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"Amore! Phone!" Luis called from the lounge. Amore raced down all from her room to the basement and snatched her phone from him all while beating him up.
"Hello?" Amore answered very out of breath.
"Should I call back?" Portman said with a laugh. Amore pushed Luis down to the ground then quickly raced for the steps but found it blocked by Russ.
"No its cool. I'm just trying to get out of the basement." Amore said as Luis picked her up and put her down on the couch. She squeaked and squirmed away from him. "All the out of state Ducks are staying here with me and well….the boys are already getting on my nerves. JULIE!"
"I can tell." Portman said laughing again. "Tell them if they don't behave I'll have to fly over their kick their butts and fly back."
"Or you could do that any way." Amore said as she and Ken had a sward fight with pool sticks. Julie raced down the steps and jumped on Russ's back.
"Run! Mory Run!" Julie called. Amore took a mad dash for the stairs. She made it and pulled Julie away from Russ's grasp. Before the girls knew it all four boys where hot on their tales.
"No running in my house!" Amore demanded as she and Julie made a mad dash for their stairs. "Hold on Portman I really want to talk to you."
"Surrender the phone little lady. And no one shall be hurt." Luis demanded.
"Never!" Julie and Amore demanded as they entered their room and slammed the door in the guys' faces. They heard Moria's door open and the boys bolt down the stairs.
"Luis Franklin Mendoza! If you bug these girls while they are getting ready for bed one more time!" Moria said then jabbered something in Spanish. The girls giggled.
"Ok I'm back." Amore said sitting down on her bed. "So I heard your not coming to Eden Hall this year."
Portman sighed. "I'm
guessing Bombay told you."
"Yeah." Amore said sadly. "So…."
"I think we should try and stay together…" Portman said quietly. "if that's what you want. I mean if we find out later that it wont work then we'll just say so. Maybe that way we can still be friends?"
Amore thought about if for a moment. She still wanted to be with him but what did that mean at this point. The only time they talked was once every two weeks. And they hadn't seen each other since the day he left. "Yeah I'd like that."
"So I'll take to you soon?" Portman asked.
"Well of coarse." Amore said with a smile and they both hung up the phone.
Julie sat up on her bed with her feet crossed. "So…"
Amore sighed and smiled happily. "We are still together for the moment."
Julie threw her pillow at her friend and laughed. "And I am still the only single one of us girls…. That means more guys for me."
Amore laughed and tossed the pillow back to her. "Go to bed."
The girls giggled and turned off the lights. They crawled into bed but couldn't go to sleep. Tomorrow was their first day of high school and they were already getting the first day jitters.
XOX
Amore got off the bus and sighed. There was no turning back now. Julie intertwined her arm in Amore's and lead her to the other out of state Ducks.
"This place is crazy man!" Russ exclaimed looking around Eden Hall. Amore smiled and spun around.
"I've always known I'd be going here." Amore said starting to let her excitement take over. "Its like… not even as cool as I thought it would be."
"It's not bad." Russ agreed. "but you know. I think this place is running very low on the brothers quotient."
"Yeah." Julie said pretending to listen to Russ. "Hey I want to know who this new Coach Orion is. My dad said that if I didn't like him, I could come right home."
"That's nice." Russ said trying his hardest to keep Julies attention. Amore just stood back with the other three and laughed at his attempt. "My dad said I better stay in on scholarship or he'll whip my butt."
Luis winked at Amore then quickened his step to catch up with Russ and Julie. "You know, I heard in the dorm that the guy played for the Minnesota North Stars and got suspended for punching out his own coach."
"The dorms?" Amore asked with a laugh. "Is that what you ran off to do this morning? Check out what hot girls live in what dorms?"
Luis just nudged her but didn't respond. Every one knew that was what he was doing.
"You mean the Dallas Stars?" Dwayne asked a little slow on the change of subject. "I heard he punched out a fan."
"I heard he was a Buddhist." Julie said excited to gossip with the boys. "You know. Like Kung Fu or Richard Gere."
Ken laughed. "Kung Fu wasn't a Buddhist. He was a Trappist monk."
"Are you talking about the old Kung Fu or the Further Adventures of the New Kung Fu?" Russ asked and Amore rolled her eyes. She looked over at Julie as she intertwined their arms again.
"Ya'll watch too much TV." Dwayne said shaking his head.
"Shoot. That's the safest thing to do in my hood." Russ said and the group laughed.
"Russ you mean the only thing to do in your hood." Amore said rubbing his stomach. Russ playfully batted her away.
"Watching TV and Eating." Russ replied happily.
"Squirt!" Cole called over when he saw Amore walk into the auditorium with the others. Amore ignored him and kept walking.
"Mory!" Alex said from behind Cole and indicated a seat between him and Jason. Amore smiled and turned to the others.
"That's my queue." Amore said letting go of Julie's arm. She wanted to sit with her friends but knew Varsity always sat together. She walked over to her spot and sat down.
