Dangerous Love

8. Hopefully

              Soda's POV
     I stayed in the room with Amanda for about half an hour. I walked out and just as I got into the living room, Pony came through the door looking guilty of something.
         Where the hell have you been?!" I asked him demandingly.
       "Out." He responded cockily.
       "What's that supposed to mean? Do you even know what happened to Amanda?" I normally don't yell at him but I was just furious that this happened.
       "Yeah I do. Now leave me alone will ya?" He snapped. Is he hiding something from me?
        He started walking away from me when I stopped him. We just looked at each other for a couple seconds when he finally gave in.
       "Soda, I-I need to- to tell you something...... a soc- well he made me- umm..-" He was taking to long so I cut him off.
"Spit it out Pony!"
"I did it to her." He confessed barely under a whisper. My heart sank. My arms went limp, and I gave him a blank stare.
"I didn't want to Soda! That dumb soc made me do it!"
"Made you as in..." I cautiously asked.
"There was a heater against my head.....what else was I supposed to do?"
     I walked back into my room and sat down next to Amanda. I held her hand and I started talking to her.
          "Amanda, I'm so damn sorry this had to happen to you. I don't know what I would do if you didn't pull through. I need you in my life cause I know you bring out the better everything in me. I promise I'll teach those socs a lesson. I love you...If only i had the courage to tell you when you're awake."
         I was barely over a whisper at that point. I just stared at her and kissed her forehead gently. I was about to leave again until I felt one of her fingers wrap around my hand. A huge smile spread across my face.
        "Amanda? Baby are you awake?" I was trying to get her to move again but nothing happened. Her finger relaxed from my hand and I just layed down next to her and went to bed my hand in hers.
                 Amanda's POV
        I couldn't wake up for some reason. Maybe my body was just too weak, but even though I'm asleep, I can still hear everything around me. I feel so bad that I couldn't wake up and talk to him or even let him know that I could hear. As he was talking I was trying so hard to move anything. Even just a finger. I tried with all the strength in me to move but it felt like a boulder was holding me down.
Something is wrong. It shouldn't be this hard. "I love you. If only I had the courage to tell you when you're awake." I heard him tell me. He loves me? Oh my god. He doesn't even know that I could hear him. What's he so scared of anyway? I felt so bad for him for some reason and right when he told me that, somehow I got the power to raise my finger around his hand. Unfortunately, I couldn't do anything else and my finger dropped.
                        Two Days Later ~
           Amanda's POV
   I woke up I don't know how long afterwards. I got up and my vision was a little fuzzy but it cleared up by the time I got to the door. I stopped and realized how much my neck actually hurt. I slowly reached up and touched the home-made stitches all across my neck. It stung but I didn't care at this point. The bandages that were around my neck were on the bed and I don't know when those came off.
              I opened the door and walked in the living room. All eyes were on me and they froze. All at once everyone jumped up and came to greet me and hug me it was a little overwhelming. Soda hugged me and picked me up and twirled in a circle. I chuckled a little from that. Why was everyone so cheery? It was only a couple days right? Everyone but Soda walked into the kitchen. He lightly rubbed his thumb over my neck and kissed it.
"I missed you." He said.
"Geez how long was I asleep for?" I laughed.
"Two days." He responded.
We both leaned in for a kiss. It was long and passionate as our lips moved in sync with each other.
           "I love you too." I whispered. He looked shocked by what I just said.
     "W-what?" He asked with a confused smile on his face. "You heard me?"
      "I heard everything." I told him as we embraced in a long hug.
"Let's get you cleaned up." He requested. We walked into the bathroom and he lifted me onto the sink. He took a rag and started to wipe up all of my cuts and stitches.
"So what happened that night?" He hesitantly brought up. "I mean, Pony told me a part of it but not all." I put my head down. I didn't really want to talk about it. He then lifted my chin up.
"Hey, It's okay. You can tell me."
"I know I can tell you, it's just-" I paused. "They      tried to-" I started to cry. Soda sighed and pulled me into a hug. He picked me up and put me back on the floor. We then spent the rest of the day eating chocolate cake and watching tv just wishing that things could just go back to normal because we haven't had too many days that were normal. Or, maybe this is the normal.