Friendship
Chapter
2: Shaking up Things
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Notes: From Adam’s point of view.
“She’s
fun to hang out with, but I’m not gonna put her before everything else.
Especially not for my chance to be with Chrissie. Although, maybe I shouldn’t
have abandoned her at Moonlight?”
Adam was
sitting in his room. He was having a bit of bad conscious for just leaving
Cecilia behind at Moonlight. He really didn’t know why, she told him that she
was fine with him tagging along with Chrissie.
They had
been at Moonlight for a couple of hours, when they met up with Chrissie and her
little bunch of friends. Cecilia had instantly gone over to her defensive
position, and Adam could figure out why without trying very hard. Chrissie
wasn’t the most compassionate person for other girls. Especially not girls who
hung out with Chrissie’s so-called affections.
Why she had
asked him to follow them to Paradise was a big mystery, but he was pretty sure
that Chrissie’s jealousy for Cecilia had a big part to do with it. He couldn’t
deny that he was attracted to her, for God’s sake; it was Chrissie Connors, the
most beautiful girl at the girl’s academy. Cecilia had to understand that he
couldn’t just turn Chrissie down.
“It’s okay,
Adam, really,” Cecilia had told him. “I can bug Charlie to hang with me
instead. He’s really quite amusing when he’s drunk.”
“Really?”
he’d asked. “Because if you want to, I can stay.”
He knew
that he was hoping for her to turn his offer down, and she must’ve seen that
too, because she had left to find Fred and the others, and he had left with
Chrissie and her little gang.
He must
admit, that he had no idea why he had enjoyed Chrissie’s company instead of
Cecilia’s. Chrissie wasn’t nearly as fun as Cecilia was, and she wasn’t the
cleverest person to have a conversation with either. Of course, he never had
any deeper conversations with Cecilia, but at least she wasn’t boring.
“Hey, why
are you moping around?” Adam turned his head in the direction of the
interrupting voice. It was Guy.
“You have
no reason to be depressed, Connie told me that you had the privilege to escort
Chrissie Connors to... where ever it was you escorted her too.”
Adam
sighed. Why couldn’t there be at least some little thing that happened, without
the whole team getting the news?
“Paradise,”
he said with a smile. A fake smile, but whatever.
“The
situation, or the location?” Guy had a big grin on his face, like he never got any
stories at all, about his friends’ love life. Guy must be the only one in the
world, besides from Charlie, who got every update from the relationship between
Cecilia and Fred.
Fred was
really a big-mouthed moron, when it came to not shutting up about things.
“The
location, Guy, jeez,” Adam said. “And for the record, I’m not moping around,
I’m thinking very hard.”
“Yeah, I
bet. So, why are you ‘thinking hard’, then?”
“Connie
told you? How did she know?” Adam continued, without answering Guy’s question.
“She met
Cecilia at Kingdom, and that’s how I know about your little adventure with
Chrissie...”
Adam sat up
straight. “Wait a minute, Cecilia was at Kingdom? We didn’t go to Kingdom, we
went to Moonlight.”
Guy
shrugged. “So, that only proves that there’s a lot of clubs here in this little
town called L.A. What’s your point?”
“You were
all at Kingdom last night? I thought you were going to Moonlight! I left
Cecilia at Moonlight, because I thought she was gonna stay there with you
guys!”
Guy stared
at him. “To quote you: Adam, jeez! Look, she probably just went over to Kingdom
when she didn’t find us, it’s not that big of a deal.”
“I left her
alone at the club, something could’ve happened to her.”
“Nothing
happened to her, there’s two buildings in between Kingdom and Moonlight. What
could’ve happened? Robbery? She didn’t have any money with her.”
Adam just
realized something else. How drunk could he have been last night, anyway? His
memory seemed to be lost back before all those drinks at the club.
“Shit!” he
winced. “Her money.”
Guy nodded.
“Okay, maybe you could’ve checked with her if she was able to get back home
without your help, before you left her, but...”
“I’m in so much
trouble. She must be pissed! Guy, tell me the best way to apologize.”
“Grovel
seems to work fine for me,” Guy replied. “Depends on how much trouble you’re
in.”
“I left my
friend at a night club, at one in the morning, without leaving her enough money
so she could get home, she didn’t have any keys so she could get into her room
when she got back, she didn’t have her phone so she could call anyone, she had
to walk in the middle of the night, just to get to another night club, where
she met her up with her friends.”
“When you
say it like that, it sounds really bad. But don’t worry, Cecilia will forgive
you. She’s not a resentful person. Only when she argues with Fred. You have had
an argue with her before, haven’t you?”
“With her?
No. We don’t say or do stuff that makes us argue with each other.”
Guy had a
surprised look on his face. “You have never argued before? Not even a little?
What kind of twisted friendship do you two have, anyway?”
“It’s not
twisted, just because we don’t have serious fights, doesn’t mean we never have
small argues. But we have never been mad at each other. Until now, that is.”
