Welcome To The Island Of Misfit Toys

Part Four- Counting The Stars

Present Day

"How did you feel when you saw her with the other boy?"

"There's only one word I can think of, heartbroken…"

5 Weeks Ago

"Hey!" shouts a voice down as I walk through the halls of the school. I turn to see Kira dressed in a nude coloured sun dress and brown boots. She rushes up to me with a huge smile on her face.

"Hey" I reply, not really smiling back. I still wasn't in the best mood from Saturday.

"You ok?" she asks, questioning my expression. I nod back in reply.

"Anyway…" she says changing her own subject. There was something wired about Kira. She had this fake British accent, you could tell it was extremely fake, and, as told by Ally, she had never even been to England. She was from Idaho.

"Ally told me that you need to go to her house at 8pm tonight"

"And she couldn't tell me this herself why?"

"Because she's not here. Her and Trish thought it would be a good idea last night to go for a drink, which ended up being 4 or 5 so she's hung-over."

"Um, ok. I have to ask you something. On the night I met Ally, Trish told me she was known by different names to different people, then the bouncer on Saturday asked who she was going to be tonight. What's all that about?"

"Oh, that, she has a different name for different people so no one can track her. She's one of those people who likes to stay a mystery to most people."

"So her real name might not even be Ally?"

"Yeah. But we wont know that, which is why she loves it so much"

Present Day

"And how did you feel after you found this out?"

"A part of me thought, I don't even know this girl really. I might not know her real name" I laugh. "But I pushed it to the back of my mind"

"You hadn't seen Ally since Saturday night I presume?"

"Yep, Trish told me that she left with that guy who thought she was called Lexi I'm guessing. I'm not sure, I left early after it happened"

5 Weeks Ago

After school I went straight home, grabbed a quick shower and slept for a few hours. I had been tired ever since Saturday, I guess it was drug deprivation, but it left me constantly sleepy. I woke up at 8:15.

"Shit!" I shout to myself, quickly changing into my black jeans, black top and black leather jacket. I leave my hair as its bed head since I didn't have enough time to style it.

I quickly rush past my mom who was too busy with paperwork to notice I was even there. She had backed off a lot since I met Ally, I guess she was happy that I finally had some friends.

I knock hard on the red door and it opens seconds later.

"Austin Moon your late" says the gorgeous girl at the door with a pout. She was dressed in black jeans, a black sparkly knitted jumper, brown boots and a cream coloured scarf round her neck. She had no make up on her face for once which made me catch my breath at how beautiful she looked. We walk inside together and I could already smell it. Crashing on the couch together, there is a lit joint leaning against an ashtray on the table, she picks it up, inhaling it in deeply before blowing out perfect rings. The way she did on the day I first met her. She hands it to me so I inhale it as well, suddenly feeling less sleepy.

Present Day

"Wait a second Austin. I thought you were upset with this girl?"

"I was, but… its impossible to explain. You just couldn't be mad at her. Its like, she could instantly make me happy!"

5 Weeks Ago

We had smoked the joint dry and somehow ended up which her head resting against my chest.

"So, why did you want me over? Causing I'm guessing it wasn't just so we could smoke"

"Oh yeah! We're going for a ride" she laughs, getting up of the couch and grabbing her car keys, which seemed different to the ones she had when she drove us to the club.

"Not sure that's a good idea after we'd just smoked that" I say, for some reason finding it hilarious thanks to the joint.

"I feel so right, doing the wrong things. I feel something so wrong, doing the right things" she says seriously, offering me her hand.

"Did you just quote a OneRepublic song?"

"Maybe" she laughs, not waiting for me to take her hand anymore as she grabs mine, dragging me off the couch and out the door.

"Where are we going?" I ask as we climb into a 4 door, open top black Audi. I'm unsure if I was too high to notice it was a brand new car or if I just didn't care, but either way I climbed in with her. She revs the engine a couple of times.

"We're going to count some stars." she smiles before we drive.


"Where are we?" I ask as we drive through a dark forest, there was no civilians for miles. We had been driving for over an hour and it was pitch black out, you couldn't even see the moon or and stars through the leaves of the trees surrounding us.

"Trust me, I know where we're going"

"I feel like this is a place where you would burry your enemies" I joke to her.

"Oh, it is, Donny's buried down there" she says seriously pointing to the left. There's a look of horror on my face which she laughs at as soon as she sees it. "Dude I'm kidding! God! I'm a thief, a druggy, and an alcoholic, but I'm defiantly not a murder! I don't even know anyone called Donny!" she laughs, making me feel calmer, but just to be on the safe side I would make sure I would never get on her bad side. Not that I wanted to anyway.

"Almost there" she says and I can see where we're going. There's a small amount of light coming from the sky as we drive out of the forest. It clears to show that we were on a ledge of a huge hill looking down on LA.

"Wow!" I laugh. It was seriously amazing to see this.

"Thought you would like it!" she laughs, leaning over me to the glove compartment, pulling I joint and a lighter out of it. She gives me a wink before unbuckling her seatbelt and jumping over her seat to the back. I do the same as she lights the joint. She takes a sharp breath, waiting a few seconds before blowing the smoke out, watching it fade into the air. She does this several more times before passing me the joint. I inhale it before placing my face in front of hers, she opens her mouth, a smile on her face as I blow the smoke into her mouth. I wait there for a second, close to her, taking in everything that was happening, everything that had changed over just one week. God, its only been a week. I've only known this girl a week and already…

"Told you we'd be counting stars" she says, looking up at the sky with a small giggle. I look up to see the most beautiful sky. Full to the brim of stars sparkling brighter then I'd ever seen. It was perfect.


She chucks the used joint out of the car, her last inhale still in her mouth. She grabs the colour of my leather jacket, pulling me closer. I assume she's just going to blow the smoke into my mouth, but she goes further. In a second, her mouth is joined is with mine. The smoke shared between the both of us before its blown out through our noses. Suddenly this isn't about the smoke.

She shifts over, lifting one leg over me, straddling my lap. Her hands manoeuvre mine so they are on her ass, which I squeeze lightly, making her mouth detach from mine for a second as she lets out a moan. God I wanted to hear her moan like that again, and I wanted it to be because of me…