Summary: Being a teenage girl is hard enough without having feelings for your best friend/partner. But that's the least of Ally's problems when she realises she's being watched. Who is watching her and what do they want? Is Ally's life in danger?

Austin, Ally, Trish and Dez were once again in the upstairs practice room in Sonic Boom having their weekly Team Austin and Ally meeting. At least they were trying to. Trish and Dez had got into an argument, however, this was not unusual as every meeting they always found something to argue about. During said arguments, Austin and Ally would try to intervene at first, but as it started to escalate, their attempts proved futile, and the pair usually ended up rehearsing one of their new songs to help drown out the noise of the quarrelling duo.

'So, what do you think about the new song?' Ally asked from her seat next to Austin at the piano.

'It was amazing; this will be a big hit for sure! Your song writing just keeps getting better and better, Ally.' Austin complimented his partner, making her blush slightly.

'Thanks Austin.' She said, giving him a shy, but genuine smile.

Austin was completely mesmerised by Ally, he couldn't take his eyes off her. She was looking back at him with those chocolate brown doe eyes he always got lost in.

Even though they had broken up quite a while ago, he was still not over her. He had never wanted to end their romantic relationship, but Ally had suggested it, and he didn't want to lose her all together, so he had agreed. He would rather have her part of his life as just his friend than not at all.

Unconsciously, Austin started to lean in slowly. He could see Ally knew were this was headed, however, she didn't pull away or lean in to meet him half way. He could see in her eyes she was trying to fight it.

They were so caught up in the moment, they didn't realise it had gone quiet. Trish and Dez had finally finished their argument and looked over to see their friends having yet another moment. Trish smiled knowingly, then looked over at Dez and indicated to him that they should leave and give the two some privacy.

Just as they were about to leave the room, Dez accidentally ran into the drum set, which then fell over creating a loud bang and ruining the moment between Austin and Ally.

Ally quickly tore her eyes away from Austin upon hearing the commotion.

'Uh, I should really get back downstairs to look after the store.' She said, avoiding Austin's gazed and promptly left the room.

Austin sat there for a moment, not believing his luck. It was getting harder and harder as time went on to not act on his feelings for his best friend/partner. Sighing sadly, he got up and gathered his things.

'I should, uh, go too. I've got some chores I need to finish up.' He said, quickly excusing himself and then left.

Trish stood there looking at Austin's retreating figure, then her facial expressions hardened as she turned to look at her friend.

'Wow! Those drums made a BIG noise when I ran into them. I should do that again!' He exclaimed, completely oblivious to what just happened.

Throwing her arms up in frustrating, Trish stalked off.

'I'm not going to hit him; I'm not going to hit him.' She muttered repeatedly to herself.

It had been a long day for Ally. She had started work early due to her Dad being out of town visiting an old friend for a week, and on her lunch break had to sit through another one of her friends arguments.

Though it was the almost kiss that made it such a long day for Ally. She had been thinking about it non stop since it had happened and to make it worse, the rest of her work day had been very slow. Why was it that when she wanted to be distracted from her thoughts, the customers seemed scarce?

Ally was so confused with her feelings for Austin. She wanted to give into her feelings and be with him, but then she remembers what it was like when they had started dating the first time. It had just been so incredibly awkward that Ally was afraid if they tried again, it would completely ruin their friendship.

They had tried, and failed, so in Ally's mind, it was better to stay the way they were. Only problem was, her heart seemed to see things differently. She had always been one to follow not her heart, but her brain, and she wasn't about to change that now. She knew Austin still had feelings for her, and he seemed to be getting more bold with trying to show her that. They were having an increasingly large number of these moments, and Ally couldn't allow that to happen anymore. Austin would get over her in no time, of that she was sure. She wasn't anything special, so it shouldn't take too long. All she had to do was show him she wasn't interested in him that way and they could both move on.

Ally decided to close the store early and go home to finish her homework. She locked the door to Sonic Boom and flipped the sign over to 'closed', before proceeding to close up the store.

Grabbing her handbag, Ally was just about to turn off the lights to head out when she noticed an envelope on the floor. It looked like someone had slipped it under the door after she had locked up as it wasn't there before.

Frowning, Ally opened up the envelope, wondering what it could possibly be. She pulled out a piece of paper and read what was written on there. What she read sent shivers up and down her spine.