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After practice on Wednesday the 26th Paige's second week in Eden Hall and the day before Thanksgiving (yes I looked up to see when the U.S. Thanks giving is, I know I am a geek) on the ice the Ducks were talking.
"Thanksgiving weekend!" Guy said rubbing his gloved hands together.
"I know four long days of no school starting tomorrow" Charlie smiled
"Another Thanksgiving weekend score," Paige said
"What do you mean another?" Dwayne asked her as he absentmindedly flipped the puck up onto his hockey stick and started to bounce it off of the taped wood.
"I already had one back in October" Paige said as her eyes followed the puck.
"Why?" he asked flipping the stick to the other side and kept on bouncing the puck with out letting it hit the ice.
"That's when Canadians celebrate it" Paige answered still watching the puck.
"Oh. Why?" Dwayne asked as they skated.
"Because that is when our harvest season is," Paige answered getting slightly annoyed. She could see he was about to ask her something else "Dwayne if the next thing that comes out of your mouth is a question I'm going to have to punch you" she warned as she grabbed the distracting puck.
"Alrighty then" Dwayne said and skated away.
"Dude are you sure that your mom and brother are ok with me staying with you for the whole four days?" Portman asked Fulton as they entered the change room.
"Of course they're fine with it," Fulton answered as if that was the stupidest thing he was ever asked.
"So what are you doing for Thanksgiving Guy?" Adam asked sitting at the bench farthest from the door facing his friend.
"Having the big dinner at Connie's like every other year that I can remember" Guy answered as he untied his snowy skate. "How about you?"
"Having it with the folks" Adam answered with a grim expression on his face.
"Well if you want to you can come and visit me, Connie and Julie" Guy offered and took a rag to wipe off the snow from the rink off of his blades.
"What do you mean Julie?" Adam asked perking up
"She's staying with Connie. I thought you knew" Guy asked slightly confused
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In the girls change room showers (separate stalls you naughty people. JK)
"So you are just spending it with your family?" Connie asked Paige
"Yeah just a fun family get together," she answered sarcastically "Oh for a bonus I get to have Coach there as well"
"I'm guessing you aren't looking forward to it" Julie laughed and squeezed shampoo into her palm.
"Not really but I think I'll live" she turned off her shower and grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her.
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Back in the boys changing room they were past their showers and were now getting dressed.
"So it's just going to be you, your mom and step dad?" Averman asked Charlie as he pulled his gray t-shirt over his head pulling his glasses with it.
"Yeah John (his step dad) has some big news or something" Charlie answered as he put on his green Ducks jersey (this shirt gets worn a lot but do not worry it gets washed just as frequently : )
"What about you?" Charlie asked
"Oh the Averman clan are just getting together for a big old fashioned turkey feast" he shrugged.
During the talk of the Thanksgiving plans Russ, Kenny, Luis and Dwayne were unusually quiet because they had to stay at Eden Hall for the whole time.
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Back in the girls change room the girls were getting dressed after they finished blow-drying their hair.
Connie had on her flare blue jeans, her running shoes, and a black button up top and was applying lip-gloss. She was going to go on a date with Guy. Julie was tying her hair back into a braid and was in her long navy skirt that was about an inch above her running shoes and a white t-shirt she had a big date planed with her English homework. Paige was pulling on her black knee high boots over her bare legs and was wearing her favorite mostly red kilt and a black long sleeved sweater. Paige didn't actually have anything planned and just thought that she would go back to her dorm and finish up some homework or something making sure not to disturb Julie. When she was done she said "Bye" to her two friends and left the room and found Charlie standing there with a death grip on Goldberg's shirt and he suddenly let go when he saw her.
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Just before Paige had left her change room Charlie was walking out of his with Goldberg.
"Yeah I have to spend Thanksgiving at my parents restaurant" Goldberg said
"That has got to suck Goldie" Charlie said and stopped
"Not really it tradition" he shrugged "Why are you stopping?" he asked when he realized that Charlie had stopped walking
"No reason"
"Alright see you then" but before he could leave Charlie grabbed onto Goldberg's red wool sweater.
"What are you doing?" Goldberg asked as he tried to get free. Of course Charlie wouldn't tell Goldberg but he was waiting for Paige and he didn't want to look obvious so he needed Goldberg to stay to make it look like they were just talking. He then saw Paige come out and let go of Goldberg waved and said, "See ya Goldberg" who then realized he was free and walked out of Charlie's reach.
"Hey Charlie" Paige smiled at him.
"Hey" he grinned back and then gave a stern look at Goldberg "Bye Goldberg" he said as more of an order then a good-bye.
"You know on second thought I think that I should just . . . stay" he said smugly as he put his hands into his jeans enjoying the way he was messing with his Captain
"No I really think you should go" Charlie said as Paige looked confused from Goldberg back to Charlie.
"You know what I'll go and leave you two to deal with what ever this is" she turned and started walking down the hall and then turned when she heard someone walking after her and saw Charlie walking toward her and Goldberg chuckling while walking away from them.
"There isn't anything to deal with" he shrugged
"Really?" she raised her eyebrows and smiled
"Really" he answered
"So then Captain what are your plans for the 'big' weekend" she asked
"Just dinner with my mom and step dad John. Supposedly he has big news" he shrugged.
"Exciting" she teased
They went off into the sunset, Charlie on his trusty steed Lighting and Paige sitting behind him holding onto his waist. (Ok ignore that last bit that was just me going insane from sitting in front of the computer too long. Ok no more interruptions or crazy things!)
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In room 301 Julie and Connie were there when Paige and Charlie walked into the room. Connie was lying on her bed bobbing her head to the music coming from her earphones. She slipped them off when she saw the two enter the room.
"Hey Jules. Do you want us to go so you can study?" Paige asked when she saw Julie on her computer
"No I'm done my homework I'm writing an email to my family" she answered
"Cool" Paige nodded as Julie finished typing and clicked send then turned to face the two. She saw the two bulging bags. "I see you are packed" she nodded towards the bags.
"Yeah" Connie said and turned to Julie "I'm glad you are coming Jules you shouldn't be stuck here for Thanksgiving"
"Thanks Cons. I'm glad you invited me" she smiled
Adam walked into the room "Hey Jules what do you think about telling someone about what we overheard?" Adam asked he couldn't really take holding such a big secret for so long it has been over a week now.
