Hey! I'm so excited about this story I can't even express it. I have so much new ideas but I will tell you this story will probably be shorter than the first one. Reason being is I'm trying to make chapters longer (if you've read Bus Boy you know what I'm talking about :))

Anyways, back to my little...explanation if you will.

Love Is Waiting was so much fun writing but I've always felt bad how I left things off, so this story is gonna explain A LOT that wasn't revealed in the first one because as you know, a lot of loose ends were never tied.

On a side note, this story is going to have more conflict with A&A kinda like Teen Beach 2 (of course it won't END the way that did cause I don't think I could leave it that way or even think of leaving it that way).

Also, on a happier note, this story is going to be a lot of fun; I'm gonna try to have Trish in this one too cause she wasn't really in the first one which kinda bummed me out although Carrie will still be Ally's best friend as far as this story is concerned.

Lastly I wanted to add that there'll be more fluff with the characters other than A&A because I think that's important and they shouldn't be pushed aside just 'cause this is an Auslly story, am I right? I mean, we've got Ally always trying to hook people up and that's fun to write about :)

I think my ramble is done now…

I'm pretty sure none of you read this but I have a small sliver of hope because it'll give you what's to expect with this story which I think is good for an author to do. *Pats self on back*

Random person: STOP PATTING YOURSELF ON THE BACK AND GET ON WITH IT!

Me: Would you like to write the chapter?

Random person: …

Me: That's what I thought :)

(Expect more of this just cause I'm weird.)

I OWN NOTHING!


Ally's eyes flew open quickly. She jolted herself up, feeling her heart beating out of her chest and it was beating strongly and rapidly, reminding her that she was alive. Her bones ached with with pain and her elbows and knees were still red; and her leg, now with a bandage on it, was scraped with a nasty four inch cut.

Letting herself relax, she leaned back down on her back, wrapping the warm blanket around her body and thinking about this for a moment.

She was dreaming of the cliff and the raging river beneath it and the falling and the screams of protest.

But something was different.

It wasn't her who was falling down, it just felt like that.

It was none other than Austin Moon who fell down.

And something else was different.

Austin didn't fall, he was pushed. It wasn't by Kira or Jimmy. It...was her.

Ally.

She would never do that in a million years. He was the love her life.

Why would I dream something like that? she wondered.

She didn't want to tell anyone about this, along with her other nightmares she had since the incident. A lot of times she had dreams about her parents, which weren't nightmares but things she wanted to be personal. Other times they were straight-up nightmares that she couldn't even explain if she wanted to. And, lastly, she had ones like the one she just woke up from.

Those dreams were mainly about the cliff, Jimmy, Kira, when Austin was kidnapped and tortured, and often when she was in the river drowning.

But this was by far the worst she had ever had.

Not wanting to think of her nightmare any longer, Ally hurled herself out of bed and limped out into the kitchen to make breakfast. Light shone through her window, telling her it was a good time to make a healthy breakfast all by herself.

The reason I say 'all by herself' because over the past few days, Ally had been under house arrest. Elliot nor Vanessa allowed her to go anywhere or anyone to come to their house as if her injuries were contagious; they didn't let Ally do barely anything, so she had a lot of time for sleeping, which led to her different paths of dreams.

The thing that sucked about house arrest was that she didn't get to go to school, in which she hated missing. She already missed a lot. But the doctor did say that she should stay home and take it easy for the last couple days.

Her doctor also instructed that she took horrible medicine twice a day which quite frankly made her feel sick. But Vanessa and/or Elliot (depending on who was home) shoved it down her throat.

As Ally snuck past her sleeping siblings, she thought there was a small chnace that maybe at least one of her friends would be able to come over, even if it wasn't for a whole day. She missed her friends.

It seemed like forever, but she finally made it to the kitchen, making something for herself for once without Vanessa and Elliot getting it for her. She simply made cereal and placed the bananas she had cut up in the cereal and she had herself breakfast. It felt nice making something for herself. It bothered her more than she wanted to admit how different her siblings were practically tripping over each other to get whatever she asked for as if she was their queen or something. She knew that in the end they were just worried and thankful that she had survived the fall.

Sitting down on the table, Ally ate in a comfortable silence. In this silence, she thought more. The thinking turned into questioning.

A lot of questions floated into her head when she thought of everything that happened on the day she fell off the ciff. Who was Kira, really? Why were her and her father so angry? Who was Mark? What happened to him? It dawned on her that her experience was just a dream and nothing more. Were near death experiences really possible? That'd explain the bright light that she was headed for. The doubt that filled her mind was if Kira actually went to heaven. That's what made her believe it was a dream.

