It's snowing a lot in Toronto right now. I just had to walk home from an
exam and my hair has little snowballs in it and now they are melting on my
shirt. I love Canada. :) Anywho now that that's out of the way. I can
continue with writing to my reviews. O how I love thee.
Beaner: Your review was nice and long. And me too! I never read the comic books but I have seen the movies and watched the TV shows! I used to watch Xmen on TV all of the time when I was younger. Then it was taken off the air. :( I am interested about Octopus being the villain in the next Spiderman movie. Did you like Batman as well? Because that is one of my bigger obsessions I used to watch the show with Adam West as Batman, and the old cartoon. I still watch the movies I like Batman Returns the most with Michael Keaton as Batman. I think that the old cartoons (as in the ones that I used to watch so I don't actually know how old they are) of Spiderman, Xmen, and Batman are so much better then the new stuff that they have. Thank you for forgiving me about my lateness in updating. :) When you wrote 'Worth the wait' it made my day. No it made my week! Ok I'm done now.
anne918 (Gina): I know that making Julie and Adam fight would upset people. Hell it upset me but it's all part of the story! Do not worry they make up. Ok maybe that sort of ruined part of the chapter for you, but a very small part. I'm glad you thought that my chapter was funny! Aw! I feel so happy!!!
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Six AM
Julie, Connie and Paige walked into the girl's change room.
"It sucks that Bombay did this I wanted to stay at your house longer" Julie complained collapsing on a bench.
"I know" Connie agreed sitting beside her and pulling off her shoe.
"You guys didn't want to go back to her house because you didn't want to wake up early?" Paige asked taking off her own shoes.
"Yah it just makes sense" Connie said, "The rest of the Ducks were doing it too" she pulled off her other shoe.
"It was a while in till you came back into the dorms Cons." Julie looked at Connie "You too Paige" she quickly looked at Paige "but I'll question you later." She looked back at Connie "Did you and Guy makeup? " Julie asked
"Yeah" Connie smiled
"What did you guys say?" Julie asked a smile broke out on her weary face
"Not much" Connie smiled as she got her skates ready to be put on her feet.
*~*~Flash back to yesterday~*~*
Connie and Guy were sitting on a bench out side of Eden Hall the rest of the Ducks had already gone inside. They hadn't talked for the whole walk to the academy.
"You know I don't really think that you give in all the time," Connie said resting her back against the bench
"Good because I don't" Guy said leaning against his forearms that were crossed on his knees.
"Guy! Don't you have something else to say" Connie asked wide-eyed
He turned his head and looked up at her. "Should I?" he smiled
She couldn't help but smile back but still hit his exposed back.
"Ow" he sat up straight "Fine I guess that I do agree with you a lot" he faced her "but that's only because you always make such good points"
"Don't try to kiss up to me," Connie said
"So now I'm not allowed to kiss you? Well that apology was totally useless" Guy teased
"I never said you couldn't kiss me I just said you aren't allowed to kiss up to me" she played along.
"Good" Guy whispered and he gave her a kiss that started off soft but then grew more passionate. Connie ran her hand threw his hair as Guy put his hand on the back of her neck then ran it down her back. Guy started to kiss her neck while Connie sighed and thought 'The best part of having a relationship with Guy is the makeup make out'
*~*~Back to Today~*~*
"What do you mean?" Julie asked
"She means that they used their mouths but didn't talk" Paige teased
"Shut up!" Connie grinned
"Well it's the truth isn't it?" Paige asked eyebrows raised
"You aren't getting out of it that easy" Connie said, "You came in late as well. Right?"
"Yes she did!" Julie said and turned to Paige "what precisely were you doing?"
"Not having a hot make out session if that's what you are asking" Paige laughed as she tied up her skate.
*~*~Flash back to yesterday~*~*
Paige was walking in between the seemingly mute Bash Brothers.
"Come on guys you two can't not talk forever so might as well grunt and slam your chests against each others and get it over with" Paige said. Neither of them responded
Paige rolled her eyes. "Ok how about we start off with why were you angry Portman?"
