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"Lizzie? Elizabeth?" Jo McGuire pleaded with her daughter to come to.
"Mom?" Lizzie asked. "What happened?" She tried to lift her head. "Ow."
"You hit your head pretty hard. Are you okay?" Sam asked his only daughter.
"I think so. How long have I been out?"
"About an hour. You had us worried." Lizzie's mom said, in a very Auntie Em at the end of The Wizard Of Oz sort of way.
All of a sudden, it all came rushing back to Lizzie. Gordo, the kiss, Miranda and Kate...she didn't know whether to cry or
smile. "How are they?" She asked her parents.
"No change." Jo replied.
"Did anyone call Gordo?" Lizzie asked.
"No." They all replied in unison.
Lizzie picked up the phone and dialed Gordo's number. Her family left her so she could tell Gordo the news in private.
"Hello?" Gordo answered.
"David..." Lizzie said. She never thought she would have to tell anyone something like this.
"Lizzie? Are you okay? You sound worried. Is everything all right?"
"I'm...I'm fine. It's Miranda and Kate. They...they're in the hospital. They got into a bad accident."
Gordo said nothing.
"Gordo?" Lizzie thought he had fainted.
"Elizabeth McGuire, if you are playing a trick on me I'll never forgive you."
"David! Why would I joke about something like this!? The doctors don't know if Miranda's going to make it through the night
and Kate's in a coma." Lizzie could feel the tears coming to her eyes.
"How? How did it happen?" Gordo asked.
"I don't know. After I found out I fainted. When I came to, I called you."
"You fainted? Are you okay?" Lizzie couldn't tell if he was more concerned that she fainted or that their former friends
were just in a horrible accident.
"Don't worry about me. I don't know what to do. Do I call Mr. and Mrs. Sanchez? Do I go to the hospital? I just...I can't
wait around here to have someone call me and give me updates."
"I don't know what to tell you, Liz. I mean, just about an hour and a half ago, I spat out a nasty remark to them, and now
their lives are hanging in the balance. I feel horrible." Gordo said. "I think I'm going to go to the hospital and see Mr.
and Mrs. Sanchez. Do you want me to pick you up on the way?" He asked Lizzie.
"I might have to ask my parents, I guess I took a pretty hard fall. Hold on."
After much convincing, Jo and Sam let Lizzie go to the hospital. Gordo picked her up 10 minutes later.
"Hey." He said.
"Hi." Lizzie replied. She didn't know what to say to him.
"How's your melon?" He asked, trying his best to make her feel better.
"It's okay, been better." She said, feeling the egg that had formed underneath her messy blonde hair.
The rest of the ride was ridden in pretty much silence, except for a few sighs from the two. Unbeknownst to the other, each
wanted to bring up the kiss, but was worried about being insensitive due to the fact that they were going to go see their
peers who had just been involved in an accident. They finally arrived at the hospital after what had seemed like an eternal
car ride.
"Are you ready?" Gordo asked.
"Ready as I'll ever be." Lizzie said. She hated sounding so cliché, but it's how she felt. She needed to do this now,
before she changed her mind and went back home to the comfort of her bed, and the safety and security of her parent's arms.
The two walked into the hospital hand in hand, as to show that they were in this together. Lizzie, Kate, Gordo and Miranda
had been a fearsome foursome back in elementary school. Lizzie and Gordo weren't about to leave this hospital without
seeing their friends.
"Elizabeth? David? What are you doing here?" They heard. They turned around.
"Mrs. Sanchez..." Lizzie said, speechless. All four kid's parents knew about the changes in their friendships in middle and
high school. "I know you must be surprised to see us here, but we heard about the accident and we wanted to come see how
they are doing." Lizzie said. She could see the hurt in the eyes of Miranda's mother. She didn't want to lose her baby
from a stupid accident.
"Thank you so much." Mrs. Sanchez said, hugging both Lizzie and Gordo at once. "Just so you know, Miranda is stable. Her
outlook is much better than Kate's. Would you like to go see her?" Mrs. Sanchez asked.
