A/N – "Thoughts"

Chapter 22 – Life Goes On

Jason rested his head against his palm, rolled his eyes, and drummed his fingers of his other hand on the tabletop as he listened to Rebecca and Amanda gossiping. He was glad that the three of them were still friends but there were times when he just wanted to be alone with his girlfriend.

Looking over at his girlfriend, he tried hard to hide the goofy smile that threatened to spread across his face. She was wearing a light pink gown that fell to her ankles, with long sleeves and a sweeping neckline, and had a pair of matching heels. Amanda had on a minimal amount of make-up and the only jewelry she had on was a pair of diamond tear drop earrings and one of her mother's pearl necklaces.

As they were talking, Rebecca glanced across the table and grinned. "Need a napkin Jase?"

Amanda looked over at him and watched Jason glared back across the table at Rebecca. Not missing a beat, "No but I wish I brought my sunglasses for you highlights," Jason quickly countered.

For the wedding, Rebecca had decided to change her hair from its normal light brown to a dark shade of blonde, just something different she had said. Unfortunately, she had left the dye in too long and instead of changing it to a dirty blonde or honey blonde, it made it platinum blonde. With her light skin tone, like her mother's, it made it really stand out and it didn't help that she had chosen to wear a dark blue dress. It didn't look bad but it was noticeable, especially to people who had been so use to seeing her with darker hair.

Of course Jason hadn't let up on her from the first moment he saw her and even Amanda had gotten in a few shots too. But Rebecca gave as good has she got. Their sarcastic banter back and forth had been one of the first signs that the tension was easing between the three of them and all three, even though none of them would admit it, had missed it.

"You got a death wish little boy?" Rebecca threatened. She then turned to Amanda, "Can't you keep him under control? If he keeps it up," she quickly turned back to Jason, narrowing her eyes at him, "you may not have a groom at your wedding."

Amanda rolled her eyes as Rebecca glared at a grinning Jason. While things had gotten better between them, they may never, and probably won't ever, get back to the way they were and the three of them had accepted that. They were ready to put all the drama in the past and after all the problems they worked through in the past year, their friendship seemed to come out stronger.

Jason was about to shoot off another wise crack when they where interrupted. The MC had announced that the bride was going to toss the bouquet and Jason snickered softly at how excited the girls got about it. Jason watched as the herd of girls, as he put it, gathered on the dance floor a few feet away from Caitlyn. Leaning back in his chair, he folded his arms across his chest and waited to watch the on coming dogpile to get a bunch of flowers.

Just as Caitlyn turned around, she caught Jason's eye and he could almost swear, she smirked at him. "What the hell was that?" he thought to himself as he suddenly got a sense of impending doom. Sitting up straighter, he watched Caitlyn toss the bouquet over her shoulder. Except it had a weird flight pattern; instead of Caitlyn just flinging it over her shoulder to whoever, she seemed to have a target in mind. Than as if in slow motion, Jason groaned as he realized who the target was, "Amanda."

As Rebecca and Amanda, with the bouquet, came back to the table, Rebecca laughed at Jason. Amanda just walked back with a small smile as she glanced down at the flowers in her hands. Rebecca started laughing harder as Jason rolled his eyes. "Why me?" Jason thought as he bit his tongue and not wanting to give Rebecca more ammo.

The MC broke his thoughts as he called for all the single guys to come out for the groom to throw the garter belt. Before he could react Rebecca grabbed his wrists and practically flung him forward out of his chair. As he stumbled forward he glared back at a wildly grinning Rebecca.

Jason looked around at the other guys in the crowd and felt like a shrimp in the sea of linebackers. Even though he was like twice their size, there was no way he was going to let them touch Amanda. Jason watched the groom turn around and toss the garter over his shoulder. He watched it fly through the air but just as he was about to move, one of the larger guys snatched it out of the air.

As the other guys jeered the one who caught it, Jason walked off with a scowl.

Walking past each other, Amanda smiled at him but Jason just walked past her with the scowl still on his face. Reaching his table, he turned around and folded his arms across his chest.

Not being able to resist, "Nice catch," Rebecca teased and she snickered as she watched Jason's jaw twitch. "Jealous?" she asked sarcastically and grinned when Jason's head slowly turned towards her and he glared. Jason knew he had nothing to worry about but his ego was getting the better of him, especially as he watched the other guy slip the garter belt up Amanda's leg.

