Summer swept by faster then ever before, and before she knew it, Adina was
beginning her second year at Peak County High. This time she hoped to be
there for longer than a month though.
"C'mon girls, get up, today's the first day of school!" Andy shouted as he stuck his head into his daughters' bedroom. Adina pushed her face into a pillow, and let out a long, drawn out groan.
"Don't remind me," Adina sighed, turning over. Andy smiled, and opened the curtains, causing bright rays of sunlight spilled into the room. Delia was up in a flash, ready and excited for her first day. Adina was less then happy about going back. A lazy summer had been just what she needed to cope with leaving everything behind, but she wasn't sure if she was ready to go back.
"Get up Adina, you don't want to be late," Andy called on his way out of the room.
"Oh no, wouldn't want that," Adina grumbled, finally dragging herself from the warmth and comfort of her bed. She grabbed the first pair of jeans she could find, and a blue Hollister's top she got for her last birthday. Grabbing a brush, she hastily combed her soft chestnut hair into a high ponytail, and took a few minutes to carefully line her eyes in black. Popping a stick of trident in her mouth (she figured either Delia or Ephram had already taken over the bathroom, so she wouldn't even get a chance to brush her teeth) and headed downstairs.
"How do you want your eggs, Addie?" Andy asked his eldest daughter, as he cracked an egg into a pan.
"None thanks," Adina replied, just grabbing a bottle of Fiji out of the fridge.
"You're a growing girl, you should have breakfast," Andy commented in a fatherly tone.
"Yeah but eggs have too much cholesterol, now if you were to hand me a grapefruit that may be a different story," Adina said, happy even though she knew she was being a smart ass.
"Alright," Andy sighed, but smiled when he saw Delia coming, "I bet Delia will eat some."
"Grapefruit please!" Delia grinned as she jumped up onto the bar stool next to Adina. Adina laughed and gave her father a "you lose" sort of look.
"Will you settle for an orange?" Andy asked, as he dug through the fridge looking for the grapefruit, unable to find any.
"Sure," Delia nodded, Adina ignored the question, and just absently nodded, as she picked at her chipping black nail polish.
"Do either of you know where your brother is?" Andy asked, handing each of them an orange.
"He's prettying himself up," Adina replied.
"Hey, I heard that," Ephram glared, as he entered the kitchen.
"Whatever, you know it's true," Adina teased, moving off her stool to get her black messenger bag, "Let's go."
"Make sure you guys pick up Delia from Nina's when you get home," Andy called as they headed out the door.
"Sure thing," Ephram shouted back, before running to catch up with Adina.
"Here, let me see your schedule," Adina told Ephram, handing him hers. They read over each other's carefully, both realizing they had English together.
"Alright, how do you have 11th grade English?" Ephram asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I forgot about that, they said because they figured the material we went over in Eastland was much further advanced then the stuff they do at Peak County, so they put me in 11th grade English," Adina explained.
"Crap, since when have you ever been smart?" Ephram asked in a false serious tone.
"Beg your pardon?" Adina said surprised, "Just because I'm your little sister doesn't mean I can't kick your ass!"
***
"Yeah, so there's this party coming up, you should really come with us," Amy was telling Adina as they headed to there English class.
"I'm guessing by "us" you mean you and Laynie," Amy nodded, "Then I'm guessing it's not a high school party is it?"
"Well.no," Amy replied honestly, "But Laynie says it'll be really fun, frat parties-"
"It's a frat party?" Adina said alarmed, "I figured it was just a college party."
"Just promise you'll come, for me," Amy pleaded, "Otherwise I won't know what I'm doing. I'm not really a party girl."
"And I am?" Adina asked surprised.
"According to Laynie," Amy began, but was suddenly cut off by Adina.
"Laynie's full of shit," Adina said angrily, storming off towards the classroom.
"Wow, what's up with her?" Ephram asked, running to catch up with Amy.
"Your sister has one hot temper," Amy commented nonchalantly.
"Tell me something I don't know," Ephram laughed, but then grew serious, "But she kind of has reason to. She's gone through a lot, not just our mom dieing. Well, I'll see you in class." Ephram then walked on, leaving Amy along to ponder the newfound information on her friend.
***
Chilly winter winds were beginning to find their way back into Everwood, as the warm summer comforts melted away. Adina Brown sat alone on her porch, doing her best to clear her mind and enjoy what was left of summer. It wasn't easy though; she couldn't stop thinking about everything and anything that crossed her mind.