"Fulton was being an ass," Portman said
"I see and how does that make you feel?" Paige said in a mock therapist tone
"Very funny" Portman sneered
"Come on we were making such progress" Paige said "Now Reed why were you angry?"
"Portman was being an ass," Fulton said trying to hold back a smile
"Ok fellas I'm hearing a lot of blaming. Let's try 'I' statements only. 'I feel angry because', 'I feel sad because'" Paige said
"Paige you are so full of it" Portman laughed
"Oh that hurts" Paige smiled and walked away from the two.
"I have to go with you on this one" Fulton shook his head laughing
"Yeah dude" Portman offered his fist and Fulton hit it with his own.
"See my work here is done. Given there was no grunting or chests hitting against each other but I did get the fits" Paige said to herself as she caught up with Goldberg, Kenny, Dwayne and Russ
"You guys know I was just playin" Russ said
"I wasn't taking any sides I mean I don't even know why being called a Martha Stewart is an insult. What's a Martha Stewart?" Dwayne asked
Russ, Goldberg and Kenny just laughed when Paige told Dwayne "She's a well known celebrity. She cooks she knits, she does arts and crafts. Basically she does everything that a 'good mother' should do and she does it all on TV. She even has her own magazine. But at the moment she's on trail because something about stocks I don't know all of the details."
"So are we cool?" Russ asked
"We're cool" Goldberg nodded
"Defiantly" Kenny agreed
"It's so nice to see you boys getting along" Paige said "I was afraid that I was going to have to put you into separate corners or take away play time"
"Ha ha" Goldberg said sarcastically
"I thought it was funny too," Paige said
"You know I was being sarcastic right?" Goldberg asked
"Duh" Paige said seriously
Charlie walked up to Paige with Luis beside him
"Now do you believe that I can beat you up?" Charlie asked
"I believe that you can defiantly throw punches and cause damage," Luis said
"You see that's what I love about guys. Their make ups are short and to the point" Paige said
The Ducks reached the academy and Guy and Connie found themselves a bench and the rest went in. Just as they were about to go to their separate dorms Charlie pulled Paige aside.
"Hey do you want to go for a walk?" Charlie asked
"Um sure" Paige agreed. They went down the hall, down the stairs and reached a path.
"You were supposed to be spending time with Bombay and your parents right?" Charlie asked
"Right" Paige answered
"What happened?" he asked curiosity compelling him.
"Change in plans" she shrugged "What about you? Weren't you supposed to be getting big news?" she asked
"Don't try to change the subject," he said looking at her "what happened to change your plans?"
"Oh just another great conversation with the fam" Paige said with fake excitement not meeting his gaze
"And?" he pressed on
"I confronted them about talking with Bombay about me" she said, "They didn't handle it well I got grounded" this time she looked straight at him
"Huh? Doesn't getting grounded mean not going out of the house?" Charlie asked confused
"Yep"
"Then how-" Charlie began to ask
"I snuck out of the house ok? Why do you care?" she asked crossly
"I just wondered sorry," Charlie said slightly defeated
Paige so the hurt look on his face. "Oh no. . .Charlie I'm sorry" Paige said and ran her hand threw her long dark red hair "It's just been a long night"
"Want to tell me about it?" Charlie offered
"How about the point form version?" she asked
"I can handle that," Charlie agreed with a smile
"Confrontation with 'rents, grounded, sneaked out, Eden Hall, Bombay barging in on me with out my shirt on, threatening Luis and a big fight at Goldberg's" she listed
"Well you left out the thing with Fulton" Charlie pointed out
"Oh yeah" Paige half laughed half sighed
"What was that about?" Charlie asked worried about his buddy
"You are going to have to ask him about that one if you really need to know. But be warned you saw what happened to Portman when he asked" Paige said
"Point taken" Charlie smiled
"But there is a bright side" she said
"What's that?" Charlie asked
"If all of that didn't happen I probably wouldn't have ended up here talking with you," Paige said looking and smiled when she saw his grin then looked back to the pathway.
"I'm happy about that too," Charlie said still smiling
"Always a silver lining" she said "even if it is fucked up" she looked back at him this time she didn't look away and they locked eyes and stopped walking to face each other.
