Alright so this is gonna be my first fanfic after reading many many Fadam fanfics I decided to write my own, this is gonna be the intro if I get good reviews I'll keep writing it, tell me what you think.
For starters let's give you some background on people:
Fadam- did date and at one point were engaged, but Adam being Adam broke it off because he wanted Fiona to go to Italy and start off her career.
Eclare- went through a rough patch (I.e. drop the world) but after therapy and time they found there way to one another and are pre-engaged
Drew- Went off to become a sports agent and played the field during his college years but found his way back to Alli who is a very prominent premed student
Ages Fiona=23, Drew=22, Eli=22, Adam Clare and Alli=21...so Adam and Clare are in there last year at SDSU, Alli is at UCSD getting her doctorate. Fiona has been working for 2 years and Drew/Eli have been working for a year. I realize it's all very vague but all will be explained in due time. Oh Adam transitioned the summer after he graduated.
Adam got down on one knee took a deep breath held Fiona's hand and looked up at her teary eyes.
"Fiona we have seen the worst in each other and we've overcome every obstacle that has come our way, you mean the world to me and I honestly don't know where I'd be without you. So today in your hometown I am asking you to continue to be there for me and allow me to take care of you in every way possible. Marry me." Adam opened the black box he had in his coat pocket and revealed a 3 carat diamond engagement ring, Fiona's jaw dropped. Adam smiled and all Fiona could do is nod yes. Adam quickly put the ring on Fiona's hand and hugged her as tight as he could.
"Adam how could you afford this ring?" he stood back and shrugged his shoulders with a smirk on his face.
"As soon as the summer started I picked up any odd job I could until I finally had enough money to buy you the perfect ring." Fiona looked lovingly into his eye and said "You could have asked in your beanie and no ring and I still would have said yes." They kissed softly and continued to walk home.
Adam's eyes popped open and he looked at the clock 3: 24 AM, it had been 3 years since that night, his relationship with Fiona had been over for 2 years, and lying next to him was Anya the girl he barely knew in high school had become a big part of his life in his second year of college when they randomly ran into each other at the beach. He loved Anya why was he still dreaming about that night. I should be over it, I haven't seen or talked to Fiona since I broke off the engagement. He gently got off the bed put on his pajama pants and walked outside into the balcony, lifted the lid off of the never used charcoal grill and grabbed the familiar black box, he slowly took the ring out as he did he dropped it, he quickly picked it up and looked at it in the moonlit night.
"Oh my god, yes I will marry you" Adam looked up to see Anya looking down at him with a huge smile on her face, he looked down to see that he was in fact down on one knee. He didn't know what to say, she grabbed the ring and pulled him into a hug.
"Well, what are you waiting for put on the ring" he looked at her face and couldn't imagine telling her that the ring belonged to Fiona and that he didn't mean to propose, so he did what most would do in that situation he put on a big fake smile and placed the ring on her finger while giving her a quick kiss, while in his head he was yelling "HOLY CRAP, HOW DID I LET THIS HAPPEN." Anya went back into the living room and turned on the lights to find her cell phone, at this point his roommate Mark had woken up to find out what was with all the commotion. Mark walked over to Adam and seemed more awake as he looked at him.
"Dude, did she just tell her mom that you proposed" he asked with his eyes popping out of his sockets, Adam could only think to laugh nervously as he saw Anya call everyone on her contacts list telling them what had just happened.
After Anya had calmed down and gone back to sleep Adam put on his jogging clothes and drove to the beach, he looked out into the ocean and screamed as loud as he could. Some random beach bum was walking past talking to himself saying "and people think I'm crazy." Adam started to jog until he saw the sun come out, then he started to do push ups and crunches until he felt every muscle in his body cry out in pain. No matter how much he tortured his body he couldn't get out of his mind how stupid he had been why had he let Anya think that he had proposed, especially with a ring that was meant for someone else, he quickly got up as he remembered a huge problem.
"Fuck the engraving" he ran to his car as his legs would allow and drove to his apartment. He walked into his apartment and saw as Anya was reading the engraving, and her eyebrows rose.
"Before you can say anything I can explain, last night you didn't give me a chance to say anything…" she stopped him by wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him.
"I'm your princess, that's so sweet I can't believe you had it engraved" Adam let out a breath and said "I'm glad you liked it" he moved to the bathroom and mumbled something about having to go drown himself in the shower. When he stepped out of the shower he did the usual; shaved, put on lotion, and looked at how much he had changed from the body he hated to the body he had always wanted. He went into his room and picked out some beach shorts and a black v-neck, one of the many things he loved about San Diego is that he could always wear shorts and not freeze to death, like he would in Canada.
