CHAPTER FIVE: SCHIZOPHRENIA SECRETS

"What are you doing here?" Fiona finally asked from her place beside Adam. He'd dropped his arm next to his side again and was no longer touching her in any way.

"I was just visiting an old friend," Bobby answered. Owen glanced over at him while also wearing a devious smirk. Adam wanted to wipe that smirk right off of his smug face.

Bobby licked his lips and looked Fiona up and down before meeting Adam's serious and emotionless eyes again. "Besides, how could I possibly stay away from this place when my ex-girlfriend almost got her head chopped off here ten months ago?"

Fiona sneered at Bobby. "Since when did you decide to have a heart? Last time I was this close to you, you decided to throw me down a flight of stairs."

The corner of his mouth lifted into a smirk. Owen stayed silent and kept his eyes fixated on Adam. He looked too oblivious to be taken serious right now. The jock figured that talk about Bobby abusing Adam's current girlfriend might cause him to lunge for Bobby's throat.

Maybe he and his new friend had thought wrong when they'd planned this entire plan out.

Bobby motioned at Adam and tossed the capsule of pills to Owen who caught them perfectly in his hand before stuffing them deep into his jacket.

"Maybe it's because your boyfriend here is taking antipsychotic medication," an amused Bobby said to them.

Adam swallowed the lump in his throat. Fiona crossed her arms and questioned, "Haven't you already used up your accusations of people being crazy? Get a life, Bobby."

Fiona grabbed Adam's hand and began pulling him away with her. "Let's get out of here, Adam."

But Adam yanked his hand away and glared at Owen who was now playing with his pills. He knew how angry his mom would be if she found out he'd been lying about taking his pills when he'd actually let someone get their filthy hands on them.

And he didn't exactly favor talking to Drew, his dead brother, every night.

"Give me my pills," he ordered in a low voice.

Fiona's mouth dropped open, and she took a step back. "You… Are those- You mean those pills are really yours?"

Adam swallowed another lump while a knot began tying itself around Adam's stomach. He kept his eyes on Owen out of shame. He looked pretty proud of himself next to abusive Bobby.

"It looks like I know more about your boyfriend than you do, Fi." Bobby took a step closer to her. "He's a paranoid schizophrenic. It looks like you've got bad taste in guys."

Fiona broke her gaze from Adam's sorry expression. "At least Adam keeps his hands to himself, you angry gorilla!"

Bobby glared at her before taking another step towards her. Adam kept his eyes on Bobby but didn't make a move to stop him. If he got too close, he wouldn't hesitate to throw him up against the lockers. But right now he was harmless. Plus Adam was getting the feeling that he was just doing this to get under his skin.

Adam looked back over at Owen and said, "Just give me the pills, Owen."

He snickered and asked, "Now why would I do that, Torres? Because you see stuff that isn't there and I should feel sorry for you? No, you're just a crazy nut job."

Adam's jaw tightened and he lunged at Owen without another thought. His pills flew out of Owen's meaty hands as he moved to defend himself from a very angry Adam.

"I am not crazy," he defiantly said through his teeth.

Owen glared with a smirk and said, "I'm sure you're not, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to kick your ass."

Adam was seeing double now as Owen pushed him off and grabbed his skull with strong hands. He suddenly kneed him in his forehead without warning, making Adam fall to his knees while clutching his aching head.

Bobby watched them fight it out with a scornful expression and his arms crossed over his chest. Fiona moved towards Adam, but Bobby held her by her shoulder with one hand. That just proved how strong Bobby really was.

He gave her a serious look. "You're not going anywhere, princess."

Fiona glared right back at him, but neither one of them made a move to hurt the other. Instead they stayed still with daggers of hatred in each other's eyes.

Adam finally stood from his kneeling position and stumbled a bit as his vision blurred. His head was still throbbing from the blow he'd gotten from Owen's muscled knee as well.

But he eventually made sense of where Owen was and tackled him without another thought. Owen had been grinning before, but now he looked seriously frightened. The guy attacking him was the guy who had put some helpless kid in a coma at the end of last year. He couldn't blame himself for being scared of this psycho.

"Get off!" he grunted with his hands clutching Adam's collar.

"Then give me my pills," Adam replied.

Owen looked at him in pure shock. "I dropped those a long time ago, psycho."

A scary look flashed in Adam eyes as he brought his knee back and let it find Owen's groin with ease. He leaned close to Owen's ear and hissed, "I already told you; I'm not a psycho."

Owen moaned in pain as Adam stepped off of his victim. He'd forgotten all about Bobby who had just tackled him from behind. He made a low whining nose as Bobby gripped his hair and pulled his head back.

Adam felt his neck pop and sneered in anger and hatred towards the curly haired boy. Bobby leaned down to Adam's ear. "I've got half a mind to beat your ass right now, creep."

"What's going on here?" a female voice asked from further down the hall.

Fiona and Bobby looked back to see Bianca standing in the middle of the hall with glaring eyes. There was no denying that this girl could probably leave a few bruises on Bobby.

But it wasn't like Bobby knew that. "Get out of here," he called to her.

Her eyebrows rose. "Excuse me?"

Bobby stood from Adam's helpless body and picked him up by the back of his shirt. He held the younger boy in front of him.

"I said to get the hell out of here," Bobby repeated. "Are you def or something?"

Bianca made a fist with her hand and began walking closer to Bobby. Fiona suddenly stepped in her way. "Just leave, Bianca. I've got this under control."

Bianca laughed before looking over Fiona's shoulder at a helpless Adam. "You've got shit under control, Fiona. He's going to kill your boyfriend if you don't do something."

Fiona didn't respond. Bianca's lips were a tight straight line as she shoved her way past Fiona.

"Let him go, asshole," she ordered seriously.

Bobby was amused that this unfamiliar girl actually thought she could order him around like a slave or something. He laughed and tightened his grip on Adam's locks of brown hair. He whimpered slightly under his breath.

"And what are you going to do if I don't?" he replied.

Bianca answered him with no hesitation. "I will break your fucking legs."

Bobby sensed the seriousness in the girl's voice. He let himself falter slowly before letting his smirk grow larger and weakening his grip on Adam.

He grabbed him by his arms and shoved him hard onto the lockers. It made a banging noise, and Adam slid down the lockers with his eyes squeezed shut at the pain. Bianca charged Bobby who quickly turned and escaped the school.

Owen was still moaning on the floor while clutching his groin and stomach area. Clearly Adam had caused some serious damage to Owen down south.

Neither Bianca nor Fiona wasted any time in kneeling down next to his throbbing body.

"Are you okay?" Bianca asked in a sweet tone.

Adam slowly opened his eyes and asked, "What does it look like?"

Bianca smiled a bit. She and Fiona helped Adam stand before Bianca leaned down and snatched the capsule of pills that had fallen out of Owen's filthy claws.

She held them out to Adam and said, "Next time, don't let them get a hold of something like this. They could seriously hurt you, Adam."

"Your lack of confidence in me kind of hurts."

Fiona grinned and pulled him tighter.

"Fiona…," he warned slowly, "about the pills…"

"We'll talk about it later."

Adam nodded before limping out of the school with Bianca and Fiona's help.