Hey guys, so this is my first venture into the world of Austin & Ally. I've been watching since the pilot and I absolutely adore this show. Last night I watched Clueless and discovered that actually, Austin & Ally would work really well with the Clueless plot and so... TADA!

It is a work in progress but bear with me because I loved writing this first chapter.

Please read and review guys, it means a lot :)

Ally Dawson grinned to herself as she checked, double checked and finally triple checked the contents of her school bag. She had all the correct books, her summer homework, a black, red and blue pen (2 sets of, just in case they ran out), a notebook and thirteen subject dividers all neatly organised into each class. She had her lunch money and a jacket (what? It might be cold later), her cell phone and last, but certainly not least, her laminated map of the school.

"Ally, Austin is at the door for you!"

"I'll be right down, Dad." She yelled.

Ally checked herself over once more in the mirror, satisfied that her dark brown curls were in perfect formation and that her outfit was sleek and ironed, she picked up her school bag and left her bedroom.

"Hey, Ally," Austin Moon stood on her doorstep, hands in his pockets, a small smile on his features.

"Austin." Ally grinned, linking her arm through his. "How are you this fine morning?"

Austin cocked his head, confused.

"You're in a good mood today."

"Why shouldn't I be? It's the first day back at school!" She squealed

"Because! It's the first day back at school," Austin echoed, his voice considerably less excited than Ally's.

Ally spared a withering glance at the tall boy beside her. He grinned down at her with big chocolate eyes until his blonde hair swept into his eyes and she could no longer see him. Ally couldn't help but laugh.

"Come on, Austin! What's not to love about school? You get to learn and do homework and sit in the library-"

"Ally, you're so boring, everything you've just listed is really dull. You're making me want to turn around and never come back."

"Fine! What about..." the brunette paused, her finger tapping on her chin, "Sports! You love sports!"

"Not anymore; Jimmy said no." He pouted at her and shrugged sadly.

"Well you are a big pop star now, what if you seriously injure yourself or worse-"

"Ally, Come on! Stop being my Mum!"

"Sorry," she grinned sheepishly and nudged his side with her shoulder. Austin was a good 6 inches taller than her, a fact he wouldn't let her forget, often using her shoulder as an arm rest. He propped his elbow on her and looked down at her again. "So you're not glad summer is over? What about seeing your friends and that kind of stuff?"

"I suppose so," he shrugged, relieving a mild amount of pressure from her shoulder. "It does mean we're going to have much less time to write songs together though."

"I hadn't thought about that," Ally replied sadly, shifting her bag to her other shoulder, struggling under the weight of it.

"Here," Austin offered, sliding the offending object off her arm and carrying it too. "Sheesh Ally, what've you got in here?"

Ally began to list everything and watched as Austin's eyes glazed over, clearly not paying her detailed list any attention.

"...and a laminated map!" She cried triumphantly

"A map? But you know you're way around! We've been here like 10 years,"

"Try 3 years." Ally rolled her eyes impatiently, "What if there's a lost new kid? Or a new section of the building?"

"Wow. You've really got all eventualities planned out, haven't you?" Austin grinned at her. His perfect straight teeth and boyish smile enough to melt any girl's heart. But not Ally's.

Austin and Ally had been best friends since Austin had vandalised her Dad's music store Sonic Boom over summer. Okay, maybe vandalised was a strong word but he came in every day after to apologise and soon enough, they were friends. As it turned out Austin was a great performer, he could dance and sing but unfortunately he was a terrible (a truly, awfully, horrific) song writer. Ally Dawson just so happened to be the perfect solution.

Ally would write Austin's songs, together they would come up with the melody, harmonies and written music and then Austin would perform them.

The short story is Austin became an overnight internet sensation and was snapped up by Austin's ex-girlfriend and incidentally Ally's best friend Kira's Dad: Jimmy Starr of Starr Records. Months later he had legions of screaming fangirls and a couple of screaming fanboys (including Austin's bizarre best friend Dez) and still Ally remained unfazed and unattracted to Austin Moon.

"Just because I'm prepared." Ally grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest. The pair slowed down coming to a halt outside Kira's house.

