New Beginnings

Chapter 21

The next day at school Emma and Adam pretty much acted the same around each other and everyone else. This went on for a few weeks until about three weeks later. In class, Emma and Adam were passing notes.

You're coming over today, right Emma wrote. She passed the note to Adam and looked at him. He nodded. I'll leave the door open for you she mouthed. He nodded again. Too bad Shawn saw and thought Emma was talking to him. So, he also nodded, but Emma was looking at Adam so she didn't see.

When Emma got home she left the door unlocked like she promised and went upstairs to her room to start her homework. About ten minutes later she heard the front door open. She went down to say hi to Adam.

"Hey," she said when she saw him.

"Hey," he replied. "So, whadda ya wanna do?"

"Let's go up to my room," Emma suggested.

"'Kay." They went up stair and started kissing. They were getting really into it, falling onto the bed with tongue and everything, when Emma heard a knock on her almost completely closed bedroom door.

"Ohmigod," Emma whispered. "Get…somewhere. Hide. It might be Shawn."

Adam tried to get into the closet but it was too late. Shawn walked in. It was obvious that Adam and Emma had been kissing because Adam had Emma's lip gloss all over his lips.

Shawn pointed at Adam. "I'm sure you thought I was him," he said, and then turned around and walked out of Emma's room.

"Shawn, wait," Emma screamed after him, but he just kept walking. She turned around and walked over to her bed.

"I better go," Adam said.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah. Call me later." Then he left Emma to think about what had just happened.

Emma called Adam after dinner. He picked up on the first ring.

"Hey, Em," he said.

"Hey. So…um…listen, I'm uh…I'm sorry about before," she said.

"Don't worry about it; it's fine," he said understandably. "So, anyway, I guess we're...um…over?

"NO!" Emma exclaimed. "Why would you say that?"

"I dunno, it just seemed…whatever."

"No, this just means that we can 'go public'."

"Okay," Adam laughed. "We'll tell everyone tomorrow."

"Sure. Listen, I gotta go; my mom is calling me."

"'Kay, bye. See you tomorrow."

"Yeah, see you."