Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi or its characters
"Come on Adam just a couple more," Drew says trying to motivate Adam as he bench presses his last set. Adam finishes his last set and wants to rest but Drew isn't going to let him, "No rest bro you still have to do a set of squats."
Adam reluctantly walks over to squat machine, "Andrew you're killing me here."
"I know but you can't argue with results, I mean look at you," Adam looks at himself in the mirror and flexes his biceps and then looks at his six pack abs.
"Yeah, I do look pretty good, thanks to you. You are a miracle worker," he fist bumps Drew and then takes his place at the squat machine. He finishes his workout, "I'm hungry, let's go get something to eat."
"You're body may have changed but you're still the same old Adam and as hungry as I am right now we need to shower." They walk to the men's locker room and at first when Drew had to undress in front of Adam he felt a little uncomfortable, but then he just got over it.
"I can't wait to get this stink off of me," Adam says already naked and wrapped in his towel walking to the shower stalls.
Drew can't help but be happy at how comfortable Adam is in his new body; it's a drastic change from how he was a year ago and he can't get over how tall Adam is, he now has to look up to his baby brother. Too bad I can't take some medication to make me six three and make my voice just a little bit deeper. Drew takes the shower stall next to Adam's, "baby bro, where did you want to go for lunch?"
"I heard there is this new surf and turf taco shop down by the pier," Adam says as he is rinsing his hair and body. He looks down at his new appendage and smiles, I can't believe how natural it looks, hopefully it works just as good as it looks.
"Hurry up Adam, I'm starving," Drew wraps a towel around his lower half and walks to the gym locker he put his things in.
Adam turns off the shower and wraps a towel around him and walks to where Drew is at and he opens his locker. He takes out his boxer briefs and slips them on, he sees Drew looking at him, "Geez bro, take a picture it will last longer."
"Sorry I didn't mean to stare, it's just your beginning to look better than me. I really need to stop training you," they both laugh and finishing getting dressed. They walk out to Drew's car, "so you're buying lunch today?"
"No, I bought lunch the last two times we ate out," he turns on the radio and starts to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Ever since Adam recovered from his surgeries, he and Adam have been inseparable and have made some crazy memories together. They have been driving their parents crazy with all their shenanigans and each time their parents find out what they have done they would get in trouble, but Drew wouldn't have it any other way or trade the past couple of months for anything in the world. So he is pretty sure that Adam is laughing at their most recent adventure.
"I was just remembering how and why we got kicked out of the last gym we worked out at," Adam begins to laugh again.
"Let me tell you something, that old lady sure was stronger than she looked. I had a bruise the size of a softball on my back," Drew rubs his lower back where the old lady hit him with a medicine ball, remembering how he couldn't sit comfortably for a week.
"I guess she didn't appreciate you giving her a lap dance while singing 'if you're horny, let's do it, ride it, my pony'." Adam starts to get into another laughing fit but this time Drew can't help but join in.
"I had to do it, a dare's a dare and I refuse to be the first one to back out of a dare," he pulls into the full parking lot and gets lucky when he spots an empty parking space. He looks towards the taco shop and sees that there is a line out the door. "Wow, this place must be good. Are you sure you want to wait to eat here?"
"Andrew we found a parking spot and it probably won't take as long as you think it will to get our food," Adam gets out of the car and walks to the back of the line that is already moving. "You see Drew, the line is already moving," Adam looks to the front of the line praying to God to make this line move quickly.
Ten minutes go by and Drew starts to get impatient, "Come on baby bro let's go eat somewhere else."
"Everybody can I have your attention, is there a party of two waiting to be seated?" Adam and Drew notice that the people in front of them have more than two people with them so they both quickly raise their hands and walk to the front of the line.
"We are a party of two," the brothers say in unison.
"Okay follow me," the brown haired hostess leads the two boys to a seat at the bar. "Hopefully you don't mind a seat here at the bar."
"No it's no problem, we're just glad to be seated," Adam tells the hostess, who is now checking him out and of course Adam being the flirt that he is sends her a wink and a flirtatious smile.
"Your waitress Blaire will be here as soon as she can, you can see we are extremely busy so you're patience is greatly appreciated. Enjoy your lunch boys," she sends a smile Adam's way.
"And what might your name be?" Drew asks the hostess lifting one of his eyebrows trying to be sexy.
"Cassie," she deadpans, a little irritated with Drew for trying to flirt with her and she walks away.
"She was nice," Adam says smugly. Finally Drew is feeling how I used to feel when girls were interested in him and not me.
"Shut up Adam," Drew begins to look through the menu to see what they have to drink here.
"Ah I remember the sting of rejection, just brush it off," Adam pats him on the shoulder still laughing at him. "But seriously don't feel bad and I told you to wear a muscle shirt like me," Adam flexes his biceps.
"That's it, I'm not working out with you anymore," they both laugh because Drew is always tell Adam he is never working out with him again but the next day he's in Adam's room dragging him to the gym. The waitress finally comes over to them and they both order their drinks and the 'World's Famous Shrimp Tacos'.
"Have you heard from anybody back in Toronto?" Adam asks out of the blue.
