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Title-Poptarts and Babysitting

Dec-20

When Gordo opened his eyes he found himself standing on a warm and sandy tropical beach. The incoming tide was slowly coming in and covering his barefeet.He found himself just standing there staring at the woman that was standing in front of him Gordo took a step closer to the woman and began to run his hands through the mounds of her beautiful long black hair. He was lifting the hair up from her face so he could be able see her face and to be able to look into her eyes.

"UNCLE GORDO!"

"HUH!? WHAT?!" shouted Gordo as he sat up straight on the sofa instantly awake from his dream. His head was whipping around the room looking around for any sign of what had woke him up. His heart was going a hundred beats a second. But when he finally noticed Amanda standing there by the sofa smiling at him Gordo relaxed a little and smiled back at the little girl "Hi Peanut," said Gordo trying to stretch the sleepiness out of him and with a look on his face that was a cross between a yawn and a smile.

"Hi Uncle Gordo!" the pink pj wearing four year old said still smiling at him.

"What are you doing up so early?" asked Gordo as he looked at his watch and saw that it was close to but not yet seven in the morning.

"Pink Power Princess is coming on!" said Amanda as she crawled up on the sofa and curled up next to Gordo.

"Pink Power, what?" Gordo asked as he wrapped his blanket over the two of them in an effort to help hold back the cold morning air.

"Pink Power Princess," said Amanda as she pointed to the picture of the sword carrying female that was on the front of her pink pj's "It's my FAVORITE cartoon!"

"Oh ok" said Gordo as he watched Amanda grab the tv remote off the end table and quickly turned on the tv. And from that moment on Gordo was glued to the tv, watching his first Saturday morning cartoon in many years.

TWENTY FIVE MINUTES LATER

Miranda was walking down the hallway when she heard her daughter and Gordo talking in the living room. When she reached the end of the hallway she stopped and smiled at the sight in front of her. Amanda and Gordo were curled up next to each other on the couch with a blanket spread over the both of them. They had a box of chocolate flavored Poptarts in between them and each of them was holding a glass of OJ that they must have raided from the fridge. The sight of the two of them together like that caused a warm feeling to start to spread through Miranda. She stood there and smiled as she watched the pair.

"Ok now what's that purple guys name again?" Miranda heard Gordo ask Amanda as they were watching the cartoon.

"Max Meanie" said Amanda looking up at Gordo "He's the Pink Power Princess number one enemy."

"Gotcha" said Gordo nodding but than looked at the tv with concern "Oh no Max Meanie is going to use his Super Evil Destrocto Ray on the Princess!"

"Don't worry Uncle Gordo." said Amanda in a soothing tone as she patted Gordo on his forearm "She'll just use her Pink Power Pendent to block the ray."

Miranda started laughing when she saw the look of relief that flashed across Gordo face. Her laughter soon carried over to the sofa getting the attention of the two sitting on it.

"Mommy!" yelled Amanda as she scampered off the sofa and into Miranda arms.

"Good morning sweetie," said Miranda as she scooped her daughter up in her arms and kissed her on the cheek "And a good morning to you to Gordo."

"Morning Rand" said Gordo as he waved at her with one hand.

"Well, I was about to ask if you wanted me to make you two some breakfast but from the crumbs on your shirt Gordo and the brown smudges on your face..." said Miranda as she smiled at her daughter "... I'd say you don't need me to."

"Oh yeah sorry about that, Miranda," said Gordo grinning sheepishly "Peanut got hungry there and since you weren't up yet."

"It's ok Gordo." said Miranda as she sat down on the sofa placing Amanda in between her and Gordo and than pulled the blanket back over the three of them "Plus it's a good thing those Poptarts were in the kitchen. Because I haven't forgot your cooking skills Gordo." Miranda said with an evil grin "Your the only person I have ever known who could start a kitchen fire when making cereal."

"Hey, I didn't know that I had hit the stove controller and turned one of the eyes on!" protested Gordo with a very fake pout that got Miranda and Amanda laughing "I mean how was I supposed to know the eye was turned on when I put the cereal box down on top of it?!"