After a few ever lasting seconds Paige flicked her gaze to the sidewalk then back to him "Well it has been nice talking to you but I think we should get back to the dorms"
"That's right we've got to be at the rink tomorrow morning" Charlie said and they turned around and walked back to the dorms.
They reached room 301. Paige looked up at Charlie. She stared into his blue eyes while he stared into her green ones. He took a step closer to her and then another bringing them closer together at the third step they were inches away from each other. Paige moved slightly towards him then she realized what she was doing and swiftly turned around and put her head down as if focusing on opening the door with her key and when she did she quickly entered.
"See you later" she said from inside her dorm holding her door open.
"Yah bye" he said and she closed the door. Charlie looked at the brass numbers on the door then sighed shook his head and walked towards his own dorm.
Inside her dorm Paige swallowed, frowned and tried to mentally shake it off. Then Julie walked out of the bathroom and climbed into her bed.
"Where's Connie?" Julie asked
"Probably making out with Guy" Paige said as she walked over to the bathroom.
*~*~Back to Today~*~*
"Then what did you do?" Julie asked
"Just went for a walk" Paige said finishing tying up her skates "What about you Jules are you and Adam back to normal?"
"You guys were talking all the way back to Eden Hall" Connie pointed out
"Yeah. We're . . . ok" Julie nodded she should have known that asking what happened to them last night would lead to ask them asking what happened to her
*~*~Flash back to yesterday~*~*
Adam and Julie were in the lead of the group walking down the sidewalk.
"So what we were fighting about was pretty stupid" Adam said almost shamefully
"Yeah you can say that again, without actually saying it again. The last time I said that Averman repeated what he said word for word and it took like five minutes" Julie opened her eyes wide in the memory.
"So we're ok?" Adam asked
"Yep" Julie smiled
"You've got a great smile you know that?" Adam complemented
"Thanks Adam" Julie said
"Scooter is a real idiot letting you go" Adam said softly
"Thanks but I'm not so sure you're right" Julie said a fake smile plastered on her face
"Of course he is. You are great. You're smart, funny, talented, athletic and really beautiful" Adam said, it felt good to tell Julie what he really thought about her.
"Look Adam you don't have to say those things just to make me feel better" Julie sighed
"I'm not trying to make you feel better I believe those things Jules" Adam said looking at her but she didn't look back.
"Thanks. You know you're great too. You have all of those qualities too except for the beautiful thing. You know because you're a guy and so you'd be handsome and all. You wouldn't be handsome you are handsome. Right now you look great. I mean you've always looked great. Well actually I wouldn't know if that was the truth I mean I haven't always known you I only met you a few years ago. But you looked good then and was talented and athletic and all that" she stopped herself. She rambled whenever she was nervous and Adam complementing her made her nervous. "So Thanks and dido" she gave him a weak smile.
Adam gave her a slightly confused slightly amused look. She was very cute and a little strange he had never seen the nervous babbling side of her before.
"Thanks Jules" Adam smiled broadly trying not to laugh it was just so sweet how she went on.
"You're welcome" Julie mentally patted herself on the back. 'Short and Sweet' she thought Adam was still staring at her with not a strange but different look in his eye, one that she had never seen before. But he had been giving her lately with out her notice.
"Check it out it's one of those changing billboard ads. First it's a cell phone then it's deodorant. That makes me wonder how do they decided which ads go where?" Julie said 'Oh God here I go again. Someone stop me' she thought "Do the people at the ad company say yes I would like to go on a changing ad thing and the other ad I want is deodorant or are they surprised? Like are they driving along and see their ad and are all happy. You know 'hey there's my ad I did that!' and then are like 'what the hell I don't want to have deodorant advertised right after my ad I worked months on that I paid good money for that' or do they just not care at all? But I guess they wouldn't really care because on TV ads are right after each other all of they time so I guess it's kind of the same but different" she stopped and looked over and Adam
"I never really thought about it. But now that you point it out it's kind of interesting" Adam smiled and gave her that look again.
