The Mood Ring
Chapter 7
I jump out of bed and get dressed. I tip toe to the kitchen and make my self an instant coffee and sit down on the couch. I plop down a magazine on my lap and start reading the latest gossip. I know I don't seem like the kind of girl to read magazines. I'm not really, that's more of Trish's thing. I'm about half way through it when someone jumps over the back of the couch and sits next to me. I look over and almost choke on my coffee.
"Als, are you okay?" Austin asks in concern.
"Nothing just this...uh...article." I lie. Honestly it was Austin who caught me off guard. I haven't seen him since last night. When I talked to him and figures that he's in love. I look at an article that catches my eye. "So, Austin, is there a special someone?"
"What?" He says moving his head towards me quickly. I don't think he quite got that.
"I asked you if there is a special someone."
"I have a lot of special someone's, Dez, Trish, Jimmy, my mom and dad, my entire family actually. A list could go on about my special someone's."
I laugh, "I mean, is there a girl."
"Of course there are girls." He sets his hand on my shoulder acting like I'm stupid. "You are one." He gets up and walks towards the door.
"I meant do you... "
"I have to go somewhere, be back I'm a few." He quickly says then closes the door.
"...Like someone." I exhale and turn on the TV. Dez comes out of his room and opens the fridge. I turn around and lean on my head on my arms on the top of the couch. "Hey Dez."
"Hey Ally. What's up." Takes out a water bottle and sits on the counter chair.
"You know my ring?"
"The butterfly one?"
"Yeah."
"What about it?"
"It works and I tried it on Austin."
"I know it works but go on." He urges me to go on with what I was about to say.
"Okay well, remember when I tried it on Trish yesterday and she was all happy?"
"Yeah."
"I thought it was stuck on my emotion and it wouldn't change but when I put it on Trish's finger it changed and said that she was happy then I put it on my hand and it had the same emotion that it was stuck on and then I went into Austin's room and put it on his fiber and it showed the same one I had and I'm freaking out. I have no Idea what I am going to do at this point." By the time I finish explaining I am pacing back and forth. Dez comes up to me.
"Ally, calm down. What was the emotion you and Austin had?" It takes me a while to answer him back. "Tell me."
"It's...hey! Look at that view. It is gorgeous." Maybe distracting him will get it off his mind. Yeah. "The mountains and the morning sun. Absolutely beautiful." I smile awkwardly.
"Ally, stop trying to change the subject. I'm not falling for it. Now tell me what the emotion was." He says.
"It was...ldrfiger." I slur my words. Maybe he will get to annoyed and stop trying to get out of me.
"Ally, enough games and just tell me, it can't be that bad."
I sign in defeat, "it was...Love."
"Really?" He jumps up and hugs me a spins me around while my arms are pinned down. He sets me down.
"I'm going to go search for Austin. Figure out where he scurried of to." I walk outside and search for Austin. I try to leave before Dez can say anything. He practically pinned me down and took out a knife out and forced me to tell him until I spilled. He couldn't have gone far. We are just outside of town. There's only the office, waterfall, the road, and that's pretty much. I'll know which one he'll be at.
"Austin?" I set my hand on his shoulder.
He smiles, "Hey." I sit next to him on the picnic table that is in front of the waterfall. The water sounds so peaceful. No wonder Austin came here. "How'd you know I was here?"
"I know you Austin. I always know your spots before you even know them." He smiles. "How come you ran out on me?"
"I don't really want to talk about."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. Thanks for the offer though. It's so crazy."
"What?" I turn my head towards him.
"Life."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"Life is crazy."
"Tell me about it, the challenges you your faced with, it sends you in two different paths. Its up to you which path you want to take."
"There's different paths for different things."
"Many." It's just a nice, peaceful conversation with Austin. We needed this. I just don't know what I'm going to do with the whole love situation I have gotten myself into. "Which path do you want to take."
Austin takes my hand and I smile as I watch out hands intertwined together. I look up and he catches me off guard. We kiss and it didn't feel wrong, it didn't feel awkward, it felt perfect. We look at each other with that emotion same emotion expressed in our eyes.
"Austin."
"Shhh."
"I have to say something. The ring I have, for the passed couple of days I thought it was stuck on an emotion. I made Trish put it on and it changed. So them I put it back on and it went back to the emotion I had. Then I went Into your room while you were sleeping and it stayed. It was love." I explain the whole thing to him hoping that he gets it and I think by the way he is smiling at me that he knows what I'm getting at. I put my hands on his face so that he looks me in the eye. "Austin, are you in love with me?"
oh Em gee? OMG! I am having many feeling right now! I loved writing the chapter. And I love writing the story. please review and thanks for reading! Let me know what you think so far?
