Chapter Two : Looking For The One Tonight
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...Three days later...
Austin and Ally had gone back home, and they hadn't spoken since their date, they told no-one about their date yet - when their parents asked they just shrugged.
But when Austin got home, he wanted to see her again for some reason. So to try and get his mind off of it, he went to a bar. He finds literally no-one he knows there, but he does find a lot of girls - drunk girls - there with no guys accompanying them. In his mind: Christmas. He just wasn't in the mood tonight, until two girls walk in - some girl with curly black hair, in a purple dress and a very familiar brown-haired girl wearing a red dress. He smiled to himself when Ally excuses herself to the toilet.
Austin's POV
When I saw Ally leave, I smiled as an idea came to mind - once Ally was in the ladies' room, I quickly went over to her friend.
"Hey, I'm Austin - I know your friend Ally," I quickly explain - knowing I hadn't got much time.
A quick look of rush and recognition crossed her face, flashing in her eyes, "Oh, okay, I'm Trish. She'll be back in a minute, just went to the bathroom," she says with confidence, but in an awkward tone as she had never met me before.
"I know, I need to ask you something," I tell her, she sits down at the bar but I keep standing, I took her sitting as a yes so I continued, "can you tell me anything about her? Seriously anything, like where does she work? Have a boyfriend? Close with her parents? Dating anyone? Any pets? Any boyfriend?"
"She just broke up with her cheating ex, so she's not looking for any one-time flings - looking for "the one" - because she's tired of just dating for two dates then never seeing them ever again. That's why she's here, she's not close with her parents and she is coming right now... so you might wanna go," she answers, Ally's looking for the one tonight, huh?
A smirk was playing at my lips, and toying with my mind as I quickly tell Trish, "Make sure she doesn't get with any guy tonight, please? Just for tonight? Guys here are pigs," I say it quickly and in a hurry, then I run out.
I never saw Trish's approval of my wish, but I really hope she doesn't let Ally go with any guys there - all of them just go home with them then never call. Ever. I know this because I'm usually one of them.
As soon as I got home, I felt like a night in - so I called mom - I needed to know something.
I didn't ring her cell, cause she never answers it - so I just called our landline.
"Hello?" My dad's voice answered.
"Hey Dad, it's me, is mom there?"
I hear him reply with, "Yeah, hi Austin, did you get back okay?" I also heard him walk down the stairs to find my mom I hope.
"Yeah, I got back fine. Are your friends over?"
"Yes, I was just upstairs looking for something. Mimi, Austin's on the phone for you."
I was passed onto my mom, but I heard different voices that I assumed were Ally's parents.
"Hey sweetie. How's it back in New York?"
"Fine, listen, can you give me Ally's apartment address? Do you know it?"
I could almost hear the smile on her face, "Uhm, I don't but I'm sure her mother does. Wait a second," she answers.
I heard a faint voice along with a girlish squeal.
"She said that it's apartment 7C of Avalon Apartments in Manhattan. Why? Do you want to see her again?"
"Yeah, kinda, I just saw her and her friend in a bar and I wanted to make sure she got home alright." I say, trying to cover up that I've been wanting to see her.
"Okay sweetie, anything else you wanted to tell me?"
"No, thanks Mom, bye."
"Bye, love you honey."
Hang up.
The first thing I do is go to Google to check if that's even a real building, it is.
About five minutes from here actually.
"Hey, man," I actually fall off my chair when I see my best friend come out my kitchen.
I let out a sharp breath I was apparently keeping in my throat, "Dez! Who the hell let you in?" I snap, trying to capture my breath as I actually thought there was a stranger in my apartment for a second.
"I got here about five minutes ago, just met this girl at the bar and she went home with her friend so I came here."
"What was her name?" Wondering if he is talking about Trish...
He sat down on the couch and answered me with, "Trish, her friend was trying to talk to some guy but then they both went back to her friend's apartment."
"Oh, okay man. I'm off. See ya later. Don't break anything!"
"Bye."
Beginning to walk to Avalon Apartments, I put out my phone and call my mom again.
"Hey sweetie, are you with Ally yet?"
"No, mom, what apartment is she in? I'm nearly at her building." I say, approaching the building.
"7C. Call me when you get home, okay, sweetie?"
"I will, bye mom."
