A.N.: Hi! Chapter 4 is here! I hope you like it. It took me some time to update, but work at college is hard. Thanks Christy, by your support! You're a fantastic girl! And thanks to all my reviewers!
I don't know what happened, it think I made a fatal mistake (or it was a FF error?) THis chapter was completely in SPANISH! But I fixed this. I'm sorry with all my readers... I'm really sorry! Now it's in English.
Disclaimer: I don't own Lizzie McGuire, or the characters and places included in the Disney's series. I only own the plot. The fragment of the song included in this chapter is a translated fragment from the song "Siempre" by Salsa Kids.
Chapter 4: Kate, I can't believe what you say…
Gordo arrived at the corner of the street his house was on. He stopped there a few moments. Suddenly, he heard some footsteps behind him, and turned back to look. What the…? What was that? Kate was there!
"Kate, what are you doing here?"
"Ah… uh… I… eh… Hi…"
"Kate, were you following me?"
She was very nervous.
"No, I didn't. See, the thing is I want to talk with you."
"You want to talk with me?"
"Yes…" Kate said.
"Weird…"
"What's weird?"
"It's weird you aren't speaking to me in the usual tone you do, it's weird you looked for me to talk to me…"
"Well, I believe things can change some time, don't you think?" Kate babbled, trying to find an excuse.
"What do you want to talk with me about?"
"A lot of things. First, I want to talk about Lizzie."
"Oh, Lizzie! I just remembered I have to talk with you about Lizzie first," Gordo said. "I don't like the way you behave with her, especially what you did to her yesterday. She never would annoy you, she would never try to hurt you, but it seems like you do all you can to make her feel bad all the time and…"
Kate interrupted him.
"Believe me, I never meant to do those things to Lizzie. I have no real intention to hurt her. Although it seems like a lie, I appreciate Lizzie… Yeah, right, I never demonstrate it, but it's because I find it difficult to control myself. Besides, she interferes with my plans…"
"Plans? What plans are you talking about?"
Kate decided she had to say once and for all the reason for the pain and the struggle within herself, the reason that ironically also brought to her the strength and the light for her life, a life so miserable sometimes. To be popular was the worst hell, something that she would have never wanted to be. She wanted to stop being as she was, conceited and selfish.
"My plan is… I want you to be mine! Yes, Gordo, I like you! I don't know from when, I don't know how, I don't know why! I like you, and Lizzie interferes because she loves you, and I have noticed you also love her, and that's killing me! That's why I behaved that way yesterday!"
Gordo was surprised, almost shocked, unable to believe what he heard.
"Kate, I can't believe what you say… "
"What's so difficult to believe? I like you, I love you!"
Kate tried to kiss him, but he pulled her away.
"No, Kate. You don't love me. You're confused. Give yourself time to think. Don't hurt yourself; don't let me to hurt you. And, please, stop annoying Lizzie. I've got to go now. Bye."
Gordo started to walk, and Kate shouted to him, almost crying:
"Don't go! Didn't you listen to me? Don't you have anything to say?"
"No." Gordo thought to himself. But at once he realized he was being too cruel. He didn't like to hurt anybody, even if that person is a person like Kate. So he turned around and said, "Kate, you're not thinking clearly. You have to take time to think. You can't love me. I can't love you. You have always been cruel to me, with me and with my friends, especially with Lizzie. Please don't hurt yourself…
"You see? You love Lizzie! I can love you more than her!"
"No, Kate. And again, stop bothering Lizzie, please. Bye."
Gordo continued walking towards his house. Right, he was a little rude with her, but he could not give false hopes to somebody that he didn't want, to somebody that he practically hated… the memory of Lizzie returned to his mind, and the verse of a song repeated in his head, sounding like a jeer:
"I've finally decided
Not to lose the opportunity
To confess that you are the cause
Of this insomnia and this love
That's driving me insane."
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"My life is worthless… I'm always screwing up…"
"Kate walked, crying and cursing."The first decent boy I like, and he is not interested in me, and that's my own fault!"
"Hi, Kate, what's wrong?"
Suddenly, Larry Tudgeman appeared behind her.
"Tudgeman, what are you doing here?" Kate asked, wiping her tears and pretending to be fine.
"I crossed the last street and I saw you… You seem like you're not fine… Can I help you?
"No, leave me alone!"
Kate started to run, getting away from there.
"What a weird girl…" Tudgeman mumbled.
"Weird, really weird…" Ethan said, arriving at that moment.
"Do you know what happens with her?"
