A/N: WOW!!! I got so many reviews for the last chapters, I guess the cliffhangers really bring in more reviews, lol. Maybe I'll have to leave more of them. Nah, I'll just write it as planned. But seriously, thanks so much for all the reviews, I got a lot of new readers. So once again, thanks SO much.

This chapters longer again, but not super long. But it might be my longest chapter. There's about eight chapters and an epilogue left. And, check out my new story, Back to the Beginning, please. And I'll be posting another new story soon to, so I'll let you know.

The Prince You Charmed

Chapter 11: Regrets and Confessions

The next few minutes happened in a blur of slow motion. Lizzie repeated the words over in her head. "There's been an accident."

Accident.

Mrs. Gordon.

Gordo.

Gordo and an accident.

Gordo in an accident.

She felt the phone being pulled from her grasp and heard her mother say hello. Lizzie willed herself to glance at her mother's face. It was filled with sorrow and pain. Lizzie rubbed her hands over her face, furiously. No way was this really happening. Her mom nodded a few times, and said a few simple, forced words before hitting the off button on the phone.

Mrs. McGuire repeated the words that Lizzie had already heard once. "There's been an accident," she started and looked to Lizzie.

Lizzie nodded and waited for more information to come. "Gordo was--hit--by a car," she finished the sentence weakly. Lizzie felt her eyes widen in fear.

"Is he okay?" She questioned.

Her mother shook her head. "They don't know. He's in the ICU right now and it's pretty critical. They don't think that he'll make it through the night," she responded, with a shaky voice.

Lizzie shook her head. Not happening. "No. No. Gordo can't--die."

"I'm sorry, Lizzie." Her mother replied, as Lizzie continued to shake her head.

"This isn't suppose to happen, not to him, not to Gordo," Lizzie's vision was blurred from her tears as she glanced around the room, as though looking for an escape from the nightmare. Looking for anything that could eliminate some of the pain.

"Do you want to go to the hospital?" Her mother's gentle words broke threw her thoughts of escape.

Lizzie nodded, not knowing what else to do.

Half an hour later Lizzie saw Gordo's parents standing outside of a room, both looking pale. They glanced up when they heard footsteps, and smiled weakly at the McGuire family. Mrs. Gordon stood up and began to walk towards them.

She took a deep breath. "Well, they've got his heart beating steady and are pretty certain that he'll make it through the night, as long as a close watch is kept on him. But he's slipped into a coma, and they don't think he'll come out of it without brain damage."

"But he will wake up, won't he?" Lizzie questioned, hopeful.

Mrs. Gordon looked away from Lizzie's face and paled a bit more. She sniffed and then responded, "They don't know."

Lizzie could feel her hands shaking as butterflies flew around in her stomach. How could this be happening? She walked forward and sat in one of the cushioned chairs of the hospital waiting room. Burying her head in her hands, she let out all of her frustrations from the last few days.

Miranda stopped dead on her feet. She couldn't believe Lizzie had had the nerve to show up at the hospital after what she had said to Gordo. She walked up to Lizzie and pulled her aside from all the adults and Matt.

"What do you think your doing here?" She hissed at Lizzie. The two girls continued to walk to an area where no one would be able to hear their bickering.

"What do you mean 'what do I think I'm doing here'? Gordo's one of my best friends. Why wouldn't I be here?"

Miranda titled her head. "You shouldn't be here, not after what you said to Gordo."

"He's said some pretty mean things to me, too, you know."

"Not that mean."

Lizzie sighed and knew that Miranda was right. "It's not my fault he went and fell in love with me, and now he's jealous that I have a boyfriend. That's what started all of this you know, he got jealous and I asked you what was wrong with him, and you snapped at me."

"Just because I snapped at you doesn't mean you had the right to ditch us, twice. For some guy you just met a few weeks ago."

Lizzie grunted. "Uh! You're the same as he is! Why can't you two just be happy that I have a boyfriend that I truly like?"

"A boyfriend that's cheating on you?" Miranda yelled.

"He's not cheating on me. You have no proof, and you said yourself that you didn't see it."

"No, I didn't. But Gordo did, and he never lies about stuff like that. And Lizzie, I can't believe you really think he meant to fall in love with someone like you."

"Someone like me?"

"Yeah, someone like you, someone like Kate. You're both the same. Both backstabbing and friend-ditching."

