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Chapter Six

"Fights"

It was Saturday evening and Connie was in the process of getting ready for Adam's parents party. She had decided to just go ahead and wear her pink prom dress since it was the nicest dress she had and she certainly couldn't afford another one. Connie could hardly believe it had been a week since the whole John Right incident. It had also almost been a week since her and Guy had called it quits. She wasn't too bothered by it anymore either. She was sad about the note on which they'd ended things but she wasn't sorry that she'd ended things. In all honesty, she probably should of done it sooner.

Connie was just trying to fasten her halter tie when a knock sounded at the door.

"Come in!" She called

Charlie entered the door and immediately covered his eyes. "Oh, sorry."

Connie laughed. "It's ok, Charlie, I'm decent, I just can't get this fastened. Can you help me?"

Charlie came towards her and shakily fastened the tie. He didn't know why he was acting this way. Then she turned around and all he could do was stare.

"Wow, Connie, You look… You look beautiful." He finally said.

And she did. She was dressed in a pink, glittery halter dress that ended just above the knees, her hair was all curly and piled on top of her head. She had just a trace of makeup on her face. Charlie noticed she was wearing the shell necklace, he had gotten her for Christmas.

"Oh, Charlie." She said blushing. Then she burst into laughter, when she saw his appearance. "Look at your tie!" She cried.

Charlie glanced down. "Yah, my mom usually does it for me." He admitted.

Connie smiled as she fixed it for him. "There." She said, looking at him. At the same moment he glanced at her. Their gazes locked a moment before Connie looked away.

"So…your tie is pink. We match." She changed the subject.

Charlie grinned. "Yah, you said you were wearing a pink dress and ladies usually have a matching escort at these sort of things, so I thought maybe…" He trailed off.

Connie smiled. "You could be my escort?"

He nodded.

"Well, lead the way, escort." She teased, hooking her arm through his as they headed outside to Charlie's car.

Waiting next to Charlie's junky, old Cadillac was Goldberg, Averman, and Russ. When Charlie saw Goldberg and Averman, it took all he had not to burst into laughter. The two were dressed in matching powder blue suits.

"Nice suits, guys." He said, smiling.

"Thanks man, we got them for prom and decided to break them in." Averman said proudly.

From behind them, Charlie saw Russ shake his head.

"Well, I think you boys look handsome. You too, Russ." Connie said genuinely.

She was amazing, Charlie thought smiling. Then quickly shook the thought away. What was he thinking?

"Ok, let's ride." Russ said as he, Goldberg, and Averman slid into the backseat.

Charlie quickly opened the passenger door for Connie before hurrying to the drivers side to put the car in gear and head for Adam's house.

Once there, they met Luis, Dwayne, and Ken, who were just climbing out of Luis' Convertible.

Luis whistled when Connie stepped out of the car. "Wow, Cons you clean up nice." He teased.

She rolled her eyes as she took Charlie's arm and headed inside

Luis rolled his eyebrows at this as the others followed them inside.

Adam and Julie met them at the door.

"Hey guys, thanks for coming."

"No problem, cake-eater." Russ said slapping him on the back.

Adam grinned then immediately turned serious when his dad headed over. "Guys…" He warned.

"Hello son, it's nice to see your little friends here this evening." Mr. Banks said politely. "Mr. Conway, you look very sharp this evening, as do you, Mr. Tyler." He turned his gaze to Ken, Luis, and Dwayne and frowned. "All well dresses except for you, Mr. Robertson."

Dwayne looked around nervously.

"That hat has got to go." Mr. Banks said, plucking the cowboy hat off Dwayne's head and placing it on a rack. He glanced at Averman and Goldberg, but did not say a word. He turned to leave, glancing at the girls as he went.

"Pull up your dress, Julie." He said in passing.

"Dad!" Adam cried as Julie's cheeks turned crimson.

Mr. Banks turned around, counted them, and frowned. "Adam, where are the two rambunctious ones?"

"They'll be here soon." Adam said as his dad walked away. He turned to his friends , grimacing. "Sorry guys, especially you Jules." He apologized.

"It's ok babe, you can't help it, your dad's a jerk." Julie grumbled.

Adam smiled. "Well, I thought you looked gorgeous." He said.

Julie grinned and gave him a kiss.

"Yuck, now you're making me sick." Goldberg complained as he pushed by.

Everyone laughed as they headed into the party.

Connie had been dragged to the bathroom by Julie, so Charlie headed to the buffet to get some punch. Adam was already there.

"Hey Banksies." he greeted his friend.

"Hey Charlie. So are you sure nothings up between you and Connie?" Adam asked.

