Bree and Adam still haven't talked since last night. Adam went to the capsule early and Bree got home little later just to make that she wouldn't run into him. She speeded into her capsule as quickly as she could so she could just change and go to sleep without having to look at Adam whose already sleeping.
In the morning, the three bionics all wake up at the same time, like usual. "Okay, Bree. I know you got home late, so why?" Chase often interrogates his siblings when they don't follow the rules. "I just went for a run. It's not a big deal." Bree snaps and goes into the other room to change.
"Whoa whats with her?" Chase asks his older brother whose been staring at his capsule. "What? I just thought I saw glimpses of someone."
Chase just looks at him and rolls his eyes. "It's your partial releflection. The glass is transparent but there are some reflective properties when the light hits it." Chase informs him.
Adam is actually smarter than most people think. Not by much, but he is a little smarter than people assume. Just a little.
He couldn't exactly bring himself to look at Bree so he just had to distract himself.
Bree blurs past them into the elevator. She presses herself onto the side and takes the alone time to focus on breathing. Her breathing. Which she's finding difficult at the moment.
When she gets there, Davenport and Tasha are already eating breakfast. "Oh, Bree. I've been to talk to you. I have some new drills I want to do with you tonight. They're going to test your concentration." Bree nods, "Yeah sure." And sits down to eat. "Hey ladies, and gentleDaven." Leo greets in a nerdy way as he slides into the room wearing socks.
"So just how rockin' are these socks?" He brags and tries to slide again to the table, "OH!" But falls flat on his stomach after his legs get confused.
Davenport laughs as Leo throws himself up from the ground. "And I'm good."
"Ha, ha." Davenport points at him this time at him.
Leo looks at Bree, confused at why Bree isn't making fun of him like always.
"Bree, what's up with you?" He sits down next across from her. Bree honestly hasn't even noticed her step-brother "groove" into the room.
"Huh?" Leo looks shocked. The bionics take any chance they can to mock him. "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just…distracted is all." She goes back to focus on eating as to avoid Adam.
"With what?" Leo continues to question the speedy girl.
"Math Test." She quips. Figuring he wouldn't be interested. "Oh that makes sense." Leo gives, to Bree's relief.
"Chase come on, do we have too?" Adam whines. "Yeah, the new training drills have to run through to make our concentration better for the missions."
Chase states and Adam moans. For some reason, Bree feels a tingle when she hears that.
"Hey guys." Chase greets Leo and Bree. Adam and Bree look at each other nervously. "Well I'm walking to school with Silas so I better get going." Bree tells them and rushes out the door.
"Whose Silas?" Davenport asks the kids. "Oh he's this new kid that moved in next door. Personally, I think he's to pretty for his own good." Leo informs his step-dad, bitterness lacing his voice. He was a little jealous of the guy who pretty much answered every question the teachers asked yesterday. Leo's smart too. He believes that for the most part.
"Oh that French styled one. That house is adorable." Tasha comments.
Chase gives her a look. "It's bigger than ours." Tasha rolls her eyes and takes another drink of coffee. "Yeah I thought I saw the new owner yesterday." Davenport starts, "She was haaa" He was going to say hot, but he catches Tasha's knowing look and stops. "Hard to imagine that she's a billionaire. She looked really, soccer mom." He finishes, with a struggle.
"Hey, I used to be a soccer mom." Tasha admits and everyone turns to Leo, except Adam whose just been focused on eating and thinking about Bree.
"You played soccer?" Leo's lips pucker and he tries to act gangster like, or, like he's trying to try to want to be gangster. "Yeah I was a'right. Got kicked off though. Started too many fights." His mom laughs at that. "Honey you got to kicked off because you tripped and poured the water all over the team in the middle of the game."
Leo blushes as his mother's confession. "You were the water boy." Chase's smirk drives Leo crazy most of the time. "I was the best water boy in the league."
Tasha then embarrassed him more my telling them how he was the only water boy in the league.
The boys depart with Adam only saying a few words.
Bree runs over to next door. She passes by the checkered lawn and takes a moment to look at the house before speeding to the door and knocking.
Silas opens it with a big smile and holding his school bag. "Oh hey, Bree. What's up?" The blonde asks. "Well I was just wondering if you wanted to walk to school together?" Bree tries to hide it, but Silas can see that she's a bit desperate.
"Sure." He agrees. Before closing the door he screams, "I'M LEAVING!" And then walks with Bree whose a bit taken aback. He seems to have sort of a calm manner.
After they've gotten onto the sidewalk and out of their neighbourhood, Silas starts. "So what's up? Why'd you need to talk?"
