"The One" – Part 34
Summary and additional notes in part 1.
Author's Note: Whoa, we're up to chapter 34! Thank you for the reviews! Reactions are in this chapter.
Fadam Anon – Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad to hear you're enjoying this story. I agree that it's an awesome song for Fadam :D (Hmm, might be their theme song once the month is over… lol)
Author's Note #2: This is not related to my Degrassi timeline fics. (See my Author's profile for details!)
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Degrassi!
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A couple of hours later he checked his email and was stunned at how many notifications he received! He logged back in and ventured to the album.
First up, he went to the prom photo. He saw his friend Naomi, who he worked with in Boston, had commented. "You guys look adorable! So sweet that you went to prom together!"
His former roommate Joe also posted. "Wow, you're actually posting pictures before T. Better you than me ;-)"
Adam smirked. Joe was also transgendered and they shared the same love/hate relationship with old photos.
Underneath his current roommate Gregory also commented. "Dude, there's no way you're 18 in this picture! Right?"
Adam was going to respond but he saw his good friend Eli had beaten him to it. "No, he actually went to prom twice! I guess it's a 'benefit' of dating an older sugar mama? Lol. This is his first prom, dude."
"Oh, i c…" Gregory responded.
"And to think I didn't even go to one! Haha. You guys look cute, Adam!" his friend Meg wrote.
Adam shook his head at all the comments. He wrote back, but decided right then and there that he wasn't going to click through all the photos in the album.
As he checked his notifications, he noticed that some of his friends had actually added pictures in response to the ones he uploaded.
Eli posted a more recent picture featuring both of them with Clare. The caption read, 'The Misfits all Growed Up... plus Dave!' Adam chuckled. Indeed Clare's husband Dave was also in the shot. He recognized it was taken at the baby shower for their daughter, Sierra Turner.
In the photo Clare was standing in the middle, wearing a floral print maternity dress. Her slightly curly auburn hair was shoulder length. She had a bright smile as Dave embraced her from behind. He wore a green and white polo shirt with khaki pants. Both rested their hands on her very pregnant belly.
On her right, stood Adam. He had a huge smile and was dressed in jeans, a dark dress shirt, and white sneakers.
On Clare's left, stood Eli. He had slight stubble and his lips were upturned in his signature smirk. His dark hair was cut much shorter than in his high school days, and he wore it a messy, slightly spiky style. He still favored dark colors and occasionally sported guyliner. He was wearing black jeans, a rock concert t-shirt, and a black leather jacket. As a music promoter for an indie label, this was his usual attire.
The picture made Adam smile. It was ironic, because if someone asked him ten years ago he would have sworn that Eli and Clare would be the ones to get married and have a baby! The two had even been engaged during college! Yet, all these years later the three were still good friends. Sierra's birth was a happy event all around. And, despite the hard feelings between them in the beginning, Adam thought Dave was a wonderful husband to Clare. He truly wished the couple the best and he adored his little goddaughter.
Adam returned to his profile page and saw that Declan, of all people, had tagged him in a photo. When he checked it out, he was amazed to see that his girlfriend's twin brother had already posted a picture taken on Saturday. The caption read, 'And seven years later...'
Adam chuckled. It was clearly a response to the photo of the four of them taken the last summer he and Fiona were together.
In the new photo, the four of them were sitting outside on the Penthouse patio. Declan had an arm around his wife, Holly J and they were both smiling. Adam had an arm wrapped around Fiona. Instead of looking forward, the couple looked into each other's eyes. He figured it must have been a candid shot, taken in between poses.
Either way, he was happy Declan uploaded it. He didn't have many recent pictures of him and Fiona. Also it was incredible comparing this one with the older picture. He really did look remarkably different!
Adam glanced at the clock and realized it was close to 5:00PM. He decided to stop wasting time and finish his tasks for the day. He promptly closed the tab, but when he did his email popped up on screen. He saw a new message that he couldn't ignore. Apparently his mother had posted a photo!
As he had discovered over the past year, there were downsides to adding your parent as a friend on FaceRange. He had Mrs. Torres on limited profile so she couldn't view everything on his page, but clearly she saw the pictures and decided to get in on the walk down memory lane! Adam clicked the link in the notification email and it directed him back to the site. He logged in again and waited.
When the page loaded he chuckled. The caption said 'Drew and Adam at a car show'. Sure enough, in the frame were a very young Drew and himself. He grinned, noting how rare it was to see a picture of his brother before puberty. He looked about 12 and his dark brown hair was in a bowl cut. He looked innocent and was smiling wide as he held up a miniature monster truck in one hand. The other arm was wrapped around his younger brother.
Adam shook his head in amusement as he studied his younger self. In the photo he was around 10 years old. He was also holding up a toy truck and had an arm around his brother's shoulders. He wore a hat, which did a good job of hiding his longer, medium brown hair from view. At the time he had natural blonde highlights from the sun, which he hated because he felt it made him look more girlie.
Both boys were wearing dark t-shirts with denim shorts and were clearly ecstatic to be there. Adam laughed when he saw that Drew already made a comment.
"Dude, that monster truck show was epic! You remember, right?" Drew wrote.
Adam nodded his head. How could he forget? He quickly typed a response, "Of course! It was the highlight of that summer ;-)"
It was true. In June of that year their parents sent them to sleep away camp, which Adam had mixed feelings about. They went the previous year, so he already had some friends there. However, he hated being segregated with the girls! Still, he really loved being outdoors and had lucked out that there were a few girls who were as hands on as he was.
When the page reloaded he saw that there were more comments on the picture.
Eli wrote, "This is a Torres brothers pic if I ever saw one!"
Drew had added a second one. "One of the many reminders that I always had a brother :D" he joked.
Their mom also wrote a comment. "He had such lovely hair but couldn't get him to part with that hat, lol"
Adam raised his eyebrows at how surreal it was that his mom actually typed 'lol'.
"This is weird," he said aloud.
He glanced at the clock again and noted that if he ever wanted to get out of here, he would have to finish up his work!
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tbc
A/N: Wow! Adam is friends with Mama Torres on FaceRange? As Eli once said, he is one brave warrior! LOL! Speaking of Eli, the picture he posted yielded quite a bit of information… Though, Clave (or Dare?) were briefly mentioned in chapter 11…
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In the next chapter, there's Fadam! Adam asks Fiona a question and wonders if he should leave out an awkward connection to his past…