i'm gonna love you through it | alemanda ✔

[chapter seven]

Amanda

I WOKE UP WITH my head on Alesha's bare chest. We had made love for the first time and had done it until the middle of the night when I became too tired to do anything but kiss Alesha so that was when we went to sleep. It had been the best date I had gone on in years and we had finished it by making love to each other, thus I made love to another woman for the first time ever.

I felt a kiss on my forehead and looked up to see that Alesha was awake.

"Morning, babe," she said.

"Morning. Babe?" I asked her, arching an eyebrow at her.

"Yes. I figured I would give you a pet name," Alesha replied, kissing my forehead again. "How much longer do we have to stay in bed until we have to get ready for deliberations?"

"We have to get ready now," I responded to her question. "Are we going to tell Simon and David about us and my breast cancer?"

"We can and if you want to," Alesha replied.

I pushed the covers off of us and I got out of bed. My wrists and in between my legs were sore because of how long we had been making love last night. Alesha stayed in bed and watched me go into her bathroom.

We had to get ready for deliberations for BGT this year and Alesha and I had woken up a little bit late so I was forced to rush. I turned on the shower and stepped into it when it was warm, quickly washing my body and my hair.

I got out of the shower and saw Alesha in the bathroom. She was waiting for me to get out so she could get in.

"Towel?" Alesha asked, handing me a large towel and I wrapped it underneath my armpits.

"Thank you," I replied, giving her a quick peck as my girlfriend got into the shower. Alesha had gotten out her blow dryer and a curling wand for me to use.

I picked up the blow dryer and turned it on. I used Alesha's hairbrush and dried my hair using the blow dryer. As soon as my hair was dry, I began to curl it using the curling wand. Alesha knew that I loved having my hair curled if it was at my shoulders and that I loved having it straight when I had extensions in.

Alesha had chosen to let her hair be completely natural this year so it was curly mess if she didn't brush it out completely, which she tended to do for BGT because she loved to look of it.

When Alesha was doing her hair, I got dressed so I was ready before Alesha was.

《h.d.》

Simon picked Alesha and I up at her house and he didn't question that I had been at her house. Instead, it was David that questioned us because he had already been picked up by Simon.

"Why were you at Alesha's house, Amanda?" He asked, turning around in the passenger seat so he could face us.

"Umm," I paused, looking at Alesha for help. She nodded that we should tell them so I said, "Alesha's my girlfriend so I spent the night at her house."

"Girlfriend? Are you two dating finally?" Simon asked, chuckling as he drove.

"Yes and what do you mean finally?" I responded.

"It was obvious that you have crushes on each other, Mandy! Simon and I were waiting to see how long it would take you two to date," David replied.

"So how long have you been dating?" Simon interjected.

"We've been dating for a week," Alesha replied. "We started to date the day that Amanda found out..." She trailed off, leaving me to complete the sentence.

"Ever since I was diagnosed with breast cancer," I finished.

"When did you first think that you have breast cancer?" David asked me.

"Ever since January but I was too busy to go in to have the lump in my right breast checked by a doctor," I replied. "And I found out that it was cancer last week."

"A nipple sparing double mastectomy if they can save my nipples and then a few rounds of chemotherapy," I answered him.

《h.d.》

Deliberations had gone well, though we disagreed on a few acts that we couldn't decide as a group that should go through to the live shows in June.

We agreed to not put the acts through because there had been better ones than them. We told the acts if they were through or not, the one part that I hated to do.

I hated telling people that were good that they wouldn't be going through to the live shows and Alesha hated it as well. We loved saying yes to those that were amazing because of their reactions and Simon loved to tease them by stalling telling them that they were though and sounding like the acts weren't.

Alesha and I left deliberations both feeling happy because we had told Simon and David about us and I had told them about my cancer. I had been dreading telling them that I had breast cancer but it had went well. I figured at least one of them would tear up about it but neither man did.

I told them when I was getting the nipple saving mastectomy which was at the end of the week when Alesha and I had been dating for two weeks. Our daughters would be home from their father's houses and would be accompanying us to the hospital on the day of the surgery.

I hadn't let Alesha know how nervous I was about getting such a major surgery and I was going to lose a part of myself. I was going to lose the part of me that helped me to feel like a woman.I knew that Alesha would be by my side the entire time so that made me a little less nervous.

《a.a.》

Hey guys! I'm at a spaghetti dinner for my school's band and chorus. This is like the only time I have to be able to put up a new chapter today. We have been blasting songs and singing along earlier.

So how do you think Amanda's mastomecty is going to go? How do you think she and Alesha are going to react to it? Please tell me if you liked this chapter! Bye until the next chapter!