Wow, I definitely wasn't expecting that sort of reception on my very first chapter! Thank you all so much for the reviews! I appreciate you guys bearing with me since this is the first story I've ever written...so without further ado onto the story..
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Disclaimer: I don't own Austin & Ally or the Disney Channel.
Ally's POV
Ally arrives at her parents in her sleek red convertible and decides to leave the top down before parking the car in the driveway. She looks towards the front part of her childhood home to see her father Lester standing there on top of doorsteps waiting to greet her.
"Hey Princess, how are you?" Lester states towards his daughter with glee as he opens his arms up to envelop his baby girl into his warm embrace.
Inside his mind he says, "Man do I miss that bright smiley face around Sonic Boom."
"I'm great dad, you?" Ally says with excitement as she gives him one of her big smiles.
"I'm good honey. Austin told me that he left something for you inside. In the meantime you are here; I'm going to head over to Sonic Boom. Okay."
Ally nods her head in an understanding gesture as her father continues on saying, "Be safe and know that I Love you!"
Right after he finished his conversation with his daughter, Lester walks over towards his Lincoln Town Car. He looks at his daughter one more time with pride meanwhile preparing himself for a five minute drive to Sonic Boom.
Ally shouts out, "I love you too dad!" Before seeing her father's car drive off down the granite road.
Ally walks through the front door of her memorable home before making her way down towards the narrow hallway. The pathway leads her to the spacious kitchen with an island in the center of it. She walks into the room to find five different colored bouquets of roses on the kitchen counter. Each vase has lavender roses, coral roses, yellow tipped roses, hot pink roses and red roses.
Ally sees a card that reads out.
"There's a reason for the five different colored vases of roses. Each of these bouquets signifies a key point in our relationship for the past five years.
The lavender roses represent love at first sight. Because honestly the moment I laid eyes on you, I knew you were special. The yellow roses with red tips signify our friendship and when we started falling in love with each other. The coral roses mean the desire to be with you at all times, even when we weren't together, or in the same room. The hot pink roses are your absolute favorite. I think I finally understood why they are your favorite. These flowers are bright and happy, just like you. The red roses… well that's a no brainer. So, I will just tell you anyways. It's the three little words that I've been dying to tell you every day we're together and yet I feel like I don't say them enough. Please take the time to read the letter that I have written to you on the counter because it shows you, just how much I love you."
Ally sees an envelope in the center of the counter with the words written in black "Stardoll". Austin has always called Ally by her nickname, since he's always thought she was a star from above and that she is as beautiful as a porcelain doll.
"Okay maybe I should sit down to read this so I don't faint.", Ally says towards herself as she starts reading the letter out loud.
Dear Ally,
I want you to know just how special you are to me. I'm not the best with writing out my feelings, so just bear with me here.
I will never forget the day, I walked into Sonic Boom with Dez. We were checking out all of your stores cool instruments and we couldn't help but start playing around in the store. Remember that day? I remember sitting down on one of the displayed drum sets, ready to play but I couldn't find a pair of drumsticks anywhere. And so, I decided to play with corndogs. Dez was recording me through his flip phone and for some reason I got lost in the music. I hit the drum set as loud as I could. Until I heard you say, "Excuse me! Did you not see the please do not play the drums sign?" It was like I was in a trance and the second I heard your voice, I knew I couldn't get you out of my head.
We have definitely been through a lot of the craziest experiences together since that day.
Stardoll, do remember that time when we went on The Helen Show? How could you ever forget! In my mind I thought it was a good idea to help you overcome your stage fright. The reason why I chose this decision is because I knew you were so incredibly talented. I really wanted the world to see just how talented you were, but I guess you weren't really ready to share your talent with the words just yet.
Ally, you were the one that I went to when I was nervous about getting surgery on my vocal chords. But you were there to comforted me, when no one else knew how to. That day was also the first time you actually gave me hug. I just felt this instant connection with you when we hugged. It was like we were the only two people in the world. I was definitely surprised by that hug. Not in a weirded out sort of way but in a good way. Now I must admit, no girl has actually hugged me like you did that day and I must say I loved it. Well at least not like a friend would.. but you get the picture.
