Chapter 27 - Adam..Hurt?

At about 4 AM, before anyone else woke up, Shane woke up beside Liz and he snuck out of the house without anyone seeing him, or so he thought. Brian just came out of the bathroom when he saw a familiar person leaving the house. He knew it was Shane, so he checked all of the rooms and found Liz by herself in the bed in Sabrina and her room, and then he found Sabrina by Jesse in his room. He knew that he would talk to Liz about it in a couple of hours when everyone had woken up. He went back to bed, and fell asleep quickly. At about six AM, the team woke up, and went downstairs groggily. When they had gotten there, Sabrina, Jesse, Liz, and Mia were already down there. Mia was cooking pancakes and Jesse, Liz, and Sabrina were having a conversation. Brian followed Vince, Leon, and Dom down the stairs. When he got down them and into the kitchen, he immediately looked at Liz. He walked over to her.
"Liz. Outside. Now." He said sternly. He didn't want to say anything in front of the team.
When they both were outside and away from the door so no one could hear Brian told her, "I know Shane spent the night last night." Liz's eyes got wide. She knew she was in for it now. "Yeah…" She trailed off.
"What did you two do?" Brian asked her, looking into her eyes. He could always tell when she was lying.
"Nothing." She said, and her eyes meant it. They were pleading with him to believe her. They really didn't do anything. Liz just wanted someone to be near her. "You swear?" He asked her.
She said before even thinking about it, "I swear. We did nothing"
Brian grinned. "Alright. So, what did you two do then?" "To be honest with you, Shane and I were in the room talking about things, and then I got tired. He was going to leave, but I just asked him to be with me because I didn't want to be alone. I wanted him there with me." She said in a low voice, looking at the ground, not wanting to look at him.
He looked at her and knew she was telling the truth. "Ok. That's all I wanted to know." He went inside and she followed him back in. They both sat down at the table, and when Sabrina asked what happened, Brian gave her the 'do not start' look. When everyone saw that look, they all knew not to ask about anything. That day was the last day of Sabrina and Liz's Spring Vacation, so they decided to just relax at home, and watch some movies. The next day at school was a surprising day. They both woke up, thinking nothing would happen. They got ready, then both walked together to school. When they got there, Adam wasn't there. But, Shane was. Sabrina walked over to Shane with Liz thinking that Adam was just going to be late to school. Shane looked at her and asked, "What's wrong"
"Oh, nothing. Adam's not here, he's not usually late, I'm just kinda worried about him." She told Shane looking around the school yard for Adam, but not seeing him anywhere.
Just then, one of the guys from the football team walked to Sabrina. "You're Sabrina O'Connor, right"
"Right. Why?" She told him and asked.
"Because I have news for you. Adam is your boyfriend, correct?" He asked her. He was really polite, and he seemed nice.
"Right. We have been dating. Yeah." She told him.
"I'm sorry to tell you this, but Adam is in the hospital. He got in a car accident yesterday, someone ran him off of the road." He told her, his eyes feeling sorry for her. Sabrina instantly broke down in tears. She started balling hysterically. She instantly grabbed out her cell phone, and dialed DT's Garage.
"Hello?" She recognized the voice. It was Jesse.
"Jesse! C-C-C-Can you come pick me up?" She asked him trying to hold back her tears so he would understand her.
"Sabrina? Is that you? What's wrong? Where are you? What happened?" He asked her a million different questions.
"Jesse. It's me, Sabrina. I'm at school. I'll explain when you get here. PLEASE just hurry. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE." She pleaded with him.
"Alright girl, I'm on my way." He hung up the phone and told the other team members about it. They said for him to go and pick her up, but when he could, to call ASAP and let them know what was going on.
Sabrina waited at the school until Jesse got there, then she hurriedly got into his car after saying good-bye to Liz, and told her she would call her cell when she found out anything.
Sabrina told Jesse where to go, and Jesse started. She explained everything that had happened that morning on the way there. When they got there, Jesse and Sabrina both hurried inside of the hospital, and to the front desk.
"May I help you?" The nurse asked.
"I'm looking for Adam Smith." She quickly told the nurse.
"Are you family?" The nurse asked Sabrina.
