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Chapter 1
"Ally, it's no use. I'm never gonna learn this song by tomorrow. We should just give up." Austin sighed as I tried to teach him the song I had just written while we walked around the food court.
I stared at my best friend in shock. If Austin was giving up, then it must mean that learning this song would be truly hopeless.
I shook my head. "No it's not Austin. It's still the morning. If we just lock ourselves in a room with nothing but this book, we could learn the song!"
He gave me a look. "That might be a problem when we have to use the bathroom. And you have to work." He took off his guitar, set it next to him, and sat down. "This sucks. I really thought this was going to be my big break."
I frowned and gave him a sympathetic look. I could do something to help him…but it was a really big risk. Then, I looked into his warm brown eyes and I was putty in his hands.
"Austin," I blurted out and he looked up at me in confusion. "Here…take my book."
I held it out in my hands and his eyes grew as round as saucers. "Really?"
I nodded and swallowed the lump in my throat. "I trust you. Spend the entire day with my book. Learn the song, and then sing it at the Miami Star Search contest tomorrow."
He grabbed my book and tried to take it out of my hands but I clung onto it despite what I had just said.
He raised his eyebrows at me and tugged harder. "Ally!" he laughed and finally I managed to let go of my book with a pained little squeak.
"Just – please – don't read pages 199, 200, 202, 305, and 69." I begged and he nodded.
"Of course." He grinned and pulled me into a hug. "Seriously Ally, this is just awesome."
I pulled away and smiled at him. "No problem." He started to walk away, but I grabbed his arm making my entire body to tingle. "Seriously though Austin. Don't read those pages."
He nodded with wide eyes. "I know." He laughed a little. "You can trust me Ally."
I nodded apprehensively. "I know I can."
I paced back in forth in the middle of Sonic Boom while chewing my hair.
"Maybe I should just go see if Austin is reading the secret pages. I know he's not, but there's no harm in checking right?" I asked Trish who was – naturally – reading a magazine.
"I'm just mad that you let Austin have your book for a day, and you've barely let me touch it." She shrugged her shoulders causing her ridiculous hat to bob around.
"Hey guys." Dez greeted smiling with Austin following behind him, his face in my book. Dez turned to me frowning. "You broke Austin. Fix him."
"What?" I asked feeling a little bewildered. Dez pointed to Austin who was sitting in the lounge area reading my book intently.
"He won't do anything fun with me. We had made plans to fish in the mall fountain, but he told me he needed to…read." Dez explained grumpily.
"Fishing in the mall –? Never mind." I shook my head. "Austin's learning the new song.
Dez made a face. "A song? I thought he was reading one of your embarrassing secrets. Man! Now I'm disappointed."
I gave him a weird look and walked over to Austin. "How's it going?"
He looked up and closed my book, but his thumb was tucked in – saving his place.
"Great. I think I'm definitely gonna be able to sing this song." He said enthusiastically and I smiled brightly at him. "Austin, that's great!"
He nodded. "And I haven't read any of the pages."
"Uh, pft, I know." I lied unconvincingly and he rolled his eyes.
"Right." He said looking unconvinced.
I was running late to Austin's concert the next day. I had to work a little late at Sonic Boom – some guy had let his two dogs loose in the store – and now I was behind schedule.
When I had finally made it to the beach and found Trish and Dez, they didn't look too happy.
"What is he doing?!" Trish whispered to Dez who shrugged.
"What is who doing?" I asked from behind them and they turned around looking worried.
"Ally, hey!" Dez greeted looking at the stage.
"Sorry, I'm late. I didn't miss anything did I?" I asked.
"Well –" Trish and Dez dragged out, but then I listened to Austin talk.
"Alright, so I'm gonna read you guys the background to this song." He said into the mic and I looked at my friends in confusion.
"There wasn't a background to my song." I said and I started to make my way through the crowd, and I finally made it to the front of the stage, and all of a sudden the spotlight hit me and I froze. People stared at me.
Austin had my book in his hands and to my horror, he was reading page 199.
