mermaid 》 alemanda ✔

chapter seventeen.

alesha

Tech week was more exhausting than normal for the drama club for me because I was stressed, I was kept up at night crying and I would be restless if I fell asleep crying. I could tell that my sleep patterns and stress were affecting Amanda as well.

She had bags under her eyes that she hid with her makeup but she would cuddle me and kiss me to no end until I was comforted and fell asleep. It had been like this for the past two weeks, ever since I had moved into her flat and we had shagged for the first time last night.

Amanda wrapped her arms around me as I attempted to conduct the band, restricting my movement and forcing me to stop conducting. I turned around and grinned when I saw that it was her that had disturbed me. Simon had asked me to conduct a part that the pit band was struggling with even though opening night was going to be tomorrow night. They had no other trouble with the music except for that one section.

Amanda kissed my cheek and she let go of my waist. "Am I interrupting something?" She asked grinning at me.

"Yes!" I replied. "That sounded better and it's probably the best it will be now, Simon."

"Thanks, Alesha," Simon responded. Amanda and I went back to the seats we had been in to watch the dress rehearsal and once Amanda was comfortable in her seat, I leaned my body against her. My head rested against her chest and I could feel her heartbeat.

I smiled at the sound and Amanda leaned down to kiss me on the forehead. She still hadn't stopped wearing the heavy foundation to cover her port-wine stain at school but she had stopped wearing it at home after I kept telling her that she looked beautiful without the makeup on.

Amanda blushed everytime that I told her that she looked beautiful and the blush would be clearly visible through her foundation if I said it enough or was affectionate enough with her in front of students. We cuddled as we watched the dress rehearsal run all the way through the rest of the way without stopping.

Rehearsal went well but it left Amanda and I tired. We couldn't wait to get back home to our flat and get into bed to cuddle more. I grabbed my stuff from the music department's office and I went to Amanda's classroom.

"Ready to go, babe?" I asked. I saw Amanda blush as she closed her laptop and put it into the case.

"Yeah. I just had to finish a few last minute things," she replied. "There was a little trouble with the printing company that we're ordering the playbills from. They had deleted the file I sent last week to print by accident."

"Did they fix it?"

"They managed to but the playbills won't be here until opening night now," Amanda replied as she put her laptop into her backpack. "I can't wait for the musical to be over."

"Neither can I. Some of the members are beginning to get ideas from us I think. I went backstage and a few people were cuddling and kissing," I replied. Amanda laughed, sounding almost witch-like with it.

"They must be then," she agreed. She slung her back over her back and she walked up to me, shutting the lights off in the classroom. "I'm ready to go now."

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We arrived back to our flat later than normal and we had picked up takeout for us to eat instead of making an actual dinner. I logged onto my laptop, an old PC computer that could only hold a charge for about two hours that I had had since university. The computer was close to ten years old but it still somehow worked.