Ethan and Chris moved out from the closet, Chris' hair mussed from their activities. The party had gotten louder and alcohol was sloshed around the kitchen floor. Ethan lightly stroked her arm, smiling at her with her perfect teeth. Chris smiled back pulling him down for another kiss. Her lip-gloss was almost ruined and Ethan was licking the sweet substance from his own lips.
"Well that didn't take long" David smiled at Chris who nodded and raised an eyebrow at him.
"Yeah, Ethan, no pretense even!" Lizzie smiled. She kissed Gordo lightly and nuzzled his neck. "So when's this wild bash going to be over?"
"When the cops come, yell and then everyone scatters." Ethan said "Or someone decides to move it to the Holyoke Barn"
Gordo nodded. "I'd almost forgotten about that." The barn was the only place better for partying then Ethan's house.
"So how long are you two in town for?" Ethan asked drawing Chris closer to him and pointedly ignoring the fact that Kate was trying to get his attention by straddling Danny Kessler.
"Um, We're heading home on Monday." Gordo said.
"You're missing school!" Lizzie asked, incredulously. "You David Gordon are missing school!"
"Yeah, Its not that big of a deal" Gordo said.
"We have impeccable attendance" Chris said seriously, David turned and glared at her, he smirked again though as he noted her once carefully pinned hair, his eyebrow rose as if telling her "We'll talk later"
"I mean if it really worries you we could go home on Sunday, instead" David grinned kissing Lizzie, pulling her close as he smiled; he lightly bit her lip as he smiled.
"No" Lizzie shook her head. "Monday's fine. My folks aren't coming home until Tuesday anyhow."
"Excellent" Ethan smiled. "Once the cops break this up, we can really hang out. Chris you wanna come meet people?" He asked looking down at Chris, who was blushing as David raised an eyebrow at her.
"Yeah" She said hastily putting her hair up in a few bobby pins she'd grabbed from the pile on Ethan's stepmother's coat. Ethan ran a hand through her hair, trying to hinder the progression of putting it back up.
David smiled back at Lizzie, while Chris and Ethan had been busy they had spent some time talking with friends and David was anxious for him and Lizzie to return to her home and do what Chris and Ethan had been doing.
"When can we go?" He whispered into Lizzie's ear, he'd started to be able to speak at a normal volume and have his voice be heard.
"I normally stay to help Ethan clean up after" Lizzie yelled back. "Because no one else really does.
"Oh" Gordo said, "Why do you though?"
"Ethan's a nice guy, you're always too hard on him!"
"He's practically brain dead!"
"Gordo! You hardly know him! And if he's that stupid then why is Chris happy with him?" She pointed to the two and Chris indeed looked happy, she had another Bacardi silver in her hand and her other hand was loosely held by Ethan. "Do you think Chris would honestly sleep with someone as dumb as you think Ethan is?"
"Yes! I do!" He yelled. "Chris isn't like you Lizzie, she doesn't think of sleeping with guys as such an intimate experience."
"Gordo! How can you be that mean?"
"What?" Gordo asked. He wasn't insulting Chris. "Listen I understand that with me and Miranda gone you've got to make new friends, but Ethan and Kate!" He gestured to Kate who looked like she was shit faced drunk and actually doing Danny Kessler rather then simply making out.
Lizzie bit her lip. "Kate's had problems, so has Ethan."
"Oh yeah, Ethan has problems. Like what? His dad pays off the cops too much so he can have parties?"
Lizzie gulped. "Why don't you think I can make my own friends?" She asked, her voice going up like an exclamation rather then a question.
"Do you have to make friends with people whose lives are nothing more then this?" He gestured to the party. "Its all so stupid. It doesn't mean anything."
"God Gordo!" Lizzie yelled "Are you always this judgmental of people? What do you say about me? These are my friends. Ethan's a great guy. Chris seems nice. So what if they have fun. Ever think it would be good if Chris got emotionally involved with someone?"
"Chris is a big girl, I don't need to look after her," He said putting down his beer cup violently. "She doesn't need my approval for things. She doesn't care what I think of Ethan.
"I do though!" Lizzie gulped. "I care what you think about my friends, I want you to see that Ethan isn't dumb!"
"But he is! He hardly could function."
"Maybe Gordo you're life is simple, but not everyone's is!"
Gordo choked back a laugh. "You think my life is simple! God Lizzie." He shook his head. "You think anything about my life since I left this place has been simple?"
"Tell me!" Lizzie begged. She was starting to cry her perfectly done make up falling with her tears down her face. "I know there's something else. And I'm pretty sure its not Chris, but if you're seeing her too, just tell me. God Gordo, please!"
David came within a milliseconds worth of telling her. But then he imagined her face, the look she would give him. What would she do if he turned to her and said, "My dad started hitting me? I do dope. I drink. And on some nights when I'm really stoned I turn to Chris and we make out, I don't think we've slept together, but sometimes I feel like we should. I love you more the entire world, but I'm scared of being with you now that I'm so different."
So he turned away and didn't say anything. He walked to the back yard and grabbed a bong, took a few hits and decided not to give it back. The smoke curled up the bong, and he watched it, amazed.
The poor kid who'd had his bong and weed stolen watched too. Amazed to see David Gordon sucking away at a bong.
Author's notes: you all are lucky I love this fic so much other wise I would never update it with the reviews the way they are now. Let me stress, I'm not holding a chapter over your heads with review counts. I'm simply saying that if I don't think its being read. Then why write it. I use my own stories as jumping off places and because I hardly ever write on the same computer there are alls orts of unnecessary breaks and distances between when I post and write. So I don't know if those counts are me hitting my own story or other people hitting it. So leave a review.
Also, I like Chris, what do you guys think of her. I know a lot of people don't get the relationship I'm trying to describe with them, but… let me put it in simpler terms.
Even if they slept together it wouldn't be because of a long desire or romantic feelings. It would be because they have a connection that they can't share. Chris isn't going to break them up. In fact her issues will be with Ethan and less and less with Gordo as time goes on.
So Review. So I can put them in a closet again.
