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Ally's POV

"Ally, wake up!" Austin whisper-yelled as he grabbed my shoulders and shook me. I opened my eyes to see Austin excitedly grinning. "Morning Ally! Merry Christmas! Guess what!?" Before I could even open my mouth to say anything, Austin told me. "The train's stopping for a couple hours in some town! We can go exploring together!"

"What town, and when will we be there?"

"I don't know where, but we're going to be there soon." Just as the words left his mouth, the train stopped suddenly and we both flew forward. Austin threw his arm across my stomach to stop my from slamming into the seat in front of me.

"Sorry. Just a reflex," Austin said, his face turning red as he pulled his arm back. "So, let's go!" He said as he grabbed my hand and pulled me to my feet.

We ran down the aisle of the train, still holding hands. Once we reached the train door, Austin let go of my hand to jump off. Once he was on the ground, he turned around and reached up to help me off. I grabbed onto his outstretched hand and jumped down next to him.

"Thanks!" I smiled gratefully.

"C'mon!" He said turning to walk out of the train station.

"Where are we going?" I ran to keep up with him.

"Don't you remember? I told you I was going to get you a Christmas present! Let's go shopping!"

"I've never heard of a guy who actually wants to go shopping,"

"It's cause I'm not just a guy, I'm an awesome guy! And I think shopping's awesome! You get tons of new fun stuff!"

I laughed in reply.

"Ooh! Let's go to that store!" He said, pointing to a store.

"Okay!"

We jogged over to the store and Austin held the door open for me. The store was filled with racks of clothes. It was a really nice looking store, with fancy lights, floors, walls, ceilings, decorations; pretty much everything looked really expensive.

"This is my sister's favorite store. I figured you might like it too," Austin explained as I took it all in.

"This place looks really expensive. I can't get anything from here," I said, turning to leave the store.

"But Ally, it's a present. It doesn't matter how much it costs," Austin said pulling me back.

"I-I don't know," I hesitated.

"Well at least try something on," he reasoned.

"I guess trying something on wouldn't hurt."

"Yes! So try this and this and this," He grabbed handfuls of hangers and handed them to me, and with that he pushed me into a dressing room. "Come out and show me everything,"

I tried on a light blue and white dress with lace on parts of it and looked in the big mirror in front of me. It was the prettiest dress I had ever seen. I looked at the price tag, even with one glance I already knew it was far too much.

"Ally, c'mon. I said you had to show me," Austin yelled, knocking on the door.

I reluctantly opened the door a crack. Austin quickly opened it the rest of the way. "Ally, you look beautiful! Not that you weren't beautiful before, but this dress is just- wow, it looks like it was made for you!" Austin rambled on. "We are getting it."

"I can't get this, it's way too expensive," I showed him the price tag.

He waved it away, "Ally, I don't care how much it costs. Do you like the dress?" I nodded. "Then it's yours."

"Thank you so much! I've never gotten such a nice Christmas present before!" I quickly gave him a hug.

"Merry Christmas, Ally," He whispered into my hair.

I pulled away. "Merry Christmas, Austin. I couldn't think of a better Christmas present."

"I'm really glad you like the dress."

"Oh, I do like the dress, but I was talking about meeting you."

"And I think that meeting you was the best present ever too!" Austin said with a smile.

Austin paid for the dress and we left the store. We walked past a few more store until my stomach growled really loudly.

"Are you hungry?" Austin asked me with a smirk. I admitted that I was. "Me too! What do you want to eat?"

"I don't know. We can get whatever you want." I told him.

"How about… Pancakes! I love pancakes! They're my favorite food ever!" His whole face lit up as he pointed to a breakfast place across the street. "Let's go there!" With that he grabbed my hand and ran across.

Once we were seated in a booth by the window, Austin asked me, "Do you like pancakes too?"

"Yeah. My mom and I used to make them together," I said sadly, remembering those happy days.

Austin must have noticed the sadness in my voice, because he reached across the table and covered my small hand with his big one.

"I'm really sorry, Ally. I didn't mean to make you think about your mom."

"It's okay. I know you didn't mean to."

Austin left his hand on mine until the waiter came. "We'll have two of your pancake specials," Then turning to me he said, "You're gonna love it, Ally. It's my favorite!"

"Alright, coming right up." The waitor wrote something down on his notepad and left.

We had already been given some water, so Austin picked up his straw. He ripped off the end of it, brought it to his lips, and blew the rest of the paper at me. It hit me right on the nose.

"Hey!" I got my straw and tried to do the same thing, but I missed by a lot, and it flew right past Austin and into the back of the lady's head sitting in the booth behind him. She didn't turn around, but it stuck in her hair.

Both Austin and I burst out laughing uncontrollably. We got lots of weird looks from people in the restaurant, but that only made us laugh harder.

Our laughter had slowly died down by the time our pancakes were brought to us. We would have been fine, but right as Austin took a huge bite of pancakes, the lady stood up and walked away, the straw still hanging from her hair. Austin laughing with his mouthful is definitely not something I would want to describe.

As we ate our pancakes, we spent more time learning new things about each other, like favorite colors, movies, or books, or what we wanted to do when we grew up. I was having so much fun that I lost track of time. I looked out the window, which was a view of the train station. Our train was still there, but the conductor was yelling, "All abooooard!"

"Austin! Look!" I pointed to our train.

"We gotta go!" He yelled as he threw some money on the table and stood up quickly. "C'mon Ally! We can't miss the train!" I grabbed my bag, which held my new dress and followed him.

We ran out the door and out to the train station. Just as our train was inching forward we jumped on. "You better be more careful next time. If you were one minute later, we would have been gone," the conductor scolded us.

"We will sir. It was my fault. Ally was the one who saved us from missing it," Austin told him.

"Go on to your seat. Our next stop will be tomorrow night."

Austin and I made our way back to our seats and sat down. "That was really fun!" Austin said.

I hugged my new dress. "Thank you so much! But I feel bad that you gave me such a great present, and I don't have anything to give you."

"I've got an idea," Austin said in a low voice.

"W-what is it,"

Austin didn't say anything; he just leaned in, staring at my lips. When we were an inch apart, his phone rang loudly. Austin backed up and pulled out his phone. I could have sworn I heard him mutter something about how stupid his phone was.

"It's my mom. Hang on," he said as he pushed the talk button. "Hi mom,"

I sighed as I turned and looked out the window. It was getting darker and I watched the beautiful lights flash by as I slowly fell asleep with my forehead against the cold glass.

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