"I already told Connie" Julie said
"Good then I can tell Charlie" he relaxed
"Tell me what?" Charlie asked very curious compared to Paige who barely paying attention and turning on the radio to 102.1 the Edge and Blink 182's "What's my age again" came on.
"Well Adam and I went to Bombay's last Monday the day he cancelled practice and we heard him talking to a man and women about some girl and how he needs to watch her. We heard the women's name and they said they had to leave to pick up some girl but I forgot her name as well. It started with an L, Levin? Adam do you remember?"
"Yeah the women that he was talking to was called Charity and they were going to pick up Lily" Adam answered frowning he had raked his brain thinking if he knew anyone by those names.
"And they were talking to Bombay about some girl?" Charlie asked sitting down in Connie's chair.
"Yeah something about protecting her from getting in trouble" Julie replied
"You said women's name was Charity and they were going to pick up Lily?" Paige inquired surprisingly interested
"Yes." Adam said still thinking if he knew anyone.
"Do you people who have those names?" Connie asked
Paige laughed and said "I should Charity is my step mom and Lily is my half sister. Jesus and they were talking about Bombay having to look after me?" Paige's asked
"Not necessarily you" Julie said meekly even though she knew it couldn't be anyone but Paige.
"Really do you know anyone else who Bombay would have been asked to look after from my parents?" Paige asked calmly
"No."
"That's what I thought" Paige ran her fingers through her hair. "You know what I've got go. Happy Thanksgiving." She grabbed her black knee length coat, her shoulder bag filled with her stuff for the long weekend and left the room.
"Did they mention what kind of trouble?" Charlie asked as soon as the door closed.
"No her step mom wanted to tell Coach but her dad stopped her" Adam said.
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Thanksgiving Day!
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At Banks' house his mother, father, and Adam were sitting at the beautifully set table with classical music playing while Mr. Banks was interrogating his son.
"So do you enjoy playing on the Junior Varsity team more then Senior?" he asked
"Defiantly I like playing with my friends the Ducks," he answered
"How are you doing in your classes?" he took a sip of his wine without taking his eyes off of his son.
"I'm still on the honor role" he shrugged while he poked his chicken with his fork these questions made him lose his appetite.
"That's good sweatie" his mother smiled at him and patted him on the hand.
"Thanks Mom" he smiled back
"So I heard there's a new player on your team. Is he better then you?" he asked
"I don't know and 'he' is actually a 'she,'" Adam told his father
"Well if the new player is a girl you have to be better then her" he said
"No Dad not necessarily" Adam argued as he put down his fork and let his piece of meat with multiple holes.
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At Connie's house there were tables leading from the dining room into the living room filled with the Gees, the Monroes and Julie.
"So you have been spending a lot of your time with Adam" Connie said as she started to salt her dinner
"Yeah he's fun to be around" Julie answered her
"Just 'fun'?" Guy asked
"Yeah . . . am I missing something?" Julie asked
"No you are totally in the loop," Connie giggled
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At Paige's new small house Bombay has not arrived yet Charity was in the kitchen while Garth (her dad) was playing with Lily who was only two years old.
Paige walked down the stairs and went into the living room.
"Do you think what you are wearing is appropriate?" her father asked her. She looked down at her outfit. She was wearing her black jean flare pants, her boots and a dark lavender lace top with sleeves that half way down went into bell-bottoms, the shirt was cut so it showed her flat abs.
"What are you talking about? This is what I usually wear."
"Yes but this is a family dinner" he saw that his oldest daughter was going to change "Go help Charity with the dishes" he sighed.
"So have you seen Coach since we moved her?" Paige asked her step mom as she walked into the room and picked up a plate and started to dry
"Not really we just discussed the Thanksgiving plans over the phone" she smiled
"You aren't a very good liar you know that?" Paige asked bitterly starring at her
"What are you talking about?" she asked starring back.
"I know that you were asking him to watch me while I was at Eden Hall" she put down the dish she was drying and walked out of the kitchen.
"How would you know that Paige?" her dad asked her
"Let's just say a couple of little birds told me" answered coolly
"Why were some of your Duck friends spying on us?" Charity wondered annoyed
"That doesn't matter. What matters is that you have someone watching over me without my knowledge" Paige said
"We didn't think that you needed to know" Garth sighed
"You didn't think that I need to know that I'm being watched?" she asked evenly
"You are blowing this way out of proportion. We were just trying to look after you" Charity said
"I don't think that is your responsibility" Paige said not losing her calm persona
"Don't you dare speak to me like that," Charity said sternly
"Whatever" she headed for her room.
"Don't walk away from me young lady," she ordered, Paige turned around and faced her. "You're grounded. Go to your room we'll call you when dinner is ready" she said finally.
"Fine that's where I was going anyway" she said and disappeared into their tiny hall and they heard her going up the stairs then her door closing. What they didn't hear was the window opening and Paige slipping out of her window with her roller blades, helmet and carrier bag onto the roof. She dropped her blades and helmet then lowered her self and landed on her feet. She took off her boots put them into her bag and strapped on blades, pulled on her jacket and snapped her helmet on.
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All of Averman father's side of his family was: his grandparents, four aunts, five uncles, ten cousins, and his two brothers one younger one older were at one of his aunt's house. His mother was with her family. It was Averman's father's turn to take the three boys for the holiday.
"So you still on the hockey team?" one of his aunts asked
"Yep" he grinned
"You have a scholarship right?" the husband of the aunt who asked him inquired.
"A full one so I can live in dorms. My whole team has them," he answered
"He has a pulled lung so he has to dive in ponds. His goal cream has them?" his grandfather asked his wife.
"No dear he said he has a full scholarship so can live in the dorms! His whole team has full scholarships as well!" she yelled.
"Oh. Good for you boy" his grandfather congratulated him.
"Thanks Grandpa!" Averman shouted.
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Charlie, his step dad and his mother sat on the couch. Charlie was in the middle of the two adults. They lived in the apartment that Charlie has lived in ever since peewees.
"As you know I have news for you," John said facing Charlie who was getting a little impatient. It wasn't that he was excited about what John had to say because he wasn't it was just that he wished that he would stop dancing around the 'big news' and come out and say it.
"So I've heard," he grumbled
"Come on Charlie this concerns you" his mother pleaded, she already knew what her husband was going to say and she was thrilled and wanted her son to be as well.
