Disclaimer: I do not own Austin & Ally, nor any of the characters used in said show.

Note: Yeah, I'm bad with deadlines…

Songs: None. This one is mostly gonna involve a revelation.

Bandin' Together

Chapter 4

Austin POV

But I didn't get on the bus to return home. I didn't care what Ally texted, I wasn't gonna leave till I saw that she was all right. I crossed the street and hid behind a mail box, waiting for Ally to emerge from White Records. I was fairly certain that she hadn't left the building before me because we were together just before we reached the lobby and she couldn't have gotten ahead of me. Though, there was always the possibility, I decided not to think to much about it.

I didn't have to wait long.

Ally had donned a dark, possibly leather, jacket that I had never seen before, and that was way to big for her; but that wasn't what surprised me the most. What really almost knocked my on my rear end was the person she was with. He was the last person I expected to see her with. But there she was, plain as day, walking arm-in-arm with Beck Grayson.

I followed them as they walked from the opposite sidewalk. Ally was smiling and laughing. I could see that she was happy, so I left them once they entered a pizza parlor.

The ride home was quiet without Ally chattering. It was quite and interesting experience. Usually it was hard to get her to shut up, and the minute she wasn't around to blabber my ear off, I wanted to hear her voice. I settled for turning on my Ipod and listening to some music, which made me wonder if Beck had heard Ally sing yet? And if he had, did he like her voice? Which made me wonder why he liked her… Which then made me wonder why she liked him…

Man, I must be the world's best friend to be worrying this much.


The next day I cornered Ally at Sonic Boom. "So where'd you go last night?" I asked, wanting to see her reaction before I spilled the beans.

Ally became flustered and started stuttering uncontrollably. It was so incomprehensible, that I just stopped trying after the first few "I"s. It didn't take long for her to start chewing her hair out of embarrassment and ducking beneath the counter. Eventually, she managed to get out a sentence. "What did you see?"

"You and Beck walking side by side. Alone," I teased. Ally blushed seven shades of scarlet and started stuttering again. "Ally!" I shouted, stopping her, but I started smiling again. As annoying as her non-stop sentences were, they were amusing to induce. "So, are you two dating?" I crooned, leaning over to see her reaction. Her face disappeared, though her ears peeked through her hair, practically embarrass-burned. "Don't worry. I won't tell anyone."

She sighed heavily. "Good. Thanks," she replied, rising.

"Why are you keeping in a secret anyway," I asked while she pushed me off the black marble.

"Because it's embarrassing," she answered.

My eyebrow cocked and my lips puckered, confused. "I don't see how. You're a pretty girl that likes an 'attractive' boy," I said, adding air quotes for emphasis. After all, how am I suppose to know what makes a boy attractive. The only reason I added the word was because boy bands were typically made up of good-looking guys, at least, in the eyes of females.

"It's just," Ally was saying, covering her face with her hair. "It's not like me to date someone with a motorcycle. Usually, I go for the safer guys, the ones that walk everywhere they go. I really enjoy walking, actually. My hair doesn't tangle up so much so I don't have to wear it in a ponytail when I walk. Why do they call them ponytails anyway? It doesn't make sense. Then again, what about pig tails, they don't look anything like pigs."

"ALLY!" I said, after the shock of putting the pieces together wore off, and she was still talking.

"Sorry," she said, noticing that she'd been babbling.

"Don't worry about it. You just answered a lot of my questions."

"Okaaaaay," she replied, confused.

I feel like I did crappily. BTW, a big shout out to Ausllyluvr who managed to guess what I had planned. ^^ Congrats!

QOTD: I want to write a chapter about Ally and Beck on a date. Any suggestions?

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-LeAcH