A/N: alrighty right. i found this on my computer, and it's been fucking 3 years but i thought it'd be funny if i actually published this. It's not even finished, and just has random excerpts so,,,,, enjoy. Looking back on this it's an actual atrocity and I regret writing this and wonder how i got so obsessed with something so heterosexual. Anyways, I'm on AO3 now as bornobsession with a Yuzuvier fic (still in progress). It's been three years and I still can't learn to stop procrastinating and update on a regular schedule.

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"C'mon Ally, just jump. I'm right behind you. You got this. You want it, remember?"

The fierce wind stole her breath away, so she had to shout to make herself heard. "Did I mention I'm scared of heights!?" She licked her lips and looked down out the open door of the plane to the distant ground.

Her mind was running a mile a minute.

It's too far. Too high. I'm too damn scared.

Austin chuckled and leaned over so he could talk in her ear without raising his voice. "Yes, multiple times. I won't let anything happen to you okay?"

Silence, except for the rippling wind around them.

"Tell you what, if we hit the ground, I'll be your cushion."

Her eyes widened as she slapped his arm. "Austin! Don't say that! God you make it sound like I'm sacrificing you so I can finish this stupid bucket list. We go together okay?"

The words were meant to comfort herself, and reassure him that she was fine, but her eyes were wide and searching, looking for that safe haven amongst him.

He quickly nodded, encasing her tiny palm in his big one. "We go together."

Austin signaled to the pilot they were ready to jump before turning back to Ally.

"You wanna count us down?"

She licked her lips again and took a deep breath. She started talking but Austin soon realized they weren't numbers.

It was so quiet he wasn't even sure Ally said anything.

"God, I should've brought lip balm or something."

And the next moment she was dragging him out of the plane with her, a scream ripping from her lips as they fell through the sky. Her grip was like death on his hand, but he didn't mind.

She was laughing and crying and screaming and everything was just beautiful. Like they were in a time warp and all she could care about was this free falling feeling and Austin holding her hand and Austin smiling at her like that and Austin Austin Austin.

He looked at her in all her beauty, hair flying everywhere, face upturned towards the sun.

It was like they were on top of the world, and they might as well have been, 15,000 feet in the sky. Not a soul but them.

She suddenly clung to his side and yelled over the roar in her ears.

"Oh my god, Austin!"

"What?" He asked, slightly alarmed. "Wait…are you gonna hurl?"

She laughed. "No! Austin, I'm falling out of the sky! We're falling out of the sky. Dude, we're skydiving!"

She fell into a fit of laughter until tears came to her eyes.

"I just jumped out of a plane!" She couldn't breathe for a second because she was laughing so hard, and he couldn't help but fall a little more in love.

When she finally calmed down, she sighed. The ground was coming up at her alarmingly fast, but it was like she wasn't scared anymore. Both her and Austin pulled the parachute string and felt it jerk them up as the billowing cloth shot out into the sky.

They were floating down to the ground, high off adrenaline.

"God how insane are we?"

"I love it."

"I love you," she amended.

"Yea that too," his nonchalant voice made it seem like it wasn't a big deal at all.

Ally smiled real big. "Ew, gross, cooties!" She giggled, her eyes twinkling.

He laughed, leaning over before planting a kiss on her lips.

"Isn't it weird how we met like, seven days ago?"

"I don't know, love at first sight right?"

They didn't say anything anymore, sitting in silence, still holding hands until they reached the ground.

Austin remembered that day very clearly. He remembered the way her lips felt against his, floating down from just a blur in time. It was like their own personal bubble up there, and he wanted it back.

He remembered how Ally had to pay for it since it was so expensive, and he played it off like he forgot his wallet at home. It was right there in his pocket. There was just nothing in it.

Suddenly his phone rang. He shifted over on his bed, his hand scrambling all over the nightstand before landing on his target. It was Dez.

"Hey, What's up?"

Dez wasted no time with small talk and launched right in.

