Missed call: Becky 7:39pm
Missed call: Becky 8:01pm
Missed call: Becky 8:20pm
Text Message: Becky 9:00pm- Adam, please talk to me, what's going on?
Text Message: Becky 9:30pm- Please, Adam. We can talk this out. Whatever is going on we can get through this together. Just please talk to me.
Text Message: Adam 12:42am -I'm breaking up with you. I'm sorry.
Missed call: Becky 8:00am
Missed call: Becky 8:01am
Text Message: Becky 8:03am- Adam don't do this to me. Let me help you. I want to be with you; please can we talk about this?
Adam's heart lurched reading Becky's last text. He wanted to be with her too but he was bad for her. He was a girl and she was a girl and in her world that is unacceptable. The whole weekend he sat in his room; crying, burning, and barely sleeping. His mom was on a business trip so he had the house to himself.
Monday rolled around and Adam couldn't bring himself to get out of bed. Today he would see her. Today his heart would break again, and again, and again. She's just like Carly, he'd tell himself. She'll ignore you. Adam contemplated breaking out Gracie's clothing but her clothes were in a box somewhere in the basement and he didn't have time to go scavenge for it so he opted for his old look: beanie, baggy pants and a shirt a size to big for his girly body.
He entered the school and nobody paid attention to him except for Eli and Clare who took one look at him and rushed over to his side. Adam never looked in the mirror before he left; he looked completely disheveled, his outfit not helping his case. His eyes had dark, baggy circles under them, his eyes were red and puffy almost bloodshot and his face was pale like he hadn't seen the sun in 3 days. Eli tried to ask him what was up but Adam just brushed past him like he wasn't even there.
On his way to his locker he got pushed to the floor. Turning around he expected to see Jacob but saw Luke Baker which to him didn't make much of a difference. Luke picked him up and dragged him to the washroom while Adam barely put up a struggle.
"I don't think I made myself clear the other night. I just want you away from my sister but I didn't tell you why. She's too good for you, Adam or whatever your name is. You're a girl and she's a girl and that means she can't date you. Why can't you accept the fact that you're a girl, hm? Is it really that embarrassing for you to be labeled as a lesbian? You really have to dress like a guy and trick everybody around you? You are a walking sinner, Adam. You are a girl, you will always be a girl; that's what God made you and that is what you will remain. Becky doesn't like you, she feels sorry for you. Stay away from my sister, Adam. And even when you do come to your senses about being a lesbian and change back into dressing the way you're suppose to I still want you to stay away from my her. She doesn't need a bad influence like you in your life."
Luke shoved off of Adam and walked out of the washroom disappearing out of sight. He stood there begging the tears not to come but they did. He shook them away and walked out to go to his next class.
Adam got to chemistry. Thankfully, Becky wasn't in there yet so he sat next to someone else to avoid her. Putting his head down, he popped in his head phones and started listening to music.
Becky POV
I reread Adam's text over and over again.
I'm breaking up with you. I'm sorry.
What does that even mean? What happened from the time we entered the house and I went upstairs to the time I came back? Obviously, he couldn't have met another girl; the only other girl in my house is my mother. I want to talk to him; I need to talk to him but he won't answer or return my calls or texts. I should go over to his house but I'm afraid to see him. Maybe he didn't mean it; maybe he just needs a little space to deal with some stuff. But that still doesn't hide the fact that my heart aches for him. Maybe Monday will be better. He'll have gotten time to think and maybe we can fix this.
General POV
Becky walked into chemistry looking for Adam but she couldn't find him. The bell had already rung and all the seats were filled except for one because Jenna was sick but Adam wasn't there. They had a substitute that day so and he hadn't arrived yet so Becky asked around.
"Have you seen Adam?" she asks a girl, she shakes her head no. She asks another guy and he replies no. Becky opted to ask the guy who's got his head down and listening to music. She's never seen him before but she's never seen a lot of these people since her main attention had always been on either Ms. Dawes or Adam.
"Excuse me, have you seen Adam?" she asks as she pulls off his ear phones. The boy lifts his head up and her breath catches. "Adam?"
"Becky, do you mind? I'm listening to music," he says coldly and takes it back from her and puts his head back down.
