BROKEN PROMISES"

PART FOUR: BROKEN PROMISES

"What is going on here?!" Lizzie exclaimed, reeling in disbelief at the sight before her. She glanced at her best friend, who was just as stunned by the display before them.

Shaking her head, "I have no idea, Lizzie. No idea at all."

Both girls watched as their dear friend Gordo make his way towards Kate Sander's lunch table, carrying her lunch tray and setting it down in front of her. He then smiled kindly at Kate, though both Lizzie and Miranda could obviously see that he had forced that grin to shine through.

Kate beamed up at him, patting him on the arm like an owner would pat their very obedient dog. She then ordered him to sit down besides her, much to his apparent reluctance.

"Why is he over there?! Why is he with Kate?!" Lizzie cried, frustration, confusion, and jealousy apparent in her voice.

Lizzie watched in total shock as Kate whispered something to Gordo, then followed as Gordo picked up Kate's milk container and open it for her.

"Miranda, please tell me that there is a very good explanation for Gordo hanging out with Kate!"

"First of all, McGuire, chill okay?" Miranda practically had to hold her friend down, keeping her from wanting to jump and attack Kate at this very moment. Knowing her friend was slightly more calmer, "And second, you're right. There has to be a good explanation for Gordo's insanely weird behavior."

"Like what?! Alien pod-people?!"

Miranda scanned through every possible scenario. A thought stuck to her mind "Maybe Kate blackmailed him to, like, be her slave?"

That case scenario was possible. In fact, that would explain everything!

With an excited relieved smile, "You think?"

However, that possibility faded into the backburner as they watched a certain exchange between both Kate and Gordo. They watched as Kate leaned closer to Gordo, and whisper something to him. When she pulled back, she smiled softly and brilliantly at him. What amazed Lizzie was the fact that Gordo had begun to smile softly as well.

Both Gordo and Kate then began to laugh, as if they had shared a joke that no one else in this world would understand except just those two. Lizzie felt this sickening knot in her stomach as she watched them.

Standing up, "I think I'm gonna hurl." She mumbled, then quickly stepped off and away.

Miranda watched her friend with total concern. She then turned to Kate and Gordo with total disbelief and disgust, before she too left to find Lizzie.

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The first day official day of being dubbed "Kate's servant" had been quite an experience.

It was rocky in the beginning. He had to find a way to maintain a balance between both Kate and Lizzie. Gordo found, to his dismay, that Lizzie was not pleased to say the least about him hanging out with Kate. Sure, she eventually forgave Miranda for that little Danny Keshler pool party incident but she never expected this sort of betrayal from her Gordo! Gordo was different, at least when she lashed out at him about Tuesday's cafeteria incident.

"But you're different than Miranda!"

"How so?" Both Miranda and Gordo demanded from Lizzie. Miranda crossed her arms, sensing that Lizzie was going to bring up the pool party incident again.

Ignoring Miranda, and focusing on Gordo, "Look, I just didn't expect you to see Kate behind my—I mean, our backs and totally ignore me—I mean, us, for the rest of the day!"

"Look, Kate is not so bad" Gordo began.

Lizzie, however, interrupted with, "Is there something going on between the two of you?" She prayed, prayed, prayed that nothing was going on. She couldn't bare to hear that her Gordo had fallen for her enemy.

Gordo's eyes fell, feeling his own heart break in agony over knowing that Lizzie thinks that he could love anyone else and not her. If only she knew

"Oh David!" A cheery voice sang out from behind the young trio.

Gordo glanced behind him, noticing Kate's waiting form. She was smiling happily at him, holding out her bag for him to take.

"David?" Both Miranda and Lizzie asked, disbelieving over what they heard.

He sighed, closing his locker. Looking up sadly at Lizzie, "I have to go. I'll call you later, Lizzie, okay? And I'll explain everything about this whole Kate situation."

"You promise?" She said, deciding to give him the benefit of the doubt. If only he knew that she couldn't say no to him.

Smiling that grin that made her heart skip a thousand feet, "On the Screen Actors Guild bible."

With that, he turned and made his way towards Kate. Though Lizzie was still smiling over his words (and that grin), it all fell as soon as she saw Gordo grab Kate's bag, and Kate place her arm around Gordo's own.

Lizzie sighed, then turned away from the scene before her. As she closed her locker, she said, "At least by tonight I'll know the real reason why Gordo's hanging out with Kate. I mean, he promised to call me, right? So, I'll know the truth."

A silence fell upon the two girls. Miranda remained quiet, thinking the worse case scenario. Though she prayed that it wasn't what she was thinking, it couldn't help to be prepared for when the bomb drops.

Lizzie noticed Miranda's pensive state. "Miranda? He will call." She said, as if trying to reassure herself.

Miranda glanced up at Lizzie, giving her a sad nod.

"He will call." Lizzie said, though her voice held a little doubt.

Miranda placed a friendly hand on Lizzie's shoulder as Lizzie assured herself again.

"He has to call and he will call" She paused, then, "Won't he?"

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He didn't make the phone call.

And if he had made that call maybe things wouldn't have turned out the way it had.

Kate had him at her house that night he was supposed to call Lizzie. She needed help with her homework, and Gordo was the perfect tutor for her! So for the whole night, she engrossed him enough with her studies to have him totally forget to give Lizzie a call. When he finally realized on the promise he gave his Lizzie, it was too late.

In fact, he only remembered the promise the next day when he was on his way to Kate's house to pick her up.

From that time on, the next two months was a total rollar coaster ride. Kate had kept him by her side nearly every possible minute. She would even accompany him to his locker, further driving a valley between Gordo's relationship with Lizzie and Miranda.

Lizzie was extremely hurt by Gordo's broken promise. Not to mention that she was pissed as hell over him ditching them for Kate. Ditching her for Kate, if Lizzie wanted to be more honest to herself.

Very soon, Gordo would at times forget why he was Kate's servant in the first place. Most of the time, Kate was an okay person to hang out with. She hardly gave him a hard time, nor even managed to make him do stupid, and humiliating task. Sometimes, however, whenever he would find himself looking wistfully at Lizzie and Miranda, Kate would resort to her cruel side and send him off somewhere away from his friends.

Then one night, Gordo's perception of Kate completely changed.

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