"Would she want to see us?" Gordo looked back and forth from Lizzie and Mrs. Sanchez.
"Believe it or not, she was saying something about you two when they were putting her in the ambulance. I don't think she'll
mind. Go ahead."
Lizzie and Gordo looked into one another's eyes and turned on their heels to Miranda's room. As they walked away, Mrs.
Sanchez looked at the two, their hands linked togeher once again.
"I always knew it would happen." She said, referring to the two. She looked up at the cieling. "Don't let anything tear
them apart. They belong together."
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"Miranda?" Lizzie said, walking carefully into Miranda's hospital room.
"Mmm?" Was all the response they got.
"It's us. Lizzie and Gordo. I know you may not want to see us, but we wanted to see you. How are you?" She said.
"How do I look? You can tell me, honestly." She mumbled.
"Pretty bad." Gordo said. Lizzie hit him on the arm...hard.
"Thanks, Gordo. I feel a hundred times worse than I look." She said.
"Listen, I'm really sorry for what I said to you and Kate. At the Digital Pepperoni." Gordo said.
"Kate? How's Kate?" Miranda suddenly remembered.
"Uhmmm...she's not dead...?" Lizzie said.
"Oh, oh gosh. That's all I want to know." Miranda said. "Listen guys," Miranda started. Then she saw the hands.
Interlocked. She started staring at them.
"Miranda?" Lizzie said. "You okay?"
"Go McGuire. You finally got the man you've been pining after since fourth grade." Miranda said, smiling.
"Fourth grade?" Gordo looked at Lizzie. "Geez, looks like I'm quite the hunk!" He was getting an ego.
"Thanks Miranda." Lizzie said, sarcastically.
"Back to Earth, Gordo, I was in the middle of something. I really appreciate you coming to see me. It means a lot. You
have some guts to show up. You're the first people from to school to come see me, and I'd put my money on it that you'll
be the only ones to come see me at all." She said.
"Hey, you owe us." Gordo said.
"Hey! I owe you nothing!" Miranda retorted.
"Gordo. The girl is in a hospital bed. She doesn't owe us a damn thing. GOt it?" Lizzie said.
"Yes, mommy." He replied.
"Well, we're going to go see if we can get into Kate's room." Lizzie said.
"Thank you guys so much. This really means a lot to me." Miranda said. "And if you see Kate, and she's awake, tell her I
said hi." She added.
"Okay."
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Kate hadn't come out of her coma, but they were allowed in at the request of Kate's mom. She thought that if Kate had
someone who wasn't her parents come visit her, it would help her. Even if she hated Gordo and Lizzie.
They walked into Kate's room and looked around.
"It's pretty...homey." Lizzie said to Kate's mom.
"I brought a lot of her stuff from her room, incase she wakes up. I'll be right outside if you need me." She said.
Gordo and Lizzie each took a seat at the head of Kate's bed. Lizzie looked to the side and saw a frame.
"Oh my gosh, Gordo. Look at that frame." Lizzie pointed out to him.
"When did she take that picture?" He asked.
"I don't know." Lizzie said, as she picked up the frame.
Inside the frame Lizzie looked at a picture of her and Gordo. It was taken recently. After Miranda had stopped 'hating'
Kate, and vice-versa. Actually, it had been in the past couple of weeks. Lizie knew that because she was wearing a shirt
in the picture that she had just bought.
"Wait. Didnt Tudge take this picture? The one that was for the 'best friends' layout in the yearbook?" Gordo asked.
"Yea. It is." Lizzie said. She took the picture out of the frame.
"What are you doing?" Gordo asked her.
"I'm just looking." She replied. She turned the picture over. On it it said:
"Elizabeth McGuire and David Gordon. Best Friends Forever. God, I miss that."
Lizzie showed it to Gordo.
"You know what Lizzie?" Gordo asked her.
