Finally, after like ten minutes of waiting to be signed out of the hospital, Adam is driving me back to the house.

"So last night, after you fell asleep, I was thinking.." Adam starts as he stops at a stoplight.

I look over at him and raise my eyebrows slightly, waiting for him to continue.

"How would you like to come to the office so I could introduce you to the guys?" He asks and looks in front of him again when the once red light turns green.

I nod and smile, knowing he can see me out of the corner of his eye.

"Great. I gotta warn you though, they can get a bit rowdy."

I raise an eyebrow at him and stare until he glances over at me and starts laughing.

"I was joking! I know you watch the videos. Sometimes you fall asleep with your laptop open and when I come in to shut it off for you, one of the guys' videos are on the screen." He laughs.

I roll my eyes at him and stick my tongue out at him.

"But if Jordan hurts you, I will kick his ass." He says and tries to pull a straight face but fails miserably, making a grin force its way onto my face and I snort as I try not to laugh.

"But on a more serious note," he says, pulling a straight face. "I just want you to be happy, Tee. And I don't want to see you hurt. I know I still have a lot to learn about you, but I'll do my best to take care of you and make you happy." He says, smiling a bit.

I smile a bit. I would hug him but.. He's driving. So that'd be dangerous.

I look down and run a hand through my hair before I pull my phone out of my pocket and look over my social media, still getting hate for dating Jordan.

Although the hate does hurt sometimes- like when they tell me I should go kill myself, jump off of a bridge, get cancer and die, I don't let it get to me. They're just people. Like me. So why should I let what they say affect me?

I turn my phone off and look out my window, a small smile on my face.

Finally I get to meet everyone.. Maybe by then I'll be able to talk? Who knows.

-

"You ready?" Adam asks as he pulls the car door open for me.

I stare at the dash before looking at Adam, a worried look on my face.

What if they don't like me? What if they think I intentionally starved myself? What if-

"Tee. They'll love you." He says, bending over slightly so he can look at me.

I look into his brown eyes before smiling a bit and getting out of the car.

"I'll go in first, alright? I don't want to put any pressure on you right away." He says as he shuts the door and leads me to the metal stairs that will lead to the office.

I decided to go without a sweater today, considering that I'm not as skinny as I was before.

So today I've decided to wear just a plain black tee shirt, faded ripped blue jeans and my brown saggy suede boots. My hair is also braided to one side, and I added some winged eyeliner and a bit of eye shadow, along with some mascara.

I pause at the bottom of the stairs for a couple of seconds, and stare at the bottom step.

Adam stops and looks back at me. "There's nothing to be afraid of. C'mon," he coaxes me up.

I slowly step up on the first step and grab the railing as I slowly ascend up the stairs, my legs shaking, along with my arms.

Fuck it, practically my whole body is shaking. Well, what do you expect? I'm scared. And nervous. And.. Oh god that's a high drop.. Okay don't look down. Just.. Look at Adam. Yeah. Okay.. Deep breaths, Tee. You can do it.

I walk up the rest of the steps, behind Adam, and when he opens the door and walks in, I lean in slowly then look around.

Adam looks back at me and smiles a bit. "Come on. They're not gonna hurt you." He says and starts walking through the main entrance.

I trot after him and look around as we pass multiple empty offices. One clearly occupied by Barney- because of the picture, but he's not in his office.

As we walk down one of the hallways, I can hear the popping of nerf guns being shot and Red- probably recording another VR video.

I hide behind Adam as we walk closer, the laughter getting louder as we draw closer, and some of the nerf darts becoming visible.

I see Tim and Barney holding nerf guns and pulling the triggers then reloading the guns as they fire at Red, who is, in fact recording a VR video and trying to dodge the bullets while he's looking around - probably playing the dropper in VR.

I smile as he screams when a dart hits his butt.

"Who did that?!" He shouts, looking in the direction of where the dart came from.

Tim laughs and turns to find more bullets but spots Adam, who's laughing his butt off.

"Oh, hey Adam!" Tim says, smiling until he sees me.

"Who's that?" He asks, raising his eyebrows slightly.

"This is Tee," he says and steps to the side. "I actually came to introduce her to everyone," I see Barney and Em turn to look at what's going on. "And she is my, and Alesa's adopted daughter."

I feel a blush rise to my cheeks when I realize multiple people are looking now.

"Finally the bullets stopped. Okay so-" Red continues to commentate on his video, and I turn my attention to the people looking at me.

"Oh- and she was, and still is a fan from Los Angeles who I happened to save her life." Adam says and pulls an arm around my shoulders.

"So, how old are you?" Em asks as she looks at me.

I freeze, but find enough strength to look at Adam.

He glances down at me before looking back at Em. "She's half mute. Basically meaning, she can't find the power to speak, but she knows she can."

"Aww that's terrible. Do you know why?" Tim asks, looking at Adam.

Adam nods and sighs. "Her parents weren't only alcoholic, but they were physically and mentally abusive. I'll tell you guys more about this when I have everyone else gathered up." Adam says, smiling a bit.

"Makes sense. You wanna try?" Tim asks, offering me a gun.

I look at the gun in his hand and slowly take it then step forward and raise it up.

I haven't really held one of these since I was a kid, but when I was a kid.. I was really good with my aim.

I aim it towards Red and smile then pull the trigger, earning a pop from the gun, and the bullet hits him straight in the chest. Exactly where I wanted it to go.

"Hey! Guys~!" Red whines, making me snicker.

I shoot another bullet at him, hitting him on the back of the head.

He looks over, even though he can't see because of the VR thingy on his face.

I aim it at the device and shoot.

"Okay- now who's shooting? I know nobody in this room right now has this good of aim.

I snicker again and hand the gun to Adam.

"Wha- why you framing me?" He whisper shouts, trying not to laugh.

I shrug and smile then sit on the floor in front of him, watching Red swing his arms around as he plays his game.