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Summary: Luis goes to Julie's dorm, and when she's not there, confuses himself further. The rest of the Ducks find out, but still no one tells Julie, who is just sort of lost in her own little world.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews and the encouragment. I really love this chapter, although please excuse some of Charlie's dialouge...I've been watching a lot of Dawson's Creek lately and I think Pacy and Charlie are getting confused in my brain!

Chapter 3: Roomates and Lunches

Luis walked up to Julie's dorm and took a deep breath and knocked on the door. Julie's room mate, a girl named Heather answered.

"Can I help you?" Heather said sarcastically. She knew why he was there.

"Uh, is Julie here?" Luis said.

"No, she's eating at Connie's." Heather said.

"Oh, um, ok, I'll just call her later then, I guess." He smiled and walked away.

"Wait," she said and smiled. "Do you want to come in anyway? You're Luis right?"

"Yeah," he nodded, "And sure, I'll come in." He walked in and sat on Julie's bed.

"It's so sweet of you to take Julie to the prom." Heather said and moved over next to him. "She was so excited yesterday. And who can blame her?" She was flirting with him and as a reflex he started to flirt back.

"Well, yeah," he smiled, "Julie's a good friend." He emphasized the word friend. "We've been through a lot together." He smiled.

"I'll bet you have," Heather said. "But just a friend, really? From what I hear you're quite the player, and you're going to settle for a good friend with a boyfriend on Prom Night? It doesn't really add up."

"Well, maybe you heard wrong." He said moving closer.

"Maybe I didn't." She smiled.

"Luis?" Julie walked through the door and he stood up feeling guilty, but not exactly sure why.

"Julie, I thought you were at Connie's." Heather gulped.

"Um, I was. But dinner's over so I came back." She said. "Luis, what are you doing here?"

"Looking for you actually," he said, gathering his nerve. "I wanted to talk to you."

"About your tux, I know!" She said deflating him, "Guy told me. Here's my dress if it helps." She pulled up the garment bag to reveal the beautiful blue dress.

"Yeah, great!" He said. "I'll see you tomorrow then." He walked out and promptly began beating his head against a door post. Portman and Russ walked past.

"You alright Luis?" Russ asked.

"Yeah man, you look like me on a bad day." Portman said.

"What?" Luis stopped. "I'm fine. I'm just an idiot."

The next day Luis was sitting at lunch in the cafeteria, helping Adam with his Spanish homework. Charlie came over.

"So did you talk to her?" Charlie asked.

"Talk to who?" Adam looked up.

"No one!" Luis said, "And no Charlie I didn't!"

"It's not no one!" Adam said, "Come on who?"

"Julie," Charlie said. "He likes her."

"Who likes Julie?" Fulton closely followed Charlie and then Portman after him.

"No one!" Luis said, shushing Charlie. "Ok, Adam we have a test next period, can we focus on that please?"

"Luis likes Julie, but he's too chicken to talk to her about it." Charlie explained.

"Dude that would be great!" Fulton said, "I mean, Julie hates the long distance thing with Scooter!"

"Don't play her though man!" Adam piped in. "We're still a team!"

"I'm not going to play her!" Luis sighed, "I don't even know if I'm going to tell her!"

"Tell who what?" Julie said, putting her tray down. Luis gave the guys a death stare.

"Uh, my mom," Luis said covering. "That I'm going to prom with you. You know how mom's get, and she loves you so much. You know, because you visited us last summer."

"Oh right." Julie said confused. Linda, Charlie's girlfriend and then Connie joined the table.

"Guess what?" Connie said. "Linda's gonna come over before prom and get ready with us!"

"Can you people focus on something other than prom for 5 seconds!" Luis exclaimed.

"Speaking of," Portman chimed in. "I finally got a date!"

"Who?" Fulton said, really the only person who cared about Portman's announcement.

"Heather." Portman said, matter of factly. "You know, you're room mate Julie!"

"That's it! I'm leaving!" Luis said, lamming his book on the table a running out.

"What's with him?" Julie said.

"I don't know, have no idea, who cares?" The guys all mumbled together.

"Well, I have to study for Pre Calc anyway." Julie clenched her jaw. "So I guess I'll talk to him later." She got up and walked away.

"But Julie your lunch?" Adam said.

"I kinda just lost my appetite." She shrugged.

"Ok," Connie said sternly, "Spill it! What do you guys know?"

"We don't know anything, Connie!" Charlie said, rather unconvincingly. "Who knows why Luis is being a panty waist?"

"Mhm." Connie said, "I've known you you're whole life Conway, you can't lie to me? What's going on?"

"Luis likes Julie but he won't talk to her." Fulton spit out and Portman elbowed him. "What? Dude, she was going to find out anyway!"

"That's why he went to her room last night!" Linda connected.

"But doesn't she saw that he was hitting on Heather when she got there?" Connie said.

"Which explains why he freaked when Portman said he was taking Heather!" Linda said, sounding like a know it all. "He's conflicted! His Luis player instincts are trying to overpower his feelings for Julie!"

"Yes, you two are very smart!" Charlie said sarcastically. "But you can't tell Luis, he'll kill me!"

In the library, Julie ran into Luis.

"Hey are you alright?" She said.

"Yeah, I'm just trying to focus." He said. "I have a big Spanish test next period."

"Luis," Julie said, "You speak Spanish with your family. I think you'll be OK. I think I know why you're upset though."

"You do?" He swallowed, nervous.

"Yeah," She smiled, "You like Heather, right? I mean, I saw you two yesterday, and then Portman says he's taking her to prom and you freak! I get it ok? If you want to take her, take her. I'll go with Portman, Scooter'll understand, it's fine."

"What?' Luis responded, disbelieving that this was what Julie had concocted. "No, Julie I don't want to take Heather to prom. And you are not going with Portman. I'm just stressed, alright?"

"Alright," she said. "But the offer stand, OK? We're friends, Ducks fly together right?"

"Yeah, Ducks fly together!" He answered quietly.

Review please! Next chapter is the Prom!