Leave me alone world. It's Saturday now and I've been at Austin's house since yesterday. I am still in no way shape or form ready to face my dad. I mean who leaves their daughter to go off and get engaged with someone? My dad apparently.
I throw the cover back over my head as I heard someone walking towards the door.
I hear the door open and a sigh before everything goes silent. all of the sudden, someone jumps on the bed. While in the process, I lose just about every ounce of air in my body
"Wakey wakey Ally!" Austin says pulling the covers off my face. "There's that beautiful face." he grins.
I glare at him before attempting to grab the covers back but it's not match, he's just too strong.
I groan. "What do you want?"
His smile turns into a pout. "Aw, don't be so grumpy. I, your best friend, do not like seeing you so sad."
I roll my eyes before fake smiling. "What do you want?" I say with a little more enthusiasm.
"Wow thanks," he says sarcastically. "Today, we are going to the fair!"
"Do we have to?" I whine.
"Yes now come on, get up." he grabs my hand and lifts me to sit up.
"I just want to lay here all day until night comes and I go to sleep and have to wake up and go home to face my horrible father figure." I say with a pout.
"Well I won't allow it, come on." he grabs my hand and I stand up.
I sigh before looking at him with hair all in my face. "I'm only doing this for you."
He smirks before pushing my hair out of my face and kissing my forehead. "I'm doing this all for you."
I look into my bag that I always keep here for reasons like this and pull out a pair of white wash skinny jeans, a black v-neck and my black and white flannel. I throw on some black boots and quickly straighten my hair using Austin's moms straightener.
Once I'm finished I grab my bag and walk downstairs to see Mimi reading a magazine, Mike playing with Aria and Austin, of course, eating some pancakes.
"Oh thank god, your hair is finally combed," Austin says in a relieved tone.
I roll my eyes before punching him in the back as I walk past him and grab the cereal box.
"Ally do you want me to make you something?" Mimi asks from the kitchen table.
"No that's fine, I'm just going to eat some
cereal."
I make my cereal before sitting down next to Austin and begin to quietly eat. "What fair are we going to anyway?" I ask.
"It's one in Orlando. That's why I woke you up so early so we could get there early and have all day to hangout." he says with a smile.
I shake my head and smile before finishing my food and putting my dish in the sink. "Well, Ally and I better get going if we want to make it to the fair early." Austin says putting his jacket on.
We say goodbye to his parents before we get in the car. "Orlando bound here we come!" Austin says as we get on the highway.
I turn on the radio and look out of the window as we cruise down the highway. "Whatcha thinking about?" Austin asks.
"Nothing really. Just the whole dad thing is still on edge with me." I say sighing.
"Don't worry, I'll always be here to talk. I know that Cassidy thing threw us off the edge but I promise I will always be here for you. Just like I have been for the past 14 years."
I smile at him before we sit in a comfortable silence as I watch as we pass the trees and landscape. "Why did you decide to do something with me today?"
"I felt bad about what happened and instead of you worrying and lounging around about it all weekend, I thought I'd take you to have some real fun." he says looking at me and smiling.
"Thanks Austin. You're a great friend." I say and I feel this pang of something.
It's about another 2 hours before we finally get to the fair in Orlando and let me tell you, it is crazy. There's rides, booths, people, kids, cotton candy, corn dogs, everything you could imagine that would be at a fair. Austin pays for the tickets and we get inside. "Well, what should we do first?" I ask.
"Get some cotton candy, definitely." he says before grabbing my hand and dragging me to a booth with candy.
"One please." he says while handing the lady the money. As he does so, you can clearly see the girl flirting with him as she smiles and bats her eyelashes.
Austin quickly grabs the cotton candy before wrapping his arm around me and walking away. "What was that all about?" I ask while taking off a piece of cotton candy and putting it in my mouth.
"That was so rude! I'm clearly with a girl so why would she even need to try and flirt with me?" he asks taking some cotton candy.
We arrive at the first ride, The Himalayas. It's a ride that plays awesome music really loudly throughout the ride and it spins you forward and backward really fast.
"Want to go on this ride?" he asks jerking his thumb toward the ride.
"Yeah sure!" I say as we get in line for the ride.
We hand the person our tickets and make our way to a cart. We strap in and wait for the guy to come around and check everyone. While we wait, I can hear Austin singing along to the song, Earned It by The Weeknd.
"Cause girl you're perfect, you're always worth it." he says putting his finger under my chin.
I giggle. "Oh god you're so pathetic."
He puts a hand to his heart. "Wow, thanks for boosting my relationship confidence."
I smile and shrug as the ride begins to move.
We get off the ride, laughing our butts off. Probably looking slightly nauseous. "God, I love that ride." he sighs before going up to the concession stand.
"What do you want?" he asks grabbing his wallet out of his back pocket.
I decide against telling him I'll pay for it because he won't let me. "Um, just a water and a pretzel please." I say before grabbing some napkins and bringing them to a clean table.
Once Austin got the food, he comes back to the table and sits down. "Here's your pretzel." he says handing it to me.
"Thank you." I say.
"So you having fun?" he asks taking a bite of a French fry.
"Yeah I am. Thanks for taking me here." I smile.
"It's the least I can do. You've helped me with way more things than I can count so it's my way of paying you back." he says.
I lean over a grab a fry before popping it into my mouth. "I have never been to this fair before. Have you?"
"I came here once with my aunt when I was like 9 but that's it. I had completely forgotten about it until I was on my phone last night and seen an ad for it somewhere." he says shrugging.
After we've eaten we decide to ride some more rides. We go on the Pirate Ship, Tilt-A-Whirl, The Scrambler, and a Ferris Wheel.
Now we decide to just walk around and look at some carnival games. "There's a game where you can win some animals!" I shriek as I point to a booth.
"Please, easy as cake." he says confidently.
"I thought it was pie? Easy as pie?" I ask.
He shrugs before shooting the water at the target. Winner! The Machine says and Austin pumps his fist in the air in victory.
He smirks before picking out a fluffy, pink unicorn and handing it to me. "How did you just assume that I wanted a unicorn?" I ask.
"Do you not want the unicorn?" he asks narrowing his eyes at me.
"Oh no I do!" I say holding it against me. "I just didn't know you'd know that I wanted it."
"Has it completely crossed your mind that I know everything and anything about you?" he asks as we continue walking.
"Oh yeah, my dearest apologies." I put my hand on my heart.
He rolls his eyes. He isn't sneaky enough, I see a slight smile tugging on his lips.
It's around 6:30pm when Austin and I decide to leave. Daylight savings time has passed so it's getting dark earlier than usual.
I look out at the dark trees as the pas by with a quick speed, slightly hearing the radio playing in the background.
As we get back to Austin's house we're in complete silence, a good silence. I think we're both just really tired. As soon as we get back it starts raining, hard.
I'm in my bed when I hear a crash of thunder, and a struck of lightning. I shoot up in fear. I lightly get out of bed and tip toe out of the room and into Austin's room.
I walk over to his bed and lightly shake him. "Austin," no budge, nothing.
"Austin." I repeat.
"Ally?" he says groggily. "What's wrong?"
"The storm is scaring me." I say softly.
He moves over. "Come here."
I get in the bed next to him and he wraps his arm around my waist. "Night Ally." he says kissing my head.