"Yah, dude. We're just friends. I'm trying to help her out after everything that's happened." Charlie explained, with the sinking feeling that he was just saying words that had no real meaning. But Adam took his word for it like a good friend would.

"Hey Charlie."

Charlie nearly choked on his punch when he saw Linda. "Linda? What are you doing here?"

"My parents are friends with the Banks'."

"Oh." Charlie said. "So what do you want?"

She sighed. "just to talk to you! Why do you never want to talk to me?" She whined.

Finally, Charlie snapped. "Because you broke my heart! You freaking cheated on me with some loser!"

Linda's eyes flashed. "Because you never had time for me, Charlie!" She cried.

Charlie snorted. "Whatever, I ditched the ducks, so many times, It's not as if you're crying your eyes out or anything. You've had no trouble moving on." He spat.

Linda laughed bitterly. 'if you're talking about Guy, that's never going to happen, his heart belongs to Connie."

"Whatever, they're way over, Linda."

She laughed sarcastically. "You tell yourself that, don't you? Just so you won't feel guilty for stealing your friend's girlfriend!" She cried, spinning on her heel and stomping away.

Charlie stared dumbfounded. Was she right? Was that what he'd been doing? No, because Connie had said she wanted to end things right? He was jolted out of his thoughts by two arms shoving him roughly, backwards.

"What's your deal, Conway?"

Charlie looked up into the face of Guy Germaine. "I don't know what you're talking about." He exclaimed.

Guy laughed. "You freaking made Linda cry."

"Yah, ok, Guy." Charlie said sarcastically.

"Guys…" Adam broke in.

"Stay out of this Banks. This is between Spazway and me." Guy warned. "So, Charlie. I hear you're doing a lot of less than honorable things lately…Makin' girls cry, stealing guy's girlfriends…" He trailed off.

"You and Connie are over, Guy! You did that one, yourself. And me and her are not like that!" Charlie yelled.

Somewhere, a door banged open as Portman and Fulton arrived. Charlie barely noticed them or the fact that Connie and Julie were coming down the stairs from the bathroom. He didn't even notice the crowd that had gathered around them.

Guy laughed. "Right, you know the only reason your with her so much is because you want some of what she gave John."

Charlie's anger boiled, with one quick motion, he pulled his fist back and it connected with Guy's face. In and instant, Guy tackled him and they went to tussling on the floor knocking into things as they went.

Connie and Julie raced to the scene, Julie demanded to know what happened as Connie bent to break the fight up. At the exact second, she grabbed Charlie's arm, pulling on him, Guy's misplaced fist landed squarely on her cheek. With a cry, she fell backwards, clutching her face. Charlie immediately pulled away to check on her, Guy took advantage of Charlie's moment of weakness and placed two well-aimed punches at Charlie's eye and gut. With a groan, Charlie sank to his knees.

Mr. Banks came out of nowhere, grabbed Guy by the shirt and pushed him towards the door. "Gut out of my house, Germaine!" He bellowed. He came towards Charlie, who Connie was trying to help up. "And you, get out! No fighting ni this house!" He turned to the other ducks. "All of you out of my house. NOW!"

Adam stepped in his path. "Dad, no! Guy started that."

Mr. Banks held up his hands. "I don't care, Adam. You're moving you things from the dorms back into this house. All of them are bad examples, you don't want to be like them."

Adam's anger was seething as he placed a hand on his fathers arm. "No, I don't want to be like you."

Mr. Banks stood dumbfounded.

"If my friends aren't welcome here, I'm not welcome here." Adam said firmly as he led the way out of his fathers door for hopefully the last time.

"Way to go, Banksies!" Portman crowed, once they were outside.

Adam smiled grimly as he helped Connie get Charlie in the car.

"I'm ok, I'm ok." He grumbled.

"Wow, you look like you've been through hell, man." Fulton acknowledged.

Charlie grinned. "Just so long as he looked the same way."

Everyone laughed. Yah, he was definitely okay.

"Oh, he did man, trust me." Luis said.

Charlie nodded his head in satisfaction, before turning his attention to Connie. "You ok, Cons?" He asked, brushing her cheek with his fingers.

She nodded. "Just a bruise, nothing new."

Charlie smiled

"So, Adam want are you going to do now?" Averman asked.

Adam shrugged. "I guess, I'll move the rest of my stuff into the dorms until we graduate then go straight on to college. He'll never let me in that door again."

Julie squeezed his hand comfortingly.

"Best thing you ever did, Cake-eater." Russ praised.

Adam smiled, a little sadly.

"Can we go now?" Charlie asked. "I really need some ice."

All the ducks laughed as they piled into their respective cars and headed back to the dorms.