Ch. 4: THE SIX LITTLE RULES
"Friends with benefits?" I wonder out loud. Friends with benefits? Making this formal? In my definition formal means getting some sort of serious. Serious leads to attachment and attachment leads to heartbreak. "Yea Ally, friends with benefits," Austin sings the last word. I turn to look at him and he looks like he just solved world hunger for every country. How can he be so calm about this? I mean he just freaking asked me to get serious in some sort of level. "Austin, are you crazy? We both know that what we do are onetime flings, a one night stand. I don't get involved in a relationship that I know isn't even going to last. It's just to screw around a bit and that's it!" I freak out. Before I can stop myself or think that it's going to embarrass me I start to bite my hair. I feel confused. I don't know what to do. I never thought that I would ever find myself in this situation. Austin moves himself to see my face. He looks at me confused and has an eyebrow risen at me. He slowly moves his hand to mine and pulls my hair out of my grasp. "Ally, I'm asking you if we can keep screwing around, as you put it, without the serious stuff. Earth to Ally! I'm not asking you to marry me nor to be my girlfriend; I'm just asking if we could call each other when we want a good time and can't seem to find one," he affirms.
Well when he puts it that way… it does sound like a good idea. Sometimes I get tired of not finding anyone who can please me and he does seem to do a good job. And on the other side he's Austin! Austin that is the same since I last came here, with the same attitude and the same behavior. He's room is still a mess and he seems to be quite disorganized. He's the one that has one good quality and a list of turns off. There's no way that I would ever fall for him. Wait don't all the movies with this story line always end up falling in love? I hear a chuckle and I turn to the place that I heard it. "What?" I ask. He keeps shaking his head. I think about it for a quick second and then I say, "Did I just say something out loud without being totally conscious about it?" All he does is shake his head in a way that said yes and the he adds, "Ally those are movies. Fiction, not real and this is the real life. Nothing in our world will ever be mushy like those movies because there's a simple solution." I have no clue what solution he's talking about because I believe in those movies. I know it's obvious that girls would like a notebook ending or a movie kiss and I know that it won't turn out like that but I want a guy that every time I see him, he takes my breath away, or that every time we kiss is like the first time we did. I want him to be my best friend and my lover. That's what I want in my guy; a person that I can act like a child, and I won't get judged. "What solution are you talking about Austin?" I ask with curiosity while making my way to one of his couches. The floor was getting hard and I'm sure that my butt's numb.
He rolls his eyes at me as if I'm the most naïve, gullible person that he has ever met and add dumb to that list. He comes and sits down next to me and while shaking his head he keeps clicking his tongue. "Ally, I'm not sure how to tell you this because something tells me you're a child still that doesn't know how the real world works," he finally starts. I give him a glare and I scoot a little bit far from him. A child? Seriously? He acts more like a child than I do. I clean my house, I have a great job, and I know that someday I'm going to be a famous songwriter. Being oblivious to my death stare that I'm giving to him, he puts his arm around me and continues, "But the simple solution is that Love is phony. Love may exist in the movies, books, and what not, but trust me by experience I know that it's not real. It's only an illusion that we make ourselves believe. Love doesn't exist in the real world and much less between us. I 100% believe that love doesn't exist. Since a kid I have only been proven that it's not and after my own experience I finally have stopped to try to say that it is real because in the end it is always proven that it is not." It takes a while for this to register in my mind. How can someone believe that love doesn't exist? I know that it often leaves you heartbroken but it's not love that leaves you like that, it's because you don't have it anymore and you want it.
