Gordo drove them, Lizzie sitting next to him, and Chris curled happily in the back seat. Lizzie was laughing and singing along to a song on the radio which David was protesting to hate. "You could have had a singing career. Don't punish the rest of us because you wouldn't" He joked.
"Singing career?" Chris asked, pulling some hair from her glossy lips.
"Italy" Gordo said before Lizzie could start explaining it in earnest. Lizzie pouted as Chris nodded in recognition.
"Gordo! I wanted to tell her!"
"She's already heard the story."
"Gordo, it's the one thing in the world that makes me interesting, I like telling it." Lizzie said practically.
"Lizzie. You don't need that stupid Roman trip to make you interesting." David said as he pulled into a line of cars.
"Name one other thing that makes me different from the rest of this suburb!"
Gordo put the car in park and leaned over kissing Lizzie's forehead in a way that Chris recognized, it was a caring motion, not sexual. He'd done it to her a million times. "Lizzie, your amazing." He whispered, stroking her cheek.
Chris got out of the car to give them some privacy. The intimacy that they were displaying was more then anything she'd ever seen. She almost wished that they were being gross so she didn't feel so guilty just being there.
The kegger was something out of a generic summer teen movie. There was a house on a hill, with what must have been the entire senior class of Lizzie's high school streaming up to it. Everyone screaming and some even carrying kegs up to the house.
Lizzie and Gordo got out of the car, Gordo loosely taking her hand, kissing the back of it as they joined Chris walking up to Ethan's impressive house. Gordo had of course been before, but not since he'd moved into a tiny apartment with his father. His apartment was the size of Ethan's back porch. Chris had never been and was raising an eyebrow at David, wondering what they were doing there.
Ethan saw Lizzie and he walked over, offering all three of them beers, Chris had one before the words finished coming out of his mouth, taking the red plastic cup she smiled.
"So this is Chris?" Ethan asked, "Kate's not gay" He said to Lizzie jokingly.
"Misunderstanding" Lizzie yelled. "You single tonight?"
"They want us to hook up so David doesn't feel guilty about brining me here and hanging with Lizzie all weekend!" Chris explained.
"Sounds good to me!" Ethan joked. "So Gordon! Where in LA are ya?"
"Oh we can see the Hollywood sign from the window" David said being intentionally vague, knowing that Ethan wouldn't press because of his lack of intelligence. Ethan chose not to press for more information, mainly because he had more important things to find out.
"You aren't fucking around on Lizzie right?" He said drawing David away in an odd motion that didn't remove them from the girls but hid them. "Because I like you and all but really if you are, then I'll have to kill you."
"Why does everyone think I'm cheating on my girlfriend" If it had been a movie the music would have stopped just as he said "I'm cheating on my girlfriend" but it didn't and just as well, as everyone did assume that. "No one thought I was screwing around with Miranda"
"No they thought she wanted Lizzie." Ethan said, his tone a little more serious then David remembered.
"I'm not screwing around" David yelled over the party, for some reason Ethan barely had to raise his voice, but David had to yell.
"Good!" Ethan said "What happened to your eye"
"Baseball, in Gym" He yelled, Ethan looked at Gordo, assessing him.
"Ouch" He nodded. "Chris is hot!"
"Lizzie made her over!" Gordo said nodding.
"You saying I ain't hot normally David?" Chris said smiling as she placed a playful sloppy kiss on his cheek. Lizzie grinned doing the same, only more intimate. David grinned as he knew he had both of their lip prints on his cheeks.
"You're hot, but in the whole grungy p-" he stopped himself before he finished that thought. Ethan laughed.
"Baccardi silver?" He asked grabbing one out of a cooler. Alcohol was everywhere. Ethan's father always seemed to order tons of it before going away, hush money for his son.
"Low carb right?" Chris asked jokingly as she took one. Both Lizzie and Gordo were still nursing their beers, but Chris had finished hers' a while back.
Ethan checked as he handed it over to her. "Hell yeah, wouldn't do to go and loose my girlish figure now would it?" He laughed opening one for himself. Chris grinned, raising her glass in salute to him. Ethan had changed since middle school, it was fitting, four years should change people. He wasn't as into the whole popularity thing and enjoyed the simple and uncomplicated friendship he had with Lizzie. It was a good contrast to the highly public and complex relationship him and Kate seemed to force themselves to have.
