"There's no way I can make it without you

Do it without you

Be here without you

It's no fun when you doing it solo

With you it's like whoa

Yeah and I know

I own this dream

Cause I've got you with me

There's no way I can make it without you

Do it without you

Be here without you"

Ally hummed as she walked through the halls of her school to her locker.

"Ally, Ally" she heard her best friend Trish call out to her.

"Hey Trish! what's uuu-"

She was cut off by Trish dragging her to the janitor's closet. She threw her in and banged the door shut. "what's the matter?"

Trish looked like she ran a mile, she was sweating and panting like a dog. She had her hand on her knees, bending over catch her breath

"What's wrong?"

"Give me a second" she half huffed and half said.

"Okay" said Ally with a confused look.

After a minute, Trish claimed that she ran there all the way from the chemistry lab.

"But that's literally – Never mind, you're Trish, it makes sense, so what made you run all the way from the chem lab?" She said, with a hint of sarcasm.

"Austin moon is coming to our school"

"What?!"

"Austin moon"

"You've got to be kidding me, there's no way that-" she was yet again interrupted by Trish dragging her off someone else. Ally saw that she was pulling her towards the Principal's office.

"You're taking me to the principal just to prove to me that Aus-"

"Look" she said, pointing to the school magazine in the newspaper stand in front of the office.

Ally took the book and flipped to the first page- an article about…. Kate's new louis Vuitton handbag… uhhh that girl and her showoff. Ally wondered how she even became the editor, considering how much she sucked at…well basically anything that involved brains.

"Not this one… turn to the" she grumbled and grabbed the book from her impatiently, "let me just get that for you."

"Here!" she handed the book back. 'Austin moon is coming to our school' talk about lame headlines- putting that thought aside…

"Oh no"

"Oh no? no. oh yes!"

"No no no!"

"Yes yes yes!"

"No."

"No?"

"Yes"

"Now you're just confusing me" said Trish, putting her hands up in defense.

Ally rolled her eyes. "I mean, I don't want him to come here."

"Ally what are you talking about… this is the perfect chance for you to prove to the school that you actually know Austin moon. After all these years of being accused of bluffing, you can finally take revenge..." she said with an evil grin. "Ally are you even listening to what I'm saying?"

Ally was busy chewing on her hair, what she did when she got nervous, disgusting habit really…

"ALLY!"

She jumped at Trish's cry. "Uh-huh" she said, still sounding distracted. Trish pinched her "owwww" she howled. "What ?!"

"Just how great is this… he is finally here, you can prove to everyone that you actually know him. And plus you have a chance of becoming best friends with him again- the benefits being he's a goddamn celebrity"

"That's not going to happen Trish"

"Why not? I'm sure if you talk to him-"

"No Trish, I'm not going to talk to him" she said with stubbornness and a little sorrow.

"Why? If-" persisted Trish

"No!" She yelled.

An awkward pause followed.

"Ally what are you actually worried about?" She said with a concerned look in her eyes

She looked at Trish and took a deep breath… "I think, I feel that he's forgotten about me, and I can't face the humiliation of me going up to him, and he being completely clueless as to who I am. I can't face that embarrassment"

"But-"

"No Trish" she said sternly.

"Fine" she mumbled.

Even though she made it very clear to Trish that she wasn't going to talk to him, she, for some reason, was looking forward to his arrival.

Ally was tapping her foot impatiently.

"What's worrying you so much?" Trish asked while stuffing her face with a hotdog. They were sitting in the school cafeteria.

"Nothing it's just that… isn't he supposed to have come by now?"
"Why do you care? You made it very clear that you weren't interested"

Right on cue, she heard dozens of feet thundering across the hall, most probably of girls, racing to the school entrance.

"Speak of the devil" Ally muttered under her breath but she couldn't deny that even she wanted to run out and meet him. It'd been so many years, so many years since she saw him, in person atleast. She saw him every day on magazines, newspapers, billboards, pamphlets, flyers, television and even heard him on the radio. She was sick of him, but also had a kind of longing, the desire to meet up with an old personal friend. They were really close, that is before she moved away. They used to be the best of friends, always together. Eventually their passion for music grew as they did… but with her passion Ally's fear of the stage kept her from soaring. She helped him write songs since he was awful at it. They managed it for a while, and then she moved. He became all popular, and it was like they had never existed in each other's lives. Ally would often wonder or even so hope if he would mention her name during one of his interviews, reveal that few of his major hits were in fact written by her. But such things never did happen. She decided to not let such things of no moment get in her way.

She was interrupted from her thoughts by Trish yelling at her. Ally realized she was not at her original position, sitting opposite to her but was already making her way to the entrance.

"Are you coming?!"

"Yes yes" she said, gulping down the last mouth of her drink and hurrying towards her.

Trish grabbed hold of her hand and dragged her through the crowd. The two of them, a pair they were, Trish pushing everyone, within one-feet radius, away aggressively to get through the crowd and Ally muttering apologies to everyone on behalf of Trish. Frankly, if it weren't for Trish, Ally would have been trampled over.

"There" shouted Trish and pulled her towards Austin faster. Suddenly all of the crowd was behind her and she was in the front, alongside Trish. All the noise- the shouts, the cheers, the cries, seemed to fade away. There was a blurry figure emerging through the door. The person was not to clear because the sun was blinding her. She took a step forward and put a hand over her eyes to see clearly. There he was Austin moon. That second, it was like no one existed, just him and her.

She studied him. He was taller and muscular, much different from the awkward teen she knew. He was more tanned than he looked on boards. His blonde hair was all ruffled, giving him a kind of charm.

At that instant Austin looked at her and they locked eyes. It was almost as if he remembered her. For that one second, they were not 10 feet apart but right next to each other. It was like she never left and they were the same best friends they used to be. Technically impossible, but all the memories of him and her flooded back, during those seconds of eye contact. It was kind of like a black out, that she had. It took all of Ally's strength not to run to him and throw her arms around him.

After what seemed like minutes he looked away… and so did she, such similar actions yet so different… she lifted her eyes of him to look at Trish for support and he, he looked at a girl, pretty one she was, next to him. He took her and planted a kiss on her cheek.

Ally stepped back in surrender.