When David pulled into Hillridge he expected Chris to get even more depressed. Instead she smiled, relaxing even bopping her head to the music that had been half heartedly playing in the background through the semi broken speakers in David's car. It wasn't like she became a completely different person, but there was something different about her. Even though she looked almost identical to the girl who had gotten into his car while they cut first English and now had progressed to both History and Math, she seemed a little more confidant. Her arms fell from protecting her chest, and she had relaxed into the seat.
David took this as a good sign, maybe she would fit in and her and Lizzie would be best friends for ever, and he could recreate part of the world he left before all this turned into shit. Or maybe she'd gotten high while they were at that rest stop and the world was still shit.
As they pulled into Lizzie's house Jo and Sam were still waiting to see David again.
"Gordo!" They smiled, Jo waved merrily. "How are you?"
"Fine Mr. And Mrs. McGuire." David said, smiling like he had when he was thirteen.
"Staying for the weekend?" Sam asked "Well be responsible."
"Oh Sam we don't have to worry about that, This is Gordo!" Jo smiled "Lizzie said you were bringing a friend?"
"Yeah, Chris" He smiled as Chris got out of the car. She'd obviously been rummaging through her bag for one of her brother's shirts and thrown it on. The tight lycra shirt her sister had forced on her was covered by a loose white shirt, her jeans looked more laid back with the addition of this shirt.
"Pleasure to meet you" She smiled. And David hoped to hell that she wasn't stoned.
"Is Chris short for Christina?" Jo asked smiling.
"Yeah, it can be confusing sometimes." She grinned "I hope that it isn't a problem, My family's been kinda crazy lately so David suggested I come up here and meet Lizzie, I've heard so much about her!"
Jo smiled "I understand completely, the same type of thing has happened to me. Although Lizzie will be quite disappointed to not be able to hook up one of her friends with you." Since seeing Chris get out of the car Sam had been watching David carefully, trying to see if that was the reason he'd brought this girl. While he liked the boy, and trusted him, he worried about his daughter's feelings.
Lizzie had seen Gordo pull in and had run about, fixing her outfit, and her hair, now she ran down the stairs opened the door and yelled "Gordo!" Jo and Sam took the distraction to leave the two alone. They maneuvered around Gordo's car and into the road, leaving for their mini vacation.
Lizzie was hugging Gordo, her golden blonde hair resting on his shoulder. "Gordo, I missed you so much" She whispered into his ear.
David was smiling hugging her back, pulling her closer to him. "Missed you too" He smiled kissing her gently. He smelled her hair for a second, closing his eyes and envisioning that everything was like it had been prior to the divorce. Lizzie pulled away first, "So where is Chris?" She asked. "Kate really wants to meet him."
David laughed lightly "Well, Chris is sitting on my car, and I think we had a minor miscommunication" He smiled.
Lizzie turned and saw Chris, who waved to her, smiling brightly.
"Gordo!" She said in a way that immediately reminded David of middle school. "Chris is a girl!"
"Yes, her name is Christina, and she lives in the apartment above mine."
"Gordo!" She said sharply "Why didn't you tell me!"
"Chris is just a friend, and her mom's been flipping out over her sister" That was true. The day before they had left, Chris' sister had announced she was pregnant, and that she wasn't marrying the father. Chris' mother who was normally just a druggie, had flipped out. This also made Chris more eager to escape to the suburbs.
"I wish you had told me" Lizzie said backing up and looking into his face. "Oh god! What happened to your eye?"
"Baseball, in Gym, you know how hopeless I am at the sport" David laughed, mentally cursing his stupid pride and ego.
Chris had moved from the hood of the car to grab her stuff. She walked over to Lizzie and smiled "Hey, I'm Chris" She stuck out her hand, smiling.
"Lizzie" Lizzie replied. "Um, I kinda thought you were a guy, and so I kinda set you up with one of my friends…" She said playing with a lock of her hair and blushing.
"Well, I'm sure she's nice. But I don't swing that way." Chris smiled "So, you two go out and hang with her, and I'll just stay and watch TV."
Lizzie smiled uneasily. She didn't know why Gordo had wanted to bring this girl, but she guessed that family reasons were enough. She hardly had anything to complain about and her little brother still made her want to run away from home. A nagging thought at the back of her mind said that Chris was the reason that Gordo didn't want her visiting.
Chris just smiled, unsure what to say, or do. "So, where am I sleeping?"
"Uh, couch okay?" She was going to give Chris the guest room. But now she wanted to make sure that Gordo couldn't sneak off to see her.
"Yeah couch is fine" Chris said. "David said you liked to dance, maybe we could all hit a club tonight or something?"
Lizzie laughed "There are like no clubs here! There's a kegger at Ethan's we could check out."
David gulped, things were not going as he had planned them at all. "Lizzie lets talk about that later.
"You and me Gordo, we have to talk" Lizzie said with an edge to her voice. Gordo was remembering how Lizzie could get when she wasn't being all cute.
"Okay, Chris wanna go watch some TV or something?"
"David, I'm not an idiot. You two talk, and I'll go do something."
Disclaimer: Me no own
Author's notes: Okay so I wrote a new chapter. Mainly because on a day I was really down, Slightly Obsessed left me a bunch of reviews for this. So I felt so good that I went home and intended to write more. Then I got a huge ass assignment. So I said the first thing I'll do when I get some spare time is to write chapter three. I did. Now I have to wait to get the net. So I wrote it, and now there's three chapters of this.
