A/N: I was chatting with my main man JP tonight, and i figured I would churn out yet another chapter to my story. I also think I will publically set myself a deadline to finish this story, yes, all 15 chapters of it...I'll say, 10th of March. So until then, keep reading and reviewing, as the chapters will be coming thick and fast from now on. From now on, you guys will see why this story is rated a T/M, due to slight sexual references, but for all you people getting worried, its not quite an M so dont worry. This chapter could be my longest, there's not much descriptive language in this as to more dialogue, hope that's ok.

Disclaimer: Disney own the characters in the LM series and Movie. Also any future LM Series that Hilary Duff has yet to start, if you know what I mean.

A Walk In The Park

Ring, Ring, Ring.

Gordo slumped out of bed after being awakened by the ringing of the phone for the third day in a row, and it was starting to get on his nerves.

"Yeah?"Gordo said, only half awake.

"Hello Gordo. Did I wake you up? oops, I'm sorry." Lizzie McGuire said on the other end of the line.

"No problem, Liz. So... whatsup?"

"Well, I was just finishing my boring math homework, and I started to think what a great idea it would be to call you and go do something." Lizzie enquired. She tapped her foot on the floor, getting restless.

"Nah, it's too early, Liz."

"You can't just say no without hearing my proposal!" Lizzie said jokingly.

"Well.. you see, that's the beauty of our friendship, I don't need to hear your proposal to know that my answers no." He laughed.

"Im the beauty in our friendship, Gordo." Lizzie said, laughing back at him.

"I'm hanging up now." Gordo said, still laughing quietly.

Lizzie started to panic,"You... can't!"

"Whynot?"

"Because..." Lizzie tried to think of an excuse."I've rigged an explosive device to your phone, and your whole place will blow." She said, and couldn't help but laugh at herself.

"Ahh...right. Well, I've been burned before, so." Gordo jokingly started to put the phone down.

"Please, I can't do homework anymore. I'm getting too smart, people are starting to ignore me." Lizzie said, giggling.

"Ok, but only if you beg me."

"I just did!" Lizzie answered desperatly.

"In Italian. Come on, Liz. I know that creep Paolo taught you some italian." and Lizzie started to beg Gordo in words he couldn't understand.

Later, Gordo had reached the spot in the park where Lizzie had told them to meet earlier. Gordo figured he'd be first to get there, he always was. They had dropped Miranda off at the station this morning, and Lizzie would have to get changed out of the clothes she used for that.

A few minutes of standing there later, Lizzie strolled up towards him.

"Hey Gordo." she said, as he recieved a enormous hug. He looked down at her in surprise.

"Oh...sorry, making up for lost time, I guess." Lizzie quickly answered.

"So, I saw you with a guy last night, what happened? He seemed to walk away pretty quick." Gordo asked, as they continued to walk underneath some white arches and out of the park.

"Well, you actually caught me at the end of a day with him." Lizzie said, and Gordo's shoulders tensed up.

"So, how did you get rid of him?" Gordo replied, sarcastically.

"Well, we fooled around a while, and then I told him, 'Hey, I got an early class'," Lizzie said, linking arms with him as they walked.

"You fooled around?" Gordo questioned, curious.

"Yeah..."

They both stopped, Gordo wanted to follow this line of questioning more fully.

"Ok, so when we're talking about fooling around. Are we talking about... Fooling around... or..." Gordo asked, feeling uneasy talking about this with Lizzie.

"We're talking about... fooling around." Said Lizzie. She was getting annoyed about Gordo asking about her personal life for some unknown reason. "Jeez, it's not like we had sex." ended Lizzie, speeding up away from him.

Gordo's mouth dropped to the floor.

"That's not what I meant."

"We couldn't find any protection." Lizzie replied.

"You would have?" Gordo nearly shouted, and he caught up with her, but didn't link arms, he resounded to putting both his hands in his pockets away from Lizzie.

"Yeah, Probably. I have Christmas exams coming up, I gota relieve the stress somehow."

"Wow... that's amazing." Gordo said, and continued. "It's just that, at any given time, that possibility exists that you'll sleep with a guy?"

"Yeah... isn't that the point of dating? Possibilities? I mean, it's not like I know what'll happen in advance...I don't. But sometimes I just feel that it'd be a whole lot easier to just sleep with a guy than to sit there and think of something clever to say." Lizzie finished.

Was that a dig at me? Lizzie didn't just point out that I avoid sleeping with girls, he thought. Gordo had only slept with one girl, Parker, and he had regretted not waiting for a more special person for his first time ever since.

