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Summary: Julie and Luis talk on the phone.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Ducks. Enjoy the story.

Chapter 6: Hello?

Julie walked into the room and saw the phone sitting off the hook. She picked up the receiver and took a big breath.

"Hi." She said. What was she going to say?

"Hey." She heard Luis' voice on the other end. He sounded happy, she couldn't decide if that was good or bad.

"What's up?" She said, trying to sound casual.

"A lot actually," he laughed. "Charlie and I are thinking about coaching the D5 team."

"Really?" She said. "That's, um that's great."

"Yeah," he said, and took a deep breath. "That's not what I called to talk to you about."

"I figured." Julie said.

"I need to know what's going on with us." Luis said.

"What do you mean?" Julie said.

"I mean, should I keep hope going here." He said, "I can't put my life on hold much more."

"I didn't ask you to put your life on hold." Julie reminded him.

"I know, but…" She interrupted him.

"Did I give you any indication that I wanted to ever get back together?"

"Well, no, but I thought, that…"

"No, Luis, that's it." She sighed. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have snapped at you. That wasn't fair of me. But Luis, I can't be with you."

"You could give me another chance." Luis said. "You know, forgiveness and all that shit?"

"No, no I can't be with you because," this was too hard, she didn't know how to tell him. "Because I'm going to be with Adam." She just said it.

Luis stood dumbfounded in the kitchen of the apartment. "What?"

"You heard me." She whispered.

"Since when?" Luis asked. He was pissed. "I mean two days ago…"

"Two days ago I was confused!" Julie said, "I've been thinking about getting together with him since we came to Boston to be perfectly honest. It would have happened eventually and then you came and it threw a wrench into all of it. Luis, I love you, I do, I always will, but I have to try this."

"How many things do you have to try Julie?" Luis said. "You had to try being alone, you have to try this, was that all we were, an experience for you to try?"

"No!" She said. "What we had was amazing, and so special, but well,"

"Well what?" he said angrily, "What we had was amazing and special and it could be again but you're going to be with someone else instead?"

"That's not fair!" Julie started crying. "That's not fair and you know it's not fair! I deserve to be happy! And when I'm with him I'm happy!"

"You were happy with me, remember that?" Luis said. "We were really happy."

"Yeah, we were great until you broke my heart!" Julie spat back at him. Suddenly he stopped. "Or were you just leaving that little variable out of our relationship? Luis, no matter how much I still love you, I can't trust you."

"It wouldn't happen again." He said. "I wouldn't let it."

"Luis, we're half a country away from each other and you have a history of cheating on me." She sighed. "I did the long distance thing once, or did you forget that too? I don't ever want to do it again. Adam is here, he cares about me, I trust him, I love him. It has nothing to do with you, or us. It's about me and him. I'm going to do this. I want to know that you're going to be OK though."

"Will it make a difference?" Luis asked, "Really? I mean if you've already decided about Adam, will it make a difference what I feel about it?"

"It will." Julie said. "Luis, if you're alright with it, if I get your blessing then, then I know that…"

"That the Ducks won't hate you for it." Luis finished her sentence for her, resentment laying heavinly in his voice.

"Right." She sighed. "I know, I know this is hard. It's not easy for me. This was the hardest decision I've ever had to make. I love him. There's nothing else to it."

"Yeah." He said. "I know that feeling."

"I'm so sorry." Julie said. "I want to be your friend. I really do."

"I can't just be your friend Julie." Luis said. "I'm sorry I just can't. I won't call you again. I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused for you and Adam."

"Luis, wait!" She said, but he had already hung up the phone. She sighed and walked out of the room and down the stairs to Adam's. She wasn't crying anymore, but her eyes were red and her nose was sniffling.

"How'd it go?" Adam said, smiling. She ran to him and wrapped her arms around him and started crying again.

"I should go." Jen said, standing up.

"No," Julie shook her head, "Stay, it'll save me having to tell the story twice."

Luis threw the phone against the wall of the apartment. He had never been so angry in his life. He couldn't beleive what was going on, it was bad enough that she didn't want to be with him.

"What's that noise?" Fulton said, he was sitting in the living room playing Playstation with Charlie.

"Luis was on the phone with Julie," Charlie shrugged. "She probably didn't say what he wanted to hear."

"Should we check on him?" Fulton said, pausing the game.

"I guess so." Charlie said, they stood up and walked in and saw Luis sitting on his bed, mumbling angrily, his head in his hands. "How'd it go man?"

"Banks!" He shouted looking up, "When he comes back I'm going to kill him."

"What?" Fulton said, "Why?"

"Luis, what are you talking about?" Charlie said.

"She made her decision, Charlie," Luis said, "there was never a chance of anything. She's with Banks."

"The Cake Eater?" Fulton said. "You can't be serious!"

"He's liked her since LA," Charlie said quietly, "But there was always something in the way."

"Yeah well, the ways clear now, I guess." Luis said, "So much for flying together."

A/N: Kinda an emo chapter, but its no where near as emo as the choices chapter of the last one. Anyway, review as always!