This is one of my more serious chapters because it's actually really hard to get in the mind of Disney writers and understand their comedy.
Previously:
"Get out!" she shouted at me, making me jump. Ally never usually yelled. Whenever she was mad she usually opened her book and started scribbling, or she tried to talk it out. She never yelled.
"What? Ally-"
"No! If you think that I'm just dragging you down, then you write your own songs!" she said.
I froze. "Wait. Ally, what are you saying? You're still going to be my partner right?"
She didn't answer me. "Just leave."
So I did.
Trish POV -
I sat across from Dez in the food court and played with my straw. We haven't talked in months and I actually kinda missed him. But I will totally deny ever thinking that!
"So...how's Austin?" I asked Dez, breaking the silence.
Ever since the fallout I had stopped representing Austin and sided with Ally, but it cost me both Dez and Austin's friendships.
"He's great. He keeps his talent alive by posting videos every Friday. Its great-he's great." Dez nodded.
I couldn't help but feel mad. Ally was struggling with out Austin, even though she wouldn't admit it. She was bursting at the seams with music and she tried to put it out there by recording her songs on video, and posting them, but she keeps the website on undetectable. She needs Austin! And he has the audacity to be 'just great'?
"How's Ally?" Dez asked.
Hmm, well if Austin is so great without Ally, then Ally can be too!
"She's fantastic!" I smile through my anger and nod. We're quiet for a second.
"Austin's miserable!" Dez exclaimed dramatically.
I sighed sadly and nodded. "Ally is too! She's had it so rough. Especially since Dallas broke up with her."
"Were they even together?" Dez asked me and I shrugged.
"I don't know...I mean, he said he liked her and she told him she liked him...you know they never really made it clear..."
"You think that's bad? Well Austin picked up some song writing tips from Ally, but he can only write jingles for commercials. And when he does write a song and posts it online, they're horrible." Dez sighed and shook his head.
We were silent for a minute, but then I got a brilliant idea.
"Dez! I have the best idea ever!" I grinned and he nodded.
"So you think I should build a gingerbread vacation house too? I knew I was on to something!" Dez grinned triumphantly and held up his hand for a high five but I just stared at him. There was no way someone could be that dumb.
"No idiot." I shook my head. "We should reunite Austin and Ally!"
Dez nodded excitedly. "That's way better than a gingerbread vacation house!"
I couldn't help but laugh. Hey, don't judge me. It's been 6 months without this idiot.
"You know Dez, I'm not really good at this mushy stuff like Ally, but…Ally, um, has really missed you." I said chickening out. There was no way I was going to tell Dez that I actually missed him.
Dez grinned a little. "Yeah? Well…Austin misses you too."
Ally POV
6 months. 6 months without Austin. 6 months. That's too long. I miss him so much, but I'm terrified to even be in the same room as him. And it hurts to see him because never in my life did I think that Austin…hated me so much. We never really said it, but he was one of my best friends. But in hindsight, I did hurt him too. I left him even though his dreams relied on me.
And then, I think what hurt him most of all was the sign inside of Sonic Boom and the practice room.
The day after Austin and I had the huge blowout, one of my dad's Cloud Watching Club friends showed him what Austin said about me. My dad completely flipped out, and went into the practice room and didn't come out until the next day.
When I walked into Sonic Boom there was a big sign out front that said 'We reserve the right to refuse service to any customer; ESPECIALLY AUSTIN MOON!'
Austin had tried to come by Sonic Boom, but my dad shouted at him, shoved the sign in his face, and told him to get out.
I watched all this from the practice room. But when I shut the door and turned around, tragedy struck. The room looked almost exactly like how it had looked before I met Austin.
And then, I don't know how he did it, Austin managed to sneak into Sonic Boom, and walked into the practice room. He froze in the doorway, looked around the room, and finally his eyes locked with mine.
"So it's really over then." he whispered and then left. He never came back.
I must have cried all week. But when I had managed to stop crying, and lift my head during school, I ran into Dez.
We stared at each other waiting for someone to say something. But we didn't. He just unzipped his backpack, pulled out a flash drive, put it in my hand, and walked away.
It never really hit me that losing Austin meant I would lose Dez too. But it only makes sense. They came into my life together, they might as well do the same. And Dez was always close with Austin, so I guess he would side with him.
And as for the flash drive, I never looked at it. I knew that it was probably Dez's goodbye, and I just couldn't handle it.
I walked down the halls of my high school to go to lunch when Austin started walking towards me. Well, he wasn't really walking towards me, more like in the general direction.
Anyway, I panicked and ran into the nearest room. I peeked out the window and watched Austin walk by. I sighed and the door opened, making me cringe.
"Ally, what are you doing in here?" Trish asked and I looked around. I was in the janitors closet.
"Uh…" I tried to think of an excuse, but then to my surprise Dez popped in next to Trish.
"Whatcha doin'?" he asked and we stared at him. Me in shock because I haven't talked to him in six months; Trish was probably coming up with a smart remark.
"What does it look like Dez? We're having a party." Trish rolled her eyes sarcastically.
"Ooh goodie." Dez grinned excitedly and pulled party hats out of his backpack and handed each of us one. He reached in his back pack again, and threw a bunch of confetti in the air.