"I'm his girlfriend. I need to see him. Please." She pleaded with the nurse, and used her 'look' that no one could say 'no' to. The nurse told her the room and directed her where to go. Jesse and Sabrina hurriedly went down the hall and went into his room. Jesse went over to the waiting area, and used the pay phone. He called Dom.
"Hello?" The familiar voice answered the phone.
"Hey Vince it's Jesse. Dom around?" He asked.
"Yeah, hold on." Vince put down the phone and yelled for Dom. Dom came over, and then got on the line.
"Jesse? What's the deal?" Dom asked.
"Adam got into a car accident yesterday. Sabrina found out today at school. This morning, actually, by one of his football friends. She's in his room right now, she's with him. I seen him only for a few minutes, he looks pretty bad. I don't know details, just that someone tried to run him off of the road"
Dom thought for a minute. He thought, "Oh shit. I bet it's Tran. It's gotta be." He said out loud, "Find out from Adam, if he remembers any details and get them from him, then call me RIGHT back." Dom said sternly.
"Alright. Bye." Jesse said and hung the phone up.
Meanwhile, Adam and Sabrina were in his room talking. She stopped crying and calmed herself down now. She was just glad to see that he was OK. Jesse walked in the room. "Hey Adam." Jesse called out.
"Hey Jess!" Adam said, smiling. Sabrina smiled. Adam always made the best out of things.
"Hey, I wanted to ask you, can you remember anything about the accident?" Jesse asked him, curiously.
"Um, actually I can't remember much. I just know that I was driving and there was a small compact car driving really fast behind me and then it shoved me off the road, and then continued on." Adam told Jesse. "That's all I can remember. I can't remember any details"
"Alright. That's good enough, thanks." Jesse told him, starting to walk out of the room.
Sabrina called out, "Wait, Jesse, what's wrong? What did Dom say?" She asked, knowing he probably called Dom.
"I don't know, Dom just asked me to ask Adam that." Jesse told him. Jesse walked out of the room and to the pay phone again.
"Hello?" Dom answered.
"Dom, it's Jesse." He said.
"What did Adam say? Anything? Can he remember?" Dom asked him quickly, anxious to know what Adam had said.
"Adam said that he remembers driving and a small compact car coming up and then running him off of the road." Jesse told him.
"Shoot. Might be him." Dom quickly said.
"Will you please tell me what is going on?" Jesse asked Dom. "I would like to know what's going on, too!" "Listen, I got a call the other day from Tran, he threatened me. He said to leave the streets and stay away from his people or else." Dom told him.
"Dang. What if it is him?" Jesse asked him.
"Well if you think about it, we all love Sabrina, Adam is dating Sabrina, if Adam gets hurt then Sabrina is hurt, too. When Sabrina is hurt, it hurts us to see her like that. So, if it is him, he's trying to hurt us through people we love. We never know who will be next. I say that we all need to keep an eye on each other." Dom told him.
"Yeah, that's definitely right. I mean, if Tran is the one doing it, which he probably is, we need to keep a close eye on each other." Jesse agreed.
"Alright. Yeah. Ok. I gotta go. Talk to you later." Dom told Jesse, and hung up the phone.
"Bye." Jesse said, before hanging up the phone. He walked back into Adam's room and said to Sabrina, "It might be Tran"
Sabrina instantly got mad. No one, and I mean no one, hurt someone she truly loved and cared about and got away with it. Adam looked confused.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"Basically, Tran and Dom are enemies, Tran is out to get Dom." Sabrina told Adam, then looked at Jesse.
"There is no way he is getting away with this. No one gets away with this." And with that, Sabrina marched outside, and down the elevator, leaving Jesse and Adam in shock from her madness.
"Ok, I never knew she could get that mad." Adam said.
"Yeah, I gotta go. I gotta go to Dom's garage. See ya." Jesse said as he got up and started to walk out.
"See ya." Adam told Jesse.
Jesse walked outside and got into his car. He started it up and sped off to DT's Garage. He wanted to ask Dom if Sabrina had been there. When he finally got there, he told Dom about Sabrina walking off and getting mad at the hospital. Dom started to get worried about her, so he called her cell.
"Hello?" She answered.
