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Chapter 13 - Memories 2
Lizzie was nervous, she knew she shouldn't be, but this was the biggest day of her life, 3 years ago the man she loved finally told her that he loved her too. Now here she was, a month after both of them graduated High School, wearing white and waiting for the moment where she would walk through those doors and up the aisle to the one she loves more then life itself so that she can be with him forever.
lizzie was thinking about the fact that in a matter of a few hours she would no longer be Lizzie McGuire, but would forever more be Elizabeth Gordon, she loved how the name rolled off her tongue when she said it, and she said it often. Lizzie thought back to that fateful afternoon when she had swallowed her fear and told Gordo how much she loved him.
"I love you too David," she said, still flustered from running up to the door and pounding on it.
"You... you do?"
"Yes, I'm sorry I didn't answer earlier, it was just so much to take in, when you said the love word I was shocked, I thought you didn't know what love is and that you didn't know what you were talking about, but the more I thought about it, the more I knew that did know, and then I started thinking, 'how do I feel', and I started thinking about how you were always there for me, and how I've always been the happiest when you were by my side, you complete me Gordo, without you, I'm just Lizzie, with you I feel like I can do anything."
"You can do anything Lizzie, you don't need me for that, I always felt like I was in your way or something."
"You were never in my way, in fact I would never have made it through all the choices in my life if it wasn't for you, you are my courage when I'm scared, you are my reason when I'm dumb."
"I love you so much."
"I love you too, and you say I can do anything I want to, well right now I want to go out on a date with the guy I'm in love with, can I do that?"
"Now and always."
Lizzie thought about that evening when she made her series of phone calls...
"Lizzie? What is up?" Isabella answered.
"I...I...Sergei found my stalker."
"Oh my, what happened, you sound flustered, did your stalker hurt you?"
"Um... no, quite the obvious, he wasn't really a stalker."
"Who was he then?"
"It was Gordo."
"Gordo... Gordo... you mean the guy with the weird hairdo from Rome?"
Lizzie Laughed, she loved that hairdo, "Yeah that's the guy."
"But the letter said he liked his best friend as more then a friend, and you..."
"..am his best friend." Lizzie finished, "Yeah, he's in love with me, he has been for years and couldn't say it, he didn't mean for the letter to scare me."
"Well?"
"Well what Isabella?"
"Well do you like him?"
"Of course, I love him too."
"I knew it! It was so obvious back in Rome. What about that charming Frankie?"
"I... haven't told him yet."
"Could you introduce me to him?"
"You like him?"
"Well, yeah, but you were seeing him so I didn't say anything."
"Well sure, you are welcome to him, I just hope he doesn't hate me, he is a good friend. I'm just in love with someone else."
Frankie and Isabella went out for the remainder of the tour, and to this day the 4 of them are all good friends, Frankie is even best man at this wedding, The maid of honor position went to Miranda, but Isabella is a Bridesmaid.
Lizzie still couldn't believe that the day was finally here, it seemed like only yesterday that Gordo had taken her to the Digital Bean.
"Wow Gordo, I haven't been here in ages." she said truthfully, she was wondering why he would suddenly want to come here, they hadn't come here at any other point since he had come to visit her that summer.
"Really? Why not?" he asked.
"Well.. it just wasn't the same without you, me and Miranda found a few new hangouts cause this place just didn't work without you."
"Thank you honey," oh how she loved it when he called her honey, "and with that, I have something to ask you." he finished.
"What is it Gordo?" she asked, suddenly concerned, but then he did something she didn't expect. Gordo suddenly got down on one knee, Lizzie suddenly became short of breath, she felt like she was going to have a heart attack.
"Elizabeth Brooke McGuire," he began, "I've loved you for as long as I can remember, two years ago today I finally got up the urge to tell you, and you said you loved me back, we have spent the last 2 years in love and I love you even more today then I did then, please make me the happiest man in the universe and marry me, I want to spend the rest of my life with you," and then he opened up the little box showing her the ring.
"Wow! It's so beautiful!" came that voice in her head, she looked into the eyes of Gordo and answered "Of course I'll marry you."
The remainder of the night consisted mostly of talking to Miranda and Gordo about the beginning of wedding plans, and when she got home, she was ambushed by her parents wanting to know how it went.
"Did everybody know he was going to ask me to marry him but me?"
"Well I don't know about everyone Lizzie, but we knew." her mom answered.
"How?" Lizzie asked.
"Because he asked my permission." Lizzie's dad answered.
"He did?"
"Yeah, it was so cute." Lizzie's mom answered.
"Cute?"
"He came up to us and said 'Mr and Mrs McGuire, can I talk to you for a minute?' he was so serious looking we thought something was wrong, and then he asked your Dad for permission to marry you, we were so excited. We got him to tell us his plans on how he was going to ask you, we've been waiting all night for you to come home so we could find out how it went so.... Is there a wedding in the future?" Lizzie's mom said quickly.
Instead of answering audibly, Lizzie just raised up her hand showing the ring on her finger, Lizzie's mom and Lizzie screamed at the same time.
"What happened?" Matt said running into the room after hearing the scream.
"I'm getting married!" Lizzie shouted.
"Well well, Gordo finally got up the nerve to ask you eh?"
"You knew too?"
"I helped him pick out the ring."
"Wow... why?"
So many fond memories, but they weren't over, but Lizzie McGuire's days are over. "Goodbye Lizzie McGuire, Hello Elizabeth Gordon." she said to herself as the door opened up and Miranda entered.
"That's the spirit, so you ready to do this thing?"
"I've been waiting for this moment forever. I am beyond ready, I cannot live another minute without him."
And Lizzie followed Miranda out the door and headed to the church door where he father was ready to walk down the aisle with her.