~Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrow's, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waist it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.~ From Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver.

The colors around me blur and mash together. It's confusing, I shouldn't be in this house anymore especally with the flashing lights and music blasting everywhere I go. It's someone's Christmas party and at the moment I forget who's. I shouldn't have let Lizzy talk me into coming to this party and drinking. God I can be such an idiot. I'm 17, brown eyes and brown hair. I let my friends talk me into dip dyeing the ends to a caramel color and it looks good so I shouldn't be saying "let them talk me into it." 'cause I did want to. My thoughts are being cut off by someone screaming.
"Hey Alice!" Mike Jensen calls walking over to me. I roll my eyes.
"I told you earlier Jensen my name's Ally. A.L.L.Y." I spell. He's obviously drunk, much worse than I am. He stumbles into me and I hit the Christmas tree beside me almost knocking it over. Jensen is standing close to me, too close.
"Opps." he says, the smell of beer wafting in my face. I push him off of me and start to walk away. He follows. "Ally! Wait up!" I turn quickly and he almost runs into me.
"Good job you've finally remembered my name!" I say sarcastically. I'm trying to make my way outside or to find my friends that ditched me after we were inside for all of three seconds. Which ever comes first. "You wanna come up-stairs?" he asks walking closer if its possible.
"No thanks I'm trying to find my friends." I say quickly.
"They're up there." he says. I back up.
"I'm going outside. Bye!" I say quickly, turning and pushing my way through the crowd. Once I get outside I sit on the ground. My skirt rising up. I pull my phone out of my purse. WTF? Where are you guys? I text Trish my best friend. My phone buzz' and I quickly look at it. Inside the house. Dear god, she's drunk. I press the green phone botton on my phone and it starts ringing. After a few rings it goes to her voice mail. It beeps and I start leaving her a message. "What the fuck? Did you die within three seconds? Whatever, where are you guys?" I hang up and text her. WTH? Did you die within three seconds? I lay back and place my phone on my stomach over my shirt. It buzz' after sometime and I sit up wiping off the falling snow from my clothes and pick up my phone. I'm coming to get you. That's all it says. And with that I lay back down. My hair scattered all around my shoulders, snow in my hair and in my eye lashes. I smile and close my eyes. It's my favourite time of year, with the snow and the Christmas trees. I hear the crunch of snow being stepped on and then someone sitting down on it. I stay quiet not wanting to be annoyed by Jensen or Kevin or anyone else. Wanting to stay in this moment forever.
"It's beautiful isn't it?" he asks. I open my eyes and turn my head to the right and there sits a blond haired guy. He looks about 18 or 19 he's tall and he's wearing red converse with yellow laces, dark blue jeans and a plad long sleeve shirt thats open, he has a black t-shirt underneeth. He turns his head to his left and looks down at me. Our eyes lock and all I can see are his brown eyes with flicks of gold.
"Yeah." I say quietly, breathlessly. I watch as his eyes run over my legs and then the rest of my form.
"Aren't you cold?" he asks. I look down at what I'm waering. I'm waering a red skirt that comes to just above my knees but its higher because I was sitting and I'm waering yellow and red tank top with a light swaeter on. The red on my tank top covers my boobs. It fits perfectly. The red stopping just under my boobs then the yellow begining and ending on my hips and thats where my skirt starts. I'm waering warm boots, there brown and they have fur inside and they have just the perfect amount of heal.
"Eh, not really." I say obviously lying but hoping that he can't tell. I sit up straight.
"You're a really bad lier." he states.
"Thanks." he laughs. Good job Ally, good job. He starts to take off his shirt.
"Here." he says placing it over my shoulders. I smile up at him.
"Thanks."
"No problem. My name's Austin by the way."
"I'm Ally. Ally Dawson. Are you new here?" I ask looking up at Austin.
"Yeah. My family and I moved here a week ago."
"Where do you live?" I ask. He looks back down at me.
"22 Wise Street." I look at him with wide eyes.
"You're my new neighbor?!" I ask. I saw a guy living in that house 2 days ago getting out of the shower. I couldn't belive my eyes. I was standing in the bathroom doing my makeup and I looked in the mirror and there was a tall blond haired guy getting out of the shower. I quickly finished and ran to my bedroom picking out a cute outfit and running out of the house to meet Lizzy so we could get Trish, Sam, Marley and Alana. When I got outside the same guy that was getting out of the shower 20 minutes before was walking to a car getting in and taking off down the street. Once all 6 of us were in the car I told them about what happened. All Alana asked was "Did you see him?!" I kept telling her no but she kept asking.
"You're the girl?!" My eyes almost pop out of my head.
"What girl?" "The one that has the bedroom across from mine!" dear god! What did he see?
"What colors are the walls?" I ask. "A light red."
"Yup thats me."
"Oh my god!" Austin yells placing his hands over his eyes.
"What?!" Austin opens his mouth to say something when people walk out into the backyard yelling his name.
"Over here!" he yells back. The 5 guys and 1 girl all walk over. The girl and 1 guy has blond hair like Austin and the other three have dirty blond hair. "Ally this is my sister, Alice, my oldest brother Anthony, my older brother Adam and my younger brother Avery, and our family friend Clay but we call him Alexander because that's his last name. Everyone this is Ally. Our new Neghbour." "Seriously? This is the girl?" the youngest brother, Avery asks.
"Hey." I say simply.
"Hi, I'm Alice." Austin's sister says walking over to me and bending down. Clay follows.
"I'm Clay." he says.
"Hi Alice, hi Clay. I'm Ally."
"Hey, Aus we've gotta go. Mom and dad will be pissed that we brought Avery to a party and even more pissed when they find out he drank alchol even though we spesifcally said not to." Austin, Alice and Clay stand up.
"Alright. I guess we'll see you around Ally."
"Bye guys." I say as they walk away. I lay back again and notice he left his shirt with me. I sit up to put my arms through the sleeves and lay back again. I put my hands in the pockets and there's a peice of paper in the right pocket. I pull it out and it says.
'Austin Moon's # 289-880-9857' I pick up my phone go into contacts and add his name and number. I put the paper and my phone back into his shirt pocket and close my eyes with a smile on my face.
"Ally?" Trish asks stumbling out into the backyard.
"Yes?" I ask not opening my eyes. I can hear her stumble over and stop on my left side.
"Come on inside. We're going to leave soon. Lizzy and Blake are fighting again." I sit up and start to stand picking up my purse after I stand.
"Better go save her." I say. As we walk inside Trish looks me over and before we get in asks.
"Ally?"
"Yes?"
"Who's shirt are you wearing?" she asks and I close the back door locking out the cold and where I met Austin Moon. The boy next door.

A/N: So that's the first chapter... what do you think? The name of the street and house number and phone number are all random so if I need to change them PM and I will. Please review to let me know what you think!