The next morning, Nicci accidentally hit the wrong button on the girls' alarm clock. She
ment to hit the snooze button, but instead had turned it off.
"I wonder where Nicci is." Mari Anne wondered, aloud as she and her room mate, Kat
were getting ready for school that day.
"I dunno." Kat sighed, as she started to pull her shoulder length curly brown hair into a
high pony tail. "I think her and her new room-mate Star went out with the JV hockey
team last night. Maybe Connie and Julie'll know." She shrugged. The girls had roomed
across the hall from the two female ducks all year, and they had gotten to be pretty close
friends. "I'll ask them." Kat shrugged as she walked across the hall, and knocked on
Connie and Julie's door. They were half ready, just as she and Kat were in their own
dorm.
"Either of ya'll seen Nicci, or Star?" Kat asked, in her smooth southern drawl, over the
noise of Julie's blow dryer.
"Not since last night." Connie shrugged.
Kat sighed again, and walked over to their dorm. She knocked on the door loudly. "Nic?
Star? Either of ya'll up yet?" She yelled.
"Oh no!" Nicci groaned, getting up out of bed. Breakfast was in ten minuets, they were
never going to be ready in time. She flung the door open, finding Kat, standing there, trying
not to laugh in her face.
"I think I turned off the alarm." She said, starting to pannic.
It was then that Kat lost it. She walked away from the room, laughing at the vision of her
friend standing there in a bathrobe, and her hair tangled, and frizzed.
The noise had woken Star from her deep sleep, she was already up and scrambling
around. She applied a light layer of make-up, and quickly brushed and fixed her hair,
changed into jeans and a tee-shirt before stopping to make up her bed.
"What is with all the scrambling around? It's not a big deal if your a little late for
breakfast." Nicci told her.
"It is today. I'm supposed to eat with Cole." Star said as she checked herself over once
again in the mirror, and walked out the door, headed to the cafeteria.
"Star!" She heard a voice yell just as she passed the boy's dorms.
"Oh, hey Adam." She greeted him.
"So, how about eating breakfast together today? Just you and me."
"I'm sorry, I can't. I'm already eating with someone." She said, walking on a head,
leaving a crushed Adam Banks, to think about what had just happened here.
"I thought she liked me." He thought to himself. Adam had already planned on asking
her to the school dance, that very afternoon. Now all bets were off. He sighed as he
headed back up to his dorm. Suddenly he wasn't very hungry.
"Banks, aren't you coming down to breakfast?" Portman asked, finding Adam
coming up to the dorm room that they shared just as he was about to leave.
Adam shook his head. "I don't feel too well." He said, it wasn't a lie, after all.
"Should I go get the nurse?" Portman asked, concerned for his friend.
"No, I'll be okay." He told his friend. "Don't worry about me, I'll be down in a while."
Adam spent the rest of the morning, before school started, thinking about who he was
going to ask to the dance. He couldn't go alone, it would be too humiliating.
Star found Cole leaning against the cafeteria door with his arms folded impatiently. "What took you so long?" He asked.
"I over slept. Don't worry Coley bear I wasn't fraternizing with the enemy." She teased her big brother causing him to smile for the first time since she'd been at Eden Hall.
"I know you think this is stupid, Starlight but there's a lot going on between the J.V. and us and I don't want you in the middle of it. Oh, and for future reference never call me Coley bear in school again."
"If you don't want me in the middle Cole, don't put me in the middle. I won't choose sides. I love hockey and I need friends. That makes the Ducks perfect candidates. Oh and no one's called me Starlight since I left for the Dubois Academy. The nickname died when I was ten lets keep it that way." Star looked in and noticed Bryon sitting with the varsity team and groaned "Is Bry gonna be there all breakfast?"
"More then likely. Try to be nice to him okay, he grew into a good kid and he likes you."
"That's the point Cole I don't like him, I like-"
"Just give him a shot." Cole said, cutting her off and heading to his table
The starting varsity right wing Zack saw Cole walking across the cafeteria with a cute girl boy his side and whistled. "Who is the babe with Cole?"
