"Can you believe her? She's a Duck and she's dating Rick Riley!" Charlie exploded once they were out of earshot.
Fulton was being unusually quiet. He'd just had his heart ripped out, stomped on and handed back to him in tatters.
"Come on Fulton don't tell me you're actually okay with this" Charlie pressed on taking Fulton's silence as his agreement with the situation. He didn't realise that people could execute silent anger as opposed to his loud ranting anger.
"Charlie, just………shut up" Fulton finally said needing time to think about what had just happened.
"Um okay, not the reaction I was expecting" Charlie sounded a little put out.
"Sorry dude, its just that I'm as pissed off as you are but I don't want to talk about it right now" Fulton replied keeping his head down.
"Its cool man, lets just get back to campus" Charlie suggested picking up his pace a little. He'd never seen Fulton look quite so down before and it was starting to scare him a little.
Fulton nodded his agreement and followed his friend back to the lush grounds of Eden Hall. He hoped like hell she wasn't attending the school but the more he thought about it the more he was convinced of it.
"The blond figure skater" he said aloud.
"What?" Charlie asked wondering what Fulton was talking about.
"The blond figure skater we were checking out earlier, it was her" Fulton replied feeling sick to his stomach.
"Tammy?" Charlie asked for confirmation.
"Yeah"
"Oh" Charlie realised what this meant.
They skated on in silence for a few minutes.
"You don't have any classes with her do you?" Charlie asked.
"I dunno, not yet but I haven't had English yet" Fulton mentally checked his schedule.
"Well, here's hoping she's not in there" Charlie said passing through the front gates of Eden Hall.
"Yeah" Fulton smiled weakly. The last thing he needed was to be in the same room as Tammy Duncan for three lessons a week. it was bad enough knowing he was attending the same school as her.
"Why do I have the sinking feeling I've done something really horrible?" Tammy asked Bec as they gathered their things ready to attend their first lesson of the day.
"So I'm not the only one catching the whole weirdo vibe back there" Bec had sensed that something was going on between the people present at the little scene outside Starbucks.
"Yeah, its just, I thought they'd be happy to see me again you know, we did win the pee-wee championships together. I guess I just don't belong anymore" Tammy said sadly.
"Well at least they're not in school right, I mean we haven't seen them around campus yet" Bec didn't know that the emphasis on that simple sentence was the three little word beginning with a 'y'.
"You're right, they probably go to Jeffcott High" Tammy knew that Charlie and Fulton would rather be skinned alive than attend a private school.
"So what do you think the problem is?" Bec asked adjusting her ponytail and giving it one more flick before she was satisfied.
"I have no idea but it did seem like Rick knew Charlie and Fulton" Tammy replied wondering why she didn't ask Rick what was wrong. She just thought he was protecting her.
"Yeah I got that impression too" Bec said picking up her backpack and shooing Tammy out of the door.
"Well lets get ready for another day of torturous lessons" Bec laughed dragging her friend along with her.
"Speaking of torturous lessons, what's up first?" Tammy asked. Her and Bec had been placed in all of the same classes.
"English" Bec glanced at their schedule.
"I can deal with that" Tammy replied. English was one of her better subjects.
"Yep me too" Bec agreed and the two girls made their way towards their classroom.
"No freaking way!" Connie exclaimed staring at Charlie as if a second head had just sprouted from Charlie's shoulders.
"Yes freaking way, I couldn't believe it!" Charlie was glad he found someone who was just as outrageously and vocally shocked as he was.
"Who's Tammy Duncan?" Ken asked not having the slightest clue who they were talking about.
"She was on the team in District Five and Fulton had a major crush on her" Connie explained sweetly and Ken, along with Luis, Russ, Dwayne and Julie all nodded their heads.
"Had is not the word Cons, he still likes her" Charlie revealed and the rest of the Ducks looked bog-eyed.
"Really? Wow that blows" Julie replied.
"Tell me about it" Connie said and Charlie nodded his agreement.
"So do you think she goes here?" Connie asked. Charlie hadn't gotten to telling them about Fulton's figure skating theory.
"I think she might, Fulton's convinced she was that blond figure skater we saw yesterday" Charlie revealed.
"Oh my god!" Connie squeaked. Her and Tammy were sort of friends during the D5 days but she mostly hung out with Guy.
"I know, I honestly hope Fulton doesn't run into her again, he'll probably flip his lid" Charlie was acting like a concerned parent.
"Come on guys, I've got English first, anyone else?" Dwayne spoke up. He didn't like it when his friends got upset and he tried to change the subject.
"I do" Julie replied sensing where Dwayne was going with this.
"Anyone else?" Dwayne asked.
The rest of the team that were present shook their heads.
"Come on then Jules we don't want to be late" Dwayne stood and up waited for Julie to gather her things.
"See you guys at lunch" Julie called brightly hoping lunch wasn't going to be horrific.
"Bye Jules, later Dwayne" the team called after the pair as they walked off.
"Well would you look at that, we're the first ones here!" Bec laughed as her and Tammy arrived at the empty classroom.
"Where shall we sit?" Tammy asked feeling some small, if not meaningless, sense of empowerment at being able to choose which seat she sat in and having the pick from the entire classroom.
"Here looks good" Bec pointed to two seats next to each other in the second row from the back right in the middle.
"Looks good to me" Tammy said dumping her bag on her newfound desk.
The girls started to chatter about an upcoming shopping trip to the Mall of America on the weekend but were cut short when the bell rang and students poured into the classroom.
They noticed that the girl, Julie, they'd met the other day was in their class also but she sat with a tall boy wearing a cowboy hat which he respectfully removed when he sat down.
Tammy looked around at her new classmates. Most of them didn't really seem familiar but she noticed that there was one empty desk next to her.
Well at least no one will copy off me from that side she thought when a late student grabbed her attention.
"Oh no" she must've said out loud at the same time Bec said "Oh boy"
The late student in question was Fulton Reed and of course he scowled at her when he saw that the only empty space was the one right next to her.
He made no attempt to conceal the fact that he was extremely pissed and he pretty much slammed his bag onto the floor and glared straight ahead with his jaw fixed.
Bec and Tammy saw Julie exchange a worried look with the Cowboy and offer a brief smile to Fulton who actually returned it for a second before scowling again.
"This sure is gonna be fun!" Bec commented sarcastically to Tammy ignoring the dirty look Julie was giving her.
"Yeah" Tammy said glumly trying to focus on the teacher standing at the front of the room.
Fun indeed she thought.
just to clear it up, they obviously had no idea the other was attending Eden Hall (they actually hadn't seen each other yet) and Tammy has no idea that the Ducks are the rival JV team that Rick hates so much.
HOCKEY-GIRL90 - thanks for the review, glad you like it
GALINDAPOPULAR - Tammy's got no clue in this matter, thanks for being glad I'm back!! I noticed that there weren't too many updates lately (and donuthole if you're reading this, PLEASE update your fic, its one of my favourites!!!) - but glad you updated Bring It On - that fics is so cool!
HIDING IN THE SHADOW - I never thought about making him do that, maybe I should huh?? Lets just say the ending of the movie will be different in this story (but Dean will still arrive!!)
CUPIDSANGEL - thanks for reviewing!
POLKADOT-SUNSTAR - maybe not soon, but MAYBE in the near future!!! (Sorry I'm just being plain mean now aren't I!!) Like I said earlier, the ending of the movie (and you might guess if you think about it) will be different.
thanks all who reviewed!