"I'm listening" he turned and faced John
"I have recently been promoted" he smiled
"Congratulations" he slightly surprised he didn't know that John could be promoted anymore. He already had a top position at the mutual fund company that he was working at. Charlie didn't understand why his mother was smiling so broadly it was as if she was happy about the new money because John was pretty loaded already.
"That's only half of it. Would you like to tell the rest?" John asked his wife beaming who nodded and reached for Charlie's hand and squeezed it.
"Charlie we've decided to move. You see John and I have been discussing this even before we got married but we didn't want to do it right after we got married because I thought it would be too much change for you" she explained to him.
Charlie didn't respond because he was thinking 'I'm cool with leaving this place it wasn't like I was that attached anyway. Wait move where? Good question why don't you ask?' he thought to himself
"Move where?" he inquired
"Well we were looking for houses and we found one on Raven Blvd, you know up in River Hill? We put an offer in and they were going to accept it but we wanted your opinion" his mother answered
"There? That's where Banks lives. I knew you made a lot of money but holy shit!" Charlie said in aw.
"Is this a good or bad reaction?" John asked looked at his wife
Before she could open her mouth Charlie answered the question "This is a good response. Oh and to answer your question I have a funny feeling that I will like the house so go ahead and pay your offer before someone else comes along"
"Thanks for the warning but I think that you should see it so you can be included in the decision. How about we see the house tonight?" John asked
"Hell yes" Charlie said getting up and grabbed his mother's and John's coats as well as his own. The three left the apartment locking the door behind them.
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Fulton, his mother, his older brother, and his bash brother Portman walked into the Goldberg's fast food restaurant.
"Hey Goldie" Fulton called as he walked up to the counter and the other three found a booth to sit at.
"Hey Fulton . . . um what are you doing here?" Goldberg asked looking at Portman wearing his usual bandana, his leather jacket, black shirt and baggy pants, a guy who sort of looked like Fulton but older, taller, and with facial hair in a leather jacket and blue jeans, and a women with bleached blond hair wearing a spandex bright lime top, hot pink pants with matching pink heels and a furry jacket. Goldberg knew that the fake blond was Fulton's mom and guessed that the other guy was his brother.
"We are here for thanksgiving. So can I have three burgers, two large orders of fries one with gravy one with out, and large bag of chicken fingers" Fulton said looking at the menu printed on the black boards behind Goldberg who put in his order.
"What would you all like to drink with that?" Goldberg asked
"Hold on Goldie you don't know what they want yet" Fulton said
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At Eden Hall Kenny, Luis, and Dwayne were in their dorm. Kenny was doing something on his high-tech computer, Luis was looking into his mirror styling his hair, and Dwayne was sitting on his bed twirling his cowboy hat on his index finger.
"I have to admit EH does serve a pretty good dinner," Kenny said.
The other two nodded in agreement.
"Y'all I'm board" Dwayne said after their short silence as he put his hat back on.
"I agree let's do something" Kenny said shutting down his computer.
"How about playing poker?" Luis suggested lifting up the cards that he just found on his shelf that had the numbers, jacks, queens and kings on one side and barely covered women on the other and sitting on the floor and beckoned the other guys to sit with him.
"What's poker?" Dwayne asked with his usual confused look. "Does it actually involve poking?"
"It's a game and don't worry cowboy it doesn't involve any poking . . . usually" Luis answered.
"I'm up for some poker," Kenny getting up from his chair and sitting on the floor.
"I will too but someone has to teach me the rules" Dwayne said sitting down completing a circle.
After a very long game Dwayne was finally getting it. Just as the game was ending and Luis was doing a victory dance they heard a knock on the door.
Luis answered it and found Paige holding her helmet and roller blades. "Can I come in?" she asked when Luis didn't move from the doorway.
"Sure" he finally stepped aside and sat back at his place on the floor. "Why are you here?"
"Well I knew that you guys weren't doing anything for Thanksgiving because you couldn't go home for the long weekend and since your girlfriend was going home and you two don't have girlfriends I knew you would be here and I thought I should see what you were up to. Wait where's Russ?" she answered.
"First of all I no longer have a girlfriend we broke three days ago. A guy can only count so many ceiling tiles. And as for Russ he has a date with Felicia" Luis said.
"We were just finished playing some poker" Dwayne said proudly because he now knew how the game worked . . . generally.
"Oh can I join the next game?" Paige asked
"Yeah" Kenny said as they made their circle bigger to fit her in. He shuffled then dealt the cards.
"Hey do you guys want to make this more interesting?" Paige asked as a mischievous grin crept to her face.
"We don't have any money to bet," Luis answered
"Or we do but don't want to bet it" Ken added
"I wasn't talking about money. I was thinking that we could make this a game of strip poker," Paige said causing the boys mouths to drop.
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Charlie walked down the stairs he had just finished the tour of the inside of his house. There were four bedrooms, a dinning room, a living room, a kitchen, a study, a den, large attack that was also a bedroom, an even bigger basement, and five bathrooms. Most of the furniture was left behind as well.
"Wow" he said as he jumped the last four steps and landed on his feet with a thud. He looked around the main floor when something out side caught his attention. "Is that a pool?" he asked as he walked towards the door leading to the back yard.
"Yep a hot tub, shed, and pool house as well" John grinned.
"Again Wow" Charlie said peering out the window.
"So what do you think Charlie?"
"It's great Mom. When can we move in?" Charlie smiled.
"This weekend actually" she answered.
"I can rent a moving van," John said "as long as you are willing to help out"
"Sure I'll try to get some of the Ducks to help" Charlie said while looking out a window at the front of the house. "Banks?" he whispered and opened the door.
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Back at Banks's house the excruciatingly long dinner was finally over and Adam was ready to get out of there so he put on his coat and shoved his wallet into his pocket yelled "Bye I'm going over to Connie's" and shut the door and walked to the bus stop. He sat down on a bench when he heard a door open and turned to see Charlie walk out of a house with a 'For Sale' sign on the front lawn.
"Conaway?" Adam asked
"Yeah. Hey Banks what are you doing?" Charlie asked
"I was just waiting for a bus and was going to go to Connie's. What are you doing?" Adam asked
"I was looking at my new house" Charlie pointed to the house that his step dad and his mom were walking out of.
"Your new house?" he asked staring wide eyed.
"Yep going to move this weekend. Do you want to help?" he asked hopefully
"Sure. Your new house?" he asked again
"Yeah" Charlie chuckled
"Wow" Adam raised his eyebrows
"That's what I said. I know it isn't the size of your house but I like it" Charlie grinned as the two grown ups came from behind them.
