the kissing gate | simanda ✓

21. papers

Simon grinned at Amanda, who was talking to him through FaceTime, while a break from all filming of America's got Talent was in progress. Amanda had been completely ready for bed while she was talking to him as it was almost ten o'clock in England while it was an eight hour difference in Los Angeles.

Amanda yawned as she talked to her boyfriend which prompted Simon to say, "go to bed, darling."

"I might as well go to sleep. Love you, darling," Amanda said in reply. She blew him an air kiss. "Goodnight."

"Love you too, 'Manda," Simon responded and he blew her an air kiss as well. "I'll talk to you tomorrow."

Amanda disconnected the call and Simon grinned again. Amanda had called him, faithfully, everyday at least twice a day since he had gotten to Los Angeles. It helped to keep him less stressed because he got to see his girlfriend and they would try to be intimate in the morning in Los Angeles time, so that consisted of them masturbating in front of each other.

It really did help Simon that he was still being intimate with Amanda even though they were far away from each other. The other judges, Howie, Mel B, and Heidi noticed the change in Simon but whenever they asked him why he was so happy, Simon wouldn't answer them.

"Who're you talking to?" Mel asked, leaning over to look at Simon's phone screen which was shut off.

"Who has you acting like that, Simon?" Heidi questioned. "You've never acted like that with other women."

"Probably a new girlfriend," Howie guessed. "I act like that with my wife still."

Simon blushed, almost like a school boy, and answered, "my girlfriend."

"You finally have a girlfriend?" The two women, Heidi and Mel B, of the panel said in unison.

"How long has this woman been with you?" Howie asked as Simon turned his phone on and brought up a picture of Amanda.

"How the bloody hell does she even put up with you?" Mel asked, laughing a bit.

"Amanda and I have been dating for four months and I'm guessing she puts up with me, in your words, because of my skills in bed," Simon replied without missing a beat, causing Mel to blush and the two women to high five.

"You've been intimate with her already?" Howie asked, leaning to see the picture of Amanda. Simon showed him the picture and showed it to Heidi and Mel.

"Many times. We started dating after we had a one night stand six months ago now," Simon replied, adding a detail that made Howie blush.

Mel asked, "did you get her pregnant and that's why you're dating?"

"No, Amanda's not pregnant and we haven't talked about children because she can't have anymore because of something that happened when she had her daughter Hollie. We're dating because we have crushes on each other and we love each other," Simon replied.

"Have you said that you love her other than calling her?" Heidi inquired.

"No, not yet. We say that we're falling in love with each other instead."

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When Simon and Amanda had been dating for four months, Simon was finally able to take a look at the papers that Eric's nanny had given him from Lauren on giving Simon full custody of their son. Simon read through all of the papers on the plane ride home from filming America's got Talent in Los Angeles.

Some of the things were confusing to Simon and he would have to hire someone to help him understand them. It was clear to him that Lauren somehow forgot that he had the America's got Talent live shows to do in the summer and he was going to be busy all summer. He would have to break it to her that they wouldn't be able to do family things for Eric's sake because he, Eric, Amanda and her daughters were going to be in America after June.

The live shows for Britain's got Talent was coming up soon anyways with only a couple of weeks left before the semi-finals. He and Amanda were planning on elaborating that they had been dating for four months now and the interview of them had been filmed when they had only started dating in February.

Simon was going to ask Amanda if she wanted to go on the X Factor audition tour with him and Eric and if she said yes, Hollie and Lexi were going to come with them.

When Simon had told Amanda that he was going to get full custody of his son, Eric, she was just as shocked as he had been when Lauren told him the news. Amanda told him that if Simon had to fight for his son for some reason, she was going to help him. Amanda treated Eric like she had given birth to him herself, thus treating him like one of her own children.

She was helping him understand some of the aspects of the total custody that he was going to have with Eric. They wanted to see if they could do shared custody so Eric would be Amanda's child as well as Simon was hoping to ask Amanda to move in with him when they hit the six month mark in their relationship. Simon didn't know if it was possible because Amanda wasn't his partner, just his girlfriend.

The papers were already filled out with Lauren's information but she had left Eric's information blank so Simon could fill it out along with his own. It was so confusing for him and Simon was grateful for Amanda's help but there was only so much that they could do with the papers by themselves.

Simon wrote down his information in the papers on the plane and did Eric's at home after he put his son to bed. Simon was going to be much less stressed when he got the little break that he had in between America's got Talent and Britain's got Talent and X Factor because it meant he could spend time with Amanda, her daughters, and his son.

[] hey guys! Sorry for the late update but I was so tired today. It was leg day for horseback riding for me today so my legs ache. So Amanda and Simon haven't talked about children in their future as a couple and what do you think is going to happen next? Did you guys like the other AGT judges' reactions? What did you like about this chapter? Bye until the next chapter!