Adrienne sat on a bench alone, she was thinking about everything, mostly about Rachel. She couldn't understand why her friend would betray her like that. These thoughts were pushed out of her head by the thoughts of the punishment she was going to receive for kissing Rob and telling him that she was having a relationship with Peter. Why had she done that? She was reverting to her old lying ways.

"Adrienne," a voice broke through the silent winter air.

She turned around to see Will walking towards her, but it wasn't just Will there was another woman there as well.

"Miss Kendall this is Adrienne Price," Will introduced the woman.

"Who is she?" Adrienne asked.

"I'm from social services, I need to speak with you," Miss Kendall said.

Adrienne thought Miss Kendall looked like she was twelve. Miss Kendall smiling bubbly attitude made Adrienne want to throw up her lunch.

"Adrienne, why don't we take a walk?" Miss Kendall said rather than asked.

"Sure," Adrienne mumbled following Miss Kendall away for Will.

"Will tells me you might be having an inappropriate relationship with Mr. Scarbrow," Miss Kendall told her.

"So much for you trying to make small talk first. I made all that up; I lie a lot," Adrienne explained.

"Are you sure?" Miss Kendall questioned.

"Yeah, can I go now?" Adrienne asked.

"Yes, but you need to understand that I'll be watching this situation," Miss Kendall said.

Adrienne didn't respond; she just walked away. She didn't like Miss Kendall. Miss Kendall acted as if she knew what was right for everyone. Rachel would make a good social worker because Rachel wanted to be in everybody business. It was at this moment that Adrienne made a vow not to speak with anyone here.

"Hey," Auggie said to Adrienne.

She said nothing; she just stared.

"What's wrong with you?" he asked. Again, she said nothing. No one would ever find out the truth.

~~~~~~ At Peter and Sophie's House ~~~~~~

"I don't know how we're going to get everything set up by tomorrow," Sophie said desperately.

"Don't worry, we'll figure something out," Peter told her.

Sophie sat down on the couch, while Peter went to find the tools they would need to put together the furniture. When he returned Sophie was asleep. Peter wallowed in self-pity for a moment then an idea hit him. He knew nine people who would be willing to help. He drove to Horizon a little faster than usual.

When he arrived it didn't take long to find the first of his recruits. Natalie, Scott, Shelby, Ezra, Auggie, and Juliette were playing soccer in the snow. Peter called them over to him.

"How would you like to help me with a special project?" he asked.

"What kind of project?" Juliette asked.

"Sophie fell asleep, and I need help getting things ready for our kids," Peter explained.

"Kids?" Shelby questioned.

"Yes, kids. We're going to be getting twin girls," Peter said.

"Yeah, we'll help," Scott said speaking for the whole group.

"Let's go round up the others," Shelby said. The six dispersed and returned with David, Daisy, and Adrienne a few moments later.

"How are we going to get there?" Auggie asked.

"We can walk; it isn't too far," Peter told them.

The group walked along the road that led to Peter's house. The sun had already fallen behind the horizon, and the sky was fall of stars.

"It's so peaceful out here, I don't know if I could ever live in a city," Juliette announced.

"Yeah, it is nice out," Scott admitted.

Shelby shot him a look. "Is he flirting with Juliette?" she asked herself, "No, I just must be imagining things, Scott and Juliette are over, way over."

Ezra fell behind a few steps, so he could walk with Adrienne. "How's it going?" he asked.

"All right," Adrienne answered. There was something about Ezra that was different from everyone else that had made her break her vow to silence. "I have a question, and you seem to be the type of person who can answer it."

"Ask away, my love," Ezra told her.

"Keep that kind of talk on the DL, or Auggie will freak," Adrienne said.

"Yeah, I know he has been making moves on you, but remember I can love you too," he explained.

"Oh, we're in love now. I think this relationship is moving a little fast for me," she joked.

"Anyway my question, what would happen if someone here got caught with contraband," she whispered.

"How'd you figure I'd know about this?" he questioned.

"I figured that you're the type of guy who knows how stuff is," Adrienne stated.

"In that case, it would really depend on what you had; it's hard to say," he said, "You'd definitely be punished."

"That sucks," she told he.

"I answered your question, now I have one for you," Ezra said. "Did you really kiss that nurse guy?"

Adrienne paused, she didn't want to talk with anyone; she'd get hurt if she shared so much. "Yeah," she admitted.

"Why did you do it?" he asked.

"He's cute," Adrienne stated.

"I'm cute," Ezra told her.

"You want me to kiss you too?" she asked.

"Yes," he said.

"Okay," Adrienne answered.

"Are you serious?" he questioned.

"Yupp," she replied.

"Sweet, we can do it later tonight; we'll sneak away while we're working on Peter's room," Ezra told her.

"Sounds good, just give me a wink," she said.

Ezra picked up his pace; he didn't want to make things look too obvious.

"What were you and Adrienne talking about?" Daisy asked.

"Shouldn't your tarot cards be able to tell you that?" Ezra asked her.

"No, but I could have eavesdropped," Daisy told him.

"Nothing, we were just talking about basketball," he lied.

"Basketball?" Daisy questioned.

"Yeah, she's a big fan," Ezra explained.

Daisy was halted from making any more inquiries about the conversation, because Peter began explaining everything that needed to be done.

"I don't care how you guys divide up, but we need painters and assemblers," Peter said.

"What is an assembler?" Shelby asked.

"You assemble the furniture," he explained.

"I'll do that," Shelby told him.

"Me too," Scott said.

"Ezra, Natalie, and David, why you guys help with the assembling too," Peter said.

Ezra looked at Adrienne. They both knew that if they put up a fight everyone would know. Adrienne mouthed "don't worry, I have a plan."

When they reached the house Peter went to show the assembly crew where the boxes of furniture were. He had told the paint crew to wait in the room awaiting the paint. Juliette and Daisy were looking around the room, and Auggie walked over to where Adrienne was sitting on the floor.

"Are you mad at me?" he asked.

"No, I just want to be alone. What I mean is I'm not ready to start seeing anyone," she told him. Adrienne was shocked herself as these words left her lips. She had really liked Auggie up until a few minutes ago, she couldn't believe her heart was changing so quickly.

"Don't worry about it, I understand. You still want to friends?" he asked.

"Yeah, we can still be friends," Adrienne told him.

* In the next chapter, Peter talks to Adrienne. Does Ezra ever receive his kiss? Find out this and much more in the next chapter. Reviews are always welcomed.