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“But…my shift…?”
“I’ve been handling the shift. I turned in the paperwork before three.”
I couldn’t believe it.
No. I did believe it.
There were these little things that Adam did, all the time. Each of them added up more and more, becoming this unbalanced equation between us, but he didn’t care about that. It never bothered him. He bought me coffee, helped me with my door decorations, held the door open for me, changed his radio station to my audiobooks, all of these little things were active choices for him and he never held those against me.
My heart squeezed and I gazed at him. “What happened?”
“You don’t remember,” Adam said, not as a question, but a blank statement.
“I…remember…?” I wracked my brain, thinking about the study session. “I remember the event and June helping me out. And Thomas…called. And I turned off my phone.”
“I know.”
“You know?”
“Yeah.” Adam shrugged, gazing back up at the ceiling. “He called about as much as the goddamn desk assistants and I told him if he didn’t want to stay overnight at a hospital, he’d stop calling.”
I could barely believe what I was hearing. “You…you did?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Oh.” I swallowed. “You didn’t have to do that.”
Adam sighed and pushed himself from the mattress. “Okay, I’m up.”
“Wait, Adam?” I didn’t know what to say. My head was still swimming, and I was pretty sure I was still a little out of it. But Adam walked towards the door and I had to stumble to catch up with him. I grabbed his arm. “Adam?”
“Woah, slow down.”
“Thank you,” I said softly.
A warm feeling took over me. I wish I could’ve remembered the phone call too. Only bits and pieces were coming back, not enough to put a whole picture together. I could see the residents' faces and something about Adam’s hair? For some reason, that kept coming back to me. But nothing concrete beyond that.
“You really don’t remember?” Adam said again, giving me a long look. His face twisted. I didn’t recognize the look. “Like, nothing?”
“Um…Sloane and Elijah…why do I remember them?”
A laugh escaped him. “Got it. That’s what you remember.”
“Did something happen?”
He hesitated for a moment and opened the door. “We yelled at them. And at a bunch of residents.”
“We did?” I smiled and followed him at about the speed you expect from someone with a nasty hangover. All my bones protested. Ugh. What a horrible way to wake up. I reached for Adam’s arm again and led him to the elevators. “I’ll buy you coffee.”
“We can’t leave the building.”
“I’ll just order it,” I said, fishing for my phone. But I didn’t have it, Adam did. He held it away from me and shook his head. “Adam, give me my phone.”
“Ice princess, I’ll buy the coffee.”
“You’ve done too much already.”
He shrugged and hid my phone in his pocket. “If I get sick before a football game, you can just jump in with a helmet and take my place. We’ll call it square.”