"Hello Adam" they both said
"Hello Mrs. Paits, Mr. Paits" he stood up.
"What are you doing?" John asked
"I was going to go to Connie's. Guy and Julie are there" Adam responded
"That explains it" Charlie said as soon as he heard Julie's name. "Hey can I go?" he asked his mom.
"Sure. Have fun" she kissed him on his cheek.
Before they could leave Charlie asked, "Could you give us a drive?"
"Of course" John responded
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At Connie's all of her and Guy's relatives had gone home so only Connie's parents, her older sister, Guy and Julie were there.
As soon as the last relative had left her sister rushed up the stairs and got ready for a party and was just about to leave when Charlie and Adam arrived.
"Hi Sophie is Connie here?" Charlie asked
"And Julie?" Adam added
"They're in the basement with Guy" she answered before heading out the door.
The two boys went down the stairs and found Connie, Guy and Julie watching a Thanksgiving movie about some talking turkey.
Adam immediately sat beside Julie on the coach that she was at. He smiled and greeted her and she beamed back and greeted him. Charlie sat in a beat up lazy boy that was stuck in the lying down position.
"You two look pretty intimate considering you have company," Charlie pointed out.
Connie had her head rested on Guy's shoulder, Guys had one of his arms wrapped around her and his free hand was intertwined with one of hers on top of his stomach.
"Shut up Spazaway" Guy ordered.
"Hey do you guys actually want to do something besides watching this really bad movie?" Charlie asked after about ten minutes of the watching the TV.
"I'm happy here doing nothing" Connie responded
"Duh that because you're snuggling" Julie teased
"I bet Adam wouldn't mind if you wanted to snuggle him" Guy said trying to keep a serious face.
"That was so funny I forgot to laugh" Julie said as she got up and pulled Connie away from Guy. "Let's go"
"Where do you want to go?" Guy asked annoyed that his girlfriend was just taken away from him.
"Let's go see Goldberg" Connie suggested "he had to spend Thanksgiving at his parents restaurant."
"Oh and along the way we can pick up Averman" Charlie said
"It's a plan," Julie confirmed.
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Bombay walked up to the house that he was told to go to. He checked the piece of paper he had in his hand to make sure it was the right number. Convinced he rung the doorbell.
"Hello Gordon" Charity greeted when she opened the door holding Lily on her hip "So glad you could make it"
"Yeah me too" he said as he walked in.
They heard a buzzing from the kitchen. "Oh that must be the beans. Dinner is almost ready could you go get Paige it's the second door on the right" she pointed to the stairs.
He climbed up the stairs and walked to the second door and knocked "Paige?" he called when he didn't get a response. "Paige?" he said again as he opened the door to find an empty room. He moved onto the door beside him which was the bathroom: empty, a door on the other side of the hallway which turned out to be Lily's: empty, the master bedroom: empty. He ran out of doors so went down stairs.
He went into the kitchen greeted Garth then went to Charity and said "Paige wasn't up stairs should I check the basement?"
"Damn it!" Charity said and put her hands on her hips "She's gone again. Where could she have gone?" she asked Garth.
"I don't know" Lily said as if the question was for her.
"I have an idea. Would you mind if I went looking for her?" Bombay asked
"That would be so good of you. If you find her can you tell her that she is in deep trouble?" Charity asked.
"I'll pass on the message" Bombay said as he left the house. "I didn't even get the chance to take of my jacket," he muttered under his breath as he entered his car and drove.
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Bombay arrived at Eden Hall and went up to the third floor and listened and heard laughing. He walked towards the source Dwayne, Luis and Kenny's. 'How did I know?' he asked himself unsurprised.
He opened the door to find Luis with no shirt, shoes and socks, Dwayne with just his cowboy hat and boxers, Kenny completely clothed and Paige with no shirt and was just finished unzipping her pants saying, "You guys always go for the shoes first that is very unimaginative. For me the first thing to go is the top then pants."
"Paige?!" Bombay yelled as he saw his niece in her black bra and showing her black matching underwear because of the open zipper.
"Yeah Coach?" she asked when she turned around
"What are you doing?" he asked not lowering his voice.
"Playing strip poker with a few friends" she answered calmly.
"I can see that" he said as the two boys who were lacking clothing scrambled to put it back on.
"Then why did you ask?" Paige inquired not bothering to put any clothing back on. Frankly she was sort of enjoying making her new Coach become so nervous.
He was at loss of words and finally blurted "Ok the game is over Paige put your top on and I'll take you home. Your parents told me that you are in deep trouble."
Paige did zip up her pants and put her top back on but she didn't move beyond that.
"Come on Paige" he ordered
"No you cannot tell me what to do" she said still composed compared to poor Bombay.
"Come on put on your roller blades" he shoved them at her she did put them on and put her blades on and placed her boots in her bag. She put on her coat then her helmet. Then she stopped and looked up at him.
"Listen Coach, I'm not going to come with you. It isn't your responsibility to take care of me or watch over me. No matter what my parents might say. I understand that they are pissed and I hope that they don't take it out on you. If you would like you can tell them that I will come to their house and pick up my stuff then I will come back to Eden Hall and spend the remainder of the weekend here. So if they want to come and scream they know where to find me" she finished and then skated down the halls and rolled down the stairs to the sound of Bombay calling her back. She ignored him and then skated down the street.
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Russ was walking back from his date with Felicia she was going back to her house now and he was going to find his way back to Eden Hall. He stopped when he realized how hungry he was 'Goldberg's' he thought. Then turned and headed in a different direction towards Goldberg's.
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At Eden Hall Luis, Dwayne and Kenny were frantically putting on their roller blades, pads, and helmets. They then skated after Paige passing Bombay along the way who was climbing into his car. Bombay sat down and took a breath. 'Should I follow her or should I go back to the house and just deliver the message?' he pondered.
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End of Chapter
I know that took a long time to update and I am sorry. I had writers block and badness. But it is a long chapter so I don't know if that makes that better or worse . . .anyway I hope you enjoyed.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!
Rosie: Yay! A new reviewie! I'm doing the jig! Oh and I'm now allowing anonymous reviewers. It took me a while to find out how to do it but I did it. Thank you for telling me about my mistake. I really appreciate it! I made a mental note 'cue' not 'queue'. : )
Banksiesbabe99: I know about your love of Adam and Julie so that is why I put them in when they were listening to Bombay at first I was going to have Connie and Guy do it but I think that it's better this way because it shows how far Adam will go to be with Julie. Aw!