Still amused by all this, Rebecca leaned over and whispered into his ear, "I think you could take him. You may be small but your quick."

Having enough, "Do you ever shut up?" Jason snapped at her.

"I'm just making up for lost time." Rebecca was having way too much fun teasing him as Amanda came back to them. "Having fun being the center of attention?" she asked Amanda sarcastically.

Amanda just glared back at her and reaching Jason, immediately knowing the look on his face, wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a deep kiss. As they kissed, Rebecca made gagging noises, "I think I'm gonna hurl."

Breaking the kiss, Jason looked at her and smirked, "I'd insult you back but your highlights are giving me a headache."

Rebecca playfully shoved Jason's head back and laughed. "Alright, I can tell you two love birds wanna be alone. The cute blonde over there looks like he wants to dance, I'm gonna go fulfill his wish." With that Rebecca made her way across the room as Amanda snickered at her best friends new aggressive behavior.

"So how was it?" Jason finally asked.

Amanda shrugged, "Odd and kinda disgusting." She then leaned in and whispered into his ear, "The only man's hands I want on me are yours. Wanna help me take it off?" she giggled as she watched his ears turn bright red in embarrassment. "Your cute when your flustered," she said after kissing his cheek and toying with his hair.

A few minutes later, they were standing by the head table and Jason was nervously watching her toy with the bouquet. "You don't actually believe in that silly superstition, do you?"

Amanda smirked, dragging it out a bit before she gave him an answer, "That we're next to get married? No. We've got a long ways to go before we get married."

"We do? You sound like you got this whole thing planned out."

"I do," she deadpanned and giggled softly at his expression, "I've been dreaming up our wedding since we were little. Normally, most girls don't know who'll the groom will be, but I knew." She smiled at him, "It won't be as lavish as this, I'm not like my sister. Your mom will make my dress; I've seen the old photos of hers and I want one exactly like it. It'll be small and I haven't decided yet if it'll be Jewish or Christian."

Amanda grinned as some of the color drained from his face. Giggling a little, "Relax, I'm just messin with you." Her grin widened as Jason let out a deep breath. "I've thought about it but I don't have every exact detail planned out."

"Don't I get say in it?" he asked.

"Nope," she said with a laugh. "All your doing is showing up and saying I do."

"Oh really, and if I don't?"

Amanda playfully glared at him, "You really want to find out?"

Jason smirked at her, "No, not really." He than leaned over and kissed her.

Smiling a little as she watched the wedding cake being pulled out, "Although, I may have you do something after all," she said and then pointed at the cake, "I mean pastries are a Gordon specialty," she teased.

Jason grabbed her by the waist and pulled her to him, so that they were face to face, "One of many," he told her with a suggestive grin, to which Amanda grinned back.

"Can I ask you something?" Jason nodded and Amanda rested her forehead against his, "Do you think we'll get this far?" she asked, meaning the wedding that was going on around them, "I mean with college, growing up," she trailed off as she looked down.

Jason took a breath, considering it for a moment, "I don't know. I mean, I hope we do but that's like at least four years from now. Right now, after everything that's happened, I want to focus on now. Finishing High School, lookin forward to college, and having fun this summer," he then grinned at her when she looked up at him, "preferably some of it alone with my girlfriend," he said sarcastically.

Amanda arched an eyebrow at him, "Alone? And what exactly do you have in mind?" she teased back.

"You'll just have to wait and see," he told her and gave her a small kiss.

Amanda smiled at him, "There's something else."

"Oh god," he said melodramatically. "What now?"

Using her heels, she kicked him in the shin, "Shut up and listen before I change my mind." Loping her arms around his neck, she smiled at him as she looked into his eyes, "I love you," she had been wanting to tell him that for a very long time but with everything, she had been really nervous about telling him those simple three words. Watching the soft smile that tugged on Jason's lips, she knew she didn't have to be.

"I love you too."

Amanda noticed Jason's eyes shift to the left for a moment and then come back to hers. Rolling her eyes, "Way to ruin a moment Gordon. Go get your stupid cake," she said sarcastically.

Jason gave her a goofy half grin, "Thanks. You're the best girlfriend."

"I know, I know. Now go." She giggled to herself as she watched him practically run over there like a little boy, "And bring me back a piece," she yelled after him.