Summary: A new girl comes to Eden Hall, befriending Adam. He's able to tell her anything he wants to. Except for one thing. She's falling in love with the guy he's falling in love with. *SLASH*
Author's Note: This is my first shot at MD slash so please bear with me here.
This is slash so if you don't like it…DON'T READ IT!
Disclaimer: I only own Kori, Shane, and Jordan.
Kori's POV
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My first day at Eden Hall wasn't that bad at all. My guide, Adam Banks, is a really nice guy. He's actually really hot too, but there's just something about him that doesn't make me attracted to him at all in that kind of way. He reminded me a lot of Shane and Jordan, two of my best friends from back at home. But his friend, Charlie Conway, now that was one guy that was totally dateable to me. Although I'll admit that Adam is way hotter than Charlie, I felt like Adam wasn't looking for a girlfriend at the moment. Besides, he was definitely checking out some other girl in my math class my first morning.
"What kind of teams are there around here anyway?" I asked Adam as he picked me up from the last period of the day, my third day at Eden Hall.
"Football, basketball, soccer, track, baseball, swimming, hockey. You know stuff like that," he responded, putting an emphasis on hockey.
"Well what do you play?"
"Hockey."
"Oh, cool."
"Do you play any sports?"
"Well I used to swim and dive until I injured my shoulder. Ever since then, I guess I was too afraid to go back into competition. I took up snowboarding and I love it."
"You just…gave up?" I bit my lip, knowing that I shouldn't have told him that.
"Yeah, I did. I know that sounds horrible, but I just couldn't go back into competitions."
"It's okay, I understand."
"Have you ever been snowboarding?" I asked him after a few moments of silence.
"No, I don't think anyone on the team has."
"We have to go! It's still boarding season, come on!" I begged.
"I don't know…it's February."
"So? Is it still hockey season?"
"No, it's not. We won regionals a few weeks back."
"Oh, cool, congrats! So what's the hold-back? Please? It'll be a great experience for the whole team, please Adam?" I pleaded with him, stopping at his locker.
"Oh come on, Banksie. Just give the girl what she wants!" Charlie came up behind Adam, playfully slapping his shoulder. Adam blushed furiously, which I didn't give any thought to since he was probably embarrassed that his best friend sided with the pink haired freak.
"Yeah!" I agreed with him, smiling up at his amazing eyes almost getting lost in them.
"You don't even know what she wants to do!" Adam protested.
Some of Adam's other friends had come by his locker and were listening on curiously, "What does she want to do? You are not taking our Adam! I plan on having him keep his virginity for a few more years, thank you very much!" a big burly hottie who was in our history class joked.
"I just wanted to take you all snowboarding," I feigned frightfulness.
"When? I want to go!" Connie Moreau exclaimed, clinging onto who I assumed was her boyfriend.
"Fine," Adam sighed after a few minutes of everyone giving him puppy faces, "We'll go."
"YES!!" Connie, Julie (the other girl in this group of friends), and I squealed together.
"You're such a gentleman, Adam," I patted his shoulder and ran off to my locker. Images of Charlie and me on the chairlift together raced through my mind and I sighed dreamily, leaning against my locker door.
For the next week or so, I got more and more accustomed to life at Eden Hall so Adam stopped picking me up from classes. We still hung-out a lot and I even stayed at their meal-time table. Soon, I felt totally at peace with Adam as if he was my brother, and it was like I was back at home again. Except for the fact that there was only one of him here, instead of two of him like back at home. One night, I was sitting in the courtyard with Adam, who seemed relatively distant that one particular day. I decided that maybe we needed to actually get to know each other better; know more than just each other's favorite colors. Maybe he had the same idea too.
"So what made you move here?" he asked after a few minutes of silence. I was honestly beginning to worry about him and his quietness. It was the first real sentence he'd spoken to anyone all day.
"My parents had a divorce," I told him truthfully, hoping that maybe he'd tell me something too.
"That sucks."
"Yeah…Adam?"
"Hmmm?"
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't I be?"
"You seem a little troubled, like something's bothering you. You haven't spoken much all day and even though you put on that shy, quiet front, I know you can talk like a gossiping girl, Adam Banks!" I added in what little humor I found in the situation.
"It's nothing, I'm just a little tired out, that's all."
"Sure…I may have fallen for that on the first day of school, but I know you better now."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Good, at least he was talking in complete thoughts now.
"I know something's up, Adam Banks, and I'm not going to quit until I find out what the hell it is!"
"Feeling persistent today, aren't we?" he smiled wryly.
"I'm not even joking anymore, Adam. Please, you're really worrying me. Are you alright? I mean I know it hasn't been that long since I met you, but you know you can come talk to me about anything you need to talk to me about." Adam looked at me for a moment, hesitation shining in his eyes, before becoming very interested in his hands. Finally, with much unease, he nodded.
"Yeah, thanks Kori."
"That's what friends are for, hun," I hugged him platonically, "Now do you want to talk about it?"
There was a moment of uncertainty before he shrugged, "I guess."
"Just take your time."
Taking in a deep breath, Adam turned to look me in the eye, "Have you ever loved someone so much that you'd do anything to see them happy, even if it meant that you couldn't be a part of their lives, romantically?"
"No," I said slowly, "No I haven't ever felt that way about somebody."
"Well, that's how I feel. There's this person that I'm truly in love with; I've never felt this way about anyone ever before. It's such a rush to be around this person, but this person just confessed to me today that there are feelings welled deep inside…for someone else," he finished, sounding heartbroken.
"May I find out this person's name?" I asked gently, aching to make him feel better.
"I'd rather you didn't…sorry."
"Okay, it's okay. I don't want to pry or anything. You're entitled to your privacy after all." I never knew such feelings existed before and I wanted to say or do something to make it up to him, but I didn't know how. All I could do was offer him a shoulder to cry on and apologize profusely for something I didn't even do. And he knew it and all he could do was say that it was okay. But it really wasn't. If only I knew what I was causing…
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