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Chris and I haven't said a word to each other since five days, and now it was the weekend. He stopped appearing at the lunch table after two days of me still sitting by Luke. If he thought I was going to forget about his actions just overnight, he was mistaken.

Evan took me back home almost everyday this week and I also had lunch with him because Miranda was busy with her banking work. It almost seems like things were going back to exactly how they were before Chris came in my life.

Things with Evan are better, so much better than they have been. We have been spending a lot of time together. Breanna and Luke have things going smoothly for them, and I am not sure what's going on between Evan and Rose, but he tells me that I shouldn't be worried about it, so for once, I am not.

"We have plans for this weekend, don't we?" Breanna asks, painting my toes with bright red colour while I stuff ice cream in my mouth.

"What plans?" I ask.

"We all are going to the White Rock Lake." She grins at me widely and I groan.

"But I want to stay in."

"We always stay in! Also, Luke is bringing a few of his friends along. It's going to be fun." She tries to make me smile but I just role my eyes.

"Alright then! Are we going to take a trail or are we bicycling?" I ask.

"On foot." She says and I nod.

It's noon and Breanna stayed over last night, so now she's trying to do girly things to me, like applying nail paint on my toes.

"At what time are we leaving?" I ask, standing up from the couch to go change into more decent clothes.

"Half an hour. Guys will be here soon." She tells me and I drag her upstairs to pick out an outfit for me.

I lie down on my bed while Breanna looks through my wardrobe and then picks out two outfits. One is a floral print dress, and while that seems more fitting, I go for the navy blue playsuit she picked out.

"I'll be downstairs, alright?" She asks, and I nod.

She's already in short and a fitting black top. Her light make up is done, so I am the only one who needs to get ready. I pull on the playsuit after getting out of my jeans that I put on this morning. It takes me two minutes to adjust the thin straps of the playsuit across my shoulder, and then I look into the mirror. A smile takes over my features — it suits me. I put a thin line of liner on my eyelids before pulling my hair into a high pony tail.

I didn't realise that I took half an hour because by the time I get down, everyone is gathered in the living room. Tell me again, why does everyone always ends up at my place somehow?

There are about two new and one unwelcome face in the crowd. Those two new faces belong to Luke's friends. Chase and Aiden. While Aiden seems more Jordan's type, if you know what I mean, Chase is what I can only describe in one word - cute.

The unwelcome face belongs to Melissa who's practically sitting in Chris's lap. Evan and Rose seem to be in a deep conversation, they are holding hands so I try not to stare. Breanna, Luke, Aiden and Chase are all in a conversation of their own.

But, Jordan is the first one who looks up at me. His mouth falls open before a smirk takes over his features, "Damn." He says and I frown at him.

His voice snaps everyone to look at me and I wave awkwardly, trying not to fidget under everyone's stare. The doorbell rings and Breanna goes to open it. But when the person enters the living room, I kind of lose it.

Holy fucking shit.

"Tell me this is a fucking joke." I say out aloud, causing him to laugh.

"Yup, you haven't changed a bit in this one year." He smirks, causing his fucking dimples to show up.

He walks towards me and as soon as he's in the touching distance, I wrap my arms around him, "Holy shit." I whisper in his chest, which vibrates as he laughs.

"Hey babe." He winks, causing me to flush red as we part.

"Adam." I manage to smile at him without hyperventilating.

Well, we broke up because of Evan, but that doesn't change the fact that he's incredibly good looking and that I am a teenager girl who likes hot guys. Remember when I said that blonde guys aren't my type? Well, Adam doesn't fit that list.

He has blonde hair, but the perfect jawline and defined cheekbones... Damn! I am even jealous of his fucking eyelashes because boys don't deserve beautiful eyelashes. And his green eyes.

"You're staring." He whispers, an arrogant smirk on his features and I hit him.

"Yes, I was trying to see if you have developed any good looking features since you went off to college." I say, and Breanna snickers.

"Don't let her fool you. She missed you." She tells him and I roll my eyes.

"Oh trust me, she wrote me emails after I went away." He tells her and I gasp.

"Adam, I am going to kick your ass."

He chuckles and puts his arm around my shoulder before turning to everyone, "So, when we were dating, you had two friends limited to these two dorks." He points towards Evan and Breanna who just glare at him. "When did you become social?"

"She didn't, we kind of adopted her." Jordan pipes in and I flip him off.

Adam chuckles, "That's Jordan for you." I say.

"Alright, go on." He encourages me to introduce everyone.

"That's Luke, Breanna's boyfriend." I point out and Adam looks him up and down.

So, Adam and Breanna had this brother-sister kind of bonding so I kind of get the look on his face. "Did you warn him about your baseball bat?" He turns to me and I grin.

