A/N: Greets all! how ya all been? I'm doin good... back and refreshed after the long wait of the darn document loader breaking down... yeah sucks to be us LM writers right now huh... Anyways on with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything or anyone from the LM series of programs or the LM movie. Disney Does.

Denial

Gordo woke up feeling great... he felt so happy and fulfilled for some reason. He thought having sex with Lizzie might have been his worst nightmare, being that she had been his best friend since a very young age, but to his surprise, it had felt so right. He turned around expecting to see Lizzie asleep next to him, but she wasn't there. He turned back towards the door, and it opened, and Lizzie sneaked in very quietly, and shut the door silently.

"Hey.." Gordo said, smiling.

"Hi." Was all the answer he got. Gordo's smile vanished. She didn't look half as happy as he felt.

He noticed that she had gotten dressed, and was walking over to the bed to get her shoes on. Gordo rose up a little out of the bed.

"Where you going?-" He asked.

"-Out." Lizzie replied quickly. Gordo rose a little more out of the bed, so he could reach her where she was standing. He grabbed her gently by the arm and dragged her onto his chest so she was fully on top of him, only the bedsheets were in the middle.

"-Oh no, your not...You're staying right here, where I can see you." He said, caressing her cheek, and she smiled lightly.

"I really have to go, Gordo." and she broke his gentle hold on her, and stood up next to him again.

"But wait..." He said, Gordo had an idea, that even Lizzie couldn't turn down. "I'll make us breakfast!"

She smiled. "It's Ok, I already ate." She started to walk to the door, but turned before walking out.

"I'll see you later."

Gordo could feel some tension in the air. Did Lizzie regret it? He thought about it some more, and realised something.

"Is this about Miranda?"

"No.." Lizzie answered, her face showing no sign of emotion.

"I'm gona tell her." Gordo said, holding onto the covers, but rising up higher than his chest.

"Well, maybe you shouldn't."

It was now confirmed that Lizzie definately regretted everything that happened last night in Gordo's mind.

"Oh." Gordo said at almost a whisper, frowning.

"We'll talk about this later. Okay?" Lizzie asked, as she opened the bedroom door.

Gordo nodded indifferantly. "Yeah, Okay..."

Lizzie sighed. "Just stay as long as you like, and, uh... well you know where everything is..." She uttered, leaving through the door and shutting it.

Gordo was left there feeling a little hurt, and also a lot confused about it all.

Lizzie had reached the corner into town by the time she had emerged out of deep thought.

"Lizzie!" She heard someone say.

Lizzie turned around and saw Matt running across the street towards her.

"Hey Liz... Don't make this anymore embarrassing than it already is but..." Matt was glowing red and seemed to be hopping on the spot.

"What Matt?" Lizzie asked, knowing full well what he was going to ask. Matt leaned in.

"You do know that Gordo is in your bed right now?" Matt whispered into her ear, and she could almost feel the red glowing onto her.

"Erm... Yeah."

"You do... know he's erm..." Matt nearly popped at this point. "Naked... right?" He finished, and he let out a huge sigh.

"Uh... Yeah..."

"Well you know... this isn't really my place... but I don't think Miranda is gona want to talk about this with you, so erm... wana talk?" He said. Lizzie's mouth literally dropped out of place with surprise. Matt was sacrificing his own dignity to be a decent brother for the first time in his life... this had to be some kind of miracle.

"Wow... actually, Yeah, that'd be great... erm... Matt." Lizzie couldn't believe she was saying this. She was going to talk to Matt about her private life... MATT of all people. This was a work of God happening right in front of her.

Gordo was walking down the street on the way to Miranda's house. He couldn't do what Lizzie had asked. He couldn't lie to his other best friend, and current girlfriend at this time. He would have to tell her the truth about him and Lizzie.

He saw Miranda taking out the trash at her house, and he shouted her. "Miranda!"

She heard him, and ran towards him at full speed, jumping into his arms and kissing him passionately.

Matt and Lizzie were sat in the Digital Bean, both looking very uncomfortable at being here with the other. Matt started the conversation.

"So what happened, Liz?"

Lizzie thought back to what she had felt last night.

"I think I was just... scared of losing him."

Matt rolled his eyes. "Ok... explain."

"Well, I'm the one who told him to start dating...And then he did. And once he started dating Miranda, I didn't get to see him as often as before..." Lizzie continued. "Then the whole thing with Adam happened, then seeing him with her...I just wanted to be with him."

"And your feelings are?" Matt wondered, rolling his eyes again.

"It was a huge mistake, a HUGE big fat mistake...We're friends! We're great just as friends... you know that right? best friends?"

Matt smirked. "Ok...so what are you gona do about it?"

Lizzie sighed. "I have absolutely no idea. He takes this kind of thing so seriously... and the last thing I wana do in the world is hurt him..." Lizzie reached out and hugged her brother.

"Ya know, that was a little helpful, Matt."