No, she argued with her own mind. Kira had to have some good in her, she thought. Everyone had good deep down, and it must have tooken something terrible to make person that way, making one think why they were so cruel. Kira had to have had a good reason by doing all that she did, but Ally doubted it.

Out of all the questions, the only one she could answer was the most challenging that no one but her had an answer to: why did she forgive the girl that slapped her best friend? The girl that beat her sister? The girl that kidnapped Austin? That pointed a gun to her head? She had an answer, yet, she was still trying to figure it out herself. The best thing Ally could say right now that forgiveness was the key to get over things and move on.

But for Ally, that wasn't happening. If it was, she wouldn't be having those nightmares. She told herself that it was going to take some time to heal.

"What are you doing up so early?" a sleepy voice asked. It was none other than Vanessa. Ally instantly knew it was going to be a lazy day based on the way her sister looked. Her dark hair was mattered with bed head; she wore white, baggy pajama pants that had roses on them and a white t-shirt that read I'm #1 and lastly her feet were covered with her bunny slippers.

Ally took another bite of her cereal, somewhat amused with her tired sister who looked like she wanted to sleep forever, but she could sleep when she was dead. "Couldn't sleep," she answered, finally. It wasn't exactly a lie. Whenever she had a nightmare she tended to stay awake for awhile and linger until she could clear her mind and fall back asleep- which was mostly if it was in the middle of the night.

Vanessa nodded but didn't say anything as she made her way into the kitchen, grabbed an apple, and sat down next to her. It was silent for a while. The only sound was chewing.

"So how are you today?" Vanessa asked, taking another bite into her apple.

"A little sore," she admitted, knowing that probably wasn't the best thing to say because Vanessa would jump right up for the medicine and she'd be in house arrest for another long day. "But other than that, I'm okay," she said in a rush.

"Oh, I'm glad to hear it," she smiled, staying where she was. Ally sighed in relief, guessing that Vanessa was too tired to even think of the medicine.

Just as she was about to ask her sister if there was a possibility that she'd be able to see her friends today, she got a text from Carrie. It was a picture of her and the rest of her friends sitting at the lunch table, looking sad by hanging down their lips from their mouths. Below the picture Carrie had texted We miss you!

Ally smiled at this. Her phone buzzed once again.

And Austin says he loves you.

Ally blushed, and another message came.

He said he would have texted you himself, but he left his phone at work and won't get it back until tonight.

Ally had almost forgotten about Austin's job as a pizza delivery guy. He didn't mention it a lot because he always told her it was "embarrassing". She remembered only a few mouths ago when she had ordered a pizza and Austin happened to be the delivery guy.

"Why look at you," another voice said. She looked up and saw Elliot leaning against the table staring down at her with a smile. "You've gone all red."

If anything, this caused her to blush even more. She had no idea how long Elliot had been there, watching her smile and blush like a lovesick idiot. "I...Carrie texted me saying that Austin said to tell me that he loved me."

"Awwwww!" Vanessa said.

Elliot sat down. "So, are you two a thing?" he asked.

Ally opened her mouth to reply, but she closed it. She had no idea how to respond to that. Even if she did love Austin, it was never official that they were dating. After all, they hadn't even gone on a date! They were more than friends, of course, but at the same time they were best friends. Was it best friends with benefits? she wondered, tilting her head. Suddenly her throat went dry as she squeaked out a small "I dunno."

Vanessa snorted a laugh. "You don't know?" she mocked.

Elliot laughed too. "You're funny Pigeon, you know that?"

"Why are you laughing?" she asked irretably in a deep, unfriendly voice as she furrowed her eyebrows proving that she was serious. "I don't know and that's he truth!"

Her siblings stopped laughing and Vanessa gestured her hands, telling her to take it easy. "Defensive much?" Elliot smirked.

"Whatever," she said, taking a big bite into her cereal, not wanting to talk about her and Austin's complicated relationship. Was it really that complicated? Or were they making it harder than it needed to be?


A few days came and went, and, finally, Ally was able to attend to school again. Many people had asked her why she was gone for a week. But she didn't tell them the truth; she decided that she was going to keep it to herself and only the people who witnessed it would know.

It was lunch time, but Ally wasn't hungry. Instead, she lingered in the choir room and song lyrics had came to her. Once she wrote them down, she sang her new song aloud.