"This seat taken?" Adina looked up to see Bright standing in front of her.
"It is now," Adina said, attempting a half smile.
"So how are you?" Bright asked, "I see you got the cast off."
"Yeah, last week," Adina responded, intentionally ignoring the first question, "What brings you here?"
"I was just out on a walk, and I saw you out here," Bright explained. "Yeah, I was just out here trying to enjoy what's left of summer," Adina answered, "that and just thinking about things."
"Like what?" Bright asked, looking over at her.
"Basically just how much I miss New York, and all my friends," Adina answered, "how much I miss my mom." Adina looked down, hiding her face. Her mother was still a sensitive subject to her, and with all the remembering she had been doing lately it was like scratching at an open sore.
"I'm sorry," Bright offered, knowing from experience that it was really just a useless comment
"Thanks," Adina looked up teary eyed. She hated being an emotional person, it made you feel so vulnerable all the time, "I must seem ridicules, I mean I'm sorry for all the self-pitying you have to witness."
"No you don't have to apologize," Bright replied, placing his arm around her. Adina gave him a teary smile.
"You're a really great guy, you know that?" Adina told him, and before she knew it, she had leaned forward and kissed him. It probably would have been perfect if all she hadn't been thinking of Chris when she did it.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking at all, and I shouldn't have done that-" Adina apologized, but was suddenly interrupted by Bright kissing her this time. Now Adina had kissed guys many a time before, but somehow this seemed a lot different, like it was actually igniting something deep inside her. She had butterflies, saw fireworks, the whole deal. But in her mind it was still wrong. In a way she had promised herself to Chris. It wasn't that she actually said anything, but it was implied by their goodbye. He was the first guy she ever told "I love you" too, and in her book, that was a big deal. Adina quickly pulled away, and stood up.
"What's wrong?" Bright asked confused.
"I-uh- I'm sorry, that was great, it really was, but I've got to go," Adina hastily explained, before heading towards the front door, "See you tomorrow."
***
Adina spent the next day at school trying to avoid Amy and Bright. By the time lunch came it seemed as if she had failed.
"Hey Adina," Amy greeted, as soon as Adina had entered the cafeteria.
"Oh, hi Amy," Adina replied, her eyes searching the lunch room for a way to escape.
"Want to sit with me and Laynie?" Amy asked hopefully.
"No, I think I'm going to go find Ephram," Adina said still looking around. She suddenly saw Bright heading to where Ephram was and changed her mind, "Well, on second thought, sure."
***
Ephram turned up the volume on his CD player as he paged through his manga. Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to see Bright. Ephram laid down his comic book, and took off his headphones, wondering what Bright could want.
"Mind if I sit here?" Bright asked.
"Only if you stay," Ephram replied, starting to get up.
"Har-har," Bright said sarcastically, sitting down anyways.
"What do you want?" Ephram asked confused.
"Nothing. Just to enjoy your company," Bright explained, "Do you want my pudding?"
"All right, what's the favor, Bright?" Ephram questioned.
"What are you talking about? What favor?" Bright asked, obviously playing dumb. Ephram shot a look his way, impatiently waiting for him to speak up.
"Ok, it's about Amy," Bright began.
"No," Ephram replied instantly.
"What? You don't even know what I was going to ask," Bright commented, before glancing at his sister.
"The answer is no," Ephram stood his ground.
"Why?" Bright questioned.
"Because whatever is going on with you and your sister is your business. Not mine. When I try to make it my business, she gets mad at me," Ephram explained.
"No, this is different," Bright promised.
"I doubt that it's different," Ephram replied, "But go on."
"Look, with everything that's been going on lately, Amy has been a little bit out of it," Bright explained.
"That's normal," Ephram said nonchalantly.
"Well, no. I mean, I've seen Amy out of it before and this is really out of it. I'm a little worried about her," Bright confessed, "I'm wondering if you could just keep an eye on her, let me know what she's up to."
"Forget it," Ephram replied, ready to leave.
"Look, not always. Just whenever you're not busy.being a loner geek with weird t-shirts," Bright added.
"You want me to stalk your sister?" Ephram raised an eyebrow.
"You kind of already do," Bright pointed out.
"We're friends, we hang out," Ephram replied defensively.
"Well, good. Now you can hang out, but report back to me," Bright smiled.
"No, no. I already told you," Ephram repeated, "Not my sister, not my problem."
