Note: Okay Anne918 Banksiesbabe99 and crazy2nc128 here is the chapter
you've both say you've been waiting for -Adam's reaction to the his new
roommate. Hope you enjoy it. Banksiesbabe99 thank you for letting me off
over the Julie/Scooter pairing, lol. C-Chan I'm glad to see you're still
enjoying the story. I guess if I keep putting hooking Charlie up with
someone I'll at least keep you reading (I'll try not to leave you hanging
too long).
Charlie's POV:
Coach Bombay parked as close to the dorm building as he could. Adam, Guy and I got out of the van, grabbed Adam's stuff and headed toward the dorm building. As soon as we walked inside the front door I could hear footsteps going quickly up the steps. 'Probably the look out' I thought to myself as the three of us headed down the hall to the steps.
Adam led the way up the steps. The dorm was surprisingly quiet except for the sound of rap music which we could hear as soon as we got to the top of the steps. There was nobody in sight. I figured they were probably all hiding in someone's room.
The door to Adam's room was open and you could see that it was red light that lit up the room which I found eerie even though I knew about it. Adam slowly approached his room with Guy and me behind him.
Adam walked a couple of steps into the room and then stopped as he took in the room. As he looked around the room I could see the color go out of his face and he let the bag he was carrying drop to the floor. I walked past him and put the bag I was carrying on Adam's bed.
"Isn't it great to be back," I told Adam like there was nothing unusual about the room.
"Um yeah I guess," Adam said his eyes fixed on the bloody skull lamp. I reached over to turn the rap music off. "What are you doing?" Adam said rushing over to stop me.
"Just turning off the music," I said innocently.
"Are you serious? This guy might get mad at us for touching his stuff," Adam said. It took all I had not to start laughing. Across the hall I could see Jesse and some of the other Ducks looking through the cracked door of Luis and Ken's room.
"Relax," I told him easily as I turned off the radio.
"Yeah, you can say that. You don't have to share a room with him."
"Charlie's right Adam. The guy can't be all that bad," Guy said walking over to Jesse's bed and picking up the voodoo doll. Adam just stared at him as Guy tossed the voodoo doll toward him. Adam didn't even try to catch it he just took a couple steps backwards and let it fall too the floor. As he stared down at the floor at it though he noticed the little paper Jesse had pinned to it which read - 'Hi Cake-eater'.
"What in the world," Adam said kneeling down and picking up the voodoo doll. Jesse chose that moment to come into the room. He put his hand on Adam's shoulder and said, "hi roommate."
"Aaahhhh," Adam yelled jumping to his feet and backing away from Jesse. I couldn't keep from laughing anymore. On the other side of the room Guy started laughing to as did Luis, Averman, Portman, Ken and Fulton in the hallway. Jesse was just standing there grinning. "Jesse," Adam finally said sounding as if he didn't really believe it.
"What do you think of the decor," Jesse said. "I had Fulton and Portman help me with the decorating," Jesse said as if he really planned on leaving the room the way it was.
"Um, It's different," Adam said diplomatically as the others crowded into the room. We all knew he hated it but I don't think he knew whether or not Jesse was serious about it or not.
"I'm joking," Jesse told him. "We'll change it back. I just wanted to have a little fun. You haven't changed at all. Your still the same - always trying to please those around you."
Adam just shrugged.
"Actually, can I have the lamp back tonight," Portman said. "I'm not sure I trust it in the same room as Adam. He might break it in the dark thinking someones in the room."
Adam threw the voodoo doll he was still holding at him and it hit Portman in the shoulder.
"What are you doing here?" Adam asked. "And why didn't anyone tell me you were here?"
"We wanted to surprise you," Jesse said answering his second question first. "As to why I'm here, Eden Hall offered me a basketball scholarship if I made the team. My Dad still thought it was a good opportunity for me so I decided to humor him and give the place a chance."
"Are you going to play hockey in the fall?" Adam asked.
"Let's see if I make it through the spring semester first," Jesse said.
"Ah, you're a Duck," I told him. "The Ducks are going to leave their mark on this school by the time we graduate."
Alex's POV:
Shane, Adam and I went together to the opening basket ball game for Eden Hall on Tuesday night. Both JV and Varsity were playing the Oak Crest Cardinals. We found seats near the front on home side.
"Mind if we join you?" I heard a voice ask behind me.
The three us turned around to find Guy and Charlie standing behind us.
"Not at all," I told them patting the empty bench beside me. Charlie sat down next to me and Guy sat on the other side of them.
