14. Walls

Authors Note: baby monkey deserves thanks, because without that.. interesting.. AIM conversation we had, this chapter wouldn't be possible.

"There's something wrong with our children," Will told Helen the next morning.

"Why do you say that?" Helen asked. Will pointed to the living room. Helen looked in and saw Luke spred out on the couch, Kevin next to the couch and Joan on his lap. The three were sitting in silence watching 'A Walk to Remember'. Joan grabbed some popcorn out of the bowl seated on Luke's legs.

"You're right. They're all getting along. And watching a Mandy Moore movie."

"We should enjoy the silence while we've got it." Helen smiled.

"I'll get the keys," she said.

*

Joan hit the re-wind button and got up off of Kevin's lap. Luke stood up, forgeting the popcorn bowl on his legs, and spilling left over popcorn all over the floor.

"Smooth," Joan said as Luke began picking it up as the door bell rang. "Oh, that's Adam," she said, making her way over to the door.

"Hey," Joan said, moving to let Adam in.

"Hey Jane." Joan took Adam's hand and pulled him towards the stairs.

"We'll be upstairs," Joan told her brothers.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do," Kevin joked.

"There's not much you wouldn't do Kev," Joan told him.

"Good point. Don't do anything Luke wouldn't do." Joan laughed and she and Adam headed upstairs.

"I resent that statement," Luke said, standing up.

*

"I love you," Joan told Adam once they were upstairs.

"I love you too Jane," Adam said, wrapping his arms around her waist and she wrapped hers around his neck as they kissed. The two began moving, or attempting to move, across Joan's room to take a seat on her bed without breaking their kiss. After a few minutes, Joan heard a loud thud and pulled away from Adam.

"Oh my God! Are you okay?!" she asked when she saw she had slammed him into a wall.

"Cha. My back hurts.." Adam told her.

"I'm really sorry," Joan told him.

"Jane, it's okay yo," Adam told her. The two backed away from the wall and resumed their make out session. Moments later they both went crashing to the ground, Adam on the bottom. Joan rolled off of Adam and sat up.

"Sorry.." Joan said again, looking at the chair the two had tripped over. Adam stood up, rubbing his back. "Do you need some ice?"

"No, I'm fine. I just never knew making out was so.. Painful.."

"Maybe we should sit. Could be safer," Joan suggested.

"Unchallenged," Adam agreed. The two walked over to Joan's bed, when Adam slippec on a shirt laying on the floor and went crashing to the ground.

"Adam!" Joan yelled. Adam started laughing.

"I think I broke my back, yo." Joan looked down at him. The door to Joan's room opened.

"Everything okay? It sounds like you're stashing a herd of elephants up here Joan," Kevin said, wheeling into the room.

"Everything's great Kev. Bye," Joan told him. He gave the scene a strange look, Joan sitting on her bed, looking down at Adam who was laying on the floor.

"Okay.." Kevin said, leaving the room. Joan offered Adam her hand, which he took, and she helped pull him up.

"This was a disaster. I'm so sorry Adam. I'm sorry about the wall, and the chair, and the shirt, and your back," Joan told him. Adam took a seat next to her.

"It's okay, yo."

"Are you okay?"

"Cha Jane, I'm fine," Adam assured her.

"Okay. You sure?" Joan asked again.

"Jane.." Adam said, turning to look at her. He put and hand on her face and pulled her in for a kiss.