Drown Out All the Pain

Summary: When one of his best friend, Clare Edwards decided to introduce him to a friend that she'd been talking to/helping online who came to meet her, Adam Torres certainly didn't expect to fall for the girl.

Pairing: Adam Torres/Kristina Davis, Clare Edwards/Adam Torres friendship, Clare/Kristina friendship, EClare.

A/N: This is set a few months after the lockdown. Krissy and Clare bonded over familial problems(Clare's parents are divorced and Kristina doesn't get along with her mob boss father and it came out what happened to her brother, Michael in jail.) in a chatroom and began to IM, email, and write eachother.

"I don't get it!" Adam Torres complained, crossing his arms and resting them on the round table as he narrowed his big, blue eyes at Clare Edwards, one of his best friends.

Clare furrowed her eyebrows in confusion of his words and then tilted her head to the side as she looked him over with her baby blue eyes. "Don't get what?" She asked of him innocently.

"Why you want me to meet this girl. I know how it's going to end. She'll find out that I'm a Female to Male transgender and have a freak out-just like Bianca did. You know she will." Adam growled fiercly, looking down at his shaking hands.

The tiny blue eyed red-head sighed and reached a hand across the table to place ontop of his own. "If she does, I'll punch her. But I can promise you that she won't. She's not the type. Besides, she has her own secrets." She told him carefully, a small smile lighting up her face.

For months now, Clare had been talking to her two best friends, Adam and Eli(who was also her boyfriend of a few months) about a girl that she'd been talking to online. A day didn't seem to go by where she wasn't talking about Kristina Corinthos-Davis. She'd even went as far as to show Adam and Eli pictures of the girl in question and her brothers and sisters, and Adam had to admit, the girl was very pretty. Even more reason to be convinced that she wouldn't like him. She seemed much more suited for a guy like his stepbrother, Drew Torres.

"What are you two talking about?" Eli asked as he walked over to his table with Clare and Adam at The Dot, taking a seat.

"Clare was telling about how much she wants me to meet Kristina. She seems convinced that we'll fall for eachother or something." Adam replied as he hooked his feet on the legs of his chair, grabbed up his comic book and began to flip through it as he tilted his chair back.

Eli threw his head back and began to laugh, green eyes sparkling mischeviously. "Does it really bother you that much?" He asked in amusement as he slipped an arm around his girlfriend, pulling her close as he looked at his friend with his signature smirk and raised eyebrow.

Clare leaned her head back on Eli's shoulder as she looked at her friend, too.

Adam wrinkled his nose. "Gross! Do you two have to do this around me?" He whined as he chucked a french fry at them.

"You know, I have to agree with him." A voice chirped out, a good natured laugh hidden behind it. "You two are kind of sickingly sweet."

Clare's blue eyes lit up brightly and she let out a loud squeal as she jumped out of her seat, pratically knocking it over. "Krissy!" She yelled happily, running torwards the girl who had spoken and throwing her arms around her.

Adam turned in his seat to look at his friend and the girl that she had so wanted him to meet and he had to swallow hard. She was prettier than even her pictures had depicted her. She was taller than Clare by a few inches and rather thin. Her dark, silky brown hair fell to her shoulderblades and her dark brown eyes sparkled brilliantly. He turned back around in his seat, unaware of how red his face was.

The dark haired, green eyed boy smirked as his long hands with the Sharpie painted nails gripped his coffee cup. "You still against Clare hooking you up?" He teased his friend.

Adam huffed grumpily, crossed his arms over his chest and glared daggers at his black-wearing, hearse driving best friend, clearly not impressed with Eli's attempts at a joke.

"Come sit down!" Clare said, wrapping her pale, slender fingers around Kristina's tanned ones and dragging her over to the table. She went back over to sit next to her boyfriend and smirked as a blushing Kristina took a seat next to an equally blushing Adam.

Eli put leaned in to whisper in her ear, "I think I'm a bad influence on you, Edwards."

The auburn haired, blue eyed girl blushed and giggled a little before looking straight at Kristina. "Krissy, this is my boyfriend, Eli Goldsworthy and my best friend, Adam Torres." She said, introducing the three other people at the table.

Eli reached a hand across the table for Kristina to shake, giving her a sincere smile. "It's nice to finally meet the person that my girlfriend has been gushing about."

Kristina smiled at him and leant in to shake his hand. "Likewise." She took in his features. He was cute and she could totally understand why Clare would fall for a guy like him. After all, wasn't it like that old saying: Opposites Attract? But to tell the truth, she was much more interested in the mysterious boy sitting beside her. He was sitting in his seat as if he was trying to protect himself, for whatever reason. Clare hadn't told her much about him in her emails, just that he was this sweet, adorable, fun guy with a slightly nerdy side. It was so strange. It was almost as if Clare was trying to keep something hidden from her. She gave Adam her brightest smile and said, "Hi. Clare told me alot about you. She said that we would probably get along." Her eyes went to Eli and Clare who seemed to be in their own little world and in an attempt to get rid of the awkwardness, she said, "And something tells me that we are totally going to bond over how third-wheel these two make us feel."

It worked because Adam finally cracked a small smile and let out a laugh as he leaned torwards her slightly. "Believe me. They were so much worse when they weren't going out."

The brunette girl's smile widened and she shook her head in disbelief as she looked at the corner in question out of the corner of her eye. "Nah-ah! Not possible!" She denied with a girlish giggle. As strange as it was to say about a person she just met, this Adam character had to be the first guy near her age who she wasn't scared of getting close to. Even with Taylor-her study partner back in Port Charles, she hadn't felt this comfortable. There was something-different about this boy. Something that she really liked. She thought that Clare would be her reason for visiting, and she was but Krissy found herself more eager to learn everything there was to know about Adam. And she was so going to get her way. After all, She was a Davis-Corinthos girl!