"Yeah" she squeaked and looked around and spotted a bowling alley "I used to bowl a lot. With my family, I never did it professionally on a team or anything like that. It was you know just a nice family outing. I used to have to bowl with the bowling ball between my legs because I couldn't do it properly but then I learned how and I never actually won. My dad always did because he used to be on the bowling team in high school. He used to always talk about his glory days back in high school and all" she swallowed. All of this talking was making her very thirsty.
"Bowling huh?" Adam asked
"Yep" Julie nodded
"Are you ok?" he asked
"Why wouldn't I be?" she asked back
"Well because after I complemented you started to talk about how handsome I was or am or wasn't, ads and bowling. Those topics aren't usually linked" Adam smiled
"Not usually no" Julie agreed
"Do you not take complements well? Or do you just don't believe me or were you trying to complement me back even though you had nothing to say?" Adam asked
"No I think that you are handsome or was when I met you and that you are very talented and obviously athletic. I do. Cross my heart" she blurted out.
"I love it when you squirm" Adam joked
Julie laughed nervously and was relieved when Averman walked up to them and started talking about how much it sucked that they had to go to the ice tomorrow when he thought he was going to have a blissful long weekend.
*~*~Back to Today~*~*
"That was an awfully long pause" Connie said "did anything else happen?"
"No" Julie said
When they realized that they were all ready they left the locker room and went out onto the ice.
Connie skated over to Guy happily, while Adam started to skate over to Julie but Portman go their first.
"Hey Cat Lady" Portman greeted
"Hi Portman" Julie greeted back
"So what's going on in the wonderful world of my favorite Goalie?" Portman asked
"Nothing much" Julie answered
"Come on a girl like you and nothing is happening?" Portman asked
"Not really" Julie laughed. 'When Portman complements me I don't babble but when Adam did I went on and on' she realized.
Then Bombay appeared and went down to the rink and blew his whistle and yelled "Bring it all in"
All of the Ducks skated over to him and he took attendance. Just as he was almost done Averman and Goldberg rushed down to the rink.
"Sorry Coach" Goldberg breathed, "Some one turned off my alarm" Goldberg shot a dirty look at Averman
"No I didn't you just didn't set it" Averman said
Bombay blew his whistle and the two went silent.
"This is exactly why I called you here" Bombay said
"Because Goldberg doesn't know how to work electronics?" Averman asked
"No, because you have all become very irresponsible" he looked at his team "and disrespectful. You are arriving to practice and classes late! You are having fights at restaurants! You think that my orders are optional! Don't get me wrong I can understand that sometimes you will be late and that you can't always follow my orders and that you will fight but now you are going completely out of control! And that is inexcusable!" Bombay yelled
The Ducks had shameful looks on their faces and most couldn't meet Bombay's icy gaze.
"You are supposed to be a team and you aren't acting like one" Bombay said lowering his voice. "I thought that the Ducks are supposed to fly together. I don't know what that means to you but what it means to me is: you look out for each other, take care of each other" he paused "on and off the ice" He stopped and looked at all of the Ducks.
"Now how many of you truly want the Ducks to fly together?!" Bombay asked his excitement rising.
All of the Ducks broke out into a cheer of agreement.
"I knew I could count on you!" Bombay yelled happily. After the Ducks had calmed down he started talking again. "Even though I am glad that you agree with me that doesn't mean that you are going to get out of punishment for what happened at Goldberg's."
This caused all of the Ducks to groan.
"What are you going to do to us?" Kenny asked
"Well a very small part of the punishment was making you wake up early when there isn't practice. The other much larger part of the punishment is you all have to help with Eden Hall Open House on this coming Wednesday night. That's when all of the parents come in to look at Eden Hall." Bombay said
This caused all of the Ducks to groan even louder.
"You are all going to report to the Dean's office at seven thirty the first day back," Bombay said, "Now that you know that enjoy the rest of your long weekend."
All of the Ducks moaned their way back to the changing rooms and then to their dorms.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
End of Chapter
I hope that you enjoyed that chapter! I know that it was pretty much just the Ducks making up but they need to. Anyways I hope to up date soon. Oh yah and Kudos to Arena (who isn't on fanfiction she is just a non computer related friend who enjoys making fun of me because of my story) because she told me what her private school used to do whenever they got into trouble too big for detention but too small to get suspended.
