Adam (Adam Series) by McDonald Anthony

Author:McDonald, Anthony [McDonald, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction & Literature
Publisher: BIGfib Books
Published: 2010-09-06T14:00:00+00:00

TEN

Strictly speaking, Adam’s French school did not have a half term holiday during the summer term. But this year two public holidays had somehow got crammed into the same week in May and so had the feast-day of the obscure local saint whom Adam’s school was named after. Given that most organisations in France took ‘bridge’ holidays on a Monday or Friday whenever a public day off occurred on a Tuesday or Thursday, the school had bowed to the inevitable and so Adam found himself with a week of freedom that coincided with the official half-term of his British friends.

Hugh drove Adam into Chaumont to meet the coach on which they were arriving early on Monday evening. It was a tense drive for Adam. What would his friends look like after nearly a year? What would they be like? Would they even recognise him after so long a separation? Teenagers could change so much - or at least develop - in that length of time.

Change or develop. Was there a difference? Adam and Michael had argued so strenuously over this semantic distinction one afternoon about a year ago that they were both ready to cry with frustration when neither would give in. Adam made the assertion that people never changed, they simply developed; Michael said that, on the contrary, human beings were capable of real change. They had kept up this argument for a punishing two and a half hours until Adam (they were in Michael’s bedroom) slammed out and went home angry and exhausted. That was the trouble with Michael, he thought. You had sex listening to Wagner and then wrangled over something pointless for the rest of the day just for the sake of it. How much better, how immeasurably more wonderful it was with Sylvain.

It was a shock to see the two boys tumbling off the coach together. Sean, who had towered over Michael and Adam a year ago, now seemed stocky and compact at Michael’s side. He still had his blond cornfield of hair, though, and the cornflower eyes that went with it; after a moment’s reflection he was still unmistakeably Sean. Michael, in contrast, was now tall, spare and gangly; no longer the petite, skinny figure he had cut when Adam was last intimate with him (not counting what had happened at Christmas, but on that occasion Adam hadn’t actually seen him). He was looking good. Adam thought for the first time that he stood a chance of actually being handsome one day. But it was Sean’s beauty that really captured his imagination at that moment. Intensified by a year’s absence and by a year’s progress on the road to adulthood, Sean’s appearance - which was also the window through which his sweet-natured personality projected itself without distortion - made Adam’s pulse suddenly race. He understood for the first time that the expression a heart-throb was more than just a cheap figure of speech. To be in the physical vicinity of Sean was to be

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