"Yeah well, your sister and my sister are pretty chummy, and whatever Amy is up to, Adina probably isn't far behind," Bright pointed out. Ephram put his headphones back on, but still pondered Bright's request.
A/N: Almost all of this part is from the actual script, so I didn't not write it; it belongs to the writers of Everwood, not me. I repeat, I did not write the above, just changed it so it fit the story, and so it wasn't in script form. *** The next day.
The bell rang noisily, dismissing all the students at Peak County from their fourth hour class.
"Well at least I got some sleep," Amy commented, referring to English class, which she and Ephram had just left. Adina was not far behind them.
"I was so bored I was counting his eyebrows, which is weird because there's actually only one," Ephram replied, all three chuckled as they headed towards Amy and Adina's lockers, which were just a few lockers apart.
"Hey Amy, you ready?" Laynie asked, who had just joined them.
"Yeah," Amy nodded, putting her books away, "Adina your coming right?"
"I guess," Adina shrugged, putting her own things away.
"Where you guys going?" Ephram questioned, remembering his chat with Bright.
"My house, just to prepare for this party at ECC tonight," Laynie explained.
"You guys are going?" Ephram asked, glancing over at Adina surprised.
"College parties are practically thrown for high school girls," Laynie answered, "Well see you later."
"Wait, can I come with you guys?" Ephram asked nervously.
"It's kind of a girls thing, we're just going to pick out outfits and stuff," Laynie explained.
"I love clothes, I'm all about clothes," Ephram nodded, "Right Adina?"
"Ugh yeah," Adina responded before turning to Amy and Laynie, "Look, if anyone knows my brother, its me, and he isn't going to rat anyone out."
"Alright, lets go then," Laynie sighed, leading the way. Ephram shot a "thank you" smile in Adina's direction, who simply rolled her eyes in response.
***
"Alright, I really don't think you should go to that party tonight," Ephram told his sister as they entered the Brown home after school.
"I have to, I promised Amy," Adina tried to explain.
"But you know what they're planning to do, they just want to get drunk and probably do good knows what with some stupid frat guys," Ephram replied, worrying about his sister's safety more than anything.
"I can take care of myself, nothing is going to happen to me," Adina promised, "If anything, I'll spend the night trying to distract Amy from getting to any of that."
"How are you, at 5'5, probably 110 pounds, going to stop anyone from doing anything?" Ephram pointed out.
"I don't know, but I can't not go," Adina replied.
"Then I'll go too," Ephram said, ending the debate.
"Next question, how are we going to get away with going to this thing?" Adina asked, sitting down on the stairs.
"Leave that to me, I'll work it out," Ephram promised.
***
Loud music practically busted out of the speakers, and ever shelf, table, and ledge were covered in beer bottles, both full and empty.
"What am I doing here?" Adina muttered to herself, as she weaved through the crowd of frat guys.
"Hey there," Adina suddenly felt an arm wrap around her and looked up to see a frat guy trying to make a move.
"Excuse me," Adina said, pushing him away, and continuing on. She finally spotted Amy and Laynie flirting with a couple of guys, each grasping a beer.
"There they are," Bright announced, and pushed forward. Adina, not too fond of public tension, lingered back, even after Ephram went to join them. She couldn't help but listen on eagerly though, as the sibling spat insults and placed the blame for Colin's death on each other. Before she knew it everything was over, and Amy was storming out. Briefly, she felt sorry for Amy, knowing what it was like to feel like drinking was the only way out. Depression was a hard cross to bear, and sometime it seems like there's nowhere to turn. She felt a hand on her shoulder, and looked over to see Laynie standing at her side. Laynie gave her an apologetic look, and out of nowhere pulled her into a tight hug.
"I'm so sorry for everything," Laynie said remorsefully, but something about her tone seemed synthetic. "Do you think you'll ever be able to forgive me?"
"I don't know Laynie, you sort of have to earn it," Adina explained, still taken aback by Laynie's actions.
"I understand," Laynie nodded pulling away, but not before she slipped a little something into Adina's pocket, "I've gotta get going, it's getting late. See you around." Laynie disappeared into the crowd, smiling to herself. Now for once maybe little miss perfect would get into some trouble.
"Bye," Adina nodded, before heading for the door herself. Something about Laynie was exceptionally odd. She couldn't put her finger out, but it probably spelled out trouble.
