Chapter 8

"Can I breathe?" Amanda asked Cody.

"I am pretty sure you are," he said with a smirk.

"No, I mean really, you can't be by my side all the time."

Juli watched them as they went back and forth.

"I'm just hanging out. It wasn't even like I was talking to you." He said pouting.

"Fine, I'm sorry." She said giving into the pout.

He smiled. "How about I order in lunch?"

"Sounds like a plan." Amanda said watching him leave the room and sighing.

"He really likes you," Juli said turning the pages of her magazine.

"Shut up. I know and I can't tell him I made a date with Evan."

"What?" Juli said looking up at her in shock. "Dude you are so becoming a rat."

"I don't think of it like that. If these guys lived in our town I'd just be fucking guys and not be a rat."

"This is different."

"How will it be any different if you fuck Dustin?"

"It is because I'm not fucking them all at the same time."

"If Cody thought I was a rat he wouldn't want me." She said as she looked at the tv and changed the channel.

"Cody doesn't know that you will fuck Evan." Juli retorted.

"And he won't find out."

"How exactly do you think you can hide that from him?"

"I haven't exactly figured it out yet."

"Well when is your date?" Juli asked.

"Tomorrow," Amanda said looking back at her.

"Than you better figure that out pretty quickly," Juli said looking back down at her magazine shaking her head.

"How could you not think that today was perfect?" Cody asked Amanda looking over at her in their bed.

"It was fine."

"Just fine, I did everything I possibly could do for you today."

Turning over she looked at him. "You have to stop trying so hard. It is going to push me away and I know you don't want that to happen."

"So, I'm laying it on too thick a little bit to early?" he asked.

"Yes." She said turning back over and closing her eyes.

"I'll try I promise," he said.

"Good. Now, shut up and go to sleep."

"I don't know what to do about Amanda."

"Why what did she do now?" Ted asked lying on Juli as she stroked his hair.

"She isn't telling Cody she has another date tomorrow night."

"With Randy?" he asked.

"No with someone else."

He groaned, "Oh man we are so never going to hear the end of that if he finds out."

"I know. I don't know how she is going to keep it a secret from him. He knows her every move. Did you know he hid in the bathroom last night in Randy's hotel room?"

"He what?" Ted asked shocked as he turned around to look at her.

"Yeah, Randy was sleeping and he she heard a noise from the bathroom. When she went in there Cody was on the floor."

"I've never seen him like this before. He either really likes her or he is just obsessed with her and Amanda is just making herself look like a rat."

"I tried to tell her that but she argued with me that if we we're back home that if she was sleeping with the guys from around there she wouldn't be a rat."

"That's true," he said tilting his head at her, "but this is somewhat different."

"I tried to tell her that too and she threw Dustin in my face."

"But you didn't sleep with Dustin."

"No, I didn't but the two of them believe that you will hurt me and I'll end up with Dustin."

"Baby," he began looking up into her eyes, "do you believe that?"

"I don't want to," she said.

He moved up so he was lying next to her and put his arms around her. "You have to believe me that I won't." He took her hand and placed it on his heart and than he placed his hand on her heart. "Do you feel my heart beating?" He asked and she nodded in reply. "This is the effect that you have on me. You make my heart beat faster when I am near you and I can feel how fast I make yours beat. No one has ever made me feel that way not even Kristen. So, please don't doubt me what we have I will never have this with anybody else."

Moving her hand she snuggled in closer to him and took a deep breathe. "My heart believes you and that is all that matters."