So guys this just came to me and well I wanted to share it with you guys. It has nothing to do with Summer of Love and Loss but it stars our two favorite characters. Please tell me what you guys think, if its interesting enough to be continued or if I should go stand in a corner with my head hung in shame. Oh this is also my first attempt at a first person point of view story since Six Years Later and The Here and Now...so bare with me.

I don't own Austin and Ally ):

Not Letting You Slip Away Again

Chapter One: Persistence

Ally's POV

Chewing on the end of my pencil was a nervous habit, well one of many, it had been a terrible idea to look up at the clock. Class was almost over and I still had three parts of the problem left to do, so needless to say I was panicking on the inside. Vaguely I heard Mr. Kaden say that we had until five minutes after the bell rang to hand in our test, it calmed me down a bit. I finished the test a minute before the allotted extra time ran out.

"Thank you Miss Dawson." Mr. Kaden said as he adjusted his thick-rimmed glasses so he could skim over my test. "I will see you tomorrow."

With a nod and a tight grip on my shoulder bag I walked out of the classroom and in the direction of my last class of the day, Music History. The warning bell rang as I took my usual seat in the plastic red chair that was unofficially mine, a minute later the bell rang and a minute after that Austin Moon walked in with his arm around Sarah Gold's shoulders. They took their seats in front of me and not too long after they came in the giant projector screen at the front of the classroom turned on.

"For the next couple of days we will be watching the movie Amadeus." Mr. Wilkins said turning off the lights shrouding us in near darkness. "Take notes on anything you feel has historical significance."

I spent the next fifty minutes trying to watch the movie but when the school's golden couple is sitting in front of you practically eating each others faces off that isn't exactly an easy thing to do. More than once I looked over to where old Mr. Wilkins sat hoping to find him glaring at them but much to my dismay the grey haired man was fast asleep. He woke up at the sound of our school's loud annoying bell and with a wave of his hand dismissed us.

Usually I bolt out of the classroom not wanting to give Austin the chance to talk to me but he's persistent. Today I'm slower than usual and he catches my wrist just as I reach the top of the stairs. We're alone in a matter of seconds and awkwardness settles in around us. Once upon a time talking to Austin came as easy as breathing but then high school happened and he became the most popular guy in school. He ditched me for popularity and abandonment stung.

"How are you Ally?" he asked sounding like he didn't know how to talk to me as much as I didn't know how to talk to him. "Dez told me about your mom, I'm sorry."

"I have to go." I said pulling my wrist out of his grip.

Talking about my mom's condition with him was the last thing I wanted to do. I'd end up crying and he'd most likely comfort me, everything would seem as it was and then he'd leave me again. Numbly I walked to my locker and pulled out the books I needed to take home. There was a second reason I refused to talk about my mom's condition with anyone, her condition was genetically passed and the possibility of me having it one day scared me beyond anything I could explain. I didn't want to go crazy, I didn't want to live as a paranoid schizophrenic.

"Ally?" Why oh why was he so persistent and why was he always around when I was crying my eyes out. His hand on my back was instantly comforting. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." I managed to say in between sobs even though I knew that Austin at one point knew me well enough to know that I was lying through my teeth. "Why do you care anyway?"

"You're my friend." He said sounding unconvinced.

"I am but you're not mine." I said turning around. With boldness that I didn't know I possessed I looked him in those brown orbs, that I still loved even after all these years of silence, and shoved him aside. "You haven't been my friend since the end of eighth grade so stop trying to make things the way they used to be because they won't."

"Ally I'm trying to make things right between us before we leave high school. I know things won't be like they used to be but I want to be friends with you again." Austin said following me through the hallway.

"We're strangers to each other now, we don't know each other like we used to." I said sputtering out words that I don't know if they fit the conversation but needing him to hear. "You're the school's golden boy, captain of the water polo, basketball, and volleyball teams don't you have something better to do than talk to someone from your past."

"Ally…"

"Goodbye Austin." I said spotting my dad's car in the parking lot.

"You're important to me Ally Dawson," I heard him say but his abandonment hurt me too much to risk letting him back in no matter how much I longed for him. "It just took me almost four years to realize just how much."

Without a look back at the blond haired boy that I once called my best friend I got into my dad's car. He didn't question why I was upset, he must have seen Austin through the mirror and understood.

Austin's POV

It was nice seeing Ally back at school, she'd been in the hospital for so long and I had started to think that she'd never come back. Dez told me what happened to her, what her mother did to her, and when I heard she almost died I knew that I couldn't go on not speaking to her. I was an idiot when I abandoned my best friend for popularity, at the time I wanted nothing but a fresh start regardless of the consequences.

"I didn't know how deep I hurt her." I said to Dez as we walked to the locker room.

"You hurt her more than her mother did." Dez said looking down at his red shoes. "That's saying something considering her mother almost killed her. Dude she's scared that one day she'll end up like her mother, clinically insane."

"What do you want me to do about it?" I sighed hating that Ally was going through something so awful. "She doesn't want me around."

"She does." Dez said softly. "Don't let her slip away."

I didn't plan on it but there were a couple of things I had to take care of first.

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