Here's chapter 10!
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*New Character Alert*
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Recap:
"We need to talk."
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"No thanks." I declined and pushed past him.
Austin grabbed my arm again, his face as hard as stone.
"No, really. We need to talk." He said lowly and seriously.
"You have two minutes." I hissed.
"Don't trust Elliot." Austin warned me.
"I have every reason to trust him, I've known him since I was four." I snapped back.
"Are you going to take a guy's advice or not? I know trouble when I see it." He said impatiently.
"Says the epitome of trouble." I rolled my eyes. "And what is so wrong with Elliot?"
"I can't put my finger on it, but he doesn't seem right."
"I know what it is. You think there's something off about Elliot because he knows how to treat a girl, he's funny, he's smart and he could pick up any girl." I pointed out.
"He can't!" Austin protested.
I glanced at the clock. "Can I go now?" I asked.
"Mmph, yes." He muttered.
"Well, then let go of my arm, will you?"
He let go of my arm and I inspected it.
"Gee, thanks for the red mark, idiot." I said as I joined Elliot and Kelly again.
I fell back onto the couch and sighed.
"I cannot stand that guy." I remarked.
"I can't stand you either," Austin said.
He put his arm around Kelly, a stupid grin spread all over his face. Throughout the whole movie, they were either kissing or whispering to each other.
'Ew.'
The movie slowly faded out and the credits rolled down the screen. I couldn't stand all of Kelly and Austin's romance (like dude, you don't have to kiss her every two minutes!) any longer.
"I'm tired, I'm going to bed. Night guys. Oh, you two can stay over tonight if you want." I yawned and slowly walked upstairs.
"Trish, are you asleep?" I whispered as I crept into our room.
"Nope," she said and shifted to the other side of her bed, patting the space next to her.
I sat down and looked at her laptop screen.
"Trent's Facebook page? Really Trish? Really?" I interrogated her.
"Yup. I'm chatting to him." She smiled.
"And?"
"Well.." she said in a high-pitched voice.
"Oh God, you're not-"
"Yup, I'm dating the boy again!" she informed me.
"But he cheated on you!" I practically screamed.
"I'm giving him another chance." A devious look spread across her face.
"Oh no, what now?" I sighed.
"Can he stay here with us?" she asked hopefully.
"Fine, I don't know why I'm such a good friend, honestly." I agreed.
"Maybe because I taught you," trish grinned.
"Haha, you're so funny." I dead panned.
"I wasn't joking. Anyways, what's up with you and Elliot?" Trish put her laptop down beside her and leaned against the wall.
"Not much," I simply replied.
"Oh come on, you guys are like, the cutest unofficial couple EVER!" she exclaimed.
"Thanks, but I don't want a boyfriend." I muttered.
"Then why did you kiss the boy?" she laughed.
"I don't know, something just came over me."
"Twice?" Trish asked.
"The first time wasn't my fault, he kissed me.." I objected.
"No, Als, you're confused! I mean the times you kissed him." She explained.
"Oh, true. The first time, I was just being mischievous, I guess it was for fun? And the second time, well, I kind of had to." I said.
"You are so confusing, you know that?" Trish laughed.
"I'm a girl, so it doesn't matter, I can be as irrational as I want and just blame it on hormones." I replied.
I looked over at Trish.
"Trish?" I whispered and shook her.
She was already asleep, snoring softly.
'I guess I won't be sleeping tonight then.'
I wrapped myself in my fluffy pink dressing gown and shuffled outside. I saw some animal rustling in the bushes and I walked towards it, hoping to pet it.
"Damn!" I heard a voice curse from the bush.
'Huh?'
"Whoever you are, stand up where I can see you." I said calmly.
I had caught on that the thing in the bushes was not an animal, but in fact, a person. The person, wearing a hoodie and holding a can of spray paint, stood up.
"Take your hood off so I can see you." I instructed.
He took his hood off tor reveal that 'he' was a female.
"Sup, I'm Cassidy, but call me Cass." She greeted and walked towards me.