"I don't need to talk." Bree lies. Most of her "friends" would tell anyone and everyone is she told them.
"Bree, I'm new and you and Adam are the only people I've had a conversation with. Who would I tell?" Silas's reasoning is good so Bree just goes with it.
"Something really awkward happened between Adam and I." The brunette admits. Silas brightens up. "I'm listening." She rolls her eyes, not in a mean way, but more in a, confused way. "It's not like that. So I explained to him how I told you we weren't a couple, and then we talked. He was about to leave and then he went to kiss me on my forehead, which he does when we work through something, but I looked up and he kissed me on the lips!" Bree's confession causes Silas's jaw to drop. "That's hysterical." He laughs as they continue walking.
"It's not funny. It's so awkward now. We can't even be in the same room for more than like two minutes without one of us running out." She continues. "You ran." He concludes. Bree is about to protest but, "Girls are more likely to take themseleves out of a situation with a member of the opposite sex that they would consider, uncomfortable or, awkward than that of a male." Bree gives him a confused look. "What do you want we have psych books in our library."
"Okay well, I just don't know what to do." Bree is desperate. Her and Adam are close and she doesn't want anything to really change. She needs advice.
"Bree, I haven't known you or Adam for-" He checks his phone, "-For even 24 hours, but I'd say just keep it simple. Talk to him." That's all the advice Silas has for Bree. And she agrees that she'll talk to him. Eventually. When things aren't so…awkward. After a short walk, they reach the high school. "Anyway, talk to him, and tell me when so I can take pictures." He chirps and then strolls into the school leaving Bree with stuff to think about.
Bree and Adam manage to avoid each other all morning. When lunch comes, Bree patiently waits in the cafeteria for Adam to come in. She decides it's time to talk. Then of course Chase and Leo have to come in and sit down. "I thought you guys were working in the science lab on Leo's project." Bree really doesn't want them there. Her and Adam need to talk…alone.
"Well we were going to when „Leo" here dropped a bottle of acid. I had to use a forcefield to keep it from burning a hole through the door."
Bree just nods in a bored tone. "Hey, where's Adam?" Chase asks. Bree shrugs, "I don't know." Bree answers.
Adam is just on his way downstairs when he stops halfway. He knows Bree's probably in there. He hasn't figured out what to say. It's really hard. "You know she's in there." Adam jumps at Silas's voice. "Where'd you come from?" Silas just gives him a blank look, "Miami."
"Oh right." They both laugh in a duh voice.
"Um, who are you talking about?" Adam questions is an uneven voice. He's the one who kissed Bree and he really doesn't know what to do or say. He's not sure if he should apologize or just act like nothing happened. And it took him awhile to come up with those two options.
"I'm talking about Bree. Listen, I know what happened, and I won't tell anyone. But just talk to her."
Adam slips to sit on the stairs and Silas joins him. "I didn't mean to kiss her. I'm just, had no idea what to do." Adam tells his new friend. "Well it's understandable. But, maybe think about why it's so awkward." The oldest bionic just looks confused. "Do you like her? I mean, like her; like her?"
Adam is about to protest, but he hesitates and tries to think about it. "And that's what you should be thinking about." Silas tells him.
"Could you help me?" Adam may be strong, and definitely looks it, but he has some trouble with words.
"I think this is something you're going to have to do on your own." Adam nods. "But I will help you make a list on of how to start the conversation." He offers. "Okay!" Adam's excitement skyrockets at someone helping him with this.
By the end of the day, Adam has a full list on conversation starters. Silas came up with most of them, but Adam contributed too. He does know Bree. Better than most people really.
Bree still speeds home alone, she chickened out of talking to Adam at school. She decided to do it tonight. After everyone went to sleep so no one would overhear or interrupt them. And she needs that.
"Bree, great you're home. Change into your suit and get ready at the mission stimulator." Donald instructs. Bree rolls her eyes at this. Just what she needs right now, a new mission-ish.
"Do I have too?" She is so not in the mood. "Bree, has training ever been really optional?" Davenport questions. No. Bree just gets to the elevator and goes downstairs to change.
Adam, Chase and Leo enter shortly after and are given the same instructions. "And Bree's already down there." Adam hesitates before following Chase and Davenport downstairs.
When they get downstairs Bree is waiting in her uniform for the training. She and Adam avert their eyes. "Okay so you two change and I'll get the stimulator ready." The boys go get changed into their suits, Bree turning her attention to Davenport. "So, what's up?" "You guys are all going to have to go through quick scenarios where you're concentration will be key in succeeding them." Bree nods, just wanting to get through it.
Adam and Chase soon return after changing into their body suits. Bree blushes at seeing Adam's muscles, and then pinched herself at ths thought.
