How To Write Music For Two: A JBD Love Story

[Rabbitheart]

Meanwhile, inside his apartment, Toothless was pacing around, furious with Chry. Seeing Amanda Lynn flee not long after things were out had broken his heart. He fell forwards against a wall and propped himself up by his arms in a push-up position, then set his head against the wall, gritting his teeth angrily. He started moving his head and his tiny horns started making small gauges in the wall.
Sighing in frustration, he turned around and leaned his back against the wall let his head fall back against the wall and groaned, "Augh!" then let out another frustrated sigh. Felt like kicking or punching something, heck, he even felt like crying right about now. Chry had spoiled everything, he knew there wasn't a chance in this world that they could possibly end up together now.
The memory of Amanda Lynn fleeing was burned in his mind, searing his heart and made his eyes tear up. He tried to hold them at bay, but it was no use and too late for him to force the tears back. Silently, he cried. Eyes closed as the tears rolled down his face uninterrupted.
By the time he had finished crying, he plucked up some sort courage or spirit...or something to go pick up his cell phone and called his friend, Whimsic.
"Hey! Toothless! What's up? How are you? Wanna come over and play some video games or watch Frozen?" Whimsic's loud voice greeted Toothless, he cringed at bit at the mention of the movie, remembering how happy he'd been earlier today before the incident with Chry.
"No thanks Whimsic," Toothless began, knowing his current state was probably very evident in his voice. "I watched that today with Amanda."
"That's great! So you two are going out now then, right?"
"Uh, no,"
"What do you mean no? Dude, just freaking tell her that you love her and be done with it!" Toothless reflexively moved his phone away from his ear when the volume of Whimsic's voice went up several notches.
"I can't...things got complicated..." he told him, sighing heavily as he flopped down on his black couch.
"What the heck do you mean things got complicated? Has she started dating someone else?"
"No, no, it isn't that,"
"Then what the heck is it?"
"Chry,"
"What the heck does Chry have to do with this?"
"She complicated things between me and Amanda Lynn today," he scowled just thinking about it.
"How?"
"We had just come back after our...um...outing, and she was there waiting for us," he began, taking in a deep breath in before relating what had happened.
"Well that's definitely not great," Whimsic admitted, his tone becoming pensive, as if mulling things over in his mind. "but I still say you just ask her out. I mean the worst she can say is no, right? I mean, look what happened with me and Vinnie when I tried that. Just, take a leap of faith dude. Just think 'What the heck!' and go for it!"
Toothless nodded his head, agreeing with what Whimsic said, yet still having doubts. "Alright, I'll keep what you said in mind, thank's Whimsic," he said, then ended the call, snapping the phone shut. He sighed heavily once more and let himself fall backwards on the couch, he brought his hands up to his face and rubbed them over it.
"Ugh, I don't know if I can take this much strain on my heart much longer," he said to himself, feeling very weary. "I'll ask her in the morning maybe, I think I need to sleep on this or something."
Maybe a good night's sleep will give me a new perspective on things, he thought to himself as he heaved himself off the couch to go get ready to go to bed.

➴ ❤➶

[Rabbitheart]

During the same time that Toothless going through his anguish, Amanda Lynn was dealing with her emotional turmoil as well. Sitting with her back against the wall of the hall, right across from the door to Toothless' apartment. She felt like the door was silently mocking her, goading her to come over and knock on it while simultaneously telling her that she didn't have the guts to do it.
The door was right...and she knew it. Burying her face in her hands, she let out a strangled sound of frustration, then she lifted her head up and threw it against the wall behind her, dropping her hands down to her thighs as she did so.
What's wrong with me? Why the heck can't I do this? She thought angrily, wanting to hit herself or something. Half of her heart wanted desperately, more anything right now, for her to go up to the door, knock, and talk to Toothless about what had happened; but the other half of her heart didn't want her to. It was terrified of heartbreak and didn't want her to cause it to experience the pain again.
Not with Toothless. She couldn't handle to have her heart broken by him, knew that deep inside to the very roots of her heart. It would break her more than anything because she loved him so much and she knew that she would never be able to love another like she loved Toothless.
She sat there for a long while, staring ahead at the door while her emotions churned violently inside her. The two halves of her heart warring with each other in a fight for dominance. Whichever side won, would determine what her next step would be. Turn tail and run back to her apartment and in her room, or to knock on Toothless' door and risk everything.
Unfortunately for her, in the end, the battle was won by the half of her heart that didn't want another heartbreak. Releasing a sigh that was part relief and mostly deep regret, she got up and walked back to her apartment.

