Summary: A tale of our favorite Ducks and where their lives take them, beginning Senior Year at Eden Hall. Focuses on Adam, Charlie, Julie, Dean, Connie, Guy…and more to come!

Disclaimer: The Mighty Ducks and all its characters belong to Disney. I do not own any of it!

Flying Together

By Rebecca

Chapter 5: Broken

"Come on Luis, I told you I had to study," Julie heard as she dragged herself back to her room. "Go run drills with Averman or something. He's lookin' for something to do tonight." Connie looked up and froze, "Uh Luis I gotta go now ok? Talk to ya later bye." She hung up. "Julie?"

            Julie sank to her bed and dropped her purse at the foot of her desk chair.

            "Julie? What happened?" Connie hesitated, "You've been down there almost an hour."

            She looked up and Connie read her face closely. She seemed to be crying, but there were no tears. Only shock. She didn't have to ask again to find out what had happened. Julie finally spoke and blurted out the truth in a very monotone voice, "Scooter broke up with me. He's fallen for some girl at his school and they've been dating for almost a month."

            Connie's hand came to her gaping mouth as she rushed to the bed and put her arms around her shoulders, "Oh Jules, I'm so sorry."

            But Julie just shook her head, "It's ok."

            "Ok? Just ok? Aren't you-"

            "I don't know Con," she cut in, "I just don't feel anything right now."

            For a moment neither spoke. There wasn't much to say. The phone broke the silence as Connie hastened to pick it up. "Hello?…oh hey…umm yeah, I'm leaving right now…uh huh, bye."

            Julie snapped out of her stunned trance and looked up at her roommate who had begun to scurry for her books. "I thought you were studying tonight."

            "I am," she said quickly, "with Guy." Julie nodded as if she already knew, "He needs my help and he said he needed to talk to me. I didn't tell Luis because he gets so jealous-"

            "Connie, don't defend yourself to me, I understand."

            Connie paused and sat down again, "You want me to stay here? Need to talk?"

            "No, I'll be fine."

            She nodded and hurried out the door, "I'll be back as soon as I can." She shut the door behind her.

            But Julie wouldn't be there when she got back. She did need to talk to someone. She knew exactly who she needed to talk to. But she was scared. In almost 5 years there was one person Julie could always go to. But could she now? With all the feelings she'd been having? Feelings suppressed for 3 years by the person who tonight had broken her heart? And her heart had been broken. She'd been cheated on and lied to. If only for that fact, she needed to talk to someone and Connie seemed to be living her own life's drama at the moment. Yes. She needed to see Adam. After all, he was her best friend. He'd know what to do and what to say. It was one of the things she loved about Adam. Loved? She shook that off. She'd just been dumped by Scooter. She couldn't start thinking that way. Not now. She just needed a shoulder to cry on, something Adam had offered time and time again. This time, she was gonna need it.

            She grabbed her jacket and keys and bolted for the door, sprinting across campus as fast as her slender legs could carry her. Luckily, someone else was entering the building so she raced through the entrance and up to his room, pounding on the door almost before she got there.

            "Hey Jules, you ok?" It was Charlie.

            "Yeah," she gasped in-between breaths, "I need to see Adam."

            "Adam? I just left him a few minutes ago. He's out on the quad with Erica."

            "Thanks." She closed the door and ran back down the hall. Erica? She asked herself and chuckled allowed, Lord, would that girl ever give up? She stopped at the doorway to Adam's building and looked around. No sign of the two of them anywhere. She slowed her pace a bit to catch her breath and rounded the corner near the end of the quad by the ice rink…and froze.

            Her heart started pounding faster than was medically safe to be sure and her skin felt red hot. Standing in front of her, not 20 feet away, was Adam and Erica kissing. Almost as quickly as she had got there, she spun on her heels and ran the other way, not caring much of where she was or where she was going. She ran all the way around the rec center to the other side of the entrance and slumped against the brick wall. She felt almost as if her heart had now been broken twice, the intimate image she'd just witnessed fresh in her mind. This time for Julie, the tears came. She sat on the steps and wet.

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