Her song book was open at a random page. It was covered in doodles of flowers, stars and other random things. A few lyrics graced the page.
I've seen you twice, in a short time
Only a week since we started
It seems to me, for every time
I'm getting more open-hearted
Ally got stuck after that. She liked where she was going with the song, it was completely different to what she normally wrote, but she had some kind of inspiration. A smile tugged at her lips as she remembered what had happened the past week.
"Ally, come on we need to work on this project."
"Austin, I'm finishing up in the store. Can you please be patient for once?!"
"Aaaaaalllllyyyyyy."
"Fine. Go up to the practise room and I'll close up."
"YAY! Thank you Ally!" That earned her a quick hug. She shook her head as she moved over to the doors and turned the sign round to read "closed". She made sure the doors were locked and made her way up to the practise room.
The scene that awaited her was a rather dishevelled looking Austin and a pile of paper in the middle of the room.
"Do I dare ask what happened here?" She tried to sound annoyed, but the sight amused her too much for it to last long.
"Well, I was trying to write you a song so that I could impress you but they were all really terrible."
"Austin," she sighed. "We're meant to be doing a project, not song-writing."
"Sorry," Austin mumbled.
The project that Austin was so keen to get started on involved social media. Ally wasn't the best at technical things (books were more up her alley) so he wanted to teach her the basics before they went into building a website. She knew it was a fruitless effort, but Austin was determined. She wrote more down.
I was an impossible case
No-one ever could reach me
But I think I can see in your face
There's a lot you can teach me
So I wanna know
She chewed on the end of the pencil, before drawing it away from her mouth, realising how unsanitary that was. She shuddered slightly before looking down at the off-yellow pages of her sacred book. Her mom had given it to her before she left for Africa. She missed her mom a lot and could really have done with some advice. Austin had been acting weird after the song-writing incident and her dad wouldn't be of any help, even if he did try.
"Trish," Ally dragged out the i.
"What is it?" Her short friend barked at her. Said friend was currently flicking through a new magazine and didn't want to be interrupted.
"Why has Austin been avoiding me today?"
"Seriously Ally? I thought you were just friends now."
"Well, yeah. We are. But I just wondered."
"I'm sure he's just going through his guy time of the month." Trish said that with so much seriousness that Ally burst into laughter, which earned her a quick glare.
"Okay, okay. Maybe it is just an off day for him."
"Mhm, now can we please go back to silence?" Ally complied and flicked through her songbook, finding a new page to write a diary entry.
"Hey, Austin!"
"Oh, uh, hey Ally." Austin seemed distant still, which concerned Ally. The last time he was this bad was when they didn't have any pancake mix at his house.
"Are you okay?"
"I'll be alright. I gotta run, bye Als." Ally was left in shock. She couldn't believe what just happened, he'd never blown her off like that before. She tried to compose herself, so as not to cry at his disappearing form.
Ally blinked and wrote down some new lyrics that came to mind.
What's the name of the game?
Does it mean anything to you?
What's the name of the game?
Can you feel it the way I do?
Tell me please, 'cause I have to know
I'm a bashful child, beginning to grow
And you make me talk
And you make me feel
And you make me show
What I'm trying to conceal
If I trust in you, would you let me down?
Would you laugh at me, if I said I care for you?
Could you feel the same way too?
I wanna know
The name of the game
Some of the lyrics weren't relatable to her situation, but she never used the songs just for her. Not anymore. They were for her audience, which she only achieved with the help of a certain someone. She did wonder if he still felt the same way; it'd been so long since they'd discussed anything that she thought maybe his feelings had changed. As she thought more about his recent behaviour she wrote more and more lyrics.
A/N:
Wow, hey guys! I haven't used fanfiction in a while and I used to post (well, one story) in the SWAC section. Now I'm here and thought I'd try my hand at A&A. I hope this will do for my first story, I don't know whether I'll continue this or not, so if you guys are intrigued by it just leave me a review! I always have really cool ideas and then when I get to writing it the personalities of the characters immediately go out of my head, so I hope this isn't too bad!
Anyway, I hope this is good enough, maybe I'll post some more if the interest is there!