Chapter 59
The sound of the bell jumped me from spacing out and I turned the other way to get to my locker. I took my things and got ready for this quick ‘date' since my free period today was just after lunch. I got all my assignments given out to us today and shoved them into the backpack, zipping it up and rushing through the school›s double doors in search of a certain green-eyed hottie.
Yes, you can bask in your glory now. I have overcome denial and came to the stage of acceptance. I had feelings for the dude, so what? We were going to one of those things Penny considered as a ‘date', so what? He was hot and I may or may not have fallen for him, so what?
Okay maybe it was a much bigger deal than I let on.
I finally caught Adam's silhouette beside his bike, looking like he was just relaxing after a day full of stress. Probably physics, no doubt.
"Doesn't the majesty have classes to attend to?" His head turned to me and a smile immediately graced his features to greet me.
"It's nice to see you too, Case." I rolled my eyes at his formality. It was like he was trying to overlook the fact that we kissed and that thought made my conscience frown.
I decided to strike up a topic before my mind started whisking up bullshit and mess this up for me. That wouldn't be good for any of us.
"So, where are we going this afternoon?" I was rocking on the balls of my feet by then, trying to calm my nerves as Penelope's words entered my mind. Was this really a date or was it just a way of him saying sorry about the kiss and break it to me that I was a sloppy kisser.
Dammit, conscience, fuck you and your conclusions.
"Now, where's the fun in that?" He gave me a cheeky smile, giving me my helmet and got on his bike to turn the engine on. He kicked the stand and braced the bike with his feet while I got on behind him after strapping my helmet on and kicking the side footrest to place my feet.
I rolled my eyes at him for the second time exasperatedly. I just had to fall for this type of dude; typical.
Adam pulled the bike out of the school compound and took a familiar route that led us to the opening of the forest which would lead us to the valley that he took me to the other day. We started going on foot after Adam parked his bike under an oak tree. We joked around, shoving each other playfully here and there and even though I was dying to talk about the kiss the other day, I desperately wanted to cling on to this moment where our problems seemed to be far away; left in the city and we were carefree with nothing to worry about.
We finally reached the small slope in the middle of the forest and this time, I threaded my way carefully down the hill instead of rolling down oh-so-gracefully like the last time I was here.
Adam was leading the way with a folded blanket on his left hand and a couple of brown paper bags that were held in a plastic bag on his right hand. I offered to help but he was hell bent on doing this himself, saying something like I should take a break from all the heavy tasks once in a while. I decided to let him have some fun, too tired to fight him on it. When we finally reached a tree on the bottom of the hill, he started to spread the blanket and took the food out.
I wanted to take a picture of everything just to make this last forever but I didn't want to ruin the mood so I stood there, staring at basically everything in absolute awe. Setting it up didn't take long and he was by my side in no time, offering me an exaggerated bow with an outstretched hand.
"My lady," he stated with a horrible British accent and I decided to join in the fun, exaggerating my own curtsy, pinching empty air and pretended to raise my non-existent skirt.
"Why, thank you." In all honesty, my fake British accent was probably worse than his. In fact, it was so bad. Adam ended up guffawing on the grass, clutching his stomach and wiping stray tears. I could feel a blush coming on but laughed with him, a part of me happy that I was able to be the reason that he was laughing even when the other part of me was embarrassed by what I did and wanted to dig a hole and hide there for doing what I did.
The laughter finally died down and we started opening up the food, taking them out from the paper brown bags and getting a nibble from each kind of food before trading our food for the other's. I was in the brink of squealing and jumping up and down like a lovesick high school girl every time he smiled that dimpled smile but I was lucky enough to have incredible self-control that prevented me from doing something that would've ended me with eternal humiliation.
"Oh come on! Just a small bite, after all, it's not good to waste food, right?" I pulled off the puppy eye face and had him opening his mouth hesitantly, giving me access to shove the spoonful in.
He chewed on it thoughtfully whilst I lay on my back, feeling unbelievably full and bloated. I patted my stomach gently before caving in to the urge to burp. I sighed in relieve when I felt the churning feeling in my stomach go away after the very much appreciated burp.
Out of the blue, a ring tone cut through the serene atmosphere of the forest and had me jumping out of my skin. Adam rummaged his pockets for his phone and took a look on who was calling. I didn't know who was on the other line but whoever they were, they definitely wasn't calling to give him any jolly news.
A tear escaped his now red and puffy eyes and he broke down right before me with a hand gripping the phone tightly, pressed against his ear. A sob broke out and I immediately took his trembling form into my arms just like how he took me into his arms when I had my nightmare. I didn't ask any questions, I just held him close to me and let him cry, tears of my own trickling down my cheeks. Even though I didn't know who was on the other line, I knew that the only one who could make Adam weep this bad was no other than the woman who raised him.
I knew then and there that Carla was gone. My reason to keep on fight was no more and I could feel all my resolve dissolving into dust.
