The Wish
By:MerlinsApprentince
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Chapter 5
A/N: This is the chapter with things start getting interesting. I'm changing the rating to PG -13 because I'm done with being innocent. We all know that hardly is any fun. This is going to be a mystery,a interesting story. The love plot was sort of taken from another series, but not really, the idea and I worked out from it, so if some of it seems familiar to you, you'll know why. But you won't notice that til more chapters come out. . . Well enjoy!!! ^.^
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Lizzie sat quietly in the ugly leather chairs. She had finally come to a conclusion. She absolutely despised airports. Hated them. Thought there couldn't be a worse invention other then this little junkie areas, where you wait impatiently for your visitors.
Jo looked down at her watch and turned back to her daughter. "How much longer, dear?" she questioned quietly looking down at her. Lizzie sat atop the chair her elbows on her knees her head in her hands. "Don't know. You'd think they'd be here... we were the ones who are late...." she grumbled nervously.
Suddenly from a new burst of people, Lizzie spotted Gabe's abnormally large build, and Ali's bright, bobbing red head. "Oh there they are!" Lizzie acknowledged joyfully jumping from the chair and hurrying over to met her two best friends.
"Ahh!" Ali laughed loudly as Lizzie hugged her tightly, both of them giggling madly. "Oh its great to see both of you!" Lizzie whispered as she hugged Ali, and greeted Gabe with a kiss on the cheek. Ali laughed shaking her two braids. "Its great to see you too! How are you fairing?" she questioned, softly. Lizzie laughed at her apprehension.
"Come met my mom" pretty much answered Ali's questions. Jo came up, at her second name and grinned. "Hi there. I'm Jo Mcguire Lizzie's mom" she introduced herself merrily putting on a truthful grin. Ali smilied her arms still around her best friend. "Hello Mrs. Mcguire. I'm Alison Lynn, but you can call me Ali if it makes you more comfortable" she said poiletely smiling.
Jo liked Ali at first. She seemed like such a darling child, a girl who could be Lizzie's friend through and through. "And this is Gabe" Lizzie pulled the large blonde man over, who had a tantalizing grin that usually made young girls weak. "Hi there" he stated friendly like, taking his hand out for Jo to shake. She accepted merrily and found both of them a delight.
"Welcome to Hillridge, Ali and Gabe" she said smiling merrily. These two were great. But Jo just wasn't sure how Gordo and Miranda were going to take it... They had been Lizzie's best friends since... well Gordo since diapers, and Miranda since school. And Gabe and Ali, they seemed to her, almost like dummies of Gordo and Miranda.Someone to take their places.
This was going to be one long dinner party...
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"Alice! Those are for the guests!" Lizzie scolded quietly, as she spotted the little girl sticking her finger in the chocolate pudding. The culprit looked up guiltily. "But it was ... it looks... yummy" she ended pathethicly as Lizzie scooped her up from the stool, where she had stolen a lick of the dessert.
"Well you could have some later" Lizzie interjected putting the pudding in the fridge for later. Everyone was hectic running around setting the big tables and such. Cammie and Matt were due sometime soon, and Miranda and Danny and the kids were coming for a visit, and then at the spur of the earlier morning, she had invitied Gordo and his new fiancee, Megan. And Lizzie was finally going to met Alice's real parents at last.
She sighed pushing her blonde wavy hair into a quick bun, slipping a apron over her nice dress. It was true her mom had made some extra dinner assortments earlier, but they were far from ready. They had the main course, which was a nice juicy ham and turkey, done but the potatoes still needed to be peeled, the fruit salad mixed, and the cherry cheesecake made.
Alice frowned watching Lizzie's concentrated face trying to search for the potato peeler. "Are you ok?" the little girl questioned, still sucking her finger for any extra pudding left. Lizzie frowned peering at the tiny girl for a moment. Alice was all dressed up as well, in a fluffy green dress, her long white hair held into a nice braid, her cute little dress shoes on. This couldn't have been fun for the little girl.
Good thing she remebered to invite Anya. "I'm fine... why do you ask?" she questioned raising and eyebrow as she came up truimphantly with the lost potato peeler. "You look sick" Alice stated as she went back atop the stool Lizzie had just scooped her off of. Lizzie frowned pulling the bowl of the fresh potatoes next to her, and started to peel.
"What do you mean sick?" she asked again clearly confused. "Your all pale... and you look jittery... like when you go on like in a play and you see all those people... well you look like that" the little child stated shurgging, spinning in the new chair. Lizzie sighed, blowing out the hot air. She was afraid to admit the kid was right. Lizzie was extremely jittery. She didn't know why she invitied Ali and Gabe to come along. She just made the situation worse for her...
How was Miranda and Gordo going to take to them? Lizzie had been their best friend since... well forever it seems to her. She never remembered otherwise, until she left so long ago. And now she was bringing both together. Would both get jealous of one another? She would have been jealous and angry if Miranda and Gordo had gotten new friends....
