The Oreo Group, Part 2

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Previously, Lizzie and Gordo talked about each other at different houses. Miranda and Ethan both suggested going to the park, where both best friends would be. What will happen? Hey, don't look at me! Read this.

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"Look, there he is!"

"Look, there she is!"

"Go talk to him!"

"Go talk to her!"

This is what Lizzie and Gordo heard from their friends as they arrived at the park. Lizzie and Gordo both rolled their eyes as the friends pushed them to the swingset where a happy toddler was playing. As the youngster saw the older kids he rushed off to his mother--terrified.

Lizzie sat down on a swing as Ethan shoved Gordo down on another one right next to her. The group of guys and girls stared, arms folded across their chests expectantly.

"Well?" they asked together. Gordo smiled and spoke.

"Lizzie and I have some foreign country issues to work out, so if you guys wouldn't mind scooting, we'd be more than happy to talk to each other. Ethan looked puzzled.

"Foreign country? Dude, I thought that you two had to talk about...." Kate shoved Ethan away with a quick apologetic smile over her shoulder and the group disappeared. Gordo seemed amazingly intent on the sand below his swing.

"Lizzie, I don't know how to start this..." he began. Lizzie held up her hands and smiled knowingly. Her hazel eyes twinkled in the sunlight.

"Let me guess....it has something to do with Rome, right?" Gordo nodded.

"Yeah...about that...." Lizzie pressed her lips together in concentration.

"And I am guessing that it has something to do with my, our, last night there." Gordo nodded again. Lizzie continued.

"And it has to do with something that I gave you on the last night in Rome, right?" Gordo nodded yet again.

"Okay, let me cut to the chase then, I kissed you." Gordo nodded.

"Gordo! Stop nodding and say something!" Gordo looked up and stood up from the swing, and moved behind Lizzie's swing. Lizzie dipped her head back as her blonde hair drifted in the breeze.

"Sorry, but I don't think you realize how extremely uncomfortable this is for me," he said, giving her swing a light push. Lizzie turned her head around in reply.

"Try me." Gordo took a deep breath.

"Lizzie, do you remember that night at the murder mystery party?" Lizzie looked up to the sky as Gordo pushed her a little bit higher.

*Flashback to "Clueless"*

Gordo and Lizzie on her front porch after Lizzie let Gordo win the game. Gordo takes a few steps toward Lizzie, twisting his hands together.

"Look, Lizzie, maybe sometime we could..." Sam opens the door, ruining the romantic mood Gordo set up.

"Hey Lizzie, you're missing the eel cooking competition!" Lizzie looks confused.

"Be right there dad." Sam shuts door. Lizzie pushes up her tiara thing. (Author's note-- Anyone know what that thing was called?? Oh well, let me know if ya do. Now get back to the story!)

"Maybe sometime we could what?" Gordo sighs out a little.

"Nothing. Just maybe we could do this again sometime."

*End Flashback*

"Yeah Gordo, why?" Gordo pushed Lizzie higher on the swing.

"Well, I was kind of trying to ask you out." Lizzie dropped her head with a smile. That was the night that she really noticed that Gordo liked her, but she suddenly thought of something, like a lightbulb clicking on in her head.

*Flashback again to "First Kiss"*

"Because there is no one prettier or more fun to be with than you", Gordo had said after Lizzie's break up with Ronnie.

*End flashback*

Lizzie's face was puzzled. She had thought that day in the library was just to cheer her up after the breakup...but, was it?

Lizzie planted her feet in the dusty sand and stopped the swing. She turned around to face Gordo's bug blue eyes. His amazing blue eyes. His...

(AN-- Wait a second! [glances at robot Gordo] I just thought romantic thoughts about Gordo! [Looks at hurt robot and has sad expression on face.] And I actually..enjoyed it.)

"Gordo, how long have you liked me?" Gordo shrugged and still stood there with an expression of thought mirrored in his eyes.

"A long time, that's all I know."

"The day that Ronnie broke up with me..."

"I was going to tell you how I felt but it seemed like the wrong time to do it." Lizzie fingered her bracelet. All that time...All that time of him secretly liking her through her crush on Ethan, and Ronnie, and everything else. All that time...

"Well," Lizzie began, looking up at Gordo once again, "I do like you now Gordo." Gordo's lips formed a smile, and Lizzie grinned herself.

"Well, obviously I like you Lizzie,"he replied simply. Lizzie pulled herself up on the swing and threw her arms around Gordo. That was all that she really wanted to hear. She buried her face in his shoulder and fingered his curly dark hair.

A chorus of 'awwws' filled the pairs eardrums. Lizzie looked up from Gordo and so did he, but the two kept their embrace. Miranda and Kate raced over and began to babble like crazy about how they both knew that the two would end up together some day. The Roxy and the boys joined them, and the entire group decided that it was time to head home after what Lizzie and Gordo could only describe as the perfect day.

A curly dark head poked out from behind one of the bushes along with a sandy head. The two girls whispered:

"Perfect"

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Late November....

Lizzie pulled on her plaid jacket and her leather boot, hopping on one leg in search of the other boot. Jo knocked softly on the door and Lizzie smiled at her mom. Finally, Lizzie rediscovered the lost boot and pulled her backpack over her shoulder.

"Bye mom!" she replied, kissing her mother's cheek. Jo nodded and went out of the room to wake up Matt.

Lizzie pushed against the autumn wind to get to Roxy's house. After a fun week at Lizzie's, the rest of Roxy's family got settled into a quiet southern home at the edge of Lizzie's neighborhood. Lizzie pulled her jacket closer to her ears and rang the doorbell. Her aunt Sophie opened the door welcomingly with her black hair twisted into a bun. Lizzie noticed Trevor sitting at the foot of the spiral stairs playing a hand-held video game.

"Roxy's upstairs Lizzie. Feel free to go up and see if she's ready." Lizzie started up the stairs and couldn't help but notice how awesome the new house would be for a party.

Lizzie knocked on Roxy's door and Roxy answered, one eye with eyeliner on, and the other without. Roxy smiled at her cousin.

"Hey Lizzie! Sorry, but I am so not ready for school yet!" Lizzie nodded, and sat herself down on Roxy's bed looking around the room, her eyes floating to Roxy's conjoining bathroom.

"So," Roxy said from the bathroom, "how is the dating life?" Lizzie smiled and replied:

"Good! Gordo and I had no trouble going from best friend to best friend who I happen to be dating." Roxy emerged from the bathroom with both eyes eyelined. She grabbed a choker off of her nightstand and dragged her backpack with her. Lizzie twisted uncomfortably on the bed and removed a CD that she had been sitting on. She read the title with curiosity. It was a romantic music CD.

"Hey Rox, since when do you listen to 'In the Mood For Love 2'?" Roxy looked up from her backpack and her cheeks pinked slightly. She snatched the CD away from Lizzie.

"Nothing...I just like to listen to it to help me sleep. It's actually quite soothing. Now, let's get going to school. Dad said that he'd drive us before going to the office." And that was the end of their coversation...or so Lizzie thought.