Disclaimer: I don't own Austin & Ally (What? All my other disclaimers were like 'If I owned Austin & Ally, blah blah blah would happen'. I wanted to do something different. ;)

Chapter 4- Flirting & Finding Out

After Trish and Dez had agreed to play detective, they spent a long time (AKA fifteen minutes) catching each other up to speed about Austin's strange behavior. Trish had told Dez about the blonde's nervousness, and about her list of suspicions, saying that she thought he had a secret. Then, Dez told her that Austin had been blanking out sometimes for a while. This caused Trish to smack him for being so unhelpful.

By the time the two of them had reached Sonic Boom, Trish was pretty sure that all Dez would be capable of doing would be admitting to Austin and Ally that the two of them were meddling.

So, she was understandably shocked when Dez texted her "Get up here now, I know what's wrong with Austin!"

She hoped her eagerness didn't give her away. Ally didn't seem too suspicious, but she could tell that Austin was skeptical. She made a mental note to look less eager next time. Or, to come up with a more believable excuse.

Shaking it off, she ran into the practice room, the Latina shouted "What? What did you find?"

Dez was sitting on the piano bench looking at a sheet of paper. "Look," he said. "This is the music to the song Austin sang a few days ago."

Trish glared angrily. "You wack-a-doodle! You're supposed to find things that help us, not things that are completely useless!"

The redhead glanced up at her. "Believe me," he said. "This is going to help enormously. Also, I can tell you; Austin most defiantly has a secret."

Trish hesitated. "Give me that." She said, snatching the paper from his hands.

She scanned it. The words Heart Beat were written at the top of the paper, with Austin's name under it. Beneath that, it had the lyrics and instrumentals that they had heard when Austin sung the song three days ago. Trish glanced up at the redhead, who was looking at her expectantly.

Glaring at him, she said, "What do you mean? All that's here are lyrics and music."

Dez pointed at a point in the lower right corner of the page. Trish glanced at what the words written there said, and her eyes popped out of her head.

Beneath Dez's finger were the words For Ally Dawson, the awesomest girl in the entire world.

"Oh my gosh," Trish said. "Austin wrote a love song for Ally. Austin has a crush on Ally! You know what we have to do now right?"

Dez nodded. "Yeah! Wait…what are we doing again?"

Trish rolled her eyes and explained what they were going to do.

Meanwhile, down in the main part of Sonic Boom, Ally was working at the counter and Austin was playing the piano, wishing he and Ally could write a new song.

Just then Dallas walked through the door of Sonic Boom and went right up to Ally. Austin could feel his fists clench as he eyed the other boy. He wanted to go up to them, grab Ally's hand, and drag her away, but he tried to restrain himself. Key word being tried.

"Dallas." He said, walking behind the counter and standing as close to the Ally as he could.

"Hey, Austin." The brunette answered.

"So, Dallas," Ally said, smiling at said boy. Austin felt his fists clench tighter. "What were you saying?"

"Right. Ally, do you want to go to the movies with me tomorrow?"

Ally grinned widely. She opened her mouth to answer, but before she could get a word out, Austin said "Sorry, we're working on a song tomorrow." He then grabbed the girl's hand and dragged her behind the stairwell.

"Austin! Dallas asked me out! Why would you say that?" Ally demanded.

"Sorry, Alls," he replied. "It's just that I have a headache; can you get me some medicine?"

Ally's expression turned sympathetic. "Of course." She said, running up to her dad's office, which is where she kept things that she didn't want the boys to get, like medicine and occasionally her songbook.

Once she left, Austin returned to the counter where Dallas still stood. Walking behind the counter, Austin glared at the slightly shorter boy, who awkwardly smiled back at him. After a few minutes, Austin opened his mouth to tell Dallas to leave, when Ally exited her dad's office with some Tylenol (1) for Austin in her hand.

"Here you go Austin." She said when she came down, handing the medicine out to him.

"Thanks, Alls. You're the best." Austin said, pulling her to him in a hug. He glared at Dallas over her shoulder, who just gave him that same awkward smile again. He felt the urge to roll his eyes.

"Um, Austin?" Ally said after a few minutes. "Could you let go now?"

"Oh, right. Sorry." The blonde said, releasing her.

"Anyway," she said, turning her attention to Dallas. "Sorry about that, but yes; I'd love to go to the movies with you, Dallas."

He smiled widely and Austin clenched his teeth, red spots dancing across his vision. Ever since they met, Austin always considered Ally his property, even though he hadn't always liked her. He hated it when other boys flirted with or asked her out. Luckily for him, that situation didn't come up that often. Which made it even worse when it did.

"Great!" the Devil (2) said. "I'll pick you up at six."

Ally smiled her beautiful smile. (3) "See you then!" she said cheerfully.

Dallas left, not noticing Austin's death glare.

Oh! He thought to himself. Look at the time! It's Ruin-a-date o'clock!

(1) I don't own Tylenol. Also, I know that that's not what to take for headaches, but I take it for everything, so.

(2) This is Austin's thought. I actually really like Dallas, but I don't ship him with Ally.

(3) Campers & Complications refrence! :) In the promo, Austin tells Dez that he loves Ally's smile.

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