Chapter 6 - Family Dinner
Austin's POV - Thursday Morning - 11am (No school on Thursday or Friday this week)
"Austin, Austin, wake up," A voice said and I yawned opening my eyes to see Ally stood next to my bed.
"What's Up?" I asked her concerned.
"Your mum just called and said we're having a family dinner here tonight with everyone, and that we need to cook it." She said as I sat up. "But we have a problem." She stated.
"What?" I asked.
"I don't know what to cook." She said sighing and I smiled grabbing her hand.
"Don't worry, I know what, lets get changed and I'll see what to make." I said and she nodded.
"Oh, and they said it has to be a three course meal." She added and I nodded, "I'm gonna go get a shower." She said and headed out the room, and it was then I took in what she was wearing, which was matching hello kitty short shorts and sleeveless top pajamas and her hair was in a messy bun, I couldnt help but smile that even though she didnt have any make up on and hadnt gotten changed or done her hair, she still looked amazing.
"Hey Ally." I said and she turned and looked at me, "You look cute." I said and she bit her lip blushing and ran out the room and I chuckled.
Ally's POV - 2 hour later
After my shower, I got changed into skinny blue ripped jeans, a tight red tank top, an NYC cream jumper and combat boots. I dried my hair and straightened it a little and walked downstairs and saw Austin with a ton of ingredients out cooking some stuff.
"Wow! It looks like our cupboards exploded in here, what happened?" I asked him sitting on one of the stools.
"I'm cooking, I figured for starter, we'd have a sorta buffet of foods, Garlic bread, garlic bread with cheese, prawns, chicken wings, Onion rings, coleslaw, garlic & cheese mushrooms, bread sticks, ect, then for main, I thought pasta bake and curry, then for desert, some different flavours of cakes, like chocolate cake and stuff, as well as warm chocolate brownies and ice cream." He said smiling proudly.
"Nice, my mouths watering now." I said smiling and he winked as I giggled,
"How about you go out and buy the deserts, just get chocolate cake, some warm up brownies, sponge cake, different flavours of ice-cream, and a ton like chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, choc chip, ect." He said and I nodded as he walked over to the cookie jar and took out $50 and handed it too me, "There you go," He said and I smiled.
"Thanks, and I think I might go out and buy something to wear for tonight, I don't really have anything formal to be honest." I said and he nodded,
"Well then, here you go." He said taking a credit card out of his wallet and handing it to me.
"What's this?" I asked confused.
"My debit card, use that, buy whatever you want." He said smiling.
"Thanks, but its okay, I've got my own card." I said trying to hand it back to him.
"Hey now, we're getting married, whats mine is yours remember, go on," He said and I smiled.
"Thank you." I said and walked round and kissed him on the cheek,
"Thanks." I said smiling.
"You already said that." He said leaning forward and kissing my cheek.
"I know, but I wanted to say it again." I said smiling and he smiled looking me in the eyes, I never noticed before but his eyes are a chocolate brown color, with this light in his eyes, I didnt notice until now how we were moving closer together, we were inches apart when the timer went of and we jumped apart, his hand flying up to the back of his neck, and I looked down at my feet whilst biting my lip. "I'm gonna get going." I mumbled and walked out quickly when I realised I didnt have my car, I sighed and walked back in, "Austin, can I borrow your car? My sisters bringing mine tonight." I said and he nodded and handed me the keys and I smiled thankfully and walked out again.
Austin's POV - 4pm
I had the starters have cooked waiting to be finish which I will do just before everyone arrives, and I'm doing the main course right now when Ally walked in with the bags.
"Hey, so I got all the deserts and everything last by the way so they wouldnt melt, And I got a new outfit for tonight," She said putting all the stuff away and I nodded.
"Cool, my mum said they will come at 7 o'clock, so we have 3 hours, I'm gonna have the main course in the oven when we have starters so they'll be ready about 5 minutes after we finish starters, then all I have to do is warm up some of the deserts after the main." I said and she nodded.
