Ally looked up from the box of tissues in her hand and sobbed again as she looked at the tv screen. Why was it that her life always felt like some rom com drama or a terrifying horror story when you know that some random, excitable girl shouldn't be going into the basement in the middle of the night just because she heard a noise and you end up screaming at the tv just before she gets killed. That is what it is like with EVERY relationship she ever entangles herself in. She ends up falling for all the jerks who end up ripping out her heart, if her life was a film then everyone watching would be screaming at the screen as she falls for yet another idiot that everyone watching could see is an idiot but she couldn't. This is a long winded way of introducing you to the story of how Ally fell in love with the blonde she calls her flat mate and how their relationship began with her falling for every jerk in New York.

" Austin Monica Moon!" Ally shouted as she entered the kitchen. He was sucking face with yet another blonde headed bimbo. " Austin!" she yelled again to get his attention. " Can you please come up for air long enough so we can talk!" Ally snapped irritably before waving her toothbrush in the air for emphasis.

" Ally, can you not see that we are in the middle of something?" he sighed as she raised her eyebrows in response. " Fine, fine, we'll talk. Ckatie why don't you go and wait in my room?"

" Kay, Kay!" she giggled.

" By the way Ckatie this is Ally. Ally this is Ckatie with the CK." Austin gestured.

" Ckatie with the Ck?" Ally asked with little enthusiasm.

" Yeah, Ckatie with the CK because it's spelt c.k.a.t.i.e." she laughed.

" Why?" She sighed at the giggling blonde in front of her.

" My parents couldn't decide whether it should be spelt with a K or C so they chose both!" she laughed again before bounding towards Austin's bedroom.

" Seriously Ally what's the problem now?" Austin groaned as soon as Ckatie was out of earshot.

" The problem is that I have been sharing a flat with you for 3 months now and this is the seventeenth time that one of your hook ups have used MY toothbrush to clean their teeth in the morning."

" It really isn't that big a deal Alls."

" Your in my bad books today so you can call me Alls just as soon as your dates stop using my toothbrush in the morning." she snapped before waving it in his face again. He ran his hands through his soft blonde hair as her eyes caught his abs yet again. She didn't know why he insisted on walking around the apartment with out his shirt on. Not like she was complaining...

" Ally?" he questioned before catching her gaze. Damn it, the second time she has been caught staring at his bare chest. She blushed a beetroot red as he rolled his eyes and smirked.

" Ally, seriously you need to chillax. And is it okay if me and Brooke get the flat to ourselves tonight? I've waited ages for a place so I could bring her around."

"Brooke, as in my friend Brooke! Austin if this goes horribly wrong for you I am not cutting her off the thanksgiving guest list so your going to have to just deal with the awkwardness."

" Don't worry, it's a no strings attached kind of a thing."

" A no strings attached kind of a thing? I cannot believe Trish and Dez convinced me into letting YOU be our new flat mate."

" Hey, you need the extra money for the rent payments and I need a place to bring round girls." he winked as she rolled her eyes.

" Fine whatever, I'll be having dinner at Jared's house tonight."

" Your still dating that geek?"

" Yep! 6 months as of next week." Ally smiled before clutching the toothbrush to her chest. "This dinner is going to be perfect."

" Yeah, yeah okay. Now if you'll excuse me I have an excitable blonde waiting for me." he rolled his eyes before pushing past.

" Okay, breakfast is in five and don't forget YOU OWE ME ANOTHER TOOTHBRUSH!" She shouted as he disappeared from view.

" Another hook up?" Dez questioned as he strode into the kitchen, his red hair flopping messily into his eyes.

" You bet, another cheese pants day?" Ally asked as she took in the red heads unusual attire.

" Yeah." he whimpered. Cheese pants always meant something bad had happened.

" So who was it and what happened this time?"

" You know that girl Lisa from the hardware store?"

" The one with glasses, braces and a pimple the size of new Mexico?" Trish questioned from the doorway in her pyjamas.

" That's the one. I've been buying random stuff from there for weeks just to see her and yesterday I finally plucked up the courage to talk to her."

" And..." Ally prompted as she began picking out the ingredients for pancake mix from the fridge.

" And she has a boyfriend. I should have known a girl like her would have been taken."

" A girl like her?" Trish remarked sarcastically. " Did I not mention the pimple the size of new Mexico?" she asked as Ally shot her a warning look. " Let me guess, your going to be out all evening at Chip 'o' Cheese before buying random knick knacks at the sketchy store downtown aren't you?" she asked.

" How did you know?"

" You always do weird stuff like this whenever you have a break up or a hard time."

" It makes me feel better." he moped before disappearing into his room.

" Why are you always so mean to him?" Ally cried over the incessant sizzling of the butter in the hot pan.

" Because he's Dez." She replied flatly.

" But being mean to Dez is like kicking a puppy! I don't know how you can do it!" Ally pouted as she raised an eyebrow.

" I'm in a bad mood Alls. It's 10:30 and I'm wide awake all because you have issues with your toothbrush! You know I don't wake up till at least 12:00."

