It's almost prom time. In a few hours I'll be dancing close to the guy I've been in love with for over seventeen years. The most happiest day of my life. Then why aren't I happy? I mean I am, then I'm not. Gordo has me so screwed up and I can't imagine why. I hope I don't get sick at the prom like I have been lately.

"Lizzie?" Lizzie's mom said knocking gently on her door. "Ethan is here."

Here? Now? But prom isn't for three more hours. Lizzie looked at her clock. It was seven o' clock on the dot.

Cartoon Lizzie: Have I been sitting here for three hours thinking about life and love? Time passes when you drift into another world. That must be the secret to monks and Buddhists and stuff like that.

"Ok, I'm coming," Lizzie said.

"Wow," Ethan said admiring Lizzie in her lavender gown and her hair and make up. She looked like a lady of a millionaire.

I'm so nervous. I'm so afraid I'll do something to mess this night up. This is my perfect night.

Ethan touched her hand and led her out to a limo he rented. Lizzie pretended to act surprised. She wasn't suppose to know about the limo, but Miranda couldn't help but tell her.

Lizzie's nerves calmed down a little. She felt so comfortable around Ethan.

Am I in love? Is he my soul mate? I think I am in love.

Lizzie smiled and Ethan saw it. He smiled back and leaned down to kiss her.

Fireworks! I see fireworks! I AM in love!

The eventually arrived at the prom, which was in a very beautiful boat. It reminded Lizzie of the Titanic. That fact didn't make her nervous. The only thing that made her nervous was that Gordo was going to be on it.

Lizzie and Ethan had a few drinks and talked a little before they started dancing. The boat wasn't going to sail far, just in case someone needed off or it did start to sink. It was basically going to go in circles until about midnight. If anyone wanted off there was several motor boats attached and would take any couple back to shore.

Lizzie and Ethan were dancing to "Paradise" when they felt the boat start to take off.

"If we hit an iceberg, even though it's a hundred degrees outside, I'll let you be Rose and I'll be Leonardo," Ethan said.

Lizzie laughed. She wanted to say something clever and sweet back, but her mind went blank. Instead of a comeback, Gordo's face appeared in her mind. She got scared for a second.

I'm supposed to be in love with Ethan, why can't I get Gordo out of my mind?

"Hey, Lizzie, I booked us a room around back. I forgot something in there, if I'm not back in five minutes come look for me," Ethan said.

"Ok," Lizzie said.

Ethan left and Lizzie looked around. She saw Miranda with her date and some other guys she was flirting with. She then saw Kate who was snickering and looking at her. Lizzie eventually found Gordo, he was talking to some other dateless guys there.

Lizzie looked down. Oh no! That feeling is coming back again. I can't be getting sick, not now. I can't!

"Lizzie?"

Lizzie turned around to see Kate.

"So, have you and Ethan done it yet?" Kate asked with her friends giggling in the background.

"Done what?" Lizzie asked. As soon as she asked it, she knew the answer and realized how dumb of a question that was. "Of course not!"

"Ethan will be disappointed," Kate said.

"No he won't. He's not that type of guy."

Kate let out a burst of laughter. "Why do you think he asked you? I told him you would give him some if he asked you to the prom."

"Why?"

"To get you back for telling him that crazy story about me getting drunk and-"

"He's not like that!" Lizzie insisted.

"Oh, are you going to cry? That's too bad. I figured you would have known by now. Ethan is a patient guy you know," Kate said.

Lizzie didn't say anything. She didn't know what to say. Kate, getting bored, gave one last snicker and left to go back to her date and friends.

It's been five minutes, maybe he got lost. Lizzie went to the back to look for Ethan.

Kate's wrong. She's just jealous because he asked me and not her.

Lizzie found the room that Ethan had booked for them. It had a "Do not Disturb" sign on it. Lizzie shook her head. "Paranoid," she told herself.

Lizzie opened the door and found a room with one bed and Ethan's tuxedo thrown all over the floor. Ethan came out of the small bathroom in his robe. "I thought you would never get here."

"Ethan! What are you doing?" Lizzie asked in disbelief.

"What do you mean? What does it look like I'm doing?" Ethan said. "You wanted this, right?"

"No!" Lizzie said.

"But Kate said-"

"Kate lied!"

"Come on Lizzie, everybody does this on Prom. It's the 'cool' thing to do."

"Then I guess I'm no 'cool' enough for you," Lizzie said and then slammed the door shut. She saw Kate at the end of the hall laughing. Lizzie ran down the other end of the hall. She didn't want to face Kate right now. Lizzie started crying.

All he wanted was sex and I was too blind to see it! I thought he really liked me.

Lizzie ran down various halls and stopped to lean on a poll and cry. Great, I'm lost now.

"Lizzie?" a familiar voice said.

Lizzie looked up and through the blurryness of her tears she saw Gordo.