Scooter laughed and nearly choked on his coffee. "That's his sister, touch her and he'll kill you."
"And if he doesn't, I will." Riley added.
"And I'll help him." Scooter put in.
"Cole's related to her? Damn." Zack mutterd as he took another bite of his English muffin.
Star smiled at the ducks as she passed their table to let them know she wasn't being forced against her will to eat with her siblings friends.
"Where's she going?" Russ inqueried over his Captain Crunch.
"She's eating with the varsity." Nicci shrugged and put her tray down near Luis.
"Why?" Charlie asked as if there was no possible answer.
"Duh! Because Cole's her brother." Kat replied walking past the table to where she sat with all the cheerleaders minus Nicci but plus Mari Anne who played softball instead.
"Hey Nicci does your friend there got a date for the dance? The dark haired girl?" Portman asked as turned to her.
"Kat? No she doesn't. She was complaining about it yesterday, but I think she likes Adam, sorry." Nicci put her head on Luis's shoulder in place of eating her food.
"Do I look like the type that dates cheerleader? I was talking about the other one. The one that just walked by with Kat."
"Mari Anne, no she doesn't either."
"Good."
"Guys I'd like you to meet my little sister Star. Star these are the guys." Cole pulled out a chair near Bryon and directed her to sit in it. She frowned slightly but decided she'd rather sit by him then someone she didn't know. In no time she was laughing and having a good time. She was even enjoying Bryon's company. That was until he asked her to go to the dance with him. Star didn't want to be rude but she was waiting for Adam to ask her, however, if he didn't she didn't want to go alone.
"I'll think about it." She replied, politely.
Kenny was passing them on his way to sit down and over heard the conversation. He was slightly confused and decided to bring it up with the team.
"Star just said she might go to the dance with Bryon Riley."
"That's funny I thought she liked Banks." Julie pondered out loud.
"Guess not." Averman said simply and everyone else agreed.
When Portman got back to his room after breakfast he found Adam in the same place he left him, a bump on the bed. "Hey Banksie why didn't ya come down?? He punched him in the shoulder and started loading up his backpack.
"I'm not in the best of moods." Banks mumbled into his pillow and got up "What are you so happy about?"
"I just got a date for the dance. You know that really cute girl on the softball team?"
"Maybe if I had more info then that...."
"The tall one with the chin length brown hair and those great oval eyes."
"Mari Anne?"
"Yeah her. Why does everyone know her name but me? Anyway I'm taking her, asked her at breakfast. Who are you bringing rich boy?" He said jokingly
"I've been wanting to ask Star."
"No good, she's going with Bryon Riley."
"What?"
"Yup. Ken heard them talking about it."
"Then I'm not going I'm not gonna go by myself." Adam mutterd.
"Oh hey, you should take Nicci's friend, the Kat chick, the curly haired cheerleader. I heard that she's got the hots for ya."
"Thanks Dean I think I will."
"No problem, and Banks, never call me Dean." Portman joked.
Star sat in her seat in Mrs. Rayson's class her pencil poised over her notebook. She felt really bad about not being able to eat with Adam and couldn't wait to talk to him.
"You're going with who?" She over heard Kat ask Mari Anne as they strode to their desks.
"Dean Portman! You have no idea how shocked I was when he asked me!" Mari Anne smiled the curly haired bash brother was definitely a cutie and a half. "Now all we have to do is find you a date."
"I have one." Kate declared mischievously.
"Who?"
"Adam Banks."
Stars heart stopped and her blood chilled. Had she heard that right?
"Your going with Adam Banks?" Mari Anne's jaw hung open.
"Yup he asked me in the hallway on the way to class. Oh there he is. Hey, Adam! I was thinking of wearing purple to the dance." She told him as he slunk into his seat completely ignoring Star who was beside herself.
