Chapter 1: Young Blood
Adam opened the door to his house, putting the clean clothes from the dry cleaners on the empty stoop of the counter chair. "Hey I got the laundry, Eli!" he yelled for his roommate. Eli and Adam had drifted apart back when Eli graduated, but were still good friends once they both were in college at Toronto U and later decided that getting a place with one another would be better than paying for two expensive places that neither one could afford right after college. That was close to two years ago and still here they were. "Eli?" he called again. He was home Adam knew because he saw his car outside of the garage, but didn't know why there was no response. Adam was about to call his name again when he noticed the item on the couch and smirked. "Oh this is going to be fun" he told himself before clicking the lock on the front door to be unlocked. "Oh your doctor called today again, dude!" he yelled a little, going over to the couch a making himself comfortable. "He says the crabs should go away once you shave off your pubes and put that ointment he gave you on your balls!" Adam smiled when he heard a what coming from his best friends room. "He doesn't know how long that outbreak of herpes is going to be though" he says and hears a door open. "Well hello" he says flirtatiously at the girl who is putting on her clothes in front of him. He doesn't say anything else before the girl grabs her bag that Adam had notice a few minutes ago, and leaves, slamming the door behind her. Adam starts to laugh as he stands up and sees his best friend come into the living room. "Seriously?" Eli yells at Adam who can only stand and hope not to fall over in laughter. "D-dude you..you should see your face! Priceless!" he laughs more till he sees Eli start after him. Adam doesn't hesitate and jumps over the couch and stands right next to the kitchen counter. "Hey hey! I was joking. You can't punch me for that" Adam warns Eli. "I'm not going to punch you." Eli tells him in a soothing voice. "I'm going to fucking murder you" he runs over to Adam who is already making himself to the other side of the living room, laughing away and hoping that Eli doesn't catch up to him. "She was a fucking one nighter. You're not going to see the bitch again" Adam tells him before their game of cat and mouse is over with, both of them out of breathe. "Hey I'm getting dinner after I shower" Adam tells him as he heads for his room and opens the door. He takes off his tie and shirt and sighs. "How was work any ways?" Eli asks him. Adam had taken a job as a pencil pusher at I.G.M engineering firm, a company based off in New York but with ties in Toronto. "It was ok" Adam told him as he took his towel and headed for his bathroom. "Oh hey dude have you decided what you want to eat?" Adam told him once again.
"Uhh dude did you forget what day it is today?" Eli yelled back. "Thursday?" Adam questioned. "No father time. It's the 8th. You know, the 8th?" Eli looked over his clothes in the plastic bags in the living room while Adam came out of his room. "Is this some sort of new word play? Like am I suppose to guest what day- Oh yeah. I remember now. Fi's little wedding thing right?" Adam said, Eli nodding. Adam sighed and looked at the time. "I better start to get ready then. You should shower too, man. Maybe that chick did have crabs" Adam joked before leaving and going straight to the bathroom. "Not funny!" he heard the muffles from his best friend's voice over the door. As Adam turned on the faucet and got in, he thought back to where he was heading to tonight. Fiona's wedding party. Not the wedding yet, but an event that could only be thrown by the one and only Fiona Coyne weeks before her wedding was suppose to be taken place. This is weird he thought to himself. He was going to see his ex get married in a few weeks. Fiona had been his girlfriend through out high school and college up until they separated or in better words, until she left him. It had been a weird few months for Adam after that, but he seemed to be over it. At least when it came to dating wise, seeing as he had dated a few girls after her, but nothing as serious as her.
Adam got dressed and waited for Eli to be done in his room before they headed out. "Black? Really?" Adam rolled his eyes. "What? At least I'm comfortable. What the hell is that you are wearing man?" Adam looked down at himself. "It's a plain shirt and sweater combination, dude! You look like you are going to a funeral" Adam pointed out, but Eli simply shrugs. "Whatever man. We're taking your car" Adam told him and they headed out the door.
"Not a scratch ok?" Eli warns the valet as he got out of his new Dodge Charger SRT8. Adam shook his head. "I would think your editor would give you another advance there, Elijah" Adam plays around with the soon to be published author as they walk into the Bond Place Hotel. The gala had already begun and there were people every which way in the room, Adam and Eli taking in the whole place. They heard their names being called and looked behind them to see Clare waving over at them.