A/N: Okay, I updated before I got all the reviews I wanted, but this time I'm sticking to my word. I will not update until I get 5 reviews, and believe me, the next chapter is going to be pretty good.
steph
"C'mon girls, get up, today's the first day of school!" Andy shouted as he stuck his head into his daughters' bedroom. Adina pushed her face into a pillow, and let out a long, drawn out groan.
"Don't remind me," Adina sighed, turning over. Andy smiled, and opened the curtains, causing bright rays of sunlight spilled into the room. Delia was up in a flash, ready and excited for her first day. Adina was less then happy about going back. A lazy summer had been just what she needed to cope with leaving everything behind, but she wasn't sure if she was ready to go back.
"Get up Adina, you don't want to be late," Andy called on his way out of the room.
"Oh no, wouldn't want that," Adina grumbled, finally dragging herself from the warmth and comfort of her bed. She grabbed the first pair of jeans she could find, and a blue Hollister's top she got for her last birthday. Grabbing a brush, she hastily combed her soft chestnut hair into a high ponytail, and took a few minutes to carefully line her eyes in black. Popping a stick of trident in her mouth (she figured either Delia or Ephram had already taken over the bathroom, so she wouldn't even get a chance to brush her teeth) and headed downstairs.
"How do you want your eggs, Addie?" Andy asked his eldest daughter, as he cracked an egg into a pan.
"None thanks," Adina replied, just grabbing a bottle of Fiji out of the fridge.
"You're a growing girl, you should have breakfast," Andy commented in a fatherly tone.
"Yeah but eggs have too much cholesterol, now if you were to hand me a grapefruit that may be a different story," Adina said, happy even though she knew she was being a smart ass.
"Alright," Andy sighed, but smiled when he saw Delia coming, "I bet Delia will eat some."
"Grapefruit please!" Delia grinned as she jumped up onto the bar stool next to Adina. Adina laughed and gave her father a "you lose" sort of look.
"Will you settle for an orange?" Andy asked, as he dug through the fridge looking for the grapefruit, unable to find any.
"Sure," Delia nodded, Adina ignored the question, and just absently nodded, as she picked at her chipping black nail polish.
"Do either of you know where your brother is?" Andy asked, handing each of them an orange.
"He's prettying himself up," Adina replied.
"Hey, I heard that," Ephram glared, as he entered the kitchen.
"Whatever, you know it's true," Adina teased, moving off her stool to get her black messenger bag, "Let's go."
"Make sure you guys pick up Delia from Nina's when you get home," Andy called as they headed out the door.
"Sure thing," Ephram shouted back, before running to catch up with Adina.
"Here, let me see your schedule," Adina told Ephram, handing him hers. They read over each other's carefully, both realizing they had English together.
"Alright, how do you have 11th grade English?" Ephram asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I forgot about that, they said because they figured the material we went over in Eastland was much further advanced then the stuff they do at Peak County, so they put me in 11th grade English," Adina explained.
"Crap, since when have you ever been smart?" Ephram asked in a false serious tone.
"Beg your pardon?" Adina said surprised, "Just because I'm your little sister doesn't mean I can't kick your ass!"
***
"Yeah, so there's this party coming up, you should really come with us," Amy was telling Adina as they headed to there English class.
"I'm guessing by "us" you mean you and Laynie," Amy nodded, "Then I'm guessing it's not a high school party is it?"
"Well.no," Amy replied honestly, "But Laynie says it'll be really fun, frat parties-"
"It's a frat party?" Adina said alarmed, "I figured it was just a college party."
"Just promise you'll come, for me," Amy pleaded, "Otherwise I won't know what I'm doing. I'm not really a party girl."
"And I am?" Adina asked surprised.
"According to Laynie," Amy began, but was suddenly cut off by Adina.
"Laynie's full of shit," Adina said angrily, storming off towards the classroom.
"Wow, what's up with her?" Ephram asked, running to catch up with Amy.
"Your sister has one hot temper," Amy commented nonchalantly.
"Tell me something I don't know," Ephram laughed, but then grew serious, "But she kind of has reason to. She's gone through a lot, not just our mom dieing. Well, I'll see you in class." Ephram then walked on, leaving Amy along to ponder the newfound information on her friend.
***
Chilly winter winds were beginning to find their way back into Everwood, as the warm summer comforts melted away. Adina Brown sat alone on her porch, doing her best to clear her mind and enjoy what was left of summer. It wasn't easy though; she couldn't stop thinking about everything and anything that crossed her mind.
"This seat taken?" Adina looked up to see Bright standing in front of her.
