Author's Note: Obviously I don't own The Mighty Ducks. This fic takes place during the Ducks' senior year at high school. Main ships will be Guy/Connie, Adam/Charlie and Portman/Julie.

It felt like all they did these days was go to parties. They were all exactly the same – everyone got wasted, someone ended up in the bathroom throwing up, the owner of the house came in and yelled at the person throwing up, a couple of horndogs locked themselves in a bedroom. And during all that time, Connie stayed in the same place. In the living room.

It was the summer before senior year. The school's most popular cheerleader, Jessica Bradley, was throwing the first party of the season. The Ducks were of course the first ones informed, being the most popular kids in school. (Well, maybe not all of them. It was mostly just Adam, Luis and the girls. They did still have people like Averman and Goldberg on their team). Although they were all good friends, they never attended parties together. Connie always went with Julie, but the rest of the gang rotated partners.

Within about five minutes of arriving Julie had already wandered off to find Zack, her boyfriend who had graduated two years earlier and had turned into one of those creepy guys who hung around after graduation, and Connie was left alone. She took a can of beer from the fridge and sat down on the couch, observing the scene in front of her. Jessica was welcoming people into her home graciously, but she kept looking outside the window as if she was waiting for someone, who Connie could only assume was Adam. Rumor had it they'd lost their virginities to each other a few weeks ago and she was totally attached. Fulton and Portman were playing beer pong in the dining room with a couple of naïve looking sophomores. It was obviously apparent to Connie that at least one of them would be getting some by the end of the night. Sitting in an arm chair on the opposite end of the room was Guy, who was making out with his girlfriend Alexa James. Immediately, Connie turned her head away upon noticing them.

She and Guy had broken up years ago, but it was still an awkward thing between them sometimes. Even though they were broken up, they still acted couple-y. So much, that a good percentage of the student body was convinced they were still together. Not so much anymore, ever since Alexa transferred to Eden halfway through their junior year and they became lab partners. Then Guy had pretty much dropped her like a fly. There was no more walking each other to class or sharing food at lunch or "jokingly" sitting on each other's laps at lunch. None of it. And although it was embarrassing to admit – Connie kind of missed it. She didn't like him anymore. They broke up freshmen year. It would be beyond pathetic for her to still be in love with someone she dated in middle school.

Thankfully, her thoughts were interrupted by Julie, who plopped down next to her on the couch. She threw her head back in frustration and sighed loudly. Connie handed her her beer and Julie sipped it thankfully.

"What's up with you?" she asked her best friend.

Julie gave her a look but then shrugged it off. "I'm just sick of this,"

Connie non chalantly looked over at Guy and Alexa, knowing exactly how she felt. She couldn't take another second of the two of them sucking face. "Of what?"

"Just . . . this. Everything. We don't even like these people, Connie."

"Our friends are here," she insisted.

"Yeah, our stupid idiot guy friends who are either hooking up with randoms or smoking pot in the basement. We don't even talk to them. All we do is sit here and look around and talk," Julie rolled her eyes. Julie was always adventurous, she always seemed to want more out of life than she was getting. In all honesty, Connie couldn't blame her. She felt the same way sometimes, but she would never abandon her friends. She'd been with them for so long that hanging out in different crowds, in different parties, was unthinkable.

"So then what do you want to do? You wanna leave?"

"No. At least not today. Zack's here, remember?"

"Ah, how could I forget? He creeping on sophomores again?"

Julie took another sip of Connie's beer and passed it back to her, who did the same. "No surprise there. If I leave him here alone, who knows what he'll be doing?"

"Flirting with freshmen?"

"Ha ha,"

It seemed as if Jessica's wishes had finally come true, because Adam had just opened the front door. She practically jumped in his arms and started kissing him passionately. Connie was taken aback by it. Adam had always been the most quiet member of the team, very shy around girls that weren't herself and Julie. But she guessed everyone had to grow up sooner or later.

"It's so weird," Julie said. She was motioning to Adam and Jessica as well. "Adam can't even talk to girls and now he's sleeping with one."

