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What You Didn't Expect

Chapter 8

"Liz... um... why are you still online?" Gordo questioned, when he logged onto AOL later that evening.

"Crap! I knew I forgot to shut the computer down... ugh... if anyone tries to call my apartment they're going to get a busy signal the entire week now," Lizzie moaned.

"You can call the operator and have them disconnect it..." Gordo said.

"I can? Oh... well, do you have two phone lines? Can I use the phone to do that?"

"Yeah, here use this one." Gordo handed her a cordless phone, then watched as she turned and walked out into the hall. She was so beautiful... He tried to shake the thoughts out of his head, but his mind continued to wander.

'I thought I was falling for Brooke and getting over Lizzie... that's why I wanted Brooke to come here so badly... and all along, I was only falling even harder for Lizzie...' he thought. "Good shot, Gordo," he mumbled.

"What was that? Were you talking to me, or yourself?" Lizzie came back into the room. "They disconnected it for me."

"I was talking to myself."

"You must be a lonely person!" Lizzie joked. 'You have no idea,' Gordo thought. He reprimanded his thoughts and bit his tongue, though.

"Yeah, well, you try living alone in New York, going to school to be a director... NO one is interested in you. I could strike up a conversation with someone, and five seconds later a celebrity walks by, and they're like, 'Oh, that's so-and-so! I'll catch you later!' and they run off," Gordo said.

"Aww... if it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't do that to you. Well... unless it was Matt Damon who walked by... ooh!" Lizzie gave a little shiver, then smiled. "I'm kidding, Gordo. I would never abandon you," she said, when he looked at her pathetically.

"Thanks, Liz. You always were the one person who stuck with me," he said, smiling gratefully at her. Lizzie hugged him again, then sat down on the desktop.

"So Gordo... this is New York... I KNOW there's more to do than hang around your apartment all day!"

"Well, there's always-"

"Shopping! I've heard the shopping here is tremendous!" Lizzie exclaimed. Gordo sighed. Some things just never changed. Lizzie's clothes-a-holic personality was one of those things.