I look at him in disbelief. Even I believe in love and if you ask anyone that knows me will tell you that I need facts after facts to believe in something. I am the Ally that likes everything to be safe and play it safe. I have lists of lists of what I have to do and how to reach my goals. I'm a freaking control freak and yet I still manage to believe in love. I'm opening my mouth to say something but I think that it's something personal and I don't want to meddle. Taking a deep breath, I say, "So you really think we can do this without," I don't want to say love so I end up saying, "getting close?" He chuckles at my question and tells me, "Ally you're a beautiful girl and all. You have this great personality but I first of all don't like relationships. I like to go partying and I don't like to deceive a girl when I'm with another. That's just not me. I'm straight to the point. Like the first time I let you know that we were a onetime thing. I told you that no matter what we did that's all it was ever going to become. And now I'm just asking you because I see you as good meat and why suffer when I know that I can just call you. Plus you aren't my type for anything serious. It's not you; it's just that I'm kind of hard to please." I'm not his type? If he can't see how good I actually am then he's blind. After a few seconds he says "No offense," while putting his hands in I surrender mode. I take one long look at him and I say, "Well, no offense, but you're not my type neither. You're cool and all but I just can't take you serious. You get what I mean?" after a few seconds I add, "But I want to make sure that nothing happens between us, so I think we should set rules."
His face turns from a scowl to a smile. He seems to be a person that would actually believe in love from the way he acts and all but from what he just told me it seems weird. "So is that a yes Ms. Dawson?" he asks me in a British accent. "Why yes, Mr. Moon," I play along. We laugh and then he says "So what rules do you want to make sure that we have so we never happen and by that I mean get attached." I think for a while and then I say, "Ok give me a piece of paper and a pen and get ready to brain storm." What possibilities are there to make you get attached? Well I think one of them is that you goof off with the person. Like when you get too comfortable with them. That would be a good place to start from. "Hey Austin, I think that we are going to have to do this kind of as a business; like we shouldn't do anything that a couple would do outside the bed. So no more breakfasts or anything like that. What do you think?" He looks at me as if I just said the dumbest thing and then he says, "If it'll help you to not fall for me, then I don't mind." I shove him playfully and then I say, "That includes not being a flirt when we aren't in action if you get what I mean." He chuckles at this and I write it down.
Austin's POV
Ok so what else is necessary to not get attached? Well if we only do it with ourselves, we would depend on one another. "Hey would you mind if we can do it with other people too?" I ask her. I'm kind of scared on how she's going to act because usually girls are like you're my property and what not. Plus I don't want to scare her away. Like I said she's good to pass the time with. Also I don't want her to think of me as a douche bag. I wonder what happened between her and the guy she was screaming at the club when I met her. "Yea I wouldn't mind. Plus you're good but I still want options," she replies to my question. The only thing I heard from that sentence is that I'm good. I know I have a big ego but hey, the girls keep falling for it. "Except," ally starts to say. Except what? I mean I like Ally and all but how she said, I like my options. "I think we should make a rule that we can't get jealous," she finishes. I can't help but chuckle at this. Jealous? I have never been the jealous type and the only time that I am is when I'm in a relationship. "What?" Ally sounds slightly annoyed. This makes me chuckle a little bit more. She is so naïve and this is one thing that I find cute of her. She never knows what's happening. "Well we find each other attractive but not in the whole you belong to me kind of way so we have nothing to worry about," I answer her question.
Now one thing that I don't like about Ally is that she's not like other girls. I can't tell what she's thinking quite as easy or know what she's going to do. She keeps looking at me but then she turns around and writes it down anyway. "Just wait Austin; you're going to be the one that's going to be eating your own words," I hear her whisper. There's one thing that Austin Moon never does and that's to be proven wrong. Except in school stuff but in streets smart I pass every subject with flying colors. "You keep telling that to yourself baby," I whisper in her ear. I can feel her shiver from being close to her. That's one thing that I love about her. How she reacts to every little touch that I make. How she knows what to do without really knowing. How she says my name and how I know that she knows that I have her in the palm of my hands. I'll never admit it out loud but she has me in hers too. I take a good look at her for a second and I can't help but have the want to feel her again.
