Chapter 2 The first date

Authors note

Ok second chapter can't guarantee I will update this fast every time I just happened to have some free time, again any comments or corrections are welcome (seriously) (also did consider ending this one halfway through but decided I wouldn't be that mean)

Alleys pov

" I can't believe I finally get to go on my first date with him" I gushed to my best friend Trish
"Well it took him long enough to ask you he's been crushing on you almost as long as you've been crushing on him" She stated like it was really that simple. This obviously turned me an unattractive crimson shade
"Be quiet Trish you know I go red when you say that sort of thing and I don't want to look like a tomato when Dallas turns up" I said beginning to get exasperated. He'd be here in a few minutes.
"I don't know why it should bother you, you know as soon as he's here your going to go bright red any way, and you'll stay that way till he's out of your sight, its a sign of love" she said, this was an argument we had all the time about how I acted around him and how much I liked him, It was one I always lost.
" you know that's not true I'm not in love with him, at least not yet, and I don't go red as soon as he walks in the room, I don't know what your talking about". Yes I did, and I also know I'm ten times worse than I let on, but I would refuse get defeated on this one at least at this point.
" whatever you say, Oh look here he comes now" she said looking over my shoulder out of sonic boom.
" where!" I cried whipping my head round to see, unfortunately my body didn't follow quite the way I was expecting it to and I ended up falling heavily against the counter, blushing furiously in the process. Trish just stood against the counter laughing.
" what?" I demanded, already knowing the answer.
"Thank you for proving my point dear Alley...your in love with Dallas just admit it" she jumped up onto the counter looking incredibly smug.
"Oh whatever, I know I'm not" I replied stubbornly, truthfully I didn't know myself how much I liked him.
However Trish's point on me turning red in his presence was proved by two seconds later by Dallas standing in the doorway to Sonic Boom
"hi" he said quietly, with that adorably shy smile and hair just slightly over one eye. At just this one word I could feel the heat rising to my face.
" hi" I replied.
" And this is where I leave" said Trish hoping down of the counter and walking out the door "You kids have fun" she called over her shoulder, triumphently knowing she had won at very least the argument about me turning red.
We just stood there a moment in silence, just as it was beginning to get awkward he looked nervously around
"so this is where you work huh? Don't think I've ever seen it before" He said hesitatingly
"yeah, it's not just where I work though it' where I write my songs as well…do you want to see?" I asked surprised at myself, I usually hate people other than Austin, Trish, Des or I going in my practice room. It's where I go to escape from everything.

"Yeah, that would be great" he said still standing awkwardly in the door way.

"Come on then, follow me to my lair" I cringed at my awful joke, scared for a minute that I had scared him of or made him thing I'm even weirder than he already does. Just the dorky girl who keeps sitting next to the cell phone accessories cart for no good reason just staring at him. Not helped of course by the fact that my mind went blank whenever he talked to me and I always ended up saying something stupid.

I was amazed when he asked me out, it was about a month after Trish's Quinceañera, we had danced at the party and I found out he was almost as bad at dancing as me! Which is why he wouldn't dance with me, he was too nervous! I had hoped for weeks after that he would ask me out but he said nothing. It wasn't until a month later when I finally got the courage up to ask him that he said he'd asked Des to pass on a message to ring him because he didn't have my phone number. It was only when I quizzed Des on it that he told me he forgot, either way I finally got to go on my date with Dallas, which id been waiting for since forever.

Amazingly he laughed at my terrible joke and followed me upstairs to my music room. "So this is where the magic happens" again with the bad jokes? What was with me tonight?

"Cool" he said as he took a look around the room.

After a minute the silence got too much for me. "Do you want to hear one of my favorites? I wrote it a few years ago.", I hesitated a second before asking this, mostly because of my stage fright but id never had a problem singing in front of Austin so I should be alright, the other problem was this was a song I wrote about Dallas before I knew Austin, when I first liked him.

"Yeah sure" he replied sitting down on the nearest chair. Going up to the piano I started to play the opening bars to the song, after four lots of eight counts I opened my mouth to sing…and froze. I couldn't sing in front of him I was too nervous, I could already feel my hand beginning to shake. Why couldn't I sing in front of him?! This never happened around Austin even when I only just met him, but with Austin it was different it was so natural like best friends or two sides of the same coin. With Dallas it felt weird awkward even, I really liked him and always had but maybe… no don't be so stupid of course Dallas is the boy for me it would just take some time for me to be around him enough to get used to him.

"Sorry I messed up the fourth bar I'll restart it, and did I mention it has no lyrics, sorry" I said lying with what I thought was quite quick thinking.

"Oh OK" was the only response I got he sat back in the chair and prepare to listen. Restarting the song without the lyrics this time I played it all the way through, it some how didn't sound right, it didn't have the same depth but oh well. A few seconds after I played the last notes I turned round at asked "so what did you think?"

Sitting up and grinning (at last) he said "it was brilliant Alley how do you come up with songs like that?"

"They just come into my head I guess" I replied with a shrug.

He looked at me and said "you really are amazing Alley" He smiled crookedly then suddenly glancing down at his watch he said apologetically "I'm really sorry Alley I need to g,o I promised I'd be back by 11".

Surprised I looked at the clock above the door "I didn't realize it was that late, sorry, see you soon?" I asked hesitantly

"Yeah sure, what about next Saturday? We can go to that new café that's just opened."

"Sure" I said, way to over excited and eager.

"ok see you then" he said walking out the door turning round he said "hey Alley I had a great time tonight, thanks" and before I could say a word he turned, looked at his watch again and ran off.