But they were adults now. Not middle schoolers. They had matured. Of course they wouldn't be jealous. They may have even wanted to encourage it! It's not like Lizzie was going to stay here in Hillridge... she still had a home in Florida.
Lizzie frowned as she had went down to the next potato the skin peeling off quickly a new idea forming in her head. Did she... did she want her her friends to be jealous of Gabe and Ali. Jealousy showed emotions for another. If Miranda and Gordo showed jealousy to the two, Lizzie would defaintly have her proof of their feelings for her. Lizzie sighed, sending her blonde loose tendril flying. She would never understand herself.
The doorbell rang, breaking her and Alice's thoughts. "Oh I'll get it I'll get it!!!" Alice exclaimed childishly, as she raced to the front door her braid bouncing off her back. Lizzie chuckled wiping her wet hands against a towel. It was nice to have a child in the house, especially for her parents. She knew they were starting to feel old again, and needed someone to take care of that wasn't themselves. And they were even luckier to have that kind of child, that didn't mind pretending Jo was her mother and Sam her father.
"Hi Mrs.Pheonix!!!" Alice's voice greeted and Lizzie peeked her head out to see Miranda and her family at the doorstep. Miranda laughed dressed nicely with Miles at her hip. "Hi Alice..." she greeted in a humourous tone. "Hey Miranda!" Lizzie laughed, dropping the towel at the kitchen counter and hurried over kissing her lightly at the cheek. "Oh, sorry , I know we're a bit early, but you know everyone was complaining and Anya just wanted to play with Alice and I assumed you might want some help with dinner..." she rattled on, grinning.
"She just wanted to come over and talk again" Danny finished for her, with a playful grin. Miranda shot him a glare, as Lizzie laughed greeting him with a hug and a smile. "Don't worry about it, Randa. Alice was getting in my way, and I really do need help" the blonde chuckled pulling them in. Jo peered from her spot in the kitchen smiling. "Oh hello Miranda!" she greeted them all.
Anya looked at Alice and grinned, leaving her dad's side as she hurried over to her new friend's side. "Hullo! Want to go play with my new dolls?" she hadn't wasted any time, and flashed the backpack she had brought in with herself, stuffed with new fashioned barbie dolls. "Ok!" Alice stated and the two went to the living room rug to play house.
Jo grinned as she watched Miranda and Lizzie talk softly. "Why don't you two go upstairs and talk for awhile? Me and your father will finish up dinner" Lizzie turned around the apron still around her waist. "You sure? I mean.. I can still help out for awhile...?" she suggested still hoping mom's suggestion was true. "No. Go on ahead."
Danny grinned. "I'll watch the kids for you" he stated simply as he followed the two talkative children into the living room. Miranda gave a small grin at her husband, and Lizzie led her up to her room. "So hows things been?" she questioned with a small grin. She sighed. "Tough day. Miles wouldn't let me finish the first picture of my midnight star outfit, he's driving me crazy" she teased pushing her raven curls behind her.
Lizzie laughed. She never knew the day they would be talking about one another's kids and husbands. She remembered the last conversation she had with 'Randa was about what they should have worn to the prom. Blinking she instantly blocked the word prom from her mind. They hardly talked about boys or proms anymore. Hardly even clothes. It was mostly just passed memories and experiances they had all missed out and chatted about.
Lizzie sighed as she thought about Miles. She was kinda hoping when she was younger that she would at least have a kid at this age, but she wasn't even married yet. She would have loved to have a child now. A small little girl, or boy. She wouldn't have mind ethier. Loneliness was sadly setting in. Suddenly the doorbell rang, echoeing in her ears. "I got it" Lizzie called out into the living room and kitchen.
She sighed making her way down the steps. That was one thing she wouldn't miss about home. No matter what if she was home she was always assigned to get the door. It was almost like a chore for her. Lizzie still hadn't a clue why she still called out 'I got it!' . Everyone already knew she had got it.
Lizzie glided to the door in her high twisted black heels, her short curls bouncing from last nights rag curls. She hoped it was Gordo and Megan, making their dinner tonight appearance. Then everybody would be back. But instead she was welcomed by two tall extremely.... white people.
There was a man towering over Lizzie, despite her heels, with drawn milky white skin, bright blue eyes, and scarce white blonde hair. The brown plain suite looked black compared to all the light tones of his body. The women standing next to him almost sent Lizzie a step backwards though. The women looked as if what Alice would look like if she decided to grow up.
She was the height of Lizzie now, with ivory soft skin with wavy wheate blonde hair, and ice blue eyes that held a silent humour in them. The smile on her face made Lizzie grin for real, the fake greeting gone. "Um, hi" she grgeeted them, allowing them to step in. These were Alice's parents after all.