"I know. I miss it, too." Lizzie put the picture back into the frame and put it back on the table. "Do you know what that
means?" She asked.
"What?" Gordo said.
"She kept this picture in her room." She looked in Gordo's eyes, then she looked at Kate. "Hi there," she said to her.
"Wow. You're in pretty rough shape, aren't you? It's okay. A little makeup here and there, and you'll look the same as
always. Besides. You want to wake up in time to go to Senior Prom with Ethan!"
"Hey, Kate." Gordo joined Lizzie. "You need to get better. I don't care if you still make fun of us after you do, just do
it. Life isn't the same without hearing *somebody* calling me Gordork." He joked.
All of a sudden Kate's head turned to the side. She was facing Lizzie and Gordo. Then she opened her eyes.
"What the? Where am I? What happened? And why are you two here?" It was Kate, all right.
"Kate?" Lizzie said. She turned around and went straight to the door. "Mrs Sanders? She woke up!" Lizzie said.
"Are you serious?" Kate's mom said. She rushed into the room.
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After all the doctors had performed their post-coma tests on Kate (A/N are there post-coma tests? I would think so!), Lizzie
and Gordo were back in her room.
"So." Kate said, breaking the silence.
"So." Said Lizzie.
"Guys. I was wondering if you could ever forgive me for what I've done to you over the past few years. I know it might take
a while, but I would really like that." She said, sincerely.
"Kate, we..." Lizzie look at Gordo. "We'll have to thinkg about it. But in the meantime, you need some rest. We'll see you
later, okay?"
"Sure. Bye." Kate said.
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Back in the car, Lizzie and Gordo finally started talking.
"Gordo, I don't want to saound insensitive to what's going on, but there's something I've been wondering." Lizzie said.
"Lizzie. I've been wondering the same thing." Gordo said.
"No, not just about the kiss. We've known each other for so long, it was hard for me not to fall in love with you. Gordo, I
love you."
Gordo pulled over to side of the road, in a panic.
"Do you love me, David Gordon?" Lizzie asked.
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"Lizzie? Elizabeth?" Jo McGuire pleaded with her daughter to come to.
"Mom?" Lizzie asked. "What happened?" She tried to lift her head. "Ow."
"You hit your head pretty hard. Are you okay?" Sam asked his only daughter.
"I think so. How long have I been out?"
"About an hour. You had us worried." Lizzie's mom said, in a very Auntie Em at the end of The Wizard Of Oz sort of way.
All of a sudden, it all came rushing back to Lizzie. Gordo, the kiss, Miranda and Kate...she didn't know whether to cry or
smile. "How are they?" She asked her parents.
"No change." Jo replied.
"Did anyone call Gordo?" Lizzie asked.
"No." They all replied in unison.
Lizzie picked up the phone and dialed Gordo's number. Her family left her so she could tell Gordo the news in private.
"Hello?" Gordo answered.
"David..." Lizzie said. She never thought she would have to tell anyone something like this.
"Lizzie? Are you okay? You sound worried. Is everything all right?"
"I'm...I'm fine. It's Miranda and Kate. They...they're in the hospital. They got into a bad accident."
Gordo said nothing.
"Gordo?" Lizzie thought he had fainted.
"Elizabeth McGuire, if you are playing a trick on me I'll never forgive you."
"David! Why would I joke about something like this!? The doctors don't know if Miranda's going to make it through the night
and Kate's in a coma." Lizzie could feel the tears coming to her eyes.
"How? How did it happen?" Gordo asked.
"I don't know. After I found out I fainted. When I came to, I called you."
"You fainted? Are you okay?" Lizzie couldn't tell if he was more concerned that she fainted or that their former friends
were just in a horrible accident.
"Don't worry about me. I don't know what to do. Do I call Mr. and Mrs. Sanchez? Do I go to the hospital? I just...I can't
wait around here to have someone call me and give me updates."