"Sure you're not jealous?" Connie asked. Julie and Adam had been very close since the Goodwill games and pretty much all the Ducks had been assuming that they were secretly in love with each other since then. Both of them had always denied it.

"Gross. And yes, I'm sure,"

"I know what you mean, anyway. It feels like yesterday we were thirteen and didn't even know what our bodies did and now we're . . . here." She tried not to look over at Guy and Alexa but Julie knew her too well to know what she was doing.

There was an uncomfortable moment of silence between the two of them as Julie observed her. "What are you looking at, Connie?"

"Uh, you?" she tried cautiously.

"Really? Cause it kind of looks like you're looking at Guy."

"Sorry, who?" She was joking to hide it, but she knew that it was obvious.

"You know, your ex boyfriend who you broke up with three years ago," Julie annunciated the last part.

"Oh, that Guy. Why would I be looking at him?"

"Maybe cause you're mad that he's actually got a girlfriend. And that she's not ugly. She's drop dead gorgeous, actually." Julie had a point. Alexa's blonde hair fell down to her waist in a very Disney princess like way, and her face made her look even more like a princess.

Averman suddenly showed up on Julie's other side. "What are we talking about?"

Connie rolled her eyes but Julie informed him, "How Connie's still in love with Guy."

"Julie!"

"The Con-meister! Still in love with the Guyeroni Germy-aine. Hey, Russ! Goldberg! Kenny! Get this!" Averman called.

"Averman, fuck off! It was a joke! Julie was just kidding! Right, Julie?"

Julie sighed but said, "Yes, Averman. Kidding."

He huffed and yelled back to the boys, "Never mind!"

The three of them sat for a good twenty seconds before Connie practically growled and said, "Get the fuck out of here! We're talking."

He threw up his hands, "Okay, okay, I'm leaving and left,"

Julie giggled and they passed the beer back and forth again. Connie couldn't help but sneak another peek at Guy and said quietly to Julie, "Y'know, but if I'm being honest, that's why I fell in love with him to begin with. Because he wasn't like any of the guys on the team. He was . . . quiet. And sweet,"

"That's usually how it works," said Julie.

"How what works?"

"The bitchy one falls for the nice one," Connie slapped the side of her arm but laughed with her. She couldn't deny that fact of life.

"Let's just promise each other one thing this year," Julie continued.

Connie took a gulp of beer and then placed it down next to her. "What?"

"No more boy drama. This is gonna be the year of the ladies. Julie and Connie's Best Friend Tour of '99. I'll get along with my boyfriend. You'll . . . not be a whore," Connie laughed at the insult, knowing that from Julie it came with love.

"I have been a bit of a whore," she agreed.

"Yes, you have. No more of that this year. Just you and me, the ice and some good friends. Deal?" she held out her hand and Connie shook it.

"Deal,"

Connie eventually went home. She said that she was tired but Julie had a pretty strong feeling that her 'tiredness' had something to do with a certain Guy Germaine. Julie was almost convinced that she was probably going to start fucking a new guy to piss him off (Guy had always been very uncomfortable about the guys Connie slept with). All Julie wanted was a year of just her and Connie hanging out and having fun, but deep down, she doubted that it was going to happen.

Julie spent most of the night telling jokes with Russ in the dining room, while the kids at the party bet to see if Goldberg could eat five pizzas. It was a fun time and she was happy that the school year was starting off so well. Still, though. Things felt different. Charlie never came around anymore and no one knew why. Adam was off in Jessica's bedroom. Even Dwayne now had a girlfriend in Texas and was always flying out to see her.

Her fun ended towards the end of the night when she remembered that Zack was here someday. Oh, Zack. They'd started dating during her sophmore year when he was a senior. He was on the lacrosse team, attractive, nice guy. And he liked her. So they pursued each other and here they were now. Except now, Zack was nothing but a pain in her ass. Always hanging around with younger girls, younger then her. Making stupid jokes and rude comments. She was more than sick of him but couldn't find a good enough reason to break up with him. She needed a good reason for everything.