"It is now," Adina said, attempting a half smile.
"So how are you?" Bright asked, "I see you got the cast off."
"Yeah, last week," Adina responded, intentionally ignoring the first question, "What brings you here?"
"I was just out on a walk, and I saw you out here," Bright explained. "Yeah, I was just out here trying to enjoy what's left of summer," Adina answered, "that and just thinking about things."
"Like what?" Bright asked, looking over at her.
"Basically just how much I miss New York, and all my friends," Adina answered, "how much I miss my mom." Adina looked down, hiding her face. Her mother was still a sensitive subject to her, and with all the remembering she had been doing lately it was like scratching at an open sore.
"I'm sorry," Bright offered, knowing from experience that it was really just a useless comment
"Thanks," Adina looked up teary eyed. She hated being an emotional person, it made you feel so vulnerable all the time, "I must seem ridicules, I mean I'm sorry for all the self-pitying you have to witness."
"No you don't have to apologize," Bright replied, placing his arm around her. Adina gave him a teary smile.
"You're a really great guy, you know that?" Adina told him, and before she knew it, she had leaned forward and kissed him. It probably would have been perfect if all she hadn't been thinking of Chris when she did it.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking at all, and I shouldn't have done that-" Adina apologized, but was suddenly interrupted by Bright kissing her this time. Now Adina had kissed guys many a time before, but somehow this seemed a lot different, like it was actually igniting something deep inside her. She had butterflies, saw fireworks, the whole deal. But in her mind it was still wrong. In a way she had promised herself to Chris. It wasn't that she actually said anything, but it was implied by their goodbye. He was the first guy she ever told "I love you" too, and in her book, that was a big deal. Adina quickly pulled away, and stood up.
"What's wrong?" Bright asked confused.
"I-uh- I'm sorry, that was great, it really was, but I've got to go," Adina hastily explained, before heading towards the front door, "See you tomorrow."
***
Adina spent the next day at school trying to avoid Amy and Bright. By the time lunch came it seemed as if she had failed.
"Hey Adina," Amy greeted, as soon as Adina had entered the cafeteria.
"Oh, hi Amy," Adina replied, her eyes searching the lunch room for a way to escape.
"Want to sit with me and Laynie?" Amy asked hopefully.
"No, I think I'm going to go find Ephram," Adina said still looking around. She suddenly saw Bright heading to where Ephram was and changed her mind, "Well, on second thought, sure."
***
Ephram turned up the volume on his CD player as he paged through his manga. Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to see Bright. Ephram laid down his comic book, and took off his headphones, wondering what Bright could want.
"Mind if I sit here?" Bright asked.
"Only if you stay," Ephram replied, starting to get up.
"Har-har," Bright said sarcastically, sitting down anyways.
"What do you want?" Ephram asked confused.
"Nothing. Just to enjoy your company," Bright explained, "Do you want my pudding?"
"All right, what's the favor, Bright?" Ephram questioned.
"What are you talking about? What favor?" Bright asked, obviously playing dumb. Ephram shot a look his way, impatiently waiting for him to speak up.
"Ok, it's about Amy," Bright began.
"No," Ephram replied instantly.
"What? You don't even know what I was going to ask," Bright commented, before glancing at his sister.
"The answer is no," Ephram stood his ground.
"Why?" Bright questioned.
"Because whatever is going on with you and your sister is your business. Not mine. When I try to make it my business, she gets mad at me," Ephram explained.
"No, this is different," Bright promised.
"I doubt that it's different," Ephram replied, "But go on."
"Look, with everything that's been going on lately, Amy has been a little bit out of it," Bright explained.
"That's normal," Ephram said nonchalantly.
"Well, no. I mean, I've seen Amy out of it before and this is really out of it. I'm a little worried about her," Bright confessed, "I'm wondering if you could just keep an eye on her, let me know what she's up to."
"Forget it," Ephram replied, ready to leave.
"Look, not always. Just whenever you're not busy.being a loner geek with weird t-shirts," Bright added.
"You want me to stalk your sister?" Ephram raised an eyebrow.
"You kind of already do," Bright pointed out.
"We're friends, we hang out," Ephram replied defensively.
"Well, good. Now you can hang out, but report back to me," Bright smiled.
"No, no. I already told you," Ephram repeated, "Not my sister, not my problem."
"Yeah well, your sister and my sister are pretty chummy, and whatever Amy is up to, Adina probably isn't far behind," Bright pointed out. Ephram put his headphones back on, but still pondered Bright's request.
