the kissing gate | simanda ✓

37. planning

"What does it say, love?" Simon asked, wrapping his arms around Amanda's waist as she held the pregnancy test upside down in her hands. Amanda flipped it over so it showed the result and she looked at what it said.

"Negative," Amanda sighed. "I'm not pregnant."

"Don't get upset by it, love. We've only been trying for a month so far," Simon responded. Simon released his arms from Amanda's waist and she threw out the negative pregnancy test in the trash bin of the hotel's bathroom. Today had been auditions for Britain's got Talent and it had also been a month since Simon and Amanda had begun to try to get pregnant and have a baby. They had told Alesha and David that they were trying to get pregnant. Alesha and David then asked if Simon and Amanda had gotten engaged yet and they could finally answer that they were.

Alesha was going to be in their room in a couple of minutes with Beatrix to help Amanda start to plan for the wedding. Amanda hadn't even begun to think of who she wanted to be her bridesmaids and how many she wanted. Simon and Amanda hadn't really even begun to plan at all aside from the fact that they were trying to find wedding bands for themselves. Simon was going to go into David and Alesha's room to try and plan who he wanted to be his groomsmen and his best man.

"I know," Amanda replied, "but I want a baby before I can't have any children with you."

"And it will happen. I can try to promise you that," Simon responded.

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Alesha and Amanda sat on the bed with wedding magazines spread out in front of them. Beatrix had been set up with a couple of toys on the floor but she was currently on her mother's lap, helping her to paw through the magazines.

"Have you decided on a date yet with Simon, Mandy?" Alesha asked, looking up from the magazine that she was flipping through.

"I think we are going to go with a wedding in April if we can plan fast enough, May if we can't have our wedding in April," Amanda answered. She and Simon had talked over when they wanted to have the wedding and they had both agreed on a spring wedding in either April or May. They hadn't chosen a date yet but they wanted to be married before the live shows for Britain's got Talent that year. It seemed doable in their minds since Amanda had been married twice before she had gotten engaged to Simon and had planned two weddings so she knew what she was doing.

"That sounds pretty," Alesha commented. "Who do you think you want to be in the wedding party with you and Simon?"

"We haven't really talked it over much but we both agreed we want our children to be in the wedding with us. Lexi is going to be a junior bridesmaid, Hollie is going to be our flower girl, and Eric is going to be our ring bearer," Amanda replied. "They've all been part of our relationship since day one of it."

"David and I both said the same thing when we decided that Azura was going to be our flower girl with Beatrix helping her," Alesha replied. Alesha held up the magazine and she pointed at one of the pictures of a flower bouquet meant to be used for a spring wedding. "How about this for your flowers?"

"I don't know. I don't like it very much. I haven't given flowers much thought because I've been too busy looking for a dress for me and dresses for the girls," Amanda responded.

"Have you picked out a dress you love?" Alesha asked in reply. Amanda shook her head no and she looked down at the magazine she was looking through for ideas. She pointed at handmade signs that said a random couple's names on it and had the day that they were going to be married beneath their names.

"This is a cute idea. Do you think Simon would go for it?" Amanda asked, avoiding the question of if she had picked out a dress that she loved. She hadn't found a dress that she loved yet and she couldn't find one that she at least liked well enough to consider it. "I think I need help with picking out my dress because I've had no luck at all."

"I think Simon would like it. Do you want me to go dress shopping with you when we go back to London? It might be better to have someone else with a different opinion," Alesha replied.

"I would love it if you would go with me. I'm tempted to bring Lexi and Hollie with me and pick out their dresses as well," Amanda said. She closed the magazine and put it onto the nightstand by the bed. Alesha closed her magazine and Beatrix got to her feet, unsteadily and walked to Amanda on the bed. She fell into Amanda's lap and started giggling.

"This is why me and Simon are trying to get pregnant. We want a baby together and we'll have moments like this," Amanda spoke. Beatrix settled into Amanda's lap and she started to play with Amanda's hands, giggling away and making Alesha laugh.

"I swear she loves you just as much as she loves me, maybe more sometimes," Alesha laughed. Amanda laughed and she got Beatrix to stop clapping her hands together, making the little girl frown and look very much like her mother.

"You're her mummy. She loves you more than me because you feed her. She looks so much like you than she does David," Amanda replied. Beatrix yawned and she began to lean her head into Amanda's arm as she cradled the little girl in her lap.

"Someone's getting sleepy. I should bring her back to my room and give her a bath, a feed, and put her to bed," Alesha said and she picked Beatrix off of Amanda's lap.

"You're still breastfeeding her?" Amanda asked. She got up of the bed and gathered the magazines that they had spread over it to look at, putting them in a stack on the nightstand.

"Yes because it helps her to settle down before bed. That's the only time I still breastfeed. She's almost weaned though. I can't wait to help you find the perfect dress to walk down the aisle in," Alesha replied. She stood up and put the tired Beatrix on her hip.

"Neither can I," Amanda responded.

[] hey guys! So simanda is planning their wedding! I thought I would be too tired to do an update tonight because I was at a horse show and in the ER last night. What do you think is going to happen next and what did you love about this chapter? Bye until the next chapter!