A/N: Hey people, I got my university exam results today and it all went well, thank god. Well with that said, back to writing for a few weeks. My last deadline was 10th of March, which is obviously void now due to unexpected girlfirned problems and university issues. Lesson learned, I'm not gona try to deadline my story writing. Anyways back to our little story.

Relationships

Lizzie sat down on the edge of her bed and sighed heartily. It had been almost 5 weeks since her and Gordo's talk in the park. She started to look back...

"Lizzie?" Gordo said as he quickly lowered himself into the chair next to his best friend. It was busy in the lunchhall today

"Yeah?" Replied Lizzie, beginnging to get wary. Gordo had been distant from her for a few weeks now, and everytime he talked to her, he seemed to be hiding something.

"Um...I need to tell you something, now, don't freak out, Ok?"

"Ok...now you starting to scare me Gordo. What's been going on with you in the past few weeks?" Whispered Lizzie, and she leant closer to him so their conversation wouldn't be listened into.

"Well, I really don't know how to say this, So, I'm just gona say it."Gordo tok a huge, deep breath.

"Do you remember a few weeks ago when I told you that I met someone at the party? Well, I've been seeing her for the last few weeks." And he cringed, expecting a slap around the head from Lizzie.

"That's great! So who's the lucky girl?" Lizzie said, interested.

"Well, this is the part where you freak out, so here goes... It's Miranda." Gordo said, and he nervously waited for what he expected to be a panic attack from Lizzie.

"Mir...an...da? Are you sure?" She said, Confused.

Gordo laughed quietly. "Um... yeah. It's weird, I know. I don't think it's still quite sunk into my mind yet. I mean, it's Miranda." He said. It even feels weird talking about Miranda in that context. I always felt that it would be me and Lizzie that would eventually hook up, not me and Miranda, Gordo thought, while Lizzie still attempted to process this new and startling information.

"But I've been seeing her for 4 weeks now, and we finally felt that it was time to let you know, we figured that you could handle it now." Gordo looked around, and smiled, as a cute black haired girl stepped into the hall.

Miranda strolled up to Lizzie and Gordo's table, and made her way to Gordo's seat.

"Hey babe, I mean... Gordo." Miranda said, as Gordo blushed at hearing Miranda's pet name for him in front of Lizzie.

"What... the?" Lizzie managed to stutter out, still trying to fathom out what was going on here. Lizzie too, always thought that Gordo had a crush on her, not Miranda. Wow, I really do take Gordo's feelings for granted. I've always thought he would eventually ask me out, not Miranda, Lizzie thought.

"So...um...what are you doing here, Randa? Shouldn't you be at your school in Mexico?" Lizzie said, finally able to finish a sentence properly.

"Well, my school term finished yesterday, so I travelled all through the night to get here so I could surprise my boyfriend in the middle of his lunchtime, and it looks like I was sucessful." Said Miranda, laughing.

Gordo was indeed very surprised. He looked a little like a chicken that's realised it's going to be roasted. Lizzie laughed a little at the look of surprise and embarrassment on the boy next to her's face.

"Miranda, can I come up for air please?" Gordo managed to blurt out inbetween passionate kisses from Miranda."So I can maybe get some work done?"

"Aww, work shmork, Gordo." answered Miranda, and she sighed, knowing now even she could keep Gordo from impending schol work. She rose off of his lap, and sat down on the chair next to him, with her arm around his shoulder.

"Well, this is a total shock, Guys. I can't believe that my two best friends have hooked up together." Lizzie lied. She knew full well that a 13 year old version of herself was awakening inside of her gut. The girl that would spy on Gordo's dates with girls, the one that would wait after school for him at the bus stop when he came back from high school to see if he had missed her, the girl that secretly cared for Gordo more than anything else in the world.

"Heh, it kinda shocked me too, I never thought poor, shy Gordo would ever pluck up the courage to ask little old me out." Miranda said, and smirked.

Miranda seems to be having a great time rubbing this in my face, Lizzie thought.

"Lizzie? Are you there hun?" Jo McGuire shouted up to her daughter.

"Yeah, Mom! Just picking out an outfit for the meal tonight!" Lizzie answered, but more pressing thoughts had entered her head again. What was really going on between Gordo and Miranda? were they really as serious about eachother than Miranda made out, or was Gordo just humouring her? It all seemed too weird to even comprehend. I have to concentrate on my date tonight... Adam is a nice guy, I've been seeing him for a a couple of weeks now, it's all going good, but there's always something missing in all my relationships..., Lizzie was lost in thought yet again.

There was a knock at the door, and Jo stepped through.

"Adam's here, honey. Should I make him wait at the door?" She asked Lizzie, who was slipping into jeans and a white top with brown and gold patterns tribal patterns on.

"I'll be right there, mom, so there's no need for him to come up." She said, and whilst rushing to get to the door, she slipped over one of Gordo's shirts that he had happened to leave there earlier in the day.

Lizzie blushed as she got back up after landing flat on her face.

"Oh my God, are you alright?" Said her mom, laughing. "It looks like Gordo seems to be with you everywhere you go, huh?" Jo finished, helping her daughter up from her knees.