While still the most attractive guy in his school, Ethan for some reason didn't look as primped almost as he had in Middle school. He'd lost the attempts at looking gangsta and looked more like the rich boy he was in reality, the look worked for him. Oddly enough. Chris smiled up at him, a few pieces of hair stuck across her over glossed lips and he grinned down at her.
He liked Chris, she obviously wasn't at all like Kate, who was at the moment throwing herself at Danny Kessler. There was something more grounded about her. He knew he liked her when she wrapped her arm around his neck and pulled herself up to kiss him. The kiss tasted of cheap beer and Bacardi drunk so fast that there was no distinguishing the flavor that it had once been. As they parted Ethan chugged his own Baccardi, kissing Chris again pulling her to him desperately.
David watched, holding Lizzie lightly, his arm wrapped around her waist in a slightly possessive hold. Lizzie held onto him desperately, almost embarrassing herself as she held the red plastic cup full of beer gently. "They look good together" Gordo whispered to her, kissing her ear lightly.
"They do" Lizzie agreed, her head resting on his shoulder. She was silent watching them. Ethan had several bad habits, drinking, smoking and sleeping around. "Chris doesn't get too attactched to guys right?" She asked over the party.
"Not normally" David said puzzled. "Anyway, its not like she'll be sticking around long enough to get attached."
"Oh yeah, you'll be back in LA on Sunday" Lizzie nodded. She looked up and saw Chris pulling away, she hoped that the girl wouldn't slap Ethan, he hadn't had that much to drink and couldn't have insulted her that badly. Lizzie had heard Ethan insult girls so horribly that she hadn't wanted to comfort him after they slapped and yelled and made a fuss. But the odd thing was that it always seemed to be the girl's fault. They would assume to much of him, use him, or just cheat on him. The reason he stayed with Kate so many times was because she was just honest. If she didn't want to date him she'd dump him, if she wanted him to get her something she'd tell him. Nothing stupid like the other girls who tried to trick him or the like.
Lizzie watched as Chris smiled leading Ethan upstairs. Gordo laughed and kissed her ear. "Chris is a big girl, she doesn't need us to shelter her."
"Can she deal with Ethan though?"
"He won't hurt her right?" David asked seriously. A few months ago a guy Chris had been hanging with had started slapping her around.
"Ethan?" Lizzie asked surprised. "Oh god no! I've just heard from Kateā¦" She trailed off. "No he won't hurt her."
Ethan was having issues trying to procure a room for the two of them, several doors were locked from the inside and it was too gross to think about going into his father and step mother's room, Chris laughed and pulled him into a closet, which was bigger almost then her room back home. She pulled a couple furs off the rack and put them on the floor, pulling Ethan over her.
Ethan looked down at her, undoing her hair delicately, a pile of bobby pins resting on the mink coat beneath them. Chris laughed slightly looking up at him, and the deliberate and determination he had on plucking the pins out. His hand stroked though her hair breaking up the hair spray that Lizzie had so artfully put in.
"Sorry about the closet thing" He said softly looking at her, his eyes inspecting her. Chris smiled, liking the feeling of his thumb stroking her hairline.
"No issue." She said licking her lips slightly, the gloss loosing its shine as he kissed her again. Chris smiled running her own fingers though his perfect hair.
The noise from the party was hard to ignore, but both were used to ignoring things.
Disclaimer: Me no own.
Author's notes: Wee! Chapter Six! Okay a couple things, I do intend to keep Ethan around. Why? Because I think as a character he has tons of potential and is completely and unfairly overlooked. Why else? Because writing interactions between three people is hard for me to do. I don't like it. And also, Ethan is important to us learning more about Gordo/David. (Also, a note, I happen to think that our culture is over sexualized and that's why instead of referring to Chris and Ethan stripping he takes out her hair pins which is a reference to older sexual things and I didn't want to get to sexual with the two of them.) Also, I have not in anyway forgotten aobut this peice, I have been swamped with college and the biggest case of writers blocke that has ever struck me across the face with a wombat. Okay. That made no sense to me and I wrote it.