"You two must be Alice's mum and dad" The man gave a sharp knod and the women smilied pleasently. "Yes, we are. And you must be Elizabeth, Sam and Jo's daughter. They talk plenty about you. I'm Annie, this is Jim" Lizzie bit her lip. Even their names had a bland, austere ring to it. "Yup, you can call me Lizzie. Well, make yourselves at home, dinner should be ready in a few" she pulled them farther into the active household.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Alice acknowledged but didnt get up from her seat in the living room floor next to Anya. "Alice" her mom greeted with a soft smile. Jim failed to produce a sound. Lizzie was starting to think he was mute. "Oh, Annie, it's you. I'm so glad your here. We need some big help in the kitchen. Sam may think he knows how to cook, but no one has the heart to tell him the truth" Jo started babbling as soon as she spotted Annie, kitchen towel in hand.
Annie flashed a small smirk. "No problem, I will help" she stated slowly, dropping her plain creme purse on the counter. Jo grinned happily and then turned to her daughter who stood a bit uuncomfortable in her formal black dress. "You met my daughter, Lizzie, didn't you, Annie?" Jo questioned as she came next to her daughter to rub her shoulder affectionately. Annie knodded looking bored. "Yes" she replied simply.
Lizzie sighed feeling impatience edge on. How did Alice become with the 2 boringest parents she'd layed eyes on? Alice spoke more words in 10 minutes then these two in a hour most likely. The world was terribly confusing. "Mom, me and Mirande want to go upstairs and talk for awhile ok?" Lizzie reminded her pointing to the staircase as to emphasize her thoughts, Jo knoded as she lead Annie back to the kitchen.
"Alright dear" was her simple reply as she disappeared into the haze of smoke the stove was emitting. Lizzie sighed shaking her head. Terribly confusing world.
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"Really, honey, this is pointless. Why do I have to come?" this was Megan's 5th complaint about the dinner party since Gordo put her in his slick red dodge. He sighed shaking his head. The sigh had such force it sent his curls bouncing. "Look, Meg" he said using her nickname. "Lizzie has been my best friend since we were babies and you know she's had a hard life. I havent seen ger in awhile since high school" he took a turn to the Mcguire's house.
Megan sighed in a pair of loose jeans and a silky elegant shirt. Despite the jeans, Megan looked formal, elegant , and beautiful in just about anything. "If you guys are so close why havent I heard about this Lizzie?" she questioned. Gordo sighed. Because when she left his heart broke into about a thousand pieces, and he was determined to have Elixabeth Brooke Mcguire out of his love life.
But of course he wasn't going to tell his easily jealous fiancee that.
"Because she moved out of state after a car accident. She needed a few years off" Gordo explained easily. Megan peered at him at the corner of her pale green eyes. "She's very pretty isnt she?" she questioned slowly. Gordo parked the car next to the Mcguire house trying hard not to chuckle.
Very easily jealous fiancee.
"Look" he turned sideways to stare Megan striaght in the eyes. "Lizzie is just a friend. Nothing else" Megan looked him over then allowed him to kiss her softly. "Promise me" she mummured. Gordo shook his head, allowing himself to laugh. "So, after we're married I'm not allowed to have any friends who are girls ?" he questioned humour glinting in his chocolate brown eyes. Megan raised an eyebrow. "Of course" she teased as she kissed him again, soft and sweet and not excatly what Gordo was looking for, and got out the car door.
Gordo shook his head as he followed out a small smile playing on his face. "C'mon now thats not air" he insisted as he followed her over the steps clutching her wrist as she rang their door bell. "Says who?" the red head smilied her jealous and unhappy mood gone replaced witha playful mood. Megan's moods changed so easily just like a chameleon.
Wasn't one of her good points but she had others. Gordo was going to comeback with a sexy reply that would get her to kiss him again when the door was opened and the 2 were greeted with a estatic "Gordo!". Lizzie leaned against the open door her soft and short blonde hair held into a tight bun loose curls faling around her glittering face, a soft glow from the simple necklace around her neck of a unicorn, ,dragon, and griffin encircling one another. She wore a long black dress that looked simple enough to wear to church but still elegant for a dinner. It shimmied down her long legs and at her pointed ankles where a pair of plain black heels latched onto her small feet.
Gordo stopped all together allowing his eyes to drift up and down Lizzie before she pounced on him with a big hug. He was drowned with the scent of vanilla. Megan starred with a smile barely seeing Gordo's hidden thoughts, only the friendly hug. After all , Gordo sighed, Lizzie and I are only friends.
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The dinner party had begun as a success and ended as a success. Lizzie was tired but extremely cheerful as she rinsed the plates off in the sink and handed them to Miranda who in turn put them in the dishwasher. They decided to give Jo and Sam a break and allowed them to play with Milo, who barely looked ready for sleep. Ali was collecting the dishes from the table and handed them to lizzie, ,all while having a conversation with Miranda on this season's clothes.