"Sabrina! Where are you?" He asked her.
"I'm at a restaurant." She told him.
"With who?" He asked her.
"With Shane, and Liz." She said.
"Alright, be home before midnight. Bye." He hung up the phone and turned to Jesse. "Well, she isn't in any trouble or danger, she's just at a restaurant. She'll be fine. Liz and Shane are with her." "Ok." Jesse said, as he walked off. "I'm hungry, you guys want anything?" Jesse asked them. They all told him their order, and then he went to the fast food place. Jesse came back with hamburgers for all of them.
Meanwhile, Shane, Liz, and Sabrina were at the restaurant talking about what had happened.
"There is NO one who gets away with hurting Adam. NO one." Sabrina announced.
"Sabrina, calm down." Shane told her.
Liz didn't really want to say anything. She was too afraid of getting snapped at. When Sabrina was in that kind of a mood, she would snap at anyone at anytime. She even snapped at Adam before. "I am doing something about this. I'm NOT just going to let Tran get away with this." Sabrina stood up, went outside, and got in her S2000. She picked it up on the way to meeting Liz and Shane at the restaurant. She hurriedly got into it, and sped off.
Liz took her cell and dialed Dom's number.
"Hello?" He picked up his cell.
"Dom, it's Liz. Sabrina just drove off after going into a mad rage and I don't know where she is." Liz told him.
"Alright. Calm down. I think Jesse still has that cell phone tracer he can use to track her down." Dom told Liz.
"Alright." Liz told him. She hung up the phone and looked at Shane. "He can track her down with his cell phone tracer." "Ok. You ok?" Shane asked Liz. He knew Liz and Sabrina were best friends, and he knew that Liz hated it when Sabrina was mad. "Yeah, I'll be fine." Liz told him.
"Ok." He said. He knew that she wasn't fine, though. He knew that something was up. He even considered staying at her house again, after seeing those cut marks he wasn't too sure of what she would do, and he didn't trust her with that.
They both paid and then left, in their own cars. They went to Liz's house and dropped her car off, and took his to the mall and a few other places that they wanted to go to.
Meanwhile, Sabrina went to the hospital after she went away from the restaurant. She walked into the room, and went straight to Adam's bed. "Adam?" She asked. She knew he was awake. "Sabrina? Thank God you're alright! You ran outta here so fast, I.." He was cut off by her.
"Listen to me, NO ONE is going to get away with this. I am getting Tran and I mean that." She told him.
"No, you're not. I don't care what I have to do, I have a phone next to me and I know Dom's number. I'll call him if you don't stop and calm down." He told her sternly. Even though he was in bad shape, he had the energy to calm her down.
Sabrina sat down in the chair by his bed. If anyone could get her to calm down when she was mad, it was Adam. He knew how to do it. "Alright, fine, what?" She asked, grumpily. She hated it when he told her what to do.
"Listen to me, I will be fine. I am worrying about you. You never know who they might come after next!" He told her. "Watch out for yourself, and I mean that. It's getting late, and I'm getting tired. I haven't slept today. I've been too busy worrying about you!" He told her.
"Alright, fine, fine, fine. I'll go home. Happy? If you need me you know my cell number." She told him.
"Ok. Good. I love you." He told her.
"I love you too." She bent over and kissed him on the lips. He kissed her back, and then she walked out of the room.
Sabrina walked out of the hospital and got into her Honda S2000. She started it up, and she loved to hear the engine purr. Instead of driving home, she drove to her favorite spot on the beach. It was this spot that no one was usually around, and it was a quiet time for her to sit and think. On her way there, she stopped at a local café and got a smoothie for herself. She went to the beach, and then sat on a blanket on her favorite spot. She laid down, and looked at the beautiful horizon. She stayed there for about a half an hour, then got up and walked back to her car. She was on a mission. Sabrina got into her car and drove to Johnny Tran's house. She got out, put on her, "I'm mad" attitude, and knocked on the door to his house. Tran's assistant answered, and led her to his office. When she stepped inside he was facing her in his big black leather chair. He was grinning, while folding both hands together.
"Ah, you must be Sabrina O'Connor." He told her.