" It's not my fault! Your the one that wanted Austin to share the flat with us!" She stated dramatically before waving around her pink pancake spatula. Speckles of pancake mix littered the countertop.

" The three of us just aren't able to pay the rent Alls and who would we have shared the apartment with instead. The emo girl, the clown or the old lady. Austin was our best bet out of all the crazies who applied to share with us." she reasoned as Ally flipped a pancake. Go Ally D!

" Did you see that Trish! I flipped my first pancake!" She squealed before doing herAlly D happy dance.

" Good for you Alls." she sighed before flicking on the tv. " Anyways, your only being weird about him sharing the apartment because you like him." she quipped. Ally's eyes widened at her best friend.

" WHAT. I like his abs granted but I do not like Austin! Have you completely lost it!" She shot back as Trish laughed. " Then why weren't you this upset when Dez moved in?"

" Because he isn't a total jerk to girls and I still think you need to be nicer to him you know, maybe you can cheer him up by hanging out with him tonight?"

" No, no, no, I hate Chip 'o' Cheese!" she whined before throwing herself dramatically on the sofa.

" Oh come on! I would go if I could but I'm going to Jared's place tonight. You know he would do the same for you!" Ally encouraged as Trish's judgement began to waver. It wasn't that she loathed Dez or didn't like him it was just that he managed to get under her skin in a way that she just couldn't explain. And let's not even go into the fact that he insists on wearing a kimono around the apartment, it's worse than Austin going shirtless.

" Fine why not, it's not like I have anything better to do." she groaned before disappearing into her room. Ally stacked the pancakes onto a plate and headed towards the bathroom in the hopes that she could actually have a warm shower. She knocked on the door loudly to make sure no one was in there as the lock was broken and began singing. Singing loudly in the shower was something she always did when she was excited about anything. She was finally going to have dinner at Jared's house as opposed to him coming to the apartment and having to create random banter with Dez, listen to Trish insult him and deal with Austin's boastfulness and constant shirtless ness. She switched off the shower tap and reached outwards in an attempt to grab a towel from behind the shower curtain. Grabbing a hold of the soft fluffy material she pulled it into the shower.

" Ally what the hell?" Austin's voice sounded from behind the curtain.

" What are you doing in here! I'm showering your perv, what's wrong with you?

" What's wrong with me? Your the one who just stripped me of my towel."

" What!? This was touching your private parts, oh my God! I just wiped my face with it!"

" You what?"

" Just get me another towel!"

" I can't there isn't another one in here!"

" Fine, take your towel back and go and find me another one!" She snapped before chucking the towel over the shower curtain.

" Ally you've gotten it all wet now." he whined.

" Big deal! I'm naked in here and it's cold! Go and get the towel." She yelled. " And stop smirking, I know what your thinking."

" Alright, alright, I'm going. We really need to get the lock fixed on the door."

" We really need to set boundaries in this house hold!" She yelled as he moved towards the door. "And Austin?"

" Yeah!"

" Can I borrow your car so I can drive to Jared's?"

" Is now really the time to ask me this?"

" Fine, I'll wait till you've been buttered up with pancakes first." A coy smile played at her lips as he laughed.

Austin was already dressed and in the kitchen by the time she had managed to find a good outfit to wear and placed all the towels in the apartment in the bathroom in order to avoid another bathroom fiasco. Phone, phone, phone where had she placed it? She hunted for the phone before realising that her tights had a hole in them the whole time, damn it! They would have to do, she was already late.

" Austin, I'm going to Jared's place!" she yelled at him from the doorway as he helped himself to the now cold pancakes.

" Okay!"

" So can I take your car or not?"

" No, I'm picking up Brooke from her place."

" Fine, I'll walk." She said before narrowing her eyes at him. He shovelled pancakes into his mouth completely unaware of the look Ally was giving him. "Don't forget to whack the tv before turning it on if your going to watch a film okay?"

" Okay!"

" And remember, if Brooke ends up using my toothbrush tomorrow morning or even tonight then your a dead man, got it?"

" Got it!"

" And dinner is in the fridge!"

" Okay!"

" And remember to-"

" Would you just GO already!" he shouted, it was always like Ally to worry about every little thing. He would never admit it to anyone but he actually found it quite cute, in a weird and annoying kind of way.

" Alright, alright, no need to be snippy." She rolled her eyes as he chuckled lightly before slamming the door shut behind her.

