"The One" – Part 11
Summary and additional notes in part 1.
Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews! Am following the muse here and there's some awkward-funny ahead!
By the way, Finlay is pronounced "FIN lee". It's of Irish/Gaelic origin, as are the names "Declan" and "Fiona" ;-)
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Anonymous – I know there wasn't much description there, but in my head Dave's ex is an OC (original character).
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When she got back to the office, Fiona answered a few emails but her mind was settled on Adam. Holly J's words had made her a bit defensive. Sure she knew her sister-in-law meant well and was only voicing her concerns, but her biting remarks about Adam annoyed her. Holly J didn't know him like she did.
After ten minutes Fiona figured she held out long enough. She opened her web browser and logged back in to FaceRange. She immediately clicked on Adam's profile. What she saw made her smile.
Before she left, she had posted, "Beautiful song, my love"
She saw that Adam had responded. "Not as beautiful as you ;-)"
Fiona allowed herself a moment of pure happiness upon reading his words. It didn't matter what other people thought. What she had with Adam was real.
She continued reading and saw that underneath a girl with short blonde hair commented. "Who's that girl you're flirting with? :-p"
Fiona frowned a little. It was obvious that the comment had been made in jest, but she didn't know who the girl was.
His roommate Gregory wrote back, "Note to self: Next time remember to self-edit before posting… Naomi, I'll give you one guess!"
Drew also made a second comment. "Oh snap! Well, walls are public, lol… Hi Fiona!"
Fiona had a wry smile. By the time her relationship with Adam ended, she and Drew had reached an understanding but she still didn't particularly like the guy. She did appreciate that he gave her a shout out. She supposed it was an olive branch.
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Adam snorted. "It wasn't a threesome!" he disputed.
He and Fiona were sitting on his couch, in his apartment. They had both gotten off of work recently. Instead of going home, Fiona took a cab across town.
"I can't believe people are still talking about that! Really, it was ages ago," he continued. He was pissed at Holly J. Why was she bringing up random things from the past?
Fiona looked at him closely. "Uh huh," she said with a teasing grin. "You seem awfully impassioned with denying it."
"And now you're making fun of me," he deadpanned.
"Yup!" she laughed.
He chuckled and softly caressed her cheek. "I can't win, can I?" he grinned at her.
"Oh come on! It's a juicy story. I'm all ears," she giggled.
He studied her for a moment. "Fine."
She clapped her hands together. "Details, please?" She was curious if Holly J's version of events gleaned from gossip was true to what really happened. Often stories like this took on a life of their own. Either way, she didn't particularly care. She was having a ball teasing him about it, but she strongly felt what he did when he was single was his business.
"Alright. This happened years ago, when I was still in college. It was the summer between my junior and senior year. There was a girl I spending time with–"
"Fucking," she said knowingly.
He playfully rolled his eyes. "Hanging out with," he continued, ignoring her colorful interruption. "I originally met her a couple of summers ago through Dave Turner. Anyway, this particular day a bunch of us were hanging out as a group at a one of their friends' house. We had drinks and chilled. Eventually Dave and the others left. The girl was crashing there so we went upstairs and started kissing."
Fiona made a face.
He gave her a look of mock annoyance. "Do you want me to continue?"
She laughed. "Yeah. I'm just wondering how this story becomes a non-threesome," she teased.
Adam shook his head. "Anyway, so we were in the room and suddenly her friend comes in."
Fiona faked a cough. "Sounds like a threesome!"
Despite himself, Adam chuckled. "So the girl tells me that her friend was curious about me. I had no idea that she had any connection to Dave, or that they had just broken up. The next thing I know she's sucking me off."
Fiona stopped him. "Wait a minute! How do you get from the friend walking in to 'suddenly' going down on you? You definitely jumped ahead there!" she pointed out, amused at his attempt to skip ahead using passive terminology.
He shrugged. "I don't know. They definitely talked about it beforehand. Anyway, a few minutes later the door pops open and Dave is standing there with some friends. He completely freaks out, saying that I was taking advantage of his 'girlfriend' because she had been drinking earlier – even though we all had around the same amount and were barely tipsy by then! All I know is I'm glad I made it out of there in one piece!"
As luck would have it, he saw the guy almost every time he visited Toronto because Dave went on to marry one of his best friends! While the two got along now, Dave held onto a grudge for a long time. In the months leading up to the wedding Clare badgered Dave and Adam to bury the hatchet. What aggravated matters between them was that this story just wouldn't die!
Fiona couldn't stop giggling. "I get why he was upset, but clearly she made her own decision in this. I think anyone would agree that giving a blowjob is a conscious action."
Adam nodded. "Right! Unless you have weapon or something you can't force someone to do that."
"You do know that this whole conversation is absurd, right?" she casually noted. He nodded again. "I mean, why exactly are you telling your girlfriend of two days about this?"
He looked at her incredulously. "You wanted to know the real story!"
She looked at him with a serious expression. "And the verdict is… that was definitely a threesome!" She couldn't hold in her laughter anymore. His confused and slightly worried expression had been too funny for words.
"Wow, I guess I set myself up for that one," he conceded. "I disagree because the other girl didn't do anything. She was there, but just watching." He didn't like the label because in his view it made it sound more salacious and nefarious than it was. It had been a spur of the moment thing that went on a few minutes.
Fiona shook her head. "Yeah, but what would have happened if Dave hadn't walk in?"
Adam thought about it.
"Threesome!" she teased him again.
Gregory's ears perked up as he walked through the front door. "Three-what?" he grinned broadly.
Adam looked at Fiona. He kind of wished he had his own place. "Har har," he responded. "Fiona, are you ready to head out for dinner?"
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tbc
A/N: Wow, I guess Holly J was right about that one! It's good that they can joke about it, though it seems like the joke's on Adam more than anything! (While he's still a little sensitive about it, she's not flipping out over something that happened when he was 20)
Not to sound like a broken record here, but I think this is another chapter that underscores just how different this story is from my other fics!
FYI, the next chapter is bursting at the seams with Fadam sweetness and fluff! To quote Christina Aguilera they're "holding hands and making plans", lol.
Reviews are cool to the school :D
So, I'm posting this chapter early because I won't be back online until later tonight. However, I'm thinking maybe of double posting when I do. Eh, we'll see… ;-)