"I thought you were going to sit with the others?" Adam said. "Did they decide not to come?"
"Yeah, they came," Charlie said. "They're sitting near the back."
"With Connie and her date," Guy said.
"I'm sorry Guy," I told him. "We didn't mean to cause problems between the two of you."
"There's no need to apologize," Guy told me. "You two just made the decisions you thought were best for the team. Its not you fault that she can't handle it."
"So are the two of you actually over?" Adam asked.
"Yeah," Guy told him. "I'm tired of trying to make it work. We always seem to be fighting over something. We figured it would be better to call it quits while there is still a chance of us at least staying friends but still, I'm not ready to see her out with someone else yet."
The JV team took the team at that time which ended our conversation. The game didn't start out very well. In the first five minutes the other team had scored four points. It looked as if the Cardinals were going to make short work of our JV team. That didn't keep us from cheering them on though.
"Well, there's the problem between Jesse and Russ," I heard Charlie say softly in the middle of the first quarter. We all looked at him and he nodded toward where the JV cheerleaders were .
Russ and Dwayne were sitting directly behind the cheer leaders. Dwayne was actually watching the game. Russ on the other hand was watching the cheerleaders, or to be more specific a certain cheerleader. I recognized the girl. Her name was Alisha Brown and he was in most of my classes. She was also one of the few black girls at Eden Hall.
Russ wasn't just watching her though he was flirting with her. If looks could kill though he wouldn't be standing. Jesse was on the sidelines at that point and instead of watching the game he was watching what was going between Russ and Alisha and he didn't look to happy about it. For her part though Alisha was doing her best to ignore Russ. I could empathize with her. I knew that feeling. In fact, Portman was the reason I had asked Adam if we could not sit with the rest of his friends.
"You know, girls are just causing all kinds of problems here lately," Charlie commented beside me.
"Thanks a lot," I told him hitting him in the arm.
"Sorry," Charlie said. "Besides you're not just a girl you're Alex," he said with a smile.
"Nice try Conway," Shane said from the other side of Adam. The kids around us started cheering which took our attention back to the game. The Warriors had just scored their first basket bringing the score to eight to two still in favor of the Cardinals.
It didn't take the Warriors too long after that to score another basket after the first one. In fact, the second basket was made by Jesse and we cheered like crazy for him. It didn't take me long to realize that Alisha was watching Jesse when he was out on the court. It didn't slip Russ' attention either as he tried even harder to get her attention. The Warriors gave us much more to cheer for during the rest of the game. At the end of the game the score was twenty-four to eighteen in favor of our team.
We stayed for the Varsity game which followed. Jesse even ended up coming up and joining us at the beginning of the second period after he had showered and gotten changed. After the Varsity lost to the Cardinals we met up with the rest of the Ducks and walked back to their dorm together. I said good-bye to them outside and Shane and I headed over to our dorm building.
"Bye Angel," I heard Portman say to me as I started leaving.
"Get a life," I told him over my shoulder and continued walking.
Charlie's POV:
"She's warming up to me," Portman said as he watched Alex walk away with Shane.
"You wish," Adam said beside me.
"What's that suppose to mean rich boy," Portman said turning to face Adam.
"What do think," Adam told him. "She would never in a million years go out with you. You're so not her type."
"Oh like you know anything about women," Portman said. "If you did maybe you would have a girlfriend."
"Whatever," Adam told him. We were all just standing around watching in shock. This was so unlike Adam.
"Keep watching, rich boy and maybe you'll learn something when I finally win her over," Portman told him.
"I won't because its never going to happen," Adam said.
"Oh yeah. That babe is madly in love with me. She's just playing hard to get. Her type always does," Portman said tauntingly.
That comment made even me mad. I was about to say something to Portman when Adam did something that took us all totally by surprise. Before anyone had any time to react, Adam punched Portman in the jaw. Luckily, for Adam the punch took Portman completely by surprise too. By the time he had gotten over his shock and was ready to retaliate Adam was already through the front door and in the building. Portman started going after him but Fulton stopped him.
"Let it go," Fulton told him stepping in front of Portman and keeping him from going into the building. The rest of us were still in shock over actually seeing Adam punch someone not to mention punching someone as big a Portman. "That last comment was way out of line anyway," Fulton told him.
"Get out of my way," Portman said trying to get past Fulton. I saw Guy and Averman who were standing the closest to Portman back up a couple of steps. I couldn't say I blamed him.
"Come on, lets go for a walk," Fulton said finally getting Portman to turn around and head away from the building.
