The Long Awaited Boy
Summary: Ally Dawson, a waitress at Costa Coffee, just got out of abusive relationship and went to the coffee shop thinking she would never love again. Eight months later, she goes to a club with Trish and Dez and meets a certain blonde boy. Will he let her begin again? Sounds better than it sounds, give it a try?
Author's Note: Hey, I hoped you liked the seventh chapter! Thanks for reviewing! Anyway, here's the eighth chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything apart from the plot, sucks, huh?
I FINISHED THE SONG!
AND I ACTUALLY LIKE IT!
I looked over to my clock and saw it was...
5:58PM?!
What the hell? How the hell have I spent that long writing the song?
My shift is at 6:30PM, so I have half an hour to do my morning routine and get to work.
Oh. Crap.
I speed-did everything on my morning routine and grabbed my phone, looking at the clock.
6:25PM
My car!
I grabbed my car keys and zoomed out the door to my car.
Four minutes later, I got outside Costa Coffee and found a parking space, parking the car quickly I turned off the radio I put on like two minutes ago and ran out of the car, locking it.
By the time I got into the coffee shop, I had taken two minutes.
Like a boss!
Only one minute late!
I quickly went behind the counter, putting my hair up into a ponytail and put on my green apron, then looked down at the counter.
"Hello, welcome to Costa Coffee, how can I help you?" I say, seeing some hands on the counter.
"Just came to see you." I hear, looking up with a huge smile on my face.
"Hey!" I greet, hugging Austin tightly - him, surprised at me hugging him all of a sudden soon melted into the hug and smiled.
When we released, Mandy came through and stood next to me.
"Heeeeey." She said, approaching us.
"Hey, how'd your date go?"
"Great, he's so sweet. Much better than Danny." She said, gagging at Danny's name. And when I looked back to Austin, he wasn't there anymore.
"Where'd he go?" I asked Mandy, looking around the coffee shop.
"I don't know, he'll come back in a minute."
A few minutes later, like Mandy said, he came back with a huge smile.
"Where'd you go?"
"I was talking to your boss-"
"You what? Why?" I interrupted, kind of shouting.
"I was just suggesting an idea for the coffee shop. It's fine, calm down." He said soothingly.
"Oh... What did you suggest?"
"Y'no yesterday I sang that song on the mini-stage?" I nodded along with him, so he continued. "I suggested to her that employees are also allowed to do that in their break or something because your an amazing singer and I thought you'd like to sing in the coffee shop."
"How'd you know that I even sing?"
"I came by your apartment earlier and waited outside your bedroom door and heard you singing, and when we were in high school I heard you singing in the music room at lunch and you sounded great. She said to start employees singing tonight as long as there's someone behind the counter."
"You remember that from all those years ago?" He nodded and then I told him that I couldn't perform because I didn't have any instruments here at all so.
"There's a guitar on the stage."
"Okay, fine. But Mandy could go first! She writes songs too! Mands!"
"Go and sing "A Perfectly Good Heart", our boss said she wants employees to start singing too and I don't wanna go first." I told her as she came up to us.
"Oh, okay. I can't play guitar though."
"I'll do it." A man says from behind Austin, we looked around and saw the guy the song was about.
Danny.
"Okay, go on the st-" Austin began, not knowing who Danny was.
"That's her ex." I whispered in his ear.
"Y'know what? Go ahead, I'll grab a mic." Mandy told him, ushering him to the stage.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm gonna sing this song to him. Like what I wanted to do in the first place." She told me and went up onto the stage.
"Hey, I'm Mandy Johnson and I'm going to be singing a song I wrote for my ex, it's called "A Perfectly Good Heart", hope you like it." She went and told Danny the chords and then he began to play, so she sang.
"Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart, now?
Why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?"
She sang, her voice was beautiful and powerful. She had full confidence, like she had taken over the whole room. She's going to blow the roof of this place.
"Maybe I should've seen the signs, should've read the writing on the wall
And realized by the distance in your eyes, that I would be the one to fall
No matter what you say, I still can't believe that you would walk away,"
She pointed to the door as she sang that line, but then looked at Danny.
Realization hit his face like a brick.
"It don't make sense to me, but:"
She jumped off the mini stage and began to walk around the room, she smiled at me but then went back to her 'performance face'. That's the thing about Mands, she's an amazing actress so she acting like she's getting everything back off Danny. Asking him all these things.
"Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart, now?
Why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?"
As she sang, she faced Danny this time as if to say, 'why would you do this to me?'.
"It's not unbroken anymore.
How do I get it back the way it was before?"
As she sang that part, she shook her head as if to say, 'how am I supposed to mend this?'.
"Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart, now?
Why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break, would you wanna break it?"
"Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart, now?
Why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?"
She made her way back up the the stage and stood in front of him, getting right up in his face as she ended the song.
"Mmmm..."
"Let's give it up for Mr CheatiPants! The inspiration of this song! I hope he rots in hell." She told him into the mic, walking off the stage with a smirk on her face. She went right over Jeff, hugging him tightly.
She gave me the mic, "Good luck, sweetie, knock 'em dead."
"Hey, Al. Go and sing." I heard from behind me.
Seriously?
"Oh, hi Dallas. Yeah, I'm going to sing," I turned behind me to see Austin. "Wish me luck?"
He smiled, "You don't need it. Your amazing, just remember that," He kissed my forehead. "I love you."
"What?"
"Go!" He pushed me on the stage, did he just say he loved me?
"Um, hi. I'm, er, Ally Dawson. I wrote this song yesterday about my ex and my new boyfriend. I hope you like it." I put the guitar strap over my shoulder and put his mini-mic thing on my clothes as I began to play the tune.
"Took a deep breath in the mirror,"
I remembered mine and Austin's first date, when I went to the bathroom and just looked at myself in the mirror. (1)
"He didn't like it when I wore high heels,"
I looked to Dallas and shook my head, ten smiled and put my hand over my heart.
"But I do,"
"Turn the lock and put my headphones on
He always said he didn't get this song
But I do, I do,"
'If I Lay Here, If I Just Lay Here, Would You Lay With Me And Just Forget The World?' He never got that song, don't know why.
But I did.
And that's all that mattered.
"Walked in expecting you'd be late,"
I turned to Austin near the counter with Mandy, I smiled at him and he smiled back at me. Then I continued to sing...
"But you got here early and you stand and wave
I walk to you
You pull my chair out and help me in
And you don't know how nice that is
But I do,"
I remembered how sweet he was, how he helped me sit down and how he was so sweet and that led us up to today.
"And you throw your head back laughing
Like a little kid,"
I remembered how his laugh reminded me of Luke and Juliet.
"I think it's strange that you think I'm funny
'Cause, he never did,"
I continued to smile at Austin and then I turned to Dallas.
"And I've been spending the last eight months
Thinkin' all love ever does
Is break, and burn, and end,"
I sing, looking at Dallas and saw his guilty face.
"But on a Wednesday, in a cafe
I watched it begin again,"
That's when I turned to Austin, which clearly said, 'thank you'.
"You said you never met one girl who
Had as many James Taylor records as you
But I do,"
"We tell stories and you don't know why
I'm coming off a little shy
But I do,"
I remembered everything about that day, our first date, and it was a million times better than mine and Dallas' first date.
"And you throw your head back laughing
Like a little kid
I think it's strange that you think I'm funny
'Cause he never did,"
"I've been spending the last 8 months
Thinking all love ever does
Is break, and burn, and end,"
"But on a Wednesday in a cafe
I watched it begin again,"
I began to walk back on the stage, still playing the guitar - I was amazed everyone could hear me, I had put like a mini mic thing around my neck so it was tagged onto my vest.
"And we walked down the block, to my car
And I almost brought him up
But you start to talk about the movies
That your family watches every single Christmas,"
"And I want to talk about that
And for the first time
What's past is past,"
That was at the end of our second date...
"So, thanks for taking me out tonight." I thanked him, as we walked out the door and began to walk back to his car.
"It's fine, I wanted to take you some place else than your work, so I took you here."
I was about to mention Dallas, and explain why I was so shy, and then he...
"You wanna hear about my family Christmases? Okay, we always watch Mickey Mouse Disney movies! I don't know why, me, my cousins and my mom always sat down while my dad made the roast dinner for our tea that night. We'd sit and watch them for hours on end in footie pajamas. What happens at your family Christmases?"
I smiled, knowing I'd found something special. I'm glad he doesn't know about Dallas yet, he's the past, he doesn't need to be in my future.
Present...
"And you throw your head back laughing
Like a little kid
I think it's strange that you think I'm funny
'Cause he never did,"
"I've been spending the last 8 months
Thinking all love ever does
Is break, and burn, and end,"
"But on a Wednesday in a cafe
I watched it begin again,"
I reached the stage, and looked into the small audience of customers, they were smiling at me. As was Austin.
"But on a Wednesday in a cafeI watched it begin again..."
I put the guitar in it's holder-thing and ran off the stage to Austin. He picked up up by the waist as I threw my arms around him, spinning me in circles as I giggled.
When I returned to the ground, he pecked my lips once again and Dallas left.
This was my new start.
Review? This is not the last chapter! I hope you liked it!
The Number Things...
(1) Check out the fourth chapter if you don't remember this.
