Am I a freak?

Chapter Twenty Two

I know I know! Its been ages and I cant guarantee this won't suck but here goes nothing!!

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Chapter Twenty Two

Amanda's (POV)

The rest of that night Max and I gleefully laughed and talked about anything and everything and it felt strange to think only a few hours ago I was in bits about having to marry a stranger. I realised that once I let go and let myself be. Everything seemed to just fit in all the right places with Max. I slowly but surely felt myself just become me again. A me that I hadn't been able to be around anyone other than my sister. A me that got lost when my sister was sent away. It was strange to feel....whole again. I'd always thought that my sister's return would make me feel whole again but all it did was make me realise there was another part of me. A part of me that I'd never known was also missing and I'd found it when I let Max in.

Once the sun began to rise Max and I, not feeling the least bit tired, decided it was time to head home. Being as quiet as we could we opened the door inch by inch before stepping into the dimly lit hallway, trying not to giggle as we snuck into the house until we looked up to see 6 angry siblings and a tired Andrew glaring down on us.

"WHERE WERE YOU?!" Alma shouted causing the rest to follow suit. They all shouted about how they were worried and they didn't know where we were and that we should have let them know and how worried sick they were and Max and I just stood there, our heads hanging in shame as they scolded us.

"WAIT!" Blaise shouted above every ones angry chattering and the corridor went quiet as we often did when we were....well being us. "What's that?" he pointed at my hand.

"Oh my god! Is that a RING?!" Alma exclaimed once she saw what Blaise was pointing at and just like that the chattering began again but this time it was to congratulate us and tell us how happy they were and to poke fun at Al and Drew for not having done the same yet.

"GUYS!" came a booming voice silencing us all once again "it's really early, does this have to happen right now?" dad said as he stepped pajama clad out of his room and onto the landing with his hair all ruffled and his eyes barely open.

"MAX PROPOSED AND AMANDA SAID YES!" my siblings all shouted at the same time and my dad's eyes snapped open as he looked towards us, his eyes slowly travelled down to my hand for confirmation and his lips stretched into a smile making the corners of his eyes crinkle up. He bounced down the stairs and embraced the both of us tightly and whispered "I'm so happy for the both of you!"

"Thanks dad" I replied as I hugged him tighter and smiled into his shoulder.

"Oh we have to celebrate!" he pulled away and exclaimed "both of my daughters are getting married, even though only one of them has had the sense to formalize it" he sent an unapproving glance in Drew's direction, causing him to blush, and continued "it will be fantastic! We'll invite everyone and we'll throw a marvellous party!" he continued down the list of 'marvellous' things we would do as he made his way to his study and after hugging both Max and I the boys slowly returned to their rooms and left Alma and I standing by the door smiling at each other like fools.

"We have to go shopping!" Alma exclaimed.

"You hate shopping" I raised an eyebrow.

"I know but...the both of us are finally...happy and we owe it to our fiancee's" she emphasized the word "to bore the hell outta them by dragging them along with us! Come on! I'm always looking for more ways to make Nancy's life hell" she shrugged with an evil smile on her lips as she wiggled her eyebrows alluringly at me.

"I swear you and Andrew have the strangest relationship I have ever seen!" 

"I like to be different" she shrugged and giggled.

"Whatever" I rolled my eyes and smiled, feeling over the moon at seeing my sister really happy for the first time in a long time.

"So." she prompted.

"So?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Shopping?"

"You don't have to twist my arm into spending money!" I giggled. 

"Yay!" So the rest of the day was spent making our boyfriends, I mean fiancee's (its still weird to say...but nice) lives hell and I kinda got why Al got such a kick out of it, seeing the boys moan every time we went into a new store was kind of amusing! However, I did start to feel bad after a while so I convinced Alma into cutting the boys a break and we let them leave us, Andrew sent me a grateful look and Max pecked me on the lips before the two of them disappeared quicker than you could imagine. 

After the boys left Alma and I went into a victoria's secret and we found ourselves trying on some raunchy stuff, at first I felt embarrassed to even be considering look at half the crazy stuff but after a few minutes I got a laugh out of it and even found a few nice things. I got both embarrassed and excited at the thought of ever wearing half of the things I bought in front of Max but I guess it would happen eventually and it made me feel slightly giddy. 

I used to be so squeamish about sex what's happened to me?! 

After a LONG day of shopping we went back home and spent the rest of the evening doing much more relaxing things like hanging out with our boyfriends and watching movies. Readying ourselves for the craziness that would ensue the following day and we really truly thought we could get through it...little did we know.