I hope to update soon! :)
Beaner: Your review was nice and long. And me too! I never read the comic books but I have seen the movies and watched the TV shows! I used to watch Xmen on TV all of the time when I was younger. Then it was taken off the air. :( I am interested about Octopus being the villain in the next Spiderman movie. Did you like Batman as well? Because that is one of my bigger obsessions I used to watch the show with Adam West as Batman, and the old cartoon. I still watch the movies I like Batman Returns the most with Michael Keaton as Batman. I think that the old cartoons (as in the ones that I used to watch so I don't actually know how old they are) of Spiderman, Xmen, and Batman are so much better then the new stuff that they have. Thank you for forgiving me about my lateness in updating. :) When you wrote 'Worth the wait' it made my day. No it made my week! Ok I'm done now.
anne918 (Gina): I know that making Julie and Adam fight would upset people. Hell it upset me but it's all part of the story! Do not worry they make up. Ok maybe that sort of ruined part of the chapter for you, but a very small part. I'm glad you thought that my chapter was funny! Aw! I feel so happy!!!
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Six AM
Julie, Connie and Paige walked into the girl's change room.
"It sucks that Bombay did this I wanted to stay at your house longer" Julie complained collapsing on a bench.
"I know" Connie agreed sitting beside her and pulling off her shoe.
"You guys didn't want to go back to her house because you didn't want to wake up early?" Paige asked taking off her own shoes.
"Yah it just makes sense" Connie said, "The rest of the Ducks were doing it too" she pulled off her other shoe.
"It was a while in till you came back into the dorms Cons." Julie looked at Connie "You too Paige" she quickly looked at Paige "but I'll question you later." She looked back at Connie "Did you and Guy makeup? " Julie asked
"Yeah" Connie smiled
"What did you guys say?" Julie asked a smile broke out on her weary face
"Not much" Connie smiled as she got her skates ready to be put on her feet.
*~*~Flash back to yesterday~*~*
Connie and Guy were sitting on a bench out side of Eden Hall the rest of the Ducks had already gone inside. They hadn't talked for the whole walk to the academy.
"You know I don't really think that you give in all the time," Connie said resting her back against the bench
"Good because I don't" Guy said leaning against his forearms that were crossed on his knees.
"Guy! Don't you have something else to say" Connie asked wide-eyed
He turned his head and looked up at her. "Should I?" he smiled
She couldn't help but smile back but still hit his exposed back.
"Ow" he sat up straight "Fine I guess that I do agree with you a lot" he faced her "but that's only because you always make such good points"
"Don't try to kiss up to me," Connie said
"So now I'm not allowed to kiss you? Well that apology was totally useless" Guy teased
"I never said you couldn't kiss me I just said you aren't allowed to kiss up to me" she played along.
"Good" Guy whispered and he gave her a kiss that started off soft but then grew more passionate. Connie ran her hand threw his hair as Guy put his hand on the back of her neck then ran it down her back. Guy started to kiss her neck while Connie sighed and thought 'The best part of having a relationship with Guy is the makeup make out'
*~*~Back to Today~*~*
"What do you mean?" Julie asked
"She means that they used their mouths but didn't talk" Paige teased
"Shut up!" Connie grinned
"Well it's the truth isn't it?" Paige asked eyebrows raised
"You aren't getting out of it that easy" Connie said, "You came in late as well. Right?"
"Yes she did!" Julie said and turned to Paige "what precisely were you doing?"
"Not having a hot make out session if that's what you are asking" Paige laughed as she tied up her skate.
*~*~Flash back to yesterday~*~*
Paige was walking in between the seemingly mute Bash Brothers.
"Come on guys you two can't not talk forever so might as well grunt and slam your chests against each others and get it over with" Paige said. Neither of them responded
Paige rolled her eyes. "Ok how about we start off with why were you angry Portman?"
"Fulton was being an ass," Portman said
"I see and how does that make you feel?" Paige said in a mock therapist tone
"Very funny" Portman sneered
"Come on we were making such progress" Paige said "Now Reed why were you angry?"
