A/N: I don't have anything to say here, so…enjoy!
Chapter 2 - A Cold Open
After getting settled into Hikarizaka, Adam seemed to mellow out, especially around the Drama Club members. He would fully participate in conversations, and when the news that the Choir Club agreed to share their Advisor came through, he celebrated just like the others. With that bit of business sorted, the Club had quickly been revived and made official. Now, the only problem the members faced was having to put on a performance. This, no one had any ideas for. So, they were stuck.
"Fantastic! No one here has a clue on what to do!" He had said, before Nagisa spoke up. "I have an idea but it's a one person performance." she said, causing the Club to turn to her. "I can't remember the name, but I remember a story about a girl who is stuck in another world, and her only friend is a robot made out of trash. If I could only remember the name of the story, we could do that." she said, causing the Club to nod. "Sounds good." Adam said, before he checked his watch. "Oh, great, I need to head. Um, we should all meet up sometime and plan this out. My home is too small for this, so call me when you lot figure out a place. See ya." he said, waving to the club, before dashing out the door, and sprinting to the car park. Little did he realize, he was being watched from the shadows by a certain silver-haired girl, whose eyes narrowed as he drove off.
As he pulled up to his home, stepped out, and locked the car, Adam opened his front door, then flopped down onto his futon. "Fucking hell, this town is dull!" He sighed, before he sat back up. "Well, since I'm stuck here, I might as well check out what this town has to offer." he said, before he grabbed his keys and his jacket, then locked his door, and jumped back into his car. "Right, where first?" he asked himself, pulling a map of Hikarizaka out of his glove compartment. Poring over it, he saw a building marked as the 'Furukawa Bakery.' "Furukawa? Nagisa's place?" Adam thought, before he shrugged and started the ignition. "Fuck it." he said, before he pulled out of the drive.
After carefully driving his way through the town, Adam arrived at the Bakery, and stepped out, locking his car as he did so. After looking at the building, he entered and was immediately hailed by a red haired woman, who was essentially an older mirror image of Nagisa. "Welcome to the Furukawa Bakery!" she said, a large smile on her face, before it changed to a look of confusion. "You don't look like someone from around here." she said, before Adam smirked. "Apologies. Adam Robertson, pleasure to meet you." he said, extending a hand, which she shook. "Sanae Furukawa." she said, causing Adam to chuckle. "Nagisa's mother?" he asked, causing Sanae to nod, before she looked confused again. "I'm a fellow member of the Drama Club with Nagisa. That's how I know her. You're a spitting image of her." he explained before Sanae could ask.
"Well, seeing as you're a friend of my daughter's, how about one of today's Specials, on the house?" she asked, a large smile on her face, before Adam nodded. "Yeah, sure." he said, causing Sanae to walk over to one of the shelves, and withdraw one of the Specials, which was a simple roll with an octopus tentacle in it. Passing it over to Adam, she explained, "I made it myself. Try it." Nodding, Adam went to raise the bread to his mouth, but he was stopped by a loud cry of "NO!" Looking towards the front entrance, he saw the members of the Drama Club, and Tomoyo Sakagami, looking at him in shock, before Tomoya strode up to him, and whispered in his ear, "Are you crazy? Sanae's baking is a biohazard!", before stepping back.
"Oh, c'mon guys, it can't be that bad!" Adam said, before flinging the bread up and catching it in his mouth. As he chewed, everyone was staring at him, the Drama Club with shock on their faces, and Sanae with complete and utter joy. When he finally swallowed the last bit of bread, he took a few moments to catch his breath, before he said, "It's good.", causing the Club's jaws to drop, and Sanae to nearly burst out crying in joy.
"Seriously? Someone liked my wife's baking?" a voice shouted from the back of the store, and a red haired man, who Adam guessed was Nagisa's father, ran out, wielding a baseball bat. Spying Adam immediately, he got right up in his face, the cigarette stench on his breath causing Adam to cough. "So, you're the punk that liked my wife's awful baking?" he asked, pointing the bat at Adam. Using one hand, Adam pushed the bat away, before nodding his head to Sanae. "My baking is awful?" she asked, while in the midst of tears, before running off down the street. "Wait, baby! I wub dem!" Nagisa's father shouted, as he grabbed a large amount of the tentacle bread and stuffed them all in his mouth, before tearing after her.
