A/N – "Thoughts"

Chapter 12 – Secret Romance

Gordo stood along the wall of the Colbar's living room and watched the people mingling with each other and walking around. Lizzie and Miranda had begged him to go with them to Dana Colbar's party, yet when they got there, both girls took off. Lizzie went to flirt with a guy and Miranda went to hang out with some friends. So here he was, bored out of his mind, at a party he didn't even want to go to in the first place.

Letting out a bored sigh, Gordo walked out of the living room and into the kitchen. Looking around for something to drink, he found nothing but alcohol. Rolling his eyes, he grabbed a beer. Taking a sip of it, he grimaced. Gordo was not a heavy drinker; in fact he wasn't a light one either.

Emptying the beer into the sink and tossing the can, he was about to walk out back when something caught his eye. From the kitchen, he could see into the family room where a familiar blonde was starring back at him. Gordo watched as one of the football players was trying to flirt with her.

Gordo smiled as Kate rolled her eyes, indicating the guy was boring her. He watched her say something to the guy and then walk past him, heading towards the kitchen.

"Follow me. I want to talk to you," Kate whispered as she walked past him and headed towards the living room.

Gordo quickly followed her and by the time he reached the living room, he saw her standing on one of the bottom stairs of the stairway looking back at him with small smile. As Kate walked up the stairs, Gordo quickly made his way through the crowd and took the steps two at time as he raced up them.

Reaching the second floor, he lost sight of her. Slowly walking down the hall, he tried looking for an open door but the only ones open were the bathroom and an empty bedroom.

Growling in frustration, he turned around and was about to walk back to the stairs when a hand grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him into the room that was behind him.

Stumbling backwards into the room, he heard the door shut. Regaining his balance, he stood up and found Kate standing in front of the door watching him with a smile. Letting out a deep breath, he looked at her. She was wearing a pink sleeveless blouse that fell off her shoulders, a really short jean skirt, and a pair of platform sandals.

Kate walked over to him and wrapping her arms around him, and gave him a long, deep kiss. Gordo slipped his arms around her waist and held her closer against him. Pulling back for air, they looked at each other with a mix of desire and uncertainty.

Letting go with one arm, Gordo gently brushed away some hair out of her face. "I thought you wanted to leave this in San Francisco."

Kate sighed softly and started to play with Gordo's hair. "I was wrong. I've been miserable this past week without you and then when I saw you the first day of school, everything hit me like a freight train. I need you. You make me happy and recently, there are very few things that do."

"So what do you want to do?"

Kate looked at him a little apprehensively. "I want us to be together but I think it'd be best if we kept it quiet." Before Gordo could argue, she silenced him with another kiss. "I know Lizzie, Miranda, and the rest of your friends would be accepting of us after awhile. But I don't know what my friends would say or even worse, what my enemies would do. I don't want to drag you into the middle of anything."

"But Kate," Gordo tried to protest but Kate kissed him again.

"Please Gordo. I'm not saying forever, just until we get out of this hellhole."

Gordo looked at her for a moment; she was giving him this sexy pout and he was having a hard time saying no. "I don't like it but alright."

Kate let out an excited squeal and jumped at him; the sudden shift in weight caused them to fall onto the bed. Landing on top of him, Kate folded her arms across his chest and rested her chin on her hands. For a moment, she just studied his face and a small grin formed.

Shifting so they were completely on the bed and his head was resting against the pillows, he kept his arms around her and looked back at her. "What?"

"I was just thinking about what you said the other day, to Lizzie and Miranda, about me?"

Gordo furrowed his brow and tried to remember what he had said. Giggling, Kate reached up with one hand and tried to smooth out his forehead. "You were telling them about your summer fling." Kate said sarcastically. Gordo smiled as he remembered what she was talking about. "It was like hanging out with an old friend I hadn't seen in awhile. We just sort of clicked. It was weird cause on the surface, we're complete opposites but we had fun. She really surprised me and showed some incredible depth." she repeated his words to him.

Arching an eyebrow, Gordo held her tighter, "You remember exactly what I said?"

Kate nodded. "Its not everyday someone actually says something nice about me and really mean it." Kate then gave Gordo a sly grin as she sat up on her knees. Reaching down, she started toying with the buttons on Gordo's grey shirt. "And I want to show you how much I appreciate it," she said as she started to open the shirt from top to bottom.

A few hours later, birds chirping outside an open window forced Gordo to wake up. Letting out an annoyed groan, he opened his eyes and it took him a moment to realize where he was. He was laying with Kate curled up underneath a blanket, both in their underwear, and in the master bedroom of Dana's house. Luckily, when Kate dragged him into the room, she had locked the door and nobody had interrupted them. After fooling around for a while, they had fallen asleep together on the bed.

As he scanned the room for a clock, Kate started to wake up next to him. Letting out an annoyed groan of her own, she turned over, snuggled closer to Gordo. "What time is it?" she mumbled into him.

Finally finding a clock, "Five forty eight."

Sighing, Kate sat up and ran a hand through her hair. "We should get outta of here."

As they both got up and started gathering their clothes, Gordo stopped for a moment and watched Kate. While it was hard to not just drool over a hot girl walking around in nothing but a strapless, low cut bra and a thong, the real reason, was in addition to all that, she was letting the real Kate out again and that's who Gordo was really attracted to.

Tossing his khakis and shirt onto the bed, he walked up to behind Kate. Wrapping his arms around her, he started to kiss her neck.

Kate let out a soft moan and tried to ignore her body's protest. "Gordo, no," she softly whined as she arched her neck and he continued to kiss it. "We gotta go. I don't want Gretchen or her drones catching us." Giving Kate a little pout, that caused her to laugh, Gordo let go and they got dressed.

Successfully making their way out of the house with no one seeing them, they walked down the driveway and down the street to their respective cars. As they passed a silver BMW, Kate snickered. "Told you the little slut was somewhere in the house."

Gordo's car was first, a blue Grand Am. His parents had wanted to buy him a car but he had wanted to buy his own, so they compromised and each paid half.

Kate turned him around and wrapping her arms around his neck, gave him another deep kiss. Pulling back, she gave him a seductive smile. "Come over to my house later this afternoon. My mom is still on her so-called honeymoon and I have the whole house to myself." After giving him a quick kiss, "I can make up for this morning and nothing will interrupt us."

Gordo gave her a smile that looked like a little boy on Christmas ready to unwrap his gifts. "I'll call you this afternoon," he told her as they let go of each other. Unlocking the door and getting in his car, he lowered the window as he started the engine. "See you later," he said before driving off.

Kate was on cloud nine. For the first time, she had a boy who was not just interested in her body. She was sure that was one of the reasons but not the only one. When they were eating lunch at the Fisherman's Wharf he had told her, "Physical beauty is what attracts you to someone but its inner beauty that keeps you there."

Smiling, she turned around and started to head towards her car. Just as she turned around, the smile faded. Brooke was standing a few feet away and had seen everything. "Brooke?" Kate asked as she walked up to her friend. "Uh…how much of that did you see"?

Keeping her face emotionless, "Enough." Then arching an eyebrow, "You and Gordo?"

"I can explain," she started but Brooke cut her off.

A small grin appeared on Brooke's face. "You happy?"

"Aside from having to keep it a secret, yes, I'm very happy."

Brooke then shrugged, "Then I'm happy for you. You're forgetting, I dated him too."

Kate let out a breath of relief and slowly relaxed. "Please, you can't tell anyone."

"I promise."

Kate and Brooke walked down the street towards Kate car. They decided to go out to breakfast and trade stories about Gordo.