Ally's POV
I feel him sucking and kissing my neck. Unconsciously I move my head to give him better access. If it wasn't for his chuckle I wouldn't remember what we were trying to do. "Austin, stop!" I whine. "Why?" I hear him softly say. Oh he's close to my sensitive spot. If I don't back away I don't think we'll finish the rules. Concentrate Ally, "Austin, please! Let's just finish them and then we can do this." He stops to look me in the eyes and then he says, "Or we could do this now and then finish the rules later." That sounds reasonable right? To take a break now, and then to continue on later. No Ally I tell myself, you need to have those rules finished. "No. I'm not giving in until we finish these rules," with that I push him away and I move to another seat. I see him slightly annoyed but I'm proud of myself for stopping it. "Rule number three, we can't call each other to spend time with one another when we feel lonely or to spend time together," I tell him. Something tells me that he would have if I hadn't made that a rule. "Fine," he says troubled, "but if we aren't going to spend time together then I don't think we should get involved with our personal life or past. No questions are to be asked around those aspects, ok?"
I think that it's a great rule except I want to know why he doesn't believe in love. That's not really important though because we will never be more than a onetime thing and it's only to pass the time away. Ok another thing is that I don't think it's correct if we did anything while we weren't thinking straight because of our emotions and that goes mostly for me. "Ok. Next rule is that we aren't allowed to call when we are feeling emotional or if we know the other person is emotional we should stop from anything happening, ok?" I tell him. He agrees and then we both think for a while again. I'm not sure what else to write down. I think we just covered all the aspects there could possibly be. If we follow the rules then this should be a breeze. "One more rule," I hear Austin say. I turn to look him in the eyes and I can tell that this rule is for him. "No matter what happens, whether we get close or apart or nothing changes between us, don't let yourself believe that you can change the mind of the other person." I'm not quite sure what he means by this one. Why would any of us want to change the opinion of the other one? That makes more sense. A rule of me is to not get attached but that's for me to only know. As serious as Austin got in one moment he changes and acts like he always is. I look at the list one more time.
1. No acting like a relationship or doing any extra flirting.
2. No getting jealous when we see one another with other people.
3. No calling allowed if you want to spend time together; no spending extra time together.
4. No getting involved in personal life or past and no questions.
5. Don't do or call when you feel emotional or know that the other person feels emotional.
6. Don't let yourself believe you can change the mind of the other person.
I read them out loud to Austin and he's glad with the ground rules that we've made. "So do we have a deal Ally?" he asks me. He's trying to read my mind but what he doesn't know is that I can't even read my own mind. I feel worried but at the same time we have the six little rules to help us right? Everything will turn out right if we just stick to them. After analyzing that things between us will work out, I feel confident and this is going to be just for a while. It's not going to get in my way of meeting Mr. Perfect. "We have a deal Austin," I tell him while shaking his hand. I want to finish what Austin started when we were making the rules but I get interrupted by him and he says that he'll be right back. Sitting on the couch waiting for him, I hear my cellphone ring. I bet that it's Trish to either, a) yell at me for leaving her, b) tell me about his guy that she was with, C) ask me with who I went with, or d) all of the above. I got use to her but she can be so sassy at moments.
So when I got my cellphone and saw an unknown number, I feel confused. I answer it anyway and I hear, "Ally I feel like I want to have a good time with you but before I do, are you feeling, jealous, emotional, nothing, or both of the first things?" I know that it's Austin and he's making fun of my idea to make rules. When we both stop this thing we have and realize that we aren't attached or dependable on one another he's going to be thanking me. "I am not emotional or jealous but I do have some ideas of what I'm feeling right now." I reply back to him. "Well can you tell me?" he asks. "Let's just say that I can show you better than I can tell you," I finish. Before I can hear anything else, or realize what's happening I hear the beep from his line indicating that he just hung up and I am being carried to his room. Like I said there is no way that anything wrong can happen when Austin's in the equation because it will always equal… not going to happen.
A/N: So there you have the six little rules. What do you think of them? Anything you would add or take away? What do you think is going to happen next? I want to say thank you for all of you that have reviewed, Favorited, or followed this story! Some shout outs that I want to make is:
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I hope you guys liked to see Austin's POV i know it was short but yea. You'll be seeing them more so you can get kind of both sides of the story. In the next chapter you'll see how they've been holding up and if they have broken any rules yet. Also Ally might just meet her Prince Charming. Depending on what she thinks. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and Thanks for reading! :)
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