She had no idea why she had worried so much about having Gordo and Miranda meeting Ali and Gabe. Ali and Miranda hit it off easily for both had such a passion for clothes. Gabe and Gordo had a splendid conversation on movies and Ali labeled Gordo a 'cutie'. Everything had clicked perfectly. Lizzie was even a little shocked at how well it actually worked.
That squirmy feeling was gone from the pit of her stomach. "Um, Liz, it's time to go bring Alice back home" Gordo came into the kitchen Alice asleep on his chest his arms wrapped loosely around his neck. All 3 girls stifled an 'Aaaaah' just so Alice wouldn't wake. "Anya's asleep too. It seems Barbie and the Nutcracker got to both of them" Gordo informed them showing Anya dead asleep on the couch with Megan who looked like she was drowzing off to sleep as well.
Miranda knodded cutting off the conversation with Ali to pit Anya into the car still asleep. Lizzie smilied as she watched Gordo cradle Alice easily. Children were all so easy for him it was amazing. And gentle. And made him look about 10 x's cuter then before. "Look I'll show you the house" Lizzie suggested wiping her hands on the dish towel and grinned at Ali.
But Ali was still mismerized by Gordo and was repeatedly scrubbing a perfectly clean dish. "I think I can find it. It's just next door" the raven haired man teased but followed Lizzie out the back door and onto the porch. "Oh hush. It's not a sin to have some quiet time with a long lost friend now is it?" Lizzie teased back as the door shut behind her a small grin playing on her face.
Gordo raised one eyebrow, a fleeting image of Megan in his mind. If you only knew , Liz, if you only knew. "You won't believe how nervous I was about this whole dinner thing" Lizzie grumbled absentmindley as she took off the aching heels and headed against the soft green grass her of her backyard.Her backyard looked the same as well except for the fact there seemed to be 2 dozen more gnomes then usual.
Her dad had way to much time on her hands.
"Why?" Gordo questioned her behind her acknowledging the fact that Lizzie was opening up to him as if she hadn't disappeared for years but only for a week. He was Gordo the listener once again. And somehow knowing this he felt himself smile deeper."Truthfully, I dont know" she chuckled crossing her arms.
"I was thinking just that you might see Ali and Gabe as a substitute for you and Miranda or something utterly stupid like that" she grinned twisting her fingers. Gordo frowned, shifting Alice slowly as they came to her porchsteps.
"I did " he admitted. "Actually, I think they were for awhile but then you found real true friends in them" Lizzie listened and saw how well the explanation fit. "Well...." she muttured rubbing her bare arms for warmth. "And you thought we would be mad that you would substitute us like that" Gordo concluded before Lizzie finished her sentence. She looked up with a faint smile.
Gordo never failed to get anything right on the nose. "You could be rich as a pyshcologist right now you know that?" she teased. Gordo just raised an eyebrow as if he had thought of that plenty of times . "Nah, I just know you to well McGuire. And me and Miranda were never nor will we be mad at you for something like that. We're to glad to have you back" and he gave her a soft honest smile.
Lizzie once again questioned herself why had she ever left this place and knodded opening the front door. Jim and Alice had went home 10 minuntes eariler and just said they'd leave the door unlocked to drop off Alice. One or both would be awake. But suddenly Lizzie noticed that the lights weren't on at all. "Hello?" Lizzie called out into the dark empty hallway. "Hello?" she sighed.
Through the dark she searched for the switch. 'Aha' Lizzie thought as she flicked on the button on the switch. Light filtered in through out the huge 2 story house. It lit the long narrow hallway filled with plain family photos. It lit the vase full of dead and old wild flowers. The light lit the fresh blood on the old worn carpet. The light lit to show Lizzie and Gordo the 2 bleeding bodies of Annie and Jim.
Lizzie stopped her heartbeat rocketing off as her hand went instantly to her mouth. "Oh my god" she managed to whisper her eyes barely able to pull themselves away from the mangled bodies of the Mr. and Mrs. "Jesus" Gordo hissed when he saw excatly what made Lizzie go so limp like a doll.
Lizzie automatically reached for Alice as Gordo shoved her into her arms. Shock was overflowing her senses. She hadnt even the sense to scream. The you ng man bent down in the blood -- so bright, so fresh-- eyeing them both with a pale drawn face. Annie had bullet punctures on her chest and her legs, and Jim had them scattered across his face.
Gordo checked both pulses even though it was obvious. "Dead, Both of them" Gordo managaed to whisper as he bent back on his heels. In Annie's hand , loose and dripping with that awful red liquid was a 9 mm pistol. Lizzie then allowed herself to break down. Tears were shoved out her blue sapphire eyes as Gordo reached to call the polivce.
Annie and Jim's life was over. Everything, it was over. But truthfully for Lizzie Mcguire everything had just began....
