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When You're Around
Chapter 38
Rachel, Chloe and Jess were sitting in Chloe and Jess's living room watching a movie when the doorbell rang. "That's probably the pizza man, I'll get it," Rachel said and stood up, taking a second to look at the coffee table in front of her. They had all congregated here to support Chloe on the huge meeting she'd had today. The coffee table was filled with candy and chips and soda, the girls were definitely pigging out.
Rachel stopped by her purse on the way to the door to grab her wallet to pay for the pizza they ordered before making her way to the door. "How much was it again?" Rachel asked as she pulled open the door, keeping her head down as she looked in her wallet to see how much cash she had.
"You can pay me if you want," Adam said with an amused grin causing Rachel's head to snap up in surprise. "But all this can be yours for free," He made a sweeping gesture down his body.
She scowled at him and closed her wallet. "What are you doing here?"
"Were you expecting someone else?" He asked picking up on her now annoyed attitude.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I thought you were the pizza guy," She said putting her hands on her hips. "What do you want?"
He held his hands up in surrender. "I heard about Chloe's meeting earlier today and I wanted to come by and see how it went."
He said her defenses weaken at his concern for her friend. "Oh," She said uncertain. "Did Randy send you here?" Even though both Jess and Rach had a feeling Randy would clear things up with Chloe about the situation with Sam, they had a loyalty to their friend and were by default also upset with Randy.
He shook his head. "I admit I did let him know I was heading over here but it wasn't his idea, it was mine."
She nodded, believing him. "Okay, come in," She said opening the door wider. She lead him into the living room. "Look what the cat dragged in," She said as she took her seat back on the couch next to Chloe.
Jess and Chloe both looked up and Chloe smiled. "Adam, what are you doing here?" She got up and greeted him with a friendly hug.
"I heard about your meeting and I wanted to see how it went." He said and sat down in the chair next to the couch that she pointed for him to take.
"Oh that's nice of you," She said sitting back down. "It went ok. Basically I told them what I thought about their bullshit and no matter what their decision, I won't regret my relationship with Randy." Adam noticed her slight flinch when she said Randy's name. Obviously the wounds were still very fresh. "I'll know by mid week if I'll be coming back this year."
He nodded in understanding and took a second to look at the coffee table filled with junk. "You having a girls night or something?" He asked, the corner of his lips tilting up in amusement.
Chloe nodded with a smile. "We're celebrating. I don't know yet if I get to keep my job, but either way we're celebrating me keeping my job if that's the case, and if not, we're celebrating me not keeping the job and finding a better fit for me."
Adam couldn't help but laugh. "Positive thinking, I like it." He looked around and his eyes landed on the one women he had yet to meet. "I'm Adam, you must be Jess," He said, standing up to reach over and shake her hand.
"Oh, I forgot you two haven't met," Chloe said, regretfully.
Jess smiled back at him. "That's me, nice to meet you,"
"You too, I've heard a lot about you." He said, sitting back down.
She shot a look at Rach and Chloe. "Don't believe everything they tell you." Adam simply laughed because little did she know he didn't hear everything about her from her friend, but John too.
A couple minutes later the doorbell rang and Chloe shot up. "That's probably the pizza, I'll get it."
"Use my wallet!" Rachel yelled, wanting it to be her treat, though she knew her friend was going to ignore her. A minute later she walked back with two medium pizza's and cleared some space on the table.
"I'll get plates, Adam you stay and take my seat on the couch, this little chair is too small for you." Chloe said with a pat on his back before going into the kitchen and grabbing plates.
Adam smiled at Rachel as he sat next to her on the small couch, with Chloe and Jess each occupying a chair on either side of the couch. Rachel rolled her eyes at him and accepted the plate Chloe handed out to her.
"Alright what movie is next?" Jess asked after taking a bite of pizza.
"You sure you ladies don't mind me crashing your girls night?" Adam asked to make sure. As long as it was cool with them, he was staying. A night in with three beautiful woman? Who could say no.
"Not at all, as long as you don't mind watching chick flicks." Chloe said.
He grinned. "My favorite kind."
Rachel rolled her eyes again and reached over to the stack of movies sitting next to her. "Next up, The Notebook." She looked over at Adam, as if expecting him to leave.
He winked at her. "Perfect," He said before taking the movie from him and putting it in the DVD player himself.
