Best Friends

22 Adams Plan

"I can't believe I let you take me to laser tag."
"Sick let's do it!" He mocked buckling up the vest and moving over to help me with mine "is that good?"
"Yeah it's fine. How are we doing this. Just the two of us?"
"Uh there's another one for each team"
"What did you do ada-"
"Hey guys" I turned to see Mikey
"I told him not to call you"
"In all fairness you didn't warn Tom not to call me. Then I called Adam who invited me here." I pointed to his vest colour noticing he wasn't on my team
"So who is on my team?"
"I am" I looked up at him and back to Adam
"Look we go in there in ten minutes don't start now"
"Fuck you Adam. And fuck your stupid plan. I trusted you." I walked off and sat down on a bench across the room whilst they talked about how best to deal with the situation. It wasn't even Dom I was mad at. I'd happily make up with him. It was the fact I'd specifically asked Adam for us to go out without him. I looked down at the floor and noticed two feet appear Infront of me. There was no doubt they were Dom's since his pink socks were more then visible in his checked vans. He put his two hands out and I grabbed them letting him pull me up and into a hug. I wanted to pull away just so he knew how much he hurt me but he was comfortable and every part of me radiated love for him.
"I respect you decision" shit. I forgot about that part. And now he was agreeing when I wanted oh so desperately for him to fight for me
"Thanks" was all I could get out. I didn't want to put my heart out not here and I pulled away not ready to cry in his arms just yet
"Good. Now cmon. Get all your frustration out on as by kicking his ass at this game" I chuckled "We don't have to talk okay? And I'm gonna go back home after this."
"Yeah. Alright." He smiled and put his hand on my cheek gently stroking it. He seemingly caught himself in what he was doing and quickly retracted his hand and walked back over to the boys leaving me stood there a little confused "Oh. Not like I wanted you to stay or anything" I mumbled to myself
"Cmon. It's starting" Adam said walking over
"Fuck you Adam. Fuck you and your stupid fucking plan" I spat before walking into the arena and away from him.

"Cmon I wanna see the winner" I whined. eventually all of us gathered to see the scores "We won" I said smiling
"We won!" Dom shouted jumping up and down and somehow getting me to do it with him. Without thinking I jumped up and kissed him forgetting completely the situation we'd found ourselves in a day earlier. It didn't last long and Dom set me back down once we were finished acting as though it hadn't happened
"Meet you back at the car" Mikey said to me pointing at Adam who was already on his way out
"Okay. Cool." He left and it was suddenly awkward between me and Dom. Well I thought it was until he hugged me from behind and rested his chin on my shoulder
"We don't have to talk about it. Like I said. I respect your decision."
"Can we go outside?"
"Sure" he said softly before pulling away and moving to my side. I didn't look over at him but I fumbled about with my hand until he got the message that I wanted to hold it. We left through the back exit that led to the car park and leaned up against the back wall still not letting go "I-"
"Don't explain yourself. Adam talked with me. About how hard it must be. Made me realise that maybe you're struggling too. But I'm so selfish and in my own world to realise"
"I'm guessing you added that last bit?"
"Yeah. Listen I think I love you. And that's really fucking hard for me to say but I know for sure that I don't want to fight with you anymore. I want us to talk to each other about how we feel. As dark as it is sometimes." I didn't look at him but he moved Infront of me like earlier and gently tipped my chin up
"Well that came out of nowhere" he said softly "but I'm not mad at it. Cus..." He leaned in and kissed me gently "...I love you too" it was a soft and sweet moment and despite wanting to pull him in and kiss him deeply I refrained and simply hugged him tight "Let's go."

"What's on your mind?" Adam asked sitting beside me on the sofa "Dom's asleep by the way."
"I know"
"You didn't answer my question"
"I didn't fucking want to."
"I'm sorry for trying to sort it out. I know you wanted just us but I can't stand you being upset. So I did what I thought would help."
"And it did. But you missed the point Adam. You were so fucking far from it you were in another fucking continent."
"So tell me. What was the point?"
"The point was it was supposed to be just us two. I thought that it would be nice for us to spend a day together sober. So I could show you I know how fucking lucky I am to have you pick up the pieces when shit happens. Instead you tried to fix it."
"I thought if I fixed it you'd feel better"
"You don't need to fix everything. That's not what you need to do at all. You just need to be there."
"I get that now."
"Good. I hope you know how much it upset me."
"I'm sorry." He said his voice weak like he was about to break at any point. I didn't want to hurt him. Not now he understood what he'd done wrong. I moved over and tapped his arm so he would lift it up before wrapping my arms around him "I really am sorry." He held me tight and buried his face into my hair holding me in silence. I didn't want to say anything until I heard him sniffle
"Fuck" I said pulling away "You don't need to fucking cry man. It's alright. I'm fine. See" he nodded but wouldn't look at me "Look at me Adam" he shook his head so I instead laid down with my head in his lap so I could look up at his face. He smiled a little when he saw me "This ain't like you. Not by a long shot. You were never this lovey before." I stopped what I was saying to think about it a little "You don't have to be afraid of me leaving again. You know that right?" He shrugged "You better fucking know that." He shrugged once more and I sat up again "Adam please tell me you know"
"I don't fucking know alright!" I jumped a little and moved further up the couch away from him "I'm sorry. I'm just scared that every little thing is gonna cause a big argument and you'll go again." His voice was so quiet that i wouldn't have been able to hear him if the rest of the house wasn't sleeping. I almost broke at the way he sounded like a helpless child when it came to talking about me. I didn't know what to say and my mind was reeling as I tried to think of something even remotely adequate.
"I love you" was all I could say. I hadn't prepared anything else and I think if I did it would just be a long winded way of saying exactly that. That I loved him. I nodded and looked him dead in the eye "I really fucking love you" I said before getting up and walking away.