A/N: Thanks for the reviews. I'm glad you guys like the plot idea, it should be interesting to write. Here's the second chapter; it's the day of the Homecoming Dance.
Back to the Beginning
Chapter 2: Saturday
"Miranda! I have a serious fashion emergency," Lizzie McGuire yelled through the phone.
"Okay, Chica, calm down, what is it?"
"I so did not get enough sleep last night, and it so shows."
"Trust me, Liz, no one got enough sleep. We had a freaking party after the game last night, it shows on everyone. I'm sure it's not as bad as you think, and I'll help you get rid of the tired look before the dance."
Lizzie sighed. That's what best friends were for. "Thanks so much, Miranda."
"No prob, so, when are we meeting?"
Lizzie ran down the stairs to answer the front door. She flung it open and greeted her best friend with an enthusiastic hug.
Miranda giggled. "Hey Lizzie, it's great to see you too."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, Miranda, let's go," Lizzie replied, grabbing Miranda's arm and pulling her up the stairs.
After about half and hour of constant gabbing, Lizzie began eerily quiet.
"Hey, Lizzie? Is something wrong?"
Lizzie shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts. "I'm just worried, about tonight."
"Why?"
Lizzie shrugged, lazily. "Gordo and me have been having a lot of arguments lately, and disagreements, and stuff. We've only been dating for a month; we shouldn't be having fights like this."
"Lizzie, maybe technically you've only been dating for a month, but you've practically been together since high school started."
Miranda's statement was partially true. Once high school started, so did rumors. One of the first rumors was that Gordo and Lizzie were dating. After weeks of trying to tell everyone that no, they weren't dating, they gave up. They took the rumors and had a little "fun" with them. They'd put on funny little "acts", acting like a couple; they'd even kiss occasionally. Not to mention the fact that they would flirt all the time.
For awhile it was just a game, but then Lizzie had some unfortunate break-ups, and realized that Gordo was always there for her. The rest had been history.
"Yeah, but I mean, we've been best friends since, like, forever. We've never had this many arguments."
"Don't worry, Lizzie. Everything will be fine, promise."
"Okay," Lizzie said with a shrug.
Parker slammed her notebook down on the table and looked over to her friend, Amber. Amber simply raised an eyebrow and went back to her homework.
"My plan is not going like I want it to. All the things I've done, they've always made up. It's disgusting," Parker complained.
Amber glanced back up at Parker. "Face it, Parker, they're made for each other. Gordo is never going to love you."
Parker scoffed, and was silent for a few minutes. She didn't want to believe that Gordo wouldn't ever fall in love with her. Sure, she felt pretty horrible hearing the words, but it was okay, because she didn't believe them.
"Whatever, the last few things I've done may not of broken them up, but what I have planned for tonight, will."
Amber warily looked at Parker. She really wished Parker would just drop the whole fantasy of ever having a relationship with Gordo, because it wasn't going to happen. She wasn't a fan of helping Parker break them up, but she had to. Parker had so much blackmail potential on Amber, that she didn't dare disagree to helping.
"What do you have planned now?"
"Oh, a simple little diversion from you, and I'll take Gordo aside. I'll have him get me some punch, you'll get Lizzie to come over to where we are, and when I see you coming, I kiss Gordo. Lizzie will be so mad that she'll never want to talk to him again."
"That's horrible Parker. What's the point of all this? You're not going to break them up, they're the happiest, most in love couple in our entire high school. They were the happiest, most in love couple before they were even a couple."
"Whatever, okay? I want Gordo. And what Parker wants, Parker gets. Are you going to help me or not?"
"Do I have a choice?"
"No," Parker responded, seriously.
"Then I guess I'm helping."
Lizzie flipped through a few her newest magazines, in search of a hairstyle. She had been planning on trying to figure it out a long time ago, but life had been hectic lately. She glanced over at Miranda who was engrossed in reading embarrassing moments. Turning back to her own issue, she turned the page.
"Find anything?" Miranda's words broke Lizzie's search.
Lizzie shrugged. "I don't know, you find something that would look good."
Miranda sighed and grabbed the magazine from Lizzie's hands and began her own search. Lizzie clicked her tongue out of boredom and glanced around the room.
"This one," Miranda exclaimed, showing Lizzie an elegant up-do.
"Wow. I love it. Can you do it?"
"Of course I can."
"Well then, I suggest we get started."
A few hours later Lizzie exited her bathroom and Miranda let out a squeal. "You look great Lizzie."
"So do you Miranda. I'm so excited!" Lizzie squealed out.
"Me too. But I gotta jet. I'll talk to you later la amiga."
"Okay. See ya."
Miranda left the room and Lizzie heard her start down the stairs. Lizzie walked over to her full-length mirror and looked at her reflection. She did a quick spin, and smiled. She absolutely adored her dress. It was full length and red. The skirt was slightly poofy and the top had spaghetti straps. Thin streaks of silver sparkles shot their way out from the top to the middle of the left side. They erupted into the rest of the dress, resembling fireworks. It was a little fancy for homecoming, but she was a senior, and she was on court.
