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Chapter 6 - Thoughts of Family

Gordo sat there in the airport waiting for his flight, due to the heightened security implemented after 9/11, Gordo made sure to always be at the airport at least 2 and a half hours ahead of time, so he had plenty of time to think before boarding his plane for France. He looked at his passport and thought of the last time he had to use it. It had been the Rome trip. The last time he had shown this passport to anyone had been for the trip home, the flight the day after the kiss that had been solidified in his memory ever since that day. 'Did I have a chance then?', he thought. 'Did I wait too long?'

"I told you to tell her," came the ever present voice in his head.

'But look at me, she's perfect, how can I compete with a movie star who I know she likes and I know likes her?' he thought back at the voice.

"Didn't you even listen to your parents?"

Oh yeah... he had listened to his parents the day before, it was a conversation that Gordo would never forget.....

Flashback to yesterday

"Mom, Dad, I need to go somewhere, right away. I'll pay for the service fees of the tickets with my savings but I need to go NOW." he said approaching them.

"I've already booked the ticket son." his mother answered, much to Gordo's shock.

"Booked them to where?"

A look of understanding was on the faces of both of his parents, "Why France of course son," his father answered.

"How did you..... Why did you..... How did you know that I needed to go to France?" he asked back completely confused as to how they knew he wanted to go to France, he had only just decided he needed to go to France a matter of 2 minutes before, and they knew far enough in advance to have already booked the ticket?

To answer his son's direct question, as well as the questions that Gordo's father could tell were going through the head of his son, Gordo's father walked over to the counter and picked up a copy of the same magazine that Gordo had been reading, already open to the page showing Lizzie and Frankie. "This is how I knew you would want to go son."

"But...." Just because they had seen the article just like him, how did they know how it would effect him.

"Look son, everyone knows how you two feel about each other except you two. We could see it long before we left Hillridge, it was in your eyes when you looked at her, and it was in her eyes when she looked at you, you just would never admit it to each other. You can't see it because you are insecure about your feelings, but it's there. When I saw this article, I knew that you would need to see her, just do us a favor son. Finally tell her so that you can be happy again." his mother said.

Gordo was shocked, how could his parents know everything that goes on in his head? Was he really that obvious?

"Your flight leaves at 3 p.m. from Dulles tomorrow. You had better get packing. We have a reservation at the same hotel that Lizzie is staying at. Go to her son." his father said, interrupting his thoughts.

"How do you know what hotel she is staying at? That wasn't in the article."

"David, we were just about as good of friends with her parents as you were with her you know. We called and told Lizzie's mother that you would have undoubtedly have seen the article by now and would want to go to France. She understood without any further explanation and told us where Lizzie was staying." his Mother answered.

"She knows how I feel?"

"She probably knew before we did Son, you did spend more time over her house then she spent over ours." his mom said.

"Did everyone know but me?"

"That's what we've been trying to tell you son, although we aren't sure Lizzie really knew either, but she was a lot more open with her feelings then you were with yours, I mean goodness, after seeing that photo of class picture day at the school, I thought for sure you two would finally admit it to each other." Gordo's father answered.

Gordo's memories of his conversation with his parents the day before was abruptly interrupted by the airport PA system. "Standby passenger Gordon, please report to the counter."