Positive| Amanda Holden/ BGT ✓

chapter eleven

"Hey, 'Manda?" Simon asked. Amanda hummed in response, telling Simon that she was listening. "Do you and Hollie want to come to Los Angeles with Eric and I for the AGT live shows?"

"Sure," Amanda responded. "I'll do anything that will let me be with you still, Simon."

Simon smirked when Amanda had said she wanted to do anything that would let her be with himself. Amanda truly loved him and he loved her.

"When would we leave?" Amanda asked, turning to face him in their bed.

"In a week," Simon responded. "I know that it's short notice but I want you to come with me and I kept forgetting to ask you until an AGT producer emailed me asking if I was bringing you with me to the shows."

"Definitely short notice!" Amanda commented. "I'm going to need to go shopping for this. I barely have any summer clothes for pregnancy!"

"Don't go crazy with the clothes," Simon warned knowingly. Amanda was a well known and self confessed shopaholic so she always went crazy when shopping for clothes and it didn't help that she loved shoes either.

"I'll try not to go crazy while shopping," Amanda promised. "You should probably go to bed soon. It's late."

"I'll go to bed in a little bit," Simon said. He always tended to stay up too late and sleep half the day away. Amanda was trying to get Simon to have a more normal sleeping schedule and it was starting to work so Simon was slowly becoming less of a night owl.

Amanda turned over to her other side and felt Simon's side of the bed move as he shifted to put his phone on the charger by his nightstand and heard the soft thud of him putting the phone on the nightstand. Simon rolled over so he was spooning Amanda. He gave her a kiss on the cheek and Amanda heard Simon's snores before she fell asleep.

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Amanda, Simon, Hollie, and Eric had landed in Los Angeles a week later, making Amanda twenty seven weeks pregnant. Amanda had been worried about travelling on the plane when they would be coming back to England close to the end her pregnancy but Simon was able to reassure Amanda that she and the baby would be fine.

"Mummy, are there any special rules I havta follow?" Hollie asked.

"No special rules. There's no need for them because we're just going to another home Simon owns," Amanda responded, turning to look at the back seat of Simon's car to look at what Hollie and Eric were doing. Hollie was playing with one of her dolls as she talked to Amanda and Eric was deep asleep in his car seat.

That was the way it stayed until five minutes before the blended family reached Simon's house. Eric had just woken up from a nap and he was cranky from sitting for so long that he started making Hollie whine to Amanda about Eric's whining.

"Enough," Amanda said, putting an effective stop to the complaining that was going on in the back seat. "We will be there in less than five minutes. Then you can stretch your legs, Eric and Hollie."

Amanda looked towards Simon for support and back up but found none. Amanda rolled her eyes and shook her head. Her boyfriend could be no help sometimes. Instead, Simon was trying not to laugh as he pulled into the driveway.

Amanda had been taken off of bed rest entirely the day before because she had scheduled a doctor's appointment for herself. It was really just a check up to be sure that she could travel and her records of her current pregnancy were transferred to one of the best birth centers in Los Angeles. Amanda had been able to schedule her seven and eight month ultrasounds at one of the birth centers and would be bringing Hollie and Eric to one of them so they could learn about their baby sister. She and Simon still had to give them the child friendly version of how a baby was made though.

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"'Manda, can we go swimming?" Eric asked a week later. He ran into the living room where Amanda and Simon sat.

"Please, Mummy and Simon?" Hollie begged. "Please can we go swimming?"

Amanda looked towards Simon. It was a beautiful, hot day in Los Angeles so it made sense that the kids would want to go swimming in the pool at the house.

"Why not?" Amanda replied. "We can go swimming. Go and get changed then, Eric and Hollie."

Amanda and Simon went upstairs and put on their own swimsuits. Amanda put on a purple printed bikini because it was one of the only bathing suits she could wear while she was pregnant. Simon wore his pair of blue printed swim trunks that he almost always grabbed first when looking for something to swim in.

"Hey, sexy," Simon said, wrapping his arms around Amanda and engulfing her in a hug from behind.

"You think I'm sexy still?" Amanda asked, curious.

"Of course I do. You're extremely sexy, even when you're pregnant with our baby," Simon responded, giving Amanda a kiss from behind before going back downstairs and into the back yard where the kids were playing in their bathing suits on the grass. Amanda followed Simon outside and found him in the water with Hollie and Eric already.

"Simon! Did you put sunscreen on you, Hollie, and Eric?" Amanda asked, stepping close to the water and the edge of the pool.

"No," Simon said guilty, with a smile. He got out of the pool and got the kids back out and helped them put on sunscreen.

Eric and Hollie both jumped back into the pool after Simon and Amanda put sunscreen on them. Hollie was a strong swimmer at her age and had taken to swimming like a fish to water but right now, she was resting on a pool tube.

Simon crept up to her and was right underneath the pool float.

"Hollie!" Amanda said but she was too late by a second. "Watch out! Simon's underneath you!"

Simon flipped the pool tube over and Hollie went splashing into the water. She came up laughing a few seconds later.

"Throw me, Simon!" She begged. "Please!"

Simon picked her up in the water and tossed the still laughing Hollie into the water with a splash.

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Hello guys! Thanks for getting this fanfic to 1.03k this week as of this update! I'm so happy about it! Today I'm leaving Myrtle Beach and I've been writing fanfiction since 5 am because I couldn't get back to sleep. I'm publishing a oneshots book today as well! The first one will be a Damon one shot. I've written over five hundred words of fanfiction and it's not even for the fanfic I'm currently writing.

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