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Questions & Silence

Austin's POV:

Ever since Ally walked out of the practice room, I hadn't been the same, and I think everyone noticed it. I was always looking down and playing with something, whether it was the zipper to my jacket to some random thing I had found in my pocket.

Dez, Trish, and Ally have all confronted me about my weird behavior. Each time I had used the same excuse that I was just tired and stressed about my concert. I can't believe they bought it. I'm not sure about Ally, though.

She'd keep on trying to sneak a glance at me every 10 seconds. I had stayed at Sonic Boom until it was closing time, and Ally and I were soon the only people in the store. She went and closed the doors when all the customers were out and locked it from the inside. She turned around and crossed her arms.

"Okay Austin, what's up with you? You've been acting strange ever since the live chat. Come on, you can tell me what happened." Ally said.

I shook my head, not speaking or meeting her eyes.

"Austin, I'm just going to keep asking until you give me a real answer, not some lame excuse you gave Dez and Trish earlier. What's wrong?" she asked.

I shook my head, not answering. She sighed and asked again.

"What's wrong?" We both had the same answers. She asked, I remained silent and shook my head. The lights automatically went off in the middle of her asking.

Around the 20th time she asked, she started to take a step closer to me every time. I was deep within my own thoughts when I heard "What's wrong?" much louder and closer to me.

I slowly looked up, and she was standing right in front of me. Another step and she'd crush my toes. I could tell she was getting aggravated with me, by the tone of her voice.

"Okay, I'm going to ask again. Austin, what's wrong?" she repeated.

I carefully stood up, making sure not to hit her with my knees. I turned to face her and our eyes locked. I still remained speechless. It was dark everywhere, but her eyes still shined like two little perfect diamonds. I knew if I didn't say anything to her, she'd be mad at me for days. I had to say something. I glanced down at my feet again.

"Vous avez de très beaux yeux." I muttered, just loud enough for her to hear.

"Austin, you know I don't know what that means. Please, please, tell me what's wrong. I can help you." She tells me. I give her a half-hearted grin.

"Yeah, you could. But it's not like you'd know how to." I replied back to her.

She sighed and went back to the door to unlock it, signaling that I should leave now. I stood up and walked to the door and looked down at her, and her eyes met mine again.

They were mixed up with frustration, anger, confusion, and hurt.

"What's wrong?" she asks, still holding the door, not letting me out just yet.

I still didn't respond. She continued to ask, right there, around another 15 times. I refused to speak. I knew she wouldn't stop asking until she got another reason, or until she finally stopped, which definitely wouldn't happen. Again.

"What's wrong?" I didn't want to hear her ask again. I couldn't give her the answer, and it drove me crazy. Every time it hurt her, she got more mad, and more hurt. She could hide it in her expression, but not in her eyes. I could read them like a book. I've always been able to.

I had to react. I knew I did. So, I did. Something she wouldn't be expecting, but I knew it would get her to stop asking. I waited.

"What-"

I cut her off and leaned down and quickly kissed her on the cheek, which took everything I had to not to kiss her on the lips.

I heard her breath catch, and I wrapped my arms around her, and again quickly kissed her on the other cheek, and then slid out of Sonic Boom, and jogged back home, leaving her without an explanation to my actions.

Ally's POV:

There it was again. Twice. Austin had suddenly decided to kiss me on the cheek, and then ran away, almost like he was nervous. I was just frozen there, so confused.

What is it with him and mysteries? Well, now I had to go and find out what his secrets are. I sighed and went back upstairs and saw that Austin's laptop was still open from the live chat.

I finally decided to take a peek. I scrolled through the comments until I found one of Austin's. I clicked on it.

It was the question he had asked to what that French phrase meant, and it looked like he responded to someone. 'Vous avez de tres beaux yeux means you have very beautiful eyes in French.'

Then I looked at Austin's comment. 'Yup! Nice job! :)' I caught my breath for the third time today.

Everything started to make sense. Austin had asked me if I knew how to speak French. It was a lyric to one of his songs. He muttered it to me tonight. He said I had very beautiful eyes in French, knowing I didn't know what it meant.

I blushed and grinned to myself. I have to admit, that boy did have a way with romance. But it probably meant nothing. He'll be saying it to plenty of other girls. I was still mad at him, after all.

However, when I had closed his laptop, all of the thoughts whirled through my head. Why is he refusing to tell me anything lately? Why did he say that? Why did he kiss me on the cheek? Is it possible he has feelings for me?

Then there was the one question that I'd been wondering about since that day I came in on him and his mom arguing.

What is Austin Moon's secret?


Author's Note: Well, there was chapter 8! That is the first time I switched to Ally's POV, and it won't be happening again in a while. It will come back, though. Today 2 of my favorite author's updated their stories, so, I thought why not update mine? Thank you all for the reviews, please keep them coming! Don't forget that I'm always open to suggestions, also. Oh, and don't forget to favorite and follow as well.

I've noticed that as I go along, there is a similarity between this and Ally Dawson's Secret, but I swear, anything that makes this seem like that story, it's not intentional. I've had the main idea for this for a while, then I role played with one of my friends which brought Austin's secret and all of this angst and mystery and drama into the story, but that happened literally about 1 1/2 years ago, way before Ally Dawson's Secret was ever created. There will be similarities down the road, but I'll edit to see if I can make it seem more original. I don't want everyone to think I copied when I honestly didn't.

So other than that, favorite, review, follow, share with your friends an fellow Auslly shippers, all that good stuff, and I'll see you all in the next chapter!