"Don't shoot me!" I said and took a step back.
I looked at the grinning girl.
"Is your surname Hollows by any chance?" I asked.
"Yep, how did you know?" she looked around suspiciously. "You're not a cop, are you?"
"What? No! It's me, Ally, Ally Dawson. We were in the same school until last year." I reminded her.
"What? Ally? But you look so.. Different!" she said in disbelief.
"I know. What brings you and your spraypaint here?" I asked curiously.
"This," she grinned and pointed to a sign that she had painted on a tree.
"Would you mind not vandalizing everything you see?" I asked her.
"Yeah, I would. Vandalism is fun." She said nonchalantly.
"Oh, okay then." I mumbled.
I heard a lightswitch flick on from inside the house and footsteps coming to us.
"Would you mind keeping it down, weirdo?" Austin snapped at me.
"Sorry, I was just talking to Cassidy." I muttered.
Austin turned his attention to the blonde.
"Well hey there, hottie." He said and winked at her.
I groaned.
'Poor girl.'
"I'm Austin. Austin Moon," he winked at her again.
Seriously, does this guy have something stuck in his eye?
She smiled at him, but not a friendly shy cutesy girl smile. This, my friends, is known as her Cassidy smile.
"If you guys are going to be making out, warn me so I can get the hose pipe." I glared at Cassidy.
I don't like Cassidy. I never have and I never will. That girl is the female version of Austin, except worse. She could break Austin if she felt like it, and he's not hard to break.
"Shut up, weirdo." He said.
"I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the girl is weird!" Cassidy laughed evilly.
"Whatever." I mumbled and made my way inside.
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*Austin*
I could tell that Ally hates Cassidy by her attitude. Although it was dark outside, I could see the anger in her eyes.
'I guess I'll just have to make her even angrier.' I thought as I smirked to myself. 'Messing with Ally is so easy, she's stupid.'
"Are you going to invite me inside or not?" Cassidy smirked.
I put my arm around her waist and led her inside.
'This should be fun.'
Ally sat in front of the tv, clicking away on her Macbook.
"Go to bed, weirdo. The couch is ours," I smirked.
"And who owns this couch?" she said rhetorically, not looking up from the screen.
"What are you so busy with?" Cassidy snorted.
"Something that you couldn't comprehend." She said, still typing away.
"Listen, Big Brain-" Cassidy began to say.
"Actually, the size of your brain doesn't determine your intelligence." Ally interrupted her.
"I don't like you." She narrowed her eyes at Ally.
"Good, then the feeling's mutual!" she smiled undefeated and continued typing.
'Time for some fun.'
Apparently, Cassidy had the same idea as I did.
"Really? ANOTHER Smooch-fest? I want to write in peace, doofus." Ally moaned.
She jumped up off of the couch, leaving her laptop behind and bounded up the stairs in a huff. Cassidy pulled apart before I did.
"Time for you to go home." I said to Cassidy.
She rolled her eyes and walked off.
"See you tomorrow, cutie." She winked and walked out of the door, disappearing into the darkness.
Hmm.
Kelly and Cassidy.
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*Ally*
I snuck into my room, peeping around the door. I went inside and sat on my bed, kicking my slippers off. Trish suddenly woke up.
"Get out, I want to sleep and I know you won't be sleeping." She said sleepily and threw a pillow at me.
I sighed and left the room.
'Now where do I go?'
One thing's for sure, I won't go into the living room while Austin's in there, so that means the kitchen and dining room are out too. The bathroom is a weird place to go to and if I go outside, I might stumble across another person that I know (Which I am SO not in the mood for right now).
There's only one place- the guys' room. I figured it would be fine since only Elliot is in there. I knocked on the door, soon hearing a faint "come in". I gingerly stepped into the room and the smell of guys hit me like a tsunami.
"Ally?" Elliot asked and sat up in bed. "What's up?"
"I have nowhere to go, Trish kicked me out of our room, Austin's downstairs making out with Cassidy and I am so not going outside." I told him.