Becky was taken aback by his coldness and pulled out both of his ear plugs which awarded her a glare from Adam. "Adam, can we please talk. You just run out of my house crying and then break up with me? What did I do wrong?" Becky tried to keep her voice even but it ended up cracking and tears start forming in her eyes.
Adam's face remained stoic. "There's nothing to talk about, Becky. We're done," he said while snatching his ear phones back into his ears.
Becky wasn't going to back down from this. "Adam, whatever is going on you can tell me. I won't run away and I won't condemn you for it. If I did something wrong I can try to fix it to the best of my abilities but I can't if you won't tell me. I just want to be happy and you make me happy Adam and I know this may be a little too soon but I think I'm falling for you. Adam, I just want to be with you. Look at me, Adam."
He didn't for a few seconds but slowly turned his head to meet her blue eyes that he could melt in. Even after what Luke said he couldn't help but still want her. Every bone in his body ached for her. His mind and thoughts were only about her. Getting over her would be near impossible. But he had to try.
Becky searched his eyes for something, anything to indicate that she wasn't fighting for nothing; that this could still be salvaged. For a second she saw that old adoration in his eyes but it left as quickly as it came and she wondered if it was even there in the first place or if she had just imagined it.
"I don't want to be with you." Adam said this in a defiant tone but a tear escaped from his eye right when he said it. It really hurt him to do this to her when she just proclaimed that she might possibly be falling for him.
A look of pain crossed Becky's face, followed by tears forming in her eyes. She couldn't hold them in as they started to stream down her face. Becky ran out of the classroom sobbing; Adam stood up to follow her but immediately sat back down. He didn't want to make her cry but he did. He felt like burning himself but he forgot his clip at home.
Becky ran to the bathroom but saw it was occupied by too many people and she didn't feel like answering any questions or looking at pitied faces so she ran to the broom closet and collapsed on the floor. She stayed in there the whole day just crying until no more tears could be conjured.
Adam was walking through the halls trying to go unnoticed but someone did notice him: Luke. He pushed Adam against the lockers with enough force to dent them. Everyone in the hallways scattered, not wanting to be apart of what was going to go down.
"I thought I made myself clear this morning about Becky," Luke growled.
Becky's POV
Becky heard a commotion in the hallway that sounded a lot like Luke. She poked her head out and saw Adam against the lockers and Luke holding him. She was going to move to stop Luke but she heard her Luke say her name.
"Luke, what are you talking about?" Adam shouted.
"I saw you talking to her in a class room. That doesn't look like avoidance to me!"
"Luke, I broke up with her last night! Okay? I did what you said; I broke it off with her. She said she still likes me and I was trying to get it through her head that we were done. Happy? Because I'm not. I love your sister and talking to her this morning was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. So I would appreciate it if you would lay off me now because I did what you asked," said Adam on the verge of tears but in a strong defiant voice.
Luke told Adam to break up with me? Why would he do that?
"Just stay away from her, Gracie," Luke spat. Adam got loose and walked away from Luke to go home.
"Luke?" I didn't realize I was crying when I said his name, "What did you do?"
"Hey, Becks; what do you mean?" he's acting as if his and Adam's transaction didn't just occur. "What's wrong Becky? Have you been crying?"
I shoved him hard into the lockers and came face to face with him. "You told Adam to break up with me and to stay away from me?"
"Yeah, Becks, what's the problem? You're not gay; I was saving you from eternal damnation!" Luke said trying to justify his actions.
"Luke you don't get to have a say so in my life! You don't get a say so in whom I see and you don't get a say so in whom I date! Adam is the best thing that has ever happened to me and you might as well have taken that away from me. Stay out of my life, Luke!" I said pushing him into the lockers and walked away.
I've never been so angry and hurt in my life (besides Adam breaking up with me) but now I know why; sort of. 'Why would Adam just lie down and do what Luke asked? I need to find him and talk to him.' I thought.
Becky ran out of the school and hoped into her car and drove off to Adam's house to get to the bottom of this. She wasn't about to let Luke ruin her Romeo and Juliet love story.
Lazy Sunday morning so I write this! Review and Comment please and thank you!