She found a pretty good reason when she went upstairs to look for him and found him in bed with a sophmore. Julie practically screamed when she saw them both, naked and rolling around in the sheets. Zack turned his head around but didn't move himself off of the girl.

"What the fuck?!" Julie yelled. She didn't know what else to say.

"Julie . . . I . . ."

"Get the fuck off of her!" she yelled again. Zack jumped up from the bed and covered his dick with his hands. "You, get out of here before I kick your ass," Julie approached the girl, who smirked before pulling her dress over her head.

"You can have him, sweetheart. No offense, dude, but you've got a tiny dick," she laughed.

Julie grabbed her by the hair and threw her out of the room. The girl tried to fight back but Julie shut the door and locked it. Zack was currently putting his pants back on, but Julie knocked his hands away.

"What the fuck is wrong with you? Why would you do this to me?"

"Julie, I – it's not –"

"It's not what it looks like? Don't give me that bullshit excuse," She was holding back tears. Julie never cried. It was one of the good things about playing with boys – it had hardened her. But right now all she wanted to do was cry. She wanted to go back to her dorm and wrap herself up in her blankets and cry herself to sleep. In a moment of anger, Julie took the closest thing she could find, a teddy bear, and threw it at Zack.

"Woah, Julie, calm down!" Zack walked over to her, like that was going to make a difference. She pushed his hands away from her.

"Calm down? I just walked in on you fucking another girl! How am I supposed to calm down?" she insisted. The back of her mind was screaming 'statatory rape!' about the situation but she didn't say anything about it.

"She came on to me! She's been pursuing me for months."

Julie bit her lip and shook her head. She didn't know what she was supposed to say to him. What did girls do when their boyfriends cheated on them? She couldn't think straight. All she wanted to do was get the fuck out of there.

As she turned to leave, Zack grabbed her arm. "Julie, calm on baby, wait,"

She turned around and slapped him across the face. He yiped at the shock of it but let go of her. Julie practically ran out of the room. The first thing that she thought of was to find Adam to take her home. She didn't even want to look at anyone else right now.

Julie tried to remember where she'd last seen him. Jessica. He was with Jessica. Kenny said they were up in her room. Julie looked both ways down the hallway, trying to figure out where he could be, where this bedroom was. She looked to the first closed door and opened it, finding it empty. She walked over to the next one and tried it, but it was lock. Julie banged on it as hard as she could. "Adam! Adam! It's Julie! Open up! It's – it's an emergency!"

She kept banging on the door when she wasn't getting an answer. Julie felt the tears coming. Shit. She felt like such a fucking girl. "Adam! Please! Open up!"

The door opened on the last 'open up.' Adam stood there shirtless, wearing only his boxers. Julie could see Jessica behind him, holding the covers up to cover her chest. They were both sweaty, which made Julie feel grossed out, but she got over it quickly. "Wh-what's wrong?" Adam asked right away. He saw the tears on Julie's cheeks and spoke again, "What happened? Did someone hurt you?"

"I need you to take me home. Now. Please," she said quickly.

Before she knew what was happening, Zack showed up behind her. "Baby, come on,"

Julie shrugged him off of her. "Get away," she muttered between her teeth.

"No, Julie, I just wanna explain –"

""Zack, fuck off. I'm serious,"

"C'mon, Julie, just talk to me. Come on –"

Julie shoved him away from her with elbow, but it seemed to be no use. Zack was determined to speak with her. She didn't understand why, it wasn't like he could explain away sleeping with an underage girl. She was desperate to get home and have herself a good cry. It hadn't mattered that she'd fallen out of love with Zack a while ago – being betrayed still hurt.

Adam was pulling his shirt and shorts on. Jessica was complaining and asking if he was going to come back after he dropped Julie off and he muttered some excuse that Julie didn't care if it was true or not.

"Julie, please. Let's just talk –"Zack grabbed her arm to turn her towards him and Adam pushed it off.