The week of Halloween, I was completely blown away by you. You went up on stage and performed as Taylor Swift at the Halloween Bash. You were dressed up as Galexis Nova and I was a gladiator. I know that you remember that day. After all it was the first time we ever performed a duet together. When we were performing together, I was so focused and mesmerized by you. That while we were singing, I couldn't help but make eye contact with you with a different emotion. Ally, it was that night at the performance, when I realized I was falling in love with you.
Oh man! And do remember when Megan came to interview us from Cheetah Beat? We had that cool glow in the dark party. That was the day we decided we were bungee jumping because you told Megan that we did crazy things to get inspired to write songs. Ally, when I said the words, "Hold my hand! We'll jump together!" I literally meant ever word. I also wanted you to sense that you can always and no matter what life brings our way; you can count on me . And whatever you need me, I will be there.
I have to say one of my all-time favorite memories was when we performed, "You Can Come to Me". It was your mother's book release party and I wanted to share the spotlight with you. You accepted my offer and I couldn't be any prouder than to share that moment with you. As we sang our duet something just changed inside of me and I saw the idea of "us" in a new light. I realized that we fit together like pieces of a puzzle. And after the performance, we had our very first kiss. We had just had an amazing kiss that night. But then Kira showed up. And I know that I had asked her to be my girlfriend a day earlier, but did she really have to ruin that moment by saying yes to being my girlfriend. I guess that life just had to get in the way of my feelings for you. Honestly, I was so shocked with her answer. In that moment I wasn't sure what to say or do. And when I saw the hurt look on your face, I couldn't bear with guilt of seeing you that way. I never wanted to hurt you like that. But of course I had to disappointed you because I accepted a relationship with Kira.
Then, there was the time when the piano I bought you literally fell out of the sky. At that time, you were so upset at me because I hadn't broken up with Kira. I wanted to make it up to you, by proving to you that I wanted to be with you. I thought that the piano would show you that you mean way more to me than Kira ever would. I felt so awful when the plan failed miserably and ran away from embarrassment of ruining your party. But even then I wasn't ready to give up. No. After a while of being upstairs with Dez, your songbook was laid open on top of the piano, and I decided that I was going to serenade you with your song, "I Think About You". Even though they were your lyrics, they held the same meaning that I felt as I sang them to you. As I was preparing myself to sing it to you, I wasn't sure if you would forgive me so I started to get nervous. But then again whenever I'm around you, I am always nervous.
I have to say one of the hardest things for me to do in life was to go on tour without you. I was going to be gone for 94 days and that was one outcome I wish never happened. We spent so much time together these few past years and were literally inseparable Ally, that it was killing me. Inside my mind I was thinking about how long I'd have to go without seeing you. I was so beyond thrilled when you told me that Ronnie Ramone signed you. So, when you came to meet us at the tour bus to say goodbye, I gave you the note.
Wow Ally! That goodbye was so beyond difficult for me. I was about to go on the bus after saying goodbye to you the first time because I wasn't sure what to say. But literally seconds later, I got off that tour bus and ran out towards you. In that moment I wanted to say those three little words so badly. I knew in my heart you were begging me with your eyes and ears to hear them. But I was scared. The reason why is because I knew it wasn't the right time to tell you.
And then when I heard you were finally going up to meet us on tour, I was thrilled. It really sucked being 3,000 miles away from each other, but I didn't tell you this because I wasn't sure if you felt the same way. At that time of being away from each other, I finished writing "Chasin' the Beat of My Heart". I wrote that song about you Stardoll. In the time of being away from you, I truly missed you. When I finally got to the concert venue in Seattle, my eyes were only looking for you.
As we were one our own those 94 days, I dreamt about meeting up with my one and only. The one person who's always there for me and that person is you. Ally! You know we have our own unspoken connection. We not only communicate with our mouths but with our eyes. We are able to understand each other in a way that's so special and rare that no one else can tear us apart. Without you near me, I felt like a part of me was missing. And When I saw you again at one of my world tour concert, I knew that I was never ever going to let you go.
When I said the words I love you for the first time, I wanted it to be special and it was. A while after I came back from tour, we were sitting at the piano, and had the radio playing in the background: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship. We listened to the lyrics, and when the song was over, I knew it was the perfect time to tell you my feelings. After I said those words out loud, you kissed me in a way that only true love could affirm. I know that it took me a while to get my act together, but I'm so happy that we did end up together.
