Disclaimer: I do not Austin and Ally or any of the characters


The Sonic Boom was quiet for a large period of time as the impact of Austin's request finally dawned on Ally. She looked at him to check if he was joking. When she found no sign of decisiveness in those dark eyes of his, she decided she must have heard wrong.

"What?" She flatly asked.

The brunette extended her neck as she held a hand to her ear looking very similar to an old lady trying to process information that her grandson had just told her.

The blond removed his hands from her shoulders and pressed them together as if her were trying to find the right words to put together in the less horrific way possible.

He resorted to using obvious gestures.

"I," he pointed to himself, "need you," he motioned to her now, who was looking beyond unamused at this moment, "to pretend to be my girlfriend." He concluded once again adding a friendly smile at the end.

He's got another thing coming if he thinks a simple smile would be enough to get him off the hook.

She momentarily dropped her look of indignation and replaced it with one of confusion. She squared her shoulders.

"Why?" Her voice rang about three octaves higher than normal and at the same time it practically oozed in disbelief for the boy in front of her.

Austin bowed his head in defeat, finally looking like he was fully ready to confess.

"I told my parents you were my girlfriend." He mumbled quickly. The words were barely audible to himself.

"What?" She repeated for the second time that night, either not having heard his statement or just simply not comprehending the stupidity of it. Austin rolled his eyes as if she were the one who was being unreasonable.

"I told my parents we were dating, okay?"

Her dark brown eyes widened for a split second before narrowing again as they haltingly gleamed in a less than enthusiastic fashion. "Well that wasn't very smart of you." She deadpanned.

He made no reply as his head was still bowed down in shame. Taking another glance at the hopeless blond, Ally sighed.

"So why'd you do it?" She asked, her features softening in the process. Austin shifted uncomfortably at the sound of her voice. He raised his head high enough so that they were able to lock eyes. Seeing her calmed down and less angry his stiffness seemed to have visibly subsided by quite an amount.

"It's a funny story actually." He began, but he was soon silenced by the glare which returned back on his best friend's face that begged to differ. "Okay, not so funny, but it started awhile ago and my mom was trying to set me up a bunch of her friends' daughters," he paused to make sure she was processing this information, she merely nodded in response. "And anyways at first I didn't think too much of it since it would only be like a friendly meet up like we'd say hello, then go home."

Ally made an impatient huff noise as if she were already bored with his explanation. Austin halted her with a raise of his hand as he continued.

"But then it started getting really awkward 'cause my mom was always setting me up and always asking which girl I liked and it was just cutting into my personal time." Ally's eyes widened as she recognized where the story was going. "So one day I just lied and told her I had a girlfriend," He paused again to look at her, "And when she asked for a name I kind of panicked and went with the first name that came to mind."

Ally nodded, "And that name was-"

"Your name." He finished for her.

There was a stony silence in the music store.

Realization hit as Ally's eyes widened yet again, "Wait a minute, wait a minute," she hastily brushed a strand of her hair away. "A while ago? A while? You're mother thinks we have been dating for a while now?"

Austin smiled a guilty smile. Not guilty as in 'I'd love it if you could forgive me' but guilty as in 'I really hope you don't beat me to death within the next couple of seconds.'

He hesitated a considerable amount of time before continuing, "Yeah…and she also spread the news to my dad."

If Ally's jaw were to drop any lower she was sure it would have hit the counter by this point.

But Austin seemed to have missed the message and continued talking as if nothing was wrong.

"I forgot to mention, we're going on a family vacation on a cruise this spring break since my Aunt just got married and they requested I bring you so they could get to know you better."

He stepped back in fear, wearing a cringe on his face as if he could already see the explosion about to come.

As if on cue Ally's face distorted furiously.

"Austin!" she screeched helplessly, more anger in her words than anyone he had ever heard before.

He immediately stepped up to defend himself.

"I know what I did was wrong, I didn't know things were going to get so serious, honest." His eyes were sincere. "Please Ally, just play my girlfriend for this trip, you can dump me on the last day, dump me right in front of my parents." He was pleading now.

"Austin-"

"Dump me hard! Knock me right off my feet! And then mom will see I'm not over you and leave me alone!" an excited smile graced his lips as he tore his gaze from her fantasying about his newly acquired freedom, "It's brilliant!"

Ally cocked her head to the side as she considered the consequences. Austin turned to face her again. "Please Ally,"

She pursed her lips. "I don't know Austin."

His eyes gleamed hopelessly, begging silently for her to take on the favor he needed her to perform.

She mentally debated for what seemed like an hour before heaving a massive sigh, already knowing what her choice would be.

"What's in it for me?" She asked trying hard to keep her voice sounding both bored and uninterested.

Austin's pupils dilated brimming with new found hope as she was actually considering doing the deed.

"The great gift of our unbreakable friendship?" He tried unconvincingly, already trying to hide his excited grin.

Ally rolled her eyes as a groan escaped her lips at the torture her next words were about to bring her.

"I'll do it."

As soon as those words were out Austin's face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning. She hadn't even had time to regret her decision, as within the time span of five seconds he had tackled her in a giant hug.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you." His ecstatic tone buzzed in her ear. She awkwardly patted his back, her thoughts already consumed with the severity of what she just agreed to.

Oh the sacrifices she made for friendship.


"Are you almost done packing?" Austin asked as he sauntered into the practice room, eying the huge bag of luggage opened up on the floor.

Ally only made a grunt of acknowledgement, not even bothering to look up at him.

"So listen, I already told Dez and Trish that we were going away this Spring break, but I left out the whole 'dating' thing." He used air quotes for the words dating.

Ally gave him an annoyed in response, still not completely forgiving him for the torture that was about to come.

"Great." She bit out bitterly at last. Her words very clearly indicated she was not up for a chat, but he continued the one-sided conversation anyways.

"Think comfortable but warm," he advised referring to the clothes selection.

"Thank you so much for your kind advice." The sarcasm was evident as she continued cramming her suitcase with books she probably wouldn't read.

"So your dads really letting you go?" He asked completely ignoring her previous tone.

"Yeah," She huffed as she attempted to close her overloading suitcase with fail. "At first he kept insisting that I needed to watch the store but," she was no sitting on the suitcase trying to squeeze down all the contents present. "Legally I'm entitled to vacation days and I realized," she paused again and Austin momentarily wondered if she was going to pass out from exhaustion. "The last time I took my vacation was," she bopped down on her suitcase once again, "Never!"

She successfully finished pushing down her baggage and was now trying to zip up the bulging thing.

"Well that's good to hear," Austin replied as he got down on his knees to help her zip up from the other zipper. "Why don't you just use two suitcases? It clearly won't fit. Sometimes I don't get girls." The blond noted, still trying to make the zipper budge. Ally puffed in anger.

"I am not going to get two suitcases and it will fit." She retorted, her face red from the blood vessels about to pop on her forehead.

Finally after what seemed like an eternity and pulling and cursing, the two teenagers sat with their backs to the giant bag of luggage successfully zipped up all the way to the spine. The two were still huffing and puffing from the workout they just had.

Austin was the first to break the not-so quiet silence they shared. "So," He patted the sturdy suitcase behind them, "You ready to be Austin Moon's girlfriend?"

Ally's eyes glassy from exercise traveled back to the internet sensation and a smug look rested on her well defined features.

"I thought you'd never ask."