"Where's Kelly?" he asked.
"Probably about to make out with Austin too." I shrugged.
"Well, you're welcome here." He smiled sleepily and flopped back down onto his pillow.
"Haha, thanks." I said.
I sat down on the black couch in the room and sighed.
The door suddenly burst open with a lot of force. Austin walked in and then stopped in his tracks with a puzzled look on his face.
"Why are you in here?" he questioned me.
"She has nowhere else to go." Elliot answered for me.
"Go downstairs, Kelly and some other dude will keep you company there." Austin said.
"Why do strange people keep coming into the house?" I groaned.
"Maybe because they follow the weirdo's scent." Austin sniggered at his own remark.
"That's it, I'm sleeping right here on this couch and you can't stop me." I firmly told Austin and flicked the lights off.
"You're right. I can't stop you from falling asleep on the couch." He said.
'Huh?'
Never mind, I just need to sleep.
I heard giggling, someone hushing the others and snorts of laughter. I felt something on my face which made me jump up in shock.
Whack!
My fist connected with Austin's jaw out of impulse, I guess.
"Ow!" he said in a high-pitched tone.
I felt my face.
'Great, sharpie.'
"I'm not going to apologize because you deserved it." I smirked as he rubbed his jaw.
"Et me uh ice" he tried to say, to which Kelly responded with a gasp and she ran downstairs.
Kelly came running back upstairs and handed an ice pack over to Austin.
"You're such a good girlfriend," Trish cooed, "Too bad Austin was making out with Cassidy last night."
"YOU WHAT?" Kelly sounded mad and glared at Austin.
Austin glared back at me.
"YOU FRICKIN' TOLD HER?" He barked.
"Well, Trish wanted to know why I was so peed off." I shrugged, not caring.
"Oh, so you were jealous?" Austin smirked.
"Please, anything but, Asstin." I scoffed.
"Austin. It's Austin." He whined.
"I know," I said before smirking and leaving the room.
Ally: 1
Austin: 0
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Here I am, sitting on the edge of the old wooden dock as the wind nips at me. The dock creaks as the water below it swirls and the sound of quiet footsteps can be heard.
One of his arms folds itself around my shoulder. I continue to dip my perfectly manicured toes in the water, making the small tadpoles swim away.
"Why are you out here?" he asks.
"I'm bored. Trish and Kelly have gone out fetch Trish's boyfriend." I reply.
"I know."
"Elliot?" I ask and turn to face him.
"Yes?" he answers.
"What's up?" I question him.
"What do you mean?" he sounds confused.
"Since Cassidy came here, you've been, I don't know.. Strange? On edge?" I inform him.
Elliot lets go of me and sighs.
"It's nothing." He reassures me.
"Tell me, El. We're best friends, you can trust me." I say quietly.
"There are just some complications between Cass and I.." he mumbles.
"Like?" I interrogate him.
"She has a thing for me, and I had one for her," he answers.
"That's not so bad, is it?" I chuckle.
Elliot doesn't reply.
"Oh, you like her," I smile. "I guess the Love Doctor is making a return."
"She's with Austin." Elliot says.
"You and I both know that won't last for very long!" I inform him.
"Maybe." He shrugs.
"I think she's using Austin to make you jealous. I mean, she only kisses him when you're around her." I say.
Elliot gets up.
"Where are you going?" I ask.
"To Cass, I need to talk to her." He simply replies and walks off.
Great, now I really am all alone and bored. It's not as though I like Elliot, right? It's just that he's so close to me and I'm worried about him and Cassidy. I wouldn't expect that from him, he's known her for years and he still doesn't understand that she's worse than Austin. And guys forgive her when she cheats on them because she's pretty, but she just rolls her eyes and walks off.
I run my fingers over the cover of my songbook, tracing the A on the front cover. I flip through the pages, looking for a clean and empty page to write on. A few ducks swim in the distance, making a lot of noise as they fight over bits of bread.