"Hey... don't expect this all the time now, this was a onetime special offer thing." Matt said, laughing quietly.

A huge latino hand slapped Gordo right in the face. Miranda hadn't taken the news of Gordo and Lizzie's dilemma quite as well as Gordo had hoped.

"Go to hell, Gordo." Miranda poked him hard. "Go..." She poked again. "To..." She slapped him again, but a whole lot harder. "HELL!" and she stormed off into her house, leaving Gordo stood there, stunned.

Gordo reached for his cell phone out of his pocket, and dialed the only person that had the brains and logic to help him out in this situation. He had been a good friend to Gordo before...

A little later, Gordo was sat at his chair in his bedroom, with Larry Tudgeman lying on his bed.

"What if I'm in love with her, Tudge?-" Gordo said anxiously.

"-Are you?"

Gordo frowned, then sighed, he felt so lost. "I don't know...Maybe..."

Tudge laughed a slight bit. "Heh... what does that mean?"

"I'm not sure, right now, Tudge. It's complicated.I just... don't want things to be weird between us..."

"Ah... buddy...I think things being weird is inevitable right now." Tudge answered.

Gordo leaned over, and slammed his head on the desk in frustration, then raised it again. "If I pretend that nothing happened, then I'll be lying to myself about feelings that I might be feeling..." He continued, "But if I tell her how I feel, and she doesn't feel the same way, then our whole friendship is wrecked, and I know that better than anyone...and that's the last thing that I want to happen."

Tudge rose out of his seat. "Being yourself... not being yourself... welcome to my world, partner."

Lizzie and Gordo were walking through the park that night, both with their hands in their pockets, feeling very nervous. They both kept sneaking looks at eachother, and if both happened to look at the other at the same time, they would move a little further away from eachother and walk a little faster. After a few minutes and a few blocks of this uncomfortable feeling, Lizzie stopped quickly.

"Does this feel weird to you at all?-" She said quickly.

Gordo sighed heartily. "Aww... Yes!"

Lizzie smiled a little. "Okay. Well, I think we need to talk about this."

"I think that would be good." Gordo replied.

Gordo was really hoping to get this all off of his chest. He decided what he would do after he had told Miranda what he had done. He would not let this chance for him and Lizzie to go to waste. Everything that happened that night was all so right to him, so natural.

Lizzie began to speak. "It's just that I thought that things might get strange between us because of what happened last night and I don't want that to happen."

This was his chance.

"Me Neither. But there's something I have to -" Gordo was cut off by Lizzie.

"-Cause we're too good together to let something like that come between us."

Those words were like a thousand stakes into his heart. He forced himself to lie.

"It was a mistake?" Gordo uttered reluctantly. Faking a relieved look.

"You think so?" Said Lizzie hopefully.

"Yes..." Gordo said again. Ouch... that hurt. Gordo thought, clutching his heart.

Lizzie, meanwhile was nodding enthusiastically. "Yeah! I think your right.", she put her hands on her hips. "I think that we just, you know, got carried away in the moment, and... well you know what happened from there on."

Gordo nodded, he suddenly felt numb.

"Last night was really special to me, because your really special to me, Gordo...but that's all it was. It was just an incredibly special night." She sighed, and smiled. "And I just thought maybe we might have given it more importance than we should."

Ouch...

"You didn't tell Miranda did you?" Lizzie asked.

Gordo forced himself to lie again. "No...no, I didn't."

Lizzie smiled again, obviously relieved.

"It's probably better not to -"

"-Yeah." Gordo carried on nodding, not able to say anything of substance.

"Well...I feel so much lighter. Do you?" Lizzie said, continuing to smile.

Gordo managed to gather his thoughts for once, and let out a act of happiness and relief that matched Lizzie's even though he felt hurt and numb inside.

He sighed deeply. "Yes. I feel alot better now."

"So, you wana go to the digital bean and hang out for a while?" Lizzie said, as if nothing had happened.

"Sure..."

And the two linked arms, and started to walk. Gordo's feelings were changing rapidly from hurt into a little anger now. He couldn't just carry on like nothing had happened! He pulled away from Lizzie.

"Actually...You know what? I shouldn't." Gordo said, trying to hide his feelings again. "I'd like to.. but I still have more studying to do, exams and such."

"Really?"

"Yeah..It's pretty important." Gordo answered. He wasn't capable of much thought right now, he just wanted to get away from Lizzie, it hurt to much to be around her after what just happened.

"Okay... call me?" Lizzie said, pouting.

"I will." He replied, as he started to walk away.

The sun set on Lizzie and Gordo walking in differant directions.

A/N: Ok people. I know what all you MG fanatics are all going to write in your reviews, what happened with Miranda? well, I'll touch a little on the situation between Gordo and Miranda soon, but as I stated on the title of the story, this isn't an MG fict. Anyways, my loyal reviewers - As Lizzie would say, Cya On the Flipside. Or as Gordo would say, Go away, stalkers.

R&R peeps, It's all appreciated.

DearLizzie