Sorry it took so long for this chapter to get up I was working on sum other stuff and FF.net got all screwy…..and here is it please R&R

Amanda walked hastily up to the room she was sharing with Lucy and Ruthie, and on the way she bumps into Matt.

"Hey what's hurry? Where's the fire?" He jokes

Amanda looks confused "What fire?" She asks

"It was a joke….hey are you ok?"

"I will be if everyone would stop asking me that question!"

"You've been talking to my dad huh?"

"And your mom and Robbie." Amanada adds pointedly

"Point taken….."

"Yet you still want to know." Amanda states

"Well……"

"Unbelievable! Your entire family can't stay out of someone's business."

"Hey wait, I didn't mean it, I mean yea. I mean I just cared and I wanted to help." Matt tries to defend himself

"Forget it." Amanda huffs running up the stairs

"Amanda!" Lucy says when Amanda runs into the room

"I don't want to talk. I'm going to sleep." Amanda pronounces as she goes to the bed made up for her.

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"Good morning or should I says Good afternoon?" Annie greets Amanda as she shuffles down the stairs the next day.

"Do you know?"

"Yes I do" Annie answers Amanda.

"Good, then we don't need to talk." Amanda takes a seat. "Does Simon know?"

"Yes he does."

"Who else does?" Amanda asks curtly

"No one does, it none of anyone else's business."

"No. Plain and simple my life is only my business."

"There's more isn't there?" Annie asks as Amanda avoids eye contact.

"Isn't there always more to life." Amanda replies going upstairs, to get showered and dressed.

She returned downstairs about an hour later. Tells Annie she is going for a walk and hurries out the door. Amanda walks into the park and idly sits on a park thinking about her life for the past couple weeks.

"The Rev, is going to try to make you talk to him sooner or later."

Amanda looks up as Simon takes a seat next to her.

"How long have you been out here?"

"What time is it?" She asks

"4:30."

"Over an hour then." Amanda answers

"That's about how long I've been looking for you, Mom said you woke up at like two."

"I was up at 12, I was thinking til two."

"Is that what you were doing now? Thinking?" Simon asks

"Yes."

"About what?"

"Everything. I feel like I can't get out of my own head."

"I know the feeling. So your mom called this morning, Lucy answered the phone."

"What'd she say?" Amanda questions

"That she hasn't seem Rick in so long and that'll she'll have plenty of time to see Robbie since he lives so close by and you obviously….so she's staying there for a few more days."

"Figures, Rick is her favorite baby."

"I doubt that, you obviously the favorite. So anyway I was going out to find you and my mom says to track you down and bring you to your house to get some more clothes for yourself." Simon tells her.

"Then lets go." Amanda gets up and smiles brightly.

Simon laughs. "I don't know how you do it."

"Do what?"

"You go through all this crap, and your still smiling."

"Only when I'm around you Simon."

"Good" He takes her hand and leads her in the direction of her apartment.

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"Hey can I use your phone?" Simon asks as Amanda packs up some clothes.

"Sure, calling your house?"

"No my friend just beeped me, says it's important." Simon replies

"Phone's in the kitchen." Amanda calls

Simon goes into the kitchen and makes the call. "Hey Amanda!" Simon says walking into her room

"What's up? Everything ok?" She asks going through her closet.

"Better then ok." He goes over to her and grabs her in his arms. "You want to go out tonight? I already called my mom she said it was ok."

"Where?"

"To a party, some guys are having, they said to bring you."

"Why? And you mom said it was ok to go to a party."

"Because they said it's time for Simon to make his cameo appearance with his girl. And my mom said it was ok for me and you to go and hang out at a friends house, so you could meet some new people. Which in a way this wasn't entirely a lie."

"Ohh your bad Simon Camden" Amanda giggles giving him a kiss. "Let me change and then we'll go."

"My mom is coming to pick us up and drop me off at my friends and they're going to bring us over. So bring the clothes you want to wear to the party with you, so my mom wont figure it out."

"All right give me a second." She goes back over to her closet and Simon grabs her bag and goes outside.

"Hello Amanda." Annie says as Amanda climbs into the car.

"Hi." Amanda answers softly

"OK Simon who's house again?" Annie asks

"Jay's"

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"Have fun you two and thank Jay's mom for giving you guys a ride home later." Annie calls as she pulls away from the curb.

"Simon Camden, what's up man?" Jay says opening the door.

"Hey Jay, this is Amanda."

