Author's Note: Hello readers! Hope you all had a great weekend. Alright guys, one of my trademark imbedded in jokes is in this one. If you pick up on it you get a shout out, as always. I know the updates are coming fewer now, I'm running out of ideas which means we will be speeding towards a conclusion!

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything, which still totally sucks. Enjoy!


Chapter 8: The Perfect Decision

I can't do this, I can't. I love him, I do, I don't want to break his heart. It's not fair to him, what I've done. I hate myself for it. Really I do.

Connie walked into Alex's apartment using the key he had given her. He was sitting on the couch, reading the paper.

"Hi." She said sitting next to him.

"Hi." He said putting the paper down. "I was going to come over, but I knew you had the story. Adam said Julie agreed to the interview."

"Yeah, it's finished." Connie nodded. "I sent it over to Nadine. It's good, probably the best thing I've ever written."

"That's good." He said.

"Do you want to take a walk?" Connie said. "I feel like talks like this one are always better in Central park."

"Yeah." He said, "We could go to the park." They walked outside and headed towards Central Park. As they walked, they talked about a lot of things. Connie finally told him her whole story, all about the ducks, from the very beginning, this wasn't like the life stories she told him before, she left no detail out. Finally they stopped on a bridge.

"Do you remember this spot?" Connie said looking over.

"This is where I kissed you the first time." Alex nodded. "Connie, we can't get married."

"I know," She said, leaning into him, he put his arm around her. "I know." She whispered.

I know what I have to do

Julie went back to her room. She figured the guys would still be there, she had only been gone about an hour. She walked in and saw that they were all gone. She knew there wasn't much chance that Adam would be in his hotel room, but she decided to try anyway. She called the number of the hotel and as the desk clerk picked up she heard a knock on the door. She looked up, hung up and the phone and smiled, it had to be. She walked over and opened the door. She looked at him and smiled.

"I was about to call you." She said.

"Really?" He smiled.

"Yeah," She laughed. "Come on in. I have some things I want to say."

"Wait, me first." He said. "I know that the timing has never been exactly right for us, but I think about you all the time. And I know that it would be difficult for us to be together, I mean, with me living in California, and traveling all the time, and you doing your residency."

"Adam, I'm tired of coming up with excuses." Julie smiled. "I don't want to do it anymore." She leaned in and kissed him.

"No more excuses?" He said, pulling away.

"No more excuses." She smiled. He put his arms around her and they kissed passionately and fell back into the bed.

Portman, Charlie and Fulton sat in the hotel bar. A few of the others said that they were going to be meeting them, but had yet to show up.

"I'm bored." Fulton said.

"We're in New York City," Charlie said, as the bartender brought them a round of beers. "How can it be this boring?"

"We could go see a show!" Portman said, shrugging. "I heard that that thing Rent is really good." Fulton and Charlie both turned and looked at him. "What?" They started laughing, and as they were, Adelle and Lizzie walked through the door.

"Hey!" Adelle said walking over and sitting down next to Dean.

"Hey," Dean said flirtatiously. He couldn't help but be attracted to her. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Ugh, Connie called us," Lizzie said, getting the bartender's attention. "Hi, yeah, I'll have a Cosmo, heavy on the vodka, thanks. She told us she had something to tell us and to meet her here." She looked around. "Have you guys seen her."

"No," Portman said. "But can I buy you ladies your drinks?"

"Well, I can't speak for Lizzie, but" Adelle said flipping her hair. "I would love that."

"I'm good." Lizzie said as the bartender brought over her drink. "Bottoms up!" She took a drink. She had a feeling that she wasn't going to get to be a bridesmaid, like she had always wanted to.

"She really hates us." Charlie said to Fulton. Lizzie had made no secret of her disdain for the Ducks. Guy walked into the bar with a fully packed suit case. "You really heading out?" Charlie said seeing him.

"Yeah," Guy said. "I can't stick around and ruin her life any more I guess."

"Stay for a drink." Fulton said. Guy shook his head no. "Come on, at least wait to say good bye to Adam."

"Fine," Guy said, putting his bag down.

The rest of the Ducks filtered in and finally Connie and Alex walked in, holding hands. Guy kept his head down.

"I'm glad you guys are all here." Connie said standing up and looking around. "Wait, where are Adam and Julie?"

Julie sat up in bed and smiled. She looked over and saw Adam laying with his eyes closed. This had been a long time coming, they had been talking about being together for almost four years, but since Adam had moved to California everything had been put on hold. There was nothing that she had ever wanted more, she was entirely happy. Suddenly the phone rang.

"Leave it." Adam said.

"I can't, it might be Connie." Julie said rolling over, "or Guy."

"Duck therapist." Adam laughed, kissing her neck. Julie giggled and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" She said picking it up.

"Julie!" She heard Connie on the other end. "Where are you? What's going on? Did you find Adam? What the hell?"

"Connie, calm down!" She said. "What's up?"

"Get your ass to the other hotel now!" Connie said, "Oh, and I know Adam's there with you, so he better get here too." She hung up the phone. "There on their way." She said, turning to Alex.

"Great." He said. Connie looked over and noticed that the spot where Guy had been sitting was now empty. She sighed, she had hoped that he would stick around, she wanted him to hear what she had to say.


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