"Yes, you are correct." She said, being polite. She held her keys in one of her hand, and kept the key part out, in case anyone tried anything around her, it was her best defense.
"I've been expecting you." He told her, again.
"Is that so?" She asked him.
"Yes, that's so. I don't appreciate what you did to my boyfriend, and now, you have Sabrina O'Connor after you. Let me tell you, you scrawny little man, that is not a good thing. In fact, I would feel sorry for you." She told him.
He grinned. "Reallllly? Well, that's just too bad. If you don't leave," He said, leaning forward in his chair, and putting his hands on his desk, "The rest of your family is mine." Sabrina grinned. "You'll have to get through me, first." She said, as she stormed off. She knew the way out, and she walked kind of fast to get there. She heard the buzzer ring for the guards to catch her. She ran to her car, and got in, started it up, and sped off. Once on the road she pushed the NOS button to get ahead on the streets, and she thought she was loosing. them. She quickly dialed Jesse's cell phone.
"Hello?" He answered, lazily.
"Jesse! It's Sabrina! I've got Tran's team on my tail, I'm at the corner by the pizza place. Hurry!" She told him.
"Ok, on my way." he said as he hung up. He quickly told the team to follow them, and grab their two-way radios.
While on the way, Jesse told them all on the radio that Tran was following her. They made up a plan to get them away from her, and then Jesse called her and told her to get on the freeway and head for the garage. The two guards on their motorcycles were after her, and they thought that they were going to get her, or so they thought.
Jesse pulled up in his Jetta and used NOS to push one off the road into a ditch. Then, Brian came up in his Skyline and pushed the other one into a building on the other side of the road. The rest of the team including Dom stayed behind and looked for other people who might be following her, but there were none. They raced to DT's Garage, and got there just about two minutes after Sabrina did. Sabrina got out of her car and acted madly. "I can't believe that." She shook her head.
"How'd they follow you? How'd they know where you were?" Dom asked her, boldly and curiously.
"I don't want to talk about it." She said. She got in her car and sped off to the house. Once she was there, she went upstairs to her room and took out a piece of paper when she heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" She asked.
"It's Jesse." He told her. Jesse and Sabrina had always gotten along well, and Sabrina and Jesse were close. She felt like she could always go to him, and she really needed someone to talk to right now.
"Hold on." Sabrina said. She went to the door and unlocked it, and then let Jesse in. He came in and sat down on her chair. "Want to talk?" He asked her.
"yeah." she said. She sat on the edge of her bed and started. "I just.." She hesitated.
"Sabrina, calm down. It's OK. You can tell me anything. I don't tell anyone, I promise." He told her, and she knew he was telling the truth. She looked at him and started.
"I just love Adam so much and it's hard seeing him like that in the hospital and knowing Tran did it to him. I tried to be Miss. Tough Girl and go to his house. I had a talk with him, a nice, short talk, but when I got out of there, he put his guards on me and they started chasing me. That's when I called you." She told him.
Jesse always knew how to give the best advice to her. He was sort of like a counselor to her. "What do you think about going to his house, now?" He asked her, curiously.
"I shouldn't have done it, I know. At least if I want to next time I need to bring someone with me. Whether it be a friend or someone like you, someone needs to come with me." Sabrina told him.
"Look, here's the deal. I know it's hard seeing someone you love hurt. My dad's in jail, before he went to jail he used to hurt my mom. I watched it all happen, until I was eighteen. I saved up money and gave her money to move out. She moved out, and that's when I moved in here with Dom. My dad, a week later, got drunk at a tavern and knocked over a cop's bike. He's done other things since then like that, too, so he goes in and out of jail. My dad drinks heavy and then he gets abusive. So, I know what it feels like to have someone you love be hurt. I really do. But, listen to me, Sabrina. You're lucky you got out of Tran's place alive. You can't go in there like that. You just can't go in there like nothing happened, and everything is okay. Everything is not okay. Tran is after us. He wants to hurt us, and you know him, Sabrina. He will do anything to hurt us all." Jesse told her.
They both sat in silence for a minute. Sabrina thought about everything that had happened. "I won't go back there again"
"Promise?" He asked her.
"Yeah, I promise." She told him. He knew that she never broke her promises, so he knew she wouldn't go back there again.