"Portman was being an ass," Fulton said trying to hold back a smile
"Ok fellas I'm hearing a lot of blaming. Let's try 'I' statements only. 'I feel angry because', 'I feel sad because'" Paige said
"Paige you are so full of it" Portman laughed
"Oh that hurts" Paige smiled and walked away from the two.
"I have to go with you on this one" Fulton shook his head laughing
"Yeah dude" Portman offered his fist and Fulton hit it with his own.
"See my work here is done. Given there was no grunting or chests hitting against each other but I did get the fits" Paige said to herself as she caught up with Goldberg, Kenny, Dwayne and Russ
"You guys know I was just playin" Russ said
"I wasn't taking any sides I mean I don't even know why being called a Martha Stewart is an insult. What's a Martha Stewart?" Dwayne asked
Russ, Goldberg and Kenny just laughed when Paige told Dwayne "She's a well known celebrity. She cooks she knits, she does arts and crafts. Basically she does everything that a 'good mother' should do and she does it all on TV. She even has her own magazine. But at the moment she's on trail because something about stocks I don't know all of the details."
"So are we cool?" Russ asked
"We're cool" Goldberg nodded
"Defiantly" Kenny agreed
"It's so nice to see you boys getting along" Paige said "I was afraid that I was going to have to put you into separate corners or take away play time"
"Ha ha" Goldberg said sarcastically
"I thought it was funny too," Paige said
"You know I was being sarcastic right?" Goldberg asked
"Duh" Paige said seriously
Charlie walked up to Paige with Luis beside him
"Now do you believe that I can beat you up?" Charlie asked
"I believe that you can defiantly throw punches and cause damage," Luis said
"You see that's what I love about guys. Their make ups are short and to the point" Paige said
The Ducks reached the academy and Guy and Connie found themselves a bench and the rest went in. Just as they were about to go to their separate dorms Charlie pulled Paige aside.
"Hey do you want to go for a walk?" Charlie asked
"Um sure" Paige agreed. They went down the hall, down the stairs and reached a path.
"You were supposed to be spending time with Bombay and your parents right?" Charlie asked
"Right" Paige answered
"What happened?" he asked curiosity compelling him.
"Change in plans" she shrugged "What about you? Weren't you supposed to be getting big news?" she asked
"Don't try to change the subject," he said looking at her "what happened to change your plans?"
"Oh just another great conversation with the fam" Paige said with fake excitement not meeting his gaze
"And?" he pressed on
"I confronted them about talking with Bombay about me" she said, "They didn't handle it well I got grounded" this time she looked straight at him
"Huh? Doesn't getting grounded mean not going out of the house?" Charlie asked confused
"Yep"
"Then how-" Charlie began to ask
"I snuck out of the house ok? Why do you care?" she asked crossly
"I just wondered sorry," Charlie said slightly defeated
Paige so the hurt look on his face. "Oh no. . .Charlie I'm sorry" Paige said and ran her hand threw her long dark red hair "It's just been a long night"
"Want to tell me about it?" Charlie offered
"How about the point form version?" she asked
"I can handle that," Charlie agreed with a smile
"Confrontation with 'rents, grounded, sneaked out, Eden Hall, Bombay barging in on me with out my shirt on, threatening Luis and a big fight at Goldberg's" she listed
"Well you left out the thing with Fulton" Charlie pointed out
"Oh yeah" Paige half laughed half sighed
"What was that about?" Charlie asked worried about his buddy
"You are going to have to ask him about that one if you really need to know. But be warned you saw what happened to Portman when he asked" Paige said
"Point taken" Charlie smiled
"But there is a bright side" she said
"What's that?" Charlie asked
"If all of that didn't happen I probably wouldn't have ended up here talking with you," Paige said looking and smiled when she saw his grin then looked back to the pathway.
"I'm happy about that too," Charlie said still smiling
"Always a silver lining" she said "even if it is fucked up" she looked back at him this time she didn't look away and they locked eyes and stopped walking to face each other.