"I'll uh, see you at school."

"Austin-" Ally began, but he cut her off before she could convince him to stay.

"Alls, it's awkward enough as it is," he whined, "I'm gonna go and meet Dez, then I'll meet you at your locker with your stuff, okay?"

"I can take my stuff Austin, it's not a problem," but the boy was long gone, a casual wave thrown over his shoulder.

"Guess I'm walking with Kira today then," she muttered to herself before climbing the stairs to Kira's front porch.

She lifted her hand to knock but the door opened before she could and Ally was met with her grinning best friend.

"Hey girlfriend!" Kira grinned, high fiving Ally's still raised fist. "All ready for school? I'm not, I don't really want to go back, Daddy is helping me set up my singing career, I just wanna stay at home and record vocals all day! But Ally I have something really important to ask you, would you be able to write a couple of my songs for me? I mean, I know you write exclusively for Austin but I just thought considering we're best friends and all..."

Ally barely registered a word her friend was saying. Kira had practically skipped down the garden path, pulling Ally along with her. Ally barely had time to register the shock she felt at seeing her best friend for the first time since she came back from her vacation in New York. Boy, had she changed over the summer.

Gone was the girl in the glasses with a rucksack bigger than Ally's and instead a polished version of her best friend faced her. Her long dark hair, fell pencil straight down her back, she had a notebook under her arm and a fashionable handbag over her shoulder. In fact, it seemed like her friend had had a complete makeover. She seemed a lot more self involved than the last time Ally had seen her. This summer, Kira's Dad had taken her to New York to jump start her singing career and apparently the big city had changed her. Ally briefly wondered what Austin would think of his ex girlfriend and her new look before tuning back into Kira's conversation.

"...Which would make total sense you know? What do you think?"

Ally smiled weakly at the girl as they walked into the school gates.

"Yes?" The brunette tried hoping she'd guessed correctly.

"You're so right, my wedges would totally go better with my peplum skirt. When did you get so fashionable Alls?"

Ally rolled her eyes and continued to listen to Kira talk about shoes and clothes until they got to the main body of the school. The bell rang and Ally quickly cut short their stilted conversation.

"Sure, listen, I've got to go and find Austin, he's got my bag, but we'll talk later yeah?" She waited for her friend to nod in confirmation before darting off inside the main doors with a sigh of relief.

"Ally! Hey Ally! Wait up!" Ally whipped her head around at the sound of her friend calling her, her bangs following and hitting her in the face. "Dude, have you seen Kira? She's-"

"A total airhead now!" Ally interrupted.

"Hey, come on, so she just stopped me in the hall to talk about how there were no hard feelings and then gave me a lecture on the importance of wearing heels to school, but that doesn't mean she's a TOTAL airhead." Austin defended, passing Ally's book bag back to her. She smiled gratefully as the bell rang signalling their first lesson. Ally sighed in defeat.

"You're right, maybe I jumped the gun. She's still the same old Kira right?"

"Just with better hair," Austin affirmed nodding his head. He held open the door for Ally to pass through and then turned in the opposite direction. "See you at lunch! I'll save you a space."

But when Ally got to the cafeteria, saving a space was the least of her worries. The lunch room was absolutely swarming with people, mainly girls, focused around someone or something at the centre of the area.

At Ally's height it was very difficult for her to see what the commotion was. She looked around wildly trying to find Austin or Kira and eventually found the brunette waving her over from where she was stood on a chair looking into the centre with interest. Ally pushed her way through the crowd until she reached Kira who held out a hand and pulled her up onto the chair beside her.

"I can't wait until I'm that famous," Kira began "If Daddy can do that for Austin, he can do that for me." she sighed with a smile.

"Wait, that's Austin?!" Ally exclaimed in pure disbelief standing on tiptoes to see that familiar mop of blonde hair.

Austin stood alone, in the middle of the circle looking amazed as he signed autograph after autograph for admirer after admirer. Dez stood behind him also signing autographs for people who least expected it. Ally shook her head with a small smile. Austin seemed to be thoroughly enjoying himself.

