"Lizzie!" I heard Gordo calling me from the bus stop. I shook my head and sighed. It had all been a daydream. The way I'd imagined today should go- perfectly- had seemed so real. But now the bus was pulling up to the stop sign and my friends were calling to me to join them. I'd stood there daydreaming for almost fifteen minutes!

I quickly dashed to the bus and squeezed in the seat I always sit in with Miranda and Gordo. Our bus isn't that full, we've just always enjoyed sitting three to a seat together, since we're such good friends.

But this morning, Gordo was sitting in the seat in front of us, turned around to face us. Miranda and I were sitting together. "Lizzie!" she exclaimed. "You almost missed the bus! You know, I missed you guys so much while I was in Mexico. I would have just died if I couldn't have come back for the last day of school. Lizzie, that shirt is so cute! Did you get it at that cute little store at the mall? You know, the malls in Mex-"

"Miranda!" I exclaimed, interrupting her endless conversation with herself. "I missed you too, and we really have to catch up, but can you switch seats with Gordo for a minute? We, um, we have to talk."

Miranda looked at me like I was crazy but she did as I had asked. Gordo slid in next to me in the aisle.

"You, um, know what we need to talk about," I told him.

"Yeah," he responded. "Yesterday."

"Right," I replied with a sigh. "So, um....I meant it."

"You did?" his face immediately lit up like a Christmas tree. "Well...."

"My sentiments exactly," I said. "Did you mean what you wrote?"

"Yeah," was all he could say, "I did."

"Well, if I meant it and you meant it, what comes next?"

"I'm not sure."

"Me either."

Miranda had been looking at us both back and forth as we talked. She looked as if she were about to go nuts. "Um, you guys?" she asked. "Would either of you mind telling me what's going on?"

I looked at Gordo, and then Miranda, and then back to Gordo, who said, "you mean you haven't told her yet?"

"No! She just got back this morning!" I told him. "What, do you think I'm superwoman?"

"Sorry, sorry," Gordo replied. "I just thought you woulda told her before you told me."

"I didn't tell you anything," I said.

"Well..you know what I mean. Before you did it."

"OKAY!" Miranda yelled so loudly that everyone on the bus looked back at her. "Sorry. You guys just go back to what you were doing." Once the attention was off her, she said in a much quieter voice, "do either one of you want to tell me what IT is?"

"Um, I guess I will," I said in a timid voice, biting my lip nervously. "Gordo, would you mind?"

He got out of the seat and exchanged places with Miranda again. "Just call me Gordo, the human yoyo."

I leaned closer to Miranda and whispered as quietly as I could in her ear, "I..um...IkindakissedGordoyesterday."

Her eyes grew wide and she shrieked as loudly as she could, "YOU KISSED HIM?!"

Oh no. That's it. There have been some pretty embarrassing moments in my life, but this one pretty much tops all. Once again, everyone was looking at us. "Sorry," Miranda apologized again. "You kissed him? You kissed him!"

"MIRANDA!" I exclaimed. "Sssh. You're embarrassing me."

"Well, sorry, but I think I have reason to. This is pretty big!" she responded excitedly. "So, are you guys, like, a couple now?"

"We don't know," Gordo replied for me. "That's what we were trying to figure out."

'Well, just ask her out," Miranda instructed bluntly. "She'll say yes."

"Are you sure?" Gordo asked.

"What, do you guys think I can't hear you?" I exclaimed again. Sheesh. I was having to do a lot of that exclaiming stuff this morning. "Just go on, have your little moment, like I'm not even here."

"Sorry," they both said at the same time.

"Lizzie, I think Gordo has something to say to you!" Miranda prodded Gordo on.

Oh, gosh. Embarrassing moment number two, coming right up.

This was not my morning.