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MUUWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
.... I am done.... On to the next chapter !!! *wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Thank You and Have a Nice Day
~MerlinsApprentince
By:MerlinsApprentince
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Chapter 5
A/N: This is the chapter with things start getting interesting. I'm changing the rating to PG -13 because I'm done with being innocent. We all know that hardly is any fun. This is going to be a mystery,a interesting story. The love plot was sort of taken from another series, but not really, the idea and I worked out from it, so if some of it seems familiar to you, you'll know why. But you won't notice that til more chapters come out. . . Well enjoy!!! ^.^
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Lizzie sat quietly in the ugly leather chairs. She had finally come to a conclusion. She absolutely despised airports. Hated them. Thought there couldn't be a worse invention other then this little junkie areas, where you wait impatiently for your visitors.
Jo looked down at her watch and turned back to her daughter. "How much longer, dear?" she questioned quietly looking down at her. Lizzie sat atop the chair her elbows on her knees her head in her hands. "Don't know. You'd think they'd be here... we were the ones who are late...." she grumbled nervously.
Suddenly from a new burst of people, Lizzie spotted Gabe's abnormally large build, and Ali's bright, bobbing red head. "Oh there they are!" Lizzie acknowledged joyfully jumping from the chair and hurrying over to met her two best friends.
"Ahh!" Ali laughed loudly as Lizzie hugged her tightly, both of them giggling madly. "Oh its great to see both of you!" Lizzie whispered as she hugged Ali, and greeted Gabe with a kiss on the cheek. Ali laughed shaking her two braids. "Its great to see you too! How are you fairing?" she questioned, softly. Lizzie laughed at her apprehension.
"Come met my mom" pretty much answered Ali's questions. Jo came up, at her second name and grinned. "Hi there. I'm Jo Mcguire Lizzie's mom" she introduced herself merrily putting on a truthful grin. Ali smilied her arms still around her best friend. "Hello Mrs. Mcguire. I'm Alison Lynn, but you can call me Ali if it makes you more comfortable" she said poiletely smiling.
Jo liked Ali at first. She seemed like such a darling child, a girl who could be Lizzie's friend through and through. "And this is Gabe" Lizzie pulled the large blonde man over, who had a tantalizing grin that usually made young girls weak. "Hi there" he stated friendly like, taking his hand out for Jo to shake. She accepted merrily and found both of them a delight.
"Welcome to Hillridge, Ali and Gabe" she said smiling merrily. These two were great. But Jo just wasn't sure how Gordo and Miranda were going to take it... They had been Lizzie's best friends since... well Gordo since diapers, and Miranda since school. And Gabe and Ali, they seemed to her, almost like dummies of Gordo and Miranda.Someone to take their places.
This was going to be one long dinner party...
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"Alice! Those are for the guests!" Lizzie scolded quietly, as she spotted the little girl sticking her finger in the chocolate pudding. The culprit looked up guiltily. "But it was ... it looks... yummy" she ended pathethicly as Lizzie scooped her up from the stool, where she had stolen a lick of the dessert.
"Well you could have some later" Lizzie interjected putting the pudding in the fridge for later. Everyone was hectic running around setting the big tables and such. Cammie and Matt were due sometime soon, and Miranda and Danny and the kids were coming for a visit, and then at the spur of the earlier morning, she had invitied Gordo and his new fiancee, Megan. And Lizzie was finally going to met Alice's real parents at last.
She sighed pushing her blonde wavy hair into a quick bun, slipping a apron over her nice dress. It was true her mom had made some extra dinner assortments earlier, but they were far from ready. They had the main course, which was a nice juicy ham and turkey, done but the potatoes still needed to be peeled, the fruit salad mixed, and the cherry cheesecake made.
Alice frowned watching Lizzie's concentrated face trying to search for the potato peeler. "Are you ok?" the little girl questioned, still sucking her finger for any extra pudding left. Lizzie frowned peering at the tiny girl for a moment. Alice was all dressed up as well, in a fluffy green dress, her long white hair held into a nice braid, her cute little dress shoes on. This couldn't have been fun for the little girl.
Good thing she remebered to invite Anya. "I'm fine... why do you ask?" she questioned raising and eyebrow as she came up truimphantly with the lost potato peeler. "You look sick" Alice stated as she went back atop the stool Lizzie had just scooped her off of. Lizzie frowned pulling the bowl of the fresh potatoes next to her, and started to peel.
"What do you mean sick?" she asked again clearly confused. "Your all pale... and you look jittery... like when you go on like in a play and you see all those people... well you look like that" the little child stated shurgging, spinning in the new chair. Lizzie sighed, blowing out the hot air. She was afraid to admit the kid was right. Lizzie was extremely jittery. She didn't know why she invitied Ali and Gabe to come along. She just made the situation worse for her...
How was Miranda and Gordo going to take to them? Lizzie had been their best friend since... well forever it seems to her. She never remembered otherwise, until she left so long ago. And now she was bringing both together. Would both get jealous of one another? She would have been jealous and angry if Miranda and Gordo had gotten new friends....