Two bottles of wine, two pizzas, 3 bottles of beer and a quarter bottle of vodka later, Jess and Chloe were practically passed out, Rachel was pretty drunk and Adam, the only sober one. Rachel helped Jess into her room and Adam helped Chloe before they met each other back in the living room. She immediately went to her purse and started searching for her keys. She held them triumphantly in her hand but they were snatched away a couple seconds later. She looked up and saw Adam staring down at her.
"You're not seriously thinking of driving are you?" Adam asked.
She glared at him. "Yes I am, I need to get home."
"You're drunk, you can't drive."
"I'm not drunk!" She protested and reached for her keys but he held them out of her reach.
He smiled at her and slid her purse onto her shoulder. "Come on princess, I'll drive you home."
She narrowed her eyes. "I don't want you to drive me home, I can do it myself." He didn't say anything and bent down to haul her over his shoulder, his arm wrapped around her thighs, right under her butt. "Hey! Put me down you big jerk!" She said and punched him square on the back.
"Calm down Rocky," He said as he carried her down to the parking lot. "Where's your car?" He asked.
"I'm not telling." She said stubbornly. He laughed and hit the alarm button on her key set. A second later the parking lot was filled with the sounds of a car alarm going off. Adam followed the sound and once he found the car, he turned it off. He gently set Rachel down in the passenger seat before climbing into the drivers seat. She was still stubborn but she seemed to have calmed down a little bit and gave him directions to her house. Once they pulled up outside of the small town house, Rachel immediately hopped out of the car. Adam shot out just as fast to catch up to her just in case she started to stumble. "I'm not drunk." She said right before she lost her balance momentarily. She tried her best to ignore Adam's hand on her waist to steady her. "I could have drove myself." She expected him to say something but when he didn't she twirled around. Dizziness seemed to grip her and she closed her eyes for a second.
"Hey, you okay?" Adam asked, stepping forward, putting a hand on her cheek.
She opened her eyes, surprised at his closeness. "Just dizzy."
He nodded. "Come on, I'll help you inside then call myself a cab." She let him lead her to the door but she had some trouble fitting her key in the lock. He reached out and grabbed the keys from her and unlocked the door with his front against her back and his arm wrapped around her. He pushed open the door and once inside she immediately slipped off her shoes and coat.
As if she just thought of something, she whirled around and stepped up close to Adam. "You know what?"
"What?" He asked amused.
Her eyes seemed to soften and her hand shot out to touch his hair. "I really like your hair." He laughed and thanked her. "Can I smell it?"
He raised a brow. "You want to smell my…hair?" She nodded and he shrugged telling her to go ahead. She leaned in close, her arms wrapping around his neck and inhaled. "You're kinda kinky when you're drunk, you know that?" She leaned back and narrowed her eyes. "Right, right, you're not drunk."
She stayed there, staring up at his face and bit her lip. His arms instinctively wrapped around her waist. "You know what else?"
He gulped. This sure was dangerous. "What?"
"You're really sexy." She said and giggled after, as if she shouldn't have said that.
"You sure are filled with compliments tonight." He smiled.
"We just got off to a wrong start, I'm actually a very nice person." She said in a quiet voice as she subconsciously moved closer to him.
"Coulda fooled me." He joked.
She spend the next minute alternating between looking in his eyes and at his lips. Finally she said, "I'm going to kiss you," And waited a second to see if he protested, which he didn't, before leaning in and covering his mouth with hers. Adam couldn't help but groan at the contact. This was an unexpected end to his evening. He had to say when he'd gone over to Chloe's he had not expected Rachel to be there but when she'd opened the door, he was very happy with his decision to stop by.
Her breathy little moan broke Adam out of his thoughts and felt her start to walk backwards. "Rachel," He whispered breaking the kiss. Her lips immediately touched his neck, as if they couldn't stand to not be connected to him. "Rachel," He said again and forced her to look in his eyes. "You sure? You're…intoxicated. I don't want to take advantage of you."
Her eyes darkened in lust. She didn't say anything and instead pressed her lips back to his in a passionate kiss, telling him everything he needed to know. In a second his hands were on her butt and pushing her up so her legs wrapped around his waist and he carried her to the closest bedroom he could find.
A/N: You guys and your reviews are absolutely amazing! Thank you so much and keep them coming! It's about time Adam and Rachel hooked up huh?