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Ally's POV

"Thanks for dinner, Austin." I told him.

"You're welcome," he says smiling at me.

We came home like an hour now. Nalini crashed on the way here and I just put her to bed. After Austin stayed so I offered him something to drink. We were in the living room sipping on a glass of wine.

The conversation took an awkward turn from there. I didn't know what to say for what to do. After all we only met each other this morning after like ten years. There were so many things I wanted to ask him but I didn't know how, it just felt…tense. The environment I mean.

"What are you thinking about?" he asks curiously.

"Um, nothing. Just work" I cover.

"Classic Ally. You haven't changed a bit," he commented nodding his head

"Well you know me," I said laughing slightly. Then after it died down and we were left in the stage one phase.

"Well this is awkward," he says after a moment of uncomfortable, unbearable silence.

"You stole the words out of my mouth," I say.

He chuckles at this, "So let's start simple. What have you been up to?" he asks

"Nothing much. Just work and Nalini and that basically my life," he nods taking this in, "What about you?" I ask.

"Well tour's been taking up my time recently," he says

"Wow that must be fun. Playing so many gigs. Travelling so much." I say wistfully.

"It's not always a joyride. There's always screaming fans to deal with, not that I don't love them, and being constantly on the road and worst yet, always away from family," he corrects.

"But you're still living your dream," I tell him.

"In a way Ally, yes," he says. "Moving on, how old is Nalini?" he asks.

"She's nine. She'll be ten in about two months," I say

"Where's her dad?" he asks nervously.

This time I freeze. Does he know? No he can't know. He won't know. Nalini can't tell him because she doesn't know and only I know and I've never told him, so therefore he can't know. He really, really can't know. This would break him.

"Hello, earth to Ally," he says waving a hand in front my face.

"Huh?" I ask stepping out of a daze.

"I asked where is Nalini's dad, if you don't want to answer. It's cool," he says eyeing me.

"No um. It's, it's Dallas," I say watching his reaction.

"I know Dallas is the father, I just want to know where he is," he clarifies.

Oh well, then in that case. I freaked out over nothing. Well this is embarrassing.

"He's um, he's in L.A," I say."He works for some big time cell company, designing phones." I add.

He nods his head, "That's cool," he says finally.

"Does he give child support?" he ask

"Yeah, obviously. He's the father." I say, yeah Dallas gives child support. That never happened. We agreed that he didn't need to.

"Ally we need to fix this if he doesn't give child support, you know that right?" he says standing up now with this serious look in his face.

"He does give. But we rarely need to use it. I've been putting it in Nalini college savings," I lie smoothly; I'm getting better at this.

"Okay," he says slowing and looking at me unconvinced.

"You need to see it?" I snap

"No, it's just that I think-" he says but cuts off looking behind me, I turn around to see what it is or who it was. It was Nalini, she came in dragging a blanket with her and her eye and face set in this well, depressed look.

"Sweetie what's wrong?" I ask walking over to her and crouching down to her height.

"Mommy, I'm scared." She says in a shaky voice. Austin comes over and rests one hand on the small of my back and the other on Nalini's shoulder. I smile to myself, if we were a family, this is how it would've been.

"Why?" Austin asks in a soft tone.

"I heard voices, I didn't know you were here. I got scared, I didn't know who mommy was talking to. I thought you were a kidnapper, sorry Uncle Austin," she says dropping the blanket giving Austin a big hug. "Awwww," I cooed at the moment.

"It's alright honey. Everything's alright now," he reassures her in this is sweet soft voice that I've never heard before.

"Let's go back to sleep," I say getting up taking Nalini's hand to lead her back to her bedroom.

"Ally, I could put her back to sleep if you want," Austin offers

"Oh, that's not really necessary," I say waving off his offer.

"Mommy, please don't get mad, but I kinda want Uncle Austin to put me to sleep this time," Nalini says in her soft sleepy voice.

"Oh well then, Austin take her," I didn't really know what to say.

"Okay, see you in a few Ally." He says smiling, who would be that excited to put a child to sleep.

"Let's go princess, but first kiss mommy goodnight," he tells her .

She comes up to me and I crouch down to her height again and he gives me a kiss, "Night mommy!" she says then walks back to Austin.

"Come on, let's go," he says pulling Austin with her down the hall.

"Do you know the way to the room?" her voice echoed down the hall

"Lead the way princess," he replies.

I laugh to myself and pick the glasses up to carry them to the sink.

Austin's POV

"There's no monster under the bed princess," I say telling Nalini, she just had me check under the bed for monsters.

" Thanks you!" she says hugging me

"No problem, lights out now?" I ask her

"Yes, bye-bye Austin," she says kissing me on the cheek.

"Will you be here when I get up?" she asks with that hopeful tone in her voice.

I sigh, I didn't know what to say.

"Maybe princess. But tomorrow I'd come back for sure, I reassure her .

"Yay!" she squeals.

"Okay, night princess. Sweet dreams," I tell her getting up now.

"Night daddy, love you," she says snuggling with her toy monkey.

I froze. No it wasn't because of the 'I love you' she called m daddy. She just called me daddy. How am I supposed to react?

"Yeah, I love you too," I say walking to the door and taking of the lights.

I close the door behind me and walk down the hall.

I soak it in. she called me daddy. For some reason I smile, but I've only known here for a couple hours, and she calls me daddy already? I must be good with kids! Wait, Austin stop. I remind myself. What if Ally found out? What would she do? Will she let me see her and Nalini again? What if she gets mad? She did snap at me when I 'dissed' Dallas earlier today.

Maybe I shouldn't tell her. Nalini was sleepy, she probably just let it slip. She didn't mean it, I'm sure.

"Well um, I better get going," I say to Ally when I see her. She was texting somebody. I don't know, I don't need to know.

"Oh, really? I was just talking to Trish," she says putting the phone down. See it was just Trish, I reminded myself.

"Oh really? What did she say?" I ask heading to the door.

"She's shocked to hear that you came to visit," she says

"Well Ally, the talk was nice, I'll be back tomorrow for more Austin and Ally time," I say kissing her forehead, maybe it was a romantic gesture, to us it wasn't.

"Okay, do you want to stay the night?" she offered, "It's late, it's not safe to drive," she adds

"No Ally, it's cool. See you tomorrow," I tell her holding her hand and smiling, she was warming up to me.

"Bye Austin," she says hugging me, she felt, so right.

"Bye Ally," I say hugging her back. We last like that for a couple minutes longer than we should, but it felt… good… just like old times.

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