Strike 1
Austin's Pov:
"Gosh, these girls take forever to get ready. We were supposed to leave like an hour ago." I say getting slightly aggravated. We're finally going out and we decided to go to some mall that's around a half hour away.
"Relax man, girls take forever. You should know this." I sigh and take a seat on the couch next to him.
"How aren't you freaking out?" He looks at me like I'm stupid.
"Dude, I've known them my whole life, they are always like this. Every time I'd suggest the three of us to go out, they take an hour or more to get ready. They want to look just right." I sigh.
"Surely you know this." I shake my head.
"No, I don't." He looks at me weirdly.
"What, you never had a girlfriend?" He asks and I cringe a little bit.
"I did.. 2." He laughs.
"You had 2 girlfriends? Really?" I roll my eyes.
"Yes. The very first one I dated, we lasted 10 years. Actually, she was my wife. And the other one.. well she just wasn't the one I should of dated.. So yeah, two girlfriends idiot." He stops laughing and looks at me.
"Oh... I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. What happened?" I sigh and mess with my hair..
"Well.. Want the full story or half?"
"Full."
"Full what?" The girls say at the same time and we jump off the couch.
"Geez, way to tell us you enter the room." We say at the same time and the girls roll their eyes.
"Whatever, anyways, what were you two talking about?" Ally asks grabbing her purse and putting money in it.
"Nothing." I say and Mark looks at me. I give him a look saying I'll tell him later on. He nods.
"So ladies, ready for this drive?" Mark asks and we all nod. I examine what they're wearing and it's basically the same thing but different colors.
"Aye, you guys are matching." They laugh and start leaving the apartment. I lock the door and catch up to them. I throw my arm over Trish.
"What's up Trishypoo?" I say smirking and she sends me this deadly glare.
"Call me that again and I will rip off something where the sun don't shine." My eyes go wide and Mark laughs.
"She's literally not joking... I should know." We all burst out laughing and get into the car. Mark and Ally are up front and me and Trish are in the back.
"Come on, I wasn't that close to doing it." Ally looks at her and gives her the 'oh really' look.
"Pleasee, you shoved me into the door and ran after Mark through the whole house with a pair of scissors and chased him until he locked himself in my room." I laugh.
"Sally." I mumble and cover it with a cough.
"Look if Trish ever comes after you, I'm not helping you. Hell, I'll help her out instead." Trish laughs and they high five each other.
"Ally will help me." She scoffs and rolls down the window.
"Yeah, like I could help you. With my luck, they would throw me over one of their shoulders and throw me into a room and lock me in it." Trish nods.
"You're probably right." Mark nods.
"Or, I can do this." He says and keeps one hand on the steering wheel and the other tickling Ally. She laughs hysterically.
"Okay, Okay, truce." He laughs and stops doing what he did. I smile and it reminds of a memory that I won't to forget..
"No, no, no, Austin stop. I'll do anything." Rosie says out of breath as I continue tickling her. I laugh evilly.
"Anything?" She nods and I stop.
"Then I want a kiss." She laughs and takes my face gently and kisses me softly but then takes off running.
"Hey!" I yell and start chasing her. She laughs as the wind blows her curly, beautiful, and shiny blonde hair.
"You said A kiss." She yells as she continues running and I finally catch up to her and spin us around... Which leads to us falling and rolling down the hill. She laughs and wipes the dirt off of her face.
"Okay, Okay. You caught me. What do you want?" I smirk and she laughs knowingly.
"Man, you and your kisses." She mumbles and starts kissing me again.
"Austin?" "Doofus?" "Man?" Is all I hear and I shake my head.
"What?" They all shake their heads.
"We're trying to talk to you but you kept on zoning out saying someone's name.. Rosie, was it?" My eyes go wide and I clear my throat.
"Who's Rosie?" Ally and Trish ask and I shake my head and look out the window.
"No one... So, what were we talking about?"
Ally's Pov:
I shake my head and turn up the music. Who's Rosie? Why does he keep on hiding things from me? He knows everything about me basically.. I mean I know he was a divorced man of 2 years and whoever that Rose chick was but still...
"Ally, come on. You just told me to stop zoning out and now you are. That's unfair." Austin pouts like a little kid and I laugh.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever." He laughs and for the next hour and a half, we just listen to music and sing. We finally make it to the mall and I instantly get out and stretch? Yeah I know, it's only been a half hour ride but you do what you got to do.
"Ugh, finally. It feels great to stretch." Trish and Mark say at the same time. I laugh and Mark throws his arm over me and Trish's shoulder. Austin just casually strolls along next to us and I throw my arm around his waist to have him join in. He smiles and does the same to me.