"I may have ditched you two but you really didn't seem to have a problem putting Sarah in my place," Lizzie yelled out, using the same argument she had against Gordo.

Miranda shook her head. "She ate lunch with us, twice and that was it. We didn't replace you, okay Lizzie? Did we ever replace Kate? No. And you were so much closer to either of us than Kate ever was, so why would we just replace you in a matter of a few days?"

Lizzie stayed speechless. "You know," Miranda started, "Gordo's accident is all your fault. If you wouldn't have been such a witch to him, he wouldn't have gone storming out like that. He wouldn't have ran in front of a drunk driver, and he wouldn't have gotten hit. So I hope you can live with the guilt of possibly killing your best friend for some guy that treats you like dirt, and cheats on you," she finished, walking away from Lizzie.

Lizzie stayed in her spot and let the tears come out. Miranda was right, this was her fault.

Around one o'clock the next afternoon Jo McGuire insisted she get Lizzie home so she could get some decent food and comfortable sleep. She had to struggle to get Lizzie out of the hospital, but now that they were back home and had both had a hot meal, she needed to talk to her daughter.

"Lizzie," she started, "is there anything you want to tell me?" She decided to let Lizzie be the one to point out the problem. If that didn't work, she'd have to do it herself.

Lizzie shrugged. "Not that I can think of."

Lizzie watched as her mom shook her head. "You're lying to me, I can tell because you won't look me in the face. What's going on?"

She took a deep breath before jumping into a very long speech. "I started going out with Ryan, right? Well I noticed Gordo started acting all weird, and so did Miranda. So one day at lunch, after Gordo had left the table, I asked Miranda what was wrong with him, and she got all mad at me. I honestly have no clue why."

Lizzie took another deep breath, "So then we weren't talking and I went to Ryan with the problem and he said that they weren't good enough for me. I was like 'that's stupid', but he didn't seem to think so. He told me he wanted me to choose between him and them. I was really upset about it but then told myself that he was just jealous or something, and wouldn't really make me choose. The next day, Gordo and Miranda weren't talking to me so I hung out with Ryan and then I started hanging out with Kate and her posse."

Stopping to catch her breath for a few seconds, Lizzie noted that her mom was nodded, a sign that she was following so far. "Kate's actually still human, and I was so confused, and she told me not to give up my friendship with them, and to dump Ryan. Then Ryan came, and told me that he had overheard Miranda and Gordo talking bad about me. I found out yesterday that he lied and we got in this huge fight. Well he stopped by last night and apologized and I forgave him. Then after school I got in a fight with Gordo and I left really fast from the Digital Bean but I forgot my purse so I had to go back. When I went back Miranda was with him, and he told me that he had just seen Ryan cheating on me. I said some really mean stuff to him that I totally didn't mean, and now I'm just really confused and don't know what to do," Lizzie finished, crying and out of breath.

Her mom nodded, "Well Lizzie," she started but Lizzie interrupted her.

"I know, I know, Mom. I was wrong to choose my boyfriend over my friends and it was a huge mistake and I totally regret it. If I would have just came to somebody with the problem before I made the decision, I probably would have made a better decision. Gordo obviously wasn't lying about Ryan because they were all right; Gordo would never do that to me."

Lizzie's mom nodded, again. "You seem to have this all under control. I'll just leave you to figure out the right thing to do. You obviously already know what that is," she told Lizzie. She reached over, gave Lizzie a huge hug and left the room.

Lizzie sighed. The whole situation sounded like Lizzie had really screwed up, which she had. But it also made the solution to the problem clear as crystal.

The big problem right now was Gordo.

Lizzie's mom popped her head back in the room and handed Lizzie the phone. It was Ryan. Lizzie agreed to meet him in half an hour at the Digital Bean. Ryan wanted to know why Lizzie hadn't been in school that day.

Lizzie sighed after hanging up. She had a feeling that this was not going to be a good conversation. She was hoping that maybe, in some way, she could convince Ryan to let her continue to hang out with Gordo and Miranda. Then Lizzie remembered that Ryan was cheating on her, and she realized that maybe she'd come out of this conversation without him in her life at all.

Was that really what she wanted?

Lizzie shook her head. She had no clue what she wanted. No clue at all, except that she wanted Gordo to wake up, and be okay.

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