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My Fair Lady 2

~Chapter 1~

"I guess I'm just a confused guy." Gordo. A confused guy, Why was that so familiar? Think. Think. Think.

"Gordo!" I called. "Wait!" I ran forward.

"Bye, Lizzie." He waved. And then he left.

"Lizzie – inside. House arrest starts now. Miranda, you better go home."

So now, here I sit. Separated from my best friends Miranda and, worst of all, Gordo. I'll have to wait all summer to know what he meant when he left my house. I swear, it's been driving me crazy. His words keep echoing through my head: I guess I'm just a confused guy. I guess I'm just a confused guy. My dreams have even been haunted by him. Every night I see those words and understanding is just seconds away when I wake up.

Anyway, just when I thought I was going to die of boredom (or insanity, whichever comes first), I received a very interesting letter in the mail.

It was from the Minnesota State Fair. They had seen me on the IMVAs on cable and wanted me to come and sing during the last week of August.

I showed the letter to my parents.

"Please, mom? Dad? It's the week before school starts, so Matt and I wont miss any school, and it's the last week of August, the week that, coincidentally, I'm off house arrest because you wanted to take a family vacation."

My parents just looked at each other. I had them. Yesssssssssssss!

"Sounds good to us, Lizzie. But what about singing? You think you can do it?"

"Um, yes."

Toon Lizzie: Come on, this is me we're talking about.

"I did it once, I can do it again."

Truthfully, I had put very little thought into the singing part – actually, none. But whatever. I could figure that out later.

"The letter also says," I continued, "that they'll provide an escort to show us around the fair and make sure I get to the stage on time."

They looked at each other. Finally they told me that they thought it sounded fun and that they would just go over the finer details.

In the meantime, they allowed me phone use, so of course I picked up right away and called Miranda.

Then I called Gordo.

"Gordo? Where's Miranda?"

"Hi, Lizzie. I'm fine, thanks."

"Sorry. Hi. Listen – where is Miranda?"

"Out of town, I guess. She's getting back, like….Tuesday next week, I think."

"Ahhh! Why did she have to go now?" I whined. Why did she do this to me??

"Um. I don't know. Why, what's up? It something wrong?"

"Well, you remember in Rome how I sang at the IMVAs, right?" Um, duh!

"No. No, I don't – I don't know if I do…"

"Gordo!"

"Okay, ha ha, just kidding, Yeah, I do. Why?"

"Well, the Minnesota State Fair has invited me to come and sing! They saw me on the IMVAs! Isn't that –"

"Lizzie, that's great!"

Wow. Telepathy, or something?

"So…why did you call me about it?"

"Oh….because I…want you to come."

"You do?"

"Yeah. I want you to come to Minnesota with me! I mean, my parents have practically already said yes, we'll be gone for a week as our 'family vacation—'"

"Oh, but if it's your family vacation—then I—"

"Gordo! This is my family we're talking about here. I need you along! You can't not come!"

"But it's your fam—"

"Gordo! Me. My family. Alone. For a week. Not gonna happen. I cannot go on vacation alone with them. Besides," I added. "You are family."

"O-okay. Okay. I'll just…when are we leaving?"

"So you're in? EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"

I could almost see Gordo holding the phone away from his ear. Tee hee. Oops.

"Gordo? Sorry. Um, yeah, we leave Sunday. You can spend the night here on Saturday."

"Okay. Great. I'll just…start packing…or something."

"Great. Love you. Bye"

A Note: So. Whaddaya think? Good so far? Well, I'll start work on the next chapter now.

Lotsa love to all my readers!

~Bethany*Katherine~