She clapped her hands excitedly. Her mom called out to her shortly. "Lizzie! Gordo's here!"
Lizzie put one last swipe of lip-gloss on before leaving her room. She quickly, but elegantly, descended down the steps. Gordo looked up and gave her a huge smiled, which she returned.
"Hey," he started, heading towards her, "You look beautiful."
Lizzie blushed slightly but her face still held a huge smile. "Thanks. You look great, too."
At that moment, Jo McGuire came bursting into the room armed with a camera. "Oh! You two look so cute. Here, come here. Stand over here. I want some pictures. You're just so adorable."
Lizzie raised an eyebrow at her mother but followed her instructions, leading Gordo by his hand. After numerous picture, and Lizzie was sure many more to come, Lizzie said something.
"Mo-om. We're going to be late if you don't let us go."
"Okay, okay," she responded, snapping one more picture. "Have fun."
"Thanks," Lizzie and Gordo both replied, heading out the door.
"Sorry about her," Lizzie started, "She's kind of crazy with the camera this year, if you hadn't noticed before."
Gordo nodded, and grabbed Lizzie's hand. He turned Lizzie towards him. "You really do look beautiful, you know."
"Thanks, Gordo," Lizzie responded, leaning in to give him a quick kiss. At that very second, they both saw a faint flash go off, and separated. Lizzie's mom was standing on the porch, still armed with the camera. Lizzie gave her an exasperated look.
"Oh. I didn't mean to take a picture, I was just coming out to see how the weather was, and well, you know, my finger just slipped."
"Yeah, sure, Mom," Lizzie said, rolling her eyes. Mrs. McGuire headed into the house as Gordo led Lizzie to the car.
The high school gym looked beautiful decorated for Homecoming. The theme was "Starry Night". Glittery silver stars fluttered all over the room. Little mini stars glistened on the floor. Royal blue and silver pieces of fabric hung elegantly from the ceiling. All in all, Lizzie thought it looked mystical. It had looked beautiful when they had finished decorating it, but at night, with the music, and the people, it looked absolutely mystical.
"You wanna dance?" Gordo asked Lizzie.
Lizzie nodded her head and Gordo led her out to the dance floor. A slow song was playing so Lizzie gracefully wrapped her arms around Gordo's neck. He encircled his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him. Lizzie rested her head on Gordo's shoulder, and closed her eyes.
Gordo smiled. Having Lizzie lay her head on his shoulder was like a dream come true. He had a goofy grin on his face that he knew would probably never go away. The couple continued to slowly sway back and forth to the slow beat of the music. Gordo leaned his head down slightly.
"I love you," he whispered into Lizzie's ear.
Lizzie smiled and opened her eyes. "I love you, too," she told Gordo. Gordo pulled Lizzie even tighter as they continued to move to the melody.
"Ugh. Look at them," Parker complained.
"They look so sweet, Parker. How can you want to break them up?"
"I want Gordo," Parker started, whispering harshly, "I've told you that. Now are you going to go distract them from each other?"
"No. Look, Parker. Sooner or later they'll have to separate from each other, right? Then you can continue your plan. If I go over there, distract them, and then pull Lizzie over to you, they're going to realize something is up."
"Hopefully they make with the separation very, very soon."
"Don't count on it," Amber mutter to herself.
Lizzie sighed contentedly as the current song ended half an hour later. Gordo and her had only dance to a few songs, in between them they had visited with some friends, or danced in large groups.
"Do you, do you want some punch?" Gordo asked Lizzie, breaking her from her thoughts.
"Sure, thanks," Lizzie answered, with a short nod. Gordo nodded, said he'd be right back, and headed off to the punch table. Lizzie slowly walked over to the bleachers to sit and wait for Gordo to return.
Parker bit her lip as she turned around, setting a punch glass down on the table, and pushing it aside. "Okay, it's now or never. Gordo's coming over here."
Amber sighed, frustrated. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Positive."
Amber sighed, again. Then she set down her own punch glass and began to make her way over to Lizzie.
Gordo headed to the punch table to get Lizzie her glass of punch. When he was almost there he ran into Ethan Craft.
"Hey Gordon, what's shaken'?"
"Hey Ethan. Not too much. How 'bout you? Are you here with Kate?"
Ethan simply nodded. "Yeah, We've gone to every high school dance together. She's really like, different from like junior high."
Gordo returned the nod. "I've noticed, yeah."
The two senior guys continued to talk for a few more minutes.
Amber headed over to Lizzie's spot on the bleachers but ran into Kate Sanders.
"Hey," Kate began, a smile plastered on her face, "Amber. I've been meaning to talk to you about something."
"Really? What's that?" Amber asked nervously, keeping her eye on Lizzie to make sure she didn't leave.
Kate lowered her voice slightly, "I want you and Parker to stay away from Lizzie and Gordo. Quite trying to break them up, they belong together, got it?"
