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Chapter One

Austin sat on the stairs strumming his guitar and singing quietly to himself. The new song Ally had written for him was amazing, he loved it. In fact, he might even go as far as to say this was her best one yet... Austin shook his head and ran a hand through his blonde locks.

Really? Thinking about Ally again, huh?

Austin groaned quietlyputting his guitar down and resting his head in his hands for a moment. For the past couple of weeks his mind would jump to Ally for no reason, one minor thought about something completely random and his head would find some way or another to relate it to Ally. It was so darn annoying!

Pulling his head out of his hands Austin looked around the store to see what Dez was up to. Nothing. Dez was just stood there in the corner of the store, staring at his hands? Austin moved slightly to get a better look at his red headed friend and it was only then did he realise it was not his hands he was looking at but his phone. The blonde chuckled, last week Dez had got a new phone after the kangaroo had destroy his old one, and ever since Dez had been permanently attached to the thing.

Over at the cashier register Ally was writing in her 'sacred' book and humming absent mindedly to herself. A small smile crept it's way onto Austin's face as he watched her in her own oblivion, it was adorable.

"Ugh!" He groaned out loud, and slammed his head backward to stare up at the high ceiling.

"Are you alright Austin?" Ally asked, closing her book and walking over to check on her friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine," He replied not bothering to look at the perky brunette.

"You sure? Cause you don't seem it."

"I said I'm fine!" He snapped.

"Okay, okay... Sheesh, what's gotten your panties in a twist?"

Austin shot her a glare, "Haven't you got a job to do?"

"Austin what's wrong with you today?" Ally asked, her eyebrows furrowing together.

"Nothing!"

"Oh really? Because you're acting kinda rude," Ally shot back as she was beginning to get annoyed with his tone.

"Even if there was something wrong, I don't wanna talk about it!" Especially since you're the one causing all of my problems...

"Well, fine, whatever then!" Ally yelled attracting attention from customers around the store.

"Why don't you take a picture? It would last longer," Austin growled at the now shocked customers.

Ally watched in distress as a handful of shoppers left, disgusted with Austin's rude behaviour. "Would you shut up? It's one thing yelling at me, but another to yell at my customers."

"Oh yeah, because like my yelling is any different to yours."

Ally looked taken aback, "Fine. If that's how you want to play it."

"It is."

"Okay then."

"I guess we're done here."

"I guess we are," Ally answered haughtily as she marched back over to the cash register. "Now if you don't mind I have customers to serve."

Austin let out a snort, "What customers Ally?"

Ally looked around her father's store and sure enough Austin was right. The majority of the prospective buyers had left and the only remaining ones were still watching herself and Austin fight.

"Whoa! What happened in here?" Trish asked as she entered Sonic Boom.

Dez who had now slipped his phone into his pocket, becoming disconnected from it for what Austin believed was the first time in weeks, answered, "Austin and Ally here had a -"

"Slight disagreement," Ally finished, shooting a glare in Austin's direction. She just couldn't understand why he was so... snappy, today.

"Slight disagreement?" Dez chortled. "Wouldn't huge argument that scared off all the customers fit better?"

Ally's glare was breifly removed from Austin and shot towards Dez, but she quickly returned shooting daggers at Austin with her eyes seconds later.

"Again?" Trish asked, her eyebrows raised. "What's wrong with you two? You don't usually fight this much, but this week it's like your Dez and that kangaroo."

Austin who was now stood beside Dez chewed his lip in thought. Trish had a point but last week his mind wasn't being bombarded with thoughts of Ally quite so often... Sure she had been on his mind a lot last week and the week before that but ever since they had hung out last week to 'bond' she'd practically been on his brain 24/7. He knew Ally cared for him and when she had asked what was wrong she had only been asking with his best intrests at heart but couldn't she tell he wanted to be left alone? It was bad enough fighting with his brain for control over his thoughts, he didn't need to fight with Ally too.

"I thought your bonding last week would have sorted things out between you two," Trish said thoughtfully.

"Yeah, me too," Ally added quietly. Her glare had since softened and she was now looking at Austin with worried eyes.

Austin licked his lips, and made an attempt to fix things, "I'm sorry, I just... it's... I'm freaking out about the song, okay?" Freaking out about the song? Are you nuts? The boy inwardly face palmed, why did he say that? He was certainly not freaking out about the song. It was Ally that was causing all the freaking.

"What? You don't like it?" Ally asked, sounding hurt.

"No! No!" Austin quickly assured her. "I love it. I'm just worried that I might not, sing, it right."

Ally laughed, "Seriously? That's what's got you so uptight?"

Trish joined in with the laughter, "You're uptight over a song? Isn't that usually Ally's job?"

Ally stopped laughed and shot a playful scowl at her friend.

Trish ignored this an focused her attention on Austin, "Well, why don't you just have a chill out day? No music. You and Ally could go see a mpvie, since you're so uptight and it's putting your work relationship on the rocks as a result. I think 'She's Carly now' is show over at the premiere."

Got to the movies with Ally? That would be awesome. They didn't really hang out much outside their music and the store, maybe this is what they needed, right?

"Uh, sure. That sounds good I guess. What about tonight?" He asked turning to Ally. His heart was thudding that loudly he was pretty sure everyone in the store could hear it.

"I can't," And with those two words his heart stopped thudding quite so hard and resumed to it's regular tempo. "I'm working late tonight and I was thinking of starting on your next song while I was at it."

"What? We haven't even finished with the last one yet," Dez said eyes wide.

Ally shrugged, "It's not bad to be on top of things Dez."

"I could stay and help if you want?" Austin offered.

The petite brunette looked thoughful for a moment before answering, "Sure. That sounds great. Not many people come in as late as the store is usually open so we should be able to work undisturbed for quite some time."

"Sounds good. Just like when we wrote, 'Break down the walls.'"

A smile smile became visible on Ally's face, "Yeah, just like that."

With their plans decided, Austin returned to his guitar in a better mood than he'd been in fifteen minutes ago, Dez returned to his phone - it was like he needed that thing to breathe or something - and Ally unlike the boys did not turn back to her book but instead began talking to Trish about Trish's latest job.

Although Austin would not admit it out loud, he could not wait for tonight.