Chapter 12

What the two lovebirds didn't know was that Brooke Baker sat in the same restaurant on this night with her good friend Vanessa and of course Gordo's ex-boyfriend had spotted him on the dance floor with Lizzie Mc Guire as she had glanced around the restaurant for a minute. That hadn't gone by her friend unnoticed and so she immediately asked her: "Isn't that David Gordon, that one guy that you had been together with for a short period of time?" Brooke sighed for a moment, because she really didn't want to reminded of the one guy she wasn't able to hold on for a longer time but then she replied: "Yes and I can't believe that he actually dumped me for that ugly Lizzie Mc Guire, who wanted steal him from me the whole time and just because she was jealous of my good looks!"

She never had been the type of person, who was able to handle any kind of looses very well and right at this moment she came up with a plan to get back at Lizzie Mc Guire. Vanessa knew that her friend was planning something when she saw that big grin on her face appear and right she was very sure of one thing: That wouldn't end well but when Brooke wanted to do something, there was absolutely nobody that could stop her from doing just that. The two girls then continued to eat but Brooke couldn't help to steal a glance from time to time to the happy couple that danced just a few meters away and deep down she was jealous of the young love.

Lizzie Mc Guire had ruined things between her and Gordo, just because she wanted him for herself but one way or another she would pay dearly for this. Lizzie and Gordo continued to enjoy the slow dance; Lizzie had softly rested her head on Gordo's left shoulder and he had a big smile on his face as he couldn't feel happier.

As another slow had finished Gordo lead his date back to the table, a little later their desserts arrived and Gordo couldn't resist feeding some of his ice cream to Lizzie even if he was aware of the weird looks that they were maybe getting from the other guests in the restaurant. "This Banana Split is so delicious Gordo, but it's only fair if you also try some of my ice cream." Then she grabbed her spoon, put some vanilla ice cream on it and her date opened his mouth at once to eat some of the ice cream. She couldn't but giggle as she smeared some of the ice cream got smeared on one corner of his mouth and before he was able to get rid of it with the napkin, she grabbed her own, rubbed it away and that got him feeling lightheaded for a short moment.

The two then continued to eat their own desserts in silence, after having feed a couple of spoons of ice cream to each other and as she watched him eat his for a little bit she thought: I wonder why I didn't realize earlier how much of a perfect fit we are as a couple and it took me long enough to realize that I want us to be more than Friends. Of course I've denied it in the beginning, because I was so busy with chasing after the good looking Ethan Craft and I wanted to be his girlfriend so bad but how it says so bittersweet in one song of the Rolling Stones: You can't always get what you want?

She was so disappointed on that day where Ethan not only had turned down her invite to go to the Sadie Hawkins dance with her but also said that he only wanted to be friends with her.

She had to admit that Gordo had been discreet about his crush for her through all those years that they've known each other and of course he always had been a great friend the whole time besides her other best friend Miranda. After she had taken another sip from her drink she said: "I've got to go to the bathroom now but I'll be back in a short while. "

"Okay but don't take too long in there with freshening up your make up or good ol' Gordo will start to feel lonely. " He said with a little grin on his face and Lizzie couldn't help but laugh at that comment from him and before she left, she turned around one more time to face him and replied: "That's so cliché Gordo but don't worry I'm really not don't kind of a girl that takes that much time

in the bathroom."

Knowing that now was her perfect opportunity to set her little "plan" into motion, Brooke got up from her chair and turned around to her friend one more time and gestured her to keep quiet because she was probably about to object to what she was about to do. Gordo was surprised to say the least as he saw Brooke Baker, someone that he hadn't been in contact with since things hadn't ended that well between them a couple of years ago.

Brooke had been the first girl that he had fallen in love since he had realized that it was much better for his emotional well-being to forget about his crush on his long-time best friend Lizzie Mc Guire. But in the end his heart was once again broken as he found out, that Brooke wasn't really into him at all and had been having an affair with another guy the whole time that she supposedly dated him. Of course he also had been kind of mad at his two best friends because of the way they acted, because he would never have expected that Lizzie and Miranda would spy on him.

After that disaster with Brooke he had asked himself if love was even a thing that was worth his time, maybe he would never find his one true love because that was the cruel way of the universe to punish him. "Hey Gordo it's a pleasant surprise to see you here, how you are you doing?" Brooke asked in a very innocent tone as she sat down on the empty chair right next to Gordo and hoped that he wasn't suspecting anything at all.

"I'm doing fine Brooke thanks for asking, but I'm here with somebody else so can you please just say what you want?" Gordo said and he didn't know why but he had a kind of bad feeling because of this sudden appearance from his ex-girlfriend. She smiled shortly at him and replied: "Don't think that I've forgotten who really cheated on who a couple of years ago Gordo, I know very well that it was yours and Lizzie Mc Guire's plan all along to screw things up between us so that you and her could get together. " For quite some time he didn't know how to respond to this accusation, he really had to fight the urge very hard to just scream at her if she was totally out of her mind. Instead he sighed for a moment and then answered: "That's not true Brooke and I really don't know how you have come to this conclusion."

Instead of replying instantly Brooke saw that Lizzie was on the way back to the table after a few minutes silence between and then she finally said as she turned around one more time to face him: "Oh really? Don't you dare expect me to believe that, because I know that she was jealous of me from the start and that is a fact!" Before Gordo could react Brooke suddenly pressed her lips on his practically shoving her tongue into his mouth and Lizzie just stood there in shock for a moment.

What is Brooke Baker doing here? Brooke and Gordo are kissing? This can't be happening, that has to be a really bad dream that I have to wake up from NOW!* But then she realized all this was not a bad dream and of course she heard Gordo's voice faintly calling her name but she already had turned around and ran out of the restaurant with tears in her eyes as she asked herself: How could he do this to me?

AN: It looks like that first date didn't go that well but will Gordo and Lizzie get back together?

Miranda is going to return in the next chapter, please read and review