheek what didn't go by Lizzie unnoticed and she just couldn't help but laugh a little at that little accident by him. Of course he didn't realize at first why she was grinning at him all over sudden and so he had a confused look on his face, because she wasn't so cruel to leave him hanging for too long she said: "There's a little stain of tomato sauce where it doesn't on your cheek." At first he pointed in the wrong direction and when he spread it even more on the other cheek, Lizzie took her napkin softly rubbed the little stain of tomato sauce away and after she had gotten rid of it: "Okay that looks much better now." The two just looked deeply into each other's eyes for a moment before she shortly caressed his right cheek and got back to finish her meal.

AN: The next chapter will feature the big surprise for Lizzie, how will she react to it?

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