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Two weeks passed quickly, but not quick enough for Adam. Because of the up and coming concert, Esmeralda couldn't see Adam on the weekend's during those two weeks. But that didn't matter because Adam and the Ducks, as well as the Varsity cheerleaders (sadly including Aimee and Jamie) and a select few were on a bus heading to Cutlan Hall.

When they got there, they filled out and looked up at a large, apposing building with Gargoyles on the top. Being told the match wasn't for another two hours, the Ducks decided to go searching for Phoebe, Esmeralda, or the Hall boys.

They found all of them. They were walking out of the main building together. Phoebe ran out in front and did a cart wheel as Esmeralda seemed to laugh at Terry's expanse. It was Jesse that saw them. He had been looking at Phoebe and saw them over her shoulder. When he pointed the group out, the girls looked at each other with identical evil smiles before running over to them, Terry hot on their tail looking embarrassed.

"Guess what, guess what!" Phoebe demanded in excitement.

"Terry tota…" Esmeralda didn't get any further then that as Terry caught up with them and covered her mouth. The girl just collapsed into him as her body shook with suppressed laughter.

"You know she can easily get out of that, right?" Phoebe asked as Jesse chuckled beside her.

"How?" Terry looked at Esmeralda to see he was the only thing holding her up cause her knees had collapsed from laughter.

Phoebe walked behind Terry. "Like this!" she said, poking his side and tickling him. He jumped and released Esmeralda as he turned to stop Phoebe. Esmeralda dropped to the ground but quickly got up and ran behind the closest person to get away from Terry.

Hiding behind Portman, Esmeralda laughed. "Terry forgot his name!"

Phoebe picked up his story even though Terry had a hold of her hands and was looking at her in a threatening manner. "He was talking to this pretty girl and she introduced herself and he…" Terry started tickling her, stopping her from talking any more.

But that didn't matter because Esmeralda started up again. "He forgot his name! He stood there going 'I'm… ah… my name is…' he didn't even notice that Phoebe and I had walked up to him till we both yelled 'Terry' in his ear."

The Ducks chuckled at their embarrassed friend.

"Come on, lets go sit down," Jesse spoke for the first time since coming over to the Ducks. He and Phoebe led the way over to a section of the courtyard and sat down on the grass. When they had started to walk, Esmeralda shot Adam a look, clearly saying 'remember what you promised, no doing anything to mess them up!' Adam just threw her a smile in return, silently telling her he wouldn't.

The lot of friends talked for a while and the Ducks were able to find out that because Esmeralda had been away last year (according to Aimee and Jamie, because she was having a son) she had to do four dances at the concert or she would fail last years Dance class. Along with the solo ballet, the couple dance, the dance with Phoebe and the group dance, she and Phoebe also had to do the class dance for this year. Apparently their teacher was a bitch and didn't go slack on anyone, no matter what.

When Esmeralda talked about the fact that she hadn't been at school, Dwayne couldn't look at her. All the Ducks knew that Dwayne grew up in a very moralistic family and the thought of a teenage, single, mother made him uncomfortable, so they did their best to make sure Esmeralda didn't notice.

"So does anyone know why our two schools are suddenly trying to get along?" Russ asked.

"Romeo and Juliet!"

The Ducks looked at the four Cutlan students in confusion, seeing as all four had answered.

Noticing their confusion, they laughed, but it was Jesse who clarified. "Romeo and Juliet are the nicknames we gave to two engaged people. Romeo is actually named Mark and his you Dean's son and Juliet is actually called Ashley and she's our Dean's daughter. They want their fathers to be civilized but because of the tension between the schools, they cant. So their trying to fix it."

After a while of talking, Esmeralda looked over at something away from the group and her eyes widened. "Hey, perhaps you guys should be shown the Rink, so you know your way from the changing room, it gets a bit confusing apparently. That's what Leo said anyway," Esmeralda stated. Phoebe quirked an eyebrow at her friend and Esmeralda nodded her head in the direction she had looked.

Phoebe looked over before realizing what Esmeralda was doing. "Yeah, she's right."

Adam was the only one to stand up. "Alright."

"But we have about half an hour till the match, why don't you go, Banks, and then you can show us how to get there," Guy recommended.

"Yeah, that will do," Esmeralda agreed, looking back at that same spot with a slight panicked look.

"Umm, okay." Adam was then quickly led away by Esmeralda.

"That was close," Phoebe said, getting confused looks from everyone. "Maria's just over there, she's here for the match and the concert and doesn't know we're right here. She wants to tell Adam something but she just hasn't had the guts yet but if he saw her, he'd know straight away and he might be hurt that she didn't just tell him."

"What are you talking about?" Ken asked.

"Just look!"

The Ducks looked over (seeing as Terry and Jesse knew already) and gasped in shock at what they saw.

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Esmeralda showed Adam to the building that the ice rink was in. walking in, the boy saw a counter where students that didn't have skates could borrow some, as well as lockers against the far wall for students who did own skates and wanted to keep them at the rink.

