Waiting

14

I rubbed the tears from my red, burning eyes and turned away from Adam. Fred's mouth was agape, and I felt numb. I didn't know if I should be upset at Fred for ruining my chance of finally getting to know how Adam felt about me. But knowing how he was, it was probably just one of his pranks.

But back to where we left off. Basically Fred saw Adam holding my hands and talking to me while I was crying. Not exactly the perfect image if you ask me.

Adam immediately let go of my head and sternly walked forward until he was one centimeter away from Fred's face. He studied his face for a second, before asking "You're Fred, right?"

I sighed and rubbed my forehead in frustration. I mean, yeah he had memory loss. But not to long ago Adam was screaming at Fred like some crazy dickhead, and now he's talking to him like buddies from a high school reunion.

"Yeah" he replied harshly, his arms crossed. That's my Fred, always the strong one who didn't take shit from anybody even when I did.

Adam scratched his head, still trying to put the pieces together. I could say the same for Fred.

"Oh yeah... so why are you here?" Adam asked, starting to remember his bit of history with Fred.

"To see how my friend is holding up. You know, a friend is someone you talk to. Tori's my friend. So it's my job as her FRIEND to make sure she's okay."

"Thanks for the message Barney. I'm pretty sure I know what a friend is now. But if you want to call this friendship then sure." He paused for a second and looked towards me, before gently patting his hands on my shoulder and giving me a 'friendly hug'. The fuck? "Hey, I guess Tori's my friend too."

Woah. His hand. My shoulder. Pat. There's only one explanation for this..... Adam has gone blind. Completely shut down. I knew he was crazy, but never did I think it would get to that extent.

"I think that's a bit of an understatement" I chirped in. Both of them ignored my remark and continued to stare at each other.

As they continued to bicker about the whole friend thing, I muted their voices and ate my cold pizza. Adam's random ass distracted me from enjoying my bae. The center of my life.

Food.

It's been riding with me since day one, never leaving my side. It was pretty much the opposite of Adam.

I finished the rest of my pizza and turned over to face the both of them. I wasn't putting up with their boy drama anymore.

"Can both of you just stop already?" I pleaded. "Seriously, there's no point in arguing over me. Like yes, I'm dumb hype right now, but Fred was only trying to be a good friend by checking up on me to see if I was alright. Adam, you haven't done anything worth making me reconsider being friends to begin with."

"Yep, take Fred's side as usual" Adam said bitterly.

"I didn't finish asshole. Fred, thank you but Adam is right. This is something that we need to talk through one on one. But both of you keep screaming and its really annoying."

I was so overwhelmed I felt like breaking down and crying hysterically, but I had to be brave. For the next five minutes or so. The cutting would begin afterwards.

But who's side was I really on? Fred, who is hiding something about Rose and butting into my business, or Adam, who was hiding those stupid files from me and making lame excuses for ruining my already damaged life?

Even though his case did seem worse, I had to take Adam's side. Even though he did put me through so much. He was actually going to open up to me, and I've dreaded this moment for so long. I couldn't give up on him without finding what he was really up to.

"Whatever," said Fred. "But when he breaks your heart again and you end up in my room sobbing, don't say I didn't try to protect you. He's an animal, a deranged psychotic beast who doesn't know what he's doing half the time; he can actually be dangerous."

"Coming from you?" Adam challenged. "You hide more shit from her than a fucking treasure box." My eyes widened in confusion and I glared at Fred. Whenever Adam was able to bring up factual information like this, I knew he wasn't lying. Could he be talking about Rose?

"Fred, can you just go?" I said, trying my best to fight back tears. My only friend was in a hospital bed and Fred was so self centered and couldn't even tell me how she got there. I was through with him. If he could easily lie about being gay, it makes me wonder what else he was up to.

Not that Adam was so innocent either. Oh yea...Adam. I was so busy making sure that Fred was leaving that I forgot about Adam. I narrowed my eyes at him. "Talk."

"If you're going to act like this, then no" he said.

"You've got to be kidding me. I just let one of my friends walk out of my life to talk to you, and you don't even care. Not that I'm surprised."

He took it for granted. Despite all the horrible weight he's out over my shoulders, I was stupid enough to give him another chance. And what did he do?

Chew it up and spit it right back at my face.

"You chose to let Fred leave. Don't blame that on me. It wasn't so easy making that decision to break up, but I know your still hung up on it. But I don't regret it. I would rather have you not know the truth and hate me then know the truth. And if it comes to never being able to see you again, I'm willing to take that risk."

I yawned and sat back in the desk chair, before pulling out the file from under the table and throwing it on the table.

"What's so important about this that you can't even tell me what it is?" I asked. I could tell from his face he was debating on whether or not to tell me what it was. He sighed.

"Read the label." I leaned forward to get a better look at the name attached to the file.

Harold Lenner.

"So? What do you think you know about him that I don't? He's like the father I've never had. The only male in my life that I could always count on."

"You might want to double check that. You don't know as much as I do. I have a real good feeling that he's up to more than you could think of."

Hypocrite.

How could Adam be preaching about all of Dr. Lenner's secrets and lies if he has some mighty big ones? Pause. Let's rephrase that. Adam has a lot of secrets and is judging Dr. Lenner's. Yep, sounds much better.

"How could you be so sure?" I asked hesitantly.

I heard my phone vibrate. Yet another text from Dave. I seriously had to read those as soon as I got back to my room. Shit. I almost forgot about my roommate, which reminds me...

Why am I still here? Adam is obviously is not going to distract me from my loved ones once again.

"Matter of fact, forget it. I have a lot of stuff to do, and if we stay too long, we're gonna get caught."

"Why do you care?" he smirked. "I mean, I'm pretty sure Fred locked the door on his way out."

"You guys should care," said a voice from the door. Both of us turned to face an amused Dr. Lenner smiling at us while holding a set of keys in his hand.

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