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On My Mind

Chapter 16

The next morning, Amber's eyes fluttered open slowly. She closed them again while she yawned and stretched her body out. She opened them again, rubbing the morning tears out of her eyes. She flipped over onto her other side and a small smile spread across her face. Dave was slumped awkwardly, half on, half off, of a small chair in the corner of her bedroom. It was sweet that he had stayed with her, just in case. She watched him for a while, taking in his appearance. He woke up maybe twenty minutes after her and jumped up when he saw she was awake.

"Morning. How are you feeling?" He asked as he sat on the side of her bed, moving her bangs off her forehead which made her smile.

"Fine. You?" She asked, scooting over and dragged him to lay next to her.

"Better now that your awake. I was worried sick about you." He said with one arm slung around her. They were both laying on their side, facing each other.

Amber reached up and ran one of her hands through his hair. "I'm so glad you guys showed up. I don't know how I can ever thank you."

"You don't have to do anything. We care about you more than anything. We helped you because needed to, not for your thanks." He said, his thumb making small circle against her hip.

"I was so surprised when Paul walked in." She said after a moment of silence.

"Me too. I was shocked when he called and told me to get down there. It makes me wonder why he was even in town to begin with." Dave said, still not comfortable with Paul after all he'd put him through.

"Dave, why don't you like him?" She asked curiously.

Dave sighed and stilled his hand. "He's just done some shitty things. He is incredibly selfish and only wants something from you when it benefits him."

"But he's changed. I know I don't know him as well as you, but I have talked to him a couple times. He really regrets what went down between you two." She said, still rubbing his hair. "He just wants to be your friend again Dave."

The sweet and innocent way Amber said those nice things about Paul made Dave want to give him another chance. It was hard to look past the things that had happened in the past but Dave was willing to rebuild their friendship, slowly and carefully. "Enough about Paul." He said and Amber smiled. She leaned forward and placed a gently, soft kiss on Dave's lips. The kiss wasn't eager and rough but instead slow, loving and showed they were just happy to be with each other.

They stayed like that for almost an hour, just talking in soft voices and laughing. Amber got out of bed and took a long shower where she scrubbed her skin until it was almost raw while Dave sat in the living room, watching TV, waiting for her. She got out of the shower, dried her hair and straightened it and applied minimal makeup. She changed into khaki shorts, a lavender cotton, loose, flowy spaghetti strap tank top. She walked into brown flip flops and walked into the living room. Dave immediately got up and embraced her in a hug. Ever since he got that call from Paul last night, he just wanted to be as close to her as possible and Amber felt the same way. They interlocked their hands and walked out the front door and over John's place.

Dave walked in first without knocking and pulled Amber in behind him. The walked into the living room to find John and Paul on the couch dieing of laughter. It brought a smile onto Amber's face. She liked seeing them getting to know each other. While she knew barely anything about Paul, she got the feeling from him that he made a lot of mistakes in the past couple of years and was sorry about them, but no one would give him the time of day to start over. She just hopes Dave realizes that people make mistakes and sometimes you just have to forgive them for it.

"Hey guys." She said, waving with the hand that wasn't attached the Dave's. They both looked up immediately and jumped off the couch. Paul stayed by the couch but John took like three steps and embraced her in a big hug.

"I'm so happy to see you." He said stepping back a little to look her over. "You're alright right?"

She smiled and nodded her head after she tilted it to the side. "I'm fine. Thanks to you."

"I'd love to take credit for that. But I'm afraid it was all Paul." John said unselfishly.

She looked past John to see Paul. He had a small smile on his face and she walked toward him. He seemed a bit shocked when she hugged him but soon bent over a bit and returned the hug. "Thank you so much." She whispered in his ear. He didn't say anything just gave her a reassuring squeeze. He let go and she soon followed. She dropped her arms to her sides and smiled at the boys. "Well I have to get to work." I could feel Paul's confused stare connect with me and I saw Dave and John share perplexed looks.

"Not to sound like your father, but you're not going to work." John said with his hands on his hips. She smiled simply.

"I have to."

Dave shook his head negatively. "You definitely don't."

She looked at him. "Uh, yeah I do. I can't just never go in again."

"Oh yeah," John said, crossing his arms over his chest in what was supposed to be an intimidating stance. "Why's that?"

She stared at them for a second, not understanding. "Cause I have things of mine that are there. I need to pick them up. Besides my car is there."

"Oh" All three men said at the same time.

"So whose coming with me?" She asked, clapping her hands together.

Dave and Amber arrived at Amber's office roughly a half hour later. Dave stood as close to her as possible , like a body guard, with her hand tightly in his, wanting to protect her in an instant if he needed to. Once they got off on the right floor, Amber was very friendly to everyone as they walked to her desk. She put some boxes that we had brought on her desk and started piling stuff on it. She told Dave to take a seat and just wait for her, it wouldn't take that long.

Amber chatted with Dave as she took things out of her drawers and into the boxes. She had more stuff than she remembered unpacking.

"Amber?" She heard and she looked up. She smiled when she saw it was Ally.

"Hey girl!" Amber said, walking around her desk and Dave to get to her friend to give her a hug.

"How are you?" Ally asked after they released each other from their hug

"I'm good, how are you?" She asked, making her way back to her desk to finish packing everything.

"Good." Ally said and looked at her with a weird look. "Are you leaving?"

Amber looked up and offered her old friend a sad smile. "Yeah, this job just isn't working out." She said, not really ready to tell her what had happened.

"I'm sorry." Ally said guiltily.

"Don't be sorry. I actually want to thank you for getting me this job in the first place. It allowed me to get some money in." She said thankfully. Ally nodded and looked at Dave, then back at Amber. Amber laughed. "Oh, Ally, this is Dave, Dave this is Ally." She said, introducing the two.

"Nice to me you, I've heard a lot about you." Dave said politely, shaking her hand.

"Wish I could say the same." She said laughing and immediately stopped laughing when Dave stood up. He sure was big.

"Alright, well I think I'm about done here." Amber said, closing the last box.

"Alright, well I guess just give me a call when you have a chance." Ally said with a smile. Amber nodded and they embraced in one last hug before Ally left to go get back to work on the other side of the office. "It's kinda strange that you know who isn't here." Amber said to Dave about David Marks, not wanting to say his name, as they each grabbed a box and made their way to the elevator.

"Yeah, well, Paul and John did a number on him. He's probably home recovering." Dave said with a laugh as they walked onto the elevator. Amber smiled and looked up at Dave at the same moment he looked down at her. He slowly moved his head down, and she moved hers up a bit and they gave each other a simple kiss on the lips and smiled like teenagers after while looking at each other.