She came in like a storm, not even glancing to see if Chry was still on the couch before going into her bedroom and locking the door behind her. She grabbed her mandolin case and sat down on her bed, opened it up, and removed the beautiful instrument held within it. She sat on her bed for a long time, feeling hopeless. She didn't know what to play, so she plucked at a couple strings, creating a random tune, eventually the tune morphed into a mandolin rendition of "Do You Want To Build A Snowman?" which caused her lips to quirk up at slightly in a sad, sorrowful way.
With a sigh, she placed the mandolin back in its case, snapped it shut, and put it on the floor before lying back on her bed so she was looking up at the ceiling.
Why couldn't I just knock on that door? She sighed, feeling trapped and stupid. Why couldn't I just go and knock on the door? At the very least knock on it?
"Ugh," she roared, covering her face with her hands. "This is going to haunt me for the rest of my life."
She rolled over onto her side and looked at the door, frowning. She released a heavy breath, reached over to the dock for her iPod Nano and turned it on. As the music played, she let the tears that were welling in her eyes do what they wished.
I'm definitely not going to sleep well tonight,she thought to herself as she closed her eyes and let herself wallow in self-pity and anguish.

➴ ❤➶

Toothless put his paw under Amanda Lynn's chin and lifted it up, using his other paw to wipe away her tears, "I love you, Amanda," he said, leaning in to kiss her.
Amanda Lynn couldn't believe that this was finally happening. He loved her, Toothless loved her too and she was finally having that first kiss she'd always dreamed about having with him. It was even better than how she had dreamed it would be.
At the sound of her hum of delight, Toothless moved one of his hands to hold her at her waist while the other one moved to the back of her head to kiss her further.
Amanda Lynn broke the kiss for a moment to breathe, nuzzling Toothless affectionately. "I've been wanting to tell you how much I love you for so long, I'm so glad that you feel the same," she said, smiling up at him.
Toothless felt his breath taken away by just how beautiful and cute Amanda Lynn was, "I'm sorry I made you wait so long baby," he told her, nuzzling her, kissing her neck. "I shouldn't have made you wait this long tell you, I was just...so afraid that you wouldn't be interested in me."
"So was I," Amanda Lynn admitted, kissing him back passionately. "I love you so much Toothless,"
"I love you sweetie," he said, hugging her closer as joyfully dived back into kissing her beautiful mouth. "I love you more than words can adequately express," he said when he broke it to breathe again.
"I just hope this isn't a dream," Amanda Lynn said, looking back up at Toothless, tears starting to well up in her eyes. "Please don't let this be a dream Toothless," she begged, burying her face in his neck.
Toothless held her tightly, close to him as he kissed the top of her head and then moved her face to look at him. "It's not baby, I swear, it's real, I love you and I want to be with you for the rest of our lives," he said, repeatedly kissing her face reassuringly.
"So do I," Amanda Lynn replied, kissing him back, giggling. "Gosh, I love you so much, I just want to kiss you forever Toothless,"
Toothless chuckled, "So do I baby," he said, kissing her passionately again. "I don't know if I want this moment to ever end."
Toothless broke their kiss for a minute, "Baby, if I had a ring ready, I'd propose to you right now," he told her, kissing her nose, then rubbing it with his.
Amanda Lynn giggled, absolutely giddy with excitement and joy. She enthusiastically kissed him back on the nose as well. "I wish you would, I don't know if I want to wait, we're meant to be, I can feel it, I don't know if I want to wait to date, I mean, we've been friends for so long, I feel we don't need to date,"
"True, but I still want to be your boyfriend for awhile before we get married," Toothless chuckled, kissing her.

