AN: Thanks SO much for the reviews guys! Sorry it took so long but I've been super busy. I think I like this chapter and it's my longest so far so let me know what you think!
Ally's POV
When we get back to my house I take one muscle relaxer, one anti-inflammatory, and one nausea pill. Within thirty minutes I'm already feeling much better but I still can't sit up on my own. Austin calls his parents and tell them what happened that morning and explains that he should stay with me today and probably spend the night again tonight. His mom immediately agrees without even asking his dad's opinion. I call my dad and update him. He tells me he's sorry that I'm hurting and that he hopes I'll feel better soon.
I'm laying on one end of the couch and Austin's at the other, obnoxiously tickling my feet. When he's bored he likes to annoy me and we've been sitting here doing pretty much nothing for the last 20 minutes or so.
"Stop tickling me! It hurts to laugh!" I tell him through my giggles.
"I'm sorry Alls, I'm just bored. Hey, it's about lunch time. How about I go get us something to eat?" He suggests, and I'm glad for a plan that doesn't involve me moving.
"That sounds great. I kinda want to take a nap anyway." I tell him.
"Okay, well I'm gonna go pick us up some food then and you can get a quick nap while I'm gone. What do you want to eat?" He asks.
"Hmmmm... surprise me. You know what I order from everywhere."
"You got it. I'll be back in a bit. Get some rest."he tells me as he grabs my keys and walks out the door. I decide to go upstairs and sleep in my own comfy bed. I curl up under a blanket and hug a stuffed animal close to my chest. I'm pretty sure only a minute or two pass before I drift off to sleep.
My dream starts out as a nightmare. I was fine after the wreck but Austin was in the hospital dying. I felt so helpless just sitting there by the hospital bed. I started to cry but soon after I was enveloped in an overwhelming sense of warmth and comfort and my dream immediately changed into a happy one where Austin and I were together and having fun. I felt so safe and loved.
When I woke up I felt a heaviness around my waist. I couldn't look down without my neck hurting so I moved my hand down and was met with a strong arm. Oh please God let that be Austin. I roll slightly onto my stomach and lift myself up with my arms. I sit up and look over. Yep, it's Austin. Thank God.
He wakes up slowly and rubs his eyes. "Oh hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to fall asleep. I came up to tell you I was back with lunch but you looked like you were having a bad dream and I wanted to wake you up gently so I came and sat by you but then you got so much better so I just kinda wanted to lay here... What were you dreaming about?"
"It's okay, Austin." I say, smiling warmly at him. "I was having a nightmare about the wreck. I was fine but you were hurt really bad and I thought I was gonna lose you. But then you suddenly got better and it turned into a really good dream."
"Awww you'd be that upset if something happened to me?" he asks, teasingly.
"Of course I would, Austin. I can't even begin to imagine my life without you. Promise me you won't let anything happen to take you away from me." I say, changing the tone back to a serious one.
"I'll do my absolute best, Alls. You're my best friend, and probably the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. I don't know what I would do if you had been seriously hurt. I'm scared enough as it is." He plants a soft kiss on my forehead and I smile up at him for a moment before we realize how intimate the moment is. "Oh, um, I went to Taco Bell. It's probably getting cold. We should go downstairs and eat."
"Ugh I don't wanna walk allll the way downstairrrs," I groan as I stand up slowly.
"Well then, your chariot awaits you, madam." He says, squatting down to offer me a piggy back ride.
"Don't mind if I do," I reply, lightly placing my arms around his neck as he lifts my legs and wraps them around his waist. I'll never tell him but I love the way his strong shoulders feel under my arms and his back muscles flex against my chest. He walks carefully down the stairs and plops me down on the couch. I already miss the feeling of being held close against him.
Our burritos were cold so he popped them in the microwave to warm them slightly. When he came back, he sat next to me on the couch and placed our food on the coffee table in front of us.
"Movie?" I ask him, making a puppy dog face.
"You and movies this week, geez," he laughs. "Have something in mind?"
My eyes trail across the DVD shelf before they fall on one of my favorite movies that I haven't seen in a while. "Moulin Rouge?" I ask, another puppy dog face. Getting him to watch a musical with me two days in a row is very unlikely but it's worth a shot because I'm injured and he knows they're my favorite. Besides, he likes them a lot more than he lets on.
"Ugh, fine. Just stop looking at me like that. I can't take it," he says teasingly. I smile and clap my hands in excitement. A few seconds pass with neither of us moving before I look back over at him and stick out my bottom lip.
"Oh and now you want me to get up and do all the work? You better be glad I put up with you. This is getting ridiculous," he teases me again as he gets up to put in the DVD.