Lauren: Another reviewie yay! Ok first thank you very much for telling me their names you see my tape player broke therefore I cannot rent the tapes and I only found (and now I own) the first one of DVD and as you know Varsity is not in that one. Yes someone likes Paige!
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After practice on Wednesday the 26th Paige's second week in Eden Hall and the day before Thanksgiving (yes I looked up to see when the U.S. Thanks giving is, I know I am a geek) on the ice the Ducks were talking.
"Thanksgiving weekend!" Guy said rubbing his gloved hands together.
"I know four long days of no school starting tomorrow" Charlie smiled
"Another Thanksgiving weekend score," Paige said
"What do you mean another?" Dwayne asked her as he absentmindedly flipped the puck up onto his hockey stick and started to bounce it off of the taped wood.
"I already had one back in October" Paige said as her eyes followed the puck.
"Why?" he asked flipping the stick to the other side and kept on bouncing the puck with out letting it hit the ice.
"That's when Canadians celebrate it" Paige answered still watching the puck.
"Oh. Why?" Dwayne asked as they skated.
"Because that is when our harvest season is," Paige answered getting slightly annoyed. She could see he was about to ask her something else "Dwayne if the next thing that comes out of your mouth is a question I'm going to have to punch you" she warned as she grabbed the distracting puck.
"Alrighty then" Dwayne said and skated away.
"Dude are you sure that your mom and brother are ok with me staying with you for the whole four days?" Portman asked Fulton as they entered the change room.
"Of course they're fine with it," Fulton answered as if that was the stupidest thing he was ever asked.
"So what are you doing for Thanksgiving Guy?" Adam asked sitting at the bench farthest from the door facing his friend.
"Having the big dinner at Connie's like every other year that I can remember" Guy answered as he untied his snowy skate. "How about you?"
"Having it with the folks" Adam answered with a grim expression on his face.
"Well if you want to you can come and visit me, Connie and Julie" Guy offered and took a rag to wipe off the snow from the rink off of his blades.
"What do you mean Julie?" Adam asked perking up
"She's staying with Connie. I thought you knew" Guy asked slightly confused
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In the girls change room showers (separate stalls you naughty people. JK)
"So you are just spending it with your family?" Connie asked Paige
"Yeah just a fun family get together," she answered sarcastically "Oh for a bonus I get to have Coach there as well"
"I'm guessing you aren't looking forward to it" Julie laughed and squeezed shampoo into her palm.
"Not really but I think I'll live" she turned off her shower and grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her.
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Back in the boys changing room they were past their showers and were now getting dressed.
"So it's just going to be you, your mom and step dad?" Averman asked Charlie as he pulled his gray t-shirt over his head pulling his glasses with it.
"Yeah John (his step dad) has some big news or something" Charlie answered as he put on his green Ducks jersey (this shirt gets worn a lot but do not worry it gets washed just as frequently : )
"What about you?" Charlie asked
"Oh the Averman clan are just getting together for a big old fashioned turkey feast" he shrugged.
During the talk of the Thanksgiving plans Russ, Kenny, Luis and Dwayne were unusually quiet because they had to stay at Eden Hall for the whole time.
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Back in the girls change room the girls were getting dressed after they finished blow-drying their hair.
Connie had on her flare blue jeans, her running shoes, and a black button up top and was applying lip-gloss. She was going to go on a date with Guy. Julie was tying her hair back into a braid and was in her long navy skirt that was about an inch above her running shoes and a white t-shirt she had a big date planed with her English homework. Paige was pulling on her black knee high boots over her bare legs and was wearing her favorite mostly red kilt and a black long sleeved sweater. Paige didn't actually have anything planned and just thought that she would go back to her dorm and finish up some homework or something making sure not to disturb Julie. When she was done she said "Bye" to her two friends and left the room and found Charlie standing there with a death grip on Goldberg's shirt and he suddenly let go when he saw her.
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Just before Paige had left her change room Charlie was walking out of his with Goldberg.
"Yeah I have to spend Thanksgiving at my parents restaurant" Goldberg said
"That has got to suck Goldie" Charlie said and stopped
"Not really it tradition" he shrugged "Why are you stopping?" he asked when he realized that Charlie had stopped walking
"No reason"
"Alright see you then" but before he could leave Charlie grabbed onto Goldberg's red wool sweater.
"What are you doing?" Goldberg asked as he tried to get free. Of course Charlie wouldn't tell Goldberg but he was waiting for Paige and he didn't want to look obvious so he needed Goldberg to stay to make it look like they were just talking. He then saw Paige come out and let go of Goldberg waved and said, "See ya Goldberg" who then realized he was free and walked out of Charlie's reach.
"Hey Charlie" Paige smiled at him.
"Hey" he grinned back and then gave a stern look at Goldberg "Bye Goldberg" he said as more of an order then a good-bye.
"You know on second thought I think that I should just . . . stay" he said smugly as he put his hands into his jeans enjoying the way he was messing with his Captain
"No I really think you should go" Charlie said as Paige looked confused from Goldberg back to Charlie.
"You know what I'll go and leave you two to deal with what ever this is" she turned and started walking down the hall and then turned when she heard someone walking after her and saw Charlie walking toward her and Goldberg chuckling while walking away from them.
"There isn't anything to deal with" he shrugged
"Really?" she raised her eyebrows and smiled
"Really" he answered
"So then Captain what are your plans for the 'big' weekend" she asked
"Just dinner with my mom and step dad John. Supposedly he has big news" he shrugged.
"Exciting" she teased
They went off into the sunset, Charlie on his trusty steed Lighting and Paige sitting behind him holding onto his waist. (Ok ignore that last bit that was just me going insane from sitting in front of the computer too long. Ok no more interruptions or crazy things!)
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In room 301 Julie and Connie were there when Paige and Charlie walked into the room. Connie was lying on her bed bobbing her head to the music coming from her earphones. She slipped them off when she saw the two enter the room.
"Hey Jules. Do you want us to go so you can study?" Paige asked when she saw Julie on her computer
"No I'm done my homework I'm writing an email to my family" she answered
"Cool" Paige nodded as Julie finished typing and clicked send then turned to face the two. She saw the two bulging bags. "I see you are packed" she nodded towards the bags.