[Rabbitheart]

Amanda Lynn awoke with a start, looking around to see where Toothless was. Disappointment crashed in around her when she realized that he wasn't there, she felt tears well in her eyes. It was a dream. She felt tears welling up in her eyes again, which still violently burned from her crying earlier.
She looked over at her iPod dock, the clock on it read 10:23 pm, causing her to groan. I guess it's too early to have breakfast then, she thought, going back under the covers to go back to sleep. I was right though...this is going to haunt me, she had to find a way to get it to stop haunting her, but it seemed as if all hope was lost. There was no way to repair what had happened, she lacked the resolve to even try to approach Toothless again today. She might as well just go back to sleep and hope that tomorrow would somehow be better.
She decided to let the music play, it was probably the only thing that could lull her to sleep besides her crying, even if she felt like she was torturing herself with playing the soundtrack to Frozen on shuffle and repeat. She sighed and rolled over, grabbing hold of her stuffed animal giraffe named Matt that she had had since she was a little girl.
Why did things have to turn so sour today? Everything had been going so well before Chry decided to mess around with us, she thought glumly, hugging Matt even tighter. That dream was beautiful though, I just wish it had been real.

➴ ❤➶

Toothless awoke to the sound of knocking, reluctantly, he got out of his bed and went over to answer the door, opening it to see Amanda Lynn. "Amanda," he said in surprise.
"Toothless," Amanda began, "I've been meaning to tell you this for forever, I love you!" She declared, biting her lip, feeling embarrassed now that she had said it.
Toothless stared at Amanda Lynn in shock, he just stood there gaping in surprise, but when he saw her tears, he rushed over and held her. "I love you Amanda, I've been wanting to tell you for a long time too," he told her, kissing her tenderly. "Please don't cry baby, it's okay," he told her, continuing to bush her face with butterfly soft kisses.
I'm sorry, I don't know why I'm crying," Amanda Lynn told him, wiping them away, feeling embarrassed about crying after her declaration of love. "I guess I'm just really happy,"
"I am too sweetie," Toothless told her, holding her close, kissing her atop her head. "I'm about ready to cry tears of joy too, I'm so relieved to know that you feel the same way about me that I do about you."
Amanda Lynn wiped the tears away and looked up at Toothless, the instant their eyes met, he leaned his head in and kissed her on the lips, causing her to gasp in surprise and delight, kissing him back. Every time she broke to breathe, she would say his name or tell him that she loved him again.
"It's so great to finally be able to say that I love you," Toothless said when he had taken a break from their kiss to breathe, holding her closer to him, not wanting to let her go or let this moment slip through his paws. He wanted to enjoy and savor this amazing moment to the fullest extent, kiss her and tell her how much he loved her over and over again.
"I agree," Amanda Lynn said, wrapping her arms around Toothless, hugging him. "Do you want to continue kissing? Or shall we start doing something else?"
Toothless contemplated this briefly, "I think I'm content to continue kissing you," he told, giving her a kiss on the nose. "I've been waiting so long to kiss you that I want to enjoy it," he told her, smiling at her.
Toothless smiled, passionately kissing her. "Do you want to sit down on a couch or something so we can be comfortable?"
"Ugh, please do, not all of us want to see you two kissing you know," Chry said, walking through the hall, shaking her head and rolling her eyes.

