Author's Note: This chapter introduces Danielle. In the other chapters, I said she's a friend of Bah's. Emily is also mentioned. She's Pav's girlfriend. In light of the World Series happening, 30 minutes away from me, I mention who won in 1979. The title comes from a Panic! at the Disco song... I believe they sing it. Not all of it, but the title helped getting a title for the chapter. Drew makes another appearance... hopefully last. Unless my muse for an argument wants another one. Hope you like it. Oh and Michelle... you don't have to sign in.

"That's it for today. Don't forget you have a quiz next week. So please study," the Professor told Avery's class when they were done.

Avery closed her notebook, her book, and stashed everything in her bag. Lifting it up, she walked out of the class. The hallways were busy, as usual. Students were hustling to get to their class, some were meeting other students to either do a project or go get something to eat. Out of all the chaos, Drew appeared, stopping her by the arm.

"We have to talk," she said pulling Avery to the side.

Avery sighed, grabbed Drew's hand, and dropped it. In a weird way, Avery felt like they had been dating and she's the one that broke up with Drew and Drew wasn't handling it well. It was a strange thought, but how can you explain a friendship that went to hell? She finally asked, "About?"

"What happened between us," Drew replied, giving her a hopeful look.

Avery tucked a piece of her brunette hair behind her ear and lightly scratched the side of her face, looking like she was thinking. "Do you know why I yelled at you?"

"Of course," Drew said.

"Care to explain?"

Drew was taken aback by the attitude she was getting from Avery. "When have you become mean?"

"I'm not being mean. I'm just not in the mood to hear you try to bring me down."

Drew's mouth opened in shock. "I never put you down."

Avery gave her a look and was ready to leave her sight, but Drew took a hold of her arm again. "What?"

"What do you want me to do? Go back in time and change all the things I've said to you?"

"If I could do that, I'd change a few things myself," Avery said after thinking about it. "We wouldn't be standing here."

Drew let go of Avery's arm. She crossed her arms in front of her, looked down, and closed her eyes. "I didn't mean…"

"Right," Avery said slowly. "You didn't mean to harass me? You didn't mean to be a bitch?"

Drew wiped a small tear off her face. "I'm sorry ok! What do you want me to do?! All I can say is sorry!"

Avery shook her head. "It's already too late!"

"I'll admit it! I'm a fucking bitch! I'm a horrible friend!"

"A friend wouldn't have said the things you did."

"Because if what happened, I feel like I'm the out cast in the group!"

"You did that to yourself!"

"Ladies," a teacher called when he came up. That didn't work because they were still yelling. "Ladies! Ladies please! Quiet down!" Both stopped and looked over at the teacher. "Please take this conversation somewhere else."

Avery sheepishly smiled. "Sorry, but there's no need, we're done." She walked away without looking back. Deep down this whole situation was frustrating. Drew was a complicated situation. If she forgave her, would Drew still act the way she has? The thing is, the others haven't excluded her, she has excluded herself.

Avery didn't want to go home, didn't want to drive somewhere, and didn't want to go anywhere. However, she did find herself outside the hockey arena a few minutes later. She went in, followed the noise of skates, and watched for a few seconds through the glass before actually heading in and sitting down in the back row by the doors. The guys were practicing drills. She wasn't surprised that there were good. Jimmy had stopped the puck and then went to take a drink from the water bottle on the net.

"Better. Not good, but better," Coach Brooks yelled.

Avery watched, but at the same time got lost in her thoughts. After practice was done, she stayed there. She didn't look away from the ice until someone sat down next to her. "Hey."

Ralph put an arm around her shoulder. "Hey." They stayed in silence for a while before he asked, "So… how are things?"

Avery sighed. "Ok."

"Did you have a test?"

"No."

"Then what happened?"

"I ran into Drew," Avery said quietly.

"Oh," he said.

Avery told him the story. "I'm going to talk to the girls. Just because I'm not talking to her, they shouldn't."

"You gotta do what you gotta do."

"That's what the psychic said."

Ralph asked, "When did you see a psychic?"

"Couple weeks ago," Avery replied.

Ralph smiled. "Did she say anything about me?"

Avery thought about the answer. Yeah she mentioned that the psychic said she had to what she wanted, but nothing else. "I'm not telling. It was my fortune."

Ralph joked, "Already keeping secrets."

"Val doesn't even know. I don't know hers."

"Don't worry. I don't care if you keep it secret."

Avery smiled. "Thanks for listening. The semester you come into my life, I have drama."

Ralph looked over at her smiling. "I didn't know you were taking drama." She just gave him a look, eyebrows raised. Then he became serious. "You're welcome. However, next time you go see a psychic, take me with."

"Deal." Avery smiled.