"You must be psyched!" Jason said giving his sister a huge brotherly hug. "I'm so proud of you."
"Now don't get all mushy on me now." Amore teased. "There are a tone of hot guys around here and I don't want to make a scene."
Alex laughed. "So I can make a scene?"
He stood up and took a deep breath. Amore quickly pulled him down to his seat.
"No you cant Alexander!" Amore said hiding a smile. "You are so not brother worthy. Talking about brothers…where's Adam and Charlie?"
"They met up with the other Ducks." Alex said looking around. "You know they should be here by now."
Alex looked around a few more times then catching Amore off guard put her in a headlock. Amore fought to get free yet Alex was way to strong.
"Hey you know what? You Ducks don't belong here at Eden Hall." Rick said and Alex let go of Amore. Of course Rick was starting his normal shit. But for once it wasn't about Alex and Amore.
Russ turned around not looking happy at all. "What?"
"Hey, easy, Russ. They probably just think we're someone else." Dwayne said hopefully. "Um. I'm Dwayne. We're the new hockey team. And you are?"
Cole took his chewing gum out of his mouth and placed it in Dwayne's out stretched hand.
"Varsity. The only Hockey team." Rick said with a smirk. Amore went to smack him but Jason grabbed her hand.
"Do you want to be on the bench the whole season?" He asked and Amore turned away from the scene in front of her. It broke her heart, but she couldn't risk not playing.
The Dean started to talk and Amore leaned back in her chair. She knew Dean Buckley's speech by heart from Alex and Jason. The speech was the same every year. All three of them mouthed the speech till he actually started to say something new.
"Wow? I think I'm going to have a heart attack!" Alex whispered. Amore silently laughed and hushed him.
"Now will you join me in giving a big, rousing Warrior welcome to the gold medal winners of the Junior Goodwill Games. "I present to you…" the Dean said as the curtain behind him fell to the ground. Before any one could comprehend what was going on the curtain flew off of seven very stunned students.
"Hi, we're the Ducks." Charlie announced causing the students to burst out into laughter. Amore couldn't even attempt to hold back laughter when she saw Adam kneeling next to Fulton looking extremely frightened.
"Looks like out little All-Star got a taste of trouble." Amore said nudging Alex. "Better watch your back. Wasn't that your thing?"
Alex just nudged her back. The students started to get up and leave. They all knew that the Dean couldn't get back into his speech after that out burst. Amore went against the flow of the crowd till she spotted Adam. She smacked him across the head.
"I'm so proud of you! Getting into trouble on your first day of school." Amore teased. She gave the others high fives. "Now that was a classic Duck entrance. It will be going down in Eden Hall history."
"Thank you." Charlie said with a smile. "So we have to go to the Dean's office. What will you be doing?"
"Raving havoc on the Varsity team while keeping Alex from beating the shit out of Rick." Amore said with a heavy sigh. "You could kidnap me and take me to the Deans office with you….No…Ok then I'm off to the meeting."
Amore separated from them and made her way to Willson's office. To no one's surprise she was the last one there. Willson gave her a not so happy look then looked around the room.
"We have got a long hard year in head of us." Willson said pacing in front of his team. "You know the grade situation. Please obay it. To make this team as good as last years we need every one a hundred percent in this team. You only stay together. Please limit yourselves to very little contact with the JV team as much as possible. I don't want trouble."
Jason, Alex, and Amore raised there hands. Willson rolled his eyes. "Yes."
"We sort of live with members of the JV team." Jason said for all three of them. "So that last part is going to be a little hard."
"We just don't want certain people to spill all of our moves to her little friends." Rick said nodding towards Amore. Alex tensed and Amore put her hand up to calm him down.
"If I wanted to tell them team plays. I don't think they'd do any good." Amore snapped back. "The Ducks have a different style than you and I don't think they're going to be changing soon."
"All right you two." Willson said finally getting between them. "Practice last period. Be here. On time. Now get to class."
Alex placed his arm around Amore's shoulders and walked her to her locker. Amore noticed girls glaring at her. But she ignored them. She wasn't even going to get into drama on the first day of school.
"What's your first class?" Alex asked.
"Algebra." Amore said sounding annoyed. She liked math but she had already taken that class. "What about you?"
"Advanced Chemistry." Alex groaned. "Walk you to class?"
"I can manage Mr. Protective." Amore said with a laugh. "Any way I got most of my classed with the Ducks."
Alex looked around then back to Amore. "You sure? I walk you to class and you'll have guys crawling all over you."
Amore just laughed. "Naw. I think I can live with out boy drama. I already have to put up with the teams."
Amore walked away as Jason walked up to Alex. He looked down the hallway at his sister then back at Alex. "I did not just see you hit on my little sister."
Alex laughed and walked away. Jason just stood there a moment knowing he had missed something.