Ally you are such an amazing person! You have given me the best five years of my life. I can't wait to see what life has in store for us. I want you to meet me at our special place in a few hours. Bring this envelope with you. But don't open the rest of this letter until I'm in front of you. Okay?
I love you and I'll see you soon!
Love your Superstar,
Austin
Ally finishes reading the letter and is thankful for only putting on a little bit of makeup today. She gives herself a few minutes to dry her tears before getting ready to dial her best friend's number.
Ally was about punch in the numbers on her phone when her phone went off. Right on the other line was her best friend Trish.
"Hey Ally." Trish says with a smile.
"Oh man Trish! I was just about to call you on the phone. Man we must have some great ESP connection there. Huh."
Trish lets out a laugh in agreement before asking," So Ally is there anything you need today?"
"Yeah! Can I come over to get ready at your place? Austin has some sort of plans with Dez or something this afternoon! And I was wondering if I go over and have you helped me pick out my outfit for my date with Austin tonight."
"Sure you can come over Ally! I can't wait to see you!"
Ally ecstatically screams, "I am coming over!"
Ally puts her five rose bouquets in her car and the two pieces of paper Austin wrote for her before heading over to Trish's house. Ally is so excited about Trish helping her. Right after high school Trish decided to become a cosmetology and hairstylists.
After a short drive, Ally is greeted by her best friend Trish.
"Happy Anniversary to Austin and you, Ally!" Trish shouts out towards Ally as she helps her out of the car.
"Thanks Trish! Yeah, five years really flew by who would've thought?"
"Okay, so what did you bring with you? Did you bring everything in that you need?
"Well I brought in everything except Austin's anniversary gift." Ally say in excitement as she grab all of her belongings from her car.
"Okay, so how much time do we have to get you ready?" Trish asks Ally as they make their way into the house.
"Austin said that I have a couple of hours before I have to meet him, so knowing him it'll be precisely two hours."
"Okay perfect! Let's get started shall we! First, let me see the dresses you brought with you!"
Ally takes out two cocktail dresses. The first one is a strapless black dress with red roses design and a larger satin rose applique on the left side of the dress. Ally brought a pair of black satin peep-toed heels to go with the dress. The other dress is a satin royal blue color but with a ruching going down the side diagonally and she brought out a pair of silver strappy heels with three larger rhinestones going up the center to show Trish. For accessories Ally has brought out a pair of clear dangling crystal earrings, her "A" necklace with a heart and music note necklace that Austin gave her for her first concert tour, and the bracelet Austin had bought her, when they had their almost kissed under the mistletoe a couple of times on Christmas Eve.
"Soooooo...what do you think Trish?"
"Alright you look fantastic in both of the dresses but let's go with the red cocktail dress and black heels!"
Ally squeals, "Omg thank you Trish I'm soooooo happy that you picked it too! It's like you could read my mind!"
Trish states back, "Well, we're best friends. So what else could you expect? Let this fairy godmother work her magic! SO we've got the dress, shoes, and paccessories figured out. Now we got to decide on how we should do your hair and makeup."
"Alright Trish! I trust you so let's try a couple of different hairstyles and then we'll figure out the rest from there."
For an hour, Trish tries out three different hairstyles on Ally. At first Trish thought maybe an up-do would do well. But that was definitely not going to work. The hairdo she tires is a side braid with curls. Buy Ally and her just weren't feeling it.
"Okay Ally, I want to try one last hairstyle but I want to give you your gift first."
Trish hands Ally a smaller box to open and inside the box is a beautiful crystal butterfly hairpiece. Ally started to get all teary eyed as she looks at her friend with bewilderment.
Trish spoke," This is for you Happy Anniversary Ally! The butterfly is perfect for you because it symbolizes how much you've grown as an individual, but also how far you've come in your relationship with Austin."
Tears of happiness start spilling out of Ally's eyes as she gets up from her formal seat. She looks at Trish with joy as she opens her arms out towards her before embracing her best friend in a big bear hug. She can't believe how lucky she is to have Trish in her life. And she couldn't ask for a better best friend than her.
And that concludes this chapter...
Next time on Nothing's Gonna Stop Us we check in to see how Austin's plan is going