"Okay, so here's the deal. Austin and I are going to guy stores and you two do your girly things. How about we meet back here in around 1 hour and get food?" We nod and let go of each other.
"Soooo, where do you want to go first? I normally don't shop at malls.." I say and Trish laughs.
"What about... the bathroom?" We burst out laughing but do go to the bathroom.. Man.. I feel so much better now. We wash our hands and my phone beeps signaling I got a text message.
Wow, you look super pretty today.
I shrug it off totally forgetting about the whole thing that we're all going through.
"Lets go to... Charlotte Russe." Trish says and I nod. We go in and I am immediately in awe... There are so many nice clothes... Lets just say I ended up buying 3 pairs of jeans, 1 dress, and 4 v-necks.. Trish bought 4 jeans, 3 shirts, and 2 pairs of shoes..
Austin's Pov:
"So, are you going to tell me now?" Mark asks as we stroll through the mall and I look at him.
"Tell you what?" He rolls his eyes.
"Rosie." I nod.
"Well.. It was my first marriage.. We were high school sweethearts. Hell, we even dated through some parts of college. 10 years we were together.. I was around 26 when I discovered something I wish I never did.. She was cheating on with me for 6 years with this one guy! 6 years dude.. So she dated me for real through high school and felt that I wasn't good enough for her for the other 6 years? It didn't end well at all... There was a lot of yelling, slamming doors, and I may of broke some walls in the process but anyways.. She was my first love man. It was all gone in the matter of two years." I explained and he sighs.
"Man, I'm sorry Austin. That seems like hell. I don't think I could go through that. Well, I mean I was in an arranged marriage but luckily Trish got me out of it." I nod and sit down on a bench outside a store.
"Dude, I'm 28. Will I ever find real love? I would like to have a kid before I hit my thirties." I sigh and he sits next to me.
"I know how you feel man. I'm the exact way but you can have kids before you're even 35. That's a healthy zone. And who knows, maybe Ally can be you're girl." I sigh and nod. It's complicated.
"Doubt it. We're not even dating. I would like to date a few years, then do a proposal, get married, have a year together before kids, and then yeah." He rolls his eyes.
"Look, if you ask her out soon, you date for what 3 or 4 years which brings you to 32, get married when you're 33, the year off before kids you'll be 34, and boom. You're exactly 35 when you have kids." He says and I instantly look at him with a shocked expression.
"Wow, you're good at math. Honestly, that would probably of took me forever to do all that." He laughs and pats my back.
"Well, I am better than you at many things." I scoff and stand up.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night." I say and he stands up with a smirk.
"You should know, I sleep with you every night." He says with a wink and I give him a disgusted look.
"Touch me inappropriately in my sleep, you will not be alive the next day." He laughs and throw my arm over my shoulder.
"You'd enjoy it." I laugh.
"In your dreams." He laughs and we go looking around the mall. He probably does dream about me in his sleep.
Ally's Pov:
"Trish, I'm going to go look at the store across from here." She looks at me and nods.
"Alright, I'm going to look at this store and meet you there." I smile and nod. I walk into Hot Topic and browse around until someone grabs my arm. I turn around and my eyes go wide. I'm about to scream until he covers my mouth and throws me over his shoulder. I start kicking and waving my arms around. The cashier grabs her phone but instantly stops.
"Call the cops and I will instantly kill everyone in this entire mall." Jake says in a deadly voice and I look at her while she looks at me.
"Call in 5 minutes." I mouth to her with tears going down my cheeks and she just nods. He starts running out the mall and I pray and pray hoping that Trish, Mark, or Austin see us but they weren't around. Jake opens up something and throws me into it.. A trunk, how classic..
"Why hello Ally, we meet again." He says with a mischievous look and closes the trunk. I start screaming and kick the top of the trunk. I feel the car moving and I instantly yell hoping that someone will hear me.
"HELP ME! SOMEBODY PLEASE! HELP ME!" I Yell from the top of my lungs but nothing happens. Tears keep running down my face and I grab my purse and search for my phone. I grab it and start calling Austin but there's no service. Oh god.. Wait, my dad always taught me something.. Kick out the tail lights. I try kicking them out but I can't..
God, please help me.
Mark's Pov:
It's been passed an hour and Austin and I try calling the girls to see where they are but we keep getting no answer.
"Where are they?" I groan. I'm starving.
"They probably got lost or are buying a thousand different pairs of outfits knowing them." Austin says and looks around more. Then all I see is Trish running towards us with a worried look on her face.
"Please tell me Ally is with you." Austin immediately turns his head towards us.