He grabbed hold of Lizzie by the arm, and they both halted.

"Ok, Granted. I haven't been in that situation for a while now. I just can't sleep with a girl unless I really like her." Gordo said.

"So you think I'm a slut?"

"I didn't say that... we're just differant." Gordo answered quickly.

"Yeah, you sleep with No One." Lizzie pointed out, in a condecending tone.

"So?"

"So? do you know any other single 16 year old freshman guys who don't sleep with anyone? who don't even try?" Lizzie asked, getting anxious, and also a little angry.

"Hey, maybe your trying to hard."

"Gordo. Maybe you don't try at all." Lizzie said, smiling. But it wasn't a happy smile, more of a 'I just won the arguement' smile.

Then Lizzie carried on. "I just think... that how you act is making things weird between us."

"What?"

"Yeah, I mean..." Then Lizzie said something completely out of character in Gordo's mind."Are we friends?... or have I just become your girlfriend substitute?"

"Are you serious?" Gordo wondered.

"Yeah, it's like with me in your life, you never have to try. And that's the beauty of our relationship, you'll just never get hurt again as long as you...pretend I'm your girlfriend." Lizzie said, and she almost heard the slow crack of a broken heart in the guy across from her.

There was a long silence, with just Gordo frowning, and then he spoke,"Yeah... well then maybe we shouldn't be friends anymore." and Gordo slowly turned and walked away, head held down.

Lizzie started to panic. Oh no! I only just patched things up with him about the party. Now I've said some stupid thing and I've lost him again! I'm such an idiot! Run after him! hurry McGuire, She thought desperatly.

"WAIT!"Lizzie shouted, and ran after him.

"Gordo...I am so sorry. I didn't mean that." Lizzie said, grabbing hold of both of his hands.

"Yeah you did..." He said, looking like he was building up a major case of self pity.

"No, I love hanging out with you. Your my most favourite person in the whole world, and I don't wana change anything."

Gordo sighed."I don't know, maybe your right."

"No, I'm wrong! Your just waiting for the right girl to come along, and you don't take sex lightly, I think that that's...a great quality." Lizzie said, trying to smile.

"Maybe your right."Gordo started to reveal a secret, and decided to keep that one to himself.There was this girl at the party last night, and I just blew her off."

"Why?"

"I don't know!" Gordo struggled for words."Maybe I should have given her a chance."

"Yeah... you should have...you still can...I mean, whynot? right?" Lizzie said, hopefully.

"Yeah..." Gordo sighed even louder and longer this time."Whynot."

Lizzie then whispered."Ok... so friends?" she asked. And got her answer by a smile and a huge hug from her best friend.

"Ok... well, with that being said, I gota run, McGuire."

"Ok, Gordo. Catch you on the flipside!" Lizzie answered as she started to turn and head back to her house with Gordo doing the same.

Gordo was half way through his walk home when he was thinking about what Lizzie had said to him. She had made it very clear that she had no problems with him devoting time to the pursuit of a new girlfriend, so like she said... whynot right?

By the time he had gotten back to his house and to the phone, he was already dialing Miranda's number.

"Hola." Miranda said, obviously thinking that it was a local call.

"Er... english please, Randa. It's me, Gordo." Gordo uttered into the reciever, taking the phone upstairs with him as he did.

"Hey Gordo! So, how's it going?"

"Well, since last night I've been thinking about what you asked me at the party, and I think it would be a great idea for us to try out some kind of relationship. Maybe we could go out somewhere the next time you are in Hillridge?" Gordo asked. If Lizzie wanted him to get a girlfriend so badly, then that is what he would do.

"Sure! Ok, well my mom is calling me for dinner, man, talk about the worst time in the world. Talk to you soon Babe." Miranda said, and she hung up.

Whoa, we have only been dating what... like 10 seconds and she has a pet name for me... how am I ever gona tell Lizzie that the girl I met was Miranda?

A/N: Cliffhanger! I love doing that. Ok, I thought of a new way to entice you guys back to my story.

What you can expect in the next chapter:-

Miranda comes back to Hillridge for another weekend, and Lizzie is told about the MG couple. She isn't as thrilled to see Gordo with a girlfriend as she origionally makes out to be. The group go out for dinner in a double date with Gordo taking Miranda and Lizzie with the brown haired guy from the party, Adam. Things heat up when Gordo and Lizzie start to forget about the other two at the table...

Read and Review and wait for the next chapter with interest!

DearLizzie.