PORTMAN'S POV

I am such a retard! Well no offence to anyone retarded of course but I can't believe I was so damn stupid.

Why didn't I just go to Julie before and saved ourselves a lot of time and aggravation.

Fulton's over the moon and Connie keeps suggesting we double date with her and Averman.

Averman doesn't say much, I know he's scared of me but come on, we've known each other for at least three years now. Surely he knows I'm not gonna kick his ass.

And then there's Julie.

Julie's amazing, being with her is amazing and playing hockey with her is amazing.

Yeah I sound like a tool but its true. I'm sure we gross the team out when we share a celebratory kiss after a win, as does Connie and Averman but I guess they're too scared to say anything to me about it so they pick on Connie and Averman.

News of me and Jules sure travelled fast. It travelled even faster when news broke that Julie was going to the dance with Dwayne and not me.

So far I've had five invites to the dance by various girls all of whom I turned down and its not even lunch time yet.

And then came Britney.

"I hear you got rejected by Gaffney when you asked her to the dance. Is there anything I can do for you?" she asked with a fake smile.

"Yeah you can go away" I told her. No point in beating around the bush. I didn't want to go with her, or anyone for that matter except Julie, and I wasn't gonna lie about it.

"Aw come on Dean, we could go together, you know for old times sake" she said touching my arm.

I quickly shook her off.

"No I don't think so now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find my girlfriend" I emphasized the word and left her standing there.

"You'll regret not staying with me Dean, you'll see" she called out after me.

"Yeah I doubt it" I muttered under my breath and started my search for Julie.

I found her in the cafeteria waiting in line with Connie.

I cut in behind her and no one commented. That was the beauty of being a Bash Brother, no one got in your way.

"Hey beautiful" I said wrapping my arms around her waist from behind and kissing her cheek.

"Hey babe" she replied turning around in my arms.

"Aw you guys are so cute!" Connie squealed. She had been so euphorically happy lately it was strange. I'd grown used to Connie being bitter and angry, and I still can't believe I actually checked her out a few weeks ago.

"So what did Britney want?" Julie asked.

"You saw that?" I asked.

"Yep" she replied.

"She asked me to the dance and I said no" I told her.

"Good" Julie said.

"So you're not mad?" I asked hoping she wasn't. I honestly didn't want to have another fight with Julie.

"No, I trust you" she said kissing me lightly on the lips.

"Thank you" I replied wrapping my arms around her a little tighter.

"Has Fulton found a date to the dance yet?" Connie asked. Fulton had been complaining all week that Alexa was and I quote 'blue balling him because I ditched Britney'.

"I don't think so" I couldn't recall him saying he'd found a date yet.

"Good, cos I was thinking" Connie started.

"Oh boy here's trouble!" I said jokingly and Connie glared at me.

"You are so lucky you're dating Julie otherwise I'd tear you a new one for that" she stuck her tongue out at me.

"Anyway as I was saying, there's this girl in my English class called Kate and I really think her and Fulton would hit it off" Connie was starting to play matchmaker.

"Um, I think you should ask Fulton before you do anything Cons, you know how he gets" I said.

"I agree" Julie said.

"Aw you two are no fun!" Connie had this evil glint in her eye and it worried me.

"Oookay" I said not wanting to know what Connie had planned for Fulton and this Kate girl.

"Hon, I can't hang with you tonight, Connie and I have some planning to do" Julie changed the subject, well I hope she was changing the subject.

"Am I in trouble?" I asked jokingly.

"Nope and neither is Fulton, is a surprise for the dance" Julie said and Connie grinned.

Those two couldn't look innocent if they tried.

"As long as it's not some evil twisted torture scheme for me then I'm cool" I said a little nervously.

"Nope not this time babe" she replied stepping towards the front of the line and ordering her lunch.

Oh thank god! Hey wait a minute! What did she mean by this time?

JULIE'S POV

I can't believe the gall of some of these girls. They know Portman's taken so why do they keep asking him to the dance?

I feel really guilty about going with Dwayne but I already asked him before Portman and I got together and to be honest, I was looking forward to going with a friend who had no expectations whatsoever.

Dwayne had already told me that Portman could have every slow dance, as long as he got to dance with me for any country songs they may play. I didn't have the heart to tell him there might not be any country songs played.

"Julie what are you going to wear to the dance?" Connie asked me.

"A dark colour in case there's any repercussions from our payback" I laughed.

"Good idea!" Connie laughed along with me.

"So how are we gonna do this?" I asked looking at our plans so far.

The first one involved punch but the second and third seemed too farfetched, not to mention illegal.

I had no doubt we'd be expelled for setting someone's hair on fire.

"Okay so I heard Alexa has bought two dresses for the dance but doesn't know which one to wear, the blue one or the white one" Connie laughed and I knew what she was getting at.

"So you want to break into her dorm and ruin the blue one so that she has to wear white?" I asked.

"Yep" Connie said proudly.

"Okay, there's one task down" I wrote it down on the notepad.

"Anything else?" I asked.

"Well there is one thing…." Connie looked mischievous.

"Let's hear it" I said knowing how her evil mind worked.

"Well what we could do is….." she began telling me her evil scheme.

"Lets do it" I said when I'd heard the rest of it.

"Aw man Jules this is gonna be great!" she laughed.

GALINDAPOPULAR - yeah I always like the getting together chapters too.

HOCKEY-GIRL90 - we've seen a little of the planning of revenge, revenge will happen next chapter!

DONNA79 - it wouldn't be a Julie/Portman fic if they didn't take their stupid ass time about getting together!!

FOOTYCHICK - thanks

HIDING IN THE SHADOW - I thought I'd let you in on the plotting of the revenge to draw out the satisfaction! It will happen next chapter

SPIKEYHAIRGOOD - I know it took them forever but they got there in the end. Connie's over the moon about it!

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