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The One That Got Away - Part 4

been awhile, I hope you all are well!

the link to part 3 is here: part 3

Talia was super nervous for the Lowry family barbecue she was attending. She hadn’t been to one since the summer before Adam left for Newfoundland, and they broke up. A lot had changed in the 6 years that have passed since Talia was a regular attendee. 

“Why are you nervous?” Adam comments as Talia gets into his truck to head to the Lowry household. He could tell just by how she scurries to the car. Talia had insisted on bringing something, and Adam finally cracked and told her she could bring a salad.Talia was wearing the cutest floral sundress and she was continuously pulling on it, Adam could’t believe how nervous she looked.

“Nice to see you too,” Talia murmurs. “You aren’t nervous?”

“Why would I be, Tal? I’ve been attending Lowry family barbecues my entire life.” Adam smiles over at Talia, pulling away from her apartment building.

“Ha ha,” Talia mocks. “Does your mom know I’m coming? I seriously don’t want to overstep.”

“Talia,” Adam pauses, talking a look at her to make sure she was being serious. “My mom has considered you to be her daughter since they day she met you. Just because we broke up, that doesn’t change a thing, I swear.”

“So she does know I’m coming?” Talia asks to confirm as they pull up to the famous Lowry house- or mansion as Talia refers to it as.

“You know,” Adam pauses putting the car in park. “I didn’t get a chance to tell her, so let’s go surprise everyone.”

“Adam Steven—”

Adam has gotten out of the car and is walking around the truck to try and get Talia out of the truck as well. He opens the door to see Talia biting her lip, she looks to be shaking a little. “Hey, c’mere” He begins to wrap his arms around Talia’s small figure. “You seriously have nothing to worry about Tal. My family loves you more than they love me.” Adam reassures, rubbing his hand up and down on her back.

This makes Talia chuckle, Adam takes this as a good sign and begins to pull back and get Talia out of the car. Adam grabs the salad she had made and took her hand gently tugging her along with him. They stopped outside of the front door, where Talia took a large deep breath. “There’s nothing for you to be nervous about, okay?” Adam smiles and gives Talia’s hand a squeeze before dropping it and opening the door to the Lowry house.

“We’re here!” Adam calls throughout the house.

“We?” Someone replies back, Talia thinks its Adam’s dad, Dave.

Adam and Talia round the corner to the kitchen and see the absolute surprise on everyone’s face (except Joel’s) when they notice Talia is with Adam.

“WHAT” Tessa, Adam’s younger sister, screeches, practically sprinting towards Talia bounding her up in the biggest hug. “Oh my god, what are you doing here?” Tessa questions, pulling back and looking at Talia from an arm’s length.

“We saw her yesterday grocery shopping and we invited her,” Joel comments, smiling at Talia.

“I’m mad that you two didn’t tell anyone I was coming,” Talia mutters, finally Tessa has let her go and Talia is being wrapped up by Elaine now.

“And ruin this surprise? I mean all of your faces were priceless,” Joel booms with laughter.

“I’m shocked you actually kept it a surprise, Joel” Adam nudges him.

“I told Sven,” Joel mutters, referring to the Lowry family dog.

“Let me at her,” Dave jokes, playfully pushing Elaine out of the way to give Talia a big hug, lifting her off her feet. Talia hadn’t seen Dave in a number of years, she couldn’t remember the last time.

“Easy big guy,” Joel jokes.

“It is so good to see you kid,” Dave whispers in Talia’s ear, putting her down with a swift kiss to her head.  

“Where’s Sarah?” Adam asks.

“She will be here soon, they just went to their hotel to get settled in.”

“Sarah’s in town?” Talia questions.

“Yeah, have you ever met the rug rats?” Dave asks referring to his grandsons and Sarah’s two boys, Lawson and Linden.

“I’ve met Lawson and I’ve seen Linden over facetime. But its been awhile, that was when Linden was a baby.”

“Sarah will be so excited to see you.” Tessa smiles, hugging Talia again. “We need to catch up, help me and mom in the kitchen?” Tessa questions which Talia nods with a smile.

“Okay boys, get grilling, so we can eat soon.”

___

It wasn’t long until Sarah was walking through the door. “We’re back,” she sing songs, followed by little fast steps running into the kitchen.

