Queen of Hearts

Chapter 3: Attention

By aznJEDI13

Disclaimer: Disney owns The Mighty Ducks. I own the plot line.

Notes: Once again from Connie's point of view. Sorry I didn't have time to check grammar and all that fun stuff!!!

Queen of Hearts:

'…I know this is how I could be over you.

You know this is not another waste of time.

All this holding on can't be wrong
Just come back to me and I am not alone…'

"Connie you just don't understand!"

"I don't need to understand Guy, I know what I saw!" I frantically yelled back at him. He didn't seem to care about my loud voice or anything, he just kept yelling back.

I thought that when we broke up we'd stop fighting, I guess I was wrong.

We had stopped quickly at a restaurant cause Charlie wanted to get something. And while they were inside, Guy and I continued to argue that, as poor Averman stood there looking confused just because he couldn't understand the map. Why did he read the map any?

"Connie, will you just shut up!" He screamed back.

"Don't tell me to shut up! You can't control me!" I screamed in anger, "We aren't going out anymore Guy. I'm not your puppet!"

His lips curled in anger; "You were never my puppet!"

"Then how did I let you get away with kissing that – that creature!"

He threw his hands up, "I never kissed her!"

"Uh, guys…" Averman began, "Guy?" He reached up and pushed his glasses back, "Are we going the right way?"

"I don't understand what makes you think I'd kiss her!" Guy continued to shout in my direction, ignoring Averman.

I pointed my finger at him, ignoring Averman also, "Maybe because for as long as I can remember, you..." I paused to emphasize the you, "Have always been looking at other girls!"

"That's not true!" He retorted loudly, "There was never anyone else!" He paused and then looked at me matter-of-factly, "In case you don't remember you were the one that led on that son of a gun cowboy and that fickle Miami boy!"

"They have names Guy, in case you've forgotten!" I bit my lip; "Besides I only did it to get you jealous cause you wouldn't stop checking out those wenches from the figure skating team!"

He shook his head back and fourth in anger; "I wouldn't have looked at them had you not been so freakin' pissed off at me!"

I threw my hands up in the air, he wouldn't give up and let out a loud sigh of frustration and lowered my voice back to its normal tone. "Guy," I paused, gazing into his blue eyes, "I wouldn't have been pissed at you if you hadn't been so darn jealous in the first place."

He closed his eyes and breathed in, "I wouldn't have been jealous if it hadn't seemed like I was going to lose you to the next available human being!" His voice dropped, "I didn't want to lose you."

I shook my head and leaned forward, "But you did anyway."

He nodded and pressed forward also, "I guess I did."

"Guy, dude, this the part where you kiss the girl."

Guy's head turned his head in mock annoyance, "Shut up, Averman."

He pulled away then at the sound of the guys coming out of the restaurant. I turned away half hoping that he had kissed me and half-glad he hadn't.

I never noticed him smile at the guys, turn to look at me, and then look away again.

We skated away then and for the first time there was not anger, not love, but silence between Guy and me.

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"What classes do you have?" he asked from his seat across from me at lunch.

He leaned forward and his blue eyes met mine in wonder as they begged for the forgiveness I knew he would never ask for.

"Well, for starters," I began quite bitterly, I wasn't ready for his friendly conversations yet. "Period one: how to deal with back stabbing boyfriends."

He looked away, hurt and it reflected in his eyes. Ouch. Score – Connie: 1, Guy: 0.

He bit his lip and reached for his drink, "I deserved that."

"Darn right you did." Dwayne chimed.

Guy bit his head off almost. "Shut up cowboy."

He looked away and then looked back at me. He started to say something, but changed his mind. He looked at Julie who was seated next to him, "So Jules…" He began.

She looked up as if she was surprised that he was even talking to her, "Yeah Guy?"

"Can't wait to meet this new coach. What about you?"

She shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know. I hope he's not some ex-convict or something."

"I doubt that." Charlie chimed, "Bombay wouldn't leave us with a jail dude."

Luis nodded, "It's just some guy who couldn't hack it in the pros. We don't need to worry."

Guy shook his head; "We don't need to worry. But you might, you still can't stop."

Guy's comment was followed by a bunch of laughs including some by Luis. Luis shook his head, "At least girls are interested in me."

Another bunch of laughs and oohs followed.

Guy smiled that charming and irresistible smile and laughed and nodded to Luis. "Good one dude. Very funny." Suddenly Guy jumped up and was about ready to chuck his cookie at Luis, had it not been for the girl who ran into his chair.

This all happened after the team, excluding me, rushed to stop him from throwing the wannabe ball. I on the other hand just sat there silently. There wasn't much else to do.

"Shoot." Guy muttered. "I'm sorry." He bent to help her and then smiled at her face.

The team ignored him at that point and went back to eating all rolling their eyes at Mr. Casanova. Luis whistled.

She looked up and froze. I sighed and rolled by eyes.

"Hi." She mumbled shyly and then went back to pick up some papers.

His smile brightened as he helped her stand, "I don't think we've met. I'm Guy Germaine." He held out his hand.

She almost lost her stack of papers again as she fumbled to reach his outstretched hand, "Jenny." She blinked a few times obviously nervous, "I mean…" She stuttered, "Jennifer…Jennifer Grover."

He nodded his head and smile again, "Nice to meet you, Jennifer." His eyes never left hers and I rolled my eyes even more.

Julie was holding back a laugh as was Averman and Goldberg.

"You new around here?" She asked nervously.

He nodded, "Yeah." He paused, "Just got in today."

She smiled for the first time and her blue eyes finally met his in a gaze, "Well, if you ever need someone to help you around." She reached and touched his arm lightly, "You can find me in dorm 21a."

His smile widened. "All right."

She turned to walk away and waved flirtatiously to him, "Bye Guy."

