"So are you finally ready to go?" John asked when Amanda finally walked out of the bathroom
"Yes I'm ready." I said when he and Mark stood up
"Finally I'm starving." Mark said
"Sorry daddy, I kind of freaked out for a minute there." Amanda said
"Why did you freak out?" Mark asked
"I looked in the mirror, it has been really hard on me to do since I got back because Brad had a mirror above the bed so I had to look at myself a lot." Amanda said
"Oh I didn't know that." Mark said
"Neither did I, why didn't you say anything?" John asked
"I didn't want anyone to think that I as crazy." Amanda said
"Honey, no one would think you were crazy, Brad had you tied to a bed and was threatening to rape you, I would be afraid of that to." Mark said
"But I'm not afraid of being tied to the bed, I'm afraid of looking at myself in the mirror, I remember what I looked like from those days and it really wasn't pretty." Amanda said
"You are the most beautiful person I have ever met Amanda, don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise or I will have to kill them myself." John said
"I'm with John on that one honey, if anyone ever tells you that you are ugly, we will all kill them." Mark said
"Guys no one was telling me I was ugly, I really began to look it while I was tied up in that room." Amanda said
"Look your home, and it doesn't matter what he did to you, you are safe, and the most beautiful woman in the entire world." John said
"You're just saying that to stay on my good side." Amanda said to John
"No I'm not I'm serious, there is no one in this world that could make me think otherwise." John said
"John I'm glad you said that, because I was going to kill you if you even looked at another girl one second too long, but now that I know you won't I want to go eat." Mark said
"Okay let's go." Amanda said as they got up and walked out of the room and down to the restaurant
"What took you guys so long?" Adam asked when they all had sat down at the table
"Your sister took forever in the bathroom." Mark said
"Oh yeah that sounds like her." Adam said
"Thanks bubby, I don't always take forever in the bathroom." Amanda said
"Whatever, when you're getting ready to do something, you take forever." Adam said
"Sorry babe, but your brother is right, you do when you're getting ready to go somewhere." John said
"Thanks John, I thought you were all hungry and not wanting to pick on me." Amanda said
"We are, let's order so we can eat and let the lovebirds go back to whatever it was they were doing when I interrupted them." Mark said
"Okay." Everyone said and then ordered there food.
"I do have to admit something though." Mark said after everyone had finished eating
"What is that daddy?" Amanda asked
"I had an ulterior motive asking the two of you here tonight." Marksaid
"I figured that daddy but I wasn't going to ask what it was." Amanda said
"Thanks baby, but the reason I brought the both of you here, is for a double celebration." Mark said
"A double celebration?" John asked
"Yes, we were just going to celebrate your engagement but now we have to celebrate Amanda's safe return too." Mark said
"Guys you don't need to celebrate that that is a time in my life that I would love to forget." Amanda said
"I know that honey, but we have to remember that you were gone for 2 months and we didn't know what was going to happen." Mark said
"And we want to celebrate the fact that you came back in one piece and we didn't have to kill him for hurting you in any way." Adam said
"Yeah that is a good point I guess but still." Amanda said
"But still nothing you are going to enjoy this about as much as you would any other type of party in your favor." Mark said
"That would be about the way I'm enjoying it now." Amanda said
"I know you don't like parties but you are just going to have to deal with this one." Mark said
"Thanks daddy." Amanda said taking a drink of the drink her dad sat in front of her and then said "Hey well you all know how much I hate having parties in my favor and the entire restaurant was there telling me how happy they were that I was home."
"Sorry baby." John said
"No you're not." Amanda said
"No your right I'm not sorry." He said grabbing my arm and pulling me out of the booth and towards the door
"Wait John," Mark said
"Oh come on daddy, I want to go to sleep." I moaned
"Sorry sweetie but we have one more surprise for you." Mark said
"What?" Amanda asked them
"Someone wanted to say something to you." Mark said
"Who?" Amanda asked as her one time best friend Jeff Hardy walked up
"Jeff."
"Hi Amanda."
"Hi Jeff."
"Do you guys mind if I borrow Amanda for a few minutes?" Jeff asked the table
"No be our guest." Mark said as John got up to let Amanda out and then her and Jeff walked outside
"Look Amanda I just wanted to tell you congratulations on the engagement and I'm glad you didn't get hurt for those two months that you were gone."
"Thank you Jeff."
"You're welcome, but I need to say something else too."
"What is it Jeff?"
"I'm sorry."
"Jeff I…"
"Let me finish please. I'm sorry for getting mad at you for what Adam did, it had nothing to do with you and I know that and so does Matt he just isn't good with saying sorry but if you are willing to forgive us we would love to be friends with you again."
"Jeff I have been hoping for this for so long I honestly didn't know if I could get married without you there."
"I would be more than happy to be at your wedding."
"Thank you Jeff, I've missed you so much."