But they were adults now. Not middle schoolers. They had matured. Of course they wouldn't be jealous. They may have even wanted to encourage it! It's not like Lizzie was going to stay here in Hillridge... she still had a home in Florida.
Lizzie frowned as she had went down to the next potato the skin peeling off quickly a new idea forming in her head. Did she... did she want her her friends to be jealous of Gabe and Ali. Jealousy showed emotions for another. If Miranda and Gordo showed jealousy to the two, Lizzie would defaintly have her proof of their feelings for her. Lizzie sighed, sending her blonde loose tendril flying. She would never understand herself.
The doorbell rang, breaking her and Alice's thoughts. "Oh I'll get it I'll get it!!!" Alice exclaimed childishly, as she raced to the front door her braid bouncing off her back. Lizzie chuckled wiping her wet hands against a towel. It was nice to have a child in the house, especially for her parents. She knew they were starting to feel old again, and needed someone to take care of that wasn't themselves. And they were even luckier to have that kind of child, that didn't mind pretending Jo was her mother and Sam her father.
"Hi Mrs.Pheonix!!!" Alice's voice greeted and Lizzie peeked her head out to see Miranda and her family at the doorstep. Miranda laughed dressed nicely with Miles at her hip. "Hi Alice..." she greeted in a humourous tone. "Hey Miranda!" Lizzie laughed, dropping the towel at the kitchen counter and hurried over kissing her lightly at the cheek. "Oh, sorry , I know we're a bit early, but you know everyone was complaining and Anya just wanted to play with Alice and I assumed you might want some help with dinner..." she rattled on, grinning.
"She just wanted to come over and talk again" Danny finished for her, with a playful grin. Miranda shot him a glare, as Lizzie laughed greeting him with a hug and a smile. "Don't worry about it, Randa. Alice was getting in my way, and I really do need help" the blonde chuckled pulling them in. Jo peered from her spot in the kitchen smiling. "Oh hello Miranda!" she greeted them all.
Anya looked at Alice and grinned, leaving her dad's side as she hurried over to her new friend's side. "Hullo! Want to go play with my new dolls?" she hadn't wasted any time, and flashed the backpack she had brought in with herself, stuffed with new fashioned barbie dolls. "Ok!" Alice stated and the two went to the living room rug to play house.
Jo grinned as she watched Miranda and Lizzie talk softly. "Why don't you two go upstairs and talk for awhile? Me and your father will finish up dinner" Lizzie turned around the apron still around her waist. "You sure? I mean.. I can still help out for awhile...?" she suggested still hoping mom's suggestion was true. "No. Go on ahead."
Danny grinned. "I'll watch the kids for you" he stated simply as he followed the two talkative children into the living room. Miranda gave a small grin at her husband, and Lizzie led her up to her room. "So hows things been?" she questioned with a small grin. She sighed. "Tough day. Miles wouldn't let me finish the first picture of my midnight star outfit, he's driving me crazy" she teased pushing her raven curls behind her.
Lizzie laughed. She never knew the day they would be talking about one another's kids and husbands. She remembered the last conversation she had with 'Randa was about what they should have worn to the prom. Blinking she instantly blocked the word prom from her mind. They hardly talked about boys or proms anymore. Hardly even clothes. It was mostly just passed memories and experiances they had all missed out and chatted about.
Lizzie sighed as she thought about Miles. She was kinda hoping when she was younger that she would at least have a kid at this age, but she wasn't even married yet. She would have loved to have a child now. A small little girl, or boy. She wouldn't have mind ethier. Loneliness was sadly setting in. Suddenly the doorbell rang, echoeing in her ears. "I got it" Lizzie called out into the living room and kitchen.
She sighed making her way down the steps. That was one thing she wouldn't miss about home. No matter what if she was home she was always assigned to get the door. It was almost like a chore for her. Lizzie still hadn't a clue why she still called out 'I got it!' . Everyone already knew she had got it.
Lizzie glided to the door in her high twisted black heels, her short curls bouncing from last nights rag curls. She hoped it was Gordo and Megan, making their dinner tonight appearance. Then everybody would be back. But instead she was welcomed by two tall extremely.... white people.
There was a man towering over Lizzie, despite her heels, with drawn milky white skin, bright blue eyes, and scarce white blonde hair. The brown plain suite looked black compared to all the light tones of his body. The women standing next to him almost sent Lizzie a step backwards though. The women looked as if what Alice would look like if she decided to grow up.
She was the height of Lizzie now, with ivory soft skin with wavy wheate blonde hair, and ice blue eyes that held a silent humour in them. The smile on her face made Lizzie grin for real, the fake greeting gone. "Um, hi" she grgeeted them, allowing them to step in. These were Alice's parents after all.