"You haven't forgotten a thing, buddy." I pat his shoulder. "Those will be Chase and Aiden, his friends. By the way, hey guys." I smile at them and they both nod at us.

"That's Rose, Evan's girlfriend." I say and Adam squeezes my shoulder before pulling me closer to himself.

See, the thing is, I never confessed in front of him. But when he said we couldn't work out because of Evan, I didn't stop him from trying to walk away either. He was a good friend even before we dated, but then he went to college and we lost contact.

"And the last would be Jones and Melissa." I say without looking at either of them but I know Chris is glaring at me, which is like his new hobby.

"Chris?" Adam says and Chris gives out a tight lipped smile when I glance at him, "Never thought I'll see you in this house, man!"

I look up at him, "You know him?"

"I was in basket ball team, remember?" He points out and I nod, finally understanding.

He wasn't as popular as Chris, but the reason Adam and I were introduced to each other was because of Evan, since all of them were in the team.

"Are we going or not?" Chris asks, annoyance dripping his tone.

"I thought you weren't going to come until next weekend when you are taking a trip with Dad and everyone else." I tell Adam as everyone moves out of the house and he sticks by my side while I lock the front door after putting on my sneakers.

"Yeah, I haven't been home in a long time, and I didn't have much lectures next week, so Dad demanded my ass home." He shrugs and I nod.

Everyone is standing outside my house, deciding on who is going in whose car. I stand between Breanna and Adam, my eyes following Melissa.

"Not to be rude or anything, but why are you wearing a dress?" I ask, pointing out her floral print mini dress. My eyes meets hers and she's glaring at me. Honestly, I thought she was done with Chris this week earlier, but apparently not.

"You jealous?" She smirks.

"Please, have you looked at her?" Adam interrupts, his eyes roaming around my body and I stand on my toes, putting my hand over his eyes and he laughs.

When I am sure he won't check me out like that anymore, I remove my hand and he gives me a cheeky grin.

I turn to Melissa, "We are going to lake side, and it's windy. So.." I point to her dress, "Unless you want to flash.." I look at her face and immediately realise that I just hit bull's eye. "Alright then." I look away from her.

Rose chuckles and gives me an approving nod and I smile back at her. I am trying to keep the things to the lowest level of awkward these days, and it has been working so far.

"So, we obviously won't fit in one car." Chase starts and everyone agrees.

"Four of us can take my car." Luke says, pointing to his friends and girlfriend.

"I'll be taking my car." Evan says and then Chris speaks up.

"Me too."

"Alright then, who are the two of you going with?" Jordan asks Adam and I.

I look up at him and he shrugs at me, leaving the choice on me. I don't want to be trapped with Rose and Evan, but they will be much better than Chris and Melissa.

"You guys are three already." I tell Jordan, "We'll go with Ev."

Evan smiles at me but I hear Chris snort before he turns towards his car, Melissa and Jordan behind them. It's a twenty minutes ride from our houses to the lake. Adam and I slide into the backseat, while Rose takes the front passenger seat by Evan. She's wearing shorts with a crop top, and she honestly looks pretty.

Adam and Evan talk throughout the whole ride about basket ball but then Rose groans, "How will the two of you like if Adrianna and I continuously talked about make up and girly shit?" She asks.

I laugh, "Sooo, Rose. Mac or Lakme?" I ask and she turns around to give me a grin.

"You don't even apply makeup." Evan points out, talking to me and I shrug.

"Doesn't mean I can't talk about it. It definitely makes girls look pretty." I stick my tongue out at him, making him shake his hear.

Rose's eyes meet at me, she's looking at me, "So, what's been going on between Chris and you?" She asks.

Well, if I was drinking water, I definitely would have spit it out at her question. But, since I am not, I just give her a confused look.

"What are you talking about?" I ask and from the corner of my eye, I see Adam smirking at me.

"Please, Adri. Everyone at the table knows some shit is up, because you are giving him the silent treatment and then he stops coming to lunch. Something's definitely up." She says, an amused smile on her face that actually manages to taunt me.

I shake my head, "He's an asshole, that's all." I shrug.

"Oh, it feels like everything is right again in the world." Evan remarks sarcastically just as we reach.

Everyone parks their cars and we start walking the trail towards the lake, not a lot of people are there, which is a little shocking because it's the weekend. But I can see kids with their parents, and a mother playing with her kid. The sight immediately makes me smile and realise that I never had that. But I don't want to spoil my mood today, so I distract myself.

"So Chase and Aiden, tell us about yourselves." I say, as I trail behind them, Adam by my side.

Rose and Evan are the ones walking in the front, holding hands, so I have managed my distance from them. Chris, Jordan and Melissa are behind us, while Breanna and Luke are besides me.

"I am gay." Aiden says.

"Really? The make up didn't give it away." Luke teases his friend which makes me laugh.