"Hello Amanda. Come on in, Mike, Nikki and Lori are all here."

They all go inside. "Guys this is Amanda and you all know Simon."

They all respond with a hello or hey.

"Uh Jay where's you bathroom." Amanda asks

"Come on I'll show you." Jay motions her to follow him

"Hey Simon, so that's your girlfriend." Lori asks

"Yea, she had to change, my mom dropped us off here."

"Oh you little rebels you." Nikki jokes

"You guys ready to go?" Amanda asks five minutes later when she's done changing.

"Damn." Mike whispers under his breath. Amanda was dressed in form fitting black bell-bottoms, with a baby blue tube top underneath a long sleeve sheer black shirt.

"Hey you look great!" Nikki exclaims

"Thanks" Amanda smiles sincerely

"All right let's go." Jay makes a sweeping motion with his hands.

"You look awesome" Simon whispers in Amanda's ear as he takes her hand as they walk out to the car.

"You don't look so bad yourself." She smiles

"Yea Jay lent me a shirt I wasn't exactly dressed for a party." Simon answers tugging at his shirt.

"I'll have to thank Jay later then."

"For what?"

"Making you look so good." She answers climbing into the car.

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"All right" Jay says before they go into the house. "I have to leave here by 11:00, so I beat my parents home if you guys want a ride back with me, meet me by my car then. Got it? Great let's go have some fun."

"Want to dance?" Simon asks

"Yes." Amanda answers following him out onto the dance floor.

They start to dance, catching the attention of Mike and Nikki. "Hey Nik check out Camden and his girl."

"Yea, there really working it." She smiles "Simon seems happy with her."

"Yea he is. He likes her a lot."

"Hey anyone want a drink?" A guy interrupts them holding some cans of beer.

"Sure." Mike and Nikki each grab one and the guy continues making his way around the room

"Beer?" He asks Simon and Amanda.

"Thanks" Amanda grabs one, Simon follows

"I didn't think you drank." Simon tells her

"You mean cause of what happened?"

"Yea."

Amanda taps the top "Closed drink." She pops it open and takes a drink.

Simon does the same with his.

About an hour and a half later, someone yells for everyone to get out, because the cops were coming. Simon and Amanda meet up with Nikki, Mike, Lori and Jay at the car and get out of there just before the cops pull up.

"Holy crap that's an adrenaline rush!" Mike exclaims

"You're not kidding." Simon agrees

"So Amanda, how was this for you first Glenoak party?" Jay asks

"Kind of like the ones we had in New York except there was usually no warning with the cops." She answers

"Whoa, what happened?"

"Well, about two weeks before I moved out here, we were at this party on a dock, and these two guys got so drunk that they fell in, some girl freaked and called for an ambulance but didn't tell anyone, so they ambulance and cops pull up cause she mentioned they were fighting and we all got busted."

"You get into trouble?" Lori asks

"Am I in Glenoak?" Amanda laughs "I'm kidding, I was pretty out of it myself, so my friend Ryan got me out of there. Some people did get into a whole lot of trouble though."

Jay chuckles as he pulls into his driveway "Well it's only 10, so we can have our own little party right here for an hour." He suggests

Everyone agrees and they all go inside.

"Damn Jay it's freezing in your house." Amanda comments as they girls go into the kitchen to make some drinks.

"Here" He throws her a sweatshirt from a closet.

"Thanks" She replies putting it on and sitting next to Simon on the couch.

"Did you have fun?" Simon asks

"Yea I did, did you?"

"Yea, mainly cause you were with me."

"Thank you." Amanda gives him a kiss.

"So did you always go to parties like that back in New York?"

"My mom was never home, I hated being alone all the time and my friends were always at parties…so that's where I was." Amanda shrugs "It just became like a way of life for me."

"Come on, we're going to do shots downstairs." Mike calls

"Let's go see what there doing down there." Amanda suggests getting up.

Amanda was almost at the bottom of the stairs when Mike started to joke around and tickled Nikki, since she was drunk, she jerked forward and fell into Simon, who stumbled forward and hit into Amanda causing her to stumble down the remaining steps landing hard on her knee.

"I am so sorry." Nikki exclaims rushing over to Amanda. "Are you OK? Mike your an idiot!"

"Hey I'm sorry, but I'm not the one that's wasted."

"Bite me." Nikki retorts "Can you stand up?"

"You OK?" SImon goes to Amanda.

