BEGINNING 1
Oh, I give up. This is the beginning. The very Beginning.
"Mr. Kane?" The dark haired man sitting in the waiting room looked up, startled.
"Yes? That's me." He stood and started walking towards the door.
"Congratulations, sir. It's a boy." The joy that filled his face shone from him like the sun.
"Can I see him?"
"Yes, come on through." His wife looked up at him as he walked in, her face tired, but filled with the same light that filled his.
"Isn't it wonderful." She asked, showing him a bundle of blankets in her arms. "Daddy, meet Adam. Adam, meet"
OK, so that's too far back. A little adjustment and yes, there you go
Adam sighed as he swirled his drink in his cup and took as sip - choking a little as the heavily spiked punch hit the back of his throat. As dorm. parties went, this was one of the worst ones yet. The music was terrible, the air was filled with smoke of questionable origins, he had a pounding headache and an exam tomorrow morning. He just couldn't get up the energy to leave, least of all to sit and read another revision sheet on the kind of genetics he had learned when he was twelve. He had come to this, one of the more renowned universities, expecting to be challenged and had been sorely disappointed. But he was only in his first year, maybe this was just going to be a catch-up year, to get everyone up to the same level.
He caught the eye of his friend - the one who he had supposedly been escorting to and from this so-called party - and indicated that he was leaving. She smiled and dragged herself away from the young lady she had been glued to all evening, pulling her along behind. Walking through the crowd and being forced to dodge the other people, her limp seemed even more pronounced than usual. But then the woman she was with had dragged her onto the dance floor and she had always refused to dance on the grounds that it hurt too much so maybe that was the reason.
When they were close enough to be heard by each other he called out.
"I'm going, OK?"
"Yeah. Amy's going to walk me back to the dorms. I'll see you tomorrow in the lecture OK?" Adam smiled, he thought that might be the case, the way the two had spent the night together after such a short introduction. It seemed so stupid to have to walk Rachel everywhere, but she had already been attacked once this semester - apparently easier game than most for the stoned morons that ruled the campus after dark and insisted on creating anarchy. Amy seemed nice though, maybe Rachel had finally found someone. The thought was vaguely scary. They had been good friends since the very start of the term, he hated to think that he might loose her friendship to a long term relationship. He shook of the thought and commanded himself to pay attention to where he was going. He would get lost or mugged if he wasn't careful. If Rachel had found herself a partner he would be nothing but happy for her, he decided. Hearing a rustle in the bushes beside him he increased his pace as he hurried back to the dorms. Some protection he would have been, he laughed at himself. He was going to have to get some self-defence lessons, maybe that would make this tiring course a little more interesting.