adam didn't know what made him angry, only that it did.
maybe it was the sight of the single bed, its ridiculous size, the fact that even if adam were to take it, the whole of his body wouldn't even fit inside. he'd have to hunch on himself, small, the way he did at the trailer; waiting for something bad to happen. waiting for the world to be cruel, and loud.
or maybe adam was angry because he had seen gansey look at the place; the way he had catalogued every piece of furniture, deciding then and there that he'd take the floor, because he was the best person adam knew, and also an asshole who didn't understand a thing about the real world. gansey had not even had to say it: adam had taken one look at his eyes, behind the glasses (before he'd gotten rid of them), at the line of mouth, the way it gets hard when he's pondering a problem and its solution, one look at the whole of gansey, and adam knew.
maybe he was just angry because the receipts kept spilling from his pockets, and there was nothing he could do about the numbers, or the fact that his meagre savings wouldn't be enough at all. he had tried. that was the thing, the real problem at the very bottom of this lake of anger: he was trying so very hard to do it right, and it wasn't enough, because adam parrish was born adam parrish, and there was no amount of working and saving and working and saving that would change the fact that he was owed nothing more than a shitty room on the side of the highway, with richard gansey the third standing beside him, looking tall and regal, offering to sleep on the ground like it was nothing more than a fun adventure he could recount later.
"you are not sleeping on the floor", the words were final; gansey could refuse him but then adam would sleep on the floor, and then no one would enjoy the small bed and its small comfort. "we can... we're going to figure something out. and if someone's sleeping on the floor, it'll be me. i'm the one who made us sleep here." he couldn't change the fact that he'd have to ask gansey for money before the trip was over, but what he could do was let him have the bed.