Chapter 4

A few minutes later Lizzie had almost reached the Gordon's house and because of that she was getting more and more nervous by the second. I've really have to relax or I will definitely embarrass myself by not being able to get one word out in front of my best friend. Miranda would definitely know what to do now in this very complicated situation but she wouldn't be back from the family vacation in Mexico City for another week and that meant that she needed to figure out her feelings on her own.

Meanwhile Gordo decided to try to take the initiative in this thing, even if he had never been good in talking with girls but in the end there were just too much things in his head that he really needed to finally get them off his chest. Slowly he grabbed the stationary phone in his room, but right before he dialed he took one deep breath and thought: Come on Gordo you can do this, I mean how bad can it get? He finally dialed the phone number of the Mc Guire's home, hoping that she would pick it up and while he waited he tried his very best to prepare some words to prepare some words to say because he really didn't want to embarrass himself. It didn't take long for somebody to pick up the phone in the Mc Guire household but it clearly wasn't the person that Gordo wanted to speak with right now, instead of Lizzie her mother had answered the phone: "Hey Gordo, you surely want to speak with Lizzie but she's not at home right now."

Gordo was now really confused and so he replied without much hesitation: "Where is she? Isn't she still grounded because of what happened in Rome?"

"Yes of course Lizzie is still grounded but we talked about something else that happened in Rome and because she's got something that she really needs to talk to you about in person, she is probably almost at your house Gordo."

Of course Gordo knew exactly what Lizzie's mother had been talking about her daughter with: the kiss between him and Lizzie on the rooftop on the last night of the trip to Rome and the only thing that he could think was: Oh man! All Moms really have that special gift to read their children like open books and I really wonder what Lizzie has exactly told her. Being kind of unsure how to respond to that first he finally said after some silence: "Ok thanks Misses Mc Guire and I guess…that I will wait for Lizzie's arrival then."

Gordo then quickly ended the phone conversation before Miss Mc Guire could reply anything and shortly after that he couldn't help but think as some tiny bit of sweat threatened to fall down his forehead: I really hope that she doesn't say what I think she will, because I don't know if things can ever be the same with my best friend that I had a crush on for so long. Over the next minutes all he could think about was: What if she really regrets the kiss? He really hated to be proven right in the end, facing the reality that he might have interpreted too much into this kiss at the very end was the one thing that got him totally into full panic mode right at this moment.

Even if it was so hard manage, he needed to find some way fast to compose himself again to avoid ending up as a total emotional train wreck by the end of the day. For a few minutes a paced through his room, trying to somehow sort things out in his head, also preparing himself probably for the worst to come in this long-overdue talk with Lizzie before he finally sat down on his bed again to rest up a little before she finally would get here.

A few minutes later Lizzie finally arrived at the door of the Gordon's house and because she kind of nervous because of what was to come, she hesitated to use the door knob to think about this: What if he has already forgotten about the crush on me? Maybe after all this time that I spent with chasing after Ethan and ditching him in Rome for Paolo he finally decided to move on and of course I couldn't blame him for that.

But Gordo had been a very good friend in Rome, by covering for her as she snuck away from the group and of course that had meant so much to her. He surely had been a very good friend in all these years that they had known each other: But did that also mean that there could be more between them than friendship? Lizzie didn't think so at first because all the time she still held onto the hope of getting together with Ethan Craft, surely not the smartest boy at Middle School but the prettiest one in her opinion.

Her feelings for him had certainly changed as she felt kind of lightheaded and maybe also a little bit disappointed as their almost kiss was interrupted by her father and that made her think for a moment: What an excellent timing dad! Maybe if they had been left alone for a little bit longer, he would actually had asked her out on a date and be his girlfriend. At first she did think that Kate was actually crazy saying to her that her other best friend did have a crush on her, because for all this time he had been just this one thing for her: A good friend and nothing more but later after that short talk with Gordo where he got all flustered, like did around all girls she did put all the pieces together: All that little things that compliments that he did drop in the past where actually his way of secretly admitting that he liked her more than a friend. Silly me! Why didn't I see that earlier? Lizzie hit her forehead with one hand shortly, and then after she had taken one deep breath she finally knocked on the door of the Gordon household and anxiously waited for somebody to open. Now it really was no turning back any more, even if she didn't really prepare anything to say and also this whole thing could maybe backfire in the very end.

Lizzie couldn't help but nervously tap her foot a little bit a few minutes later, but finally got to restrain herself by thinking: Come on Mc Guire get your act together! Finally Miss Gordon opened the door and greeted her with a smile on her face: "Hello Lizzie what a pleasant surprise to see you, I bet that you are here to see David he's up in his room." Lizzie tried to force a smile as best as possible to distract from her obvious nervousness at moment and replied: "It's nice to see you too Miss Gordon and yes I am here to see Gordo." Roberta Gordon let her son's other best friend into the house and finally closed the door behind her.

Gordo hadn't noticed that somebody had been on the door for him because he had been busy with listening to some of his favorite instrumental movie soundtracks with his big wireless headphones on full volume because that was just the right thing he needed to relax a little bit.

He was so much into listening to the music, that he opened his eyes as one familiar hand tipped him on his shoulder. He quickly shut down the mp3 player, at first kind of being embarrassed as he noticed that Lizzie was standing in his room because he certainly hadn't meant her to see him like this. After a few minutes of awkward silence had finally passed Gordo was the first one to speak: "So…I heard that you…wanted to talk to me about something."

Lizzie wasn't quite sure what to say and she wondered why she got all flustered and that really bothered her because it was Gordo she was talking to not her long-time crush Ethan Craft, so that really meant this should be a lot easier.

"Uh…yes I wanted to talk to you…about that kiss." Was the only thing that she could get out of her mouth and it really took a lot not to smash her head against the next wall out of pure frustration about letting her nervousness totally take over. She took one more deep breath to ease up her nervousness a little bit more and finally said without any stuttering: " I had a lot of time thinking about the kiss and why I did that in the first place and even if I denied that idea for so long, I finally got to the conclusion that crazy or not I had developed feelings for you after we almost kissed at the end of that murder mystery party and I finally realized why I was so disappointed that it didn't happen: I love you Gordo and I hope that you still feel the same way about me even after I had practically ditched you for some for that smug Italian guy."

AN: Nice little cliffhanger at the end of the chapter, please tell me what you think of the newest chapter and some constructive criticism is always more than welcome. Thanks to- TheRealXenocide for reviewing this story, Thanks to-Seahawk 51 for reviewing this story. Please read and review