Amber shook her head, acting confused. "I-I have no clue what you're talking about, Kate."
Kate sent Amber a glare, and continued to lecture Amber.
Parker let out a low, frustrated growl. Between Ethan stopping Gordo, and Kate stopping Amber, nothing was going her way.
Come on, Gordo. Hurry up and quit talking. You too, Amber. She bit her lip as she rehearsed in her head her well thought out plan. Parker hurriedly bit her lip, and hid the two discarded, but full, punch glasses sitting beside her on the table.
She turned back to watch both Gordo and Amber.
Lizzie rested her head in her hands as she wondered what was taking Gordo so long. Figuring he had probably ran into someone, and stopped to talk, she let her focus wander to the other figures in the gym.
She watched as Miranda graciously accepted a quick dance with Larry. Miranda had been dancing with numerous guys tonight. She had told Lizzie she wanted to dance with as many as possible, because this was their last high school homecoming dance.
Lizzie shook her head, and suppressed a giggle, as Larry looked shocked that Miranda wanted to dance with him.
Gordo had finally finished his talk with Ethan, and again headed to the punch table. He was in quite a hurry when he realized that he had been keeping Lizzie waiting for quite sometime.
"Hey Gordo," Parker said, batting her eyelashes.
Gordo nodded in acknowledgment, gave a slight wave, and continued to pour a glass of punch. "Gordo?" Parker questioned, trying again.
"Yeah, Parker?"
"Would you mind pouring me a glass of punch too?"
Gordo gave a weird look, but agreed anyways. "Sure, whatever."
"Thanks so much," she started, gratefully, "How have you been?"
"Um, pretty good," Gordo stated, handing Parker a glass of punch. "Not to be rude, but I'm kind of in a hurry. Lizzie's waiting for me," he finished, pointing over his shoulder towards Lizzie's direction.
"Right. Well, just one more thing," Parker said, glancing nervously over Gordo's shoulder.
"What's that?"
"This," Parker said quickly, as she pulled Gordo's mouth to her own, enveloping him in a passionate kiss.
"Gordo?" She heard a tearful Lizzie call.
Lizzie's thoughts of Miranda and her guys were cut short when she noticed someone had stood in front of her. She looked up at saw Amber. "Hey Amber, how are you?" Lizzie asked, politely.
Amber nodded, "I'm good. But I think there's something that you should see."
Lizzie shot her a confused look. "What?"
"Um, just, just come with me," Amber finished, noticing that out of the corner of her eye, Kate was shaking her head at her. Amber reached down and grabbed Lizzie's arm. "Quick, it's really important."
Lizzie nodded, and began to follow Amber, when Kate intercepted their path. "Hey Lizzie. Anything new happen since I last talked to you?" Kate asked, trying to stall for time.
"Um, no, but Amber has something to show me, so not to be rude, but I really have to go."
"Lizzie-" Kate started, desperately, "Um, be careful, okay?"
"O-kay?"
Lizzie walked passed Kate, and continued to follow Ambers lead. Amber pointed to the punch table and Lizzie's saw Parker and Gordo immersed in a passionate kiss. No wonder it had taken him so long.
"Gordo?" Lizzie questioned, tears coming to her eyes.
Gordo pulled away, shocked, and looked straight at Lizzie. "Lizzie, I swear, it's not what it looked like."
"Oh, really? Because it looked like you and Parker were kissing? But what was it really?"
"Well, we were, but-," Gordo started, but was cut off by Lizzie.
"Yeah, that's what I thought. I can't believe you, Gordo. I thought you loved me. How could you cheat on me?" Lizzie yelled through tears. Her voice was slowly rising, and she knew that she was creating quite the scene.
Gordo took a few slow steps forward, and Lizzie felt like everything was going in slow motion. "No, Gordo. Stay away from me. I can't believe you would do this," Lizzie exclaimed, her voice cracking as liquid crystals flew downs her cheeks and plummeted on her jaw line, some seeping onto her neck.
Lizzie broke away from Gordo's grip, and quickly ran out of the gym. Many people shot her sympathetic looks as she ran, but she didn't stop to acknowledge any of them. She was very aware of Gordo's quick footsteps behind her. Gordo had gone through a growth spurt the summer after ninth grade, now his legs were a few inches longer than Lizzie's, and she knew that if she stopped for even a second, he'd catch her for sure.
Lizzie sadly pushed open the doors to the school and headed outside. Sometime since they had entered the gym, it had started storming. The thunder was booming, and lightning cracked loudly. Lizzie ran out into the rain and immediately got soaked. She felt Gordo grasp onto her arm, and she whipped her head around angrily.
"I hate you David Gordon, I absolutely hate you."
A/N: Wow. That was long. Lol. I don't know how long most of the chapters will be, some may be this length, longer, shorter, depends on how long it takes to get it all written. Let me know what you think of this in a review please. Constructive criticism is welcome. Next chapter will be up as soon as I can get it written.