"Well, your parents are certainly...unique, Nagisa. But seriously, I'll take 5 of those specials." Adam said, turning to the red haired girl, while depositing the correct amount of Yen on the counter. "If you insist." she said, taking 5 tentacle breads of the shelf, before placing them in a bag and handing them to Adam. "Thank you. Now, I must be off." he said, going to leave, but he suddenly stopped dead, staring intently at something outside. "Son of a..." he started, before he ran outside, slid over the bonnet of his car, and unlocked it, and depositing the bag of bread in the back seat, before turning the ignition on. As he went to pull away, his passenger door opened, and Tomoyo Sakagami slid in. "You have a lot of explaining to do, Robertson." she said, before Adam groaned. "Fuck it!" He shouted, before slamming his foot on the gas, and shifted into gear before pulling out, just as a bright blue Nissan Skyline pulled round a corner ahead of the Charger.
"Shit!" Adam said, before he shifted gears again, speeding his car up, and following the Skyline. "What's going on, Robertson?" Tomoyo asked, before Adam said, "You might wanna strap in.", before he nodded forward. Ahead of them, the Skyline was weaving in and out of upcoming traffic. "Smart ass." Adam said, before he executed the same manoeuvres the Skyline did, Tomoyo screaming beside him. As he came out the other side, he saw that the Skyline had executed a tight turn. "Don't you even think about..." Tomoyo started, but Adam had already pushed down on the brakes and pulled the wheel to the side, resulting in the car making the turn perfectly, the back end narrowly missing a wall, before returning to a straight road. "Who said American Muscle can't drift?" Adam asked, Tomoyo shooting him a glare, before he noticed the Skyline had parked up ahead, underneath a set of traffic lights. "Damn." Adam said, before he pulled to a stop next to the car. "He wants a race. Quarter mile. Next two lights." he explained to Tomoyo, who nodded, before she looked at the Skyline, which had black tinted windows, only enabling a pitch black silhouette of the driver to be seen. "Who is that, Adam?" she asked, Adam looking at her in surprise for using his first name, before he looked back to the Skyline. "I guess you could call him an old friend." he said, before he sat back. "On green, we go." he said, keeping one eye on the lights, while both drivers revved their engines. Then, the light turned green...
Immediately, both drivers slammed on their accelerators, and shifted their cars into gear, and they were off. Immediately, the Nissan took the lead, but Adam quickly made up the distance, and both cars remained level, until they had to start dodging cars parked at the pavement. The Charger had a close call, almost ramming straight into a car, but Adam managed to swerve out of the way in time, and he shifted gears, allowing him to get ahead of the Skyline. "Gotta want it, man!" He said, before he heard the gears of the Nissan shifting and the car caught up. "Not this time!" Adam said, before he shifted gears again, shifting forward a bit, but the Skyline's driver mimicked him, and shifted his car into the same gear, causing the cars to level again, just as they crossed the second set of lights.
"Son of a bitch!" Adam said, when he slowed his car to a halt, the Skyline parking behind the Charger. "Stay in the car." he told Tomoyo, before he got out and walked to the driver's side of the Nissan, as the window rolled down. As Tomoyo watched, she saw what looked like Adam engaged in conversation with the driver. Just as she was about to get out and walk up, Adam slapped the roof of the Skyline and stepped back, as the car drove off. Walking back to the Charger, Adam sat back into the driver's seat, and looked at Tomoyo.