"Dez!" I exclaimed spitting out pieces of confetti. "Trish was being sarcastic!"
"Oooooohhhhhhh." Dez realized and gave Trish a reprimanding look. "You never joke about a party."
Trish rolled her eyes again, but turned to me. "Anyway, Dez and I are gonna hang out after school. We were wondering if you wanted to hang out too?"
I thought about it, but then realized that Austin was probably going to be there. "Uh, you know what, I think I'm gonna pass on this one."
I walked passed them towards the cafeteria, but Dez and Trish were right on my heels.
"Come on Ally. Austin will be there, you guys can make up!" Dez pointed out and I stopped and spun around. Trish was glaring at him.
"Is that what you guys are trying to do?" I asked realization hitting me like a ton of bricks.
"Weeeeeeeeell." Trish dragged out while playing with her fingers. "We know how miserable you guys are without each other and-"
"Whaaaaaaat? Me? Miserable? Ha, heh, no way. I mean," I swallowed the lump in my throat. "I'm fine guys, thanks. And obviously, Austin's doing very well."
"But Ally-" they protested and I shook my head.
"I'm just not ready to forgive him." I shrugged and started to walk away.
"Ally, six months has to be long enough!" Dez objected sadly, and I turned around to look at the both of them.
"Guys, I appreciate it. But, I'm not ready." I could feel the tears in my eyes a little but I blinked them away. "So just-just stop."
Austin POV
6 months. 6 months without Ally. 6 months. That's too long. I need to have her around me. I need to hear her laugh and see her dance horribly. But I'm afraid to see her because I don't want her to be mad at me still.
I honestly do think it'll kill me. I mean, you can die from a broken heart right?
I'd like to imagine that Ally's doing worse than me. That she's regretting ever quitting. That she's regretting ever thinking that she could be without me.
But I know it's only me. I used to see her crying around school, and to be truthful, I hoped it was about me. But then I found out Dallas had dumped her - at least I think he did…were they even going out? They never really made it clear - and then I realized it. It was for Dallas. Everything was always for Dallas!
I tried to apologize so many times, but the last time I tried I got an offensive sign shoved in my face and my heart stomped on.
I hadn't really taken Ally dissolving our partnership seriously until I walked into the practice room and the room had downgraded into what it had been before. It was like I had never walked into Ally's life.
Admittedly, it was nowhere near as bad as what I had done to Ally, but it still hurt badly, and…I wanted an apology.
Of course I wanted to apologize. If she would let me anywhere near her, I would be on my knees and apologizing in five seconds. But I was forbidden entrance from Sonic Boom, and every time I go anywhere near her, she runs away.
So when Dez and Trish came to me and invited me to hang out with them in the food court, I could barely contain my excitement. But I was also really nervous, which was strange because I'm normally never nervous.
I even got to the food court early. What was Ally doing to me?
I probably should've known she wasn't coming. She passed by the food court and stopped when she saw me. We locked eyes and I gave her a small smile and a wave. She didn't return the smile or the wave, but she did walk away.
But still when Trish and Dez arrived together without Ally, I asked them where she was.
"She's not coming." Dez sighed.
"I tried to convince her, but she said she doesn't want to be near you." Trish said bluntly, putting a tortilla chip in her mouth. When she looked at me, she started shaking her head. "I mean, she didn't feel too good." she said unconvincingly.
"Oh." I nodded and I couldn't help the hurt that set in. "Right. That's fine. So how've you been Trish?"
When I got home I went online, and went to MyTewb. I typed in Ally Dawson in the search bar and two videos came up.
There was the video of her on Helen. Then there was the auto-tuned musical version of her on Helen.
After watching the Ally Dawson Auto-Tuned Musical five times, I went back to my homepage feeling frustrated. I kept hoping that Ally would get enough confidence that she would take her MyTewb videos off of undetectable, but I kinda liked hacking into her channel to watch her videos.
There was a recent video, posted at midnight last night. I clicked it immediately and smiled when Ally came on the screen.
"Hi, I'm Ally Dawson, and I'm going to be singing an original song that I actually…just wrote. It's called Disappearing." she said while completely avoiding eye contact with the camera.
The song was one of her more slower songs, and I recognized it immediately. It was a song about her blending into the crowd to someone important. I wasn't sure how Ally could blend into a crowd. She always stuck out to me whenever I would walk around at school.
I spent the next hour re-watching all of her videos. I couldn't help it, it's been 6 months.
Ally POV
I had to go passed the food court on the way to Sonic Boom. That's when I saw Austin and he saw me. We locked eyes and I was so close to forgiving him. It was like when he apologized for blaming me for that horrible song we wrote for Cassidy.
He smiled his cheeky little I'm Sorry smile, and he waved. I looked down and walked away from him sadly.
When my shift at Sonic Boom ended, I went up to the practice and went to Austin's website.
There were covers of a few songs, some of his jingles, and some of his new songs. I smiled and went immediately to my favorite jingle for Insta-Cakes.
"Pancakes, pancakes, fluffy and light. Pancakes, pancakes, eat 'em all night!"
I laughed until I realized I wasn't supposed to without Austin. I couldn't help but think of what Dez said. Was it time to forgive Austin? It's been 6 months.