"Yeah" Connie said and turned to Julie "I'm glad you are coming Jules you shouldn't be stuck here for Thanksgiving"
"Thanks Cons. I'm glad you invited me" she smiled
Adam walked into the room "Hey Jules what do you think about telling someone about what we overheard?" Adam asked he couldn't really take holding such a big secret for so long it has been over a week now.
"I already told Connie" Julie said
"Good then I can tell Charlie" he relaxed
"Tell me what?" Charlie asked very curious compared to Paige who barely paying attention and turning on the radio to 102.1 the Edge and Blink 182's "What's my age again" came on.
"Well Adam and I went to Bombay's last Monday the day he cancelled practice and we heard him talking to a man and women about some girl and how he needs to watch her. We heard the women's name and they said they had to leave to pick up some girl but I forgot her name as well. It started with an L, Levin? Adam do you remember?"
"Yeah the women that he was talking to was called Charity and they were going to pick up Lily" Adam answered frowning he had raked his brain thinking if he knew anyone by those names.
"And they were talking to Bombay about some girl?" Charlie asked sitting down in Connie's chair.
"Yeah something about protecting her from getting in trouble" Julie replied
"You said women's name was Charity and they were going to pick up Lily?" Paige inquired surprisingly interested
"Yes." Adam said still thinking if he knew anyone.
"Do you people who have those names?" Connie asked
Paige laughed and said "I should Charity is my step mom and Lily is my half sister. Jesus and they were talking about Bombay having to look after me?" Paige's asked
"Not necessarily you" Julie said meekly even though she knew it couldn't be anyone but Paige.
"Really do you know anyone else who Bombay would have been asked to look after from my parents?" Paige asked calmly
"No."
"That's what I thought" Paige ran her fingers through her hair. "You know what I've got go. Happy Thanksgiving." She grabbed her black knee length coat, her shoulder bag filled with her stuff for the long weekend and left the room.
"Did they mention what kind of trouble?" Charlie asked as soon as the door closed.
"No her step mom wanted to tell Coach but her dad stopped her" Adam said.
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Thanksgiving Day!
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At Banks' house his mother, father, and Adam were sitting at the beautifully set table with classical music playing while Mr. Banks was interrogating his son.
"So do you enjoy playing on the Junior Varsity team more then Senior?" he asked
"Defiantly I like playing with my friends the Ducks," he answered
"How are you doing in your classes?" he took a sip of his wine without taking his eyes off of his son.
"I'm still on the honor role" he shrugged while he poked his chicken with his fork these questions made him lose his appetite.
"That's good sweatie" his mother smiled at him and patted him on the hand.
"Thanks Mom" he smiled back
"So I heard there's a new player on your team. Is he better then you?" he asked
"I don't know and 'he' is actually a 'she,'" Adam told his father
"Well if the new player is a girl you have to be better then her" he said
"No Dad not necessarily" Adam argued as he put down his fork and let his piece of meat with multiple holes.
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At Connie's house there were tables leading from the dining room into the living room filled with the Gees, the Monroes and Julie.
"So you have been spending a lot of your time with Adam" Connie said as she started to salt her dinner
"Yeah he's fun to be around" Julie answered her
"Just 'fun'?" Guy asked
"Yeah . . . am I missing something?" Julie asked
"No you are totally in the loop," Connie giggled
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At Paige's new small house Bombay has not arrived yet Charity was in the kitchen while Garth (her dad) was playing with Lily who was only two years old.
Paige walked down the stairs and went into the living room.
"Do you think what you are wearing is appropriate?" her father asked her. She looked down at her outfit. She was wearing her black jean flare pants, her boots and a dark lavender lace top with sleeves that half way down went into bell-bottoms, the shirt was cut so it showed her flat abs.
"What are you talking about? This is what I usually wear."
"Yes but this is a family dinner" he saw that his oldest daughter was going to change "Go help Charity with the dishes" he sighed.
"So have you seen Coach since we moved her?" Paige asked her step mom as she walked into the room and picked up a plate and started to dry
"Not really we just discussed the Thanksgiving plans over the phone" she smiled
"You aren't a very good liar you know that?" Paige asked bitterly starring at her
"What are you talking about?" she asked starring back.
"I know that you were asking him to watch me while I was at Eden Hall" she put down the dish she was drying and walked out of the kitchen.
"How would you know that Paige?" her dad asked her
"Let's just say a couple of little birds told me" answered coolly
"Why were some of your Duck friends spying on us?" Charity wondered annoyed
"That doesn't matter. What matters is that you have someone watching over me without my knowledge" Paige said
"We didn't think that you needed to know" Garth sighed
"You didn't think that I need to know that I'm being watched?" she asked evenly
"You are blowing this way out of proportion. We were just trying to look after you" Charity said
"I don't think that is your responsibility" Paige said not losing her calm persona
"Don't you dare speak to me like that," Charity said sternly
"Whatever" she headed for her room.
"Don't walk away from me young lady," she ordered, Paige turned around and faced her. "You're grounded. Go to your room we'll call you when dinner is ready" she said finally.
"Fine that's where I was going anyway" she said and disappeared into their tiny hall and they heard her going up the stairs then her door closing. What they didn't hear was the window opening and Paige slipping out of her window with her roller blades, helmet and carrier bag onto the roof. She dropped her blades and helmet then lowered her self and landed on her feet. She took off her boots put them into her bag and strapped on blades, pulled on her jacket and snapped her helmet on.
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All of Averman father's side of his family was: his grandparents, four aunts, five uncles, ten cousins, and his two brothers one younger one older were at one of his aunt's house. His mother was with her family. It was Averman's father's turn to take the three boys for the holiday.
"So you still on the hockey team?" one of his aunts asked
"Yep" he grinned
"You have a scholarship right?" the husband of the aunt who asked him inquired.
"A full one so I can live in dorms. My whole team has them," he answered
"He has a pulled lung so he has to dive in ponds. His goal cream has them?" his grandfather asked his wife.
"No dear he said he has a full scholarship so can live in the dorms! His whole team has full scholarships as well!" she yelled.
"Oh. Good for you boy" his grandfather congratulated him.
"Thanks Grandpa!" Averman shouted.
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Charlie, his step dad and his mother sat on the couch. Charlie was in the middle of the two adults. They lived in the apartment that Charlie has lived in ever since peewees.
"As you know I have news for you," John said facing Charlie who was getting a little impatient. It wasn't that he was excited about what John had to say because he wasn't it was just that he wished that he would stop dancing around the 'big news' and come out and say it.
