Someone has to know this, Austin I choose you.
Has life so far without me been good?
Got any new friends?
Me want to know.
And I need to tell you something.
Is it too much to ask for you to read my book?
Taking the time in doing this will make.
Me very happy.
To do this will make me happy.
Forty-two passages is all you need to read.
East.
Water you going to do about it?
Street signs of your life will roll by without me.
Bring me the joy of you knowing my darkest secrets.
Mybook is my life-line, and I trust you.
With it.
You do this.
And read the 42nd passage closely.
Help Trish and Dez get together, please?
Me love you…yes I just admitted that.
~Ally
I stared at the page in amazement, thinking that there was something Ally was hiding. She has perfect grammar and yet she says, 'me want to know.' Something is up.
And I want to get to the bottom of it.
I look to my right at the Ally's book that the note was taped onto, and open it. I felt like I was invading her space, but she had told me to read the 42 passages in the book, so I opened it.
The first thing I noticed was that pages were torn out before the first passage. The second thing I had noticed is that the passage was in blue ink, but on top of the page was the number one with a circle around it in red pen. I looked at the page, took a breath and started to read the first passage of Ally's book.
The first passage from the book of the girl I love.
Dear Diary,
Today has been the most infuriating, yet amazing days of my life! This one guy has turned myself completely upside down! He had deserved my hatred, this guy. His name is Austin Moon. The key word is HAD.
My first impression of him was completely obnoxious, from his acts. But when I first saw the guy playing the drums in Sonic boom two days ago, I thought he looked kind of cute. Platinum blond hair, brown eyes that you could easily get lost in.
SONG LYRICS
I love the things you do
The things you do is what I love.
Anyway, It was a normal day in sonic boom and I was working, and I accidently asked a old lady out on a date (it was extremely boring) when I suddenly heard a bunch of banging behind me. I turned around to see Austin, whom I hadn't know yet, banging around on the drums. Of course I was infuriated because there were no playing instruments in the store, but I did happen to notice that he had a pretty good beat. I got over there and whistled in his ear, I must say, loudly. When he stopped I asked him if he had seen the 'Please do not play the drums' sign. He replied with an 'It's okay, I'm an awesome drummer.'
I instantly knew that this guy had a head bigger than Texas.
When he held up what I thought at first were drumsticks, I saw that he was actually playing the drums with…corndogs?
He tried to play again, but I stopped him. "What you just said has nothing to with what I just said. Are those corndogs?" I asked.
He just nodded and took a bite out of one of the corndogs. How disgusting! I started to complain about he was breaking so many rules. I walked away and I heard Austin's red-headed friend, Dez, say, "I'll handle this Austin."
He walked up to me and said, "Mam, we are making a music video. I am the director, but I prefer the term, 'filmmaker.'" He flipped the camera he had in his hands, but didn't catch it, and it fell to the ground. "And CUT." He motioned and X over his neck with his hands.
Then Austin got up, "We're going to need a lot of instruments. I can play anything. Piano, drums, guitar, harp, I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet." And it turned out that he could!
Then Dez, being Dez, claimed he could play a harmonica through a sousaphone. But when he tried to play, the harmonica flew out and started to choke the old lady I was supposed to go on a date with.
I looked through the whole passage and realized that it was just the story of how we met, and how we became partners. Ally even wrote on the side, "Austin, you can skip this passage if you want to."
I looked around in the practice room and sighed. Ally really is gone. What are we going to do without her? Why did she leave? Where is she? Then I looked at the next passage and remembered I had forty-one more passages to go. I started to read the next passage…
Passage #2
Dear Diary,
I have figured out something since I had written to you last, and I think I knew it for the longest time, but I was just in denial.
I like Austin.
Not just a in a friend-like way, like in a crush-way.
It all started yesterday to realize it.
Austin, Trish, Dez, and I decided to go to the beach to celebrate a record deal Austin had got! I know! And the best part is that the head of the record lable, Jimmy Starr, is letting us run Austin completely! HE is just going to release the albums, that's it! I still get to keep my job as Austin's songwriter.
Anyways, when we got to the beach, I was out of it because I hate the beach, but everyone else wanted to go so I decided to go too. It turned out that this day would be one of the best days ever, and the day I figure out that I liked Austin Moon.
Suddenly the door opened and Trish and Dez appeared. I threw the book behind one of the chairs in the practice room and they came in. "Did you learn anything else about Ally going missing?" Trish asked.
"No." I responded sullenly. But I felt like I was going to know in the near future.