"Took you long enough" Goldberg groaned when he finally saw that Julie and Luis had returned.

"Well maybe if you hadn't left your room in such a state I wouldn't have had to search so hard for these" Julie said throwing his warm clothes at him.

"Yeah, yeah" Goldberg dismissed and threw his sweater on. He was sick of having to rotate every few minutes to warm his back up.

"Thanks Julie, Luis" Adam diffused the situation before Julie bit his head off.

Julie smiled politely at Adam before heading over towards Connie who was waving frantically at her.

"What?" Julie whispered giving Connie the hint not to be so damn obvious.

"What happened?" Connie whispered back.

"I'll tell you later when all the guys aren't around" Julie promised.

Connie sighed knowing this would have to do.

Adam and Charlie were huddled together whispered also.

"There's something going on with the Cat and Mendoza" Charlie stated matter-of-factly.

"You think" Adam was rarely sarcastic but the chemistry/tension/frustration between the two of them was impossible to miss.

"Yeah, come on Banks you can't see it?" Charlie had completely missed Adam's sarcasm.

"Yes I see it" it took all of Adam's patience not to snap at Charlie.

"Do you think it'll end well?" Charlie's next question stunned Adam.

"I dunno but they obviously don't want anyone to know yet so keep your mouth shut" Adam instructed.

"Yeah alright" Charlie agreed settling back into the sand to pay attention to the other Ducks again.

"I can't believe he brought her here!" Eva was furious. It was one thing to bring the blond girl to a party in her neighbourhood but it was quite another to bring her to their special place.

"So why don't you execute a little payback then?" Carlos too was annoyed but for completely different reasons. He was sick of hearing Eva talk about Luis.

Mendoza had left Miami for dreary old Minnesota. Didn't she see that he was the new King now?

Eva raised an eyebrow and looked at him with intrigue.

"What did you have in mind?" she asked.

Carlos smirked. With his plan, he will have his cake and eat it too so to speak.

"I declare that Goldberg be banned from roasting marshmallows" Averman said as he inspected his now half burnt flip flop.

"I second that motion" Charlie agreed.

He had just finished putting out a fire that Goldberg had inadvertently started with his marshmallow, again.

"I'm sorry!" Goldberg exhaled. He'd been apologising profusely to Averman for ruining his shoes for the past half hour.

"All in favour of Goldberg being banned?" Averman looked to group as if he were chairman of a meeting.

Everyone else in the group raised their hands.

"Motion carried!" Averman threw his ruined shoe into the fire.

"Are you going to walk back to Luis' place with one shoe now?" Ken asked. The shoe hadn't been burned that badly.

"Oops" Averman realised.

Ken didn't even bother to dignify that with a response.

"Pssst Julie"

Julie stirred slowly realising that someone was shaking her awake.

"What?" she asked sleepily.

"Lets go watch the sun rise"

"I'm sleepy" Julie hadn't comprehended who the rude person that was trying to wake her was.

"I'll carry you" the person promised.

"Okay" she said allowing herself to be picked up and carried out of the room.

Connie smiled to herself as she pretended to be asleep. Her best girl friend and the speedster of the team were so cute together. She hoped that her and Guy looked like that to others.

Speaking of Guy, she now had an empty room.

Connie mentally counted to twenty then tiptoed out of the room towards Guy's room.

Ah the perks of having two teammates hooking up in secret.

"Julie, you have to climb up there yourself" Luis put her down and Julie looked at him, to the drainpipe and then back at Luis.

"We're going on the roof?" she asked.

"Yeah, trust me its worth the climb" Luis promised.

"It better be" Julie mumbled but nevertheless started using the drainpipe to scale the wall.

Luis didn't say a word but grinned to himself as he too started the climb towards the roof. He knew she'd be impressed with what she saw once she was up there.

"Whoah" Julie exclaimed when she reached the roof and realised that not only had Luis set out a blanket for them but that the view from the roof was amazing.

"Told you its worth it" Luis grinned approaching her.

"My bad for doubting you" Julie laughed and sat down on the blanket before she fell down. Despite her nickname, she knew that she wouldn't land on her feet if she fell off the roof.

"You doubted me?" Luis feigned hurt.

"Yeah now get over it" Julie laughed and leaned back into him as he sat behind her with his legs surrounding her and his arms around her shoulders.

Luis chuckled softly and squeezed her a little tighter. Who'd have ever thought that he'd end up with someone as cool as Julie Gaffney? Everyone always thought she'd end up with someone like Banks or even Charlie. He could almost hear the protective talks from Fulton, Charlie and Portman now.

"Luis?" Julie suddenly sat up and turned to face him. He let his arms drop back down to his sides. He knew that the 'talk' was coming. And for once, he didn't mind at all.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"What are we doing?" Julie asked looking a little confused.

Luis decided to throw a little humour in the mix.

"We're waiting for the sun to come up" he winked at her.

"No, that's not what I mean, I meant what are WE doing, you know the whole, well this" Julie gestured to herself and him sitting so close together.

"Well I know I like you Jules" Luis smiled.

"Really?" Julie looked surprised.

Luis had to laugh, if she didn't get that he liked her by the way he kissed her yesterday then the smart, straight A Julie Gaffney they all knew was a fake.

"Yes really" Luis smiled at her again.

"Well no offence, but you could pretty much have any girl you wanted, and not to bring up any bad memories but Eva is pretty damn hot" Julie pointed out.

"You're right, I could have any girl I wanted. WAIT! That sounded so conceited" Luis smacked his forehead.

Julie just raised an eyebrow and smirked.

"I meant to say that the girl I WANT, is you Julie"

Julie closed her mouth before it became obvious he'd just stunned her. Picking your bottom lip off the floor is not attractive Julie she scolded herself.

"Wow" was all she could say to that.

"And you know, judging from yesterday, I'd say you wanted me too" Luis went out on a limb. It was obvious Julie was too shy to say anything.

Julie could feel her cheeks turning red. But she sucked it up and went with it.

"Maybe I do Luis" she grinned.

Luis leant forward and softly kissed her on the lips.

"Good" he whispered pulling her back down to rest her head on his chest.

Julie smiled and snuggled into him a little further.

Who'd have ever thought I'd be kissing Luis Mendoza on a rooftop in Miami and watching the sun rise? She thought.

okay, my first update on an entirely new computer system (I'm now using Windows Vista and I'm still getting used to it, its so different to Office 2003).

GALINDAPOPULAR - phew, if I smoked then I'd probably need one too after writing that last chapter (I was going for the hot factor, glad you thought I got it!)

FOOTYCHICK - thanks

HIDING IN THE SHADOW - I wonder how long they can keep it a secret, we all know how nosy Ducks are!

DUCKS4EVER - thanks

GRUMPYPIRATE - loved the wolf whistle - thanks!

JENNIE - thanks

FERNIE09 - You might've seen it mentioned before but Galindapopular has a Luis/Julie story called Prom Problems (and an entire series of sequels to follow!). I recommend reading it, its really good. Thanks for your review

THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS! I'm sorry its taken so long to update!