"Who new, my future husband, an amazing cook." She smirked and I chuckled, "You might want to go get a shower, you kinda stink." She said shrunging her face up in disguist.
"Oh really now." I said and she nodded, "You little.." I started but grabbed her by the waist and started tickling her causing her to giggle.
"Austin no!" She squaled and I smiled and didnt stop. "Please, please, please!" She said laughing and I chuckled.
"Say sorry!" I said and she shook her head.
"No! Never!" She exclaimed and I smiled,
"Say it!" I exclaimed and she laughed even more as I sped up.
"Okay, okay! I'm sorry!" She said smiling, I smiled and stopped tickling her,
"Thats better." I said.
"That was mean." She said whilst crossing her arms and pouting.
"Really, well if it was mean, why did you laugh?" I asked putting my hands on her waist.
"Because I'm ticklish," She said glaring playfully at me.
"Well, it was mean you saying I stink." I stated smiling.
"Well I only said it because I care, and It's true, speaking of which, please go get a shower, you do really stink," She said smirking and I smiled sighing.
"Fine, I'll get a shower," I said smiling and kissed her cheek, "See you in a bit." I said and ran up to the bathroom.
Ally's POV - 3 hours later
I finished curling my hair and walked downstairs and saw Austin stood in sweatpants, shirtless, a towel round his neck sorting out the starters, and I couldnt help but stare at his 6-pack.
"Hey." I said and he looked up at me, his eyes traveling over my body smiling.
"Hey, you look, amazing." He said sweetly and I blushed putting a piece of hair behind my ear. I wore A white one sleeved dress that went to above mid-thigh and and gold heels.
"Thanks, now I think you should go get dressed cause everyone will be here soon." I said and he nodded and jogged upstairs, I sneakily took a chicken wing and bit into it moaning at the taste.
"Hands off the food Dawson!" Austin exclaimed from upstairs causing me to jump and throw the chicken wing towards a wall where it fell into the bin and I sighed.
"Meany!" I exclaimed as I heard Austin laughing, just then the doorbell rang and I walked over to the door and opened it to see my 27yr old sister Hannah, brother-in-law Parker, nephew & niece Ethan, 7 & Cassie, 4.
"Hey." I said happily and hugged each of them.
"Hey, how are you?" Hannah asked me.
"Okay, kinda getting my head around the fact I'm engaged." I said nodding and she smiled.
"So where is Austin?" Parker asked and I was about to answer when someone did it for me.
"Right here." He said and I turned my head to see Austinwearing black jeans & a black dress top with a loose red tie and his red high tops.
"Hey, you okay?" Hannah asked him and he nodded,
"Anyway, come in." I said and walked to the living room with them following, just when we entered the door rang.
"I'll get it." Jack said and went to answer the door, he came in a minute later with my 24yr old brother Billy, his wife Mikayla & there 1yr old Lauren, then Austin's 20yr old sister Aubrey, her 22yr old boyfriend Dominic, and there 2yr old Savannah, then Austin's parents Mike & Mimi with his 14yr old sister Avery, then my parents Penny And Lester, with my 9yr old brother Isaac & 5yr old sister Emma.
"Okay, lets all sit down." I said and some how we all managed to sit on the table, my dad on one end, Austin's on the other, me and Austin went and served the starters and everyone dug in, after light conversation we were onto the main course, which everyone seems to enjoy.
"So, Austin, Ally, me, your dad & your parents have been speaking to some of our now mutual friends, and there all have kids your age, and we were thinking Mr Austins daughter Cadie, Mr & Mrs Snyders daughter Eviana, mr & Mrs Parkers daughter Brooke, & Mrs Gibson's daughter Carlee could be your bridesmaids Ally." Mum said smiling and my mouth opened slightly in shock.
"And Austin we were thinking mr Neilson's son Tag could be your best man." Mimi said smiling.
"You've got to be kidding me." We both said at the same time.
