just a dream | simanda ✔

chapter ten: dates

"Um, Amanda, I want to ask you something," Simon blurted out the next day after she had regained consciousness.

"What?" Amanda responded. She had been taken off of the ventilator a few hours after she had woken up and prove that she could breath without assistance from the ventilator.

"Would you m-maybe go on a d-date with m-me?" Simon stuttered nervously. "After you're released from the hospital."

"Sure," Amanda said, smiling at him. "I'll go out on a date with you, Simon."

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manda had been released from the hospital about a week and a half with orders to take it easy when she went back to teaching after the weekend. She had also been told to be extremely careful if she was going to make love to anyone but she could do it when she was ready.

She still had some difficulty walking but it had lessened since the first time she had walked after regaining consciousness two weeks ago.

Amanda was standing in front of her mirror, trying to zip her dress that she was going to wear for her second date with Simon.

She had gone on the first date with Simon and she had fun with him so they decided to go on a second, more fancy date a couple of days after their first on Friday night.

Tonight was Sunday so it was the day that Amanda was going out on her second date with Simon. She couldn't wait to see where he was taking her. All he had said was to wear something nice but not too fancy. He was probably going to take her to a restaurant.

Amanda put on a dress that she normally taught in. It was a black and white dress that zipped in the back and it hugged her curves.

Amanda hadn't lost the weight that she had gained after Chris had been killed in combat so she was more curvy than what she had been five years ago. This was the second real date that she was going on in that long amount of time.

Amanda slipped on the black high heels that she normally wore with the dress and then slipped them back off. She only wore the heels when she was teaching and it was best that she wore flat shoes because of her hips. Amanda put on a pair of black slip on trainers instead of the heels.

She was now ready for her date with Simon.

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You look beautiful, 'Manda," Simon complimented her when he picked Amanda up for their date.

"Thank you, Simon," Amanda replied. "Where are we going for our date."

"I've made us reservations at this little Italian place that I know and they have good wine there," Simon responded.

Simon knew that Amanda liked her wine because she had told him on their first date when she had ordered it as her drink.

"But it's technically a school night for both of us, Simon," Amanda reminded him.

"I know. We don't have to get drunk enough to have hangovers when we teach tomorrow," Simon responded.

"Let's go on the date then," Amanda said.

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Amanda and Simon had ordered their drinks and food and like Simon had predicted, Amanda ordered a glass of wine because he had said that it was good at the restaurant.

"What's your favourite subject to teach," Amanda asked Simon.

"Maths. I've always had this thing with counting and I've always been rather good at doing math," Simon responded. They were still getting to know each other although they had been working at the same school for over two months. "What's your favourite subject to teach?"

"History. I love learning about things that have happened in the past," Amanda replied. "What's your least favourite subject to teach?"

"Science. I'm rubbish at it and a good amount of my kids love the subject," Simon responded. "What's your least favourite subject to teach."

"Your favourite subject, maths. I'm horrid at anything to do with maths," Amanda said. "I couldn't do math to save my life."

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Amanda had made Simon laugh for the fifth time that night.

"You really pulled a prank on your maths teacher in your seventh year and didn't get caught?" Simon asked in disbelief.

"Yup," Amanda replied. "My friends and I didn't get caught and we told the teacher we were the ones that pulled the prank at the end of the school year."

"Did you get anyone in trouble after you pulled the prank, 'Manda?" Simon questioned as he took a bite of his food.

Simon and Amanda's food had arrived and they were keeping each other entertained by telling each other stuff they did when they were in school.

Simon had ordered lasagna while Amanda had gone with his suggestion of getting the vegetarian pasta because Simon had said that the restaurant hand made all of their noodles.

"No; we somehow didn't get anyone in trouble. We told the maths teacher on the last day of the school year so we couldn't get in trouble and end up getting detention," Amanda replied. "What's one of the most fun things that you've done while you were in school, Simon?"

"Probably make volcanoes with my friend, David Walliams, in science class during eighth year," Simon responded. "We put too much of something into it and the substance inside of it basically exploded out of the volcano."

Amanda laughed at the story and said, "I never made volcanoes at my school and my friends and I begged our science teacher to let us make them in class as a project."

"You should make them with your students as a science project then," suggested Simon. "It would be fun for both them and you. You could do it before the holiday break this winter, like do them the last day before break starts."

"That's a good idea, Simon. Maybe I will make volcanoes in science with my students. They would love it," replied Amanda. "I'll have to do it as a project then."

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And so they finally go on their first date! Sorry about the short author's note but I've lost my phone as in my parents took it away.

Thanks for reading and please comment what you loved about this chapter! What do you think is going to happen after the date? Bye until the next chapter!