Luis' POV

"You going to tell me what happened this afternoon?" asked Guy. He looked at my form, still sprawled across the bed. "It's gotta be pretty bad if it meant missing dinner, just so you could sulk about it".

I sighed and sat up. "She loves me...or at least she thinks she does" I told him.

Guy frowned. "You're seriously not thinking about getting back with Mindy, are you? Because if you are, I'm kicking your dumb ass out of here".

"No, I'm not talking about Mindy. I meant Sally. Sally loves me. I broke it off with Tiffany, and she was cool with it, and I went to do the same with Sally...I had no idea. She was so into Jed, I just didn't think about it."

My companion shook his head and sat on the end of my bed. "Well, you were having sex with her for...how long? It's not really a surprise. Personally, I don't think that Sally will be with Jed for much longer. But I don't think she'd stay with you long either, for that matter." He said.

I nodded. "Yeah, I know. Sally's great – I really liked her. I just don't think I could trust her. She was cheating on Jed with me, and I mean, even though I'm a guy, I know that Jed was pretty good lookin'. If he can be cheated on, so can I. Sure, there was the whole 'comfort agreement' but if you really liked someone, you wouldn't have one" I shrugged. "I'm just glad it's over. Another person to avoid though."

Guy laughed. "I'm sure you'll manage" and with that he got off my bed and began pulling text books out of his bag.

*

Dragging my feet to my room after a long day at school, I collapsed on my bed, exhausted. When I woke up, the atmosphere felt strangely unfamiliar. Guy's bag was dumped on the floor, but he was missing. Wait, he was at the movies with Connie. Right...it was a Friday night after all. I knew that Averman was at a family reunion, and Julie was on her date with Scooter, but where was everyone else...

I padded down the hall barefoot to the Bash Brother's room. Heavy metal was pounding from their stereo, and realising that they wouldn't be able to hear me knock, I let myself in. Fulton was pulling on a pair of boots whilst Portman was towelling his hair. "Hey man" they greeted me.

"Hey" I replied. "Where are you heading?"

"Party down in Abbott Street" Fulton explained. "Wanna come?"

I thought about it. I went to almost every party – it would be natural to say yes. However, it was so soon after my break ups that I wasn't sure if I could trust myself. Parties have drunk girls, and drunken girls don't have any sense. And I'd have no self-control. "Nah, not this time"

"Whoa dude, that's weird" commented Portman.

I nodded. "Yeah, but I have a feeling I'll regret it if I go".

"Ok man, well, better be going". With that, the three of us exited the room.

Before saying goodbye I found out that Goldberg, Kenny and Dwayne had gone ten pin bowling, but Russ was still in – as far as they knew.

Upon entering the room, I saw Russ straightening the collar of his shirt and glancing in the mirror. "Russ – are you going somewhere?"

He nodded. "Yeah, Betty Sullivan and I are going down town."

Funny, I don't remember him even liking her...then again, with all the troubles I'd been having..."Oh, well, have fun".

*

After Russ left to meet his date, I strolled down to the last room in which any Ducks may still be found. Approaching the door, I heard the T.V, and knew that I was in luck.

Knocking on the door, I entered and saw Charlie and Banks reclined on their beds, biology books in hand. Whilst Charlie was attempting his report, Adam stared out the window. As they looked up, Charlie grabbed for a handful of corn chips.

"Hey guys, what's up?" I greeted them, closing the door behind me.

Charlie shrugged, whilst Adam replied "Not much...only that Bugs Bunny gave Elmer Fudd one whopping headache". I turned toward the T.V and saw Bugs Bunny and friends bounce around the screen.

"You two are so sad".

"I know". They said, obviously thinking the same thing.

"Are you planning on doing anything else?" I asked the two. Both of them shook their heads, and then Charlie spoke up.

"So, when are you heading out?" he asked.

"What? I'm not" Should I be?

"Dude…that is so weird. When was the last time you stayed in on a Friday night?" he queried, a startled look on his face.

I thought about that. It was a fair question. For as long as I could remember, I was involved with some girl or other. Occasionally with the team. "You know…I have no idea. I knew it felt a bit different tonight. Like there was something I was supposed to be doing."

Charlie laughed. "Yeah, you are supposed to be flirting with some chick, taking her out for ice cream and then doing her either in the back of someone else's car or on a park bench". Banksie snorted at this. They didn't think of me all that well. I really did give out the player image...

"It's sounds so wrong when you put it that way".

"Have you ever stopped to consider that it might be?" Conway teased.

"Hey! Besides Mindy, you know I've only done it with two other girls?" I could see both of the others choke as they heard my comment.

"What!" said Charlie "But you are always hanging out with all these other chicks"

"Making out is different to sex Charlie" I rolled my eyes. "I'm not a complete man-whore you guys. If you must know, my first time with Mindy I almost freaked". Why not be honest? Might help with my new rep...

"Why?"

I thought that was obvious. "She'd been with Rick for two years! How was unexperienced me going to be anywhere as good as that? Ofcourse…things got better. I reckon it was the only reason I actually stayed with her" I recalled, remembering the amusing things we'd gotten up to.

"And the other girls?" Charlie asked with a smirk. Wait...he didn't know? Guy knew, surely the others did too. Then again, Guy was decent enough not to spread things around. No wonder these guys thought so badly of me. They really had no idea what I got up to.

"Sally Thompson I got with during one of our break-ups. You would've seen her around. Black curly hair, legs as tall as me. Great body."Very nice... "The first time was at her house. Her parents were at some cocktail party." I added, noting the surprised look on their faces. "Yeah, I wished I could have just stuck with her but she had…still has…a boyfriend over in Iowa." Funny how I could still have been with her anyway, seeing how things turned out "I hooked up with her a bit. The other girl was Tiffany Ruthven. Straight blonde hair, tanned skin…she's really out of it but you know, huge tits." Well, it was true.

"And you wonder why you have a rep?" tutted Charlie. "When did you get with her?".

"At some party. I was still with Mindy but I'd just gone through an hour of listening to her and Cindy talk about how cute some pair of shoes were. It was really getting to me."

"I see"

"Anyway, now I don't have that problem anymore... Mindy avoids me, which is great, but her friends…well, not yet. I really don't feel like getting with another chick at the moment so I decided to see how the rest of you guys were. Ofcourse, it took a while to find some people who actually still in…I wonder if Scooter makes a move tonight?" I said, changing the subject. I wasn't quite ready for them to know just how involved I had been with Sally and Tiffany.

"Well, if he doesn't I think I'll have to go and make him because this is just crazy" Banksie said. Charlie and I nodded. It made me wonder if secretly Banks, just like Scooter, was taking his time with a girl. It just didn't seem right. There were so many girls – many of them quite decent – who had taken a liking to our star player. Was it possible that he might like one of them? After all, it was only a couple of afternoons ago when he made it clear how horrifying Dwayne's 'almost' suggestion of his being gay was to him.

So..." Charlie said. "Anyone want pizza?"