"Got an e-mail from Katie last week and she told me something interesting." Drew pauses while the waitress seats down their drinks. "Guess who's not graduating from lack of attendance?" he waits for Adam to start guessing but judging by his expression he knows he's not going to try and guess, so he continues. "Bianca, your ex-girlfriend or is Abbey your ex and Bianca's your ex-ex girlfriend?"
"When I talked to Eli last week he didn't tell me anything about Bianca not graduating let alone not going to school," Adam says ignoring Drew's question about who's his ex.
"Bro don't blame yourself for Bianca, people make their own decisions and have to deal with the consequences," Adam is looking at Drew in disbelief. "What, I can say smart and insightful things every once in a while."
"You're right; I shouldn't be worried about Bianca. We need to figure out what we're going to do for fun together before you go off to the University of Toronto," Drew got his acceptance letter from the university at the end of March and Mama Torres was both happy and sad that her baby is going to move away, she even joked about moving back to their old house in Toronto just to be close to Drew.
Drew wants to do something that they haven't done even though they have been in Miami for a year and then it hits him, "Surfing, we have been here for a year and haven't even tried to learn how to surf."
The waitress comes with their food and both boys thank her, "sounds like fun and they give cheap lessons for locals. We should go today, the day is young and what else are we going to do today?"
The boys finish their lunch and decided to split the bill and tip, they make their way to Drew's car and see that there still is a long line of people at the door. They both shake their heads because the tacos were not even that good. They know a place where the shrimp tacos are incredible, a place away from the tourist.
They pull into their driveway and walk through the front door, "boys?" they hear their mom call from the kitchen.
"Hey Mama, just a little warning, the new surf and turf place is not as good as Karina's seafood place." Adam tells Mrs. Torres giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"That's good to know, so what are you plans for today?" she continues to prepare the food that she will be making for dinner.
"Andrew and I will be going to the beach and taking surfing lessons," he quickly takes a carrot that Mama Torres just cut and pops it into his mouth.
"Just be back for dinner your father and I have some important news," Adam is about to get another carrot but she slaps his hand away. He laughs and runs upstairs to get dressed.
"So Mama, what's the important news? Wait, are you pregnant?" Mrs. Torres gives Drew a glare making him run upstairs laughing.
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"You guys did great out there," the surf instructor tells the two brothers.
"Thanks, you are a good teacher and I think I'm going to be sore tomorrow. I didn't think surfing was so much of a workout," Adam takes off his surf shirt and feels eyes on him. He looks around and finally looks up at the lifeguard tower and sees the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. She has strawberry blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail and she has an amazing body, so Adam walks over to her to introduce himself.
"Hi, I'm Adam Torres," he tells her looking up at her from the lifeguard tower.
"I'm Becky Baker," she makes her way down to Adam and she sticks her hand and he shakes it gently.
"Wow, you have a beautiful smile," he blushes not meaning to say that out loud. He is supposed to play it cool and confident, but Becky makes him nervous and he hasn't felt this nervous since Abbey.
"Thank you," she says shyly looking at the ground.
Adam's smile widens, he can't believe how cute she is, wow she has such a sweet voice, a nice body, perfect boobs, full lips, amazingly beautiful blue eyes, the perfect girl physically for me. Hopefully her personality matches the outside, "So how long have you been a lifeguard?"
"This is my second year as a voluntary junior lifeguard for my church," she answers him proudly.
"That's so cool, maybe I should volunteer next summer," Adam says smiling.
"You know there's still time for you to join, there is lifeguard training Mondays and Wednesdays at two o'clock in the afternoon. I mean of course it's in the afternoon because why would it be at two in the morning," she rambles on.
"Becky that sounds like fun, I'll be there. Is there any chance you'll be there too?" He isn't that interested in becoming a lifeguard but if that means he gets to spend time with this beautiful girl he's going to do it.
"Yes, I help with the training program, so I hope I'll see you there?" she looks over Adam's shoulder and sees Drew looking at them. "I think your friend is getting impatient, I'll see you Monday?"
"That's my older brother Drew and yes you will see me Monday at two, it was nice meeting you." He shakes her hand again.
"Yeah it was nice meeting you too, bye Adam," she brings him into a hug and he quickly returns the hug.
"Bye Becky Baker," he walks away with the biggest smile Drew has ever seen.
"So I'm guessing it went well with your lifeguard," Drew wraps his arm around Adam's shoulders and they begin to walk towards the beach showers to rinse off the excess sand that has accumulated on the bodies. Drew pushes the button to turn on his shower and he pulls hem of his swim shorts away from his body and looks down. "Man, I think I collected all the sand in my shorts," he sticks his hand into his shorts and tries washing the sand from between his legs and he looks over at Adam who is doing the same.
They finish up and dry off, Drew looks at his phone and notices that it's already three, "Adam, dinners in two hours, is there anything else you want to do?"
"No, we've been going all day. I say we go home shower and play some video games until dinner," they make their way home and pull into the driveway. Adam is the first to walk in. "Mom we're home and I'm going to use your shower." He doesn't wait for a response he just runs up stairs gets a fresh towel and makes his way to the shower.