"Just leave it, man. She doesn't want to see you," Adam insisted. He took Julie's hand and led her out of the hallway towards the stairs. Zack followed them persistently. Julie tried to hide the fact that she was now crying.

Things were only getting more embarrassing. Russ and Kenny were at the bottom of the stairs, laughing loudly about something. They both saw her and Adam and started to say hi but stopped once they saw the tears and were taken aback.

"Woah, someone's having a bad night!" said Goldberg as he saw them heading towards the door.

"Shut up, Goldberg," she and Adam said in unison.

"Julie, you know, even if you won't talk to me now, we're gonna have to talk at some point," Zack insisted.

"Yeah? Don't you have better things to do? Like shoving your tiny dick into sophomore pussy?" Julie may have said it a little too loudly (on purpose) and everyone who had heard the remark howled in unison. Zack looked around embarrassingly, but she felt absolutely no remorse. She turned around and smirked at him. Connie had taught her how to give 'the perfect bitch face' the year before and she'd perfected it. Adam had to grab her from around the waist to get her to leave the house after the intense diss.

They shut the door behind them and walked out to Adam's car that was parked at the end of the street.

"What happened?" he asked.

"You didn't hear what I just said?"

"Well, yes, but . . . what really happened?"

Julie huffed. She'd only thrown that back in Zack's face because she wanted to embarrass him. She really didn't feel like talking about what had happened right now. That was one of the reasons she'd asked Adam to drive her home, besides the fact that he was her closest friend besides Connie. He never asked questions. He understood people and how they felt without so much as two words said.

"Can we talk about it tomorrow?" Julie asked as she climbed into his car.

Adam nodded as he started the engine. "Yeah. Let's just get you back to the dorms, okay?"

She leaned her head against the window and closed her eyes. She needed some peace for right now.

Back at the party, things had calmed down a little. Zack had left in a cloud of embarrassment and everyone had finally stopped talking about what Julie had said. Jessica came downstairs looking both angry and annoyed and went to go and talk to her girlfriends. Guy and Alexa got up from their armchair to ask around about what had happened, both disheveled and Guy with lipstick around his mouth.

Russ, Kenny, Goldberg and Averman had moved things down to the basement where the stoners hung out. Fulton and Portman were smoking pot with a couple kids who they only knew by sight.

"I don't even know what Julie sees in that asshole," said Kenny.

"Right now, I would say that she sees nothing in him, Ken," Russ added.

Kenny chuckled and nodded in agreement.

"Let's be real, it was only a matter of time before she caught him fucking someone else. He's always hitting on the younger girls. She knows that," Kenny continued.

"It's fucking gross, man," said Goldberg.

"What's gross?" said Portman, turning around to face his friends.

"Julie's boyfriend fucked a sophomore," Goldberg explained.

Both Portman and Fulton made faces and groaned at how gross it truly was.

"I should beat his ass," said Portman. "Who the fuck is he to treat Julie like that?"

"Her shitty boyfriend," said Fulton.

"If Julie was my girlfriend, I would never treat her with such disrespect," said Goldberg. No one could really tell if he was being completely serious or not. It was always hard to tell when it came to Goldberg.

"Easy to say when you've never had a girlfriend," Russ laughed at his own comment and Averman joined in.

Goldberg gave the two of them a look. "What are you laughing at, Averman? It's not like the ladies are fighting over you."

"Speak for yourself," said Averman. "There happen to be a lot of girls who find me very classy."

"Counting your mother?" said Goldberg.

Averman groaned and ignored his comment. "Whatever. I bet I could snag Julie faster than you could,"

"Do I smell a bet?" said Russ.

"I think you do," Goldberg agreed. "Alright, Averman. But prepare to eat your words when I get it in with the Cat lady before you."

"Julie wouldn't let you within twenty feet of her pussy," said Portman.

"Says you,"

"I'm pretty sure she'll tell you the same thing."

Goldberg and Averman ignored Portman's words and held out their hands. They shook on it.

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