Title: A Ducks Story
Author: Pixie13
Chapter: 2/?
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: Don't own them. Don't sue.

Glancing to the blonde at his side when he thought she wasn't looking every so often, Kenny was trying to figure out what Julie's problem was.

"...annoying!" Julie finished, throwing her hands up into the air. For the past ten minutes, she had been complaining about how horrible living with Connie was going to be and Ken couldn't do anything but listen to her talk. They were walking around the outside of the school, something they had been doing as soon as they had left the girls' room. It didn't look like either teen had any particular path in mind. "I just can't believe she's so egotistical. How can you stand her?" Julie asked, finally giving Ken the chance to say something.

"I just came by to tell you two that we were going out for dinner," he said with a frown. "But they're probably gone by now." Russ and the others weren't the type to stick around and wait for people when they were hungry. Ken completely avoided answering the question, though Julie picked up on that anyway.

"No, seriously. How?" Julie demanded, pushing Ken's shoulder slightly.

Holding his shoulder as if he was in pain, Ken teasingly said, "Bully." After a pause, he added, "I don't have to live with her. I guess that's how. But she can't be that bad."

"No, you're right," Julie said, almost immediately. "She's much more worse than I can possibly describe."

Ken snickered slightly, shaking his head. "You're horrible. How did you possibly manage to survive this long then, huh?" That's the only thing that Kenny didn't understand. If Julie didn't like Connie as much as she was describing it right now, then how could Julie have spent three years with the girl morning, day, and night?

"...I guess I don't actually hate her," the blonde admitted with her lips curved downward. "It's just that sometimes, all this builds up and..." she looked around the lake they were now walking by, "Sometimes I end up kidnapping fellow Ducks and keeping them away from their dinner to rant a bit."

"Rant a lot," Kenny corrected immediately.

Julie punched him in the shoulder.

"Ow!"

"And now I'm not going to apologize for taking you away from dinner. Or offer to go to the pizza place down the street to grab something to eat," said the goalie, crossing her arms over her chest and huffing.

"Ju-lie," Ken whined. "Feed me! How am I suppose to grow up big and strong like a Bash Brother if I don't eat?" He pouted. Only Kenny could pull off a pout without looking like a total goof. Charlie tried it sometimes, but it never fooled anyone and Averman looked goofy all the time, especially moreso when he tried to pout.

Giving in almost immediately because pretty much none of the Ducks aside from Russ could resist Kenny when he begged and made false logical statements, Julie shook her head and threw up her hands. "Geez, no need to twist my arm about it!" She looped an arm around one of his and said, "Come on."

"Watch out, Catlady. Someone might think you like me," the Asian teen said, wiggling his eyebrows up and down.

Julie gave a very unlady-like snort and pushed him away, pretending to angrily stomp away from him. He laughed and ran after her.

It was the next day and most of the Ducks found themselves off campus for an early dinner. "How does he do it?" Guy asked Averman and Dwayne, as they watched Luis make out with one of the Varsity cheerleaders from Eden Hall. The three Ducks were sitting at a booth in the pizza place that most of Eden Hall frequented, watching Luis who was with the cheerleader in a corner booth across from them. All of them had their chins in their hands, as they watched the display. "We've been back a little over a day now and he's already been seen with Stacy, Andrea, and Jenny." All cheerleaders, if Guy's awed voice was any indication.

"Some people have all the luck, my friend," Averman said, finally turning away from the grossly entrancing scene as Goldberg arrived with their pizza pie. "And we, it looks like, don't. Don't worry, karma works in mysterious ways and we'll get our share of good fortune soon enough."

Just as they moved to make room for Goldberg, Connie came by and literally hauled Guy out of his seat. Crushing her lips against his, Guy instantly melted into the kiss and it looked like the two were on the 'on' part of their relationship again.

"See?" Averman said sagely to Dwayne. "I told you so. Now where's my hot mama of lovin'?" Dwayne just gave Averman a strange look and moved a little further away from him.

"I'm going to kill him," Adam declared, as he hauled his suitcase out into the corridor that his former room was located in. Former, because there was no way in hell that he was living with Charlie for another day.

Charlie, thankfully, had gone home that day to pack more of his belongings to bring back to Eden Hall and have dinner with his mother at her request. Otherwise, the scene playing out now would have been much more bloody.

Kenny, who was sitting on one of the suitcases that Adam had already dragged out, bit into the apple that he had nabbed from the dining after dinner. "No you're not," he said after munching on the apple a bit.

Portman, who was leaning against the wall next to the suitcase Kenny was sitting on, shot the shorter teen a look. "Why not? I want to see some action go down." He had been roped into helping move Adam's things out. However, since Adam had no particular place to go to, Portman's presence really wasn't needed after hauling some of the suitcases out. Since he had nothing else to do, he had decided to stick around because Fulton had tagged along with Charlie for the night.

"And I'm going to kill him," Adam said, as clearly as he could so that Kenny would take him seriously. However, it was always hard to take Adam seriously when he was wearing a pink polo shirt.

"No, you're not because I say so," Kenny said, biting viciously into his apple and groaning when one of his front teeth protested the movement. "This fight of yours will blow over in no time," he added rather weakly after that, poking his tooth to see if it was loose. Thankfully, it was still firmly embedded in his gums.

"This is the end of our friendship!" Adam declared, sitting down moodily on the suitcase he had just brought out. "There's nothing that will ever make me be friends with that jerkface ever again. No sir, Conway and I are through. Finito. Done with. Our ties permanently sev-"

"Guys?" A tiny voice came from behind them. They turned around to see an upset Charlie and an uncomfortable looking Fulton there. "My Mom's been diagnosed with breast cancer."

Adam got up and went to Charlie, wrapping his arms around him in a tight hug. All thoughts of their stupid fight went out of mind as he started to whisper things like 'It's okay Charlie.' 'We're here for you.' into Charlie's ear.

Notes: I'm going on vacation. So I'll probably have time to write more this week. Hopefully anyway. Thank you for all the wonderful reviews!