After a few ever lasting seconds Paige flicked her gaze to the sidewalk then back to him "Well it has been nice talking to you but I think we should get back to the dorms"
"That's right we've got to be at the rink tomorrow morning" Charlie said and they turned around and walked back to the dorms.
They reached room 301. Paige looked up at Charlie. She stared into his blue eyes while he stared into her green ones. He took a step closer to her and then another bringing them closer together at the third step they were inches away from each other. Paige moved slightly towards him then she realized what she was doing and swiftly turned around and put her head down as if focusing on opening the door with her key and when she did she quickly entered.
"See you later" she said from inside her dorm holding her door open.
"Yah bye" he said and she closed the door. Charlie looked at the brass numbers on the door then sighed shook his head and walked towards his own dorm.
Inside her dorm Paige swallowed, frowned and tried to mentally shake it off. Then Julie walked out of the bathroom and climbed into her bed.
"Where's Connie?" Julie asked
"Probably making out with Guy" Paige said as she walked over to the bathroom.
*~*~Back to Today~*~*
"Then what did you do?" Julie asked
"Just went for a walk" Paige said finishing tying up her skates "What about you Jules are you and Adam back to normal?"
"You guys were talking all the way back to Eden Hall" Connie pointed out
"Yeah. We're . . . ok" Julie nodded she should have known that asking what happened to them last night would lead to ask them asking what happened to her
*~*~Flash back to yesterday~*~*
Adam and Julie were in the lead of the group walking down the sidewalk.
"So what we were fighting about was pretty stupid" Adam said almost shamefully
"Yeah you can say that again, without actually saying it again. The last time I said that Averman repeated what he said word for word and it took like five minutes" Julie opened her eyes wide in the memory.
"So we're ok?" Adam asked
"Yep" Julie smiled
"You've got a great smile you know that?" Adam complemented
"Thanks Adam" Julie said
"Scooter is a real idiot letting you go" Adam said softly
"Thanks but I'm not so sure you're right" Julie said a fake smile plastered on her face
"Of course he is. You are great. You're smart, funny, talented, athletic and really beautiful" Adam said, it felt good to tell Julie what he really thought about her.
"Look Adam you don't have to say those things just to make me feel better" Julie sighed
"I'm not trying to make you feel better I believe those things Jules" Adam said looking at her but she didn't look back.
"Thanks. You know you're great too. You have all of those qualities too except for the beautiful thing. You know because you're a guy and so you'd be handsome and all. You wouldn't be handsome you are handsome. Right now you look great. I mean you've always looked great. Well actually I wouldn't know if that was the truth I mean I haven't always known you I only met you a few years ago. But you looked good then and was talented and athletic and all that" she stopped herself. She rambled whenever she was nervous and Adam complementing her made her nervous. "So Thanks and dido" she gave him a weak smile.
Adam gave her a slightly confused slightly amused look. She was very cute and a little strange he had never seen the nervous babbling side of her before.
"Thanks Jules" Adam smiled broadly trying not to laugh it was just so sweet how she went on.
"You're welcome" Julie mentally patted herself on the back. 'Short and Sweet' she thought Adam was still staring at her with not a strange but different look in his eye, one that she had never seen before. But he had been giving her lately with out her notice.
"Check it out it's one of those changing billboard ads. First it's a cell phone then it's deodorant. That makes me wonder how do they decided which ads go where?" Julie said 'Oh God here I go again. Someone stop me' she thought "Do the people at the ad company say yes I would like to go on a changing ad thing and the other ad I want is deodorant or are they surprised? Like are they driving along and see their ad and are all happy. You know 'hey there's my ad I did that!' and then are like 'what the hell I don't want to have deodorant advertised right after my ad I worked months on that I paid good money for that' or do they just not care at all? But I guess they wouldn't really care because on TV ads are right after each other all of they time so I guess it's kind of the same but different" she stopped and looked over and Adam
"I never really thought about it. But now that you point it out it's kind of interesting" Adam smiled and gave her that look again.
"Yeah" she squeaked and looked around and spotted a bowling alley "I used to bowl a lot. With my family, I never did it professionally on a team or anything like that. It was you know just a nice family outing. I used to have to bowl with the bowling ball between my legs because I couldn't do it properly but then I learned how and I never actually won. My dad always did because he used to be on the bowling team in high school. He used to always talk about his glory days back in high school and all" she swallowed. All of this talking was making her very thirsty.