"You've done this before, haven't you? Street racing?" she demanded, Adam gripping the wheel tightly, before nodding. "Why would you partake in such a dangerous activity, Adam?" she asked, before Adam looked at her, an unreadable look in his eye. "My family. They live by a code. Live your life a quarter mile at a time, or Ride or Die. Racing is in my DNA. That's why." he said, looking at the orange sky, before he sighed. "It's too late to go too far from my place. Your house near the Furukawa Bakery?" he asked, Tomoyo shaking her head. "Near the other side of town." she said, before Adam winced. "Too far. Anyone you can stay with?" he asked. Another shake. Groaning, he said, "Fine. You can bunk at my place tonight.", causing the silver-haired girl to hesitate, look at the sky herself, then back to Adam, before nodding. "Alright. But you try anything, I'll..." "You'll what, kick me? Like you've done so many times to Sunohara?" he retorted, causing her to go to speak up, but Adam held up a hand. "I'm not finished. True, you've beat up Sunohara a lot, but I've heard the shit he comes out with. I've thumped him a couple of times myself. But I don't know why he thinks you are actually a guy. I mean, true, you hit like a runaway bulldozer, but that's due to extensive leg training." he said, causing Tomoyo to blush. "Thanks for saying all that. He just annoys me so much! I don't know why, but the things he says affect me more than if another boy would say it to me. Looking back on it now, maybe that's why I've never been in a real relationship with anyone." she said, turning to look out the window, before Adam put a hand on her shoulder warily.
"Hey, c'mon, that's not your fault! Sure, you're a scary bitch when you're pissed off..." Adam started, Tomoyo looking at him in anger, her eyes watering, "But, it doesn't mean you aren't relationship material. People probably think that you're above them, due to your training and social standing. That's what would turn them off. But there's probably been a couple of people who haven't been put off by that, but rather by fear of being sent flying by a kick. Then, there'll be that one person who is everything you want in a romantic partner. Eventually, you'll find them." he said, taking his hand off her shoulder, and putting the ignition in. "Let's go." he said, before pulling off.
Adam's Home...
"Home, sweet home!" Adam said, as he unlocked his front door, but stepped back to allow his guest enter first. "Ladies first." he said, before she stepped into the main room. "Sorry, it's not much, but it's good enough." he said, before he pointed to the next room. "There's a futon in there. I'll take the couch." he said, before flopping down on said couch. Tomoyo nodded, before she looked back out at the Charger, before she sat down next to Adam on the couch. "You one of those guys who prefer cars to women?" she asked, getting closer to him, causing Adam to raise an eyebrow, before he sat up a bit straighter. Allowing his eyes to wander, he said, "I'm one of those guys who appreciates a fine body, regardless of the make." he said, before he went to the kitchen to get a drink. As he grabbed a bottle of soda, he held one out to Tomoyo, which she accepted. "So, tell me, what would your ideal woman be like?" she asked, with it now being Adam's turn to blush. "Well, you see...It's kinda...ah, fuck it..." he stammered, before he looked Tomoyo dead in the eyes. "You." he said, to Tomoyo's shock. "What?" she exclaimed, Adam remaining silent.
"You heard correctly." Adam said, before Tomoyo stood up, and walked over to him. "I'll admit, you've interested me lately, Robertson. And now, I think I've got a reason why." she said, before grabbing Adam by the collar and locking her lips with his. When she pulled back, Adam's face was bright red. "Embarrassed, Adam?" she asked, before Adam scoffed. "No one needs to know about this, especially if you're going for Student Council President." he said, getting a nod from Tomoyo. "Sounds good." she said, before she kissed him again, before pulling away. "Right, I'm going to bed. Care to join me?" she asked, a seductive tone to her voice, before Adam chuckled. "Nah, I'll take the couch. I'm pretty sure your parents are going to eat me alive anyway. I'd rather not give them anything else to use against me." he said, before Tomoyo smiled, and she left the room.
"Fucking hell, Adam, you just can't resist the women, can you?" Adam thought to himself, before he flopped back onto the couch...
The Next Morning...
After being rudely awakened by Tomoyo, who had received a call from her father demanding an explanation for her absence, Adam drove the girl to her home, so she could change, but also so she could talk to her father. After dropping her off, and explaining the reason Tomoyo stayed at his place, Adam went to get ready for school himself. After quickly changing, he jumped back into his car and headed for the school.