Sarah rounds the corner to see Talia cutting up some tomatoes for the hamburgers they were having, she immediately screams as she runs over towards her. Tessa and Sarah basically having the same reaction.

The two boys, Lawson and Linden look at this interaction with wide eyes and Lawson looks to their dad, Kyle to explain. “Daddy, who’s that?”

“Do you remember uncle Adam’s friend, Talia?”

“That’s her?” Lawson whispers now to his dad.

Sarah has finally let Talia go and now Kyle is giving her a friendly hug, Kyle and Sarah were only dating when Talia and Adam were still together. “How are ya, Tal?” Kyle asks.

“I’m good, what about you, dad?” Talia jokes, giving Kyle a nudge.

“Good, have you met the boys before?” Kyle runs his hand through Lawson’s hair.

Talia bends down to be eye level with Lawson, Linden hiding behind his dad’s leg. “You must be Lawson, my name is Talia.”

“You uncle Addy’s girlfriend.” Lawson smiles wrapping his little arms around Talia’s head. This gets the group to laugh. Talia doesn’t bother correcting him, just returns the squeeze. “Meet Lindy,” Lawson says trying to get his young brother to come out from hiding.  Linden looks out from behind his father’s leg and gives Talia the smallest of waves.

“He’ll come around,” Sarah comments. Talia stands up to see Adam, Joel, and Dave walking in with a plate of burgers from the barbecue. “Is the table set?” Sarah asks.

“We need another spot made up for Talia, and then we can eat.” Elaine comments, whisking everyone to the kitchen table.

___

Dinner was great, Talia forgot how much she missed Elaine and Dave’s cooking. After they ate, they enjoyed sitting on the patio, enjoying some drinks and the nice, mild night they were having in Calgary. Dave and the boys were talking all things hockey, even though it was the offseason for every Lowry, the NHL playoffs were still going on, with the Stanley Cup finals about to begin. The girls were catching up, asking a lot about Talia’s job. Talia felt like nothing had changed since the last time she was at the Lowry household for a barbecue. It was as if Adam and her were still together.

Adam really enjoyed having Talia over for dinner. He didn’t realize how much he missed having her fit in with her family so well. Talia and her family were so close even after all these years and their breakup, it still felt like nothing had changed. Talia was so close to his two sisters, fitting right in with them. It made Adam’s heart hurt a little seeing Talia interact with his family, especially his two nephews. It reminded him of what could have been, and that thought hurt Adam a lot. However, Adam was just happy having Talia back in his life, even if it is just as friends.

Talia, cleared her throat, getting everyone’s attention. “I just wanted to say a little thank you to you guys.” Talia pauses, taking a deep breathe before continuing. “When Adam invited me, I was quite nervous because it had been so long since I’ve been around you all. Which sounds stupid now because you have been nothing but welcoming to me and have always treated me like family. So I just wanted to thank you guys for that.” Talia blushes.

“Oh honey,” Elaine murmurs, moving her hand to rest on Talia’s thigh. “I have considered you to be one of my own since you were 7 years old. You will always be welcome here.”

“You and Adam not being together anymore, doesn’t change anything.” Joel comments, “You are still my sister.”

Talia had tears brimming her eyes and she took a big breathe collecting herself. “I wish I hadn’t stayed away from you guys all these years.”

Adam felt sick to his stomach, sitting there with his first love, best friend, and love of his life all wrapped into one, he felt helpless. He hated seeing her cry and knowing that he had a part in making her this emotional.

“Well you are here now, aren't ya?” Sarah comments, wrapping an arm around Talia. “Its been long overdue but I’m so glad you are here.”

“Me too.”

___

Talia and the Lowry family stayed talking until after midnight. She enjoyed catching up with the whole family and had even agreed to go to brunch in a couple of days with all the Lowry girls, before Sarah flew back home.

Adam dropped Talia back off at her apartment, they were both exhausted from the events of the day.

“I’m so glad you came,” Adam murmurs when they pull up to Talia’s building.

“Thanks for inviting me,” Talia replies.

“It was my pleasure, my family loved seeing you.”

“I loved seeing them.”

“I told you it was going to be just like old times,” Adam jokes, getting out of the car and walking around towards Talia in the passenger seat.

