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SummerlandDegrassifan1817: Thanks! I really like writing this one, it's pretty different from my P.O.T.F. ones, but maybe not that different, oh well. LOL Glad ya liked it!
Amanda waited, while the phone rang. It rang at least seven times before the answering machine came on. "Hi, you've reached Drake and Amanda's." Drake's voice said, "We can't come to the phone right now, so leave a message, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible." Amanda's voice said.
Amanda couldn't leave a message it would be too weird, so she hung up the phone, and flashed back to when she and Drake recorded the message:
Amanda and Drake where sitting in their apartment trying to record the message on the machine.
"Amanda," Drake started, "Do we really have to do this? Why can't we just leave the automated one?"
"Because, only boring weird people leave the automated one." she answered
"Josh has the automated one."
Amanda stared at him
"I see your point."
Amanda and Drake laughed.
"Amanda? Amanda, are you O.K?" Alyson said interrupting her flashback.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine." Amanda answered
"So, did you call him?"
"He wasn't home, I got the machine,"
"Oh, bummer, well, try again soon."
"O.K."
About twenty minutes later, Amanda was driving herself crazy thinking about why he didn't answer the phone. 'Was he dead?' 'Was he with Chelsea?' These were the thought that Amanda couldn't handle. She finally got so sick of thinking those things that she had to call him again.
Amanda listened to the ringing of the phone until it stopped and someone answered.
"Hello?" a woman's voice said
Amanda was speechless, that voice was so familiar, so unforgettable that Amanda almost fainted,
"Hello?" The woman said again
Amanda thought her ears where deceiving her before, but now she was sure, the voice was Chelsea's. Amanda couldn't breathe, she tried, but she couldn't, she just stood there. She wasn't sure what to feel, she couldn't feel anything, it was so unreal, that she felt nothing, not furious, not distraught, nothing.
"Hello?" Chelsea said, this time sternly
Amanda finally found the strength to push the button to hang up the phone.
"Did he answer?" Alyson asked anxiously.
"Um, no, machine again." Amanda said
"Oh, well, there's always later," Alyson said, optimistically
"Yeah," Amanda said
Alyson put her arm around her and they joined Mindy in the living room.
Meanwhile:
A/N: This is what was going on at Drake's while Amanda was calling and hanging up, LOL
Drake stood at the mantle staring in nostalgia at the pictures of he and Amanda, and listening to their song, "What a wonderful world" when he realized how tired he was, then he realized how tired he was, so he decided to lay down on the couch, and take a nap. Drake had a horrible dream while napping, in the dream he was watching what was going on between he and Amanda from across the room, like he was someone else watching them from another table:
He and Amanda were sitting together in a coffee shop. Amanda started yelling at him, then she got up and left. Drake tried to follow her, but she was hit by a bus, then as she was dying, Drake knelt to her side, and he last words were, "Drake, just leave me alone. Forever." then her head fell back, and she died.
Drake awoke abruptly to the sound of someone knocking on the door.
"Holy God," he said to himself. He couldn't believe that he had dreamed she died, and on her death bed, she told him to leave her alone forever.
He slowly went to answer the door. He prayed that it was Amanda, but, sadly it wasn't.
"Yes?" he said, opening the door, to reveal Chelsea.
"Hey, is Amanda here? I need her advice on an outfit," Chelsea said
"No, she's not," Drake said
"Oh, well, so my visit isn't totally wasted, do you have that CD that I lent you, a week ago?"
"Yeah, hold on. I'll go and get it."
Drake left the living room, and went into their bedroom.
Chelsea stood in the living room, she looked around and saw all of the pictures of them together. She particularly liked their wedding picture. She went to the mantle and picked it up, when the phone rang.
"Hey, do you want me to get that?" Chelsea called back to Drake
"Yeah, would you?" he answered
Chelsea felt weird about answering someone else's phone, but, she didn't have much of another choice.
"Hello?" Chelsea said
No one answered, Chelsea listened to see if anyone was going to say anything, but nothing.
"Hello?" she said again
This time, there was a long silence, then Chelsea said 'Hello?' one last time, then the person on the other line finally hung up.
"Who was it?" Drake said, handing her the CD
"I don't know, they hung up."
"Oh, O.K., well, talk to you later." Drake said
"Bye," Chelsea said
Drake went back to staring at the pictures of them together
Back at Alyson's:
Alyson, Mindy, and Amanda all sat in the living room. Mindy was talking about Josh, and Alyson was talking about her boyfriend Ricky. Amanda was so lost in her thoughts, she couldn't talk, so she said absolutely nothing.
"What about you, Amanda?" Mindy said.
"Huh? Um….no." Amanda said
"What? I ask you how long you and Drake have been together and you say 'no.'?" Mindy said
"Oh, um, six years, but we've only been married for two." she answered
"Cool," Mindy and Alyson said
Amanda went back to being lost in her thoughts, then the phone rang.