"Okay guys, get ready."
"What was that?" Davenport is fuming. The training, didn't go great.
"I guess we were just, off." Bree says coming up with a quick excuse. It's not a lie, just, not the whole truth. She and Adam had been thinking about each other the entire time and Chase got thrown off as well.
"Hey speak for yourselves. You and Adam weren't paying attention, and you dragged me down too." The youngest complains. "Hey those missle's were coming really fast." Adam defends.
"Yeah and those tires kept rising and changing directions. It was hard." Bree tells her part of it.
"And Chase, you're the one who obsessed about showing how to do it right which thrower your training off. It was your own fault." Bree knows she messed up, but she's not going to let her really obnoxious little brother act all high and mighty and blame them for everything. Like what he tries to do most of the time.
"Hey I wouldn't have had to help if you two focused."
Adam's confused at this point, "But you couldn't do ours and you got hit by those missles and hit Bree after tripping through hers." Bree and Adam glance at each other quickly and Bree gives him a little smile at him helping her and he returns it. "Well you can do it tomorrow. I'm sure you all have homework to do."
Davenport has finally adjusted to them going to school and not being able to train all the time. Marcus showed him how they do need a normal life or else they could turn out like…him. They still don't know who built him. And he wants the bionics to have what they want, as long as he's okay with it that is. And they don't reveal their powers. That ones a given though.
The guys all go to head upstairs but Bree just gets her homework out of her bag and heads to sit in her capsule. "Bree? You coming?" Davenport wonders. Bree is usually the most social bionic, in all ways.
"No, I'll just do my homework here." She mutters. Adam's spirit falls a little at this. He doesn't want to drive Bree away. He would never want to do that. Bree has honestly his best friend. He'll talk to her tonight: he decides. That way everything will be done with. He just needs to figure out what to say. Exactly.
Once the guys are out, Eddy shows up. "Miss. Bree. Training has commenced. Has your bionic speed malfuncated and you are not able to walk efficiently?" Bree glares. "No. I just wanted to be by myself." At her dismissal, Eddy stays there.
"Does this have anything to do with your and Mr. Adam's kiss?" Bree's jaw drops. "I see everything Miss. Bree." He informs her. "Eddy you know you can not tell anyone or I will unwire you so fast." Eddy visibly quakes at her threat. Even though Bree has no idea how to do that, she's scary when she wants to be.
"All I advise, is for future training; you talk to Mr. Adam and clear anything up. It is a danger if
Mr. Chase is the only one with his head in the field. After all, he's not the best fighter." Bree chuckles. "Finally someone points out a flaw besides his terrible personality." Bree thanks the house computer system.
During dinner, Adam takes it downstairs as to give Bree no choice but to eat upstairs at the table.
Dinner goes well, and Bree forces herself to get into the conversation and involve herself so no one would get suspicious of anything. She feels as though they might catch on soon enough.
After a while, "Okay, kids: Donald and I have a few things to discuss about Christmas and it's late. So you all need to get to sleep." Tasha tells them to which the three all go to their perspective beds and capsules.
Bree and Chase get to the basement and Adam greets them, "Hey guys. Ready to recharge?" Chase and Bree nod and they all go to change. Bree leaving the room.
Adam and Bree both take longer than necessary to change.
Chase is already in his capsule by the time Bree
re-enters the room.
"Bree, I thought your power was supposed to be super speed."
Adam laser zaps him. "Ow." Bree speeds over and slaps Chase. "Hey!" The smartest bionic closes his door and turns to go sleep. Bree and Adam share a laugh. They always team up against Chase. He always loves to act better than both of them. So they love it being two against one.
"Hey." Adam repeats. "Hi." Bree and Adam just stand their awkwardly. "So, I wanted to talk about what happened." Bree marveled at this. She didn't except Adam to be so forthcoming. She was so sure she would have to be the one get him to talk.
"I wanted to talk too. I know you didn't mean too and we really just shouldn't let this get too awkward. I mean you're my best friend Adam-" Bree's cut off for just a moment, "And you're my best friend." Bree giggles at this, which Adam smiles too. "And I just don't want to loose you. We have to work through this and we can. So I think-"
Once again, Bree is cut off. But not by Adam speaking. He pecks her on the lips and jumps back waiting for her reaction. "Um, what was that?" The speedster's at a loss for words. "Bree I just wanted too see-"
It's Adam's turn to be cut off as Bree pecks him on the lips. "Why did I do that?" She screams. Adam tries to come up with something to say but just shrugs and makes hand movements.
They both go for another quick kiss then run into their capsules.