"So I've heard," he grumbled
"Come on Charlie this concerns you" his mother pleaded, she already knew what her husband was going to say and she was thrilled and wanted her son to be as well.
"I'm listening" he turned and faced John
"I have recently been promoted" he smiled
"Congratulations" he slightly surprised he didn't know that John could be promoted anymore. He already had a top position at the mutual fund company that he was working at. Charlie didn't understand why his mother was smiling so broadly it was as if she was happy about the new money because John was pretty loaded already.
"That's only half of it. Would you like to tell the rest?" John asked his wife beaming who nodded and reached for Charlie's hand and squeezed it.
"Charlie we've decided to move. You see John and I have been discussing this even before we got married but we didn't want to do it right after we got married because I thought it would be too much change for you" she explained to him.
Charlie didn't respond because he was thinking 'I'm cool with leaving this place it wasn't like I was that attached anyway. Wait move where? Good question why don't you ask?' he thought to himself
"Move where?" he inquired
"Well we were looking for houses and we found one on Raven Blvd, you know up in River Hill? We put an offer in and they were going to accept it but we wanted your opinion" his mother answered
"There? That's where Banks lives. I knew you made a lot of money but holy shit!" Charlie said in aw.
"Is this a good or bad reaction?" John asked looked at his wife
Before she could open her mouth Charlie answered the question "This is a good response. Oh and to answer your question I have a funny feeling that I will like the house so go ahead and pay your offer before someone else comes along"
"Thanks for the warning but I think that you should see it so you can be included in the decision. How about we see the house tonight?" John asked
"Hell yes" Charlie said getting up and grabbed his mother's and John's coats as well as his own. The three left the apartment locking the door behind them.
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Fulton, his mother, his older brother, and his bash brother Portman walked into the Goldberg's fast food restaurant.
"Hey Goldie" Fulton called as he walked up to the counter and the other three found a booth to sit at.
"Hey Fulton . . . um what are you doing here?" Goldberg asked looking at Portman wearing his usual bandana, his leather jacket, black shirt and baggy pants, a guy who sort of looked like Fulton but older, taller, and with facial hair in a leather jacket and blue jeans, and a women with bleached blond hair wearing a spandex bright lime top, hot pink pants with matching pink heels and a furry jacket. Goldberg knew that the fake blond was Fulton's mom and guessed that the other guy was his brother.
"We are here for thanksgiving. So can I have three burgers, two large orders of fries one with gravy one with out, and large bag of chicken fingers" Fulton said looking at the menu printed on the black boards behind Goldberg who put in his order.
"What would you all like to drink with that?" Goldberg asked
"Hold on Goldie you don't know what they want yet" Fulton said
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At Eden Hall Kenny, Luis, and Dwayne were in their dorm. Kenny was doing something on his high-tech computer, Luis was looking into his mirror styling his hair, and Dwayne was sitting on his bed twirling his cowboy hat on his index finger.
"I have to admit EH does serve a pretty good dinner," Kenny said.
The other two nodded in agreement.
"Y'all I'm board" Dwayne said after their short silence as he put his hat back on.
"I agree let's do something" Kenny said shutting down his computer.
"How about playing poker?" Luis suggested lifting up the cards that he just found on his shelf that had the numbers, jacks, queens and kings on one side and barely covered women on the other and sitting on the floor and beckoned the other guys to sit with him.
"What's poker?" Dwayne asked with his usual confused look. "Does it actually involve poking?"
"It's a game and don't worry cowboy it doesn't involve any poking . . . usually" Luis answered.
"I'm up for some poker," Kenny getting up from his chair and sitting on the floor.
"I will too but someone has to teach me the rules" Dwayne said sitting down completing a circle.
After a very long game Dwayne was finally getting it. Just as the game was ending and Luis was doing a victory dance they heard a knock on the door.
Luis answered it and found Paige holding her helmet and roller blades. "Can I come in?" she asked when Luis didn't move from the doorway.
"Sure" he finally stepped aside and sat back at his place on the floor. "Why are you here?"
"Well I knew that you guys weren't doing anything for Thanksgiving because you couldn't go home for the long weekend and since your girlfriend was going home and you two don't have girlfriends I knew you would be here and I thought I should see what you were up to. Wait where's Russ?" she answered.
"First of all I no longer have a girlfriend we broke three days ago. A guy can only count so many ceiling tiles. And as for Russ he has a date with Felicia" Luis said.
"We were just finished playing some poker" Dwayne said proudly because he now knew how the game worked . . . generally.
"Oh can I join the next game?" Paige asked
"Yeah" Kenny said as they made their circle bigger to fit her in. He shuffled then dealt the cards.
"Hey do you guys want to make this more interesting?" Paige asked as a mischievous grin crept to her face.
"We don't have any money to bet," Luis answered
"Or we do but don't want to bet it" Ken added
"I wasn't talking about money. I was thinking that we could make this a game of strip poker," Paige said causing the boys mouths to drop.
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Charlie walked down the stairs he had just finished the tour of the inside of his house. There were four bedrooms, a dinning room, a living room, a kitchen, a study, a den, large attack that was also a bedroom, an even bigger basement, and five bathrooms. Most of the furniture was left behind as well.
"Wow" he said as he jumped the last four steps and landed on his feet with a thud. He looked around the main floor when something out side caught his attention. "Is that a pool?" he asked as he walked towards the door leading to the back yard.
"Yep a hot tub, shed, and pool house as well" John grinned.
"Again Wow" Charlie said peering out the window.
"So what do you think Charlie?"
"It's great Mom. When can we move in?" Charlie smiled.
"This weekend actually" she answered.
"I can rent a moving van," John said "as long as you are willing to help out"
"Sure I'll try to get some of the Ducks to help" Charlie said while looking out a window at the front of the house. "Banks?" he whispered and opened the door.
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Back at Banks's house the excruciatingly long dinner was finally over and Adam was ready to get out of there so he put on his coat and shoved his wallet into his pocket yelled "Bye I'm going over to Connie's" and shut the door and walked to the bus stop. He sat down on a bench when he heard a door open and turned to see Charlie walk out of a house with a 'For Sale' sign on the front lawn.
"Conaway?" Adam asked
"Yeah. Hey Banks what are you doing?" Charlie asked
"I was just waiting for a bus and was going to go to Connie's. What are you doing?" Adam asked
"I was looking at my new house" Charlie pointed to the house that his step dad and his mom were walking out of.