"I didn't ask about your sexual preference Aiden, I asked something about you. Hobbies, and shit like that?" I ask.

He turns around to give me a smile, "I like you. Anyway, I am obsessed with make up, and want to be a make up artist someday."

"Oh, if you ever get popular in that field and meet Rihanna, get me a bra signed from her." Rose says from the front.

"Babe." Evan groans, making me smile a little.

They are good together, even if the dork fails to realise it. Adam bumps his shoulder with mine and gives me a reassuring smile which I return with my own small one.

It takes us about an hour walk to reach the lake even after parking the cars so near to the quickest way we knew. But, I didn't mind much because this was definitely for fun.

When we reached the lake, after a lot of whining from Melissa and Jordan, and obviously, me. Evan walked with through half of it, us singing out songs aloud of boybands like Five Seconds of Summer and One Direction. Somewhere between that, Rose kind of disowned her boyfriend which made me laugh a lot.

"Heyyy guysss! Can we go to the creek point?" I ask everyone when we are like only twenty minutes away from it. Jordan groan like a baby while Melissa just glares at me so I glare right back at her, "I didn't ask you to wear the heels now, did I?"

"I didn't sign up for this shit, alright? I just came to hang out with him." She points to Chris who's looking between the two of us.

"Then you two hang out here. Is anyone joining me to the creek?" I ask and Adam, Evan, Breanna and Jordan immediately agree.

"Babe, come on, it will be fun." Evan tells Rose, tugging on her hand and she just pouts at me.

"Give me a piggy and I'll reconsider." She tells him.

He groans but settles down in front of her nonetheless, "Hop on." He says.

"Whipped. That's what he is." Jordan says from behind me. Ouch. Okay. I turn to him and he smiles at me, "You want a piggy?" He grins at me and I flick his forehead.

"Well, since everyone is obviously going, we might as well go." Chase tells Aiden and Luke who nod.

The only one left behind are Chris and Melissa, but I don't wait for them to follow. If they want to stay here and make out, they can. I want to go to the creek.

I am walking alone, taking in the greenery around me when an arm wraps around my waist, making me yelp in surprise. The warmth of the body behind me immediately tells me who it is but I jerk away from his touch, almost like it burned me.

Chris is staring at me when I turn around, so in return, I offer him a glare, "There was a bicyclist who went just by your side, almost hitting you." He explains and when I look down the trail, indeed a cycle is going down.

If he hadn't done what he did, I would have ended up in the lake on my right, which would have been a lot of trouble because swimming in the lake is banned, which means no one can enter it due to the obvious safety reasons.

I look up at him, and nod. I mutter a quick thank you before walking along the trail again.

"What the hell is your problem?" I hear Chris behind me and I roll my eyes.

Why are guys dumb enough to ask that question after doing a mistake? Never thought Chris would fit the category.

"You have been giving me the silent treatment for a week now. Come on!" He says, obviously frustrated but I start walking faster until I reach the others.

Adam immediately hooks me by his side and I smile at him. I am glad that things aren't awkward between us. He's still this amazing person he always has been.

When we reach the creek, I immediately take in the surroundings and smile to myself. The water is falling down from a height and so much greenery is there around the lake, which only makes me smile wider. I feel someone's gaze on me and I turn to see Chris looking at me.

A small smile is there on his face as he watches me and for a second, I realise that I am still smiling. But when I remember that I am supposed to be mad at him, I look away.

"He's jealous, you know?" Adam whispers in my ear and I give him an incredulous look.

"Do I need to lend you blind man glasses?" I can't help but laugh.

"Please. The sexual tension between the two of you is killing me, Adri." He says and everyone starts settling down.

I sit by a rock and my eyes wander off to Evan who by my unfortunate luck is kissing Rose. I immediately look away as it makes a very similar pain appear in my chest. Then I look at Chris, and see him looking right at me while Melissa is trying to kiss his cheek.

"You want me to prove it to you?" Adam asks and I look at him with a frown.

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, let's countdown shall we?" He smirks scooting closer to me and that's when I realise what he's about to do.

"Don't do this, Adam. You are just acting on an assumption here." I tell him as he scoots even closer, his lips coming loom over mine.

"Just countdown with me, shorty." He says, calling me with that hell annoying name that only him and Sawyer use, "Ten." He says.

So I just play along, "Nine."

"Eight." He smirks and with each countdown, his face comes closer to mine.

"Seven." I breathe.

"Six." His eyes move to the corner where I hear some shuffling.

"Five."

"Four." His lips brush against mine.

This is the last thing I thought I'll be doing today. Kissing my ex boyfriend but he started it, and he's so losing it. There's no way in hell that Chris is jealous.

"Three." He winks at me, our eyes still wide open.

"Two." I barely whisper.

"Claire." I hear Chris's voice.

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