Chapter Five:

Boys Will Be Boys

The crowd stopped dancing as the music quietly faded. The spotlight was on Claire, who was standing on their couch. "YOU GUYS," she began. "THANKS SO MUCH FOR COMING TO MY PARTY!!!"

The crowd cheered but Claire wasn't through yet. "I'm glad you all came," she then looked at Lizzie, Kate, and their friends. "Well, not all of you, but you get the point."

She went down from the couch and started dancing again with Twitty, who wasn't too sure if dancing with Claire was the right thing to do after what she had said.

"Can you believe her?" Daphne asked Lizzie. "She's like one of those bad old TV shows that they keep on showing on re-runs."

Lizzie bit her lip. "I know. But that's so her; I'm not surprised."

While the others seemed not to mind, Kate was a different case. She was fuming. "If she thinks that little stunt is going to go unnoticed," Kate said, "she's dead wrong."

The party finished at around two in the morning, but the gang didn't stay until then. A few minutes before midnight, they all headed for Daphne's apartment where they were going to be staying for the night.

"Okay, Tawny and I will stay in my room," Daphne started. "Kate and Lizzie, you can have the guest room. I'm sure the boys won't mind staying in the den for the night."

Malcolm chuckled. "Daphne, your sofa is more bigger AND more comfortable than my bed!"

"It's more than okay for us to sleep on the couch," Louis joined in.

After a half-hour or so of chitchat, the girls retreated to their rooms leaving the boys in Daphne's den.

Gordo had no immediate plans of sleeping. He had been keeping silent for two weeks now, waiting for the right time to ask Louis and Malcolm about something. And he deemed this was the perfect timing.

"I'd like to ask you guys something," Gordo said as he sat on the sleeping bag Daphne had given him.

"Shoot, bro." Twitty said as he put more popcorn in his mouth.

Gordo cleared his throat. "There's no easy way to ask this. But Louis, Malcolm?"

The two boys sat up straight. "What is it?" They both asked in unison.

"Do you guys like Lizzie?" He was speaking in monotone; he didn't want to sound angry or nonchalant.

Two seconds of silence followed before Louis started to laugh. Gordo gave Louis a glare.

"No, Gordo," Louis said in between laughs. "Well, since we're being totally honest here," he then started to become serious. "When I first saw her, yes, there was the interest. She's a pretty girl," Louis said. "But when we became friends and I learned she's yours, no questions asked, I lost the interest. I'm a loyal friend."

Gordo began to feel some of the tension go away. "That's good to know, Louis."

Malcolm cleared his throat. "As for me, I like someone, but I tell you Gordo, pretty as Lizzie is it's not her."

"And you can be sure I don't like Lizzie as more than a friend either," Twitty said chiming in. Then in a whisphery voice he said, "If I had to like someone, Kate would be the type."

Gordo smiled. "Total babe isn't she? But of course for me she's no Lizzie."

"I like Daphne," Malcolm said as he stared at the 36-inch TV in front of them.

All conversations went to a halt. Complete silence.

"No.." Malcolm began. "I didn't just say that out loud, didn't I?"

Twitty threw a pillow at Malcolm. "BUSTED!!" It didn't take long for Gordo and Louis to join him. They kept on teasing him and made all these weird kissing sounds.

"I'm Malcolm and I like Daphne, I just wanna hug her and kiss her," Louis said, mocking (in a nice way) Malcolm's voice.

"Oh, shut up you guys." Malcolm said.

The creak of a door made them shut up in an instant.

"Guys?" Daphne said. "It's like, 12:30 in the morning. We girls need our beauty rest you know."

"Don't worry Daphne," Gordo said. "We're going to sleep now."

Twitty said, "Yep, good night!"

Daphne smiled. She had such wonderful  guy friends. "Good night guys. Sweet dreams."


"Oh we will. Right Malcolm?" Louis said, breaking into fits of laughter.

"What was that?" Daphne asked.

"Oh, nothing," Malcolm said. "Good night."

"Night guys. See ya in the morning."

"Yeah, see ya."

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