"Do you have a locker?" Adam asked the girl in front of him as they stopped in the foyer. Esmeralda simply nodded. "Well why not get your skates? There's still time before the match."

"Alright," Esmeralda agreed, walking over to one of the many lockers and pulled a key out of her shoulder-bag. She opened the locker and took out the two skate shoes before putting her bag in. "Come on."

They sat on the bench near the door to the ice as they changed out of their street shoes. Adam left his bag beside him as he laced up his skates and Esmeralda waited, already finished. When he looked up, it was to see that Esmeralda had swiped his Ducks jersey from his open bag and had put it on over her electric blue tank-top.

It was far too big for her, seeing as it fitted Adam and his hockey padding and Adam was taller and wider then the brunette without padding. The sleeves fell down, passed her elbows, covering a large quantity of her black arm-socks. The V-neck dipped so Adam could see the top of Esmeralda's low cut top and the bottom of the jersey stopped just passed the girls butt with her legs having only her back tights for coverage like before she put it on.

"Take off my jersey, McGill," Adam ordered in a bored voice that didn't sound as false as it was.

"No, I'm cold and this covers more then my actual clothes do," Esmeralda replied, stepping onto the ice.

Adam just rolled his eyes at the girl before getting up and following her. They skated for a while before the conversation steered back to the jersey. "McGill, you're going to make it smell girly. What will your schools team think if they got a whiff of it?"

"That you have good taste in shampoo products?" Esmeralda offered, skating around Adam. "Or that you had a girl wearing it, which is actually what's happened. Come on, Banks, you get girls wearing guys shirts all the time."

"Yes," Adam agreed, grabbing the girl around the waist and drawing her close to him, so her back was against his chest. "But that tends to be in the 'Morning After', if you catch my meaning," Adam whispered into the hair covering Esmeralda's ear, as he ran a hand up the girls inner-thigh.

Esmeralda inhaled sharply and turned her head to look at Adam. "So that's why you don't want me wearing it? It gives you naughty thoughts?"

"You have no idea," Adam confessed before kissing her. He kept his arms around her waist as Esmeralda put one hand on top of his and another against his cheek.

They broke apart quickly as they heard a door slam shut in the distance.

"Essi? You in here?" a female voice rang through the building from the foyer only one room over.

"Yeah, Clover, hang on," Esmeralda yelled before looking back at Adam. "I've gotta go."

"You've got to give back my jersey," Adam told her, pecking her lips.

Esmeralda kissed him back before taking off the jersey, handing it to Adam. She then skated off the ice and quickly took off her skates, slipping on her shoes as she ran.

Adam sighed and skated off the ice. He grabbed his bag and headed to the changing rooms, as he changed, he heard the Ducks making their way to the changing room. The moment Julie and Connie had entered, they looked at Adam.

"Guess who we saw!"

Esmeralda made her way quickly to the foyer. When she got there, she saw Clover holding Kevin. Smiling, Esmeralda put her skates in her locker and took out her bag before going over to the two.

"Hello," Clover greeted as Esmeralda took Kevin out of her arms. "And, what, may I ask, have you been up to?"

The brunette girl buried her face in Kevin's shoulder as the little boy gave her a hug. Only her eyes could he seen, looking at the blonde. "Skating."

"Right, cause skating makes your lips red and makes your eyes like that!" Clover retorted with a roll of her eyes and a snort of laughter.

"Shut up," Esmeralda mumbled as the glass doors to the building were pushed open. The two girls and baby boy looked over in shock, only to see the members of the Duck team, minus Adam, not that Clover knew.

"Oh, hello," Ken said shyly, looking at the three.

"Clover, this is the Ducks, Ducks, this is Clover and Kevin," Esmeralda introduced, letting Kevin grab her finger4 in his little fist.

"Wait!" Clover turned to her friend with a large smile. "Phoebe's brother's team?"

Esmeralda simply nodded, looking at Kevin as she bounced him on her hip gently. "But he's not with them."

"Where is he?"

In response, Esmeralda pointed the way she had just came. Clover looked from her friend to where she was pointing before her smile grew.

"Oh."

Esmeralda just rolled her eyes at the blonde before turning to the team. "Do you want to be shown to the changing rooms?"

"No, it's alright," Dwayne told her, looking uncomfortable and not meeting Esmeralda's eye. "Just point."

"Um, okay, that way." Esmeralda pointed to the direction that was quickest before telling them she and Clover were going to find Phoebe, Maria, Kristy and Leo before getting seats.
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The first look at Kevin that Adam got was from the ice. The team had told him how they had met him and how he looked like Esmeralda, but they didn't say how much. Phoebe, Maria and Kristy sat next to each other and on the bench behind, Leo, Esmeralda and a woman that looked like Leo, presumably Clover. Kevin sat on Esmeralda's lap, and Adam couldn't believe how much they looked alike.