The journey to Jared's house took longer than she thought due to the detour she had to take because a weird homeless guy had started following her up the street. She went round the block 12 times before he disappeared into the department store to take shelter for the evening. She had approximately 15 minutes to light a bunch of candles, set up the dinner and scatter rose petals all over the table. She knew it was cheesy but she always fell for these cliche kind of moments. Using the spare key she had been given she unlocked the door and strode into the dark apartment, the scent of Jared instantly washing over her. Flicking on the lights she illuminated the small kitchen and got to work with the candles before sticking the chicken she had bought in his slightly broken oven. Pouring herself a large glass of wine she sat back and waited for Jared to come home, she'd never surprised him before like this so she wanted to get it perfect. Absolutely perfect. Seconds turned to minutes and minutes to hours. Jared still hadn't come home. No worries, she topped up the glass of wine, sat back and tried to relax but the anxious feeling had begun to grow in the pit of her stomach, twisting and unfurling until she had to use the toilet twice. That's right, twice. Normally she didn't worry this much. Scratch that, that's a total lie! She worries as if her life depended on it. Where the hell was Jared? Had something happened to him? Would she be travelling down to a morgue to verify his body at some point in the evening? Ally shut up! She told myself before topping up the glass of wine. Again. She texted him a quick message but there was no reply. Bang! The door burst open as two people fell into the room. Her thoughts went blank, she couldn't breathe, she wanted to cry, she wanted to shout! she wanted to reach into the broken oven, pull out the probably burnt chicken and hurl it at the bimbo who was currently in a steamy make out session with none other than Jared. Neither of them even noticing that the lights were on and she was standing right in the middle of the kitchen, watching as her boyfriend entangled his hands in another girls soft blonde hair. She dropped the wine glass she had been gripping so tightly. The glass shattering across the floor sending shards flying everywhere and the deep red liquid running across the ground. She couldn't breathe. His head spun round at the noise, their eyes catching one and others. There it was, that look of fear and regret making itself known within his clear blue eyes. Clear blue eyes which were now cold and lifeless to her.

" Jared." She choked, she sounded so weak and feeble. She wanted to knock herself out of it and to just cut straight to the shouting but she couldn't.

" Ally." he whispered.

" Who the hell is this?" the blonde asked distaste fully.

" Who am I? Who am I? WHO AM I?" Ally shouted as Jared flinched. " I am Jared's girlfriend of nearly 6 months!"

" Is this true?"

" Yes." Jared whispered.

" You asshole!" she spat, whacking him over the head with her handbag before walking towards the door. " Don't you EVER call me again." she yelled before slamming the door shut. The thud of the heavy door resonated around the room as neither of them spoke. Warm, wet tears began to fill her eyes.

" Please don't cry."

" Please don't cry, please don't cry?" She spat. " What do you want me to do! Jump for joy that my boyfriend has been cheating on me."

" I'm sorry Ally, I didn't want you to find out this way."

" You didn't want me to find out this way or you didn't want me to find out at all?" She snapped as he winced at her harsh words. " How long has this been going on?"

" Ally, please don't do this."

" How long Jared!?"

" 2 months."

" 2 months! 2 months." She shrieked before bursting into tears again. She felt like she had just been kicked in the gut multiple times. She couldn't stay here, she wanted to leave but she didn't have a car. She moved silently towards the door.

" Ally wait!" he pleaded but she didn't want to hear it. " Just let me explain." he tried to grab her arm but she shook him off. Pushing open the door she let the cool night air swallow her. Looking back into the apartment just in time to see the chicken catch fire. A bubble of laughter escaped her lips as Jared rushed towards the oven. Ally shook her head, how in the hell had she gotten herself into this mess? The tears began to cascade down her face yet again as she thought over the last 6 months, over everything she had ever done for Jared. She punched in Austin's number on her phone. He was the last person she wanted to talk to right now but she didn't have any other choice, Dez and Trish were probably at chip 'o' cheese.

" What's up Dorkson?" he laughed into the phone. " How's the date with Jared going?" he questioned as she remained dead silent, staring at the phone

" Austin?" Ally finally managed to croak out.

" Ally, what's wrong? Have you been crying?" his voice became serious.

" Yes." She whispered.

" What's going on?"

" Jared's been cheating on me, he brought home another girl tonight." she choked. " I know your meant to be having a night in with Brooke but can you please come and pick me up." she sniffed as more tears began to trickle down her face.

" Of course, I'll be there as soon as possible."

" Thank you." She smiled to herself before hanging up. She must have really sounded awful on the phone if Austin was actually abandoning Brooke for her. She stood on the side of the road freezing her ass off as she waited for Austin to arrive. His slick black car pulled up to the curb slowly as he got out. His blonde hair was a complete mess and he was wearing a jumper over what looked like his blue pyjamas.

" Are you in your pyjamas?"

" Brooke and I got changed so we could watch a film."

" I'm sorry I ruined your night it." She croaked as he slung his coat over her shoulders and hugged her tightly to his chest. She felt so warm and delicate within his strong, muscular arms.

" You don't need to apologise." he chuckled. " How about we watch dirty dancing whilst scarfing down buckets of fruity mint swirl.

" What about Brooke?"

" I dropped her at home on my way over here." he said before opening the car door.

" Thanks Austin." She smiled. Ally had never been so grateful for Austin's presence before in her life.

" No problem Dorkson." he laughed as she rolled her eyes. He cared for Ally, that much was clear from the very start.

And that's how it began, that's where their story begins, Ally and Austin's. And how it all started with Ally falling for a real jerk. One of many might I just add.

Thank you for reading, this was just a tester so if you think the story is worth continuing then please review. And have a good Friday:D