"I don't know what to tell you, Liz. I mean, just about an hour and a half ago, I spat out a nasty remark to them, and now
their lives are hanging in the balance. I feel horrible." Gordo said. "I think I'm going to go to the hospital and see Mr.
and Mrs. Sanchez. Do you want me to pick you up on the way?" He asked Lizzie.
"I might have to ask my parents, I guess I took a pretty hard fall. Hold on."
After much convincing, Jo and Sam let Lizzie go to the hospital. Gordo picked her up 10 minutes later.
"Hey." He said.
"Hi." Lizzie replied. She didn't know what to say to him.
"How's your melon?" He asked, trying his best to make her feel better.
"It's okay, been better." She said, feeling the egg that had formed underneath her messy blonde hair.
The rest of the ride was ridden in pretty much silence, except for a few sighs from the two. Unbeknownst to the other, each
wanted to bring up the kiss, but was worried about being insensitive due to the fact that they were going to go see their
peers who had just been involved in an accident. They finally arrived at the hospital after what had seemed like an eternal
car ride.
"Are you ready?" Gordo asked.
"Ready as I'll ever be." Lizzie said. She hated sounding so cliché, but it's how she felt. She needed to do this now,
before she changed her mind and went back home to the comfort of her bed, and the safety and security of her parent's arms.
The two walked into the hospital hand in hand, as to show that they were in this together. Lizzie, Kate, Gordo and Miranda
had been a fearsome foursome back in elementary school. Lizzie and Gordo weren't about to leave this hospital without
seeing their friends.
"Elizabeth? David? What are you doing here?" They heard. They turned around.
"Mrs. Sanchez..." Lizzie said, speechless. All four kid's parents knew about the changes in their friendships in middle and
high school. "I know you must be surprised to see us here, but we heard about the accident and we wanted to come see how
they are doing." Lizzie said. She could see the hurt in the eyes of Miranda's mother. She didn't want to lose her baby
from a stupid accident.
"Thank you so much." Mrs. Sanchez said, hugging both Lizzie and Gordo at once. "Just so you know, Miranda is stable. Her
outlook is much better than Kate's. Would you like to go see her?" Mrs. Sanchez asked.
"Would she want to see us?" Gordo looked back and forth from Lizzie and Mrs. Sanchez.
"Believe it or not, she was saying something about you two when they were putting her in the ambulance. I don't think she'll
mind. Go ahead."
Lizzie and Gordo looked into one another's eyes and turned on their heels to Miranda's room. As they walked away, Mrs.
Sanchez looked at the two, their hands linked togeher once again.
"I always knew it would happen." She said, referring to the two. She looked up at the cieling. "Don't let anything tear
them apart. They belong together."
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"Miranda?" Lizzie said, walking carefully into Miranda's hospital room.
"Mmm?" Was all the response they got.
"It's us. Lizzie and Gordo. I know you may not want to see us, but we wanted to see you. How are you?" She said.
"How do I look? You can tell me, honestly." She mumbled.
"Pretty bad." Gordo said. Lizzie hit him on the arm...hard.
"Thanks, Gordo. I feel a hundred times worse than I look." She said.
"Listen, I'm really sorry for what I said to you and Kate. At the Digital Pepperoni." Gordo said.
"Kate? How's Kate?" Miranda suddenly remembered.
"Uhmmm...she's not dead...?" Lizzie said.
"Oh, oh gosh. That's all I want to know." Miranda said. "Listen guys," Miranda started. Then she saw the hands.
Interlocked. She started staring at them.
"Miranda?" Lizzie said. "You okay?"
"Go McGuire. You finally got the man you've been pining after since fourth grade." Miranda said, smiling.
"Fourth grade?" Gordo looked at Lizzie. "Geez, looks like I'm quite the hunk!" He was getting an ego.
"Thanks Miranda." Lizzie said, sarcastically.
"Back to Earth, Gordo, I was in the middle of something. I really appreciate you coming to see me. It means a lot. You
have some guts to show up. You're the first people from to school to come see me, and I'd put my money on it that you'll
be the only ones to come see me at all." She said.
