THERE IS AN IMPORTANT UPDATE AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER. PLEASE READ IT. Hello everyone! I know all of you are probably like "WHY HASN'T SHELBY SHOWED UP?!" stuff like that. She'll either come in at the end of this chapter or the beginning of next chapter. Now onto the story!
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{Chapter Two}
{Meeting Adam}
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{3rd person}
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As the boys trudged down the old, broken streets of their city, a light drizzle came down from the clouds. Almost like the clouds were on the verge of tears, yet they were holding them in, just like most kids these days. They had been walking for about an hour now, they've passed the same ice cream shop about three times, next to the shop was an intersection, cars flew by almost so fast the young kids couldn't process seeing them. Nick was leading, assuming Adam was his friend. Cory was pretty agitated at this point, he practically knew Nick has no idea where he was going, so he decided to say something.

"Nick do you have ANY idea where we're going?" Cory said, putting the emphasis on the word any.

"If you want my honest answer-" Nick paused for a minute and stopped walking. "I've never actually met Adam-"

"What?!" Cory cut off his friend, he was pissed. I mean imagine your friend taking you to meet their friend. But they've never met the kid, and they've never been to their house. If I was Cory I'd be pretty pissed too. "You've never met the kid, Why are we going to his house then?! How do you know he isn't going to keep us as hostages or kill us?!"

"Well if you let me finish I would tell you!" Nick said raising his voice a little bit. Cory finally shut up and let Nick talk after he said that. "As I was saying I've never been to the kids house, I met him at school, but I swear he said his house was a little gray one, I don't remember all the details though. But I know he said his house was near the ice cream shop."

The kids were quiet for a little bit, looking around the ice cream shop for a little gray house, finally Cory spotted a gray house.

"Is that it?" Cory said pointing to the small gray house. The house looked pretty old and parts of it were torn and broken, but if this is where the kid lived, he wasn't going to say anything about it.

"I think... Let's check it out!" Nick said quickly as he grabbed Cory's hand and dragged him up to the small house. Nick looked for a doorbell of some sort, but there wasn't one, as he just decided to bang on the door. Finally a lady answered the door, she had a beer bottle in one hand and he piece of toast in the other. She's probably drunk Cory thought.

"Who are you?" She said as she pointed at Nick.

"W-well, I'm Nick at that's my friend Cory," he said pointing to the boy next to him. "And we're to see Adam." After Nick said that she just, stared at them, and went in and yelled something that was barely audible but they could hear part of this

"ADAM RODRIGUEZ! GET YOUR AS DOWN HERE AND COME SEE YOUR FRIENDS OTHERWISE I'LL SLAM THIS BEER BOTTLE INTO YOUR HEAD!" (sorry we always need a mean person in the story >~<)

Soon after she said that a boy came running to the door and almost slammed into it. The young boy opened up the door to see two boys at his doorstep.

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"..."
They didn't say much, but Cory was studying what the boy so-called Adam looked like. The boy was wearing a brown fedora like hat, a black sweatshirt that was the total opposite of his eyes. Adam had emerald green eyes, they were dulled though.

(Sorry to interrupt your reading but if you're wondering what I mean by his eyes were dulled. I mean you know how emerald are bright, they were kinda a darker green. Meaning he's sad/ depressed BACK TO THE STORY!)

They looked a little puffy and red, probably from him crying so much. I mean, there was a high chance his mom abused him and he was only a kid, so this must be hard for him. He was also wearing a pair of black shoes and black finger-less gloves. Finally the boy, or as Nick liked to call him, Adam, spoke up.

"Oh.... Hey Nick!" Adam said putting the happiest face he had. "I was wondering when you were coming over! Who's your new friend?" As he said that he pointed to Cory. The young dirty blonde just stood there. He was nervous. All eyes were on him waiting for a response. After a while of waiting Adam finally spoke up

"Does he not speak? It's okay if you don't, I understand completely!" Cory was a little taken back but also a little offended by the comment. Adam just makes the assumption he's mute just because he didn't answer a fucking question?! Maybe he didn't answer the question because he didn't want to, or he didn't hear it, which he did hear the question but was looking for words to jumble together to make a sentence. He felt anger burn in his insides but he pushed it back down. He didn't want to be mean to Adam, but he also didn't want to seem like a type of push over. So he answered-

"I'll have you know I'm not mute and I can speak perfectly fine, and my name is Cory. And you must be Adam, it's great to meet you." Cory stuck his hand out for Adam to take, and Adam gladly accepted it like Cory just said nothing to him.

"Well it's great to meet you Cory! I'm sure we'll be great friends!" Adam said in a cheery tone. For someone who is probably abused he sure has a positive ass attitude. Cory thought. Finally Adam stopped shaking Cory's hand and looked at the ground where he was scuffing his now dirty black shoes in the dirt.

"Hehe, sorry about my mom, she's mad at me for something I did, but don't worry! She's not usually like this.... Anyways we have to go to school right? Well, lets go!" Adam said cheerfully as he grabbed Nick and Cory's hands and ran in the direction of where the school was.
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Okay so now that I've gotten your attention I have an important update, there will be one or tow chapters a week of this story. Not because I love the ship and I want to write it, its because I want to finish the book. All of you are probably like "WAIT WAIT WAIT - FRISKY YOU WERE THE ONE WHO MADE THE STORY WHY DO HATE IT SO MUCH?!" well there's many reasons one being my writing is cringey and bad. Next is because I'd like to start and book of SkyMedia one shots but I know if i start it i won't want to finish this book, next reason is the most important.

I don't ship corby anymore, I ship corick (which if you didn't know is Cory x Nick or SGCbarbarian) so for now be ready to see a few chapter a week, GOODBYE NOW I LOVE ALL OF YOU! And if you haven't please make that button blue it would mean do much to me! And be ready to see a one shot book! ~ Frisky :)