Author's Note: Alright, so I got two chapters done today, I'm very proud of myself. Charlie is turning out to be a much more major character than I expected. Anyway, the one review I got was great, thanks a bunch!

Summary: Julie and her room mate talke about what's going on, and then she finally talks to Luis. Charlie and Bombay disapprove of what's going on. Adam explains why he won't make his move on Julie.

Disclaimer: I still don't own any of the Ducks. I own Jen. This is not another Creek allusion. This is because my room mate's name is Jen and I was looking at her when I had to pick a name.

Chapter 2: The Talk

The next morning Julie woke up in a bad mood. She wasn't hung over or anything just cranky. Her room mate Jen looked at her as she dragged herself out of bed.

"Good morning!" Jen said perkily. Julie grunted in return. "My, we're cranky. Wasn't the party fun?"

"The party was great it was after that wasn't so great." Julie sighed pulling a pair of jeans out her closet.

"Oh my god! Adam finally made a move? Or you did and he rejected you?" Jen said eagerly, she had sensed since they first came to Boston that there was something going on with Julie and Adam. "No, Scooter said something?"

"None of those." Julie shook her head. "Luis is here."

"Like in Boston? Or here here?" Jen asked, Julie had explained the whole situation to her.

"Here here, probably in Adam's room." Julie shook her head.

"Maybe you should talk to him." Jen said, "As an outside observer Jules, I understand he broke your heart, but maybe you should here what he has to say."

"He lied to me." Julie shook her head, "And then cheated on me. I love him, part of me always will, but he doesn't get it. I can't let him back into my life. What if he hurts me again?"

"What if Scooter hadn't let you back into his life?" Jen said, wisely, "Think about that. You hurt him, but he let you back in, and now you two are the best of friends."

"I just don't know. Luis didn't just hurt me, he hurt the team. The only people who trusted him after that were Charlie and Bombay." She sighed, "it makes it hard. I don't know what to do."

"Well, I have class," Jen said, "Tell me how this little drama works out." She walked towards the door. As she opened it she saw Adam and a good looking guy who she had to assume was Luis. "Hey Adam."

"Hey Jen," he said, "Is she here?" Jen nodded and pointed to the half dressed Julie sitting on her bed. "Oh, this is Luis."

"Yeah I figured," Jen said, glaring at him. "Nice to meet you. I've gotta go, see you later."

"Yeah, I have class too," Adam said, "I'll leave you two." He said quietly slinking out of the room. He hated the idea of leaving her, but he knew he had to.

"Hey." She mumbled. "Look, I'll hear you out, but that's it. If I don't like what I hear, you head back to Minnesota and it's over right?"

"Fine." He said quietly. "I've wanted to explain it to you, but over the summer you wouldn't take my calls, and before that you wouldn't even look at me."

"Well, here's your chance," she said trying not to lose her temper, "Explain please. Who exactly was she?"

"I met her that summer, you know, the one where you were clearing your head?" He started. Julie nodded. "I was drunk when we first got together. She looked a little like you, I was lonely. Then we sort of stuck together for the whole summer. When I went back to Miami for Christmas, after we had gotten together she called me. I told her I didn't want to see her, that I had a girlfriend. At first she said that it was fine. But then there was this party, and we were both drunk, and well, you know the rest."

"I walked in on you." Julie sighed, "And this is the first non team related conversation we've had since that night."

"Right." Luis sighed.

"The cheating was bad enough, but you lied." Julie reminded him. "When I asked you if you had been with any one over the summer you said no. You should have told me the truth."

"I know I should have. Julie believe me I've been thinking about this a lot. I lost you; I lost all of my friends." He shook his head. "Do you know how hard it was to live with Portman for the rest of the year after I screwed up the team? I mean, even now, living with Charlie, who claims to have forgiven me, but still isn't entirely trusting. I ran into Connie last week, she wouldn't even look at me, let alone talk to me. Forget Goldberg, I've stopped going to the Deli it got so bad. I still love you, more than any one or any thing."

"I love you too." Julie sighed, "I always will, but you need to go."

"Julie," he pleaded.

"Just go? Please." She whispered holding back tears.

Charlie walked into the skate shop that same morning. He hadn't heard from Luis which he figured could mean a few things. He was wandering around Boston College's campus asking if anyone knew Julie Gaffney, he had found her and she had killed him, or he had found her and things went very well. He shrugged it off.

"Good morning Charlie." Gordon Bombay sat stood behind the counter of the shop surrounded by newspaper clippings of area hockey games, amateur and professional. At the center was an old article about "The Minnesota Miracle" the Ducks' pee wee championship win over the Hawks almost eight years before.

"Morning Coach." Charlie smiled. Despite the fact that Bombay hadn't been his coach in almost five years Charlie kept calling him by the title. He couldn't help it, just like the Ducks still called him "Captain" even though the team officially split almost six months earlier.

"Where's Luis?" Bombay asked.

"Um, well, he went away for a while." Charlie said trying to cover as best he could.

"What, to Miami?" Bombay said concerned, "Is it his mom, is she alright?"

"No, not to Miami, he actually," Charlie didn't want to rat his friend out but he couldn't bring himself to lie to Bombay. "He went to Boston."

"I hope to see Adam and Scooter play." Bombay said concerned.

"You know that's not the reason." Charlie said.

"Did Julie know he was coming?" When Coach asked him these kinds of questions Charlie felt like he was ten years old again. "Or did he at least tell Adam?"

"Neither of them knew. He realized he had enough for the ticket and went out." Charlie sighed, "He would have told Julie if he could but you know she just hangs up when he calls her."

"That girl's been through enough." Gordon sighed. "I care about Luis, but I think it would be better if he let her go."

"That what I tried to tell him." Charlie agreed wholeheartedly. He hated what was happening, he didn't want to see Luis waste his life running after Julie, and he didn't want to see Julie get her heart broken again. It had been hard enough to watch the first time.

"Hey." Jen said catching up with Adam. "What do you think is going to happen?"

"I don't have the slightest clue." He shrugged. "I don't think they should get back together if that's what you mean, but that's not my call."

"You should just ask her out already." Jen said. "She does like you Adam."

"No," Adam shook his head, "She may like me, but she's still in love with Luis. Believe it or not Jen, he's a really great guy. He's a freaking amazing hockey player and fun to be around. He's just not very restrained. He's passionate; he feels something he does it, that's just how he is."

"She could love you Adam." Jen smiled, "But you have to give her a chance."

"Yeah," he sighed, "I think I missed that boat sometime between when we were thirteen and last year."

"Don't be stupid," Jen said rolling her eyes. "Give it a shot. What could it possibly hurt?"

"The Ducks." Adam whispered. Jen looked confused "If we were to get together and it not work out it would divide the Ducks further. Especially since we're not on the same teams any more, when Luis and Julie broke up even when we were on the same team we lost something. Ducks fly together, that's what we always say. God, I wish Charlie was here, he could explain it better than I can."

Jen smiled. "No I get it. But you can't let that stop you Adam. You have to grow up, you have to live."

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