Ally's POV
"Ally, I need you to do a new assignment for our school newspaper's 'how to' section." Said the Marino High School Newspaper Editor, Trish De La Rosa; otherwise known as my best friend. "What do you have in mind?" I ask her. "I'll get back to you on that." She huffed out in response and I took that as a bad sign. She stood up quickly from her desk and walked over to the other side of the room where there was a 'press' list taped to the wall.
She scanned through the list, tapping the tip of a pencil on her bottom list. "Trish" I whined, before continuing "do you know how disgusting that is?" I ask in a motherly tone and she scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Ally, you need to relax a little" she laughed before returning to her desk. "Ally, be a dear and bring me a pad of post-its." She put her feet up on the desk and her hands behind her head. "There is a pad in front of you…" I note, adding hints in the tone of my voice. "Yeah but they're like 2 feet away. Please" I roll my eyes. There's the Trish I know and love, she was truly the laziest person I had ever met. I snatched the bright pink post it's off her desk and gently toss them to her and thankfully she catches them.
"What are you writing?" I ask her as she takes her pencil and makes notes. "Oh, I have a nail appointment at 2:30 on Saturday and then on Sunday-" she rambles nonsense before I cut her off. "Trish!" "okay there is a party at Dallas' house tonight, Josh is co-hosting and I was hoping we could be the 'press' and get free invites" she looks at me while smiling deviously at her evil scheme. The bell rang and I walked out the door but not before turning around and calling out to her, "meet me at my place at six!" I could practically hear her scream 'YES' and I just chuckled, walking down the hall to my next class.
Austin's POV
"Okay class, I have some important business to take care of so please quietly talk among yourselves while I run some errands." The teacher stated in her stern voice but as soon as she left the whispers turned into yelling. "Bro are you gonna be at my party tonight?" asked Dallas, with his usual cocky grin. "Yeah man, Dez and I both" I smirked. "I heard Ally's gonna be there" Dez mocked but only loud enough so I could hear, well besides you know; Josh, Dallas, and Ricky. I sighed while mentally face palming myself. "Yeah, you can check her out there too!" Ricky exclaimed while 'secretly' high-fiving Dez. "Yeah and then he can chicken out from talking to her too!" Dallas snorted and there were a whole lot of high-fives going around. They had all been referencing to earlier this week when I had been checking her out (and looking stupid while doing it) at her dad's music store. This was not going to go well for me.
The teacher came back finally, and that definitely saved me from the worst situation I had ever been in. she taught us for a while but I didn't pay attention as I was still thinking about Ally. The teacher glared at me throughout the entire lesson which completely explains all of the snickering that was coming from my friends and if looks could kill, they'd all be dead right now except for Dez. Dez would be alive for two reasons. Reason one: he was my best friend and had been since the first grade, and reason two: he was in a complicationship with Ally's best friend.
Ally's POV
Trish had arrived at my place by six like she had promised. She finally was on time for something. She helped get me ready, as I helped her. I looked in the mirror and couldn't recognize myself at all. I was wearing a red with black pumps and my hair was curled, slightly pulled back and I was wearing eyeliner and a bit of lip gloss. Trish looked great too. She was wearing a blue gown and her usual makeup with her hair pulled back into a full ponytail. The party was going to be fun.
It had been almost three hours. We arrived at the party, danced, Trish went off for alone time with her almost boyfriend and I sat at the bar waiting for her to come back because we both knew if I tried to talk to a guy, things would go from okay to worse in a matter of seconds. I glanced over and happened to see Trish and Dez motioning towards me and talking so I tried to figure out what they were saying, not that it even close to worked. Trish came over and hugged me and started talking about how I need to find a guy. "Trish, you know that if I try to it won't work. I must be the only girl in the world that can-" "lose a guy in ten days?" she asks raising an eyebrow and I just slowly nod, embracing the fact that she had just literally read my mind. "Well good, because you're new assignment is 'how to lose a guy in ten days'." She says and I just attempt to argue. "Trish you don't really-" I started. I'll pay you one hundred dollars if you win do well by winning and writing the article, got it?" she asks and I swallow hardly before agreeing to the bet. She held out her hand and we shook on it. "See Blondie over there? That's your target." She said before disappearing into the crowd with everyone else. I sighed, placing my head in my hands; this was going to be a long night.
Austin's POV
I arrived at the party with Dez on time, well roughly on time. We hung out for a while with the guys, grabbed some food and then Dez wanted some alone time with his girl. After about thirty minutes of them talking or whatever they were doing, Dez walked over to me. He was acting weird, but not like a normal weird, it was different than his normal which meant something was up. I didn't actually care enough to argue so we just talked with the rest of the guys for a while. "Austin did you see that girl over there? She just totally checked you out" said Josh surprised. "Come on, she was cute bro. you should go ask her out, this kind of stuff doesn't happen every day" continued Dallas and Ricky just nodded as Dallas raised his eyebrows towards Dez. "Come on guys, Austin could get any girl he wanted in ten days." I elbowed Dez in the chest, hard. "I don't know guys" I said, scratching the back of my neck. I was worried about where the conversation would lead to. "We will each pay you twenty-five bucks" Dallas spit out and the other three just nodded in agreement. I sighed. "Why not?" I said and the four guys fist bumped.
"See that girl over there?" Dez asked me, motioning to a pretty girl across the room and I nodded. "That's your target." He held out his hand and I bravely shook it. I was pretty confident until I took a better look at the girl. She was a pretty brunette in a red dress by the look of it, and then it hit me. Ally Dawson.
This was going to be one hell of challenge.
A/N: Hey! Thanks for reading and I have some explaining to do now. This is based off of the movie 'How to lose a guy in ten days'. It's a really good movie, by the way. Anyways oh and think of the characters' clothes as what was worn in 'Club owners & Quincineras' except Dez is wearing a tux and Trish wearing a blue dress. I made up Josh to look something like spencer from 'good luck charlie' and Ricky to look like mason from 'wizards of waverly place'
Disclaimer: I don't own Austin and Ally, or the characters (except Ricky and Josh) and I don't own 'How to lose a guy in 10 days'. I do however own most of the plot because this isn't going to be at all like the actual movie, just the main title and the idea was based off of the movie.
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