"No, she was with you. What's going on?" He asks nervously. I cross my arms and wait for a response.
"I..I don't know. She said she was going to check out Hot Topic and I was at a store across from it trying on clothes. I waited for her but she never came out. I went in and there was a cashier freaking out saying how some guy kidnapped a girl and she called the cops. I kept on praying and praying it wasn't Ally but if she's not with you, then it's her." My eyes immediately go wide and so does Austin's. Trish starts crying and I grab my phone and start calling Officer Reynolds.
"Hey Mark, what's going on?"
"We think Ally has been kidnapped and don't know what to do. What do we do? I'm gonna kill that guy if he hurts my Ally. I thought you guys were watching his every move? What the hell, this could've been prevented. You failed us." I started rambling on and on.
"Listen, we're on our way. I need you guys to go home. I know it's going to be hard to do but it's an order."
"We're not leaving until we find Ally. You must be insane thinking we're going to leave."
"Mark, that is an order." That's it. That's all he says. What the actual hell?!
"He expects us to leave." I say angrily and they just stay silent.
"Mark, as much as I hate to say this, he's probably right." I look at Trish in shock. How could she agree with him.
"What? How could you say that? Ally is missing Trish! Don't you understand that?!" I shout and she winces at my tone.
"Of course I see that? Don't you think I would be searching every single damn house and town I see to find my best friend? But I can't Mark!" She shouts back at me and Austin decides to come in.
"Guys, yelling isn't going to help us find Ally. Reynolds is right, we need to leave. He just wants to make sure nothing happens to us." He says and I punch the wall.
"You're agreeing to this? The girl you like, possibly love is missing and you just want to give up and leave? Well, if you two would like to, just leave. I'm staying." Austin sighs and pulls his hair.
"Of course I clearly see Ally is missing. This wouldn't be happening right now idiot. We are going to go back home rather we like it or not. And I know for a fact no one likes it but it's what we got to do. We need to believe Reynolds will find Ally. Okay?" He says letting a tear fall and quickly wiping it off. I sigh and nod.
"Okay.. Okay." I whisper and Trish hugs me. I hug back super tight and Austin joins in on the hug. We stay like this for a few minutes. We go back to the car and head home in complete silence. God.. I let Ally down. I was supposed to protect her and I didn't. I sigh and try to focus on the road so I don't hit anyone. We finally make it home and enter the apartment right away. I shut the door and lock it right away.
"Austin, make sure the windows are all shut and locked please." He nods and walks off. I walk over to Trish and grab her hands.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you. It was disrespectful and idiotic. I know if you could you would search every house to find Ally, we all would. And.. I'm just sorry." She gives me a sad smile and hugs me.
"I'm sorry too. If I had just stayed with Ally, none of this would've happened." I instantly pull back and put my hands on her cheeks.
"Stop, this is NOT your fault. You didn't know this was going to happen. None of us did. Do not blame yourself for this." I comfort her while she cries and I realize Austin has come back in.
"I'll be right back." Trish nods and we let go of each other. I hear smashing in the other room and immediately barge in.. I see Austin throwing all his things all around the room and there's glass everywhere.
"Austin, you need to stop." I say walking over to him and getting the glass out of his hand.
"He took her.. He took her." He whispers with tears coming down his face. I immediately hug him and cry myself.
"We'll find her." After a few minute of crying, we let go and walk into the kitchen to find Trish making dinner.
"I know no one ate, so I'm making chicken tenders and fries." We nod and Austin sighs.
"So, I say we make fliers tomorrow of Ally and post them everywhere in town and the towns around the mall we were at." I nod.
"That's not a bad idea. I'll create a website about her tomorrow as well." Austin's eyes immediately go wide..
"Oh no…. What are we going to tell Aria and her dad?" I sigh.
"It's not going to be easy telling her that her mom is missing. We can't worry about that right now, I'm sure the cops with tell her dad soon." We nod.. Poor Aria, that's going to kill her…
"What if they don't?" He says.
"He will, I know it." We all nod and wait for dinner to be ready.. About half hour, dinner is ready and we all eat it right away. Man, that was pretty good. I'm not going to lie..
"Well guys, I think I'm going to go head to bed." They nod and I grab their plates. My phone starts ringing and I answer it.
"Hello?"
"Strike 1.."
Author's Note:
Hey guys, so I haven't updated in a while and I guess that's pretty obvious. I have just been so busy and life is getting crazy. I don't know when I can update this story next but please, please bear with me. I will try to update soon! So, what do you think? Will Ally come back alive? Dead? Or will someone else be kidnapped? Please leave me opinions! I don't own anything by the way. Have a great day.
~Holly