Adam, Kirsty and Jess had been at the pub for half-an-hour or so before Zoe and Nick arrived together.
"Hey." Adam greeted them both with a smile. "Alright, drinks are on me tonight, what can I get you both?" Adam asked them.
"Oh just an orange-juice for me Adam." Zoe told him. Adam looked shocked and Jess and Kirsty shot-each-other sarcasticly confused looks as they heard Zoe's response.
"Just an orange-juice Zo?" Adam double-checked.
"Yeah, it's been a long-day..."
"Okay so are you ill, or do I really need to worry about you?" Adam said jokingly.
"Hey I'm not that much of an alcoholic."
Adam, Jess, Kirsty, and Nick all looked at each-other one-by-one and smiled-cheekily, but also slightly in shock still from Zoe's response.
"Yes you are." They all replied simply before they all burst-out into fits of giggles.
Adam then wandered-off towards the bar to order their drinks, he took-it that Nick would have the usual.
Nick and Zoe took their seats with Jes and Kirsty.
"So I take it the court-case went-well?" Zoe began.
"Yeah it did, Adam was so brave, it was unbelieveable really after all that he's been through..." Kirsty told them-all before Adam headed-over with the drinks.
"Well that's great-news guys." Nick said with a genuine-smile as Adam placed the tray-full of drinks down onto the table, not noticing the group of girls that were checking him-out a few metres away.
However Kirsty spotted them and eyed to Zoe who laughed. That was so Adam, he hadn't even spoken to those girls yet already they couldm't keep their eyes off of-him. "Hey Ad..." Kirsty said.
"Uh, yes Kirsty?" He replied.
"Come-'ere a second." She requested as he took his seat closely next to her.
Kirsty then pulled at Adam's t-shirt, pulling-him in closely before her arms travelled around to the back of Adam's neck, wrapping themselves firmly into position as she kissed Adam on the lips. She purposely over-exaggerated the kiss, in attempt to tease the girls and make them jealous. Kirsty laughed as she pulled-away. Adam was still clueless that the girls behind him even existed, but Zoe, Jess, Kirsty, and Nick had all clicked-on by now and laughed at each-other.
"Whaaat?" Adam questioned and with that, Dianne, Sean's partner, entered the pub.
Dianne spotted and recognised the group of Doctors and Nurses almost immediatley and walked-over to them nervously.
"Hello, Dianne isn't it? Sean's partner? Shouldn't you be with Lucy?" Zoe asked.
"She's with my sister..." Dianne replied tearfully.
Adam noticed the tears forming in Dianne's eyes and stood-up to go and comfort her.
"Hey what's-up?" He asked as he put an arm around her shoulders, but Dianne shrugged his comforts-away.
"Don't you try and comfort-me, this is all YOUR FAULT!" Dianne shouted, tears now streaming from her eyes. She began hitting Adam's chest in anger as she sobbed. "Why did you have to do this to us? Why did you have to tear-us apart like this? Lucy hasn't got a chance of bonding with her Father now." She cried as she continued to hit Adam's chest.
Adam grabbed her wrists as he tried to stop the hitting. "Woah woah woah, ow, look just calm-down." He told her firmly as Nick rose to his feet in attempt to help his friend-out. Everyone had just seemed to look-on until now. "Come-on Dianne, lets get you a drink ey? And then we can talk this through properly." Nick re-assured her as he put his arms around her shoulders and lead her towards the bar.
Adam watched-on, tears forming at the back of his eyes. Kirsty stood-up, walking-over to Adam and gently taking his hand into hers.
"Ad...Adam." She said quietly, but just above the volume of a whisper.
Adam turned to her, his eyes wide and his face with an expression on it that looked lost and confused, like he just couldn't handle this anymore. His mouth-opened to speak but he couldn't, no words would come-out.
Kirsty closely observed Adam's reaction to her calling-his name and looked him directly in the eyes, concerned about her boyfriend.
"Darlin' this isn't your fault, don't let her convince you that it is..." She said as she tried her best to comfort him.
"Of-course it's my fault Kirst, yet again, I've ruined someone else's life. First it was my parents, then my brother, then Harry, then Jess, and now I've ruined the life of a perfectly-innocent baby and her Mum, and I don't even know them all that-well." Adam said before the tears began to fall-down his face. Jess felt like she wanted to do something, or say something to Adam, but she chose to leave Kirsty to do that, Jess did cheering-up better than she did comfort. She would just have to wait until later-on, when the tears had faded into smiles, then she could the cherring-up job well. And Jess definitely knew how to cheer Adam-up.
"Oh Adam, my sweetheart, none of that is your-fault, you know that." Kirsty said before she hugged Adam tightly, trying not to cry herself as she comforted her man. Nick then brought Dianne back-over, who now had herself a drink. Dianne placed her drink on the table before lightly-tapping Adam on the back. He wiped the tears-away before turning to face-her.
"I'm sorry for blaming-you, I shouldn't have done. Sean had no right to do what he did to you." Dianne told Adam, her voice sounding slightly choked from where she had been-crying a lot.
"Hey I'm sorry too, I'm sorry that Lucy won't get to know her father as-well as most-other babies do..." Adam said softly. Dianne then un-expectadely hugged-Adam before she pulled-away.
Adam and Dianne then both took their seats. Adam inbetween Kirsty and Jess, and Dianne inbetween Zoe and Nick.
"Are you okay?" Nick motuhed to Adam from across the table.
Adam nodded as Kirsty cuddled-up to him, resting her head onto his shoulder.
"I Love-You Adam Trueman." She stated, and Adam smiled-weakly with a tired-sigh.
"I Love You Too...Kirsty Clements." He replied and Kirsty looked-up at him and smiled as she nestled her head into his neck.
"What happened to You and Alex then Ad?" She began, changing the subject for just a second. "I mean, after the crash...what-happened?"
Adam breathed-out sadly. "We stayed with our Grand-Parents for while...well, I did, Alex spent more of his time having check-up's at the hosptial...but you know what Grand-Parents are like Kirst, they love their Grand-Children with all their heart, but at the end of the day, they brought-up your parents, not-you...eventually it just doesn't-work anymore..." Adam told Kirsty tearfully.
Kirsty felt so sorry for Adam, his life had oretty-much been like a living-hell so far, and now all Kirsty wanted to do was to make him happy-again, and she was trying, but it was tough. but she had to figure-him-out somehow, Jessica had managed it, and Kirsty was sure that she could if she tried hard-enough, and Kirsty loved Adam so much that she was willing-to try that hard to make him that happy-man that Docotr Adam Trueman used to be.
Kirsty spread her arm across Adam's chest as she remained cuddled-up to him. "It must've been toguh darlin', I'm sorry."
"Ah, that's just life for you Kirst I suppose, things may seem like hell, but one-day, and just for one-day only, things start to seem more...heavenly, and that's when you appreciate-life for what it is...we never appreciate how lucky we are to have a life until someone else's looses their's...but that's not how it should be..." Adam trailed-off, simply just too tired to continue as he rested his cheek onto the top of Kirsty's head and closed his eyes. Yes he was in a pub, but he didn't care, it had been a long few days and he needed the rest.
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