"Yeah, see you later, Jennifer."

He sat down smiling and then watched her exit through the twin glass doors. "Whoa." Was all he said and I rolled my eyes again as Julie stifled another laugh.

I threw him a napkin, "Close your mouth Guy or we might all be swimming in your drooling soon."

He turned to look at me, but couldn't seem to wipe that puppy love smile from his face. "Thanks Cons."

Our fight seemed forgotten to him, but it stayed in the back of my mind. I must admit I was pretty jealous inside. How could she hit on my man? I wondered.

Apart of me was angry and the other part of me was sad. Did this mean that we were really moving on?

I closed my eyes, trying to ignore the aching sensation from my heart and the angry emotions that were running through my mind.

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The lunch bell rang moments later and the events and my emotions were still playing through my mind. On my way to the trash, Guy followed.

"Care to join me on the way to history?"

I laughed, teasing; "You're stalking me. How'd you know?"

"I sat by your best friend. Come on, you know I have a way with ladies."

I smiled this strained and superficial smile, "Whatever." I laughed, "You can't even talk without stuttering."

He smirked, "Hey! I've gotten better. You haven't seen me in a whole three months."

I paused. It had been that long since our horrid break up?

"I guess you're right." I admitted.

We walked in silence. He laughed suddenly.

"What's so funny?" I asked.

He smiled, "This conversation isn't awkward because of what happened at lunch is it?"

I shook my head, lashing out defensively, "Of course not!" My lips curled in anger, "What makes you think that? I don't like you anymore!"

"You're jealous." He smirked.

"Am not!" I continued.


"Are too!" He laughed.

"Am not!" I caught myself, I didn't want to make a scene my first day there. "I am not." I said a little more quietly this time. "Why would I be jealous? I broke up with you remember."

He nodded. "Yeah." He smiled then; "Well there's a reason why I wanted to walk with you."

Oh no.

"Continue." I said a little too bitterly.

He sighed. "I know you're still a little bitter about the whole situation. But I think I might have a shot with this girl and I was just wondering if you'd be okay with it."

Oh great. What am I supposed to say? No I won't be okay with because secretly I'm still madly in love with you. I just told the whole school I basically hate him! Man…

"You always have an ulterior motive when talking to me?"

He sighed, "Now, I guess. It's just not reparable between us."

I nodded. Yeah, I suppose he's right. I'm not going to admit that though for crying out loud!

"Tough luck huh." I sighed, "I suppose its fine with me." I smile this smile that I knew he didn't recognize, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

His smile widened genuinely and leaned forward and kissed me lightly on the cheek, "Thank you so much!"

I couldn't help but smile at his joy. Hey if it makes him happy, I'm happy – right?

He turned to look around and caught sight of her and for some strange reason she was approaching us, "See you around, Connie."

Score – Connie: 1, Guy: 1.

I sighed, rolled my eyes, and then muttered sadly, "See you around."

I watched him go over to Jennifer and she smiled that flirtatious and instant crush smile.

I couldn't help but overhear their conversation.

"Is that your girl friend?" She asked.

He shook his head, "Ex-girlfriend."

Jennifer nodded and smiled at him, "How long did you two…?" Her voice trailed off.

I sighed again. I didn't like the way this was going.

He shrugged, "I don't know exactly, since we were like eight or something."

"Eight?" She asked exasperated, "And you're not together anymore? When did you two call it quits?"

He smiled at her and that definitely got her attention, "Three months ago."

Her friend next to her bit her lip and Jennifer grew sad, "You two were together for a long time. That's sad that you broke up."

He nodded, "Depressed me for a long time. But we've both moved on to bigger and better things."

Jennifer nodded and blushed.

I watched sadly as her friend excused herself and they walked along the halls just the two of them. I couldn't help but feel jealous and that jealousy overwhelmed me. I wanted to walk away and excuse myself, but I couldn't. It was too crowded.

"Bigger and better things?" She asked, "What do you mean?"

He shrugged, "Oh I don't. You free tonight?"

She smiled, "How'd you guess?"

I watched as he brushed his hand against hers lightly, "I just knew."

Jealousy boiled in my veins as I continued to watch their exchange. I knew I was going to explode any minute.

Just then I felt a hand on my shoulder. "Connie."

I turned to see Dwayne once again.

"Hi, Dwayne." He took off his hat to talk to me

"Connie…." He began.

"Yea, Dwayne?"

Someone yelled his name, probably Russ. "Well," He continued, "I'm just really glad to hear that its officially over between you and Guy."

I tried to smile but found I couldn't.

"Maybe we could you know go to a rodeo or something together?"

Oh, brother what have I done?

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My day unfortunately didn't get any better at practice like I had hoped. I had decided to ignore Guy again – it was much better doing that than trying to get him as a friend.

It was much easier to be better than too.

So I took the farthest locker from him next to Luis where I hoped I could just enjoy some Jennifer-free environment. I was wrong of course. The gang, well more like Averman and Goldberg, wouldn't leave him alone about it.

And I knew it stung me more than it stung him.

As we got on the ice, we had a little confrontation with varsity and then Charlie decided to be the great captain he was and started practice before the new coach got here.

His name, our new coach, is Coach Orion and yeah you guessed it we got in major trouble when he got here. He stripped Charlie of his see as soon as he laid eyes on him and then started us doing all sorts of drills.

To tell you, right now as I getting ready to go I am exhausted.

I thought my day couldn't get any worse. I guess I had been wrong.

"Connie?" Dwayne interrupted my reverie again.

"Yes, Dwayne?" I tried to smile, but found I felt too bad to do so.

"Can I walk you to your dorm?"

I nodded. I am too tired to care. What's the point anyway? It's not like Guy's going to even care. I sighed, what is going on in this crazy world?

To Be Continued…

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