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CHAPTER 8

Phil grabbed Adam's hand and pulled him forward away from Matt and Evan. Those two needed some privacy to talk whatever was going with them over. He restrained himself from looking back at them, though Adam didn't. Obviously he could tell that there were problems in that camp too.

Phil was so glad that he and Adam weren't having any problems. They were blissfully happy. Everyday just seemed to be better and better for them. He could honestly see them spending the rest of their lives together, maybe getting married, maybe adopting some kids in the future.

He looked up at his boyfriend a wide grin on his face.

Adam turned to him confused. "What is it?"

"I love you, Adam Copeland."

Adam chuckled. "Is that it? Well, in that case, I love you too, Phil Brooks," he paused a second, before asking "What was that about? Not that I don't like hearing you say that you love me but still, it was a bit out of the blue."

Phil shrugged. "Nothing really. It's just I'm happy with you. Seeing Evan and Matt like that... I don't know... it doesn't seem good for them and I'm glad it's not like that with us."

At Phil's statement, Adam began to feel incredibly guilty about leading him on like this but not enough to admit to what was going on.

"Yeah. I hope they're okay. Matt looked really tense when we left and Evan just looked plain confused." Adam lied. Like he wanted Matt and Evan to stay together! He'd be breaking up with Phil soon enough as well and then he and Matt could get together publicly. No need for everyone to know that they'd been cheating on their partners.

"He is. He told me at the hotel. He doesn't know what is going on with Matt, says Matt's been distant with him for about a month. He doesn't want this to end but he doesn't know what he's done wrong in the first place or how to fix it.

"Well, come on. We need to see if we can find Jeff and John," said Phil.

What Adam actually wanted to do was go back and eavesdrop on Matt and Evan breaking up. Because... well, he needed to know that Matt was actually keeping his word and getting rid of 'small fry' and because he was nosy. He wanted to know if Matt was going to tell Evan about him even though they'd decided that he wouldn't. Would Matt break down and admit everything to a most likely distraught Evan? Adam hoped not.

"Adam, are you okay?"

Adam snapped out of his daze at sound of his name. "What? Yeah, I'm fine, babe."

"Are you sure? You're really quiet."

Adam smiled at Phil. "I'm fine, really."

"Okay. We still have to find Jeff and Phil."

"Babe..." Adam started. Phil looked up at him so he continued. "While I love being out here in the cold at two in the morning searching for our dumb ass drunken friends, you know they're probably back at the hotel by now. Maybe they couldn't get a cab and so you missed them or something."

Phil looked down to the ground, feeling a bit hurt. He should have known that the guys were just humouring him when it came to this search. He knew Adam was just trying to spare his feelings or whatever. "Yeah, I guess." He shrugged. "It was kinda nice getting to spend some time with Evan and you though. I don't see Evan half as much as I used to – he's always with Matt!"

Adam couldn't help but think to himself, He won't be soon. You can see him all you want after tonight.

"Come on then. We'll start walking back toward Matt and Evan. We should be able to catch up with them and get a cab back to the hotel," Phil said, wrapping his arm around his boyfriend's waist. He didn't notice that Adam was both slow and reluctant to wrap his own arm around Phil's shoulders.

They'd been walking for a few minutes when they heard a yell. "... NOT TRUE!"

Phil and Adam looked at each other before both said, "Evan." With a nod, both men ran in the direction of the sound.

The scene they came across was of Evan and Matt hugging each other, both sobbing, both shaking. Neither had noticed Phil and Adam arrive as they had their eyes closed. They could hear Matt murmuring continually, "I'm sorry."

Matt was the first to open his eyes and see them. "Phil, Adam," he said, looking straight at Adam, an indistinguishable look in his eyes. He moved away from Evan as well.

Evan turned his head at the mention of Phil. The look of desolation in Evan's eyes broke Phil's heart and he move quickly over to the younger man; kneeling on the ground he grabbed him in a tight hug.

"Shhhh, shhhh," he whispered as Evan sobbed. "What happened?"

Evan just cried all the harder. He couldn't speak and even if he could, how could he have explained this? How could he explain that Matt told him that he didn't love him anymore?

Evan eventually told Phil what happened. In bursts of whispers, he explained to Phil that that Matt had told him that he didn't love him anymore.

He glared up at the elder Hardy, not believing that he'd said that. If there was anything worse than hearing that said to you, he didn't know or want to know what it was.

Phil was in two minds about what he'd just heard. On the one hand, he was so sorry for Evan. He couldn't believe that Matt had broken up with such a sweet young man. On the other, he was glad about the break up because that meant that there was nothing stopping him from coming on to Evan. Oh... except for Adam.

Those feelings were confusing the shit out of Phil. He'd never had feelings for Evan before and he certainly hadn't thought about cheating on Adam before and he wasn't sure he even wanted to in the first place.

Just a few metres away, Adam had helped Matt to his feet and hugged the younger man to him. Even though he'd wanted this to happen, he didn't want Matt or Evan badly hurt or anything. He'd known that this was going to be hard for Matt because he knew that Matt still cared for Evan and he hadn't wanted to do this to him, at all. He'd even tried to end it with him, Adam, to get out of having to break up with Evan.

Matt wrapped his arms around Adam's waist, weeping softly against his chest getting his silk shirt wet. There was a small wall just a metre or so away so Adam took Matt over to it and sat him down on the bricks. He joined him quickly, sitting to the side of Matt and pulling him close to his chest again, his arms around him.

He liked being able to hold Matt in public, even if it wasn't as a couple. If he was honest with himself, which he was, he couldn't wait to break up with Phil and wished he could do it now but to alleviate suspicion, him and Matt had decided that he would dump Phil in a couple of weeks or so.

Adam also had a perfect view of Phil and Evan and was surprised to see a scheming look in Phil's eye. Did Phil want Evan? That was interesting. He'd never even considered that his Straightedge boyfriend who didn't have promiscuous sex, and had only done some stuff with him after they'd been together for three months, would ever want another. He looked like he was actually considering going for it too.

Phil was delusional. He thought that things were great between them and yet wanted someone else? Adam had been doing his best to create the illusion that things were great between them. Maybe he was a better actor than he thought.

Adam chuckled to himself. No one cheated on Adam Copeland. Phil was in for a shock if he even tried and it didn't look like Evan was actually in any condition to start anything new.


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