A/N: Sorry it took me forever to update. I've been busy with school and while in school I've been writing this chapter on notebook paper when I've got free time. So here it goes, and thanks to my reviewers.
Even though Gordo is out on summer break he still has an assignments for a class. He needs to make a documentary about something he learned or what he wants others to learn from, and he knows how to show both of those.
He decided to make a documentary about how you should wait to have kid, not have one while you're not even out of high school, and show what it was like for him and Lizzie and how hard it was at first.
He wasn't sure how well it would go over with his teacher but he knew that it would be a great documentary to make.
He decided to make it now, that way he would already have it done before school would start plus he knew that would take awhile to make it.
He needed to come up with how he was going to do it and where. Plus, he needed to get people to speak to a camera about that situation and he knew the perfect candidates, well actually there are three couples. Then he figured that he could compare a couple who has a career first and no kids, to a couple with a kid, unmarried and still in high school to a couple married, one still in school, and one who has a career. But the couple who is married, one in school and the one with the career didn't get married until after they had a kid.
Starting to film:
He had the camera pointed and filming Camille and James playing, while filming he was speaking to the camera and he wasn't even shown on the camera.
"This is my daughter playing with her cousin, they were born only a few hours apart. They are now three years of age." He began.
Lizzie walked in telling them that it was nap time, they said at they same time "no!"
"David can you help me?" She asked.
She used the name David because she knew that he was filming and that people at school called him David not Gordo.
"Yeah sure," he had responded.
So he went and turned the camera off, and picked James up and him and Lizzie headed to the play pin in the other room to lay them to sleep. There were a couple comfy blankets down and two tiny pillows down as well.
He decided to set up a place in the apartment to interview people on the camera. Even though the apartment was smallish but he knew that he could manage, he didn't want to do the interviews with all kinds of different backgrounds, he did want more than one just not more than two or three. He knew that he could get Lizzie to do her part now and he could do his as well.
"Hey Lizzie can I film you part now?" Gordo asked hoping that she would agree.
"Yeah sure." Lizzie replied.
She sat where the camera was pointing, on that chair.
"Okay, Action!" he directed quietly because the kids were sleeping.
"I'm Elizabeth McGuire- Gordon. I used to hate hearing about girls getting pregnant before they finished school and I thought that they were ruining their lives but then it happened to me. I got pregnant before I was even out of high school; I don't really regret it. But if I could go back I still wouldn't change anything I used to wish that but no I would keep everything the same. I'm not saying that anyone should go out and do what I did. There are people out there that would change everything. I got my career after my daughter was around six months old but it didn't come into full gear until she was one year old. Some people would say that I should've started my career first. I did get a lot of help from my parents; my daughter still had a father figure around when her father was away at school. He would come home on every other weekend and on his school vacations. I'm now happily married with a great job and a wonderful daughter.
I'm supposed to tell you what I learned, well I learned a lot. I learned from my mistakes: they weren't really about the fact of having a child young they were the mistakes mad raising her like not knowing what to do and when I did it was all wrong but I eventually learned. It's hard being a new mother especially when the father isn't around much, that you should try and sleep every time your child is, or hurry and do as much housework as you can." Lizzie advised.
Gordo then turned the camera off.
"Good work Lizzie." Gordo congratulated.
"Thank-you, I really had no idea on what to say…" Lizzie had started but was interrupted when she heard a whiney Camille wake up from her nap.
Lizzie walked over to her daughter and picked her up.
"What's wrong with lil' Miss Camille?" Lizzie asked her daughter.
"Bad Dweam." Camille had replied while whipping her eyes with her little hands.
"Oh, are you better now." She asked her daughter.
"Now." She replied cutely.
During that whole conversation with her daughter Gordo was recording it, Lizzie had no idea until she had turned around and saw Gordo with a camera in his face.
Gordo had to turn the camera off because there was a knock at the door, so Lizzie took Camille with her to answer the door and at the door was Matt and Melina, they were there to pick up James.
"Hey Matt, Melina since you're hear do you think that you could talk about your experience with having a child while still in high school and what you've learned?" Gordo had asked them hoping for a yes.
"I guess we could." Melina had answered before Matt got the chance to open his mouth.
Gordo took them, well one of them to the spot where he had "interviewed" Lizzie.
The one who he took first was Matt; Matt had sat down right where Gordo "interviewed" Lizzie. This time Gordo didn't say action he just gave a thumbs up.
"Hey I'm Matt McGuire. I got my girlfriend pregnant in our freshman year of high school; we are about to graduate high school this year. At first I did regret it, but today I don't it's a great experience but I wouldn't recommend any one to do what I did. Some people say that they regret it but most the time they don't. I'm not married to the mother of my son, but we are engaged. I've been working ever since my freshman year of high school. It started with mowing lawns then I got another job after that, I then found a place that would hire at the age of fifteen; it was a teen hangout. (A/n: The digital bean) I've been working there ever since. I guess you could say that it's my career but I have a career to shoot for after high school. My parents helped and still do, and so does my sister, you probably already met her. From everything that's happened I've learned that my parents' job of keeping care of my sister and I was a tough job. And that everything your parents did or still do that made you mad was only because they love you. My son is 3 years old, and he can be a handful but once again it's a great experience." Matt told his story.
"You did a good job Matt." Gordo told Matt after he had turned the camera on stand by.
"Thanks I guess." Matt replied not knowing if it was really a compliment, and he really didn't know what to say.
They just walked into the room where Lizzie and Melina were talking and laughing. They stopped laughing and talking as soon as they noticed that they walked into the room.
"So, Gordo is it my turn?" Melina asked trying so hard not to laugh.
"Yeah." He replied a little confused and trying to figure out why they were laughing.
They headed to the living room where Melina could film her part of the video.
Gordo gave her thumbs up as well.
"Hey I'm Melina Bianco soon to be McGuire. You know I thought that I wouldn't have a child until I got a career, I wanted to be in politics and run to be governor of California and I probably still will. I thought that having a child and being so young would ruin my life but so far it hasn't, its made me a stronger and a better person. I love my son, and before he was born I double thought every possibility but there was one that I never double thought I knew that I could never do that. I double though adoption and keeping him. I never even thought about an abortion because it made me think what if my mom aborted me. He's the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, even though I'm only eighteen and about to graduate high school and me and my fiancée plan on going to college a local one of course. I have made mistakes raising him especially his first year, but what parent doesn't make mistakes raising their kids. I learned that there's a lot of responsibility being a parent and that it's not an easy job but it can be fun. Between going to school, work, and sleeping I spend plenty of time with my son. I wouldn't say that I made a mistake by keeping him and that I would regret any of it or even change anything if I could, well I would actually change some of the mistakes I did make." Melina advised.
"So did I do good?" Melina asked already knowing that he was going to give her a compliment.
"Yeah." he replied.
They walked into the kitchen where Matt and Lizzie were, Matt was holding sleepy James and Lizzie was cleaning the kitchen.
"Okay, well talk to you later Lizzie." Melina called while walking to Matt.
"Okay, we should do something one day." Lizzie suggested.
"I'd like that."
"Bye Matt, and James."
Matt and Melina walked out the door.
TBC