As soon as he stepped into the kitchen and saw Anya's ring finger he thought, why the hell not, I mean I love her she loves me sure the way it happened wasn't the way I ever envisioned asking anyone to marry me but it had happened and whose to say Anya wasn't the woman he was going to spend the rest of his life with. The ring… well its not like Fiona was ever going to find out that the ring was being re-used, but still he knew that he had to get a new ring because that was just too messed up. He snuck up on Anya and wrapped his hands around her waist as he lay his head on her shoulder.
"Morning Mrs. Torres, how was your morning?" he kissed her cheek.
"Morning Mr. Torres, I had a good morning and I was talking to my mom and she said that she'd love to see her future son-in-law soon, to formally congratulate us" he just nodded his head in agreement as his phone started to loudly play a Dead Hand classic, a ring tone set for his best friend. He got his phone out of his pocket and sat on the couch as he answered.
"Sup brah"
"Wow California has sure been growing on you"
"What can I say Eli, Cali changes a man"
"Apparently, so what's this I hear that your engaged, again" Adam quickly got off the couch told Anya he was stepping out and put the phone back on his ear.
"Where the hell did you hear that"
"Hey blame your fiancé she's been calling everybody I mean I'm sure that by now all of our old Degrassi classmates know about it"
"She called you?"
"No she called Clare who then told me, C'mon man I'm your best friend and I have to hear it second hand, that is so cold"
"To tell you the truth it just kinda happened"
"What do you mean it just kinda happened? Engagements don't just fall on your lap" Adam looked at his apartment door and then started to walk back towards it.
"This isn't a conversation I want to have over the phone were are you? I'll come meet you somewhere"
"Okay, I guess you can come meet me in my office for lunch, how does 1:15 sound to you?"
"Damn I didn't know that as soon as you put on a suit, you were Mr. Formality, let me check my day planner" he said with a smile.
"Hey don't make fun, if you wanna work for me someday I suggest you change your attitude, so is that a yes"
"Totally I'll see you in a few hours and don't tell Clare"
"Whatever you say grasshoper" Adam hung up the phone and went back inside. He spent the next couple of hours listening to Anya talk about the reception, the wedding, color schemes, decorations, and how many people would be invited. By the time 12:45 rolled around he felt like his ear was gonna fall off and he'd have to wear an ear patch, thinking about an ear patch made him laugh until he saw the look on Anya's face.
"Have you listened to a word I said" he nodded his head while looking at the clock time to go meet Eli, thank god.
"I did babe, but I have to go meet Eli for lunch so I'll call you after" Adam quickly grabbed his keys and ran out to the car.
As he waited for Eli's secretary to let him through, he looked around the office filled with movie posters, and some limited edition comic books hung up on the walls. Eli had ended up working at Creeper comics as they're Chief Editor, no comic book was published without his okay, Adam mumbled Lucky bastard as he was let into Eli's office. As he walked in he saw Clare sitting on Eli's lap feeding him a piece of salad, of course why would he expect Eli to spend one lunch without his soon to be wife.
"So this is why I waited 10 minutes for you, I thought u guys were done trying to make me gag every time I saw you" Clare quickly got up to hug Adam and congratulating him on his engagement.
"I can't believe your engaged, how did it happen? Did you prepare a speech? When did you get the ring?" as she mentioned the ring Adam couldn't help but to wince, Eli noticed it right away.
"You did give her a ring right?"
"About the ring, I kinda sorta gave her the ring that I might have gotten to propose to Fiona" Adam looked at the ground and slowly lifted his head for reactions to see both Eli and Clare speechless.
"Say anything, please" Eli picked up his stapler weighed it and threw it at Adams chest, Adam grabbed at his chest.
"Oww what the hell Eli, Clare control your man" Clare looked at Eli then slapped Adam upside the head.
"Damn guys, I definitely feel the love in the room" Adam sat in the chair across from Eli as Clare and Eli both sat down. There was an awkward 15 second silence.
"How in the hell could you kinda sorta give her Fiona's ring"
"Well you know the dream I sometimes have" both Eli and Clare nodded.
"This time after I woke up I went to look at the ring because well for a split second I wondered about what Fiona was doing, then Anya saw me with a ring and assumed that I proposed"
"Clare hand me the stapler" Adam quickly hid behind the chair he was sitting on then said "Come on Eli that really hurt take a breather"
"Well are you listening to yourself, not only did you not intend on proposing but you did it with a ring meant for a girl that you were thinking about at the precise moment you did it" Adam leaned against the wall and let himself slide to the ground.
