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. I probably own Fulton's girl too, but she's not really featured in this story.
Portman
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It seemed to me as if everyone had something to say about Kori Smith, myself included. I liked her; she's really nice and pretty hot too. But other than that, I have nothing more to say about Kori. Everyone else made a big deal about her presence at Eden Hall, especially the rest of the Ducks. Personally, I didn't see why. Guy said that she was hot and Connie said she was ugly, but kind. I don't even think Connie's opinion was honest. At least she was nice to Kori. Luis said that she was really smart and Russ predicted that she was a city girl. Fulton, who found a girlfriend by the way, said she was his girlfriend's room-mate and liked her a lot. Julie thought she was very outgoing and positive and Goldberg told me she was a regular customer at his mom's restaurant. Averman and Dwayne thought her hair was too bright, but that she was pretty nice otherwise. Ken felt that she was very nice and very open to everything. So maybe everyone's opinions were similar, but I didn't think they needed to voice them so openly.
Charlie was in love with Kori, that much was readable. He stared at her with this intensity that could probably melt chocolate on a freezing day. Adam was pretty stoic most of the time, but he's been pretty quiet ever since Kori came to Eden Hall. Everyone gets the impression that Adam is the quiet Duck, but he isn't really that quiet at all. When you give him time to relax and let loose, he can be pretty loud and wild. But lately, he's been subsided and he's grown very…to himself. I don't know if it's because he likes Kori more than everyone thought he did or because of something else. Sometimes, I think he's staring at Charlie. But then again, it could be just my eyes. On the other hand, he's never actually had a real girlfriend before. 'Stop it! It's not doing Adam any good if you're just sitting here so get your fat ass up and talk to him for God's sake!' I yelled at myself. Sighing, I picked myself up from the desk where I was sitting and jumped into the shower. The talk would have to wait. Adam was out right now and besides, I reeked of sweaty hockey player.
After a refreshing shower, I sat at my desk, drumming my fingers on the table and waiting for Adam to get home. I was dead set on having this talk with him. It was obvious that Charlie was too much in love to care about his best friend's feelings, not that I was blaming Charlie for anything. It was just that sometimes, Charlie got his priorities a little mixed up.
"Bored much?" Adam startled me out of my daze as he entered the room, dropping onto his bed.
"Yeah, man. I don't know what to do," I responded as calmly as possible.
"What? You're not hanging out with Fulton tonight?" Actually, Fulton was out with his girlfriend.
"He's out."
"That sucks. Well, while you sit here and…do what you're doing, I'll go shower. We'll watch a movie or something. This is unbelievable. We must be the biggest dorks on campus, sitting around on a Friday night!"
"Yeah," I laughed, "Go take your shower Banksie. I'll do the movie shopping." He smiled wryly and stepped into the already fogged up bathroom from my shower, closing the door behind him. I absently shuffled through our limited movie collection while Adam was in the shower. It consisted of movies that I'd brought from Chicago, Adam brought from Edina, and some movies that were left here by our friends from previous movie nights. Randomly, I chose Patch Adams from the mix and popped the movie in. Quickly, I ran down to Fulton's room that he shared with Ken; I had a spare key. I rummaged around his stuff until I could find a bag of un-popped popcorn. I somehow managed to pop it and run back to our room just as Adam stepped out of the bathroom clad in plaid pants and a white t-shirt, similar to what I was wearing.
"What movie?" he asked.
"Patch Adams. We have popcorn!" I held the bowl of popcorn up in triumph and Adam grinned. We settled down on the floor to watch the movie. But I had other intentions. I was going to find out what was wrong with Adam and I was going to find out now. I was never much of a conversation starter so it would be hard to start now. Taking in a deep breath, I formed the words in my head.
"Dude, what's wrong with you?" NO! That was not the way it was supposed to come out! After seeing the look on Adam's face, I quickly corrected myself, "Man, I didn't mean that. I meant, are you okay? You seem out of it lately." There, that was better.
"Nothing, I'm fine! Why does everyone ask me that?" he threw his hands up in frustration. Okay, I didn't mean to send an already stressed Adam into even more distraught.
"Because we care, dude," I told him truthfully, "And besides, you're never this quiet around us. Does is have to do with Kori?"
"No! Not at all, Kori and I are just friends. Besides, she likes Charlie." His eyes widened when he said that. I guess he wasn't supposed to tell anyone.
"Don't worry, my lips are sealed."
"Thanks, Portman."
"So? Come on, you can tell me!"
"No, I really don't think I can."
"Why not? It can't be that bad!"
"It really can be!" he looked almost scared of me; of everything. The guy with the red nose on the movie screen had already been disregarded.
"Come on, Adam. What is it?"
"I can't tell you. Really, I can't." The thought hit me suddenly. What if he was dying of some disease? I had to get it out of him!
"Please Adam? I won't do anything! Really!"
"No, please, Portman. You won't be able to look at me anymore when you find out!" he looked genuinely scared.
"Adam. Sit down, calm down, and listen to me." He sat on the bed, took in a few deep breaths, and looked at the floor.
"Are you listening?" I asked him, speaking as if I was talking to a lost puppy.
"Yeah," he mumbled.
"What is wrong?"
"It's just…" he paused for a second, "I really want something I can't have. And it hurts more than anything in the world." I stop for a minute, taking in what he just said.
"What do you mean?" I was confused. He got everything he wanted. All the girls at school were all over him, his parents gave him everything, he was star center of our hockey team. What more could he possibly want?
"There's this g…person."
"Oh, I get it! But all the girls like you!" I exclaimed, not knowing that I had said the wrong thing. Tears soon welled up in his eyes and I wondered what I'd said.
"I don't like girls, I'm gay!"
*Please Review! Thank to all the people that did review!*
Eternity: thanks! I know what you mean, I'm going to try and drag out Charlie's realization because that's the whole point of the story…hehe…oops did I just give that away?
Spaz-chick99: soon enough I hope!
Geometrygal: haha…you must really hate me now for leaving you like that.
Cake Eater: yeah, I don't like how he's so mean in the other stories so I made Brad nice =)
Wari: It's okay…Adam still appreciates the sympathy. =)
Duckslover99: its okay, I understand. Thanks a lot for sticking with my other one! No one seems to like it!
Kelly: You're right again about Kori. I had to make a likeable female character…I just had to. Hehe
I forgot the name of this person but she/he said something like "more. Update. Now. I'm not asking. I'm demanding." THANKS! It didn't show up on the review screen and I lost the email that ff.net gave me.
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