“I know,” Talia smiles. “You didn’t have to get out of the car,” she comments.

“I know, I just wanted to give you a hug.” Adam blushes, wrapping his arms around her in a tight embrace. They stand like this for awhile, Adam nuzzling his head in Talia’s neck.

“Can we hang out again soon?” Talia murmurs quietly.

“I’ll hang out with you any day.”

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The One That Got Away - Part 2

HEY GUYS, here is part 2 of my new Adam Lowry Series. I hope you guys enjoy it :) 

the link to part 1 is here: Part 1

Talia and Adam spent the majority of the night catching up over a couple of drinks. But that was abruptly stopped when some of Talia’s friends came over wanting to go home. Talia couldn’t abandon her friends, or so she thought.

Adam recognized one of Talia’s friends as her childhood best friend, Natasha. “Oh,” Natasha says when she sees Adam is sitting with Talia at the bar. “Adam, hey.” Natasha politely smiles.

Adam being the nice guy that he is, gets up and lightly hugs Natasha. “Its good to see you Natasha,” Adam greets.

“We were gonna head out Tal,” Natasha says, eyeing the old couple. “Evan is on his way to take us home.” Evan was Natasha’s boyfriend.

Talia starts to get up and gather her belongings when Adam says, “You know, I could take you home.” Adam has suddenly become nervous, scratching the back of his neck.

“I didn’t mean to interrupt your conversation. Stay if you want,” Natasha adds, quickly hugging Talia and leaving the pair alone.

“I just live around the corner,” Talia says to Adam, blushing a little. “Um, you could walk me home?” Talia questions.

“I would love to,” Adam smiles. “Let me just tell my friends that I’m leaving.”

That gave time for Talia to grab her denim jacket and wait for Adam at the door of the bar.

“Hey, sorry,” Adam jogs over to Talia and opens the door to exit. “Which way?”

“Oh, left. This way,” Talia directs the two, falling into step on the side walk.

“It’s crazy that after all these years, I ran into you tonight.” Adam comments.

“It’s been quite a long time since I saw you last,” Talia replies.

“Yeah,” Adam huffs. “Last time was when I moved to St. John’s.”

“Yeah.”

“Do you ever think about what would have happened if we tried to stay together?” Adam asks curiously.

Talia hums, thinking about her answer. “Yeah, I thought about it a lot in the year after that we broke up.”

“Do you think we would still be together?” Adam questions.

“Honestly?” Talia sees Adam nod. “No.”

Adam is a little taken aback from her statement and quite frankly, a little hurt.

“I don’t mean to be rude,” Talia apologizes. “I just think that we wouldn’t have survived the distance.”

“It was only two years.” Adam argues.

“I didn’t know that at the time,” Talia points out. “Do you think we would still be together?”

Adam takes a large breath in. “I thought that our love for each other would have survived the distance.”

“Then why did we break up?” Talia questions.

“I thought you wanted to.” Adam argues.

“I don’t know if I wanted to per se, I think we both knew that it was for the best.” Talia remarks.

Adam shrugs almost whispering, “I guess we will never know.”

“This is my apartment,” Talia points to a high rise building that Adam and Talia are standing in front of. “Um, well. It was really good to see you.”

“Oh, yeah. I’m really glad we ran into each other.” Adam smiles politely, Talia could tell it was forced.

“Look, what I said about us not being together, its not personal, okay?” Talia points out. “You asked for my honest opinion.”

“I know, Tal. It just kinda stung a little thats all.” Adam admits.

“I know, and believe me, after we broke up I thought that we could have done it. But then as I kept thinking about it and began to move on, I came to the conclusion that it was for the best. And our relationship could have been a little more messy if we didn’t break up when we did.”

“I’m glad we can be friendly with each other and theres no hard feelings,” Adam admits.

“I’m glad too. I never thought I would see you tonight.”

“Me either. But it was the most pleasant surprise,” Adam smiles.

“Well,” Talia yawns. “I better get to bed.”

“Yeah, I will let you get your beauty sleep,” Adam begins to wrap his arms around me.

“It was really nice seeing you hot shot,” Talia smiles laying her head on Adam’s chest.

________

“Talia?” Adam’s mom, Elaine questions as she notices Talia was in the same boutique as her. It is the day after Talia saw Adam last night, Talia was doing some Sunday afternoon shopping with her mother.

