The Best That You Can Be

PG-13 (just in case)

DISCLAIMER- I don't own the Mighty Ducks or the characters except for my own that I made up. If I did then well I would be rich and doing other stuff.

Chapter 12-

"I can not believe how much fun the dance was." Connie said as she entered her room with a tray full of plates and glasses.

"I know, it was awesome. The music was really good too." Julie added as she put down the bags of chips and cookies she was caring onto Connie's desk.

"Are you sure our flowers will be ok in the fridge?" Karen asked for the third time as she put the soda on Connie's dresser.

"Karen, for the last time they will be fine." Alice said as she looked up from the photo album she was looking at. She stayed in Connie's room while the other three girls went down to the kitchen to get snacks for the slumber party they were having after the Homecoming Dance.

"Hey did Caitlin get lost or something?" Karen asked as she sat down on the bed and began looking at the photos in the album with Alice.

"No I did not get lost." Cate said as she walked into the room with Julie laptop and a bunch of cords sticking out of it. "Sorry Jules, I couldn't get them out. But I did get all the pictures from the memory chip and the ones that Adam's mom sent."

"Yes, pictures." Connie said.

Julie grabbed her laptop and took the cords out and plugged the AC adaptor into the wall. The five girls all clad in pajamas gathered around as Cate took control of the laptop and found the slideshow program so that they could see all the pictures from the Homecoming Dance.

"Hey those are the JV/Varsity game." Alice said as the first few pictures went by.

"Yeah- that's us warming up." Connie said as a picture of Julie in the goal and Cate and Connie shooting at her went by.

Many pictures of the game went by- the team warming up, the tribute to Hans, the team during the game. When Goldberg shot the game winning goal, the celebration and a picture of the Ducks under the new Eden Hall Banner.

Then came the pictures that the Mom's took of the girls getting ready- curlers in their hair, Connie and Julie trying to put makeup on Cate, Alice threatening to tie her down if she did not stop squirming, the girls in their dresses- Alice in navy blue, Karen in red, Julie in blue, Connie in gold and Cate in black and white.

The pictures that Adam's mom sent were the group pictures of the team, the boys, the three girls, then the five girls, the five girls and their dates, than a few funny pictures of the hockey team then finally a few funny pictures of the team with Alice and Karen.

"Man those are great. I want copies of all of those." Cate said.

"Yeah, I'll burn them when we get back to school." Connie said.

"So now that we looked at the homecoming pictures, now what?" Julie asked as she saved the program and made up a file name for later.

"Well you lady ducks can tell us a bit of the Duck history since you have two ladies here who basically know only the antics that you have been up to since school started." Alice said.

The three girls looked at each other and shrugged. "Where should we start?" Connie asked.

"Well how about here" Karen said as she handed over the photo albums that said Ducks on them.

Cate grinned and grabbed vol. 1 " well here is the little story and pictures to go with it of the Ducks from our view point- anything else has been told to us from the boys."

The first photo album held pictures of the District 5 team before Coach Bombay became their coach. Then moved to the team becoming the Ducks that covered most of their sixth grade year. The second photo album held the photos from their first year of junior high and them defending their title for the pee-wees. The third album was of the summer of their eight-grade year when they were recruited to be team USA. The fourth album was the summer of the freshman year and only a few photos of the new school year had been added.

"So most of you guys have know each other for a long time" Alice said as she stacked the albums onto the nightstand.

"Yeah, Averman, Charlie, Guy, Connie and I have known each other since we were like 5 years old." Cate said.

"Jessie and his brother came around 1st grade as did Goldberg, Peter, Karp, Tammy and Tommy- but they didn't join the team until 6th grade as did Fulton." Connie added.

"Then Adam joined the team- but he didn't go to the same school as us until junior high." Cate added.

"Then the summer of 8th grade Portman, Luis, Kenny, Russ and I joined the team." Julie said with a smile.

"And finally you have all the USA Ducks at the same school. The End." Cate said with a bow.

Connie and Alice hit Cate with pillows and Julie tried not to spill soda all over Connie's bed.

"Hey we need to get to sleep. Don't you guys have to meet up with your parents tomorrow for breakfast or something?" Karen stated.

"Oh Brunch at Adam's." Connie said. The next morning all the Ducks and their parents were meeting up at Adam's house for a brunch before the Tyler's, the Wu's, the Gaffney's, the Mendoza's and the Portman's left to go back home and end Homecoming weekend.

"Don't worry we have something similar with our parents tomorrow before they go back to Colorado." Karen said as the girls cleaned up the mess they made.

Cate and Connie took all the dishes and food back to the kitchen while Julie, Karen and Alice got the air mattress pumped up and sleeping arrangements sorted out.

15 minutes later all five girls were fast asleep thinking about the dance and the fun that they had.

TBC..

I am so sorry it has taken me soooo long to update- real life threw a curve ball and other pressing matter came up: rain, flooding, family crisis.

I promise that I will be better at updating this story and any others that I have written.

hope every one is having a great start to their new year