After school today, Austin is coming over to work on this stupid project. I walk to and from school everyday, it's about ten minutes away from my house. When I have bad days, like today, I like to walk home so I can have some time to think.
I'm trying to think what's going to happen with Austin today. I mean, he called me babe and winked at me twice. What did that mean? Was it a joke? I hope I have a chance to ask him about it before working on the project.
I'm about five minutes away from my house now and I begin to hear footsteps behind me. I walk a little faster to get more separation from them, just in case, but they sped up also. Who was this and what did they want? I start thinking of all the horrible outcomes and start to get really nervous. I guess it was noticeable because I start to hear someone chuckling followed by "What's the matter Dawson?" Ugh! Why'd he follow me home? I know he is supposed to be coming to my house but I walked home so I can get my distance from him.
I turn around and give him my best glare which obviously wasn't very intimidating because he begins to chuckle even more. I stopped walking. "Why'd you follow me Blondie?" I spat at him. He walked up behind me and put his arms around my waist. He slowly bent to my level and huskily whispered "I'm going to your house anyway, why not walk home with you?" Okay, what is going on? Why is he doing this? Wait... More importantly... Why am I okay with him doing it?! Two can play at this game Blondie. I slowly released myself from his grip and turned around to face him. I slowly put his arms around his neck and he starts blushing. Me? Ally Dawson made The Austin Moon blush?
"Um... W-what are you d-doing?" He asks me.
Why is he so nervous?
"Babe, lets go back to my house." I say seductively and I winked at him. With that, I walk away. I can feel Austin's eyes on me but I don't care.
"Dawson! Wait up!" I slow down and wait for him to catch up to me. By then we are at my house.
Once we get to the house, we immediately start on the project. I start reading over what we have to do, I don't understand how this relates to music at all.
"So, I'll ask you first. The first question is, what is your favorite color?" He looks at me with a smile and responds "Yellow, what's your favorite color?" I reply with a smile as well "Red." Austin begins to chuckle. "What's so funny?" "Ally, we're having an actual conversation." I begin to laugh as well. "Did you just call me Ally?" I asked him. I was just curious and I was hoping he wouldn't get mad. He replies with "That is your name, isn't it?" And we both begin to laugh.
He scoots in closer to me so that we're touching and we work on the project some more. Another question was who is your best friend? I replied with Trish and he replied with Dez. Now that I'm getting to know Austin, he's not such a bad guy.
After a few questions we take a break. "Do you want anything?" I ask him.
"Babe, can you bring me some water?" What's with the babe thing again? "Sure" I reply. As I'm in the kitchen getting the water, Austin jumps out from behind the counter and I spill the water all over me!
"Blondie! Look what you did!" I scream, ugh! Why'd he do that?! "Dawson, calm down. It's just water and you can always change your clothes." "Blondie, stay down here while I change, I'll be right back."
"Kay babe" he says and winks at me again. What's his problem? I go upstairs to change but I'm going to play a little game with him. I pull out my black short shorts and a white spaghetti strapped shirt. I slowly walk out of my room and down the stairs. When I get down there, Austin is in the kitchen cleaning up the water I spilt.
"Austin, go start working on the project, I'll finish up in here." I tell him as sweetly as I could. "No, it's my fa-" he is now looking at me with his mouth open. "Austin! Go work on the project!" He begins to blush again and all he can say is "O-okay." He says as he walks out of the room. I finish cleaning up the water in the kitchen and go in the living room to meet Austin. I sit so close to him that I'm almost on top of him.
"Okay... Um... Lets get started?" Austin says but says it as a question.
"Austin, what is your biggest secret?"
"Well," he begins "my biggest secret is probably the girl I've been crushing on since like, forever."
"Who is it?!" I urge on.
He begins to blush but he starts to chuckle. "It's my biggest secret for a reason, Ally."
"Fine" I pout and cross my arms acting like I'm mad at him.
"Ally," he sounds upset. "Please don't be upset, it's just really personal." I look into his eyes and I see guilt and pain in them. "Austin, I was joking. Don't worry about it, it's not my business anyway."
He smiles at me and we continue with the questions. It's now 5:30 pm and we only have twenty questions done because each question had to have a paragraph answer. We decide to stop working for the night because we were working on it all night.
"I had fun tonight Ally"
"You know, I did too. Maybe this won't be as bad as we thought."
"I wouldn't say that. Things change Dawson." He says while laughing. Around 6 o'clock, we ordered pizza and watched a few movies. At the end of the movies, it was kind of late and Austin had to go. I was actually upset that he had to go.
As he's walking out the door, he turns around, grabs my wrist and pushes me against the wall. I got really nervous, thinking this was just some joke he pulled in me but his eyes looked sympathetic. He put his face right next to mine where I can feel his hot breath on my lips and whispered in my ear "I'll talk to you later babe." I breathe in the scent of his minty breath and he backs away. I bit my lip because of what just happened. He smiled a kind smile at me and winked at me. He thanked me for letting him hang here and walked out the door... Um, what?