Will It Be Forever?
Chapter 1: The Meeting
It was a beautiful summer's day in Los Angeles. Ally was sitting at a table in the middle of the mall cafeteria with her best friends Trish and Austin. All you could smell where burgers being made at the Burger Barn and hear lots of people talking. I was staring at the boy who works at the Burger Barn.
"So Ally, I was wondering if maybe we can work on a new song for Saturday's performance". Austin asked then taking a bite out of his spicy chicken burger. "Wow! That's hot"!
"Earth to Ally." Trish tells Ally.
"Hu? What? No, I don't like him!" Ally yells coming out of my trance.
"Who are you looking at Ally?" Austin asks Ally with a grin on his face.
"No one!"
"Yes you are. Who is he?"
"Okay fine! His name is Dallas and he works at the Burger Barn." Ally opens up. "I want to ask him out but I just don't know if he likes me."
"You will have to sooner or later" Trish tells Ally.
"Ya. I know"
"Anyway, moving on. So Ally can we go write a song now?" Austin says as he is throwing out his garbage.
"Ya. Sure we can .Let's go."
So Austin and I leave to go to Sonic Boom. It's a music store and I work there and my dad owns the store. And upstairs is the practice room where Austin and I write our music. We have a fridge up there in case we get hungry because we are up there writing songs for hours on end.
"So I have great idea for our song." I mention to Austin as both of us sit in front of the piano on our special piano bench.
"What is it?" Austin asks.
"It's about these two best friends who, no matter what have each other's backs".
"Can I hear it?"
"Sure." Ally says grabbing her songbook out of her purse.
My songbook means a lot to me. It's not just a random book where I write all my lyrics down in. It's also a book I write down my deep and most personal thoughts into. I don't know what would happen if I lost it. Even worse, if someone read it.
"Here I go."
When you're on your own
Drowning alone
And you need a rope that can pull you in
Someone will throw it
And when you're afraid
That you're gonna break
And you need a way to feel strong again
Someone will know it
I had this weird but good feeling in my stomach as I was singing this song for Austin. When I wrote these lyrics I thought of Austin because he is my best friend and he can come to me for anything. I finished the song and Austin had this face that he has almost every time he thinks that I have created a hit song.
"That was awesome!" Austin says with lots of enthusiasm.
"You think? Thanks Austin" Ally responds.
"Sure. Who is it about?"
"Who do you think? Us silly. You're my best friend and no matter what happens to you, you can come to me for anything. Do you understand me?"
"Awe thanks Ally. And of course I do and you can come to me for anything."
"Ya, I know" Ally sighs.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just…"
"Spill" Austin pleads.
"Well, you know that guy I was staring at in the mall?"
"Ya."
"Well, I really want to ask him out but I don't how to ask him." Ally says again.
"I have an idea. Why don't you practice on me?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean…Pretend I am .Now asks me out as if you were asking Dallas."
"Okay. Hi Dallas."
"Hi Ally". Austin says pretending to be Dallas.
"I was wondering if you would…."
"Wondering if what?" Austin returns.
"If you would like to go out on a date with me?" Ally finishes.
"Sure." Austin answers. "See wasn't that hard was it?"
"Okay. Maybe I can do this."
"See knew you could. Now go find Dallas and go ask him out!"
So Ally goes to find Dallas at the mall while Austin starts memorizing the song.
The next day Austin walks in and doesn't see anyone in the store yet so he goes up to the practice room and starts playing random keys on the piano. He plays for about ten minutes until he hears someone come into the store.
"Hey!" Austin says. "What do we have here?"
"Hey Austin this is Dallas, Dallas this is Austin my best friend." Ally says.
"Hey!" Dallas greets Austin.
"So you did ask him out! Good for you!" Austin speaks up.
"Yes I did."
Dallas looks at his watch. "Looks like it's time for me to go. I have a burger making job I must attend to."
Dallas leaves the store.
"So you want to go work on the song?" Ally asks.
"Ya. Sure."
So Austin and Ally work on the song for about an hour and a half.
"So?" Ally says.
"So what?" Austin replied.
"So Dallas and I are going on a date tonight and I was wondering if you could help me so I know what to do?"
"Ya. Sure."
Austin and Ally go sit on the couch behind the piano.
"So when you are on the date he might put his arm around you." Austin mentions as he puts his arms around Ally.
"And I can put my head on his shoulders." Ally adds as she puts her head on his shoulder.
"He will be so nervous that he will be speechless."
"And I will smile feeling butterflies."
"It'll be…" Ally starts.
"Perfect." Austin and Ally say at the same time.
They look at each other and suddenly they weren't acting anymore. Austin felt this feel he has never experienced in his life.
Still, with there arms wrapped around each other. "How… was that?" Austin asks slowly.
"It was fun. I think I'm ready for the date" Ally looks at the clock. "Oh! I better go home and get ready. See you later!"
"Bye!" Austin replies.
As soon as Ally leaves the store he heads over to his best friend's house. His name is Dezmond but most people call him Dez. Austin knocks on the door and his mom answers.
"Can I speak with Dez?" Austin asks.
"Sure." Dez's mom replies. "Dez! Austin's here!"
Dez comes running around the corner holding a potato chip bag and eating them.
"What's up buddy?" Dez asks Austin.
"Um. Can you keep a secret?"
"Uh. Ya of course you can you know how many secrets I know!"
"No I don't because you don't tell me them."
"Exactly!"
"Okay. Ally and I were practicing for Ally's date with Dallas…"
"Wait, she is going out with him…"Dez interrupts. "Ally can do so much better. Anyway…Continue."
"And when we were hugging on the couch…It felt like we were on a date with each other."
"Ya… What's your point?"
"The point is" Austin continues. "I like Ally!"
