When the typical bell rang for the leisure time Peter must have been pretty unique in being disappointed. That and apprehensive. With Adam back things were no longer simple and Peter felt both his calm demeanour and best friend slipping further away from him. Despite his growing reservations about the leisure afternoon, Peter studiously followed the routine, slipping into the vast mini dome behind the others. The large grassed oval in the middle gave him his normal call to just ignore all the growing political issues within his group and just give into a game. When Adam had been demoted, the grassy field had been a way to escape the truth and work out all of his anger into playing a good game. He was so tempted to follow his other friends as they began the typical negotiations for which game and what rules however the now familiar apprehension caused him to turn away and try and seek either Adam or Beth's faces.
He glanced towards the wild looking gardens, surrounded in their dense green foliage. Personally he hated them. They felt suffocating and enclosed, filled with so many different whispers of harmless Cultured secrets…now revolving around Adams dangerous tales. Speak of the devil, Peter just caught Adam taking off into one of the less popular gardens. He hesitated. Should he follow? On one hand Peter was worried he'd go and discuss all his mad stories with anyone other than Beth and himself, and therefore Peter needed to keep an eye on him. But on the other hand it looked like Adam was seeking some solitude and Peter couldn't help but hope that his conscience could work harder at silencing these lies. Feeling drained from all this tension and hidden agendas, Peter decided on the easy option: leave him be. Peter didn't think anyone else normally hung out over there so he could be reasonably sure that Adam would keep these strange stories to himself. That aside, surely Adam wouldn't just tell all that rubbish to an acquaintance anyway, not if the sole purpose was to convince Peter and Beth to attempt an escape attempt with him.
Finally settled on his decision, Peter started to search out Beth. He couldn't see the blonde's striking appearance anywhere. She must be in our typical clearing, he thought to himself at once beginning to make his way there. He took a deep breath letting it out slowly, trying to remove all the tension thinking about Adam had given him. Now he could just spend some well-deserved time with Beth and try and ignore all these new problems. He half wished Adam had never come back. There'd had never been anything even remotely as serious as this happening in the Dome, and Peter wished he had never got involved. Even though he was on the Carer's side, they still questioned him and suspected him of somehow following Adam's footsteps despite all Peter's attempts to convince them otherwise. He'd even gone so far as to lie to them. He grimaced. He was playing an ever increasing dangerous game. He'd never lied to them before, but his options hadn't been great either way. He could tell them about Adam's ravings not only putting Adam in a punishment cell but causing even more suspicion to fall on himself and Beth for listening to it. And so he'd decided the best thing for it was to pretend everything was relatively normal, though acknowledging that Adam had been effected by his punishment.