"Hey, you owe us." Gordo said.
"Hey! I owe you nothing!" Miranda retorted.
"Gordo. The girl is in a hospital bed. She doesn't owe us a damn thing. GOt it?" Lizzie said.
"Yes, mommy." He replied.
"Well, we're going to go see if we can get into Kate's room." Lizzie said.
"Thank you guys so much. This really means a lot to me." Miranda said. "And if you see Kate, and she's awake, tell her I
said hi." She added.
"Okay."
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Kate hadn't come out of her coma, but they were allowed in at the request of Kate's mom. She thought that if Kate had
someone who wasn't her parents come visit her, it would help her. Even if she hated Gordo and Lizzie.
They walked into Kate's room and looked around.
"It's pretty...homey." Lizzie said to Kate's mom.
"I brought a lot of her stuff from her room, incase she wakes up. I'll be right outside if you need me." She said.
Gordo and Lizzie each took a seat at the head of Kate's bed. Lizzie looked to the side and saw a frame.
"Oh my gosh, Gordo. Look at that frame." Lizzie pointed out to him.
"When did she take that picture?" He asked.
"I don't know." Lizzie said, as she picked up the frame.
Inside the frame Lizzie looked at a picture of her and Gordo. It was taken recently. After Miranda had stopped 'hating'
Kate, and vice-versa. Actually, it had been in the past couple of weeks. Lizie knew that because she was wearing a shirt
in the picture that she had just bought.
"Wait. Didnt Tudge take this picture? The one that was for the 'best friends' layout in the yearbook?" Gordo asked.
"Yea. It is." Lizzie said. She took the picture out of the frame.
"What are you doing?" Gordo asked her.
"I'm just looking." She replied. She turned the picture over. On it it said:
"Elizabeth McGuire and David Gordon. Best Friends Forever. God, I miss that."
Lizzie showed it to Gordo.
"You know what Lizzie?" Gordo asked her.
"I know. I miss it, too." Lizzie put the picture back into the frame and put it back on the table. "Do you know what that
means?" She asked.
"What?" Gordo said.
"She kept this picture in her room." She looked in Gordo's eyes, then she looked at Kate. "Hi there," she said to her.
"Wow. You're in pretty rough shape, aren't you? It's okay. A little makeup here and there, and you'll look the same as
always. Besides. You want to wake up in time to go to Senior Prom with Ethan!"
"Hey, Kate." Gordo joined Lizzie. "You need to get better. I don't care if you still make fun of us after you do, just do
it. Life isn't the same without hearing *somebody* calling me Gordork." He joked.
All of a sudden Kate's head turned to the side. She was facing Lizzie and Gordo. Then she opened her eyes.
"What the? Where am I? What happened? And why are you two here?" It was Kate, all right.
"Kate?" Lizzie said. She turned around and went straight to the door. "Mrs Sanders? She woke up!" Lizzie said.
"Are you serious?" Kate's mom said. She rushed into the room.
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After all the doctors had performed their post-coma tests on Kate (A/N are there post-coma tests? I would think so!), Lizzie
and Gordo were back in her room.
"So." Kate said, breaking the silence.
"So." Said Lizzie.
"Guys. I was wondering if you could ever forgive me for what I've done to you over the past few years. I know it might take
a while, but I would really like that." She said, sincerely.
"Kate, we..." Lizzie look at Gordo. "We'll have to thinkg about it. But in the meantime, you need some rest. We'll see you
later, okay?"
"Sure. Bye." Kate said.
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Back in the car, Lizzie and Gordo finally started talking.
"Gordo, I don't want to saound insensitive to what's going on, but there's something I've been wondering." Lizzie said.
"Lizzie. I've been wondering the same thing." Gordo said.
"No, not just about the kiss. We've known each other for so long, it was hard for me not to fall in love with you. Gordo, I
love you."
Gordo pulled over to side of the road, in a panic.
"Do you love me, David Gordon?" Lizzie asked.
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