"Looks like we're eating together today." Kira laughed, pulling Ally down beside her, both of the girls sharing one of the only seats left in the cafeteria. "Did you hear about the new girl? She's so sassy! I met her in first period and I was like 'I love you'"

Ally smiled. Maybe she had been wrong; it was nice to hear her old friend coming through. It was totally like Kira to adopt the new kid and make her feel welcome.

"But then, I saw her clothes and I was like 'ew no.'" Kira continued and Ally sighed, maybe not.

"Kira, what's the square root of Pi?"

"Huh? Oh, 1.772453850905516027298167483341"

"Yeah, okay."

So, Kira hadn't lost her smarts, she just seemed to have forgotten about them. Well it was better than losing her friend altogether Ally supposed.

The crowd began to disperse and Ally watched as through the thinning crowd walked a girl even shorter than herself. She hadn't seen her around before and the poor kid looked utterly lost. Ally regarded her closely, she was a pretty girl, shorter than her, Latina with long dark ringlets that fell halfway down her back and a brilliant clash of colour and animal print in her clothes.

She watched as the girl was repetitively barged into, her water sloshing all over the tray.

"Hey, watch where you're going kid!"

The girl growled something under her breath causing the guy who had shouted at her to turn back around in disbelief.

"What did you say?!"

"I said-" the girl began but Ally didn't catch the end of it. She leapt up from her seat, followed swiftly by Kira who had also spied the commotion and ran toward the girl.

"She said, pick on someone your own size."

Ally hadn't got there in time. But Dez had.

Everyone at school knew Dez as basically a huge ball of weird. Even Ally, who was probably the second weirdest kid at their school, avoided him if she could. But now, she couldn't help but smile as he rushed to the new girl's defence, standing in front of her protectively. The bully held out his hands as Dez stood nonchalantly in his personal space.

"I wouldn't start on a girl."

"Nah, go on, I wanna see I fight!" Dez grinned, sliding out of the way of the new girl.

"Dez!" Ally whined, taking his place. "Oh! Hey, Cody,"

"Ally," the boy in front of her nodded. "She cool with you?"

"Well," Ally deliberated. She wasn't exactly popular around here and she didn't want to get in a fight on her first day of school. Actually, she didn't want to get into a fight, ever. Cody interrupted her thought process.

"Look, if she's cool with you then she's cool with Austin so she's cool with me." Cody said gruffly.

"She's cool with me," Austin piped up, pushing his way through the crowd to get to the commotion.

Cody nodded, pivoted on the spot and stalked away, hands shoved deep in his pockets. The group were silent until Austin reached them.

"Everyone okay?" he asked, looking at Ally, then Kira, quickly over to Dez and lastly to the still unnamed girl.

The girl in question looked to Dez dreamily, a small smile on her face.

"Hi," she paused.

Ally shared a very confused look with both Austin and Kira,

"I'm Trish."

"Dez, Ally, Kira, Austin, Dez." Dez pointed to everyone individually circling back around to himself, "Oh wait,"

The girl Trish laughed loudly, tugging at a strand of her hair, still staring at Dez like he was Dylan O'Brien.

"Is she kidding?" Kira asked quietly and Ally shrugged slightly alarmed.

"Well, cancer isn't going to cure itself." Dez declared, flipping his hair and walking away.

Trish sighed after him.

Austin, still stunned into silence, patted Ally on the shoulder, whispered a quick goodbye and then sprinted after Dez.

"Don't worry sweetie," Ally turned around to see Kira with her arm around Trish's shoulders, "we'll take good care of you."

Trish smiled at Kira and then looked toward Ally, still pulling at a ringlet.

"Hey, have either of you guys got a map? This school is BIG." Trish asked.

Ally laughed loudly glad that she had proved Austin wrong about her map and pulled out her laminated copy.

"Here you go... hey!" Ally looked down at her map, in big black capital letters were the words 'YOU GIANT LOSER' accompanied by a smiley face and a horribly scrawled Austin Moon autograph. "I'm so going to kill him." She grumbled as she handed Trish the barely usable map.

"So I take it you guys aren't the cool kids around here." Trish groaned.

From that moment on she was part of their group.

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