Chapter 3

Meanwhile Gordo had got up from his bed to play with his hanky sack ball and no matter how hard he had tried to forget about it, he couldn't stop thinking about that wonderful kiss on the last night in Rome and of course wondered if Lizzie was thinking about it too right now. He surely hoped that this kiss hadn't ruined their long friendship, that was clearly the last thing that he would want and he also hated that things were so awkward between them since that moment on the rooftop. *Maybe I really shouldn't hope that she feels the same way about me the way I do about her and I guess that I have to live with the fact that she wants to be just friends.* He wished that would be easier to not make the mistake interpreting too much in this kiss and maybe he was wrong but seeing that short smile on his best friends face made him think that she had liked the kiss very much.

In the end he was so disappointed in himself because of the fact that he had missed another opportunity, to tell his long-time friend that his feelings for her went beyond friendship but like

always he only didn't know the right words to say but also a little voice in his head told him: *She only wants to stay friends with you and if she and Ethan Craft don't end up in the end, she will certainly fall in love with some other pretty boy and not her best friend since childhood.* The fact that they weren't able to sort this whole thing out yet really bothered him if he was honest to himself, because how longer they didn't talk about the more it made him think that she regretted to kiss him and just didn't have the guts to tell him.

He just hoped that she didn't regret it at all; he enjoyed this short and sweet kiss from her even if he surely always imagined it to be a lot longer in his dreams.

Meanwhile Lizzie was still on the way to the Gordon's house, surely still very busy thinking about what to say to her best friends and asking herself the question: Where they still only friends after the kiss or did that mean that she was in love with her best friend? *Let's face I can't be in love with Gordo! Of course he's a nice guy, that always been there to cheer me up if I was down and there were really some moments where I had hit rock bottom but I also have to ask myself honestly: What happens if things don't work out between us, if we get in a messy break up fight me and Gordo are never ever going be friends again.* But on the other side she also had to admit to herself, that she had kind of enjoyed the kiss even if it was so short and the moment was kind of awkward in the very end.

She had spent so much time with chasing after Ethan Craft that she obviously had been blind to see for seeing what was right in front of her the whole time: David Gordon, not only her long-time best friend but the person that did have a crush on her for such a long time even if she had been so busy fancying Ethan. Also Kate, her arch enemy had pointed out to her at that Murder Mystery Party that Gordo still had a crush on her and even if she let Gordo take all the "fame" by revealing the killer at the end the whole idea of her and Gordo being more than friends was still crazy to her.

But no matter at what way she looked at it, there was one big dilemma that she also needed to look at: On one side she certainly didn't want to give Gordo any false hope when it came to her feelings towards him but she didn't want to hurt his feelings because of his bad luck in the past when it came to girls.

Flashback

Lizzie and Miranda were watching the conversation between Parker and Gordo from a save hiding place. He truly had needed some encouraging but Lizzie was happy that Gordo had finally been able to have the guts to ask Parker to be his date for the upcoming dance.

They watched a lot of anticipation as their best friend finally walked to Parker Mc Kenzies table, where she apparently worked on some homework: "So…uh…math homework?"

"Yes…a lots of math homework."

"Yes…It is."

Gordo was clearly so nervous when it came to talking to girls, he truly never had been good in this kind of things no matter how hard he had tried in the past to just relax as much as possible before and also tell himself that everything would be alright in the end.

There was a short silence between them, where Parker of course asked herself why Gordo wasn't saying what he wanted already and he didn't know what to say next before this moment got even more awkward than it already was.

"So…uh did you hear about the King of Norway?"

Meanwhile on the other side of the Digital Bean Miranda whispered to Lizzie as she wasn't able to see Gordo from her position that good: "So what's happening?"

"I think that he's going to ask now."

"I just hope that he didn't tell that King of Norway Joke."

"So…Parker I was wondering."

"Uh-huh."

"Do you think you would like to the dance with me?"

Parker took a few seconds to think about that question before she finally said: "No I can't."

Feeling so sorry for him at this very moment Lizzie finally said so only Miranda could: "It looks like a no."

End Flashback

*Oh man why does love always have be that complicated? I really wish if I would knew what is exactly the right thing do in this case but that's a lot harder than I had imagined it to be in the first place.*

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