Clare had gone to school in Vancouver, leaving and breaking things off with Eli until she came back in town and they started to be good friends, with the benefits that came with it. Adam went up to his old friend and gave her a hug, noticing Eli momentarily smirking and seeing rose colored cheeks on Clare, Adam rolling his eyes and knowing that they would soon disappear into the one of the hotel room. "Adam" he heard enthusiastically behind him and turned around to see Fiona Coyne in all her beauty. Adam took in the sight of her. The sparkle in her eyes. "Oh hey Fi" he said happily and awkwardly greeted her with a wave before she laughed and brought him into a hug. Adam looked over at Eli who shrugged and wrapped an arm around Clare who quickly removes it. "It is so good to see you guys" she smiles at all three before hugging the other two. "God it's been a while, huh?" She tells them and starts with the small talk before excusing herself to attend to more guest in the room.
Adam goes up and take a drink from the bar, a small scotch and tonic and walks over back to his friends when he spots Fiona from across the room and smiles as she sees him and smiles back. "She's fine, you know" he hears. "Really?" he raises an eyebrow before looking away and at the company he was in the presence of now. "Yeah and if you want a second opinion you should as her yourself, Adam" the shorter girl tells him, Adam only chuckling. "Holly J Coyne" he says her full name with an annoyed tone at the end. "How are you?" he asks her, taking a sip of his drink. "It's Sinclair-Coyne, Adam Torres." Holly J answers back. "Oh my bad. Sinclair-Coyne. How are things?" "Fine, just as Fiona is" she rebuttals back. "Ok alright I get it. She's ok. How's your husband by the way?"
"He's running the business as usual." She tells him. "It's good to see the fat cats getting fatter" he says overly enthusiastic before raising his drink a little before drinking from it. "I think we both know Declan is not a fat cat, Adam" Holly J tells him back, holding her ground. "But he sure does run his Corporation that way, doesn't he? I mean on the Forbes 500 list, going public with his company on Wall Street. He must be making a lot of dinero now…well more than he had already to begin with" Adam tells her. "The way my husband runs his business is none of your business, Torres" "Ouch. Touched a nerve, did I, Mrs. Sinclair…Coyne?" Adam smirks. "Cocky little bastard aren't you, Torres" Holly J crosses her arms before either one can not take the fake fighting anymore. "I missed you, HJ" Adam told her before bringing her in for a hug. "I missed you too" she giggles before hugging him back. "I kind of missed these back and forth's we have" he told her as they pulled away from one another. "Yeah I did too. Just like the old times." She admits. "And she is fine, by the way" she goes back to their past conversation. "She is?"
"Well…She's gotten a little bit stressed with the wedding and stuff., but that's just normal." Adam looked back at Fiona. "Yep. I can't believe she is getting married" "And here I thought it would always be to you" Holly J rubbed a little salt on the wounds unintentionally. Adam looked at her, surprised, but not shocked. She wasn't the only one to think that. "I better keep going around. Help the bride to be with the hosting stuff" Holly J said as she started to walk away. "And her fiancée?" Adam asks her. "Oh now he is the fat cat" Adam nods. "Of course. It couldn't be Dex, but it had to be her guy, huh? Oh and where is Declan? Off somewhere with the waitress?" Adam joked, earning a scowl from Holly J "He is still in New York with her fiancée so it's just us Coyne women for now." She said and left him while helping out with her maid of honor duties.
It was three hours later and Adam and Eli had yet to talk to Fiona again for the rest of the night, blaming her being busy on it. They had already said hi to her family that Adam knew was there and had started a few small talks with some of the guest, but it was getting boring at the event already. "We better go man. I'm getting fucking tired." Adam told Eli as the other boy yawned. "Alright. We better start looking for Fiona then to say our goodbyes." Eli looked around a bit before seeing Adam already heading for the exit. "Whoa dude you're just going to leave?" Eli tells him as he catches up to Adam "Dude we are in a room full of people. She won't even notice or care that we are not here or that we have left so let's just go.' Adam said, placing the empty glass of scotch on one of the waitress trays rounding around the place before walking out. 'The black challenger" Eli told the valet, presenting his ticket and waiting for the car to come.
Adam got into the car and rolled the window down, feeling the cold night air hit his face. "You ok, dude?" Eli asks and he just nods and drifts off, closing his eyes and thinking about the woman he had just seen again that had completely walked out of his life now getting married, Adam putting on a brave face and being happy for her. He was deep in his thoughts. Doesn't even feel them get to the house or inside his room. He was so deep in his own thoughts about her that he feels nothing right now. It scares him that one encounter after so many months of not talking or seeing one another could do this to him. Adam opens his eyes and sees himself in his room, closing his eyes and falling into the sleep his body had already yearned for.
End of Chapter 1
Author's Note- I know the Naked and Famous song now is for gum, but I will always think of Clare looking at herself in the mirror with a princess crown on her head when I hear this song XD Review and let me know if you guys like it :)