"Gordo? How did you find me?"

"If you open that door in front of you, you will find the prom going on."

Lizzie looked at the blue doors in front of her. She saw faces through the window, happy faces. She heard the music over her pain for the first time. "Oh, yea."

"Are you ok?"

"Honestly? No!" Lizzie sobbed.

"What happened?" Gordo asked almost afraid to touch her. Afraid he would offend her, or scare her, or even break her.

"I'll make a long story short. Ethan just wanted me for sex. Every sweet thing he ever said to me was a lie."

Figured, Gordo thought.

"Kate was the one that told him I would do it! That's why she wasn't upset when she found out we were going together."

Lizzie dried her eyes and stared at her reflection in the mirror. I'm nothing, she thought.

Gordo, with his hear beating, took a chance and scooped Lizzie up in his arms. To his surprise, she didn't fight it. She grabbed onto his tuxedo as if she were going to fall off a cliff if she let go. Gordo said the only thing he knew to say, "Everything will be ok."

Lizzie's heart started beating and her stomach was making a funny feeling again. Only this time it didn't hurt, it felt good. She felt good in his arms. This felt right. It only felt right with Ethan when she was with him and wasn't thinking about anyone else. She only felt like she was in love when Ethan was lying to her, using her.

With that last thought Lizzie wrapped her arms around Gordo's neck and sobbed a little more. She could tell it startled him, but he just gripped tighter around her.

Not too tight, but tight enough that I know he'll never let me go, Lizzie thought. She felt like a baby crying like this. She tried hard to make it stop, but she couldn't. She heard Gordo saying, "Shh. Everything is ok now, I promise." He kept repeating that. The more he said it, the more that feeling grew in the pit of Lizzie's stomach. She eventually stopped crying. Something hit her suddenly. That feeling, the painful feeling she use to get when she was with Ethan, but thought about Gordo, was guilt. She felt guilty that she wasn't going to the prom with Gordo, because deep down that's who she liked. She never liked Ethan Craft. She liked Ethan Crafts looks and the person she had pictured of him in her mind. That perfect prince image of him riding on a golden stallion and slaying dragons, the fairy tale type. But he wasn't anything like that, he was the villain and Gordo was the prince.

I found my prince at last. She realized that deep down, she always did like Gordo, she was just afraid he didn't like her and that Ethan was her only one.

Lizzie looked up at Gordo who had a sympathetic look on his face. The look that said: I care about you, I really do.

Lizzie wanted to cry again. Not because of Ethan, but because she knew she had caused Gordo pain and wanted to turn back time and make it right, but she couldn't.

Lizzie looked into Gordo's eyes this time. They were pretty. She smiled, she didn't force at. She actually tried to stop it, but couldn't. Something made her smile. It wasn't a big smile, just a small loving smile. Gordo smiled back. Before Lizzie knew it, she was being kissed by the guy of her dreams.

Fireworks! I see fireworks!

Gordo is the guy I had pictured as Ethan all these years. Why didn't I see that?

"Oh my god! Lizzie!" Miranda yelled in a happy tone.

Gordo and Lizzie both looked up shocked. Miranda was grinning from ear to ear.

"Uh, well, you see, we were just um," They both stammered.

"I heard about you and Ethan, but it looks like you're ok. This time, I get the hint," Miranda said and started to exit back into the room where they were having the prom.

"I guess Kate didn't waist any time," Lizzie said.

"Yea," Gordo said dryly. "You, uh, you wanna dance?"

Lizzie smiled. "I'd love you."

They walked back into the room. The people who Kate had gotten too started whispering while other who hadn't heard, kept going on with their business.

Another slow song came on and Gordo held Lizzie close. She sighed. "This is how it should be." She opened her eyes wide after she said that. I didn't mean to say that out loud. Gordo sighed back and only held her tighter. Ok, no problem, Lizzie thought.

For the rest of the night, others came by and told her that Kate was a jerk for what she did while Miranda kept checking on her. Rumors were that Kate and Ethan were an item now.

"That's the way it should be," Gordo said.

When it came time to pick the prom king and queen Lizzie looked down. Even though there had been hateful words said about both, Ethan and Kate, Lizzie figured they would still get prom king and queen. Lizzie could tell Gordo thought the same.

But, to there surprise, there names were called out.

Kate's mouth dropped open and she cried tears of jealousy.

"Lizzie and Gordo got it!" Miranda said and winked at them both as they took their crowns.

Cartoon Lizzie: I got to be Prom queen and my king is the guy I really do like, love maybe. This night did turn out to be pretty close to perfect after all.

Thank you for the reviews! I appreciate them all! And, I bet you think this is the last chapter, right? Well, wrong! Hehe. I got one more. It'll be a song fic though, very short. I was going to make the last chapter a song fic about "I'm Movin' on" by the Rascal Flatts.