Kevin had a look on his face of pure excitement and wonder, one Esmeralda always wore when watching a hockey match.

When Esmeralda saw Adam, she smiled and waved, before whispering something in Kevin's ear, making him giggle. The Clover saw Adam wave back and smiled, saying something to Esmeralda. Whatever she said made the brunette blush and Leo chuckle. In retaliation, Esmeralda pointed at something, drawing Kevin's attention away from the adults before Esmeralda backhanded Leo.

The game was a quick one. It ended in the Duck's favor of course but it was a close game. When the Ducks got out of the changing room, they saw Esmeralda walking towards them with a very sleepy Kevin in her arms.

"Hey, guys, great game." Esmeralda smiled at them.

"Thanks, Essi," Charlie replied.

Esmeralda went to say something else but before she did, she noticed Dwayne not looking at her. "Dwayne, what's wrong?"

The cowboy scuffed his feet and looked at the floor uncomfortably. "Sorry, it's just… I was raised to believe children should only be born into a loving, married family. I'm uncomfortable about looking at a single, teenage mother that… that clearly fancy's someone other then the father."

Esmeralda looked at Dwayne in confusion before looking over her shoulder, then back at Dwayne. "What are you talking about?"

"Well, it's clear you li…"

The brunette girl was clearly to confused to listen to the boy. "You barely know Kevin's mom. How would you know if she liked someone? Hell, I know she doesn't like Kevin's father, but seeing as my brother got her drunk to take advantage of her, why should she?"

"What's your brother got to do with this? Fulton asked, now as bewildered as Esmeralda, but for different reasons.

"David's the father!"

"I thought Leo was the father," Connie said, frowning.

"Ew!" Esmeralda exclaimed as Clover started making her way down the corridor to them. "Leo's Clover's brother! That's disgusting, plus, Kevin clearly has my blood in him and seeing as his not my son…"

"Wait! You're not Kevin's mother?" Adam asked, his mouth gaping open.

Clover drew level with the group and after taking one look at her friend, standing there with her mouth opened slightly but her jaw tight, she quickly took the sleeping Kevin out of her arms.

"You thought Kevin was my son?" Esmeralda questioned in a deadly whisper, letting Clover take the boy. "You thought Leo and I had had a son?"

"Well, yeah, Kevin looks so much like you…" Adam trailed off as Esmeralda glared at him. Considering she tended to only have happy, sad or confused as her overall emotions, she sure had angry down.

"I can't believe you!" she snapped, her brown eyes never leaving Adam's blue.

"You actually thought I'd let… Do you really believe that I would act tha…" she made a noise in the back of her throat that sounded like a soft roar before turning and storming down the hall.

Adam looked baffled for a moment before shooting Clover – who had shrunk against the wall – a glance before running after Esmeralda.

"Why are you so mad?" Adam asked, finally stopping her as she walked passed the ice rink.

"I don't want to talk to you," she replied in a biting tone, trying to get Adam to let go of her arms. "Let me go!"

"No, McGill, I don't know hwy you're angry but I'm sorry. You and Kevin look so much alike it's hard not to think you're his mom. You would make a great mom, no matter your age, that's why I didn't care that you had a kid with Leo. Admittedly I was a little hurt I… never mind."

Thankfully Esmeralda didn't question the last part but alternatively let her anger take over. "How dare you! You don't get it, do you? You actually thought I was a mother. Banks, do you think me to be a slut? I kissed you! I slept in your bed! With you! I've worn some of my smallest pajamas around you! When you had your arms around me! Do you think I would really do those things if I had a son?"

Adam finally let go of Esmeralda. Not because he wanted her to run, but because he knew she wouldn't run. She was letting out a lot of anger and frustration, some that seemed to have been there, under the surface for a while and nothing could stop her, not even herself.

"You actually thought I'd let him touch me in a way that's more then friendly? There's a reason I have never had a boyfriend and before you jump to conclusions again, no I'm not a lesbian. I just can't believe you!"

Although he knew he shouldn't, he couldn't stop himself. "I don't get it."

"YOU NEVER GET IT, Adam!" Esmeralda yelled before turning and going to stalk off. Before she could, Adam caught her wrist and tried to stop her. However, Esmeralda turned back to him and wrenched her wrist out of his grasp. "Don't ever touch me again."

"Es…"

"No!"

"Please…"

"No! Just stop!"

Before Adam could say anything else, Esmeralda turned and ran away.

I know, I'm an evil bitch! I have them fighting… AGAIN! And they practically admitted their feelings but no! they still don't get it. This chapter was going to go for longer but I decided to half it so I could post what I already have typed up and you lot won't think I've abandoned you.

Thank you for all those that have reviewed and/or added me to favourites and story alert. I didn't know I had so many readers but it's happy to know that you all enjoy my story and keep coming back to find out what happens.

I am sorry to say, I may not post as frequently as I have been since school is becoming quite demanding and during the winter my fingers go numb and my typing is slowed down, a lot considering I can type rather fast.

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