After he had parked, greeted Tomoya and his friends, and headed up to class, all the while missing the blue Skyline parked in the car park, Adam put his head in his hand and drifted off, before he heard the teacher speak up. "This class seems popular, boys and girls, as we are gaining yet another transfer student. Also, like Mr Robertson here, he is a Scottish transfer student, who seeks to complete his education. Please come in!" He said, before the door slid open, and the boy walked in. Almost immediately, Adam's eyes widened. "Son of a bitch..."
The boy, who was an almost mirror image of Adam, was now bowing. "My name is Jamie. I believe you all know my little brother, Adam." he said, causing the entire room to look at Adam, who nodded. "I hope that I can become good friends with you all!" Jamie said, before the teacher spoke up. "Well, it seems we've already got the person who'll show Mr Jamie around. Sound good, Adam?" he asked, the boy in question nodding. Pointing the seat next to Adam, the teacher said, "That seat. There.", while pointing, before Jamie walked up to Adam. "Alright, bro?" he said, holding a hand up, before Adam stood up. Clasping his brother's hand, he pulled him in for a one armed hug. "We're having a chat later, brother." he said, quietly, before releasing him. Chuckling, Jamie sat down next to his brother. The teacher then continued the lesson.
After the lesson ended, Jamie had followed Adam to the Drama Clubroom, where the other members looked at them. "So, your brother?" Tomoya asked, Adam simply nodding, while cracking his knuckles. "I don't mean to sound rude, but can you lot take a walk for a bit? I need to have a chat with him." Adam asked, the other members hesitating, before they slowly left the room.
"Look, Adam..." Jamie started, but Adam cut him off. "When were you going to tell me?" he demanded, starting to walk towards his brother. "When were you going to tell me you were joining the school?" he asked again, stepping closer, as Jamie stepped forward as well. "When were you gonna..." Adam said, before he grabbed Jamie, and flung him into a nearby pile of tables. "I did it for you, Adam! I did it for you!" Jamie shouted, as he pulled himself up, causing Adam to stop his attack. "Mum wanted me to keep an eye on you until you're finished your education here. She just wants you to come home!" he shouted, before Adam lowered the fist he had raised. He then turned and stormed out the room, before Jamie punched a table in frustration. "I'm sorry, Adam! I'm sorry!" Jamie shouted, as Adam tore down the corridors, eventually reaching the car park.
"I need to drive." he thought to himself, before he got in the driver's seat. As he looked back up from starting the engine, he saw that Jamie had followed him, and he had slid into the driver's seat of the blue Skyline he had chased the previous day. Rolling his eyes, Adam simply drove the Charger out of the car park, the Skyline following closely behind.
After following Adam all over Hikarizaka, Jamie was surprised to see him stop outside his house. After both of them parked their cars, Jamie spoke up. "Still upshifting too early, Adam." he said, before Adam, who was getting a tool box out the back of his car, scoffed. "I do that so you brake, Jamie." he spat, before Jamie laughed. "You lose traction and the back end kicks out." his brother explained, Adam glaring at him. "You think I didn't notice?" Adam spat, before Jamie held up his hands in defence, chuckling, before he looked at Adam's engine. "Woo, I see you went with the times, little bro. Electronic nitrous injection." This caused Adam to smirk, before he started work on his engine. "Buster became a gearhead." he said, before Jamie laughed. "Alright. You want to help?" Adam asked, as his brother held up his arms. "You sure?" Jamie asked, before Adam nodded. "If you're sharing a place with me, I might as well accept it." Adam explained, before he pointed to the keys, and stood back. "Turn it over for me." he said, which Jamie did, and the Charger's engine roared. "God, it's an amazing beast!" Jamie awed, as Adam smiled. "Yep, and it's all mine!" He said, before Jamie snickered. "You prefer cars to women, don't you?" he asked, causing Adam to shoot him a look. "Woman or car, if it's a fine body, I'll appreciate it." Adam said, before he looked to the Skyline. Need some help with your engine?" he asked, closing his hood, before Jamie nodded. "Alright, let's do it." Jamie nodded, as they both headed over, and they were soon working on Jamie's engine...
A/N: I have nothing to say here, either. Madman out!