a/n: remember y'all...andy is miranda! andy is gordo's nickname for her....

Ch 5- One Last Hurrah

"Gordo are you ok?" Miranda asked that night as they watched tv.

Gordo just stared at the tv in a daze. "Hello?? Earth to David!!!" Miranda called out.

"Huh?"

"What is going on?? You're like in another world or something."

"Nothing," he muttered.

"I know you Gordo, I know when something isn't right."

"If you breath a word of this to anyone, I swear to God Miranda I'll tell everyone how you're paying for Yale," he threatened.

"I don't know what you're talking about," she said irritably.

"Andy. Short skirts, low tops, strange markings on your skin that can't be covered with makeup. I know what you're doing. I'm not stupid you know," he said.

"Since you're so smart why don't you tell me exactly how I'm paying for it then?"

"Look, I just don't want you to say anything that's why I brought it up. I don't need a fight right now ok?"

"Right. You don't need a fight. You just know everything about everyone's business..."

"What the hell are you talking about?" he said getting annoyed.

"Just because you assume-"

"Miranda you're selling yourself!!! Ok, there, I know!! Now can we get on with our lives?"

Miranda sat there quietly. So he did know. He disapproved, she knew it. He probably thought that she was a slut and was as bad Lizzie...

"I'm not like her ok?" she said quietly.

"What?"

"Lizzie. I'm not like her. I don't go out and have one night stands. I need to do this for college..."

"She's pregnant," he broke in equally quiet.

"She's what?"

"Pregnant."

"I knew this would happen. God she should know better, at least I'm on the pill and make the guys wear-"

"It's mine."

That stopped Miranda in her tracks. "I'm so sorry," she gasped. "What are you going to do?"

"The only thing I can do...support her," he said tiredly.

With that Miranda leaned on him and laid on his chest. He kissed her head and brushed her hair. "Whatever you need..."

"I know Andy, I know."

Lizzie sat in a cloud of smoke and smiled. She was calm...she was "zen" if you will. When she saw the figure that clamored into her domain, she suppressed a frown.

"What do you want?"

"What the hell are you doing?" her visitor demanded narrowing their eyes.

"What do you care?"

"Elizabeth Brooke!!"

"David Zephyr," she shot back.

"You have a baby!! What the hell are you doing!!!???" he screamed at her.

"It's already going to be fucked up! Hell I'm fucked up! Why not?" she demanded.

Gordo stalked over to her and for the first time in his life, he hit a girl. He slapped her and left the resounding sound in the air while she just stared at him. She looked at him coldly and he just stood there shaking with anger. He couldn't believe that she would do this. Didn't she care? How could she just throw this new life away? She had crossed the line before but he took her back. But this time, it was so much more. He helped make this baby and she was just throwing it away. How could she do that with no remorse? All these thoughts flooded Gordo's mind as he ran out of her room, tears flooding his eyes. He actually got attached to the idea of becoming a father. He wasn't ready for it, no. But he wanted that baby.

"Gordo?" Kate asked as he walked into a door.

"Hey Kate!!" he slurred.

"Man, you are beyond drunk," she said as she supported him as he fell against her. "What is going on?"

"Liz's pregnant. She's slowly killing our child. So I figure, fuck!! Might as well go out and have fun right??"

"You are not making any sense at all."

"No but I can upstairs..."

"Yeah Gordo, that's sick. I'm not doing anything with you. We're friends, nothing else. Plus, you reek."

"It's not like you don't do this stuff already," he said as he got near her face.

"I know I do, with Bryan! My boyfriend!!!" he responded.

"What he doesn't know won't hurt him," Gordo said as he tripped. Kate had to maintain her death grip on his shirt to keep him from going face first into the floor. She hadn't seen him like this in like three years, something drastic must have happened.

"Gordo. I need you to think for me. What is going on with you??"

"Nothing! I'm having fun Kate," he crowed happily.

"What happened with Lizzie?"

"Pregnant!"

"She's what?!" she exclaimed.

"Yup and I get to be a daddy," he said as he swung his arm out to the side, his drink sloshing over the side of his cup.

"Oh my God," she said softly.

"Yup. I am a baby's daddy," he managed as he started to laugh.

"Oh boy." This was going to be one long night, Kate thought as she escorted Gordo into the living room.