"You two must be Alice's mum and dad" The man gave a sharp knod and the women smilied pleasently. "Yes, we are. And you must be Elizabeth, Sam and Jo's daughter. They talk plenty about you. I'm Annie, this is Jim" Lizzie bit her lip. Even their names had a bland, austere ring to it. "Yup, you can call me Lizzie. Well, make yourselves at home, dinner should be ready in a few" she pulled them farther into the active household.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Alice acknowledged but didnt get up from her seat in the living room floor next to Anya. "Alice" her mom greeted with a soft smile. Jim failed to produce a sound. Lizzie was starting to think he was mute. "Oh, Annie, it's you. I'm so glad your here. We need some big help in the kitchen. Sam may think he knows how to cook, but no one has the heart to tell him the truth" Jo started babbling as soon as she spotted Annie, kitchen towel in hand.
Annie flashed a small smirk. "No problem, I will help" she stated slowly, dropping her plain creme purse on the counter. Jo grinned happily and then turned to her daughter who stood a bit uuncomfortable in her formal black dress. "You met my daughter, Lizzie, didn't you, Annie?" Jo questioned as she came next to her daughter to rub her shoulder affectionately. Annie knodded looking bored. "Yes" she replied simply.
Lizzie sighed feeling impatience edge on. How did Alice become with the 2 boringest parents she'd layed eyes on? Alice spoke more words in 10 minutes then these two in a hour most likely. The world was terribly confusing. "Mom, me and Mirande want to go upstairs and talk for awhile ok?" Lizzie reminded her pointing to the staircase as to emphasize her thoughts, Jo knoded as she lead Annie back to the kitchen.
"Alright dear" was her simple reply as she disappeared into the haze of smoke the stove was emitting. Lizzie sighed shaking her head. Terribly confusing world.
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"Really, honey, this is pointless. Why do I have to come?" this was Megan's 5th complaint about the dinner party since Gordo put her in his slick red dodge. He sighed shaking his head. The sigh had such force it sent his curls bouncing. "Look, Meg" he said using her nickname. "Lizzie has been my best friend since we were babies and you know she's had a hard life. I havent seen ger in awhile since high school" he took a turn to the Mcguire's house.
Megan sighed in a pair of loose jeans and a silky elegant shirt. Despite the jeans, Megan looked formal, elegant , and beautiful in just about anything. "If you guys are so close why havent I heard about this Lizzie?" she questioned. Gordo sighed. Because when she left his heart broke into about a thousand pieces, and he was determined to have Elixabeth Brooke Mcguire out of his love life.
But of course he wasn't going to tell his easily jealous fiancee that.
"Because she moved out of state after a car accident. She needed a few years off" Gordo explained easily. Megan peered at him at the corner of her pale green eyes. "She's very pretty isnt she?" she questioned slowly. Gordo parked the car next to the Mcguire house trying hard not to chuckle.
Very easily jealous fiancee.
"Look" he turned sideways to stare Megan striaght in the eyes. "Lizzie is just a friend. Nothing else" Megan looked him over then allowed him to kiss her softly. "Promise me" she mummured. Gordo shook his head, allowing himself to laugh. "So, after we're married I'm not allowed to have any friends who are girls ?" he questioned humour glinting in his chocolate brown eyes. Megan raised an eyebrow. "Of course" she teased as she kissed him again, soft and sweet and not excatly what Gordo was looking for, and got out the car door.
Gordo shook his head as he followed out a small smile playing on his face. "C'mon now thats not air" he insisted as he followed her over the steps clutching her wrist as she rang their door bell. "Says who?" the red head smilied her jealous and unhappy mood gone replaced witha playful mood. Megan's moods changed so easily just like a chameleon.
Wasn't one of her good points but she had others. Gordo was going to comeback with a sexy reply that would get her to kiss him again when the door was opened and the 2 were greeted with a estatic "Gordo!". Lizzie leaned against the open door her soft and short blonde hair held into a tight bun loose curls faling around her glittering face, a soft glow from the simple necklace around her neck of a unicorn, ,dragon, and griffin encircling one another. She wore a long black dress that looked simple enough to wear to church but still elegant for a dinner. It shimmied down her long legs and at her pointed ankles where a pair of plain black heels latched onto her small feet.
Gordo stopped all together allowing his eyes to drift up and down Lizzie before she pounced on him with a big hug. He was drowned with the scent of vanilla. Megan starred with a smile barely seeing Gordo's hidden thoughts, only the friendly hug. After all , Gordo sighed, Lizzie and I are only friends.
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The dinner party had begun as a success and ended as a success. Lizzie was tired but extremely cheerful as she rinsed the plates off in the sink and handed them to Miranda who in turn put them in the dishwasher. They decided to give Jo and Sam a break and allowed them to play with Milo, who barely looked ready for sleep. Ali was collecting the dishes from the table and handed them to lizzie, ,all while having a conversation with Miranda on this season's clothes.