Ralph told her the guys were going to the bar that night. So they agreed to go. She was the one that picked him up, but he drove. When they walked in, they headed to the group that was already playing games. Gayle, Emily, and Danielle were there as well. Right when they got to the group, Christian mentioned he heard about the fight between Avery and Drew. She wondered how he knew.

"This girl told me," was all he said. "I'm surprised there was no cat fight."

"I'd pay to see that," Verchota replied while wiggling his eyebrows.

Avery looked over at Ralph and rolled her eyes. Danielle came up after she heard that. "I see Phil is thinking with the wrong head again."

"Oh!" Phil put a hand over his heart. "Been thinking about me naked, have we?"

"In your dreams," she replied. "Ralph if you don't mind. I'm stealing your girlfriend and going over there." Danielle pointed to where Emily and Gayle were standing. When they got over there, the girls talked, just getting the low down. They were over there for a while. Eventually Ralph went over and asked if she wanted to dance. The first dance was a slow one, which made it their first slow dance, and the rest were fast ones.

"Avery you're really good," Emily said when a game of darts was under way little later on. "Almost beating the pants off of Ralph."

"Almost?" Ralph asked. "She is." Avery smiled.

"If I play, the dart doesn't hit the board. It flies anywhere but there."

"Watch out," Pav remarked. "You'll get hit with the dart," Pav said, agreeing.

Avery laughed. "It can't be that bad."

Emily silently asked Ralph for the dart by sticking her hand out. Pav made sure that nobody got in the way. When the dart left her hand, it hit the wall underneath and stayed there. Avery laughed at the fact that the dart made a hole. Emily did it again and the dart actually went to the left, hitting the plastic picture a few feet away.

"Oh my God," Avery laughed.

"The only sport I'm good at is bowling," Emily told them.

Jimmy came up, looked at the darts that were in the wall, and looked at the group. "Sorry I missed the fun."

Emily and Avery laughed. Ralph and Pav started to play darts while the girls watched and talked with Jimmy. Danielle and Gayle came up and they went to the bathroom. Avery always thought it was stupid that girls went in groups to the bathroom. She was wincing at the fact that she was brought in on this trip.

"Danielle, what is going on with Bah and you?" Gayle asked.

Danielle looked over at Gayle. "We're friends."

"Is that all?" Emily asked.

Avery watched the scene. She felt like the girls were trying to put Danielle in a corner. Danielle seemed a little aggravated over the situation. "There's nothing wrong with being friends with a guy."

Danielle gave Avery a appreciate smile. "That's right."

So when the girls were done, they headed out. Avery saw Ralph at the bar with an older gentleman. The guy was looking at Ralph like he had two heads. When she got there, she realized why. Ralph was doing his impression of Scooby-doo. After doing the impression, he turned to her and introduced her to Coach Craig. They talked until a song that Ralph liked came on and they weren't out and danced to it.

Later on a pool game got started. Wells and Broten were a team, and they were cleaning up pretty well. Eventually the game started to die down and everybody was just talking.

"You know," Strobel started to say, "I would love to have sex on a pool table one day."

Most of the guys laughed because it was out of the ordinary. They were talking about Halloween and the fact that the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series.

"But in order for that to happen, you have to have a girl," Baker replied.

OC remarked, "I've done it."

"Surprise, surprise," Verchota said. "Who with"

"There's this bar down by BU," OC started to tell them. "The girl that I had been seeing was a waitress there. She closed that night, and she was the one that all for it."

"And?"

"It was great," OC said. "I recommend it, the table to very sturdy."

With that, that made everybody tell where they wanted to do it. On a balcony, backseat of a car in crowded parking lot, public bathroom, middle of a football field, childhood bedroom, airplane bathroom, a European train in a private room, the face-off circle.

"The face-off circle?"

"Yeah."

"Wouldn't it be cold?"

"There will be a blanket there."

"Danielle?"

"Why me?"

"Tell!"

"Um…" Danielle couldn't believe she was going to say it. "I've always wanted to do it in the shower." That made a few of the guys question her as to why she hasn't. "I just haven't."

All eyes then went to Avery. She blushed, and that made her laugh nervously. Ralph said she didn't have to, but that made Jannie heckle. "Ok… I'll tell. The place that I would like to have sex…" she paused, looked down, and smiled in embarrassment. "The back of my car, it's a big back, and I'd like to do it somewhere… in the middle of nowhere." She placed her hands up to cover her face when the guys whistled.

"We don't have to ask Ralph where he wants to have sex. We already know," Verchota joked. Ralph reached out and lightly knocked him in the shoulder.

"I would like to do it in a pool," Jimmy said getting rid of any awkwardness, but there was none.

"Pool!" Silk shouted. Silk went on and said he did it once in a pool.

Ralph looked over at Avery and was glad she was smiling. He was a little concerned that she was feeling awkward. He placed an arm around her shoulder, and she put hers around him. He was just glad she was ok.