Chry's interruption caused Toothless's eyes to snap open. He was awake. In bed. He swore under his breath at the realization, scowling at the digital clock on his bedside table that read 10:23 pm. He rolled over onto his back and stared at the ceiling, letting out a tortured groan. He was not going to live through the night, he just knew it. Not if he was going to be haunted by these amazing dreams that all felt and seemed so real. Course Chry had to go and ruin it in his dream just like she had in real life.
He scowled at the ceiling just at the memory of what she had done. I want to go over there and talk to her, but she's probably asleep, he thought, feeling completely helpless. I need to do something, I can't just do nothing.
"I'm clearly not going to get any sleep tonight anyway," he grumbled to himself.
But what should I do? I can't just go over there. It's 10:23 at night, she's not going to be up.
If she feels the same way about you that you do about her, then she might be, his inner voice said.
Toothless shook his head, violently trying to get rid of the hope. He couldn't possibly get that lucky. But I suppose there's no harm in trying. I could knock on her door and if she doesn't open up, I'll just turn around and come back. Yeah. That'll work. I'll do that. He got up out of bed and went over to change into something resembling a decent outfit, then opened the door and stepped into the hallway.

[Rabbitheart]

Each step he took towards Amanda Lynn's door felt like a shot at his confidence, his earlier resolve being gauged into until he felt like a high school student again, about to try and ask the prettiest girl in his class or on campus to go to the dance with him as his date. Vulnerable and ready for complete and utter rejection.
He stood at the door, fist poised to knock on the door. He took a deep breath in, steeling himself, then exhaled before knocking several times on the door.

➴ ❤➶

Amanda Lynn raised her head and looked around, she heard the sound of knocking, it sounded like it was coming from her front door. She got out of bed and opened the door to her bedroom, waiting in the doorway for the knocks to continue. When they did, she noticed that Chry was coming out of her bedroom.
Amanda shot her a look. "Don't you dare, I'm answering it. You've caused enough trouble for one day."
Amanda Lynn traipsed over to the door and opened it. It was Toothless.
"Um, hi," he greeted her, giving her that awkward smile that melted her heart ever time because it reminded her so much of his namesake's.
"What's up? It's like...10:30 at night."
"Um, yeah, it is, isn't it?" he chuckled nervously, his left arm going behind his head to rub the back of his neck. "I wanted to talk to you about something."
"Can't it wait for morning?" she asked, laughing.
"Uh...no. I don't think it can,"
"Why not?"
"I don't think I'll...have the same courage I have right now to talk to you about it," he admitted.
"Ummm...okay," Amanda said, closing the door behind her and stepping into the hall with him. "What do you want to talk to me about then?"
"About what happened earlier,"
"I don't want to talk about it," Amanda Lynn said quickly, harsher than she meant and she had no idea what had cause it to come out so reflexively.
"Oh," he looked at her in shock, he hadn't been expecting that response at all. "Um, okay. If you don't want to talk about it, then, I guess I'll just go," he said, pointing in the general direction of his apartment.
"Well, it depends on what you want to talk about," she told him hastily, desperate for him not to leave.
"Okay, what do you want?"
You, it's you that I want, just. All of you. She thought, her heart aching. "I...don't know, I just...don't want to talk about Chry right now," she told him, giving him a halfhearted laugh.
"Yeah, neither do I, but then that's not who or what I came here for," he said, chuckling softly.
"Okay, then what's up?"
"Well, I don't know how to say this..."
"Tell me anything, and I won't run away, no matter what you say and I swear that I won't get mad," she told him, giving him a bright smile. On the inside though, she was terrified of what he was going to say to her.
"I just wanted to tell you that I really do like you," he had returned to rubbing the back of his neck as he talked, clearly feeling uneasy.
Oh no, she thought in horror.I hear a 'but' coming, that must mean that he doesn't love me. He's going to friendzone me! "O-o-okay."
"I just don't want things to become awkward between us because of what happened, or make you think that I would've never told you how I feel about you if Chry hadn't done what she did earlier,"
"Okay...." Amanda Lynn wasn't sure where he was going with this.
"But I don't think we can be friends anymore," he told her, sighing heavily.
"Oh, okay," Amanda nodded slowly, sadly. She could feel the tears coming, she didn't even trust her voice not to break if she were to ask him why.
"The reason why we can't be friends anymore-" he broke off as a tear rolled down Amanda Lynn's cheek, causing something in his heart just melt and make him do what seemed to be the most natural thing in the world. He hugged her, then drew back, chuckling as he gently lifted her chin up with one hand while wiping the tear away from her cheek with the other. Then he smiled at her. "The reason why is because I love you more than a friend should, I want to more than you friend, more than a best friend too. I want to be you boyfriend, your mate, your husband, I want to be everything you need, I could be so good at loving you, but only if you told me to," he lips quirked as he imputed the country song reference he knew she'd know.
"Do you mean that?"
"I do. I don't want to look back and regret never saying a word and letting you go, maybe this'll be something I'll never be, but I'll be right here til you tell me Amanda," he told her smiling at her.
She laughed, "Cheat, you took that from Hunter Hayes,"
"Yeah, I did," he admitted, smiling at her wryly. "But I meant every single word of it."
"Good," she said, beaming at him. "Because there's something that I've been meaning to tell you as well."
"What is it?" Toothless felt uncertain, he'd bore his heart to her, but she hadn't said that she loved him or not.
"It's you that I want, all of you. I want to hear your heart, every single beating part of it, both the good and the bad. It's you I want, just all of you," she said, smiling at him. "And I've been wanting it for a long time,"
Toothless smiled, "Then it's yours, all of me, all of my heart," he told her, leaning in to kiss her.
Amanda Lynn was blown away by the kiss. Their first kiss. It was definitely better than she had dreamed it would be, sparks seemed to fly and she felt like the world just stopped. She wanted to sing every single love song in existence, to dance around giddily like a fool and smile forever.
As they kissed they both knew that their lives would never be the same ever again. And that was good thing.