"You love me," I say thoughtlessly, meaning to tease him back, but I see him pause with his back turned to me. He stands still for a couple of seconds before I hear a quiet "Yeah" as he continues to work on starting the movie. Um, what was that? Was that like a moment? What just happened here? I'm kind of freaking out but when he turns back to walk towards the couch he is smiling so I just brush it off.
Within a few minutes of the movie starting, I'm snuggled up into him again like I was last night. We laugh together as we watch and I complain about picking a funny movie because it hurts to laugh. We also sing along, as is typical. I know he secretly loves to sing movie duets with me.
When we get to the part where the main characters are standing on top of the elephant, Austin looks at me and speaks along with Christian's speaking part.
"Silly of me, to think that you could fall in love with someone like me." The moment makes my spine tingle, but I go along with it, reciting Satine's lines back at him.
"I can't fall in love with anyone."
"Can't fall in love? But a life without love, that's terrible!" he continues the scene.
"No, being on the street, that's terrible!"
"No, love is like oxygen!"
"What?" I breathe out, interrupting him, just like they do on screen. I smile knowing that he has the words to my favorite move memorized. I knew he likes musicals more than he lets on.
"Love is a many splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong! All you need is love."
"Please don't start that again," I chuckle as he starts to sing along with the beginning of the duet. Austin and I are about to sing along to a full love song duet. Why did he start this? Is he trying to say he loves me? I like him more than I could even begin to describe but I'm still so afraid of what will happen if it doesn't work. I mean, there are only two outcomes for a relationship. Either you break up, or you get married. And honestly, that is an absolutely terrifying thought. I'm pulled out of my contemplation when I realize that I'll have to sing along with him.
(AN: For clarification I'll put Austin's singing part in bold)
"All you need is love." he sings to me
"A girl has got to eat." I reply
"All you need is love." he insists again, along with the movie.
"Or she'll end up on the streets."
"All you need is love." My main reason for resisting my feelings for Austin is that it could mess up our friendship and possibly our partnership
"Love is just a game." Maybe I shouldn't be so worried...
"I was made for loving you baby, you were made for loving me." Okay, I definitely like Austin. A lot. And now he's singing a love song with me and looking at me with those eyes.
"The only way of loving me baby, is to pay a lovely fee." Okay the eyes need to stop. It's hard to think of reasons we shouldn't be together when he's looking at me like that.
"Just one night, give me just one night." My heart is melting. He just held my hand. I'm losing most coherent thought right now and the memorized lyrics are pretty much just falling out of my mouth subconsciously as I gaze into his gorgeous brown eyes.
"There's no way, 'cause you can't pay."
"In the name of love, one night in the name of love." He needs to stop singing this stuff before I start thinking he means it.
"You crazy fool, I won't give in to you." I really won't I'm not just going to fall in love with him because he's singing along to some love medley from my favorite movie which he learned all the words to and that's probably the sweetest, most romantic thing a guy has done for me
"Don't leave me this way,
I can't survive without your sweet love, oh baby
Don't leave me this way." Okay, I won't... I am basically swooning right now. This needs to stop.
"You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs."
"I look around me and I see, it isn't so, oh no."
"Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs." I could definitely see us writing love songs together,
"Well what's wrong with that? I'd like to know.
'Cause here I go again!
Love lifts us up where we belong,
Where eagles fly, on a mountain high."
"Love makes us act like we are fools,
Throw our lives away, for one happy day." That's basically what we would be doing if we got together. We would probably be throwing away our careers and our futures and our friendship to be together.
"We could be heroes! Just for one day." What I would give just to kiss him for one day.
"You, you will be mean."
"No I won't!"
"And I, I'll drink all the time."
"We should be lovers." The way he looks at me when he sings this line, I can't even explain it. These lyrics are getting to him too. I can tell he's having the same internal battle I'm having.
"We can't do that." I'm nearly pleading with my eyes, trying to hold onto some reason I used to have for why we shouldn't be doing this but I'm forgetting.
"We should be lovers, and that's a fact." Okay, there it went. I'm pretty sure I just actually saw all of the reasoning float out of his brain
"Though nothing, will keep us together." I say, losing the last of my reasoning too and giving in to the moment.
"We could steal time... "
"Just for one day. We could be heroes, forever and ever.
We could be heroes, forever and ever. We could be heroes... " we sing together
"Just because I will always love you." he lays me on my back on the couch and hovers above me.
"I can't help loving you. How wonderful life is, now you're in the world," we sing together softly before our lips collide in what is, without a doubt, the most perfect, passionate kiss I could have ever imagined.
AN: Ahhh kind of a cliffhanger! They just kissed! And Ally's having some serious internal struggle in this chapter. Please review and let me know how you feel about it. I'll try to have the next chapter up sometime this weekend, probably on Sunday.