Stay With Me

Chapter 1

Ally's POV

Love. A four lettered word that can be used in many ways. You can love your parents. You can love your best friend. And a boy you've known your whole life. I don't believe in love, or at least I didn't. I believed that you could love your parents and your friends. You could love your boyfriend of many years. I just didn't get how you could fall for someone you barely knew, someone you swore that you would never like. That was before I met him. When I would read books and the girl would lock eyes with the mysterious boy in the hallway and immediately know that she loved him, made no sense. Until it happened to me. I would watch movies where the boy noticed the shy girl in the corner and developed feelings for her then deny them just didn't seem right. Then it happened to him.

I, Ally Dawson, a junior in high school, fell for Austin Moon. My heart went against my heads wishes and did the cliché thing where the invisible girl falls for the popular boy. Why is all I ask?

I sit alone in my room and ponder everything that has happened in the last few months, my head ready to explode. I start thinking about the future and what could happen in the next few months. Stop thinking about it Ally! It's over, and there's nothing you can do about it. No matter how much you want him to come back to you, he won't and you're better off.

Who ever is reading this, is probably very confused. I'm confused myself and I lived through it. My best friend said that writing my feelings down in my beloved book would help me sort through them and I pray that she is right. I usually write songs, but for the first time I can't find the right words to explain how I feel.

Everything stopped making sense on the first day of Junior year. It was a hot September day in Miami, and I was dreading the thought of going back to school. I loved learning and I was a straight A student but I was invisible. People ran into me in the halls, not even realizing that they did. That was who I was, the invisible girl who always had her head in a book. I had one friend and my other companion was a bird. I was fine living that way, I'd rather be invisible then be bullied. Lunch time is where things started to change. For better or for worse? You make the decision for yourself.

Trish and I walked into the cafeteria going to our usual table in the very back of the room, away from the popular people. She started talking about all the jobs she had over the summer and I told her how I wrote a new song every day on my break. We decided that we were hungry and went to the lunch line, we learned freshman year to wait for every one else to go first. I was leaving the line, following Trish with my tray of chicken nuggets and mac and cheese, when I some how lost control of my tray. It went everywhere. All over my bag, all over a table, and all over the one and only Austin Moon.

"Oh my gosh! I am so sorry" I said, running over to the napkins to help clean up the mac and cheese that got all over Austin's shirt and face. The whole cafeteria went silent. For the first time people noticed I was there and for the worst reason. I had gotten my tray all over Austin Moon. I panicked, running out of the cafeteria, forgetting about napkins, and lunch.

I rushed to the bath room to clean off my bag and to calm my self down. I looked into the mirror at my reflection. Brown hair, slightly curled. Brown hazel eyes and naturally pink lips. The make up I had on was barely noticeable. I wore a dress with floral print, just like every other school year. I was boring. No wonder no one noticed me. I didn't want to notice me.

A few moments later Trish joined me in the bath room. Neither of us said anything. She helped clean my bag off and we left the bath room, not saying a word about the mac and cheese incident. But of course Austin Moon wouldn't leave me alone.

I split from Trish, she had English, I had music. I walked into the class room and took my seat in the front of the room. Music is the only class where I sit up front. I love music. My dad owns a music store where I work at. I know piano and love songwriting. If only I didn't have stage fright. My stage fright started when I was young, and I don't like to talk about it.

A minute passed when Austin Moon walks into the class room. No posse, no blonde girl, even his red-headed friend was nowhere to be seen. He started walking to the back of the room, but noticed me, the girl who accidentally dropped her lunch tray all over him. He slowly walked over to the seat beside me, asking if it was taken. I shook my head no. He sat down.

I was very confused. I took music class every year and Austin had never been in the class before. And why was he sitting next to me?!

He looked over at me, I tried to ignore his eyes. I saw him open his mouth, then close it, not knowing what to say.

"The mac and cheese tasted terrible." I looked over at him for the first time since he sat down. He smirked at me.

"What do you mean?" I choked out.

"The mac and cheese that you got all over me. It tasted terrible. You really dodged a bullet." He had an amused smile plastered on his face.

It was my turn to open and close my mouth, not knowing what to say. "I'm so sorry about that. I feel so bad. I don't know what happened to me."

He shrugged his shoulders, "It was no big deal. I mean my shirt is now stained, but I'm fine."

I was about to say something else when the teacher came in. Mrs. Martin was my favorite teacher in the world. She was the only one that I would show my songs to, other than Trish of course. She knew about my stage fright so she didn't make me perform in front of the class.

I could feel Austin's gaze on me during the class. As the class ended, I waited for everyone else to leave, like I always do. I started getting up when I noticed that Austin was waiting for me. He still had a smirk on his face. I looked around the room for Mrs. Martin but she had left to.

"So, I don't even know your name." Of course he didn't.

"It's Ally."

"Ally. I like it. My name's Austin." Like I didn't already know.

"I know. We've gone to school together since middle school." I rolled my eyes.

"Oh I feel bad that I didn't know your name."

"It's fine, no one knows my name, least of all Austin Moon." I walked past him, heading to the door to meet Trish.

"Wait!" His voice called out, I turned around to look at him.

"Never mind." I turned back around and left the class room, leaving Austin alone.

I walked into Sonic Boom after school to see my dad standing behind the counter. After he asked me how my day was and I respond okay, I head up to the practice room that holds my piano. I was in the mood to write a song.

And I just want to show you, she don't even know you
Baby, let me love you, let me want you
You just see right through me but if you only knew me
We could be a beautiful, miracle, unbelievable
Instead of just invisible, oh, yeah

She can't see the way your eyes will light up when you smile

When I finish the song, I hear someone clap. I quickly turn my head around to see Mr. Moon.

"What are you doing here?" I exclaimed jumping off of the piano bench. Did Austin Moon just hear me sing?

Before Austin could respond my dad comes in to the practice room.

"Ally, I'm glad you met Austin. He will be working here now."

I felt my heart stop. Austin smiled at me.

"I can't wait to get to know you Ally."

Thank you for reading! This is my first Austin and Ally story and I hope you like it so far! I'm very excited to write it and I hope you enjoy reading it. Leave a review and tell me what you think :)

Edited on September 6, 2014

I do not own Austin and Ally or the song Invisible by Taylor Swift.