"I guess I'm going with Bryon." Star thought tapping her pencil in frustration.
ment to hit the snooze button, but instead had turned it off.
"I wonder where Nicci is." Mari Anne wondered, aloud as she and her room mate, Kat
were getting ready for school that day.
"I dunno." Kat sighed, as she started to pull her shoulder length curly brown hair into a
high pony tail. "I think her and her new room-mate Star went out with the JV hockey
team last night. Maybe Connie and Julie'll know." She shrugged. The girls had roomed
across the hall from the two female ducks all year, and they had gotten to be pretty close
friends. "I'll ask them." Kat shrugged as she walked across the hall, and knocked on
Connie and Julie's door. They were half ready, just as she and Kat were in their own
dorm.
"Either of ya'll seen Nicci, or Star?" Kat asked, in her smooth southern drawl, over the
noise of Julie's blow dryer.
"Not since last night." Connie shrugged.
Kat sighed again, and walked over to their dorm. She knocked on the door loudly. "Nic?
Star? Either of ya'll up yet?" She yelled.
"Oh no!" Nicci groaned, getting up out of bed. Breakfast was in ten minuets, they were
never going to be ready in time. She flung the door open, finding Kat, standing there, trying
not to laugh in her face.
"I think I turned off the alarm." She said, starting to pannic.
It was then that Kat lost it. She walked away from the room, laughing at the vision of her
friend standing there in a bathrobe, and her hair tangled, and frizzed.
The noise had woken Star from her deep sleep, she was already up and scrambling
around. She applied a light layer of make-up, and quickly brushed and fixed her hair,
changed into jeans and a tee-shirt before stopping to make up her bed.
"What is with all the scrambling around? It's not a big deal if your a little late for
breakfast." Nicci told her.
"It is today. I'm supposed to eat with Cole." Star said as she checked herself over once
again in the mirror, and walked out the door, headed to the cafeteria.
"Star!" She heard a voice yell just as she passed the boy's dorms.
"Oh, hey Adam." She greeted him.
"So, how about eating breakfast together today? Just you and me."
"I'm sorry, I can't. I'm already eating with someone." She said, walking on a head,
leaving a crushed Adam Banks, to think about what had just happened here.
"I thought she liked me." He thought to himself. Adam had already planned on asking
her to the school dance, that very afternoon. Now all bets were off. He sighed as he
headed back up to his dorm. Suddenly he wasn't very hungry.
"Banks, aren't you coming down to breakfast?" Portman asked, finding Adam
coming up to the dorm room that they shared just as he was about to leave.
Adam shook his head. "I don't feel too well." He said, it wasn't a lie, after all.
"Should I go get the nurse?" Portman asked, concerned for his friend.
"No, I'll be okay." He told his friend. "Don't worry about me, I'll be down in a while."
Adam spent the rest of the morning, before school started, thinking about who he was
going to ask to the dance. He couldn't go alone, it would be too humiliating.
Star found Cole leaning against the cafeteria door with his arms folded impatiently. "What took you so long?" He asked.
"I over slept. Don't worry Coley bear I wasn't fraternizing with the enemy." She teased her big brother causing him to smile for the first time since she'd been at Eden Hall.
"I know you think this is stupid, Starlight but there's a lot going on between the J.V. and us and I don't want you in the middle of it. Oh, and for future reference never call me Coley bear in school again."
"If you don't want me in the middle Cole, don't put me in the middle. I won't choose sides. I love hockey and I need friends. That makes the Ducks perfect candidates. Oh and no one's called me Starlight since I left for the Dubois Academy. The nickname died when I was ten lets keep it that way." Star looked in and noticed Bryon sitting with the varsity team and groaned "Is Bry gonna be there all breakfast?"
"More then likely. Try to be nice to him okay, he grew into a good kid and he likes you."
"That's the point Cole I don't like him, I like-"
"Just give him a shot." Cole said, cutting her off and heading to his table
The starting varsity right wing Zack saw Cole walking across the cafeteria with a cute girl boy his side and whistled. "Who is the babe with Cole?"
