For one of the first times since he started living at Messina, Adam was actually glad to be out of the apartment. He really liked living with his sister, and Caleb, and the Dreschler siblings, and sure things could get incredibly loud sometimes, and occasionally Adam had woken up for work to find the kitchen looking like a bomb site because someone, usually Rosy or Caleb, had decided that making a midnight snack was a good idea. But this morning, he’d woken up to find the walls of the living room, and the kitchen, and the bathroom too, had been covered in printed pictures of various dogs wearing different novelty costumes. Something which had led Rosy into a spiral of uncontrollable joy, and an argument had ensued as everyone pointed fingers to blame someone for the prank. Adam didn’t really think it was much of a prank, since Rosy was enjoying it so much, but he supposed there was something funny about watching her face light up and her eyes fill with tears every time she found a new one. Still, Adam found himself actually wanting to escape the chaos of their flat, which was feeling smaller and smaller by the minute. He’d slipped out under the pretence of buying milk, which was a really really poor excuse, but no one was paying enough attention to question it.
It wasn’t as far to the shop as Adam had thought, and he wasn’t sure things would have died down enough if he went back to the apartment straight away. So he’d taken to wandering the streets rather aimlessly, glancing at his watch periodically, wondering when it would be safe to head home. He was almost certain it had been a joint effort between Caleb and Bret, since shitty pranks weren’t really Audrey’s style, if she wanted to get you back, she’d usually just hit you with something. Really hard. There was a little part of Adam that felt resentful that he hadn’t been in on the joke with his best friend, not that he especially wanted Audrey to glare at him the way she’d been doing at his roommates. But most of him was glad to see Caleb laughing and trying to pull one over than Rosy, the sad moping thing he’d been doing recently. Seeing him like that had caused a sad, gnawing anxiety to grow in the pit of Adam’s stomach, as he was always torn between rushing to his side to ask for help, or waiting for Caleb to come to him. But this funk wasn’t just like any other time, he was upset, and it made him feel unapproachable to Adam, though it didn’t help that anxiety that Adam was probably making it worse by not asking if he was okay.
He was so caught up in his worries about his best friend that he didn’t have time to step out of the way before a girl spun right into him, using him as support to keep herself upright. He didn’t recognise her at first, though he could see in her eyes that she knew who he was. But he did recognise the little girl stood behind her, who was smiling up at him with a toothy grin so wide he couldn’t help but smile back. As much as he disliked Ollie, and had resented the fact that he owned the only decent comic book store in Wellington, he really liked his daughter, she was probably the best thing about him. His attention was diverted back to the girl in front of him when she let out an alarmed squeak when she realised she still had one hand pressed against his chest, Adam laughed a little awkwardly as she stepped back.
“Freddie right?” he asked, a little uncertainly, now he recognised Kara he knew it had to be one of Ollie’s sisters, and while he’d certainly met her a few times, it had been a while and he had tended to get them mixed up at the best of times.
“Sorry to interrupt your dancing, I wasn’t looking where I was going. It was really very good though,” he said to both of them with a grin.
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