"Yep. She has some problems. But she'll solve them. By the way, do you want to go bowling with me and my friends? I need another person for my team. I would invite Gordo, but the last time I saw him bowling, he threw all the balls in the gutter, and Miranda cheered him up… I don't believe he's gotten any better since then. I've seen you bowling, you're pretty good. I could use a man like you on my team. Will you come?"
"Sure, I'd be glad to."
Ethan thought to himself: "I hope Kate will think long and hard about what she's going to do."
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Lizzie arrived at to her house and found her family around the table of the kitchen, having a snack.
"Hi Mom, Hi Dad, Hi Matt!"
Jo answered to the greeting.
"Hi Lizzie, how was your day?"
"Everything was fine, what about you?"
"Everything's fine. Guess what! Your brother has been made Student of the Month."
"Really, Matt? Congratulations! You're a great kid!"
"Thanks Lizzie, but I couldn't have done it if you didn't help me to study the last few months… I think this prize is also yours …"
"Matt…"
Lizzie hugged her brother. Although he had grown up to almost her height, she still thought of him as a child, and took care of him as if he were a child. She had already forgotten about so many of the cruel tricks Matt had played on her, and well, when all was said and done, they were still brother and sister, weren't they?
The snacktime was all joy. In the afternoon, Matt went to Lizzie's room to talk with her.
"Lizzie, can I come in?"
"Sure, Matt, come in."
"How are you?" Matt asked
"You mean how am I about…?"
"Yes."
"Well, Miranda told me Gordo also loves me. But every time we try to talk about it, there's always something that doesn't let us finish our conversation… it's making me crazy…"
"Do you have a clue about what wants Gordo to talk about with you?"
"No, I don't…"
"Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie. Gordo also loves you. And I know what he is going to say. He's going to confess his feelings for you!"
Lizzie blushed and said, "Matt, do you think that?"
"Yeah, I'm sure. Talk to him, after all, who says you can't go first?"
"Yesterday I was supposed to do it. And, you're right, who says I can't go first? Thank you, Matt…"
"No problem. Can you talk to him today?"
"I don't think so, but I'd like it. We've got a lot, a lot of homework. I'll have to talk to him tomorrow."
"Why not today? But, well, if you want to talk with him tomorrow, it's your decision."
"I guess I'm not ready today. But tomorrow I will be!"
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Gordo was at his house. He needed to talk with someone about what happened at the end of the school day with Kate. Would he talk with Lizzie? No. He wouldn't talk about that with Lizzie. It wasn't something he would talk about with Lizzie, because the problem was about Kate. Then he decided to call Miranda, so he took the phone and dialed her number.
"Hello?"
"Miranda?"
"Gordo, what's up? Listen, what bad luck, Mr. Dig asked you go talk with him… By the way, what did he say to you? "
"Nothing. Only he said not to get distracted in class, although I was in love with Lizzie."
"What?"
"Yeah, he had noticed…"
"You see? EVERYONE knows you're in love with Lizzie and Lizzie has fallen for you…"
"Well. That doesn't matter now. But something else happened you won't believe. Sit down or you're going to fall down when you hear it…"
"Gordo, what happened? Don't freak me out…"
"Kate was following me at the end of the day, after I talked with Mr. Dig, to tell me she was in love with me and that's the reason for her behavior with Lizzie… She seems to be crazy, obsessed… What a weird thing, I've got a bad feeling about this… Miranda, Miranda, hello… Miranda…"
Miranda was silent. She didn't know if believed Gordo or not.
"WHAT? That's impossible! You aren't serious... are you?"
"Do you think I could joke like that, about that matter and with Kate?"
Miranda remembered that Gordo was the most serious person she knew and he would not joke around about something so serious.
"It's just I can't believe it… And what did you say to her?"
"I told her it was a mistake, that she couldn't feel that for me, that I couldn't feel the same for her; also I told her to stop bothering Lizzie. Now I'm worried about Lizzie…"
"Why?"
"Because she said Lizzie was interfering with her 'plans'… and I'm afraid she could do something to Lizzie, something worse than she's already done…"
"Don't fear, Gordo. She will forget about that. But we'd better take care of Lizzie. Starting tomorrow we will keep an eye on Kate to see how to protect Lizzie from her."
"Thanks… We're The Three Musketeers, and we will be together forever!"
"Amen to that!"
What Miranda and Gordo didn't know was that the wounded Kate's heart was, in fact, making a plan to get Lizzie away from Gordo… and she intended to execute it as soon as she possibly could.
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