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Chapter 5: Storm

"Well I don't want to talk right now Adam. So could you please just leave? I want to go to bed." I didn't know if I was angry, hurt, happy or confused, but all I knew was that I wanted to go to sleep and forget today ever happened.

"No I'm not leaving until you talk to me."

"Fine, then I'll leave!" I start to head for the door, when Adam grabbed my arm and my body swung around to face him, but my head stayed down. I didn't want him too; I couldn't let him see my tears.

"Julie please look at me. I'm so sorry for before. I didn't mean for it to happen. You just looked so beautiful and everything is so strange right now...."

"Adam I don't want to hear it!" I forcefully remove my arm from his grasp. "I don't want to hear how you got wrapped up in the moment and you're sorry that you kissed me. Because I'm not. I have wanted to kiss you since I was 14. Ok there I said it. I, Julie "the cat" Gaffney has feelings for Adam Banks. It's out. Do you have any idea what it has been like all these years? Being your best friend, hearing you talk about other girls, all the while wishing you were talking about me...." I wanted to continue, there was so much more I wanted to say, but I was interrupted.

"yes" I had never heard Adam talk so low in my life. It didn't help that he was now the one looking at his feet.

"What did you say?"

He looked up at me, directly into my eyes. "I said yes. I too know how it feels to love your best friend."

"Please don't give me some song and dance about how you love me as a sister. Cause I really can't deal with that right now."

"Julie I love you, not like a sister but more...."

"Yeah right, then why the hell would you wait until right now to tell me?"

"I was scared Julie. I was scared I would lose you as a friend, I was afraid it would effect the team. You obviously had fears too, you never told me."

"Of course I was scared; these kinds of feelings are a lot for a teenager to handle. And when we got older I thought I had missed my chance. I cherish our friendship and didn't want anything to change it. But maybe now...."

"No, now is definitely not the time. You are going back to Maine in 2 weeks and I'm going to New York. How could we last? Jessie was my best friend until he choose not to go to Eden and look what that did to our friendship. It took us 4 years of college to even come close to what we were. This would be something entirely different. It's bad enough that I'm not gonna have you down the hall to talk to as a friend. How could we make a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship work? We may lose each other entirely. I don't think I could handle that."

He was almost crying now. I was so confused. He had valid points. Some of the them were the same fears I had always had. But something in me told me we had to fight for this, for us.

"Adam you don't think I'm not scared to? That I don't think about how different things are going to be now? I'm terrified that I am never going to feel complete again. The Ducks, and especially you make me feel whole. You guys have become my family. I meant what I said at the wedding Connie is my sister and Guy is my brother all of you are." I moved closer to him. "But I also meant it when I said that we would all be lucky to fall in love with our best friends. I am not saying it is going to be easy, but we have to try. Adam please tell me you are willing to t......"

My words were cut off by Adam's mouth. He scooped me into his arms. This kiss was so different than the one this afternoon. That one had been tentative and light. This one was passionate and deep. It was like we were making up for all the kisses we had missed over the years. When we finally broke away from each other Adam rested his forehead against mine. I could see in his eyes that there was a storm lifting. And for the first time ever I realized just how blue Adam's eyes were. It was as if his eyes had been clouded all these years by our unspoken feelings for each other.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Make love to me, Adam"

"Are you sure? We could wait?"

"We've waited 8 years. I think that's enough."

With that Adam swept me off my feet and led me to the bed and tonight we slept together. Oh and we did some sleeping too.