"Bye. Love you."
Going up to the front desk, I decide to ask them if Ally actually lives in 7C.
"Hey, uhm, is there a girl named Ally Dawson in 7C here?" I ask the woman, she wore a woman-suit-thing - I never knew what those things were called.
"Yes, Miss Ally Dawson does live in apartment 7C. Is she expecting you?"
"Uh, no. She's met me before but she doesn't know I'm here."
"Okay, sir."
I walk off awkwardly and go to the lift, pressing the Floor 7 button, hearing it ding along with the weird elevator music.
7A, 7B... 7C.
I knock three times and I hear the TV on in the apartment, along with her walking up to the door.
As the door opens and she sees me - a smile comes to her face.
Once she sees me, happiness meets her eyes, they sparkled and crinkled up as she smiled, "Hey, Austin! How'd you find me?" she happily asks.
"I saw you and your friend at the bar earlier and then I called my mom... it's a long story." I hear a soft laugh from her and she stands up straighter.
"Well, were you the one who said to Trish to not let me go out with anyone tonight?"
"Yeah, sorta. The guys there are pigs! Trust me. Well, I came here for a reason. I was wondering if you maybe wanted to go to the movies with me."
"Uhm, Austin... I really would love to but I can't. I just don't wanna get involved with you. Sorry," she says, her friend said she was looking for "the one"...
"Not as a couple! I mean as friends, God - not as a couple. No. Just no." I explain myself quickly and awkwardly...
I scratch the back of my neck as she replies, "Oh, then I'd love to. But can we do something else? Because the movies sound like a couple-y thing to do to me. It's only," she looks back into her apartment for a clock, "6:30, we could do something now."
"Uh, we could just go for a walk. That sound good?"
"Sounds good to me. One second, I have to turn off my TV."
"'Kay."
Ally's POV
Switch the TV off, switch the lights off, but shoes on. It was like a robot thing to do in a way. I'm so used to it with Trish as a best friend.
"Okay, let's go." I say, grabbing my key from the side and putting it into my jeans pocket - good thing I'd changed into a t-shirt and jeans.
After about twenty minutes of walking, sure enough - Trish called. I was in the middle of laughing at something funny that Austin had said, so I didn't hear it at first.
"Hello?" I answer it, trying to stop laughing, but then he sits me down on a bench, I had no idea where I was but I trusted I'd get home fine.
"Ally, you home?"
"No, why, you there?"
"No, course not. I called your home phone and you didn't answer. Where are you? And what's so funny?" Her voice asked, as Austin looked at me weird.
"Oh. I'm just out with someone - don't worry it's no one from the bar. It's just something he said. It's fine, Trish."
"Ooo... Ally's got a boyfriend."
"No she doesn't, he's just a friend."
"Is it that guy you went on a date with yesterday?"
I wanted to get off the phone now, and get back to Austin so trying to urge her, I tell her, "Yeah, he found my apartment somehow so I gotta go."
"Okay, fine, but tell me everything when you get back."
"I will, bye."
"Byeee!"
I put my phone back in my pocket and look at Austin again.
"So, why'd you not want to go to the movies with me as a date-date? Something wrong with me?"
I disagree almost immediately, "No, it's just I don't want to get involved with a guy who's got girls all over him. Been there once, don't wanna go there again," I explain to him.
"I don't have girls like that. And in all the movies, the girl always falls for the guy who asks her out who she rejects. It's always there," I laugh at him as we begin to walk back to my apartment.
Twenty minutes later, we get there and I let him inside. Don't know why but I actually trust the guy.
That never happens.
"I told you - it's in every film ever."
"What about... uh - that movie I watched yesterday! What's it called? What's it called? Uh...-"
"You got nothing, have you?"
"Nope. But I know it does not happen in real life, buddy." I tell him, as we both flop down on my couch.
"Oh, really? Care to test that?"
"What are you saying?"
A smirk reached his lips, "I bet you, today, that I can go longer not falling for you than you can not falling for me," he bets.
"What?"
What?
"I bet that I can go longer without falling for you than you can go not falling for me."
"How would that even work?"
"We date, but not really dating - like fake-dating - and the first one to fall loses."
"Oh. Winner?"
"Gets to... gets the loser to do whatever they want for a whole month afterwards. Are we on?"
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