Adam groaned as he turned over and hits the snooze button on his alarm clock. 'I don't want to go to work' he thought to himself. A few minutes later he slowly pushes himself out of bed and heads for the washroom. About half an hour later he's ready for work and leavES his apartment. He's wearing his baggy blue work long sleeved coveralls, since the weather was nice out instead of wearing them the usual way today he decides to leave the top down and tied the sleeves around his waist showing his black wifebeater.
For the past few years Adam's been working for a car dealership. He started there when he was around 17 in his junior year of high school just washing cars. After the breakup he really threw himself in to his work. Once the owner of the dealership saw his dedication he took a chance on the high schooler and started teaching him repairs and detailing which helped Adam work his way up to the service department.
At 8 am Adam drives up to work and parks in his usual spot. As he starts his everyday walk up to the front door he sees a beautiful new Bentley parked right at the entrance. Adam walks around the car admiring it before walking in to his job.
"Hi Adam, goodmorning" a voice calls out to him. He turns his head and says "goodmorning Denise" to the girl behind the front desk. He walks right back to his department and gets right to work. His boss, Charlie, comes over to him after a few minutes and says "hey I need you to change a headlight on that Bentley up front" then throws him a set of keys. Adam smiles an walks out of his department towards the front door.
Adam hits the unlock button on the cars remote. Before he has the chance to open the car door he hears "well well, how have you been?" He turns around to see Fiona's father looking right at him. "Mr. Coyne... wow. I've been ok sir, how are you?"
"Never better son"
"I'll be right back with your car sir, this should only take about 15 minutes. If you'd like you can go inside and have a cup of coffee or something"
"No thanks, I have some business to attend to before I come back for the Bentley. I'll be back in around noon"
"Ok, I'll make sure we will do a nice detailing for you" Adam says as he leans forward and shakes Mr. Coynes hand.
It had been about two years since Adam last saw Fiona and running in to her father brought all those feelings right back. He knew her father would tell her that he had run into Adam and he wondered what Fiona would say. Adam had changed a lot from the age of 17 to 19. He fully transitioned over to being male. With all of his surgeries out of the way he moved out to his own small apartment and was doing ok for himself. He had the confidence that he lacked in high school. Partially that was because of the MMA classes he started taking when he got fed up from the bullying. Physically how he looked finally matched what he felt like inside.
Nowadays Adam would fill his time with those classes and work. He did use that as an excuse to keep busy. With Drew and Audra constantly trying to set him up on dates or questioning his personal life Adam just figured keeping busy would make them eventually stop asking.
Mr Coyne walks in to his condo to see Fiona at her laptop clearly talking to someone. "Sweetie, what have you done all morning?" he asks
"Not much dad, just talking to clare on skype"
"Do you have any plans for lunch?" he pressed "No none at all" she responds.
"Why don't you let me take you to lunch?"
"That'd be great dad, I'll be done in a minute, then I'll get ready."
"Hurry, I have to pickup the Bentley in 10 minutes" he says to her with a smile.
"Ok clare I have to go but if you get in touch with him can you call me?"
"Sure" Clare responds hesitantly.
"Please Clare, this is important"
"I'll call you later on Fiona for sure"
"Thanks" she says as she closes the laptop and gets ready for lunch.
-mmmmmm-
Fiona and her father catch a cab.
During the ride to the dealership he turns to his daughter and asks "You came here looking for Adam didn't you sweetie?"
"Yes... why do you ask?" Fiona questions with a puzzled look on her face.
"Because I ran into him this morning at the dealership. That's why I asked you out to lunch"
She let's out a nervous laugh. She did come to Canada looking for him but didn't expect to find him so quickly.
Fiona pulls out her phone and texts clare. 'I found him'
Clare quickly texts back 'k' Fiona can tell by the one letter text she received that clare isn't too happy with her looking for Adam. Clares been keeping Fiona updated about Adams surgeries and how he's been throughout the past two years.
Fiona knew that he took the breakup hard but didn't think Clare would be so uncomfortable with her talking to Adam. Clare knew that Fiona had been through quite a bit these past few years too. After breaking up with Adam she never really trusted anyone and dating wasn't of much interest. Until she met Bobby Beckonridge. On paper Bobby was everything she thought she wanted. Until he became abusive. Verbally and physically. Needless to say that relationship didn't last long. Fiona knew the moment she broke up with Bobby there was something she needed to do. She needed to find Adam. She always knew that Clare wouldn't give Adam any details on who she was dating therefore she knew that Adam had no idea about Bobby. Nor their court proceedings. Fiona wanted to tell Adam face to face instead of letting him find out from someone else. She still loved Adam and was coming home to find her prince.
When Mr. Coyne arrives at the dealership he sees Adam waiting for him out front. Knowing Adam hasn't seen him yet he tells Fiona
"Why don't you go look at some of the new cars while I talk to him first?"
"So does this mean I get my own Bentley today?" She playfully asks her father
"We will see sweetie"
Adam spots Mr. Coyne walking over to him and has the keys ready for him. "Here you go Mr. Coyne, hope you are pleased with our service"
He hands the keys to Mr. Coyne "Adam, I brought someone who wants to see you"
"Who might that be?" Adam asks with a hopeful look in his eyes.
"Fiona's looking at the Bentley's" he pauses for a moment noticing adam quickly looking over to the lot.
"Go get her son" he says to adam while getting into his car.
Adam feels frozen in place. He slides his hands into his pockets and looks back at Mr. Coyne who rolls down the window. Before adam can speak Mr. Coyne says
"Oh, its about lunchtime right now and she must be hungry. You should probably get her something to eat" adam is speechless as Mr. Coyne drives off.