Gordo and Miranda walked into the Gym arms filled with odds and ends that would soon be used in decoration for the dance which was to take place the following night. The Gym was already filled with chatter as Lizzie, Kate, Ethan, and Danny talked waiting for the last two to arrive.
"Hey" Miranda called out to the crew; after greetings were exchanged everyone was broken up into groups to do certain tasks. Danny and Ethan were putting up some decorations and moving in some tables, while Lizzie and Kate put other decorations together, and Miranda and Gordo were making some of the more complicated decorations. Okay, so Miranda was telling Gordo what to do and scolding him if he didn't do it right, but same thing.
"Hey do you guys mind if I put some music on?" Lizzie asked.
"Please do!" Miranda begged, and the rest chuckled, Lizzie knowing her friend laughed and ran to the radio. Miranda seemed to always be surrounded by music, she even slept with it on.
"96.5 FM this is WPOP With all the best pop music of all time!" the announcer on the radio called out the proceeded to play a song all the girls knew by heart (I'm sure the guys did too but they didn't start singing it).
"Oh my gosh! NSYNC!" Miranda squealed (Gordo and the other two guys groaned at this, but she paid them no mind) and started singing. "Here we go one more time. Everybody's feeling fine. Here we go now"
"Yes, yes, yes here we go. NSYNC has got the flow" Kate and Lizzie joined in.
The three started walking towards the center of the gym singing "Bounce your head to the beat. We've got everything you need. Here we go now"
"Yes, yes, yes here we go.NSYNC has got the flow" they started dancing as they all reached the center which was still clear, Miranda was singing into a paint brush, Kate into a giant glue stick, and Lizzie was singing into a huge permanent marker.
Gordo couldn't help but notice how good Miranda looked dancing, but wait Miranda? Wasn't he crushing on Kate? And look at her why not? She was wearing tight jeans and a light pink baby t-shirt, in contrast to Miranda in a pair of baggy torn jeans she used for painting and an old Superman t-shirt tied to the side to keep it from getting in her way.
"Here we go just one more time. And everybody's feeling fine. Here we go now" Lizzie sang
"Here we go, yeah" Kate continued. "If you wanna party with us. Just feel free to feel the rhythm. Here we go now."
"Here we go" Lizzie chorused.
"You know the party's here." Miranda sang taking the lead and mimicking NSYNC's concert dance moves. "Sing-a-long and have no fear. NSYNC is here to make you people scream. Now is the time for us to reunite. Come on party people. There's a party going on tonight"
"Tonight is the night. Everything's gonna be alright" Kate stepped up to the center, luckily all three knew all the dance moves, why? Because if questioned they would all tell you the same thing, 'NSYNC was and still is the best "boy-band" (though they like to call it an all male musical group) ever'. "Just get up, feel the flow. And here we go." This continued through out the song with the girls alternating on singing lead.
This would have gone on with all the songs as the station played such great hits like, 'Pretty Fly For a White Guy', 'Freak on a Leash', 'Wannabe', 'Ray of Light', 'The Thong Song', 'The Boy is Mine', 'No Scrubs', 'Un Pretty', 'The Hardest thing', 'Girl on TV', I want it that way' and many, many more that they all knew by heart, though some the guys were a bit more reluctant on singing than others. But Gordo finally reminded the girls that if they sang and danced the whole time at this rate there wouldn't even be a dance, so the settled for just singing and working at the same time.
"Hey Kate, how are those center pieces coming along?" Miranda yelled over the radio.
"There great, how's it going with the poster board cards?" Kate yelled across the gym.
"We're hanggin' strong!" she called back, they had asked teachers for any spare poster boards they had and had come up with over a hundred in different sizes, now Gordo and Miranda were making each one into a card, then they would set them up later.
"Man, you guys I hate to do this but I've got to go," Lizzie said looking at her watch.
"That's okay. I know what you mean; I should be heading home too." Kate admitted. The crew had been working on the decorations for hours, they had gotten a lot of work done, but who knew if they could work on it tomorrow.
"Well, we don't need too much; I can stick around if ya'll have to go." Miranda supposed.
"Yeah, you ladies can go off, Danny and I can finish the lifting." Ethan said.
"You sure you don't mind?" Kate asked Miranda more than any one else, she had been the one to get Miranda into this after all, but her mom would kill her if she got home too late tonight.
"No prob., the rest is really just putting the cards up, we did all the hard stuff, anyways."
"Thanks Miranda, see ya tomorrow!"
"Bye!" Kate and Lizzie both called out as they left.
"What do you think of Gordo?" Kate asked Lizzie as they were walking home together.
""What do you mean?" Lizzie asked. Glancing at Kate, an idea struck her. "Kate do you like him?" she asked curiously.
"What? No, well not really, I mean he's okay, I was just wondering, because I think maybe Miranda might like him." Kate shrugged.
"Oh, hum, she might, but I think if she did they would have gotten together by now." Lizzie replied absent mindedly.
"Yeah guess you're right." Kate replied. 'hum, I guess I was wrong. Lizzie does know both of them better than I do.'
"Well, we have to be going too you guys." Danny informed them after an hour more of work.
"Yeah sorry Miranda, Gordon, but we can't stay out any longer." Ethan apologized.
"Don't worry ya'll helped a lot." Miranda said then bid them goodbye.
"You know you can go too if you want," Miranda said to Gordo after a couple of minuets.
"What? Are you kidding me? We've held out this far, you and I are in it for the long haul." Gordo replied with a smirk then continued to arrange some of the cards.
They worked and sang along to more pop songs, until after what seemed an eternity they were done. Miranda secured the last card in place then stepped back to the center of the gym, she stood there slowly spinning around to fully take in what they had created, and it was unbelievable.
"It's amazing," Gordo said and she now noticed he was standing beside her. At that moment 'Iris started playing from the radio. "May I have the first dance?" Gordo asked bowing dramatically and extending his hand.
"But of course" Miranda replied with a slight curtsy then taking his hand.
He placed her hand on his shoulder and put both of his around her waist, and they started to slowly glide rhythmically to the song.
And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cuz I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
As they danced, Miranda rested her head on Gordo's shoulder.
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cuz sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight
And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you'd bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
As the song ended then they slowly broke apart, neither one of them really wanting it to end. Then out of no where Gordo's cell phone rang ruining the moment.
"Hello?" Gordo answered, "Yeah I'm on my way, bye."
"Um that was my mom, we should get going." Gordo told her.
"Yeah okay." They drove in silence to Miranda's house.
Miranda opened the passenger door to get out the quickly turned back, and gave Gordo a kiss on the cheek, "Thanks, for everything, bye!" and with that she was gone.
Gordo looked after her for a few seconds before his mind registered what had happened, it was just a kiss on the cheek right? It's not like it was a real kiss, and they had given each other friendly kisses before (ya' know pecks on the cheek, that sort of thing), then why did he feel like this?
He pushed it out of his mind, at least for the moment, and headed home.