Ally's POV

I woke up to the sound of my older brother snoring. I sat up in the dark room filled with many street kids. We all lived in an old abandoned light house that was on a small island swimming distance from the coast of Miami. I lived here with my older brother, Carson, my little brother, Cody, and a bunch of other kids with no place to go. My mom died in a car crash when I was seven, and every time my dad saw any of our faces we reminded him of mom, so he left us. Carson found the light house with the other kids and took me and Cody there. We were all family. I felt like I couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to go ahead and get ready for school. I'm a sophomore at Miami High and summer's in a month! I'm soo excited! I mean schools great and I'm really lucky to be able to go, but I love summer!

I got into my little rowboat and started paddling to school. I'm the only one who lives at the lighthouse who actually wants to go to school in hopes of a better future. I try to get my homework, but usually I work at the bar trying to get money so that I can buy food to take back to everyone.

Once I got to school, I walked to my locker to see my one and only friend, Trish, waiting for me. "Ally! Where were you this weekend?! I told you to meet me at the football game! I was waiting for you the whole time!" Trish told me as I was pulling my books out of my locker.

"I told you that I was, um out of town this weekend," I tried to give a good excuse because no one, even Trish knew about my life, and I plan to keep it that way. If anyone knew they could tell the police and the police could split us up into different foster homes and we would never see each other again. The truth was that I was staying with Cody because he was really sick.

"Yeah right Ally, Were best friends! I know when you're lying! So what was it really?" She stared at me with a furious look. BRIIIING! Just then the bell rang.

"I gotta go! Can't be late!" I yelled over my shoulder as I ran off to class. I walked in to my first period class, math, and sat down at my usual seat in the back of the room and looked around. The teacher still wasn't there yet, and students were in groups laughing and talking. Everyone looked like they were having fun… Except for me.

My teacher, Mrs. Tom, walked in to the room with a tall blonde walking behind her. "Alright class, this is our new student, Austin Moon. I'm sure that you will all make him feel comfortable here. Austin, why don't you sit down next to Ally Dawson," she said while pointing towards me, "Ally, will you show Austin around today?" I nodded as Austin walked over towards me. Mrs. Tom started writing on the board and talking.

"Hey Ally!" Austin whispered as he took a seat in the desk next to mine. I looked up at him. He had perfect blonde hair, deep brown eyes, and a killer smile. I couldn't believe he was actually talking to me, but I knew it was just because he was new to our school.

"Hi," I whispered back with a smile. I tried to turn my attention back to the teacher but he kept looking back over at me, and it's really hard to focus when a cute guy keeps smiling at you.

When class was over, he followed me to my locker. "Why are you following me?" I asked him.

"I'm not! My locker's right here," Austin said as he pointed to the locker next to mine.

"Oh," I said blushing.

"You're really cute when you blush," he told me with a huge smile. This of course made me blush even more and smile at the ground like an idiot.

"My next class is science with Mrs. Olsen, do you know where that is?" he asked me, looking up from his schedule.

"Yeah, it's my next class too!" I said a little too excitedly. We went to class, and I walked him to all the rest of his classes until it was lunch time.

"Where do you usually sit?" he asked me as we were getting our food in the cafeteria.

"Over there," I said pointing to an empty table in the corner.

"Okay," he said while he was walking towards the table.

"You really wanna sit with me instead of making new friends?" I asked him. I usually sat alone because Trish was in a different lunch period then I was.

"Why wouldn't I wanna sit with you?" asked me. We spent the rest of lunch laughing and joking the whole time. It was the most fun I've ever had at school! I saved the food that I didn't eat and put it in my backpack to bring it back to the others.

"What are you doing?" Austin asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Umm, I'm just, uh, its incase I get hungry later." I'm a terrible liar, but thankfully he didn't question it.

We didn't have any classes together after lunch but in between every class we always saw each other at our lockers and we would joke around and laugh. At the end of the day I got my homework out of my locker and put it in my backpack as Austin ran up. "Hey Ally! You wanna hang out after school?" he asked me with a hopeful look in his eyes.

"I'm sorry but I have to work tonight." I told him sadly remembering my shift at the bar.

"Where do you work?" he asked.

"Umm, I'm gonna be late! Sorry! See you tomorrow!" I called out as I ran off.

Austin's POV

I watched sadly as my new friend ran off. I got my books and walked out to my car, a red pickup truck, and drove home. I walked into my house, right on the beach! You can see the ocean from my bedroom window! It's awesome! We moved here for my dad's job. You can even see a little light house on an island not far off the shore. "Austie! How was your first day of school?" My mom walked over to me and hugged me.

"It was good mom!" She kept asking me about it until I heard the door slam downstairs.

"It looks like your father's home," my mom said, "I'm going to go see how his dad was." She said as she walked out of my room. I turned back to the window in time to see a girl with brown hair push a row boat out into the water and jump in it.

"AUSTIN!" I heard shouting downstairs. I gulped. Dad must have had a bad day at work. He likes to yell at me when he's mad. At least he doesn't yell at my mom. I just hope he's not as mad as last time…