Scooter laughed and nearly choked on his coffee. "That's his sister, touch her and he'll kill you."
"And if he doesn't, I will." Riley added.
"And I'll help him." Scooter put in.
"Cole's related to her? Damn." Zack mutterd as he took another bite of his English muffin.
Star smiled at the ducks as she passed their table to let them know she wasn't being forced against her will to eat with her siblings friends.
"Where's she going?" Russ inqueried over his Captain Crunch.
"She's eating with the varsity." Nicci shrugged and put her tray down near Luis.
"Why?" Charlie asked as if there was no possible answer.
"Duh! Because Cole's her brother." Kat replied walking past the table to where she sat with all the cheerleaders minus Nicci but plus Mari Anne who played softball instead.
"Hey Nicci does your friend there got a date for the dance? The dark haired girl?" Portman asked as turned to her.
"Kat? No she doesn't. She was complaining about it yesterday, but I think she likes Adam, sorry." Nicci put her head on Luis's shoulder in place of eating her food.
"Do I look like the type that dates cheerleader? I was talking about the other one. The one that just walked by with Kat."
"Mari Anne, no she doesn't either."
"Good."
"Guys I'd like you to meet my little sister Star. Star these are the guys." Cole pulled out a chair near Bryon and directed her to sit in it. She frowned slightly but decided she'd rather sit by him then someone she didn't know. In no time she was laughing and having a good time. She was even enjoying Bryon's company. That was until he asked her to go to the dance with him. Star didn't want to be rude but she was waiting for Adam to ask her, however, if he didn't she didn't want to go alone.
"I'll think about it." She replied, politely.
Kenny was passing them on his way to sit down and over heard the conversation. He was slightly confused and decided to bring it up with the team.
"Star just said she might go to the dance with Bryon Riley."
"That's funny I thought she liked Banks." Julie pondered out loud.
"Guess not." Averman said simply and everyone else agreed.
When Portman got back to his room after breakfast he found Adam in the same place he left him, a bump on the bed. "Hey Banksie why didn't ya come down?? He punched him in the shoulder and started loading up his backpack.
"I'm not in the best of moods." Banks mumbled into his pillow and got up "What are you so happy about?"
"I just got a date for the dance. You know that really cute girl on the softball team?"
"Maybe if I had more info then that...."
"The tall one with the chin length brown hair and those great oval eyes."
"Mari Anne?"
"Yeah her. Why does everyone know her name but me? Anyway I'm taking her, asked her at breakfast. Who are you bringing rich boy?" He said jokingly
"I've been wanting to ask Star."
"No good, she's going with Bryon Riley."
"What?"
"Yup. Ken heard them talking about it."
"Then I'm not going I'm not gonna go by myself." Adam mutterd.
"Oh hey, you should take Nicci's friend, the Kat chick, the curly haired cheerleader. I heard that she's got the hots for ya."
"Thanks Dean I think I will."
"No problem, and Banks, never call me Dean." Portman joked.
Star sat in her seat in Mrs. Rayson's class her pencil poised over her notebook. She felt really bad about not being able to eat with Adam and couldn't wait to talk to him.
"You're going with who?" She over heard Kat ask Mari Anne as they strode to their desks.
"Dean Portman! You have no idea how shocked I was when he asked me!" Mari Anne smiled the curly haired bash brother was definitely a cutie and a half. "Now all we have to do is find you a date."
"I have one." Kate declared mischievously.
"Who?"
"Adam Banks."
Stars heart stopped and her blood chilled. Had she heard that right?
"Your going with Adam Banks?" Mari Anne's jaw hung open.
"Yup he asked me in the hallway on the way to class. Oh there he is. Hey, Adam! I was thinking of wearing purple to the dance." She told him as he slunk into his seat completely ignoring Star who was beside herself.
"I guess I'm going with Bryon." Star thought tapping her pencil in frustration.