"I'm scum, how could I go along with it, I should have just told her but you should have seen her face she was happy and I didn't want to hurt her feelings"
"Adam you have to fix this I mean Anya really loves you and this would break her heart, this time your kindness might be the stupidest thing you could have done" Clare said as she went to pat his shoulder. Eli started to laugh uncontrollably both Clare and Adam stared at him until he gained his composure stood up fixed his tie and looked at Adam.
"Dude, what the hell was that"
"Eli do you need us to call a therapist" Eli smirked
"I'm fine you're the one that royally screwed up, I'm sorry I laughed but it's kinda funny, I mean out of all of the stupid things you've done this set the bar pretty high" Adam couldn't help but to laugh at Eli's bluntness and then he groaned at the thought of being such an idiot.
"Guys how in the hell am I gonna fix this I mean this is a pretty huge screw up, but the way I see it as long as no one tells Anya about the ring I should be fine right?" Clare and Eli shared a look then glanced at their clueless friend.
"Dude, I have a feeling that somehow this is gonna blow up in your face big time, but if you think you'll be fine then I guess you'll be fine."
Adam groaned why did he let her believe it was an engagement the thought would bug him for who knows how long.
"Not to make you feel worse but what do you think Fiona will do if she finds out you gave her ring to Anya" both Eli and Adam suddenly looked up, the thought had slipped his mind completely, Eli picked up a roll of tape and threw it at Adam hitting his inner thigh.
"Woah be careful I do have a package that must be treated with care now" Adam said while cupping his prized possesion, both Eli and Clare smiled, even in a time like this Adam still made jokes.
"I don't know about Fiona I mean she's probably ruling the Fashion world in Europe I doubt she even remembers my name" They all nodded thinking that could be true how could she ever find out.
"Again hate to be the bearer of bad news again, but aren't Holly J and Anya still pretty good friends?" At that Eli and Adam said the same thing simultaneously "SHIT!"
Holly J and Fiona stepped off there plane finally arriving in San Diego. They had decided that they should expand Coyne J clothing into the states and what better place for summer clothing than Sunny Diego. They both had been on a plane for so long that sleep was a necessity but as soon as they could the first thing they did was turn on their phones. As soon as their phones were on they beeped with missed calls and texts, Holly J started to scan hers when she saw most of her missed calls were from Anya and then a picture message, she opened the text to see Anya's hand with an engagement ring that looked extremely familiar, but she couldn't quite place it.
"Oh my God" Holly J suddenly stopped dead on her tracks, Fiona suddenly noticed she was walking by herself she looked back to see Holly J staring at her phone with her mouth open.
"Do you plan on catching flies or something, why'd you stop walking?" Fiona had not known anything about Adam and she preferred it that way, because she never did get over the boy who broke her heart without even explaining.
"Fiona you know he who shall not be named" Holly J said with a questioning look, Fiona had no clue why Holly J would bring him up now.
"What about him, I thought we would never speak of he who shall not be named" Holly J just kept staring at her phone.
"Out with it, you brought him up now tell me why" Holly J was trying to figure out how to say all of what she hadn't told her in 2 years, she took a deep breath and decided to start from the beginning.
"Well he and Anya are sorta dating, and have been dating since they ran into each other 2 years ago at the beach, they've also been living together for about a year" she let out the breath she didn't know she was holding to see Fiona with a neutral expression on her face.
"HJ Adam is a big boy he can date whoever he likes, now can we please go I'm really tired" Fiona turned to keep walking when Holly J grabbed her arm.
"What now, I'm fine…" Fiona turned to face Holly J's phone with a picture of someone's hand wearing a 3 carat engagement ring, for a second she thought it was a picture of her but the fingernails were not manicured.
"They're engaged" suddenly the realization that her ring was on someone else's hand hit her. Fiona didn't know why but she started to cry, Holly J pulled Fiona in for a hug and started to tell her it was going to be okay, when suddenly Fiona's sadness turned into anger and she pulled away from Holly J
"That is my ring" she said and Holly J frowned.
"Oh honey I know that this was supposed to be your ring" and she started to hug her again but Fiona grabbed Holly J's phone from her hand and brought it up to Holly J's face.
"No HJ, look at it this is MY ring" Holly J took another look at the ring and suddenly she too was angry "That Son of a…" Fiona interrupted "Yeah tell me about it, but you know what, that ring belongs to me" she said with a smirk on her face, suddenly HJ's angered face turned into one of confusion "wait what does that mean" she said as Fiona started to walk out of the airport, and she stopped looked back at HJ and said "That means I'm going to get it back, are you coming." Holly J nodded and they were on their way to Adam's.
