Disclaimer: I know this is a hard pill to swallow, but I don't own the show. I know.I was just as surprised as you are.

"Dave!" Vicki said loudly into the phone.

"Hey Vicki. Why are you yelling?"

"Sorry dude! The music here is getting pretty loud! So you coming or not?"

"Yeah, don't worry about it. I'm just waiting for Lizzie and Miranda, they're still getting ready."

"All right. Well hurry up, man! This party is crazy! See ya in a few!"

"Bye!"

Gordo hung up the phone and took a last look into his full-length mirror. He very rarely cared about his appearance, but ever since Lizzie and Miranda came, he noticed he had grown self-conscious of his looks. Why did he care how he looked all of a sudden? Gordo shook it off and looked into the mirror. He was wearing his black dress shoes that were equally as classy as the black slacks and belt he was wearing. He also had on a dark red short sleeved button up shirt; underneath he wore a black shirt. And of course..how could he forget ANOTHER one of his hats? It had a little bit of red in it, and he decided to wear it seeing how it matched almost perfectly with his shirt.

Gordo walked over to the end of his room and knocked on the door that went directly into Lizzie and Miranda's room.

"You guys ready yet? Vicki just called and said that party is getting good!"

"Just give us another minute Gordo!" Lizzie yelled.

He grunted. There was a ring at the doorbell downstairs. Was it his parents? They weren't supposed to be back until tomorrow morning. He jogged downstairs and was surprised to see Carlos standing on the other side.

"Dave!" he said walking in.

"Sure you could come in!" Gordo said sarcastically. "What are you doing here?"

"We're going to the party, right?"

"Yeah. But I thought we'd just see you there."

"No way! Besides, I thought if I walked in with Miranda then guys wouldn't be jumping all over her."

"So you think if you walk in together, people will naturally assume you're together?"

"Yup!" he paused.

"Ahem," Lizzie said as she and Miranda walked down the staircase.

Whoa. Was all Gordo could think. Miranda noticed he was drooling over Lizzie but appeared oblivious. Her focus was on the hottie standing near the door. She walked over to him.

"Hey Carlos." she said walking up to him.

Lizzie nudged Gordo and pointed toward Miranda and Carlos. "Look at them!" she giggled.

He was too busy staring at her. He was taken aback by how gorgeous she looked. She was wearing a beige halter top with a long silky brown skirt that hugged her hips perfectly. When she realized he hadn't said anything she looked over at him and he was just gazing at her. She laughed and snapped her fingers in front of his face. "Gordo! Are you okay?"

"Huh?" he said as he suddenly broke out of his daydream. "Y-yeah, I'm fine." He offered a smile. "You look great tonight, Liz."

"Thanks!" she said locking arms as they walked out of the house. "You look great too." She rubbed the material of his black leather jacket. "New jacket?"

Yet AGAIN he was too busy staring at her. He wasn't looking at her in a peverted way on anything, he just couldn't help staring at how beautiful she looked tonight.

"Gordo?" she asked looking up at him. "Is this a new jacket?"

"Uh, no. I've had it, but I just never wore it."

"You guys coming?" Lizzie shouted behind her. Miranda and Carlos had yet to exit the house. Unbeknownst to Lizzie and Gordo, the two were busy flirting. Lizzie grew impatient and whistled loudly.

"C'mon you guys!"

A few moments later the pair walked out hand in hand. Now THAT was unexpected!

As soon as they got out of the cab Lizzie grabbed Gordo's hand. "Everyone's going to be expecting it anways." she laughed.

"Great!" Vicki said opening the door. "You guys made it! Come on in! We've got food, music, a dancefloor, whatever you want."

"Vicki!" a boy called from the next room.

"I've gotta go. See ya guys later! And have fun. But not too much fun."

"Bye guys!" Miranda said walking away with Carlos.

Before they could protest, they were lost in the crowd. Gordo noticed all the looks he was getting. Most were out of surprise, he didn't mind, but what he did mind was all the guys staring at Lizzie.

"Dave!" Danielle said walking over to them.

"Hey Danielle!" they said together.

"C'mere!" she said dragging them to the next room where the dancefloor was.

"No party is complete without dancing!" Danielle said. They past the room and went into the next one. It was much more quiet and was filled with even MORE kids! Man, Lizzie thought. How big is this place? She noticed kids were standing around, some sitting on the floor or couches, and they were just talking/laughing generally having a good time.