"Your new house?" he asked staring wide eyed.
"Yep going to move this weekend. Do you want to help?" he asked hopefully
"Sure. Your new house?" he asked again
"Yeah" Charlie chuckled
"Wow" Adam raised his eyebrows
"That's what I said. I know it isn't the size of your house but I like it" Charlie grinned as the two grown ups came from behind them.
"Hello Adam" they both said
"Hello Mrs. Paits, Mr. Paits" he stood up.
"What are you doing?" John asked
"I was going to go to Connie's. Guy and Julie are there" Adam responded
"That explains it" Charlie said as soon as he heard Julie's name. "Hey can I go?" he asked his mom.
"Sure. Have fun" she kissed him on his cheek.
Before they could leave Charlie asked, "Could you give us a drive?"
"Of course" John responded
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At Connie's all of her and Guy's relatives had gone home so only Connie's parents, her older sister, Guy and Julie were there.
As soon as the last relative had left her sister rushed up the stairs and got ready for a party and was just about to leave when Charlie and Adam arrived.
"Hi Sophie is Connie here?" Charlie asked
"And Julie?" Adam added
"They're in the basement with Guy" she answered before heading out the door.
The two boys went down the stairs and found Connie, Guy and Julie watching a Thanksgiving movie about some talking turkey.
Adam immediately sat beside Julie on the coach that she was at. He smiled and greeted her and she beamed back and greeted him. Charlie sat in a beat up lazy boy that was stuck in the lying down position.
"You two look pretty intimate considering you have company," Charlie pointed out.
Connie had her head rested on Guy's shoulder, Guys had one of his arms wrapped around her and his free hand was intertwined with one of hers on top of his stomach.
"Shut up Spazaway" Guy ordered.
"Hey do you guys actually want to do something besides watching this really bad movie?" Charlie asked after about ten minutes of the watching the TV.
"I'm happy here doing nothing" Connie responded
"Duh that because you're snuggling" Julie teased
"I bet Adam wouldn't mind if you wanted to snuggle him" Guy said trying to keep a serious face.
"That was so funny I forgot to laugh" Julie said as she got up and pulled Connie away from Guy. "Let's go"
"Where do you want to go?" Guy asked annoyed that his girlfriend was just taken away from him.
"Let's go see Goldberg" Connie suggested "he had to spend Thanksgiving at his parents restaurant."
"Oh and along the way we can pick up Averman" Charlie said
"It's a plan," Julie confirmed.
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Bombay walked up to the house that he was told to go to. He checked the piece of paper he had in his hand to make sure it was the right number. Convinced he rung the doorbell.
"Hello Gordon" Charity greeted when she opened the door holding Lily on her hip "So glad you could make it"
"Yeah me too" he said as he walked in.
They heard a buzzing from the kitchen. "Oh that must be the beans. Dinner is almost ready could you go get Paige it's the second door on the right" she pointed to the stairs.
He climbed up the stairs and walked to the second door and knocked "Paige?" he called when he didn't get a response. "Paige?" he said again as he opened the door to find an empty room. He moved onto the door beside him which was the bathroom: empty, a door on the other side of the hallway which turned out to be Lily's: empty, the master bedroom: empty. He ran out of doors so went down stairs.
He went into the kitchen greeted Garth then went to Charity and said "Paige wasn't up stairs should I check the basement?"
"Damn it!" Charity said and put her hands on her hips "She's gone again. Where could she have gone?" she asked Garth.
"I don't know" Lily said as if the question was for her.
"I have an idea. Would you mind if I went looking for her?" Bombay asked
"That would be so good of you. If you find her can you tell her that she is in deep trouble?" Charity asked.
"I'll pass on the message" Bombay said as he left the house. "I didn't even get the chance to take of my jacket," he muttered under his breath as he entered his car and drove.
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Bombay arrived at Eden Hall and went up to the third floor and listened and heard laughing. He walked towards the source Dwayne, Luis and Kenny's. 'How did I know?' he asked himself unsurprised.
He opened the door to find Luis with no shirt, shoes and socks, Dwayne with just his cowboy hat and boxers, Kenny completely clothed and Paige with no shirt and was just finished unzipping her pants saying, "You guys always go for the shoes first that is very unimaginative. For me the first thing to go is the top then pants."
"Paige?!" Bombay yelled as he saw his niece in her black bra and showing her black matching underwear because of the open zipper.
"Yeah Coach?" she asked when she turned around
"What are you doing?" he asked not lowering his voice.
"Playing strip poker with a few friends" she answered calmly.
"I can see that" he said as the two boys who were lacking clothing scrambled to put it back on.
"Then why did you ask?" Paige inquired not bothering to put any clothing back on. Frankly she was sort of enjoying making her new Coach become so nervous.
He was at loss of words and finally blurted "Ok the game is over Paige put your top on and I'll take you home. Your parents told me that you are in deep trouble."
Paige did zip up her pants and put her top back on but she didn't move beyond that.
"Come on Paige" he ordered
"No you cannot tell me what to do" she said still composed compared to poor Bombay.
"Come on put on your roller blades" he shoved them at her she did put them on and put her blades on and placed her boots in her bag. She put on her coat then her helmet. Then she stopped and looked up at him.
"Listen Coach, I'm not going to come with you. It isn't your responsibility to take care of me or watch over me. No matter what my parents might say. I understand that they are pissed and I hope that they don't take it out on you. If you would like you can tell them that I will come to their house and pick up my stuff then I will come back to Eden Hall and spend the remainder of the weekend here. So if they want to come and scream they know where to find me" she finished and then skated down the halls and rolled down the stairs to the sound of Bombay calling her back. She ignored him and then skated down the street.
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Russ was walking back from his date with Felicia she was going back to her house now and he was going to find his way back to Eden Hall. He stopped when he realized how hungry he was 'Goldberg's' he thought. Then turned and headed in a different direction towards Goldberg's.
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At Eden Hall Luis, Dwayne and Kenny were frantically putting on their roller blades, pads, and helmets. They then skated after Paige passing Bombay along the way who was climbing into his car. Bombay sat down and took a breath. 'Should I follow her or should I go back to the house and just deliver the message?' he pondered.
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End of Chapter
I know that took a long time to update and I am sorry. I had writers block and badness. But it is a long chapter so I don't know if that makes that better or worse . . .anyway I hope you enjoyed.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!