Disclaimer: I sadly do not own "Lizzie McGuire" cuz if I did I'd be married to Adam Lamberg by now. I also do not own the song "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" by Britney Spears.

Chapter Two: Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know

Lizzie looked at Gordo. She looked at him all the time all throughout her life. But this time was different. He wasn't just Gordo, but he was "Gordo", a name that she wanted to draw little hearts around in her history notebook. Of course, that was a scary thought, but she couldn't help smiling at it. She liked Gordo, which was for certain now. She thought back to the Murder Mystery party when she suddenly became flushed and light- headed just thinking about him. She should have realized it long before then, long before now after everything he had done for her over the past week.

"Lizzie," Gordo said, eyes beginning to wander from hers, "can we talk? There's something I need to tell you."

'This is it,' Lizzie thought to herself. 'He's finally going to tell me what everyone lese has been telling me for weeks.'

~My friends say you're so into me and that you need me desperately. They say you say we're so complete but I need to hear it straight from you if you want me to believe it's true~

Gordo pulled Lizzie past Giorgio, who was shooing away Paparazzi at the front desk. They pushed open the doors of the hotel like Lizzie had been doing the entire time in Rome to be with that jerk Paolo while Gordo was covering for her.

~I've been waiting for so long it hurts. I wanna hear you say the words, please~

Once outside the hotel, standing in the glow of the full moon, Gordo searched for the words to say. He knew what to say but he wasn't sure exactly *how* to. Was he supposed to jump out at his best friend since birth and say, "Hey! I'm falling madly in love with you! Be my wife?" If only it were that simple. Come to think of it, it was a lot simpler when they were just friends that liked each other as "just friends." But he had always liked her from the day that they met as newborns. Like Kate said, though, love is blind. . . completely blind in this case.

Lizzie and Gordo both looked around for awhile. Once in a blue moon, she would look at him and him at her and he would give her the half-smile and head nod he always gave her when there were no words.

'Just do it, Gordo!' Lizzie thought impatiently. 'Just get it over with! Tell me you like me! Ask me out on a date! Say something to put me out of this misery!'

~Don't, don't let me be the last to know. Don't hold back; just let it go. I need to hear you say you need me all the way. Oh, if you love me so don't let me be the last to know~

"So, what do you need to talk to me about?" Lizzie finally asked, breaking the awkward silence of the night.

Gordo played dumb. "Talk? About what? I thought we could just, ya know, get some fresh air."

Lizzie was getting impatient. "Gordo, what is it that you need to tell me?"

~Ooh, your body language says so much. Yeah, I feel it in the way you touch. But till you say the words it's not enough. C'mon and tell me you're in love, please~

'C'mon Gordo, you can do it,' he thought to himself as he inched closer to Lizzie just as he did on her front porch the night he was about to ask her out. 'Just say it. It's not that hard. "Lizzie, I like you." You've only dreamt it a thousand and ten times! Just get it over with before she gets mad. Boy, is she hot when she's mad. Wait, what am I saying? Just stop thinking for once in your life and make your move.'

~Don't, don't let me be the last to know. Don't hold back; just let it go. I need to hear you say you need me all the way. Oh, if you love me so don't let me be the last to know~

"Lizzie," Gordo started, palms and forehead beginning to sweat like crazy, "I. . . you. . ."

'C'mon Gordo! Just spit it out!'

"Yea," Lizzie egged him on, trying hard not to show her impatience with his confession.

~C'mon baby, c'mon darling, ooh yeah. C'mon, let me be the one. C'mon now, oh yeah~

"Lizzie," Gordo began again. "I've been waiting so long just to tell you that. . ."

~I need to hear you say you love me all the way and I don't wanna wait another day. I wanna feel the way you feel. Oh, c'mon~

Lizzie couldn't stand it any longer. She took Gordo's face in her hands. "David Gordon, you've known me your whole life. You can tell me anything. Just let it out!"

Gordo put his hands on top of hers. "Lizzie, you're beautiful."

"Oh," said Lizzie, dropping her hands, letting a little more disappointment show in her voice than she had intended to. After a moment, she managed to get out a little more chipper, "Thank you. That is so sweet, Gordo."

Gordo looked down and then quickly back up. "Anytime." He looked down at his watch. "Well, I'm gonna hit the hay. Long day of sight-seeing ahead." He flapped his arms at his side and sucked in some air like he always did. "Good night, Isabella."

Lizzie gave a light chuckle and replied, "Good night," as Gordo opened the door and went back inside.

"Great," Lizzie said to herself. After a minute of deep recollection on everything that had just happened, she got herself together and went inside, disappointment still sending waves through her.

~Don't, just let me be the one. Don't hold back; just let it go. I need to hear you say you need me all the way. So baby, if you love me don't let me be the last to know~



Hey! Sorry it wasn't that long but I couldn't add much more in. Gordo always backs down, doesn't he? Can anyone remember the first time he did? You get a prize if you do! lol, j/k. But I really wanna know if anyone knows. I'll give you a hint: they replayed it in the yearbook episode and it made Gordo bang his head against the railing and go "Gordo, Gordo, Gordo", which I thought was SO cute. lol

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