"My knee hurts." Amanda groans. "A lot"

"We should take her to the hospital" Nikki says "Her knee may be fractured."

"Since when did you become Ms. Know it all?" Mike asks

"Since my mom is a doctor." Nikki answers

"Maybe she's right" Simon says "It looks pretty bad."

"Are you kidding we're going to get busted for drinking then" Mike exclaims

"No, just Simon, Amanda and Jay go. They had the least to drink, go take a swig of Listerine before you go too, they won't notice a thing." Nikki instructs.

"All right come on." Simon helps Amanda up, but her knee buckles under the pressure. " Jay help me get her up the stairs."

"All right" Jay grabs her "You guys put away all those drinks and then get out, lock my door before you leave too." He instructs

"Wait before we go I should change back into my jeans at least." Amanda protests

"We should just get you to the hospital" Simon says

"No, Simon she's right." Jay replies

"I'll help her." Lori says "You guys go get the car ready."

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"Easy." Jay says as they help Amanda sit in a chair in the waiting room. "I'll go get someone to help us."

"How much does it hurt?" Simon asks

"A ton." Amanda answers pained

"She's over here." They hear Jay say as a nurse comes over with a wheelchair.

"Easy does it sweetie." She says, then to Simon "Go and call your parents and make sure someone from her family comes with them."

"OK I'll be right back." Simon goes to the pay phone.

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Simon hangs up the phone and Matt spots him. "What are you doing here Simon?"

"Uh there was an accident, but everything is ok. Dad and Robbie are coming down here now."

"Why Dad and Robbie? Did Amanda get hurt?"

"We were fooling around at a friends house and she fell down some stairs." Simon explains

"What room is she in?"

"Over here. But she's not going to be happy to see you, you didn't give her the best impression of you the other day." Simon warns

"Matt, what are you doing in here?" Dr. Jenkins asks

"Simon is my brother and Amanda is his girlfriend." He explains "How is she?"

"She fractured her knee. It must of been a nasty fall." Dr. Jenkins answers

"Try three people tripping and me at the bottom." Amanda laughs

"Tripping? What do you mean tripping."

"Don't get so paranoid Matt. Her friend tickled his girlfriend and she reacted hitting into Simon and causing this lovely lady to plummet down the remaining steps and fall right on her knee. A graceful fall I would imagine." He jokes

"To say in the least." Amanda smiles

"Ray left?" Simon asks noticing his absence

"Yes, he said he was sorry, but he had to get home, but to call him tomorrow." Amanda answers

"OK well I'm going to get you some crutches, a nice brace for that knee and some pain killers because you will most definitely be needing those." Dr. Jenkins says getting up.

"Thanks." Amanda calls

"Amanda what happened?" Robbie rushes in with Eric.

"I fell down the stairs at Jay's house." Amanda replies "Fractured my knee"

"She already saw the doctor?" Eric asks Matt

"He's getting her crutches a brace and pain killers at this very moment." Matt answers

"Well now that there are a multiple of people in here, is anyone family?" Dr. Jenkins asks

"I am." Robbie replies

"Good then you need to fill this out." He hands him a chart and goes to work putting a brace on Amanda's knee. "OK painkillers no more then 3 times a day and at least 3 hours apart one at a time, keep some ice on your knee for swelling, and try to stay off it for the rest of the weekend. Come back in a week so I can check how it's healing. Thank you all and good night." Dr. Jenkins says handing Amanda her crutches

"I'll go get the car." Eric leaves.

"I got to get back to work, I'll see you guys tonight." Matt walks out the door.

"This sucks" Amanda groans

"What your knee?" Robbie asks

"No, now everyone is going to be trying to 'talk' to her now." Simon answers for her.

"Yea well we need to, and we need to talk about you drinking tonight too." Robbie adds

Amanda looks surprised "How did you know? And why didn't you say anything?"

"I didn't say anything cause your my sister, now there daughter, so it's not there place to know. And I knew because I'm not an idiot."

"What does that mean?" Amanda makes a face.

"Glassy eyes, listerine breath, four people don't just fall on the stairs, and I know when your lying." Robbie counts them off. "Come on let's go."

"Robbie." Amanda says

"What?" He turns "And don't try to get out of this, I'm here now and things are going to change, we're going to be a family again and-"

"I'm sorry Robbie."

To be continued please R&R and I'm not sure but I can't review stories rite now from my comp. So if it isn't working for you I still want to hear your review so email it to me. Italianangel1438@hotmail.com