We watched the two bash brothers walk off into the dark with Portman muttering how he was going to get Adam back. I could hear the others start whispering among themselves as I headed toward the dorm building. I wanted to go talk to Adam and see if he was okay.
Charlie's POV:
Coach Bombay parked as close to the dorm building as he could. Adam, Guy and I got out of the van, grabbed Adam's stuff and headed toward the dorm building. As soon as we walked inside the front door I could hear footsteps going quickly up the steps. 'Probably the look out' I thought to myself as the three of us headed down the hall to the steps.
Adam led the way up the steps. The dorm was surprisingly quiet except for the sound of rap music which we could hear as soon as we got to the top of the steps. There was nobody in sight. I figured they were probably all hiding in someone's room.
The door to Adam's room was open and you could see that it was red light that lit up the room which I found eerie even though I knew about it. Adam slowly approached his room with Guy and me behind him.
Adam walked a couple of steps into the room and then stopped as he took in the room. As he looked around the room I could see the color go out of his face and he let the bag he was carrying drop to the floor. I walked past him and put the bag I was carrying on Adam's bed.
"Isn't it great to be back," I told Adam like there was nothing unusual about the room.
"Um yeah I guess," Adam said his eyes fixed on the bloody skull lamp. I reached over to turn the rap music off. "What are you doing?" Adam said rushing over to stop me.
"Just turning off the music," I said innocently.
"Are you serious? This guy might get mad at us for touching his stuff," Adam said. It took all I had not to start laughing. Across the hall I could see Jesse and some of the other Ducks looking through the cracked door of Luis and Ken's room.
"Relax," I told him easily as I turned off the radio.
"Yeah, you can say that. You don't have to share a room with him."
"Charlie's right Adam. The guy can't be all that bad," Guy said walking over to Jesse's bed and picking up the voodoo doll. Adam just stared at him as Guy tossed the voodoo doll toward him. Adam didn't even try to catch it he just took a couple steps backwards and let it fall too the floor. As he stared down at the floor at it though he noticed the little paper Jesse had pinned to it which read - 'Hi Cake-eater'.
"What in the world," Adam said kneeling down and picking up the voodoo doll. Jesse chose that moment to come into the room. He put his hand on Adam's shoulder and said, "hi roommate."
"Aaahhhh," Adam yelled jumping to his feet and backing away from Jesse. I couldn't keep from laughing anymore. On the other side of the room Guy started laughing to as did Luis, Averman, Portman, Ken and Fulton in the hallway. Jesse was just standing there grinning. "Jesse," Adam finally said sounding as if he didn't really believe it.
"What do you think of the decor," Jesse said. "I had Fulton and Portman help me with the decorating," Jesse said as if he really planned on leaving the room the way it was.
"Um, It's different," Adam said diplomatically as the others crowded into the room. We all knew he hated it but I don't think he knew whether or not Jesse was serious about it or not.
"I'm joking," Jesse told him. "We'll change it back. I just wanted to have a little fun. You haven't changed at all. Your still the same - always trying to please those around you."
Adam just shrugged.
"Actually, can I have the lamp back tonight," Portman said. "I'm not sure I trust it in the same room as Adam. He might break it in the dark thinking someones in the room."
Adam threw the voodoo doll he was still holding at him and it hit Portman in the shoulder.
"What are you doing here?" Adam asked. "And why didn't anyone tell me you were here?"
"We wanted to surprise you," Jesse said answering his second question first. "As to why I'm here, Eden Hall offered me a basketball scholarship if I made the team. My Dad still thought it was a good opportunity for me so I decided to humor him and give the place a chance."
"Are you going to play hockey in the fall?" Adam asked.
"Let's see if I make it through the spring semester first," Jesse said.
"Ah, you're a Duck," I told him. "The Ducks are going to leave their mark on this school by the time we graduate."
Alex's POV:
Shane, Adam and I went together to the opening basket ball game for Eden Hall on Tuesday night. Both JV and Varsity were playing the Oak Crest Cardinals. We found seats near the front on home side.
"Mind if we join you?" I heard a voice ask behind me.
The three us turned around to find Guy and Charlie standing behind us.
"Not at all," I told them patting the empty bench beside me. Charlie sat down next to me and Guy sat on the other side of them.
"I thought you were going to sit with the others?" Adam said. "Did they decide not to come?"
"Yeah, they came," Charlie said. "They're sitting near the back."
"With Connie and her date," Guy said.
