just a dream | simanda ✔

chapter eight: more coffee

Amanda had said yes to going to Simon's house for coffee. It made Simon feel like cheering because she had said that she would love to to over to his house for coffee.

He let out a quiet whoop of celebration when Amanda left his classroom. It was going to be a more getting to know Amanda better date than an actual date. But it was still technically a date for the two of them.

Simon pumped his fist in the air as he let out the quiet whoop of celebration and spinned in his desk chair. He had been dying to ask Amanda over for coffee or ask her out on a date.

Amanda poked her head back into the doorway and asked, "what time should I come over, Simon?"

"Just after school. We can meet in the parking lot and you can follow me to my house after I pick up my son from nursery school," Simon replied.

"Okay. Sounds good to me," Amanda responded and left the classroom again. She went back into her classroom and pumped both her fists in the air. She had succeeded in having a sort of date with a man, which she hadn't done in over five years.

I can't believe I said yes to him! Amanda thought. Maybe he'll ask me to be his girlfriend sometime.

Amanda's eyes widened when she realized what she had thought. She had thought about becoming Simon's girlfriend. Amanda shook away the thought and blushed. He wouldn't ask her to be his girlfriend. He probably didn't have a crush on her anyways.

Would he ask me to be his girlfriend? Amanda thought. Does he have a crush on me?

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Amanda had followed Simon to his house. she was now sitting at his kitchen table while he made coffee and Eric, his son, was running around the kitchen and occasionally asking Amanda questions.

"Why are you here?" Eric asked. He had already asked this question to Amanda twice so the third time he asked it, she had to laugh. He definitely had his father's teaching brain. Simon would often repeat the question to get different answers to his students.

"Your daddy and I are going to have coffee and talk, Eric," Amanda responded. "He invited me over earlier today."

"Okay," Eric said, running out of the kitchen and into the living room to play.

"You gotta love kids sometimes," Simon said as he sat down and gave Amanda one of the two mugs he had set down on the table.

"We're teachers, Simon. We have to love kids if we're working with them," Amanda replied. "Although somedays, I wonder what went through my head when I decided to become a teacher."

"You must have been insane then," Simon offered.

"Then you're insane too for becoming a teacher," Amanda retorted to him, making him laugh as Simon attempted to take a sip of his coffee without choking from laughter.

"We're both insane," he replied.

"That we are. What made you decide to have a career in teaching, Simon?" Amanda said. She was waiting for him to question why she was wearing the ring on a necklace as it was out over her dress today.

What does that ring signify? Is she engaged or something? Simon thought, eyeing the ring on the chain. Instead he said, "one of my former teachers said that I had a knack for teaching the material better than he did so I decided to try my hand in teaching when I went to university and I ended up liking it. What about you?"

"I love kids so it made sense to me that I should have a career in working with them but I decided that I might not have the patience to teach for kids under the age of three and four," Amanda replied.

"But Eric seems to like you," Simon said.

"That's because I'm not teaching him anything. He wouldn't probably like me if I was his teacher at nursery school," Amanda responded.

"I'm sure he would like you," Simon replied. "I have a question that I want to ask you but it's extremely personal."

"Oh, god. What are you going to ask?" Amanda questioned, although she already knew that Simon was most likely going to ask about the ring on the necklace chain.

"Why are you wearing that ring on a necklace? Are you engaged and that's how you prefer to wear it?" Simon inquired, blushing slightly at how personal the question had been for Amanda.

"My late boyfriend proposed to me five years ago shortly before he left for Syria. I wore it for over two years on my finger before I put it on the necklace chain," she replied.

"How long ago did he pass away?" Simon asked. "You don't have to answer it if you don't want to, Amanda."

"Five years ago around last June. I don't know when for sure because the Army never told me when he was killed in combat," Amanda said. Chris was an emotional topic for her to talk about so she was surprised when she wasn't crying when she was talking to Simon about him.

"Is something wrong," Simon asked.

"No, it's just that my late boyfriend is an emotional topic for me to talk about and I'm usually crying if I talk about him," Amanda responded. "Where's your wife or girlfriend then, Simon?"

"I broke up with my girlfriend when Eric was one, so about two years ago. The stress of a new baby was too much for our relationship and the spark that we had at the beginning went away. She didn't want custody of her son so I got full custody although she does have visiting privileges," Simon answered.

"I'm sorry that you broke up with her. She was probably wonderful," Amanda said.

"I'm sorry about your boyfriend, Amanda," Simon responded. "How did this conversation get so depressing?"

"You asked about the ring on my necklace and I caught you staring at my breasts too, Simon."

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Hello guys! Here's another chapter of Just A Dream and I'm going to be doing NaNoWriMo too! I've entered this story and the sequel I have ready as one whole story so it meets the word count. Now I just have to make it into an original story so some details have to be changed like the names and appearances. Would you guys like to see the original published on wattpad?

Thanks for reading this chapter and I need to do more shameless self-promotion. Go and give I'm Gonna Love You Through It some love because it deserves it. Thanks for reading and please comment what you loved about this chapter and what you think is going to happen next between Amanda and Simon. Bye until next chapter!