A/N: Almost all of this part is from the actual script, so I didn't not write it; it belongs to the writers of Everwood, not me. I repeat, I did not write the above, just changed it so it fit the story, and so it wasn't in script form. *** The next day.
The bell rang noisily, dismissing all the students at Peak County from their fourth hour class.
"Well at least I got some sleep," Amy commented, referring to English class, which she and Ephram had just left. Adina was not far behind them.
"I was so bored I was counting his eyebrows, which is weird because there's actually only one," Ephram replied, all three chuckled as they headed towards Amy and Adina's lockers, which were just a few lockers apart.
"Hey Amy, you ready?" Laynie asked, who had just joined them.
"Yeah," Amy nodded, putting her books away, "Adina your coming right?"
"I guess," Adina shrugged, putting her own things away.
"Where you guys going?" Ephram questioned, remembering his chat with Bright.
"My house, just to prepare for this party at ECC tonight," Laynie explained.
"You guys are going?" Ephram asked, glancing over at Adina surprised.
"College parties are practically thrown for high school girls," Laynie answered, "Well see you later."
"Wait, can I come with you guys?" Ephram asked nervously.
"It's kind of a girls thing, we're just going to pick out outfits and stuff," Laynie explained.
"I love clothes, I'm all about clothes," Ephram nodded, "Right Adina?"
"Ugh yeah," Adina responded before turning to Amy and Laynie, "Look, if anyone knows my brother, its me, and he isn't going to rat anyone out."
"Alright, lets go then," Laynie sighed, leading the way. Ephram shot a "thank you" smile in Adina's direction, who simply rolled her eyes in response.
***
"Alright, I really don't think you should go to that party tonight," Ephram told his sister as they entered the Brown home after school.
"I have to, I promised Amy," Adina tried to explain.
"But you know what they're planning to do, they just want to get drunk and probably do good knows what with some stupid frat guys," Ephram replied, worrying about his sister's safety more than anything.
"I can take care of myself, nothing is going to happen to me," Adina promised, "If anything, I'll spend the night trying to distract Amy from getting to any of that."
"How are you, at 5'5, probably 110 pounds, going to stop anyone from doing anything?" Ephram pointed out.
"I don't know, but I can't not go," Adina replied.
"Then I'll go too," Ephram said, ending the debate.
"Next question, how are we going to get away with going to this thing?" Adina asked, sitting down on the stairs.
"Leave that to me, I'll work it out," Ephram promised.
***
Loud music practically busted out of the speakers, and ever shelf, table, and ledge were covered in beer bottles, both full and empty.
"What am I doing here?" Adina muttered to herself, as she weaved through the crowd of frat guys.
"Hey there," Adina suddenly felt an arm wrap around her and looked up to see a frat guy trying to make a move.
"Excuse me," Adina said, pushing him away, and continuing on. She finally spotted Amy and Laynie flirting with a couple of guys, each grasping a beer.
"There they are," Bright announced, and pushed forward. Adina, not too fond of public tension, lingered back, even after Ephram went to join them. She couldn't help but listen on eagerly though, as the sibling spat insults and placed the blame for Colin's death on each other. Before she knew it everything was over, and Amy was storming out. Briefly, she felt sorry for Amy, knowing what it was like to feel like drinking was the only way out. Depression was a hard cross to bear, and sometime it seems like there's nowhere to turn. She felt a hand on her shoulder, and looked over to see Laynie standing at her side. Laynie gave her an apologetic look, and out of nowhere pulled her into a tight hug.
"I'm so sorry for everything," Laynie said remorsefully, but something about her tone seemed synthetic. "Do you think you'll ever be able to forgive me?"
"I don't know Laynie, you sort of have to earn it," Adina explained, still taken aback by Laynie's actions.
"I understand," Laynie nodded pulling away, but not before she slipped a little something into Adina's pocket, "I've gotta get going, it's getting late. See you around." Laynie disappeared into the crowd, smiling to herself. Now for once maybe little miss perfect would get into some trouble.
"Bye," Adina nodded, before heading for the door herself. Something about Laynie was exceptionally odd. She couldn't put her finger out, but it probably spelled out trouble.
A/N: Okay, I updated before I got all the reviews I wanted, but this time I'm sticking to my word. I will not update until I get 5 reviews, and believe me, the next chapter is going to be pretty good.
steph