Be243therz: Thanks! I was originally going to write this about a fight her and Drake had, then I changed my mind, and changed the names, so if I missed a few of the names, ignore that, LOL I also called Amanda Matt's wife, which she wasn't. so also ignore that, LOL Glad u like it!

--Britannia

Amanda had officially fallen for him, there was no way around it, but she had. She stared at him and said, "That's only four years," then laughed

"Yep,"

"So, do you like, have a girlfriend…?"

"Nope, do you have a boyfriend?"

"Well, I did, but not anymore,"

"Yeah, the last girl-er-woman I dated, ate horse meat, and I've just been afraid I'll find someone who eats dogs or cats or something like that,"

"She ate horses?"

"Yeah, it had to end there, I love horses,"

"Me too, I've loved riding since I was six years old,"

"So have I,"

Drake turned to Amanda and smiled at her, "Are you re-thinking going back to California, right about now?"

"Yes, very." she said

"Do you still want me to take you there….?"
"Well, there isn't anywhere else for me to stay here, and I want to get out of here, but, I don't know…."

"Well, I'm staying at the Hilton Garden Inn and I'm in room 265,"

"So what are you saying….?"

"Look, I like you, already, and I don't know if this is the best slash most romantic way to say this, but I was wondering if you would go out with me, say, tonight….?"

"Of course," this totally made Amanda's day, she totally was over Matt, even though it had happened about 2 minutes ago, she knew she and Drake were made for each other.

After their date, she completely knew that she was in love with him, even though they had practically just met, she felt like she knew him like an old friend, she continued to date him, day after day. On the day that marked their three week dating anniversary, he and Amanda were walking to his cab.

Amanda went and sat in the back seat, so did he.

"Um, aren't you going to drive…?" she said

"Well, yeah, but I wanted to tell you something first," he said, scooting closer to her

"What?" she said

"Um, even though we have only known each other for a short while, I still think it's enough time to get to know someone well enough, to be able to tell when you've fallen in love with someone,"

"Oh my God," Amanda said, this had to be the happiest she had ever been

"Amanda, I love you," he said

"Drake, I love you too,"

There really wasn't much else to say, they just stared at each other for a really long time, and finally Drake moved in to kiss her, and she leaned back as they kissed. Then he slid her jacket off, and they continued kissing passionately, when there was a loud knock on the cab back window.

"Excuse me!" they heard then another knock,

Drake rolled his eyes, and sighed, as he moved off of Amanda and into the front seat, and opened up the driver's door, "May I help you!" he said, sarcastically, then noticed it was a police officer, and quickly said, "Oh, excuse me, Officer,"

"This car is blocking the exit to this store,"

"Right, I'll move it right away,"

"Thank-you,"

Drake shut the driver's door, and climbed back into the back seat with Amanda, and she said, "As much as I want this, if it were meant to happen right now, we wouldn't have been interrupted,"

"As much as it pains me to says this, you're right," he said

"Thank-you," Amanda said

"For what?"

"Not forcing me into what we were about to do, even though I want to, just not after we were interrupted, I think it was a sign that it's too soon,"

"I would never force you into something like that, because one: I would know you truly didn't want to yet, and that it wouldn't be right, and two: I couldn't do that you, or anyone for that matter, because for one it's wrong, and I'm just not that kind of person,"

"That's good to know. My old boyfriend semi forced me, but I didn't want to tell him that I didn't want to, because I did, sort of, and I just went along with it,"

"Why?"

"Well, like I said, I wasn't really sure what I wanted, but he was, so…"

"You didn't have to do that you know,"

"You've never met Matt, he's a very intimidating person, and it's not like I was raped or anything. And that happened like four months ago, it's in the past, there's nothing I can do about it now,"

"I still can't believe someone would do that to you,"

"Look, I shouldn't have told you, there's nothing we can do,"

"All I'm saying is that-"

"AMANDA!" someone yelled from across the street

"Oh no," Amanda said horribly scared

"Who's that?" Drake said

"Matt," Amanda said in complete panic, "You have to get me out of here!"

"O.K., don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you," Drake said, taking her hand as he stepped out of the cab.

"Amanda, I have done nothing but search for you for these past three weeks! Why did you leave! I can't believe you!" Matt said, then he grabbed Amanda and pulled her away from Drake

Amanda tried to jerk herself free, but Matt was a lot stronger than she was,

"Excuse me, let her go." Drake said

"Um, I don't think so," he said

"Look, she and I are involved, and I don't think you have any right to do what you're doing,"

"You know, why don't you just leave this to her and I, O.k.?"

"I'm afraid I can't do that," Drake said, pulling back his hand, and punching him in the face

Matt flung Amanda as hard as he could, and she landed on her butt on the ground,. She felt like she was going to explode from all the pain she felt right now. When she was sure Matt wasn't watching her, she jumped up, and ran into the coffee shop where she saw a police officer sitting in a chair close to the window.