She had no idea why she had worried so much about having Gordo and Miranda meeting Ali and Gabe. Ali and Miranda hit it off easily for both had such a passion for clothes. Gabe and Gordo had a splendid conversation on movies and Ali labeled Gordo a 'cutie'. Everything had clicked perfectly. Lizzie was even a little shocked at how well it actually worked.
That squirmy feeling was gone from the pit of her stomach. "Um, Liz, it's time to go bring Alice back home" Gordo came into the kitchen Alice asleep on his chest his arms wrapped loosely around his neck. All 3 girls stifled an 'Aaaaah' just so Alice wouldn't wake. "Anya's asleep too. It seems Barbie and the Nutcracker got to both of them" Gordo informed them showing Anya dead asleep on the couch with Megan who looked like she was drowzing off to sleep as well.
Miranda knodded cutting off the conversation with Ali to pit Anya into the car still asleep. Lizzie smilied as she watched Gordo cradle Alice easily. Children were all so easy for him it was amazing. And gentle. And made him look about 10 x's cuter then before. "Look I'll show you the house" Lizzie suggested wiping her hands on the dish towel and grinned at Ali.
But Ali was still mismerized by Gordo and was repeatedly scrubbing a perfectly clean dish. "I think I can find it. It's just next door" the raven haired man teased but followed Lizzie out the back door and onto the porch. "Oh hush. It's not a sin to have some quiet time with a long lost friend now is it?" Lizzie teased back as the door shut behind her a small grin playing on her face.
Gordo raised one eyebrow, a fleeting image of Megan in his mind. If you only knew , Liz, if you only knew. "You won't believe how nervous I was about this whole dinner thing" Lizzie grumbled absentmindley as she took off the aching heels and headed against the soft green grass her of her backyard.Her backyard looked the same as well except for the fact there seemed to be 2 dozen more gnomes then usual.
Her dad had way to much time on her hands.
"Why?" Gordo questioned her behind her acknowledging the fact that Lizzie was opening up to him as if she hadn't disappeared for years but only for a week. He was Gordo the listener once again. And somehow knowing this he felt himself smile deeper."Truthfully, I dont know" she chuckled crossing her arms.
"I was thinking just that you might see Ali and Gabe as a substitute for you and Miranda or something utterly stupid like that" she grinned twisting her fingers. Gordo frowned, shifting Alice slowly as they came to her porchsteps.
"I did " he admitted. "Actually, I think they were for awhile but then you found real true friends in them" Lizzie listened and saw how well the explanation fit. "Well...." she muttured rubbing her bare arms for warmth. "And you thought we would be mad that you would substitute us like that" Gordo concluded before Lizzie finished her sentence. She looked up with a faint smile.
Gordo never failed to get anything right on the nose. "You could be rich as a pyshcologist right now you know that?" she teased. Gordo just raised an eyebrow as if he had thought of that plenty of times . "Nah, I just know you to well McGuire. And me and Miranda were never nor will we be mad at you for something like that. We're to glad to have you back" and he gave her a soft honest smile.
Lizzie once again questioned herself why had she ever left this place and knodded opening the front door. Jim and Alice had went home 10 minuntes eariler and just said they'd leave the door unlocked to drop off Alice. One or both would be awake. But suddenly Lizzie noticed that the lights weren't on at all. "Hello?" Lizzie called out into the dark empty hallway. "Hello?" she sighed.
Through the dark she searched for the switch. 'Aha' Lizzie thought as she flicked on the button on the switch. Light filtered in through out the huge 2 story house. It lit the long narrow hallway filled with plain family photos. It lit the vase full of dead and old wild flowers. The light lit the fresh blood on the old worn carpet. The light lit to show Lizzie and Gordo the 2 bleeding bodies of Annie and Jim.
Lizzie stopped her heartbeat rocketing off as her hand went instantly to her mouth. "Oh my god" she managed to whisper her eyes barely able to pull themselves away from the mangled bodies of the Mr. and Mrs. "Jesus" Gordo hissed when he saw excatly what made Lizzie go so limp like a doll.
Lizzie automatically reached for Alice as Gordo shoved her into her arms. Shock was overflowing her senses. She hadnt even the sense to scream. The you ng man bent down in the blood -- so bright, so fresh-- eyeing them both with a pale drawn face. Annie had bullet punctures on her chest and her legs, and Jim had them scattered across his face.
Gordo checked both pulses even though it was obvious. "Dead, Both of them" Gordo managaed to whisper as he bent back on his heels. In Annie's hand , loose and dripping with that awful red liquid was a 9 mm pistol. Lizzie then allowed herself to break down. Tears were shoved out her blue sapphire eyes as Gordo reached to call the polivce.
Annie and Jim's life was over. Everything, it was over. But truthfully for Lizzie Mcguire everything had just began....
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Thank You and Have a Nice Day
~MerlinsApprentince