My life has changed so much in the past few days I feel like I need to start writing them all down. Who knows maybe this journal will eventually become a best selling book, I am famous after all. Anyway, I'm Austin Moon and a few days ago I was an ordinary high school freshman and now I'm a rising pop sensation. I'm not sure what really started my love for music, my parents made me take music and dance lessons starting at a very early age, but I don't think I fell in love with music until Middle school. At the end of my eighth grade year there was a school wide talent show and my best friends Dez pretty much made me sign up. He's always got my back and I love him for that. Anyway I performed some crazy pop song and had an absolute blast doing. I realized then just how much I loved performing for other people and feeding off the energy of a crowd, its thrilling. And it doesn't hurt that all the girls in the audience seemed to fall in love with me, that's a nice bonus.

After that night all I could think about was becoming a musical superstar. I've never been good at school and though I'm a pretty talented athlete I've never felt all that fulfilled playing sports. So I was thrilled to finally find something that I was good at and just had tons of fun doing. Dez, my parents, and pretty much every girl in my school told me I was really great. Dez told me it was his goal in life to make me a star. He said he was gonna direct a music video cool enough to go viral and be seen by millions.

I guess I should explain that Dez has this crazy dream to become a movie director. Well I used to think it was a crazy dream, but now that I'm gonna be a mega music star I guess anything is possible. Anyway after that night Dez and I spent all summer trying to figure out what song I should sing for the video and how to make the video. We didn't have tons of luck, I'm not much of a song writer and neither of us is all that focused. We are both very easily distracted so very little work actually got done that summer.

By the time school hit and we both entered High School we realized how much time we wasted over the summer and decided that we just needed to brainstorm and figure out the video and hope a song would come to us. The video part came easy once I told Dez how many instruments I could play. He's the creative genius in our duo and he had the awesome idea to have me playing all the different instruments and singing and edit each different "Austin" into the same shot. It sounded really cool and I wanted to give it a try.

So one day last week Dez and I went to this awesome music shop at the mall called Sonic Boom to try to figure out which instruments I should be playing and maybe borrow or rent the ones we would need to make the video. That's the day I met Ally and the day that shook up my life a bit.

Dez and I were messing around with the drums in this shop; I'm pretty sure I was playing the drums with corndogs. Anyway that's when Ally came over and freaked out about me playing the drums at all, I guess there was some sign or something that I completely missed. Anyway it was kinda cute how Ally tried to be all mean and strict about the whole thing, I just laughed it off and apologized and told her about the music video I wanted to make and asked her if maybe she'd wanna let us borrow some instruments for a night or two. Once again this tiny little girl tried to turn into this mean authoritarian. I couldn't help but smirk a little bit, but it seemed like we really made her a little upset and we definitely weren't gonna be getting any instruments from her.

So we decided to hit up the food court and get some Minis pizzas. I kinda felt bad for putting that girl ally in such a mood and for some reason I just couldn't let it go so I decided I was gonna go back and apologize after we finished eating. I told Dez to go home and plan out how he wanted to shoot the video. I told him I wanted to try one more time to get the instruments.

I went back to Sonic Boom, but Ally wasn't there anymore and I was disappointed, though I'm not really sure why. But just when I was about to leave I heard a faint song coming from an upstairs office or something and wanted to check it out. So when the weird guy behind the counter wasn't looking I sneaked up the stairs to try to get a closer look. The door at the end of the hall was open just the slightest bit, and I quietly went up to it and looked in.

Ally was playing the piano and singing along. I never would have guessed that she would be that talented, but damn can that girl sing. And the song she was singing was pretty sweet, I was almost immediately singing along. I decided to walk in quietly and approach her about the song.

"I like the song but I think its missing something."

Ally jumped when she realized I was in the room, "What are you doing here? How long have you been listening?"

She spoke really fast and kind of blushed lightly, it made me laugh a bit, "I wanted to come apologize about earlier and heard your song from downstairs."

Her eyes went big, "You could hear me downstairs!"

"Yeah and I meant what I said its a good song, but I think you should speed it up a bit. Maybe add a little pop to it." I sat down next to her sped up the song a bit and sang along. She seemed to get excited and took over playing the piano and started to sing with me. We sounded pretty awesome together and I really liked the song. I think it was just my innate male desire to impress every girl who gives me even the slightest of glances, but I decided to get up and dance a little bit while we sang.

I know my life is in for a huge change in the coming weeks and months, but I don't think I'll remember anything more clearly than those few moments with Ally singing and messing around in her practice room. That's also why I'll never regret anything more in my life than what I did next.

I don't totally know why I did it, I had my reasons. I made myself believe it wasn't a big deal. That maybe I was actually doing her a favor by stealing her song and actually getting people to listen to it. Regardless I know now that it was a horrible mistake, I could have totally blown my friendship with Ally before it even started.

The story pretty much goes like this. After Ally and I hung out and sang together for an hour or so I remembered I had to go meet Dez and try to work on our video. When I showed up at his place he had somehow managed to get a whole bunch of instruments for us to use. I couldn't believe it, but I guess he has some crazy aunt who collects instruments or something, but I wasn't about to complain.

