I've worked really hard on this and I hope it came out the way you wanted. Kind of a plot twist in the sense that it doesn't go the way the song does. I hope you like it.
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No one does anything, just sits there waiting for that awkward moment to pass. Ally sits there fidgeting with her dress extremely uncomfortable. The preacher opens his mouth to continue on with the ceremony and that's when Ally rises to her feet ready to stop it all. Instead, someone beats her to it. Austin. He pulls away from Kira.
"I can't," he shouts. His words covered Ally's quiet plea to stop. And the world stops because it's just them standing there smiling at each other. They can't see the way people are watching them. They can't hear the hushed words dripping with disbelief. And they don't notice Kira having a conniption because that would require looking away from each other and they never wanted to do that as long as they lived. All they can see is each other and that's all that matters.
It was sort of ironic what they were doing right now because Austin could've sworn watching a movie like this in high school with Ally. He also remembered making fun of how cliché it was and never letting Ally ever live it down. What an idiot he had been then; this kind of thing felt amazing when you were actually living it. Now, it wasn't ridiculous because he was thirsting for it.
"I can't," he repeated turning to face Kira. "I can't marry someone I don't love, especially if I'm still in love with someone else. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."
What else could you say when you were leaving someone at the alter? Austin didn't know and he couldn't think of anything with his heart pounding in his ears. Austin Moon had never ever been nervous in his entire life, but now he was. Hands clammy, cheeks on fire and sweating profusely Austin turned to face Ally.
He took a step toward the stairs and paused for a second before jumping down the carpeted steps. Austin walked past all the flashing cameras, shocked faces and angry glares –mostly from Kira's family –never once looking away from that girl in the middle row who was just watching him with a faded smile. He stopped in front of the row Ally was in and smiled at her. His hand was held out in front of her and her eyes flickered toward it the expression on her face totally blank. And then she placed her small hand in his big one smiling up at him. Austin shook their hands meeting her gaze.
"Let's get out of here," Austin whispered. She let him pull her out of her row and up the aisle. They ran out of the doors laughing, the echoes of applause following them. Somewhere mixed in there, Kira's outraged shriek was mixed in there getting lost in the happy noises that pissed her off even more.
Austin and Ally pushed their way through the lobby and through the double doors. Never once letting go of each other's hands they weaved through the crowds of squealing fans. Rain sprinkled on their skin as they splashed through the growing puddles in the pavement. Austin opened the car door for her and closed it before running around the car to get in his own side of the car.
He started the car switching the heat on high noticing Ally shivering out of the corner of his eye. Quickly, he pulls off his drenched jacket and drapes it over her shoulders well aware that it can't be helping her much. The gesture's nice though. He looks her over marveling at just how amazing she was. Her hair was soaked, her dress was sticking to her every curve, her makeup had pretty much been washed away by the rain, somehow she had already managed to kick off her heels and she was curled up in the passenger seat. She was perfect.
Ally leaned in and kissed him. It was one of those hungry kissed with teeth bumping and lip biting. Where hands get tangled in hair and your clothes get all disheveled. That leaves your lips rubbed raw and you gasping for air. One that after you start, you want more.
They pulled away fumbling with their seatbelts. He backed the car out of the lot and they fell into a comfortable silence. Ally cut through the blanket of silence once they got on the highway.
"Where are we going," Ally asked.
"Anywhere you want to go," Austin replied squeezing her hand.
That's where they went, where Ally had wanted to go for a really long time.
Ally woke up the next morning blinking in the sunlight streaming in through the window. She was wrapped up in Austin's muscular arms and enveloped in his hear. Both of them were still completely bare after what happened the night before. The thick bedspread was pulled up covering her body and she was sharing a pillow with Austin.
Austin's eyes flutter open and he smiled down at her.
"Good morning," Austin yawned pulling Ally closer.
She looked around taking in the room. It was Austin's old room and not much had changed since she had last been here. There was still the awful wallpaper and the peeling music note stickers all over the room. However, all the instruments were gone, the dresser wasn't spilling over with clothes, the closet actually closed, the carpet was actually visible and only a few of the posters were still on the wall. There was still the Rolling Stones poser over his bed and the framed picture of 'Team Austin' smiling. But, it had that unnatural hallow feeling. That one where you know someone used to live here, but they don't anymore. She imagined that's what the practice room felt like too at Sonic Boom. Because, without Austin it was all missing something.
Involuntarily, she snuggled closer to him terrified that she might lose him again.
"Don't leave me," she whispered.
"Wouldn't dream of it," Austin replied kissing her head.
That's when the door swung open and Mimi was standing in the doorway mouth open. Ally squirmed under the covers burying her head in Austin's chest.
"Mom," Austin whined.
"Sorry," Mimi replied blushing. And was that a smile tugging at her lips? "Breakfast will be ready in five minutes and when you get the chance, you might want to read this."
Mimi tossed him the newspaper and left closing the door behind her.
"Holy shit," Austin gasped looking at the headline.
'Austin Moon leaves fiancée at the alter for old songwriter.'
"That didn't take long," Ally commented taking the paper out of his hands.
Austin's phone chirped on the side table and he picked it up. Thirty-seven missed calls and one hundred unread text messages from Jimmy. Make that one hundred and one. Seventy-six missed calls from Kira and over a thousand text messages that he assumed were all hateful. He didn't even dare check the 3,000 emails in his inbox.
"I've pissed a lot of people off," Austin muttered.
"We pissed them off," Ally reminded sitting up. She pressed a soft kiss to his lips and pulled back smiling at him. He smiled back at her pulling her close and resting his chin on her head. She listened to his heartbeat flutter because that was familiar.
"What now," Ally sighed. Neither of them had thought of what happened next. He would have to eventually read the texts and face the people he left at that wedding. Eventually, Ally would have to go back to Jacksonville and he would have to go back on tour. What would become of them then? "I mean, I have students to go back to and you have the rest of your tour."
"I could go with you," Austin smiled. "The of us living in your tiny apartment like a normal couple."
"Or, I could go with you," Ally thought aloud. She never did get to tour with Austin.
"That sounds nice," he smiled burying his nose in her hair and inhaling the smell that was strictly Ally. "I guess it's decided, you're gonna live with me on my tour bus."
Well, there it is. There will be a few more chapters after this, but the story is kind of reaching that point. Please review! I really like to hear what you think of my fic.
Love,
Kaylie