"Hey Dave!" a group of kids said. They were all some friends of Gordo's from school. Well ..most of them were his friends. About three of the guys were some jocks from school that he didn't really like. He heard always overheard them at school talking about sleeping with all these different girls, and then ditching them. To be quite honest, it pissed the hell out of him.

"Who's your ladyfriend?" one of the jocks said eying Lizzie in a way that made her extremely uncomfortable.

"Back off Mike!" Vicki said suddenly stepping in front of Gordo. "This gals taken!"

"By who?" Mike asked. "You?" he began laughing with his jock buddies.

"Hey," Vicki said nonchalantly. "Whatevery rocks your boat, right?" Everyone but the jocks began laughing including Lizzie and Gordo. He was grateful Vicki made that joke because it seemed to ease Lizzie, she had seemed sort of tense.

"C'mon Vicki!" a girl called toward the end of the room. "It's about to start, and you're one of the judges!"

"Sorry kids!" Vicki informed everyone. "Duty calls. I'll see you all later." She winked at Gordo and Lizzie. "Bye guys! Have fun!"

As soon as Vicki left Lizzie tensed up again. Gordo knew what would relax her so he asked her if she wanted to dance. She nodded and he led her into the next room where the dance-floor was. Gordo was glad that they were playing fast songs, Lizzie loved those. After the first song Lizzie relaxed and she finally got into it. They danced to four more songs until he said he needed to rest.

"C'mon," he said breathelessly as he took her hand. "Let's go get something to drink!"

"Okay." she said fanning herself with her remaining hand.

They walked back into the other room where his friends and those damn jocks were.

"Danielle, do you know where we could get something to drink?"

"Yeah. Just go in the back where the garage is. All the drinks are over there."

"Thanks!" Lizzie said as she led him out of the house.

"Man that chicks hot!" Mike told his two jock friends. They both nodded anxiously.

"Hell yeah dude! I'd like to get me some of that. Mmm!"

"I can't believe she's with him. Well ..actually I guess it makes sense. He's got girls hanging over him all the time, and he is the most popular freshman."

"Shut up!" Mike said. "Are you president of his fan club, or what? Look . When she's alone, I'm gonna make my move.

Gordo and Lizzie approached the backyard and found the garage where more kids were.

"Whoo!" Vicki yelled. "You go boy!" she yelled at the shirtless teen.

From the looks of it, they were having some kind of slip-n-slide contest. Lizzie and Gordo got their drinks and decided to watch. This was hilarious! Guys were acting all stupid and everyone just cheered them on as Vicki soaked them down with the water hose and watched them slide down the slip-n-slide. After the contest ended they walked up to Vicki.

"Nice to see you use your time productively," Lizzie smirked.

Vicki laughed. "I just do what I can to keep everyone happy! So you guys having fun?"

"Yeah."

"Good! Stay as long as you want. Gotta go, I've gotta announce the winner. Later!"

"Bye!"

"You want to go back inside?" Gordo asked as they began walking away from all the noise.

"Only if you want to."

He let out a small laugh. "If I didn't care what you wanted to do, you think I'd ask you? That's why I'm asking you."

"I guess so."

"Okay."

Mike noticed Lizzie as soon as she and Gordo walked back into the room where he and Gordo's friends still sat chatting away. Gordo was going to walk past the room and go back to the dance-floor but she jerked him back.

"What?" he asked.

"You wanna just sit down."

"Uh, o-ok."

Mike noticed them sit on an empty couch across from him and his friends. He took notice of this and saw her whisper something in his ear. He started laughing and she just giggled. She swung her legs over his lap and put both her arms around his neck pulling him close. He responded with putting both his arms around her waist and placing his forehead against hers. They just looked into each other's eyes and giggled uncontrollably. He saw them begin talking to each other but couldn't hear due to the amount of conversation that already filled the air.

"Is he still looking?" Gordo asked.

Lizzie didn't divert her eyes from Gordo's because she could still see Mike staring in her peripheral vision.

"Yup." she laughed.

"You didn't even look!"

"I could see from the corner of my eye dork!"

"Oh."

They continued giggling and laughing.

"Wanna turn this up a notch?" Lizzie asked, as she suddenly began to play with the collar of Gordo's shirt.

"What'd you have in mind?" he asked pressing their foreheads closer together, causing their noses to brush together briefly.

"Just follow my lead tiger ."