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, Jordan, and Fulton's girlfriend.
Portman
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"Adam?" I walked into our room after we got back from the hospital and cautiously looked in the direction of Adam's bed where Adam was sitting, staring at the cast plastered to his wrist.
"Adam, are you alright?" I ventured, taking a seat on my bed, facing him.
"You heard the doctor. I'll be fine," he muttered, not even looking up at me.
"No, are you alright, emotionally? You can't keep it all bottled up you know." Adam tore his eyes away from the cast and met my eyes. I bit down a gasp. His blue eyes were sad, almost pleading and his usually neutral expression had been totally wiped from his face. He looked like a little five-year old who's favorite toy was just broken.
"No," he sighed, "No, I'm not alright. Do you have a few hours to talk about this?"
"I have as long as you need." And so he spilled the whole story. From the beginning of the bus ride when he thought he saw something in Charlie's eyes when they held an electrocuting gaze, until right before Kori came back with the ski patrol.
"He told me that everything was going to be okay, that I didn't have to worry about anything. But I do," he was lying on his bed looking at the ceiling and occasionally glancing at me now, "He just doesn't know it. He thought I liked Kori. He probably still thinks I like Kori. And no offense to Kori, who's a beautiful girl, I just don't swing that way. He doesn't know that though and sometimes, I just want to scream out my confession of love to him. But I never do," he finished sadly. I sat, frozen on my bed and watched him. I wondered how hard it had to be to know that you loved someone, but to also know that that someone didn't love you the same way.
"Well, hey, you don't know that Charlie's not gay," I pointed out in a desperate attempt to make Adam feel better. It didn't work too well.
"He likes Kori, Portman," he told me dryly, sitting up.
"Maybe it's a cover-up."
"I highly doubt it."
"Why don't we find out for ourselves?" Banksie sent me an incredulous look.
"Oh yeah," he said sarcastically, "We'll just go up to him and say, 'Hey Charlie, what's up? Oh by the way, are you gay?' I'm sure that'll go over real well with him, Portman." I rolled my eyes.
"Not like that! Geez, I thought you'd have figured it out by now since you're in A classes and all. If he's questioning his sexuality at all, he'll feel like he needs to talk about it. Well you're one of his best friends, he'll tell you." I pointed out. Adam paused and thought for a minute and then, for the first time I'd seen all day, he smiled.
"Hey, you're right!" he exclaimed, "All I have to do is pry it out of him! But…how will I do that without planting suspicions in his mind?"
"Get Kori to do it," I said simply, "I mean, she has no attraction to him, does she?"
"She kind of does," he replied uncomfortablely. A knock sounded at our door and Adam sighed, getting up to answer it. It was Kori.
"Hey," he said softly, inviting her inside.
"Oh Adam, I'm so sorry about everything that happened today!" she threw herself into his arms. He looked genuinely surprised by her outburst and awkwardly put his left arm around her to comfort her.
"It's okay, Kori. It's okay. I apologize for over-reacting." Kori stepped back from him to give him room and smiled at him, plopping herself onto my bed next to me. Adam closed the door and resumed his former position on his bed.
"Hey, Kori?" I piped up.
"Yeah?"
"Do you like Charlie as anything more than a friend?" Her face clouded over at the mention of Charlie's name and she bit her lip, looking down, "No," she answered weakly, "Not anymore." I looked at Adam with satisfaction only to find guilt contorted all over his face. Was I missing something here?
"Kori, you don't have to--" Adam started, but Kori cut him off.
"No, it doesn't have to do with you Adam. It's okay. It's something else entirely, but it's not important," she paused before smiling at Adam, "I think you're starting to grow on Captain Duck, Adam." He was? This was news.
"How so?" Adam asked, just as confused as I was.
"Well on the bus, he kept glancing at you while you were asleep this morning and he's unusually quiet around you. That's definite signs of a crush development here."
"That's just because you were around."
"Not true!"
"True!" Adam and Kori glared at each other playfully before breaking out in fits of giggles (yes, giggles). The three of us headed down to dinner together about an hour later. Coincidentally, the first person we saw was Charlie. I looked closely at Adam and Charlie when they were together while Kori and I pretended to be absorbed in conversation.
Charlie, who was never quiet, didn't open his mouth once as we headed into the cafeteria. He greeted us with a slight nod and glance at Adam's wrist. It was kind of odd. Kori pulled me back and we slowed our pace so that we fell right behind the two of them. Not a word was exchanged between them and I could tell that Adam was starting to get uncomfortable. Finally, as we stood in line, Adam blurted out,
"Charlie, are you okay?" Charlie jumped when he heard his name.
"Yeah, I'm fine…really….um, yeah. I'm going to go back up. I'm not that hungry. I have a lot of homework to catch up on, actually. I'll see you around." Without even glancing at us, Charlie rushed through the double doors just as Luis, Russ, and Fulton came in through them. They looked confused and we shrugged when they looked to us.
"That went…well it could have been better," Kori commented after a few moments' silence. Adam rubbed his temple with his free hand and sighed. Kori and I exchanged looks of concern. This was dragging on far too long and it was tearing our resident Wayne Gretsky apart. Something had to be done to make Charlie realize how perfect he and Adam would be together. He really needed to wake-up. But how were we going to do that? How?
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Melodie: Thanks, here's another chapter!
Kellyerielf: Thanks so much for giving me all your opinions. It really helped!
LilRebel55: Charlie and Adam…*sigh* all I can say is Charlie better wake up soon! Oh yeah, I'm supposed to make that happen…hehe, I'm workin' on it!
Vinnies-Angel: No human can resist Adam Banks, they'd have to be crazy!! =D
Sphinx: Yes, Charlie seriously needs to WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!!!
WeBuiltThisCityOnRockAndRoll: Slash thrills me to no end nowadays too. I don't know what it is...=D
LB: Very very soon…the slap's coming up very very very soon, don't worry!
Eternity: Hey, you know I'd never make Adam not able to play! =P