"Well, for most people that big red light that came on would have been their first indicator" said Miranda "But I guess you were a little distracted at the time since that happened during one of our sleep overs during high school. And if I'm not mistaken it was also right at the time Lizzie had came down stairs in nothing but a night shirt with her legs sticking....."

"Hey!" yelled Gordo as he used his hands to cover Amanda ears "There are children present here! Your child!"

"Sorry" Miranda said while laughing "You know Gordo I was thinking about something last night."

"Well, will wonders never cease," said Gordo with a big smile on his face.

"Ha ha very funny." smirked Miranda "But Gordo I was just wondering. Why is it that you haven't gone home to celebrate Hanukah with your family?"

"Oh well you see Miranda the studio has me on a tight schedule this year. So for me to stay on it me and John are going to stay in New York until the twenty-ninth." said Gordo shrugging his shoulders "So it looks like me and John are just going to have to miss celebrating Christmas and Hanukah this year."

"Oh no your not!" said Miranda with a determined look on her face "You and your friend John will come here to celebrate both holidays!"

"But Miranda I can't put you out like that." said Gordo protesting "Christmas time is for family."

"Damn it Gordo you have always been a part of my family." said Miranda stubbornly "So there is no more sense in you arguing. You and John are coming here to celebrate Christmas with me and Amanda."

But before Gordo could say another word the ringing of Miranda cell phone back in her bedroom interrupted them.Gordo watched as Miranda got up to answer the ringing phone but soon she was back with a small frown on her face.

"Something wrong?" asked Gordo as Miranda sat back down on the sofa this time next to him.

"That was Maxine." said Miranda.

"Ok" said Gordo wondering why that would put a frown on Miranda face.

"It seems that she has come down with the flu that Amanda had just gotten over." said Miranda.

"Oh man sorry to hear that." said Gordo.

"Yeah" said Miranda still frowning "Don't get me wrong I do feel bad that she caught the flu from Amanda, it's just...."

"It's just what?"asked Gordo.

"I have to go into work soon and I now have no one to watch Amanda today," said Miranda who was lost a little in thought.But she soon got a huge smile on her face and than turned to look at Gordo "Unless...."

"You can't be serious?!" said Gordo in shock as he looked into Miranda pleading eyes.

"Please Gordo!" Miranda pleaded to her friend "Your my last hope here."

"But I don't know anything about taking care of a four year old girl!" said Gordo looking back and forth between Miranda and the smiling Amanda who was still sitting on the other side of him on the sofa.

"Please Gordo." said Miranda as she suddenly placed her hand over Gordo's hand and intertwine her fingers around his "Can't you please do this small favor for me, please?"

Oh boy, thought Gordo as he looked down at Miranda hand on his and felt the warmth coming from it. He was shocked at how just her closeness to him was starting to make his heart start beating faster and made his stomach start doing flip flops over itself.

"Please Gordo my oldest and most beloved friend in the whole world." said Miranda pleading again as she placed her head on his shoulder "You said you were just going to be spending all day in your studios New York office. So can you please just watch Amanda for me today? Just until five."

As he felt her long black hair brush against the side of his face and as he got a smell of her strawberry shampoo Gordo came to the suddenly realization that he could refuse her nothing.

"Ok I'll do it." sighed Gordo "I mean like you said I had only planned on going in to our New York office today.So I guess I can take her with me."

"OH THANK YOU GORDO THANK YOU!" squealed Miranda happily as she wrapped her arms around Gordo neck and than without thinking kissed him right on the cheek. But as soon as she realized what she had done Miranda jumped back very embarrassed and started blushing a very nice shade of red.

"Oh I mean..uhhh thank you Gordo....for uhhhh..doing this for me I mean!" stammered Miranda trying to cover herself big time as she got up off the sofa. Still blushing a nice shade of red Miranda started heading back to her bed room "Ok uhhh if you two will excuse me I need to uhhh start getting ready for work."

Gordo found that he could only nod his head as he watched Miranda hurriedly rush back to her bedroom.

This might not be to hard,Gordo thought as he turned to look at the smiling four year old who was still sitting next to him watching her favorite cartoon.

(author note-Sorry but there is something about this chapter that's been bugging me.I drafted and redrafted it many times.So I'm sorry if you didn't like it.)