A/N: Missing moment from season 2, episode 26: "A Gordo Story (Aka Inner beauty II, a Gordo story".) Lizzie watches the dance from some distance, reflecting on the events of the last couple of days.
Ring a ding ding, take two.
"We all got what we wanted, so why am I so sad?" asked a tiny voice inside Lizzie´s mind. It was a very insistent voice that grew in power as Lizzie thought more and more about the matter. She let her gaze sweep across the dance floor. Miranda looked happily at Ethan as he tried to keep up with her dance moves. Gordo and Parker were also dancing. And that sight was a great deal harder for Lizzie to smile at.
Lizzie found herself a quiet corner of the dance hall. She felt stupid standing in the middle of the room, as almost the only one without a date that night.
Again she let the events of the past couple of days play back in her head. And again she heard an echo of Gordo´s frustrated voice, "I guess I´m just the guy you say hi to in the hallway, not the guy you actually go out with."
She remembered the look Miranda had sent her at that moment; the somewhat knowing look that she knew that that was exactly how Lizzie felt about Gordo. But Lizzie had no idea if she felt that way about Gordo. Or how she felt about him in the first place for that matter.
But Lizzie did know two things.
For one, it made her sad, that Gordo now danced so happily with Parker. Especially after what had happened recently.
And that was the second thing she knew; it had made her very sad watching Gordo doubting himself so much in the last couple of days. Lizzie blamed Parker for that, dismissing Gordo as a possible date because she found him too short. Normally Gordo was the self-confident one, the one constant in Lizzie´s life that would always do exactly as he pleased without being nervous what other people thought about him. Therefore watching Gordo trying so hard to change himself had really been difficult for Lizzie. It was almost like Gordo had forgotten his own code about living life on one´s own terms. But what had hurt the most was his willingness to change himself for Parker´s sake.
Lizzie felt glad that she was able to help him out. Normally he would be the one giving out advice, but for once Lizzie had found herself in a position where she could give Gordo advice. In a way Lizzie was surprised to discover that Gordo could have the same teenage problems like everybody else. She guessed it was because he always seemed to act a bit too old for his age. In some ways Gordo was very clueless. And that surprised Lizzie like nothing else.
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