After the boys shower they meet up in the game room and Drew lets Adam pick the game. "So you want to lose to me in Madden? You should have picked something else, like this lame ass tennis game Mom bought us," Drew says picking up virtual tennis and throwing it at Adam.
"Whatever, you barely beat me," he throws the tennis game back at Drew hitting him on the head.
Mama Torres walks into the game room, "No playing play-box thing today, your rooms are a mess. Clean your rooms and then you can play."
"Mom can we just play one half and then go clean our rooms," Mama Torres looks at her sons, who are currently giving her the puppy dog look she can't seem to resist.
"Fine, half a game and then you clean your rooms," she walks back downstairs while the boys start to play their game.
"Baby bro you're going down," they begin to play and the game is going back and forth, Drew picked the Washington Redskins and Adam picked the Dallas Cowboys. It's halftime and the score is 28-14, Drew is in the lead and celebrating his impending victory he places his controller on the coffee table.
"Let's keep playing, mom will never know," Adam says handing Drew his controller.
Drew takes the controller happily, he figures why not he's winning anyway. It's now the fourth quarter with a ten seconds to go, it has been a defensive second half. Somehow Adam has caught up and is on the twenty five yard line, in striking distance to tie the game with a field goal. "So what are you going to do? Are you going to tie the game or go for the win?" Knowing how Adam is he knows what he's going to do, he's going to try and win.
To Drew's surprise Adam's team goes into a field goal formation, "what, I'm at the twenty five yard line there is no way I'm gonna be able to throw for a touchdown right now." Adam hikes the ball and to Drew's surprise the holder takes a three step drop and lets the ball sail to Austin Miles who is running a fade and there isn't a defensive player around him. He easily catches the ball for the touchdown with no time left on the clock.
"Booya, Adam Torres comes from behind and comes away the victor. In your face Andrew," Adam starts to do a victory dance around the game room.
"Boys I'm checking your rooms in ten," Mama Torres yells from the bottom of the stairs.
"Crap, we better hurry. How about this if you finish cleaning your room first you come and help me and vise versa." Drew says fast and walking out the door before Adam even has a chance to respond.
Exactly ten minutes later Audra is walking up the stairs to check on Adam and Drew's cleaning progress. She decides to check on Drew first, she opens the door to find him in his closet hanging up the last of his clean shirts. "Dinner's ready, wash your hands," she walks to Adam's room and opens it. "Adam Torres, what have you've been doing this whole time," she looks around his room and sees Adam lying down in front of a big lump in the middle of his bed.
"I've been cleaning, there is nothing on the floor and all my clothes are put away," he tells his mom acting as if there isn't a big pile of clothes hiding behind him.
"Adam get off the bed," she places her hands on her hips and gives him 'the look'. He hesitantly gets off and Audra pulls back the comforter revealing all the things that are hidden underneath and it isn't just clothes. "Adam…" she looks at him wondering what the best punishment will be, "you are coming to church with me on Sunday."
"But Mom church isn't really my thing, they really don't approve of transgendered people," he begins to really clean his room.
"Adam this church is different, they believe in the motto: Love is love. I would never go to a church that wouldn't accept you, you should know that," she begins to help him clean up. "So like I said you will be accompanying me and your father to church on Sunday. Come on, dinner's ready you can clean this up after dinner and I mean really clean not just hiding all your things."
"Fine, it's not like I have a choice in the matter," he says walking away and to the kitchen.
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"So Mom what is the important news you wanted to tell us," Drew asks as his mom brings out the dessert, apple pie with vanilla ice cream.
"Well, you know you're off to the University of Toronto which is 1532 miles away from here and away from your family." Audra looks at her husband Omar and nods for him to continue where she has left off.
"What your mom is trying to say is, is that we are not ready for you to be off on your own. I asked my old firm if I could get my old job back and they decided to add me on as a partner and that's not all…the realtor called and we are officially the owners of our old house," he looks at his sons and they are both in utter disbelief.
"Boys say something, Drew what do think about us moving closer to you? This move will save us a lot of money," Drew just nods his head in response, still not verbalizing what is going on in his head. She looks at Adam who now has an emotionless expression written on his face, "Adam, what are your thoughts on us moving back home?"
"When are we moving back?" Adam asks still not showing any emotions. He much rather prefer to stay her in Miami than to go back to the drama that is Degrassi. So he has decided to just go with it, it's not like he can do or say anything to change his parent's minds.
"At the end of summer, two weeks before school starts at Degrassi and three weeks before Drew starts university," Audra begins to worry about Adam, he seems too calm for her liking. She was expecting some kind of protest or storm off to his room, but instead all she has is a robot sitting in front of her.
"And look at it this way baby bro, you get to show off the new you to everybody," Drew says trying to find the positive in this situation.
"Yeah, I guess," Adam picks up his glass and raises it, "here's to the Torres family moving back to Toronto." Bianca comes to mind, she isn't graduating this year so she will still be at Degrassi and then another person comes to mind, Abbey. Yup back to the Degrassi drama, hurray for me.