Authors Note:Adams looks back on his and Charlie's relationship...

Adams POV.


We were.

Together, I mean.

Well, we didn't actually 'get together' till quite a while later, not until after we joined Eden Hall Academy and after our eventual victory over the Varsity team. 

We spent the next year or so after the Goodwill Games just letting things between us develop slowly. There was always the bond there between us, but we didn't push it or try to force it. We were still young and too innocent really to grasp what was going on. In fact we hardly ever talked about it for a long while. Not in words anyway. We still held hands occasionally, in private, when we were watching films together over at his place or mine, but nothing more than that. What we did do was spend more time together. Once in a while we did fall asleep on the same bed; sometimes on purpose sometimes by accident and we kissed twice more. Innocent fumbling kisses, but that to us were amazing.

We both spent time, 'experimenting' you could say, with other people. Working out who or what it was we wanted. Whether this 'thing' between us was actually who or what we were. We dated a bit. Well, I tried to. Some girls showed some interest in me, but they could tell I think, that I wasn't really interested. Charlie tried to start something with a girl called Linda when we first arrived at Eden Hall, but it didn't last very long. He later told me he only carried it as far as he did to see what reaction I would have. How jealous I would get. Especially with all the business with me being on the varsity team at that point. 

That was not a good time, for any of us. That's one of the only times we've ever really fought, Charlie and I; and I didn't like it. We disagree certainly, but there was a real barrier between us then and it was one of the worst times of my life. Charlie apologised later for way he had behaved, saying that he felt betrayed and abandoned, cut loose from the Ducks who no longer existed. I forgave him, asking for forgiveness myself for not being stronger, but it had been confusing for us all. We'd all come through it though. Intact. The Ducks. 

It wasn't long after that, that Charlie and I finally took our relationship one step further. Into just that. A relationship. 

We'd all been invited to an impromptu party to celebrate the Ducks victory. Charlie and I had snuck away as soon as we were sure no one would miss us. Well, not enough to go and look for us anyway. Of course we'd been pretty much staring at each other the whole night anyway, so I'm surprised no one noticed, but they didn't. Whatever had been building between us over the past couple of years was intensifying that night and we both knew it. 

It was our first kiss for a long time and it was almost nothing like what we had ever experienced before. It started off similar, but it grew deeper and longer and more intense than ever before. I felt tingles shooting up and down my body and I knew that by the time we both pulled back I was shaking. Holding onto Charlie I could feel him trembling too. 

That wasn't the only kiss we shared that night or since. We officially started our relationship that night and we've been together ever since. 

Well, almost. 

There was one six month period just after we both started college that things fell apart a bit. We'd spent so much of our time together, so much of our childhood that I think we both needed time to evaluate what we had and what we wanted. We needed time to be by ourselves for a while. 

We both agreed that we could date other people and we both did. Nothing serious and I don't think I went on more than a couple of dates with any of those I went out with. Neither did Charlie. 

We couldn't keep away from each other and after six months we came back to each other, more in love and more sure than ever before. We have our fights and our disagreements, but there's nothing that we feel we can't tackle together. We 'came out' together and we faced both the prejudice and the acceptance together.

I love Charlie and he loves me.

I've discovered it is as simple as that.


The End.