"So you know how you asked me to set you guys up with Jimmy Starr?"

"Yea…" I bit my lip, hardly daring to breathe.

"I got you a meeting!"

"No way."

"Yes way. It's tomorrow at 2. Don't mess it up."

"No fucking way."

"Bye."

No way.

He ran out of the room, ecstatic. He banged Ally's door open, causing her to jolt up beneath the blankets.

"Who's there? I know karate!" She fumbled to the get the blanket off her head, relaxing when she saw who it was. Austin laughed.

"No you don't."

"Yea I know. What's up? And why are you up so early?"

"You're going to love me."

She rolled her eyes. "I already do, Austin."

He puffed his chest. "Well you're going to love me even more."

She huffed. "What's going on?"

"We got the meeting with Jimmy Starr. It's at two tomorrow."

She gasped and froze in place.

"Tomorrow?! Oh god, I don't have any time, don't we need a song or something, a demo? What if we're not ready and we blow our chance. Oh my god, we're not ready, and he's going to hate us!"

Her breath came out all panicky and quick, until he grabbed her wrists, telling her to calm down.

"It's ok Ally, we'll get a song. And he'll love us, ok? He'll love you."

She looked at his face before relaxing her shoulders. She ran a hand through her tangled wavy hair.

"Oh. My. God. We are meeting with Jimmy Starr. The Jimmy Star!" Her eyes were bright and her cheeks semi flushed.

He looked at her amused. "Yeah, I know."

They sat on her bed in silence. She looked over looked at Austin. Like really looked at him.

His hair was sticking up in all the wrong places, and she found it endearing. His eyes had dark bags under them, but the chocolate orbs told a different story.

They were lit up, darting around and looking at every thing at once.

Austin was right. She did love him even more, but it wasn't because of the meeting…

He glanced at her face and caught her eye.

He winked before standing up.

"C'mon," he said, holding his hand out to her. "Let's go write a song."

"But I just woke up!" She gestured to her messy hair and unbrushed teeth and her white tee and sweatpants. "We haven't even had breakfast yet. Plus, Kira doesn't even own a piano."

He smirked. "I think I know a place."

It was a small coffee shop on the corner of the street.

In the corner, was a man playing classical/jazz piano. Austin made his way over.

"I've been coming here everyday since I arrived in Seattle. Only place with a piano. Plus great coffee."

He turned to the pianist. "You mind if we cut in for a while?"

The guy smiled like they've been friends forever. "No problem, Austin. It's all yours."

They sat on the bench and Ally brushed her fingers over the delicate keys. The ebony black and marble white. Brass pedals. It felt like home.

"It was a good find eh?"

Speechless, she nodded her head. Nothing like her old run down piano at home or even her favorite at Sonic Boom.

She played a scale.

And like magic her fingers were flying over the keys and a simple, upbeat melody came out.

He smiled and raised his hands to the keys. "How about this…" He played the same melody but changing a few notes, adding more, cutting some out.

She nodded, playing it again, building off of him.

By the end of the morning, they had figured out the main melodic line, moving onto chords.

They barely spoke, so in tune with each other they just knew what the other was thinking.

"Ok, Ok, what if we switch these two…" he demonstrated on the piano, " and add this," he said while playing another chord, "in the middle?"

She went back to the melody, contemplating how it would fit together.

"So…" her hands joined his on the keys "it'd sound like this?" She began playing, and Austin automatically joined in on his part.

"It's like my mind is just static and I cant think. Tell me what to do Austin. I can't function. "

Tears were running down her face and she felt like the room was spinning. She whispered into the phone.

"I need you, I love you."

Silence on the other side. The beep signaled his voicemail had cut her off again.

She sighed, throwing her phone off the bed, not caring where it landed.

Her chest hurt. She couldn't breathe.

It felt like suddenly her own skin became uncomfortable and she had to get out.

She scratched at her face, screaming into the night.

She was ruined.