"We dont know who they are." I said annoyed.
"thats doesnt matter dear." Mum said smiling,
"Yes it does, first you force us to get married, live together and expect us to spend the rest of our lives together, then you chose random strangers to be at our wedding, I mean isnt it bad enough that we dont even know each other yet we have to get married." I exclaimed raising my voice,
"Your forcing me to get married at 17, so there is no way in hell, I'm letting you pick bridesmaids and god knows what else." I said storming out of the dining room and into the kitchen with footsteps following me. I walked over to the sink and put the dishes in angrily and leaned against the counter looking out the window.
"Hey." A voice said softly and I turned to my left and saw Austin stood there looking at me concerned and I sighed.
"Sorry." I whispered.
"What for?" He asked quietly.
"For blowing up in there, sorry." I explained.
"Dont be, a minute or 2 later I would of done so to." He said putting his hand on the small of my back and I sighed moving closer to him and laying my head & hands on his chest and I felt him wrap his arms around me and kissed my head.
"You know what, I'm not in the mood for the rest of tonight, so I'm just gonna get changed and chill in my bed watching some tv for a bit," I explained and he nodded,
"Okay, I'll tell them you weren't feeling well," He said and kissed my forehead again, "Go on." He said and I walked upstairs, I stript, and jumped into the shower quickly then jumped back out after 5 minutes, I got changed into leggings, a tank top and hoodie and my warm fuzzy socks and dried my hair, I put it into a messy bun and sighed when someone knocked on the door,
"Come in." I said and Austin walked in, "Hey I thought your meant to be serving desert?" I asked him confused,
"No, I told them all that we'll do it another night and let them take home some food and I put the rest away into some containers," He explained,
"You didnt have to." I said.
"Its fine, you come first, anyway, if you come downstairs you can have the rest of your dinner, and I've got a surprise for you after," He smirked and I smiled and giddily ran down stairs with him following me laughing, "Go sit down in the living room and I'll bring it in," He added and I nodded, I then noticed he had changed into jogging bottoms and a blue t-shirt, I walked into the living room and smiled, Austin had the fire place set up, he had closed the curtains, put a few sented candles around, put some pillows and blankets on the floor and the bottom of the couch for us to lean against and had moved the coffee table out of the way, and had put in disneys Tangled film and I smiled as Austin walked in carrying two plates, and set them down on the pillows infront of us,
"I thought we were finishing of our dinners, not having a whole new one," I smirked at him seeing plates filled with everyone of the foods,
"Yeah well, I decided we havent ate much today so, might as well now," He said sitting down next to me and I smiled,
"And what is all this?" I asked gesturing to everything,
"Well, I figured, even though we live here, it still doesnt feel homey, so I decided we should have a movie night." He said smiling.
"Okay, but, this kinda looks very..." I trailed.
"Romantic," He said and I nodded, "Thats what I was going for." He said smiling.
"Really, how come?" I asked smiling.
"Well, considering we're getting married, we might as well make the best of it." He said grabbing hold of my hand causing the smile on my face to grow.
"Well, the food looks amazing," I said to him looking at my plate and he smiled,
"Then dig in," He said pressing play on the film and we began eating,
"Austin?" I whispered after we had both finished our food and he looked at me,
"Whats wrong?" He asked concerned,
"Nothing, I just want to talk to you about something," I stated and he muted the tv before turning to face me,
"What about?" He asked,
"Well, this whole marriage thing, if we have a wedding then our parents will just take control and I dont want that, so I was thinking that maybe... possibly.." I said before he intervened,
"Just did it at the registry office?" He asked and I nodded, "I was thinking the same thing too," He added,
"That way, there would be no fuss, and because I'm 17 my parents will just have to sign an agreement saying I can get married and then we sign the wedding papers and done," I said,
"Okay, we will talk to them about it tomorrow, and we will go down to city hall on Saturday to do it," He said and I nodded,
- Demi xXx