“Elaine,” Talia exclaims. “Hi, it’s so good to see you.”

Elaine wraps her arms tightly over Talia. “How are you guys?” Elaine smiles, now wrapping Talia’s mother, Lena.

“Great,” Lena replies. “How have you been?”

“So good.”

“Busy with your grandkids?” Talia asks, smiling. Even though Adam and Talia broke up, she still kept up with Adam’s siblings, especially Adam’s older sister, Sarah, who has the cutest two little boys.

“Oh yes, they keep me young. I’m actually going to visit Sarah in a couple of days,” Elaine responds, pulling out her phone to show Talia and Lena pictures of her two grandsons.

“What a lucky Grandma,” Lena smiles looking at the photos of the two boys.

“You’re the second Lowry I have run into in the past two days.” Talia comments.

“Whattt? Adam, you saw Adam yesterday?” Elaine exclaims, a smile over taking her whole face.

“Yeah,” Talia replies, tucking a piece of her hair behind her ear. “We ran into each other at the bar last night.”

“No way.” Elaine remarks.

“He looked good, I hadn’t seen him since we….” Talia trails off, Lena and Elaine knew what she meant.

“I’m glad you two got to see each other again,” Elaine comments. No matter what Talia knew that Elaine loved her like another daughter. Even 6 years after Adam and Talia have broken up, she still considers Elaine to be her second mom.

“Yeah, it was good to talk with him. And catch up and stuff,” Talia smiles. The three said their goodbyes shortly after as Elaine claimed she had to get home to start working on the Lowry Sunday night family dinner.

“I didn’t know you saw Adam last night,” Lena tells Talia as they are in the line to check out of the boutique.

“Yeah,” Talia becomes sheepish. 

“You guys just ran into each other?” Lena asks.

“Yeah,” Talia shrugs.

“Well, how did he look? Did you get to talk to him or was it just a “hey, good to see you,” sort of situation.”

“Um,” Talia pauses. “Well we basically talked the rest of the night at the bar and then he walked me home.”

Lena seems to mull over what Talia said, giving it lots of thought. “Interesting,” she finally comments.

“What?”

“Does he have a girlfriend?” Lena blurts out.

Talia rolls her eyes, scoffing. “Mom, I don’t know. I hadn’t seen him in 6 years, why would I ask him? That’s not any of my business.”

“He walked you home, Talia.” Her mother giving Talia a pointed look.

Talia just shakes her head, the conversation ending.

________

“You will never guess who I saw today,” Elaine tells her son the moment he walks into the kitchen.

“You will never guess who I saw last night,” Adam replies, going to the fridge to take out a beer.

“Oh, I know who you saw last night,” Elaine responds, a massive smirk taking over her face.

Adam looks flabbergasted, almost spitting out his gulp of beer he just took. Adam shakes his head, chuckling a little. “Did Dad tell you?”

The look on Elaine’s face tells Adam the answer to his question. “You told your father before you told me?” If looks could kill, Adam would already be 6 feet under.

“Look, I was gonna tell you. But Dad and I were golfing this morning and it just came up.”

“How does seeing Talia for the first time since you broke up just simply come up in conversation?”

“Well we were talking about what I did last night and I just told him,” Adam says.

His mother huffs and continues on making dinner.

“Wait, so you saw Talia today?” Adam asks quickly turning around after getting ready to leave the kitchen but not before he remembered what his mother said to begin this conversation.

“Oh?” Elaine questions. “So you do want to talk to me about Tal?”

Adam rolls his eyes, “Oh, would you quit it? I’m sorry for telling Dad before you.”

“I saw Talia shopping with her mom today.” Elaine begins.

“Thats all the information I’m gonna get out of you?” Adam huffs.

“Maybe you should ask your dad for the rest of the story.”

“You are so petty” Adam’s laugh booms throughout the kitchen. Adam began helping his mother with dinner, getting the steak ready to be put on the barbecue. This is how he got all the information about Talia’s run in with his mom.

It wasn’t until later that night that Adam saw he had two new messages from a random number.

I ran into your mom today.

Shit, sorry. It’s Talia, I got your number from Sarah. I hope that’s ok.