KEN'S POV

I had heard whispers about Connie and Averman and I laughed them off. I knew that Averman had accidentally told Amber Foster that he was dating Connie to get her off of his back.

Speaking of Amber Foster she had centre stage at her table talking very loudly about some upcoming trip to a rival school. Seems like their world revolves around band, much like our world revolves around hockey.

I have to admit, I did kind of figure that Connie would eventually move on from Guy and find another boy to date. I also thought it would be someone like Charlie or Adam she'd date since she seemed closer to them than anyone else.

I guess I was wrong then.

So the Ducks were all congregated at their usual table in the cafeteria. Charlie and Adam were engaged in a heated discussion about which play would be better to use in a tie situation, Fulton and Luis were discussion Spanish homework, Julie and Goldberg were talking about holding an air hockey tournament, Portman was staring at Julie, Guy was with Karen who kept fussing over his broken nose and Russ and Dwayne were using a plate full of toast to build a house. They were getting a pretty good tower happening with it too.

Suddenly the table became silent when Connie and Averman showed up holding hands.

"Hi guys" Connie said as they took a seat next to each other.

"Hey" the team managed to reply. Well Julie responded with an enthusiastic "Hi!"

She obviously knew what was going on.

"So we have something to tell you guys" Connie spoke up giving Averman a warm smile.

Poor guy, he looked like he was about to be fed to cannibals.

"Go on" Charlie replied a little too smugly. He obviously had a feeling as to what this was about.

Okay so we're not completely stupid, we knew they were about to tell us they were really dating but for some unknown reason, we all decided to act dumb.

Connie took a deep breath and glanced at Averman.

"Okay, well we thought you guys should be the first to know that we are officially dating" Connie said very quickly. I could see Averman wincing in pain a little and I realised she was probably squeezing his hand under the table in a death grip. He did not have a very strong pain threshold.

"I knew it!" Julie was the first person to reply and she seemed ecstatic. I think she would have hugged them but she was on the other side of the table.

Guy on the other hand looked like he was about to explode. I think he caught himself in time as he got up from the table and stormed off leaving a very confused Karen staring open mouthed after him. It took her a few seconds before she got pissed that Guy had left her and she too stormed off.

"Guess he didn't take it so well" Goldberg said nervously.

"Too bad" Connie replied making a face.

I saw Charlie relax a little when she said this and I realised what he'd been thinking. He was now satisfied that Connie wasn't unintentionally using Averman to get over Guy. This was the real deal.

"Wow congratulations guys" I heard myself saying. I didn't get what the big fuss was. If they were happy then I was happy.

"Thanks Kenny" Averman flashed me a grin.

I could almost hear his thoughts – at least someones happy for us.

"Yeah congrats y'all" Dwayne was also happy.

"Averman, you da man!" Russ held his hand out for a high five.

"Hear that Cons, I'm da man!" Averman grinned.

"I know babe" she replied.

It was so strange to hear her call him that. Oh well better get used to it.

"I'll say congratulations because I am happy for you but you have to promise me one thing" Charlie started.

"What's that Charlie?" Connie was ready to defend herself if she had to.

"Any problems with Guy over this stays off the ice and please don't break any more of his bones"

"The nose isn't a bone Charlie" Adam pointed out. He immediately retracted knowing he was about to earn himself a slap upside the head from Charlie.

And he got one too.

"I know that! You know what I mean!" Charlie threw his hands up in annoyance at being corrected by their star centre.

The rest of us just grinned.

"Fine, I don't really care what he thinks anyway" Connie replied.

"Good, I'll tell him the same thing later" Charlie was happy again.

I noticed Luis was yet to say anything and Portman hadn't taken his eyes off of Julie the entire time.

What the hell is up with that?

"I have another request" Fulton spoke up attracting everyone's attention, including Portman's. I recognised the evil glint in his eye. He was about to say something funny.

"What?" Connie asked.

"No making out on the ice, I really don't want to see that" Fulton replied making the others laugh.

"Me either!" several Ducks called out.

"Fine, but you didn't say anything about the breakfast table" Connie grinned wickedly and turned to Averman.

"NO!" the Ducks cried and lunged for the pair in a joking attempt to separate them.

In the process they knocked over Russ and Dwayne's 'toast tower'.

"GUYS!" Russ complained loudly.

We laughed even harder which prompted Russ to throw a piece of toast at Charlie.

"HEY!" Charlie protested and threw it right back at Russ.

Charlie has terrible aim with anything other than a puck and it his Averman in the forehead.

I thought Fulton was about to wet himself with laughter.

The mental image of that made me laugh harder and before I knew it a piece of toast came flying at me and hit me in the nose.

"Hey!" it was my turn to protest.

In true Duck fashion it wasn't long before a full-blown food war had begun at our table.

Then it had a domino effect and pretty soon the entire cafeteria was throwing food and Dean Buckley was screaming at us to stop.

He didn't have to look far to find the culprits.

Coach Orion was going to kill us for getting clean-up duty every day after school for a week.