"I think about him all the time. It sounds like a cheesy love song, but I know that I'm in love with him. I'm afraid he doesn't feel the same, but I just can't get him out of my mind. He's so sweet, and funny. He's perfect to me." He read and smiled down at me. "My friend Ally Dawson – she's sitting right there – wrote that about the guy she loves. She also wrote this song." He pointed me out and began to sing the song that I wrote about him.
I could feel people staring and laughing at me, and wanted to move, but I didn't know how. I was too frozen with shock and betrayal.
I'm sleeping through the day
I'm trying not to fade
But every single night
I've just been lying awake
Cause I, I can't get you off my mind
The moment that we met, I didn't know yet
That I was looking at a face I'll never forget
Cause I, I can't get you off my mind
I can't get you off my mind
Give me the chance to love you
I'll tell you the only reason why
Cause you are on my mind
I want to know you feel it
What do you see when you close your eyes
Cause you are on my mind
I want to be best
I want to be worst
I want to be the gravity in your universe
And I, I want to be there to help you fly
I'll help you fly
Oh, the longer that I wait
The more that I'm afraid
That someone's gonna fool your heart and take you away
Cause I, I finally realized, that I can't get you off my mind
Give me the chance to love you
I'll tell you the only reason why
Cause you are on my mind
I want to know you feel it
What do you see when you close your eyes
Cause you are on my mind
Oh, I can't live without you
I can't think straight without you, no
So tell me what should I do
If I can't get you off my mind
Give me the chance to love you
I'll tell you the only reason why
Cause you are on my mind
I want to know you feel it
What do you see when you close your eyes
Cause you are on my mind
You're on my mind
You're on my mind all day and night, oh
Cause you are on my mind
Silence hung in the air…and then several people began to laugh at me. I felt like I was going to throw up, Austin grinned down at me as I stared up at him with betrayal in my eyes.
Austin's grin slowly began to fall from his face and he flipped to the next page.
"Um, yeah. So this song was by Ally Dawson about –" he stopped suddenly and his eyes went wide. "Me."
The laughter grew louder, and my legs finally realized that they could actually move. Unfortunately, my mouth also realized that it could move. And I my lunch made a reappearance all over the sand.
I couldn't look up, so I ran away. Away from the cruel, slow motion laughing crowd.
"Ally!" Austin called chasing after me and he grabbed me by the arm and spun me around. "Ally, are you okay –"
I pushed him away from me. "How could you?!" I asked with tears in my eyes.
"I was just trying to –" he tried.
"– embarrass me?" I asked. "I trusted you and you went behind my back! You lied to me."
"No! I wanted you to get together with that guy you wrote about!" he said.
"Only to find out it was about you?" I asked, and grimaced. I knew he didn't feel the same. "You deliberately went behind my back, and I don't want to speak to you. Not now and not ever."
I turned away, and cried as I walked back home even though I had driven there.
I cried for days, and of course Austin tried to reach me, but I had told my dad that I didn't want to speak to him and I turned off my phone.
"Ally, you know I'm not one who cares particularly very much. But Austin is really sorry." Trish said. "And this is probably bad timing, but you never told me you had a crush on Austin."
I rolled my eyes at her and hugged my pillow tighter to my chest.
"It doesn't matter anymore." I said. "I was wrong. Austin isn't perfect, and I don't like him. Not even as a friend."
I began to cry into my pillow again and Trish wrapped her arms around me in a hug.
Dez ran into my room then. "Okay, so I managed to hack into the system, and remove all videos of you hacking your lunch everywhere."
He walked over and sat on my bed. He gave my leg a small pat and his head tilted to the side.
"Thanks Dez." I sniffed and he gave my leg a small pat, and his head tilted to the side.
"You doing okay, Sport?" he asked and Trish gave him a weird look.
"What can I say?" I sniffed. "I lost my best friend; he humiliated me in front of all of Miami –"
"Not all of Miami." Dez said. "Only part of it."
I groaned and buried my head into my pillow while Trish smacked Dez on the head and snapped at him.
It's a sucky place to end, but oh well. And the song used in this chapter was On My Mind by Cody Simpson. I tweaked the lyrics a little to fit Ally.