Adam Steele

“Your what?” Her forehead creased, as if bothered by the statement, although Helena didn’t interrupt him, allowing him to finish what he was saying. “Do you…. need anything?” She suggested warily, unable to help in any other way. She had never experienced any grief, not really, leaving her unable to suggest anything other than what she could provide. “Private jet, or…?”

Kenzie felt her heart sink at his words, knowing exactly how he was feeling right now. She just hugged her friend tightly, refusing to let go. “I’m so sorry Adam. I know how hard this is to deal with,” she said softly, still rubbing his back soothingly. “No one ever knows what to do when this happens. They try to tell you a bunch of stuff, but nothing seems right,” she admitted. “Do you want me to go to Florida with you and Riley? I’ll hide on the plane.”

Teddy had finally finished class and was so grateful. His brain felt like scrambled eggs at this point. He flopped himself down on one of the common room couches before looking up and seeing a very distressed looking boy sitting on the other couch, doing nothing seemingly. “You good buddy?” He leaned in and whispered, trying not to startle the other. He shook his head. “No need to be sorry… anything you wanna, ah talk about?” He asked, face concerned.

Maverick practically lived in the music wing of the school. His love and passion for playing and preforming was one of the few things that kept him sane these days. Even when he wasn’t in one of the practice rooms working out some new song, he was back in his room probably doing the same thing only while possibly making his roommate go deaf with how loud he played. He was on his way to the one practice room that had a full drum kit when he heard someone call his name. “What’s up, Adam.” He offered a half smile, slowing so the older could catch up with him. “I didn’t know you played.”

“I wouldn’t hurt myself,” she denied, although she stumbled a little as she walked back to him, laughing out loud as she did so. “See, you doubted me. Imagine,” Helena made a face, as if offended. “Anyway, why’re you so quiet?” 

If Adam was bad at one thing, it was delivering bad news. The words ran through her head. “Dead.” She repeated. She didn’t really cry, she was broken inside to react. “So we are going home.”

When he walked in the common room, he saw the other on the couch, he was clearly not okay, and he considered just walking away and letting him have his alone time, as some people preferred to be alone when they were going through something tough, but he realized that he was there before he could do what he had planned, It’s fine, you didn’t really do anything wrong,” he assured him, “You seem distant, a penny for your thought?” he figured asking wouldn’t harm, he could just say he didn’t want to talk if that was the case.

“Don’t be. You have nothing you need to apologize for.” Ches reminds him immediately, sitting down next to him as she tries to bury down her concern. Was it crossing a line to ask him what was wrong? She never could tell at this point. All she knew was something was clearly wrong, and even if he didn’t want to talk, it didn’t hurt for him to have someone in the area to beat Jack away if he tried to mess with Adam when something was obviously wrong.  “Do you wanna talk about it, A?”

Avery tried to stay clear of both Riley and her brother– it wasn’t that she was afraid of them or anything, she just figured all of their lives would be easier if she just avoided them entirely. But she wasn’t heartless- contrary to what Riley probably believed and shared to her brother, so when she saw Adam clearly upset, it gave her pause. For a moment, she debated just walking past him and continuing acting like both siblings were invisible to her- but she clearly didn’t think fast enough since her prescience was known before she could make a decision. “It’s…—fine, no problem.” she said, still not quite sure of what her approach should be. “You- good? You look worse than Sky does after he listens to To Be Human by Marina.”

At first, Kenzie had been happy to see Adam. But taking in his appearance and how he just appeared so… lost, she began to worry about what was the matter. When he noticed her there, she sat down next to him and put her hand on his back. “What’s the matter? You know you can talk to me,” she asked, worry clear in her eyes as she looked at her friend.

by the time lennon realized someone else was in the room it was too late to turn out of it without making the situation between the two of them into an awkward one. she froze, seeing the boy bent over — hopefully she wasn’t intruding. “i’m sorry — i’m not interrupting am i? i can go…”

Sutton was doing their best to get their swim times back up. The depression that had been eating away at them had really impacted their times. It never bothered them when someone else swam beside them or even shared a lane with them. They had been swimming competitively since they were three years old. By this age, they weren’t even aware of the people anymore. It was just them, the water, and the clock. After a while they let themself rest, a hand resting on the edge of the pool. The guy in the lane next to them looked familiar but they couldn’t place a name or even why they knew him. “After a year or so.” They shrugged, not remembering a time when they aren’t in the pool.

Riley smiled softly. “Good morning to you, my dearest brother.” She replied. “Bad news? with our lives how bad could it be.” She said, maybe it was slight denial. But really how much worse could things get. She was already in a terrible accident.

Adam shook his head, “Well kind of the worst most possible thing” he said pretty bluntly not appreciating her sarcasm at this particular time. Not that it was really her fault, “Riley, it’s Robbie.” he said as he felt his heart beat start to accelerate. “He...he was shot and uh he did’t make it.” he finally got out, “Uh... Robbies dead.”

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“Are you doubting me?” Helena’s expression almost instantly became sulky as she heard the words come out of Adam’s mouth, although it went back to her giggling just as quickly as she had stopped. She was far too drunk, really - they were walking back to campus after both attending another student’s birthday party, where there had been an open bar and, well…. she definitely took advantage. Running across the grass, she kicked her shoes off, before performing a perfect cartwheel, standing upright to give him a smug smile. “See, I said I could do it.”

Adam had a really long day. Finding out Robbie had died and that he had to go home for a bit was unsettling. When Helena asked if he wanted to go out he thought it might help. He was happy to be out with her as she did make the things that were bothering him a little less. “I never said i doubted you just that i hope you wouldn’t hurt yourself.” he gave off a slight laugh watching her do the cartwheel, “Alright that was actually a lot better then I thought it was going to be.”

It was still pretty early on tuesday morning when Riley heard the knock on her door. She had woken up but was just laying in her bed. Her mistakes from halloween lived in her mind rent free. She really must have hurt Isaac. he girl rolloed out of then and opened the door. “Come in.” She said not bothering to ask who it was. She walked over to the couch and sat down. “Don’t you know how early it is?”

Adam walked inn behind Riley seeing she was already in a bad mood this morning. Adam looked around still trying to find the words. “Um...Riles.” he managed to get out while tears streamed down his face., “I uh..I got some pretty bad news that I have to tell you,”