"Yeah, a constant reminder of how much of a clutz I still am." Lizzie muttered, her face still glowing red.

Lizzie closed the bedroom door behind her, and went downstairs.

"Hey Liz."

"Hey Adam, how's it going?"

"Not so bad, I guess. So are we all set?" Adam said, as he kissed Lizzie on the cheek. They both grabbed eachothers hands and strolled out of the house into the cold night. Lizzie started to shiver. Jeez, what has a girl gota do to get a guys coat around here, Lizzie thought, getting annoyed at Adam, who was more concerned about how cold he was than how much blatant shivering Lizzie was doing.

They made their way to the Gordon's house where they found Gordo and Miranda already engaged in liplock at the doorstep.

"You two started early, huh?" Adam said, and he gave Gordo a high five and Miranda a kiss on the cheek. Lizzie, however, was still a little uncomfortable around the pairing of her two best friends, and merely waved to both of them from behind Adam.

They all got onto the bus to the restaurant, paid, and sat down. Lizzie made a beline for the seat next to Gordo, meaning that Miranda would sit next to Adam.

Gordo immediately noticed that Lizzie was looking a little underdressed for the temperatures of tonight.

"Here Liz." He said, handing her his coat. "You look as if your gona turn blue."

"Thanks, Gordo." Answered Lizzie, looking around to Adam with a irritated look. Then she turned back around and hugged Gordo in thanks. This immediately sparked up Miranda's spider senses.

She leaned closer to Lizzie so only she could hear.

"Liz. I'm gona tell you this only once tonight, your boyfriend is sat next to me, not next to you." And she leaned back, immediately starting a conversation with Adam about what they were going to order at the restaurant.

The meal went along smoothly as could be, despite Lizzie and Miranda sitting back and just scowling at eachother, and the respective guys talking about food and sports.

Once the party had finished their deserts, Gordo and Lizzie went to get more drinks.

"So...Miranda seems nice." Lizzie muttered once they were both out of earshot.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Come on! She has been totally distant with me all night!" Lizzie replied, as she picked up the drinks that they had ordered.

Gordo leaned back and sighed. "Lizzie, what you have to understand is that all of mine and yours relationships are going to have slight problems with jealousy because of the bond that me and you share as best friends. Miranda doesn't like how close we are, and I know that Adam has been feeling the same vibe all night. Now, unless you want to end our friendship for the greater good, then we are both gona have to live with our boyfriends and girlfriends maybe being a little jealous of the relationship we have."

"Then I guess we are gona have to find very trusting partners, because I'm not going anywhere, Gordo."

"Me either."

Meanwhile, Miranda and Adam were having a simalar conversation back at the dinner table.

"What is with those two, Miranda? Have they been like this their whole lives?" Adam said, frustrated and envious of Gordo.

"Sure have. And I totally know how you feel, I hate it when they go off and flirt together, but I guess we are gona have to put up with it if we want to stay in relationships with them." She said, and took another sip of her drink.

"I can't take this. Gordo is so hitting on her...it's unbelievable. I can't believe that she would do that knowing I'm here watching her." Adam was starting to get angry. He picked up his coat, and stood up to leave.

"Wait! Don't go!" Miranda pleaded.

"Tell Lizzie I'll call her tomorrow, sorry Miranda, but I can't be with her if she's going to be like this with Gordo for the rest of our lives. You should break up with Gordo before you get hurt too." Adam answered, and he walked out of the restaurant doors.

Gordo and Lizzie came back to the table to find only Miranda sat there, asleep. The two laughed quietly, and sat down again.

"So do you want to wake her or shall I?" Lizzie whispered.

"I'll do it."

Gordo moved over to Miranda's seat and kneeled behind her. He raised his hands up over his girlfriends eyes, and placed them on top of them. Miranda woke up slowly, and smiled.

"Guess who, sleepyhead?"

"Gordo! that isn't funny."Miranda said, giggling reluctantly.

"So... where's Adam? Gone to the little boys room?"

"Yeah... about that, Liz. Adam kinda up and left about 10 minutes ago." Miranda said, and looked over to Gordo and scowled. And it's your fault, Gordo, She thought.

Lizzie frowned, but that was it. She didn't shed one tear.

"Oh well, I guess he wasn't Mr.Right for poor old Lizzie McGuire. We never really hit it off that well anyways." Lizzie said, and Miranda was shocked about how her best friend had reacted. Did she really not care about other people's feelings or was she just dumb?

The next morning, Lizzie slept late. She knew that Gordo would be accompanying Miranda to the train station to go back to Mexico, and she didn't really feel up to watching them both liplock at platform five today.

She rose out of bed, when she heard the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hello Lizzie." It was Adam.

"Looks, Adam, if you were feeling jealous about..."

"Yeah... about that, I don't think that this is going to work, Liz. I can't compete with you having a best friend like Gordo and how you guys obviously dig eachother. And a little peice of advise. Tell Gordo to let Miranda down gently before he breaks her heart." Adam finished, and he had hung up before Lizzie could answer.

A/N: Read & Review people, all I can say is keep reviewing and checking up on this story, as it's about to get INTERESTING.

DearLizzie