Our problem then became the song, we got everything set up to shoot, but we still didn't have a song and I knew we had to get something going if we were ever gonna get the video done, so I just figured we'd use Ally's song. I guess I just didn't really consider the consequences; I figured the video probably wouldn't amount to much so I doubted if it would hurt anything. Little did I know that the video would go viral.

Dez must have stayed up all night editing that video because by the time I got to school the next morning he had already started showing to everyone he could find. He get's excited very easily. It was an odd feeling when I got to school that morning it was Dez showing everyone the video. After first period I was seeing random kids in the hallway watching the video. By lunch time everyone at school was staring at me, girls were giggling and smiling and I knew our video must be a pretty big hit.

That's when it hit me. Ally had to have seen the video by then. So I skipped lunch to try and find Ally and explain what happened. I can't believe that I was so stupid to forget about her feelings and steal the song she worked really hard on. Anyway I sprinted all over the school trying to hunt her down. Eventually I gave up and sat down against my locker.

I try to be a good guy I really do, but for some reason I always make stupid mistakes. I'm not sure why Dez even sticks by me as a friend, I can be a real jerk. I'm sure its the reason that Dez is my only real friend. And it seems like I always ruin any chance at getting new friends. It gets pretty depressing that's why I was sulking against my locker, I was positive that I had ruined any chance at a friendship with Ally and I was mad at myself. As I sulked a loud and angry girl rushed down the hallway with me in her sights. Her name was Trish and she was Ally's best friend and I certainly wasn't prepared for what was coming my way.

"HOW DARE YOU!" Trish screamed at me and I was startled out of my stupor as Trish towered over me with her hand on her hip. "I can't believe you would take advantage of Ally like that! You are a jerk and I hope you wake up with scorpions in your bed every morning from now until the day you die!" And at that she stormed off.

I was in shock a bit and the few people that weren't already staring at me definitely were now, but at the same time I knew she was right and I deserved everything she said to me. Though I could probably do without the scorpions. I skipped class the rest of the day; I just couldn't focus. As much as I wanted to be famous and be able to be out on stage performing, I didn't want to do it by walking all over people I considered friends. I knew I had to apologize to Ally once again even though I didn't deserve my forgiveness, she certainly deserved my apology.

After school that day I had a mission. I had more and more stares as I wandered through the mall, but I barely noticed them. I finally made it to Sonic Boom and I saw Ally at the counter through the window. Trish was there too. I took a deep breath and went in, Trish saw me right away and pounced.

"NO! Get out! Stay away from Ally haven't you done enough damage." Ally looked up surprised to see me. I looked past Trish to Ally and pulled the flowers out from behind my back.

"Ally, I'm really sorry, I don't know what I was thinking. I promise I'm gonna make this right." Ally was about to say something when Trish jumped in again.

"Ally, please tell me you aren't gonna give this jerk another chance. He just wants to use you."

I looked straight into Ally's eyes and simply asked, "Can we talk?" She nodded and motioned to the stairs. I followed her up to the practice room and I may have given Trish a look on the way up, I'm sure if you asked her she would say I did.

When we got to the practice room we were both really quiet until I offered her the flowers.

"These are for you." I paused and got ready to start again until she jumped in instead.

"Why? I thought we had a really good time the other day. Was it all just a ploy to steal my music?"

"Absolutely not. You have to believe me when I say that I thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with you too. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever had so much fun with someone."

Ally smelled her flowers and sat on the piano bench. I sat next to her.

"I don't know why I do the things I do Ally. I'm a huge jerk and I know it. There's no excuse for what I did and I want you to know that I'll make it right. I'll have Dez take the video down or I'll make sure we credit you on there or something. I honestly had no idea that it would spread like this. I didn't expect the whole school to watch it."

At that Ally perked up a bit and smiled a little, "You're kidding right, Austin? Its not just the school. Your video has almost a half a million views. You're famous Austin." I couldn't believe it, I was so focused all day on apologizing to Ally that I didn't even think about the fact that the video might have exploded far outside our school and our friends. I couldn't help but start to smile, I was actually starting to get traction with my musical career, but then I remembered that I got that traction because of a lie and my smile disappeared. I opened my mouth to speak, but Ally stopped me with a smile, " I forgive you, Austin. Sure it hurt at first, but you made my song awesome and I know you feel bad about taking it without asking. You're a good guy, even if you can be a little stupid sometime."

I smiled, "Thanks Ally, and I'll make sure we get your name on the video as the songwriter." Then I had a bright idea, "Or maybe we could do a whole new video with you and me doing a duet, that would be really awesome and you are easily as talented as me if not more so."

Ally just shook her head nervously, "No way, remember how I said I don't share my music with anyone? Well I meant that seriously. Before the other night nobody else had ever heard me sing and only my parents have ever even heard me play. I have horrible stage fright. I freak out anytime I'm in front of people."

I considered it a second and realized that the hour we spent together the other night meant as much to her as it did to me. "Well I'll have to see what I can do about that. 'Cause if I'm gonna be famous, you're gonna be famous too, even if its just as my song writer. There's no way I could do this without you."

I really meant that too. I've never been good at writing music so me and Ally are a perfect fit. She's a songwriter whose afraid to perform and I'm a performer who can't write music. I know we're a perfect match and I know were gonna do awesome things together.