[Rabbitheart]

Amanda Lynn woke up excited, she couldn't wait to be with Toothless again. They had been together for several months and she still felt the same way she did about seeing him as she did when they had finally gotten together. She flew out of bed, got dressed, and brushed her fur, ready for whatever they were going to do together this morning. When she heard a knock at the door, she rushed over and opened it and grinned at Toothless who stood there, giving her his charming awkward half-smile.
"Toothless," she said, giving him a kiss. "It's so great to see you again, come in sweetie."
"Thanks Amanda," she noticed something seemed different about his demeanor...something was different...off even. He hugged her and brought her over to the couch and sat her down. "Sweetheart, we...we...we need to talk."
Oh no, Amanda thought in horror. No, no, no, please no. Please don't let this be over so soon, please don't let this be the part where we break up.
She watched him, eyes open wide as she nodded slowly. Toothless took a deep breath, making Amanda nervous and afraid. "Sweetie, I'm pregnant."
"You're...what?" Amanda Lynn gave him a look of absolute confusion, completely thrown off-balance. "Y-y-you can't be."
"I am," he told her solemnly. "I'm pregnant with our baby."
Amanda Lynn stared at him, dazed, as he leaned his head in to kiss her affectionately on the nose.
"But, but how? How does that even work?" She was completely befuddled, if anyone was supposed to be pregnant it should be her.
He chuckled and kissed her again, this time on the forehead. "It doesn't need to make sense sweetheart, it just is."
Amanda Lynn reluctantly pulled away from Toothless, "I really love you Toothless, I love you so very, very, very much, but I'm sorry," she told him, feeling tears roll down her eyes. "I'm sorry, I-I-I'm afraid that I just can't accept this - can't accept that what you're telling me is true."
"But,"
"No, I think...I think you need to go," she said, biting her lip. "If you can't take this, take us seriously, I think that you should go. We're done. We're through."
It killed her to say it, but she didn't find this funny in the least bit and she couldn't believe that he would do such a thing to her, make her think he was pregnant. It just wasn't possible, so he had to be lying.
"But, Amanda," he pleaded, or at least attempted to.
"No. Just. go Toothless. Just go," she turned around so her back was facing him so he couldn't see the tears rolling down her cheeks. It broke her heart to be doing this, she loved him dearly, but this was just completely unacceptable.