"I'm sorry Guy," I told him. "We didn't mean to cause problems between the two of you."
"There's no need to apologize," Guy told me. "You two just made the decisions you thought were best for the team. Its not you fault that she can't handle it."
"So are the two of you actually over?" Adam asked.
"Yeah," Guy told him. "I'm tired of trying to make it work. We always seem to be fighting over something. We figured it would be better to call it quits while there is still a chance of us at least staying friends but still, I'm not ready to see her out with someone else yet."
The JV team took the team at that time which ended our conversation. The game didn't start out very well. In the first five minutes the other team had scored four points. It looked as if the Cardinals were going to make short work of our JV team. That didn't keep us from cheering them on though.
"Well, there's the problem between Jesse and Russ," I heard Charlie say softly in the middle of the first quarter. We all looked at him and he nodded toward where the JV cheerleaders were .
Russ and Dwayne were sitting directly behind the cheer leaders. Dwayne was actually watching the game. Russ on the other hand was watching the cheerleaders, or to be more specific a certain cheerleader. I recognized the girl. Her name was Alisha Brown and he was in most of my classes. She was also one of the few black girls at Eden Hall.
Russ wasn't just watching her though he was flirting with her. If looks could kill though he wouldn't be standing. Jesse was on the sidelines at that point and instead of watching the game he was watching what was going between Russ and Alisha and he didn't look to happy about it. For her part though Alisha was doing her best to ignore Russ. I could empathize with her. I knew that feeling. In fact, Portman was the reason I had asked Adam if we could not sit with the rest of his friends.
"You know, girls are just causing all kinds of problems here lately," Charlie commented beside me.
"Thanks a lot," I told him hitting him in the arm.
"Sorry," Charlie said. "Besides you're not just a girl you're Alex," he said with a smile.
"Nice try Conway," Shane said from the other side of Adam. The kids around us started cheering which took our attention back to the game. The Warriors had just scored their first basket bringing the score to eight to two still in favor of the Cardinals.
It didn't take the Warriors too long after that to score another basket after the first one. In fact, the second basket was made by Jesse and we cheered like crazy for him. It didn't take me long to realize that Alisha was watching Jesse when he was out on the court. It didn't slip Russ' attention either as he tried even harder to get her attention. The Warriors gave us much more to cheer for during the rest of the game. At the end of the game the score was twenty-four to eighteen in favor of our team.
We stayed for the Varsity game which followed. Jesse even ended up coming up and joining us at the beginning of the second period after he had showered and gotten changed. After the Varsity lost to the Cardinals we met up with the rest of the Ducks and walked back to their dorm together. I said good-bye to them outside and Shane and I headed over to our dorm building.
"Bye Angel," I heard Portman say to me as I started leaving.
"Get a life," I told him over my shoulder and continued walking.
Charlie's POV:
"She's warming up to me," Portman said as he watched Alex walk away with Shane.
"You wish," Adam said beside me.
"What's that suppose to mean rich boy," Portman said turning to face Adam.
"What do think," Adam told him. "She would never in a million years go out with you. You're so not her type."
"Oh like you know anything about women," Portman said. "If you did maybe you would have a girlfriend."
"Whatever," Adam told him. We were all just standing around watching in shock. This was so unlike Adam.
"Keep watching, rich boy and maybe you'll learn something when I finally win her over," Portman told him.
"I won't because its never going to happen," Adam said.
"Oh yeah. That babe is madly in love with me. She's just playing hard to get. Her type always does," Portman said tauntingly.
That comment made even me mad. I was about to say something to Portman when Adam did something that took us all totally by surprise. Before anyone had any time to react, Adam punched Portman in the jaw. Luckily, for Adam the punch took Portman completely by surprise too. By the time he had gotten over his shock and was ready to retaliate Adam was already through the front door and in the building. Portman started going after him but Fulton stopped him.
"Let it go," Fulton told him stepping in front of Portman and keeping him from going into the building. The rest of us were still in shock over actually seeing Adam punch someone not to mention punching someone as big a Portman. "That last comment was way out of line anyway," Fulton told him.
"Get out of my way," Portman said trying to get past Fulton. I saw Guy and Averman who were standing the closest to Portman back up a couple of steps. I couldn't say I blamed him.
"Come on, lets go for a walk," Fulton said finally getting Portman to turn around and head away from the building.
We watched the two bash brothers walk off into the dark with Portman muttering how he was going to get Adam back. I could hear the others start whispering among themselves as I headed toward the dorm building. I wanted to go talk to Adam and see if he was okay.