“Go talk to
her, maybe she’s not so mad after all. She didn’t seem to be mad this morning.”
“She’s not
mad at you,” Adam pointed out. “Where did you meet her?”
“She had to
sleep at Charlie and Fred’s place. Charlie met her at Kingdom too last night,
so he offered her to sleep at his place.”
Adam
whined. How could he have forgotten about her like that? Chrissie Connors
wasn’t half as important as his friendship with Cecilia. Why did he have to
behave like that? What if Cecilia wouldn’t forgive him?
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After his
depressing conversation with Guy, he decided to find Cecilia and talk to her.
He met Charlie
at the Rainbow Café, but he hadn’t seen her since the same morning.
“She said
she was going to meet Fred here, he has her key, I think.”
“To her
room?” Adam asked with a sheepish voice.
“No, to her
heart. Where do you think? Of course it was to her room. He has a spare key.”
“I thought
he was with you last night?”
Charlie
shook his head. “Nope, he was with Scott and Guy at that new place. He didn’t
get back until this morning, just after Cecilia left.”
“Hang-over?”
“Yeah, a
bad one. Can’t understand how he could stand an early morning here, with
Cecilia yapping around.”
Adam
shrugged. His hangover usually included a yapping Cecilia. That’s her busiest
crazy-time, when her friends were trying to nurse their hangover.
“She’s
probably in her room, bouncing around. She woke me up at eight this morning,
wanting me to watch some crappy movie with her. She must’ve confused me with...
you.”
Adam wasn’t
in the mood for Charlie’s pointless insults.
He hurried
up to Cecilia’s room, but didn’t have time to decide if he should knock or not.
Sarah ran past him, hitting on the shoulder.
“Adam?
Aren’t you late for practice? Cecilia is already there, if you’re looking for
her.”
Practice?
“Oh, I see.
I’ll be there in a minute.”
Adam had totally
forgotten about today’s practice.
Ten minutes
later, he got up to the locker-room, fifteen minutes late. He took a deep
breath and tried to figure out how to apologize in the best way.
“Hey,
coach, sorry I’m late...” he begun, but stopped, when he saw the empty room.
“Where are you?”
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“I have
been looking for you!”
Adam turned
around, startled by her statement. He gave up a whining sound and closed his
eyes. He wanted to be the one who tracked her down, not the other way around.
“Sorry if I
scared ya.” Cecilia smiled at him. She didn’t look pissed, but she was good
with hiding her true feelings, he knew that.
Adam gasped
for air. He didn’t know why she’d been able to scare him so much. He had just
been unprepared for running into her. Funny, since he had been trying to find
her all day.
“Wanna come
inside? I have the director’s cut of Scream. We can ridicule it if you want.”
Adam
nodded. That was exactly what he wanted to do. Leave this behind, and pretend
like it never happened. Go back to how it was the night before. Before the
Chrissie-incident.
“And,” she
continued, “I also have some more M&M’s, since you eat them all yesterday.
But, if you’re not in the mood for Scream and M&M’s, we can watch Coyote
Ugly, so you can drool over that blonde-chick again.”
She held
the door up for him, so he had no choice but to go inside.
“We missed
you at practice,” she told him. “Where the hell did you disappear? Sarah said
you were right behind her, did you lose your way?”
“No, I was
searching for you guys for half an hour. Where the hell where you?”
“Adam, it’s
Saturday. Do I have to tell you one more time? Charlie and I decided to have
the practice at the running tracks. I told you last Sunday. Travis told you
too.”
That
sounded familiar. Another thing he’d forgot about, apparently.
“Adam,
Adam, Adam. Where do you have your brain these days?”
“Not with
me. Look, Cecilia, about yesterday...”
Cecilia
dropped the tape and the bag of candy into the floor. “Crap, damn, shit,” she
swore.
“What?”
Adam laughed. She could be such a big drama-queen sometimes.
“My toe, I
dropped the tape on my toe!” she cried out, jumping around on one leg. “My toe,
that tape, that...” More cursing.
Adam
couldn’t help but smiling. She was really quite entertaining when she was mad.
“Adam, stop
laughing, I’m in some serious pain here.” Cecilia sat down on the bed and
rubbed her foot. “Stupid, idiotic tape. Right on my foot. It hurt like hell.
Stop laughing!”
Adam sat
down next to her and tried to kill the laughter. “Sorry, Cee, but you’re very
funny when you’re in pain.”
Cecilia
pushed him away and got on her feet again. “I hope that works for me too, coz
you’re gonna be in some serious pain if you don’t stop.”
“Maybe you
should get ready for a laughter then,” Adam suggested. He grabbed the tape and
went over to the VCR. “Let’s watch this stupid tape then.”
Adam leaned
back, with Cecilia snuggled up in his arms. If he never brought it up again,
maybe she wouldn’t either. As far as he could see, she’d already forgiven him.
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