➴ ❤➶

With a sigh of defeat, he got up and left, looking behind him at her longingly. Wanting so very badly to wrap his arms around her and comfort her, to tell her that he was telling the truth and that everything he was saying was true. But it was obvious she wouldn't believe him. He'd come back later with the proof and things would be better...hopefully.

[Rabbitheart]

[Since my laptop got taken away and I was inspired to continue this story, I'm going to write it on my DSi. All errors will be corrected once I get my laptop back on Tuesday. :3 ]

THE NEXT CHAPTER

"Now I've got you in my space, I won't let go of you. Got you shackled in my embrace, I'm latching onto you" - "Latch" by Disclosure

"We should listen to each others hearts, fall in love and never part, we can make it happen, if you brought that action" - "My Baby" by Zendaya

Toothless and Amanda Lynn held onto one another, locked in their embrace, neither one daring to let go. At long last, it was out...their love for one another. It was official, no longer a hope or a dream, or even just a wish that each of them had held in their hearts for what seemed like forever. This was real, at long last.
Amanda Lynn giggled, "Think we should tell Chry?"
Toothless chuckled, "Hahaha, nah. We should let her suffer a little, especially after what she did," he told her, smiling at her wryly, "If you don't want to go back and face her, you can stay in my apartment for the night, I have an extra room you can crash in."
Amanda Lynn smiled, "I'd love that, besides, she deserves to sweat over where I went," she felt so evil saying that, but right now, she was too displeased with her roommate to care.


Amanda Lynn awoke the next morning to one of her current favorite love songs playing on her radio/alarm clock, a song called "Latch" bybDisclosure. She couldn't help herself, she sang along to the song at the top of her lungs, a smile plastered to her face. A smile that couldn't be removed from her face no matter who might have walked in on her singing. To her delight, the song was followed by another favorite love song of hers, "Boom-Clap" by Charlie XCS. She sang along in the same fashion as she had to the previous song and continued to sing into the next two songs, "My Baby" and "Happy."
Definitely the best morning ever, she thought to herself.

[Rabbitheart]

"You enchant me, even when you're not around. If there are boundaries, I will try to knock them down,"

Toothless lay in his bed with a grin on his face a mile wide. He could hear Amanda Lynn singing "Latch" in the other room, loud and clear. He wanted so much to join her in singing, but he wasn't too confident in his own singing voice. Instead, he leaped out of bed in his pjs and walked over to his spare room to go see her.
The sight that met him took his breath away, and the phrase "How do you do it, you're got me losing every breath, what did you give me to make my heart jump out my chest " from the song she was singing along to was definitely a fitting line for what he was thinking and feeling when he saw her.
In a way, the scene reminded him of when they first met, except...it was better. The sunlight pouring intothe room and illuminating everything made everything seem like it were meant for a music video or something and seemed to eminate the feelings of sheer joy, happiness, and love. Toothless grinned as he leaned up against the doorway and watched Amanda Lynn dance around joyously in his spare room. When she spotted him, her smile broadened and she came over and pulled him into the room to dance with her, laughing as she did so.

[Rabbitheart]

Amanda Lynn grinned at Toothless as she danced around the small bedroom with him. When the last song that the radio station played before their commercial break, "Happy," ended, Toothless went over to the radio with Amanda Lynn still in his arms and turned it off, then he lifted Amanda up and sat down on the bed, situating her so that she was sitting atop his lap horizontally. When she wrapped one of her arms around the back of his neck, she pulled him in for a passion-filled kiss.
When they broke the kiss, they nuzzled one another, smiling happily as they did so. The moment was ruined when their stomaches both began to growl, causing them to both break into laughter.
Toothless smiled at Amanda, "I guess we should go have breakfast then," he stated jovially before kissing her on the cheek and then carrying her into the kitchen and set her on her feet before going into the kitchen to fix up some pancakes.

[Rabbitheart]

Version 2 aka the re-vamp