(Rachel's POV)

I knew Adam was charming and sweet but I thought that was just me but he'd gotten around Poppy pretty quickly. I saw a lot of similarities between the pair...They were both great cooks especially when it came to pudding and they both were gifted when it came to getting their own way or getting out of a sticky situation. I stuck to my end of the bargain it was nearly lunchtime and Poppy's morning of freedom was over.

"You better go" Adam told Poppy as he spotted me

Poppy took her apron off and grabbed her bag, she high fived Adam on the way past.

"See you later trouble" he smirked

"See you tonight" Poppy commented

"Tonight?" I questioned her when we were clear of the canteen

"Yeah I invited Adam round for dinner"

"Wait wait wait...The other day you hated him, now you're inviting him round again?" I asked a little stunned

"Yeah..." She answered simply

What on earth was she up to?

I walked her back up to the cooler, Kim had been swapped for Nikki. Poppy went straight in and sat down without me even having to ask her or anything...Had Adam brainwashed her or something?

The rest of the afternoon I had no complaints about Poppy, Whatever Adam had done it had worked...I went down to see him 30 minutes before the end of school.

"Okay what did you do?" I asked him truly curious

"With what?" He questioned

"Poppy? One minute she hates you then a few cakes later, she's asking you round for dinner?"

"She's like me when I was her age...I just had a lot of anger that's how I got into cooking...It helped. I just gave her a job and left her too it, beating up cake mix with a spoon seems to work for her..." He explained

"Oh"

"Is it a problem me coming round?"

"No. No, of course not. I just didn't expect Poppy to invite you..."

I met the girls outside my office and we all went home together, Poppy picked up the post and went into the kitchen, walking as she sorted through it.

"Why don't you go and get changed?" I suggested

"Okay" Emily replied, before rushing upstairs

I followed Poppy into the kitchen to find her sat at the table staring at a white envelope. Her mind seemed elsewhere.

"You okay?" I asked

"I didn't think it'd come this fast" She said placing the DNA kit down on the table

"You don't have to do it..."

"No, I do. I just need to grow up and stop being scared of everything..." She took one of the kits and swabbed it around her mouth before putting it in the tube and marking it with her initials.

Then she simply stood up and walked into the hall. She went upstairs and changed into her skinny jeans and white tshirt, with long sleeved red arms. The doorbell rang and I answered it. Adam walked in but we barely had time to greet each other before the sound of screaming and shouting came from upstairs. Those two never argued, what was going on.

(Poppy's POV)

"Em just do it!" I asked, I was getting annoyed. Why couldn't she just do the damn test?

"Poppy I don't want to!" Em yelled back

Rachel and Adam came shooting up the stairs, to the hall were we were talking...

"What's going on?" Rachel asked

"Em won't do the DNA test!"

"Well that's her decision..." Rachel said

"No its not!" I yelled

I was getting more and more worked up, this whole situation had me pissed off and I was just taking it out on everyone. Suddenly, Adam hoisted me over his shoulder and began to walk down the stairs.

"PUT ME DOWN!" I screamed

But he wouldn't listen, instead at the bottom of the stairs he picked up a carrier bag and a metal, baseball bat before taking me out into the back garden, he put me down.

"What are we doing out here?" I asked

"Blowing off some steam..."

He handed me the bat.

"Go stand by the fence" he said

I walked down the garden and turned around. He took a couple of what looked like red balls out of the bag, I looked closer...They weren't balls but something else?

"Tomatoes?" I questioned

"I used to use apples but I think Rachel likes her windows where they are..."

Adam threw one of the tomatoes and I smacked it into pieces with the bat. He continued to throw me tomatoes and as I hit them they landed all mushed and in pieces, Rachel soon followed to see what was going on and ducked as a tomato went flying her way.

"If going to shout can you just get on with it?" I asked

"I'll go and check on Emily" Adam said before going inside

I put the bat down and went closer to her.

"I'm not going to shout." She said

"I suck. I'm a complete bitch. I shouldn't have shouted like that..." I stated

"Maybe you didn't handle it in the best way, but stop being so hard on yourself...You've stayed strong for a long time, you're allowed to snap every once in a while" Rachel told me

"Its not once in a while though is it?" I sighed

"Listen, stop beating yourself up...Em is fine okay?"

I nodded quietly.

Rachel took me inside where for the first time in my life I found myself feeling scared to see Em. Would she hate me? Would she speak to me? As I went into the kitchen, I approached her slowly.

"Em, I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have shouted at you. It won't happen again, I promise." I told her

She looked at me blankly for a few seconds before a smile spread across her face and she ran at me slamming into my chest, I held her there softly for a minute before she pulled away. She held out the DNA envelope.

"Adam did one too so I didn't have to do it by myself..." She stated

I looked at Adam and mouthed a thank you. He smiled back gently...