"I've missed you to." Jeff said hugging Amanda while she cried
"Okay let's go back inside so you can go to bed." Jeff said
"Okay." Amanda said as we got up and walked back inside
"I will call you tomorrow and let you know if Matt is going to be around anytime soon." Jeff said
"Okay thank you Jeff." Amanda said as they walked back into the restaurant
"So are you ready to go to bed now?" John asked
"Yes I am." Amanda said as John got up to stand next to her
"Goodnight daddy, bubby." Amanda said hugging them both and then walking back to the room with John
"So what did Jeff have to say?" John asked when they got back to the room
"He congratulated me for the engagement and said he was glad I didn't get hurt and then he apologized to me for what happened after Adam and Amy did what they did." Amanda said
"Well at least he apologized." John said as Amanda laid her head on his chest
"Yeah that was something I thought would never happen again, I thought I had lost them for good." Amanda said
"They should never have blamed you for it." John said
"I know that but it's hard to be friends with your ex best friend's sister after what he did, you know Michelle's fear of losing our friendship if she dated Adam and then he cheated on her." Amanda said
"Yeah I remember." John said
"Well that is what happened with Matt and Jeff it killed them knowing that Matt's best friend slept with the woman Matt loved more than anything in the world." Amanda said
"But they still shouldn't have taken it out on you." John said
"I know but that is in the past and they have finally forgiven me so I don't want to think about it anymore I just want to go to sleep." Amanda said
"Okay go to sleep but I have one command first." John said
"A command?" Amanda asked him
"Yeah don't move from this spot." He said
"I think I can handle that." Amanda said and then fell asleep. The next morning Amanda woke up to find John gone so she went to the bathroom to take a shower. When she got out of the shower John was sitting on the bed watching TV.
"So how was your shower?" John asked after Amanda sat down next to him
"The best hot shower I have had in a long time."
"That's really great; your dad was looking for us earlier apparently the front desk told him someone was looking for you." John said
"Oh just what I need, another stalker." Amanda said
"You don't know that it is another stalker." John said
"John did you talk to my dad about the person?" Amanda asked
"No."
"Well then we don't know it could have been another stalker."
"You really shouldn't jump to conclusions."
"After going through what I've gone through I think I have a right to jump to conclusions."
"Not on everything."
"When it comes to people saying they know me, I will jump to as many conclusions as I can, I don't want to be kidnapped again."
"Okay I get your point there."
"Did daddy say that they would come back?"
"No he said they didn't know who it was."
"Oh this is just lovely."
"We will find out who it is sooner or later."
"I hope so."
"We will keep watching for them and you will find out who it was that way."
"Okay I trust you." I said as our phone rang and John got up and answered the phone and then said "The person that knows you is downstairs now."
"Okay lets go see who it is."
"Okay." John said as he and Amanda walked out of there room and downstairs
"Oh god lets go back to the room I don't want him to see me." Amanda said turning around and running to the elevator but it was too late
"Hello Amanda."
"Hello Mike."
"I heard you were kidnapped so I came to see if there was anything I could do to help find you but I guess I don't have to."
"No it's fine my fiancé and my brother found me I've been home for like a month now."
"Well isn't that just lovely."
"Yes it is but I really need to go we have to leave for the next town tomorrow, it was good seeing you though."
"Yeah it was good seeing you to." Mike said as he walked away and Amanda and John went back to their room
"So I take that was who you were afraid of seeing."
"Was it that obvious?"
"Yeah it was."
"Oh lovely I wonder if he noticed?"
"If he didn't he would have been a complete idiot."
"Oh great he is a complete idiot."
"Baby, I'm sure he won't be back no one could be that stupid to not see that you don't want to talk to him again."
"John you don't know him at all."
"And I don't want to know him if you don't like him but you really should cut him some slack he just seemed like he was worried about you."
"Please don't stick up for him John that's just what I need is you making me feel bad and then I have to deal with him for longer than you had planned because trust me he won't leave me alone."
"Baby just talk to the guy."
"John listen to me, he is not the type of guy you want me talking to call my mom and talk to her, she will tell you everything."
"Fine give me my phone and I will."
"Okay." Amanda said handing John his cell phone.
"Hey I have a question for you. Yeah Amanda's friend Mike just stopped by today to tell her that he was worried about her when she was kidnapped and he wanted to see if he could help in any way but she is freaking out and saying that she doesn't want to talk to him do you know why that is? Oh really, wow okay then I understand her point completely. Thank you Linda, I will, talk to you later." John said into the phone before hanging it up
"Okay so I know understand why you don't want to deal with him."
"So are you going to stop pestering me about it?"
"Yes I will leave you alone about it, I will even tell him to stay away from you if you want me to."
"John if that would work I would have told you do that the moment I seen who he was."
"But I just argued with you about it until I talked to your mother."
"Yeah well I would have had you call her sooner."
"Ah but do you realize that we just had our first fight as an engaged couple?"
"We did, didn't we?"
"And you know what has to be done now right."
"And just what is that?"
"We have to make up." John said with a wicked smile on his face
"Ah yeah making up is the best part of fighting." Amanda said with that same wicked smile on her face.
Sorry it took so long to update I had a serious case of writers block along with working and going to school. Please read and review and let me know what you think.