"Come on, come on don't leave me like this

I thought I had you figured out

Something's gone terribly wrong, you're all I wanted

Come on, come on don't leave me like this

I thought I had you figured out

Can't breathe whenever you're gone

Can't turn back, now I'm haunted."

Upon finishing the chorus of her song, a round of loud claps came from behind her, causing her to make a small sound of surprise and fall of the bench. And she knew exactly who it was coming from. "Austin!" she exclaimed in a whining voice.

"Sorry!" The blonde apologized frantically and helped her up.

"How long have you been here?!"

"The whole tine, practically. I hid behind the drum set," he explained as he took both of her hands and heaved her up.

Feeling a loss of balance for the second stumbled slightly right into his arms. "Careful love," he said gently, lifting her back up.

Finding herself blushing again, she giggled. "Thanks."

"Anyway," he said, looking nervous. "The real reason I was here was because I had a surprise for you."

"Really?" she asked, not even trying to hide her excitement. "What is it?"

"You'll see." Austin sat down on the piano bench and she sat closely next to him.

He smiled at her, then looked down on the piano and started playing a familiar, calm melody that Aly recognized immediately. It was the melody of one of her favorite songs, Shooting Star.

"Close your tired eyes, relaxing them
Count from one to ten and open them
All these heavy thoughts will try to weigh you down, but not this time

Way up in the air, you're finally free, and you can stay up there, right next to me
All this gravity will try to pull you down, but not this time

When the sun goes down, and the lights burn out,
Then it's time for you to shine
Brighter than the shooting star, so shine no matter where you are
Fill the darkest night, with a brilliant light,
'Cause it's time for you to shine
Brighter than a shooting star, so shine no matter where you are, tonight

Whoa, whoa, whoa
Brighter than a shooting star,
Shine no matter where you are, tonight

Gazing into my eyes, when the fire starts,
And fan the flame so hot, it melts our hearts
All the pouring rain, will try to put it out, but not this time

Let your colors burn, and brightly burst,
Into a million sparks, but all dispersed and illuminate a world,
That'll try to bring you down, but not this time

When the sun goes down, and the lights burn out,
Then it's time for you to shine
Brighter than the shooting star, so shine no matter where you are
Fill the darkest night, with a brilliant light,
'Cause it's time for you to shine
Brighter than a shooting star, so shine no matter where you are, tonight

Whoa, whoa, whoa
Brighter than a shooting star,
Shine no matter where you are, tonight

A thousand heartbeats beating time, and makes this dark planet come alive
So when the lights flicker out tonight, you gotta shine

When the sun goes down, and the lights burn out,
Then it's time for you to shine
Brighter than the shooting star, so shine no matter where you are
Fill the darkest night, with a brilliant light,
'Cause it's time for you to shine
Brighter than a shooting star, so shine no matter where you are, tonight

Whoa, whoa, whoa
Brighter than a shooting star,
Shine no matter where you are, tonight."

Ally thought that she might have cried, but she didn't. He always told her that he was going to play that song for her, and now he did. "You actually did it," she whispered, smiling. "I didn't think you were serious about it."

"Oh, I was," he replied proudly.

"Well...thanks," she said, not sure how else to really compliment him. He did have a great voice. But she loved every moment of it, and the whole time she smiled like a lovesick fool the whole time. This boy does things to me.

Austin nodded, thenjoying grew serious. "A-Ally?"

"Yes?"

"I've been trying to make sense of it since I found you," he continued.

"What is it?" she repeated, growing a little concerned.

"How?"

Ally never knew that a simple question could cause so much confusion. "Huh?"

"How?" repeated Austin. "How did you survive that fall?"

Ally didn't know how to answer that one, either. "I don't know I just...I...I'm still trying to figure it out myself."

"I understand."

"What about you? How did you find me?"

"It's a long story. Didn't Vanessa and Elliot tell you?"

"They just said it wasn't important."

"Oh, okay," he nodded.

"Will you tell me, please?" Ally begged, leaning on his shoulder.

"I will, but not here, not now. When we get home from school and after we finish out homework. Meet me at the park."

She did have a lot to make up, and it'd probably take her more than one day, and luckily she'd have more than one day. "Promise?" Ally asked quietly.

"I promise."


Finally it's done! Don't ask me why this took so long, I've been kinda lazy today and I've been trying to do this and I kept on taking breaks and I took like a two hour nap and then I was forced to watch a horror movie so yeah.

I really hope you like this as much as the first one and your reviews make me so happy I'm like blessed you know? XD

ANYWAYS, please review and hopefully I can be less lazy and get the next chapter out soon.

THANK GOD FOR SPRING BREAK! :D