"Bowling huh?" Adam asked
"Yep" Julie nodded
"Are you ok?" he asked
"Why wouldn't I be?" she asked back
"Well because after I complemented you started to talk about how handsome I was or am or wasn't, ads and bowling. Those topics aren't usually linked" Adam smiled
"Not usually no" Julie agreed
"Do you not take complements well? Or do you just don't believe me or were you trying to complement me back even though you had nothing to say?" Adam asked
"No I think that you are handsome or was when I met you and that you are very talented and obviously athletic. I do. Cross my heart" she blurted out.
"I love it when you squirm" Adam joked
Julie laughed nervously and was relieved when Averman walked up to them and started talking about how much it sucked that they had to go to the ice tomorrow when he thought he was going to have a blissful long weekend.
*~*~Back to Today~*~*
"That was an awfully long pause" Connie said "did anything else happen?"
"No" Julie said
When they realized that they were all ready they left the locker room and went out onto the ice.
Connie skated over to Guy happily, while Adam started to skate over to Julie but Portman go their first.
"Hey Cat Lady" Portman greeted
"Hi Portman" Julie greeted back
"So what's going on in the wonderful world of my favorite Goalie?" Portman asked
"Nothing much" Julie answered
"Come on a girl like you and nothing is happening?" Portman asked
"Not really" Julie laughed. 'When Portman complements me I don't babble but when Adam did I went on and on' she realized.
Then Bombay appeared and went down to the rink and blew his whistle and yelled "Bring it all in"
All of the Ducks skated over to him and he took attendance. Just as he was almost done Averman and Goldberg rushed down to the rink.
"Sorry Coach" Goldberg breathed, "Some one turned off my alarm" Goldberg shot a dirty look at Averman
"No I didn't you just didn't set it" Averman said
Bombay blew his whistle and the two went silent.
"This is exactly why I called you here" Bombay said
"Because Goldberg doesn't know how to work electronics?" Averman asked
"No, because you have all become very irresponsible" he looked at his team "and disrespectful. You are arriving to practice and classes late! You are having fights at restaurants! You think that my orders are optional! Don't get me wrong I can understand that sometimes you will be late and that you can't always follow my orders and that you will fight but now you are going completely out of control! And that is inexcusable!" Bombay yelled
The Ducks had shameful looks on their faces and most couldn't meet Bombay's icy gaze.
"You are supposed to be a team and you aren't acting like one" Bombay said lowering his voice. "I thought that the Ducks are supposed to fly together. I don't know what that means to you but what it means to me is: you look out for each other, take care of each other" he paused "on and off the ice" He stopped and looked at all of the Ducks.
"Now how many of you truly want the Ducks to fly together?!" Bombay asked his excitement rising.
All of the Ducks broke out into a cheer of agreement.
"I knew I could count on you!" Bombay yelled happily. After the Ducks had calmed down he started talking again. "Even though I am glad that you agree with me that doesn't mean that you are going to get out of punishment for what happened at Goldberg's."
This caused all of the Ducks to groan.
"What are you going to do to us?" Kenny asked
"Well a very small part of the punishment was making you wake up early when there isn't practice. The other much larger part of the punishment is you all have to help with Eden Hall Open House on this coming Wednesday night. That's when all of the parents come in to look at Eden Hall." Bombay said
This caused all of the Ducks to groan even louder.
"You are all going to report to the Dean's office at seven thirty the first day back," Bombay said, "Now that you know that enjoy the rest of your long weekend."
All of the Ducks moaned their way back to the changing rooms and then to their dorms.
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End of Chapter
I hope that you enjoyed that chapter! I know that it was pretty much just the Ducks making up but they need to. Anyways I hope to up date soon. Oh yah and Kudos to Arena (who isn't on fanfiction she is just a non computer related friend who enjoys making fun of me because of my story) because she told me what her private school used to do whenever they got into trouble too big for detention but too small to get suspended.
I hope to update soon! :)