Bread? Nobody's here but Elliot and Cassidy, and I can see them.
'Who's feeding them?'
I jump up and walk over to where a person was standing at the side of the lake.
"Excuse me, this is private property," I tell the person.
"I thought I was allowed here, weirdo." He said, turned around to face me and smirked.
"Oh, it's you." I muttered.
"What's wrong, weirdo? Not happy to see Austin?" he mocked.
"You don't even like ducks, yet you're feeding them." I commented.
"So what? I can do what I want." He said.
"I didn't say that you're not allowed to," I said and threw a rock into the water.
"You're doing it wrong." He said and threw a rock even further along.
"That's because you're a guy. You can throw things far!" I moaned.
"Nope, this is how you do it." He showed me as he tilted his arm back and threw the stone even further this time.
I threw a little stone in, still fairly close to us.
"You're hopeless," he sighed as he grabbed my arm and pulled it back.
He pushed it and I let go of the rock, letting it fly far away.
"Thanks," I said. "I should get going," I walked past a thorn tree, scraping past it on my way.
"Dammit," I muttered under my breath.
"Your arm's bleeding." Austin commented.
"Oh, really? I thought it was just peeing." I shot back at him.
"Here, weirdo." He said and handed me his jacket.
'Just like the robbery at the store and the day at the beach..'
"I'm not going to mess your jacket up with my blood for the third time, idiot." I replied and handed his jacket back to him.
"You're so stubborn, like all girls." He groaned and splashed water onto my arm.
"Ouch! And not all girls are stubborn." I glared at him.
"Well, most girls are the same. You get weirdo freak nerds like you, or the re-usable trash hot ones." He commented.
"Thanks for the compliment," I said, my voice dripping with sarcasm.
"You don't even belong to a group." He continued.
"What do you mean?" I spat.
"You're a weird freak nerd, but you can still get guys. You can't get me, so you're not hot, but you can get other guys." He told me.
"Except for the day on the beach when you tried to kiss me," I reminded him and smirked.
Ally: 2
Austin: 0
"I was thinking of Kira. But I have Kelly now," he rolled his eyes.
"And Cassidy." I added.
"Nah, she's no good, she's obviously using me to make Elliot jealous. I don't even know why you and her would like a guy like him." He laughed.
"WHAT? I don't like Elliot! And dude, she's basically the female version of you." I said.
"As if. I don't use girls to make other girls jealous." He scoffed.
"Please! You used Katy to make Kira jealous, you used Fae to make Kim jealous-" I said.
"All girls love me." He interrupted me.
"How is that even relevant? I was talking about you making girls jealous, and no. Not all girls love you, I don't." I shot back.
"You think I am, and I quote; "good looking and talented, but a complete jerk." Austin said.
Ally: 2
Austin: 1
"I wrote that when I first met you. If you read a more recent page, you'll see that I hate you." I informed him.
"You hate loving me." He teased.
"I will stab you in your sleep." I threatened.
"Go ahead," he grinned, knowing that I wouldn't.
"You are so annoying!" I huffed and stormed off, leaving him smirking to himself.
"Aw, come back, Ally-kins!" he pretended to look sad.
I turned around. "What?" I hissed.
"Come here," he said and beckoned for me to follow him as he walked off into the bushes.
"I don't think so! I don't feel like being murdered today, try again tomorrow." I called after him.
He reappeared out of the bushes.
"Come," he said and grabbed my wrist.
We walked along a path that twisted through a forest.
"How did you find this path?" I asked him.
"Kelly showed me." He smiled.
"And I suppose this is your making out spot?" I assumed.
"Nope," he pushed a few branches out of the way, revealing a clearing. "This is."
"This place is amazing!" I gushed. "Why did you show me this, exactly?"
"If you're looking for me, I'll be here making out with Cassidy or Kelly." He smirked.
"Whatever, don't ask me what to do when they break your heart." I said and sat down on a rock.
"There's more," he said and made me get up.
"I'm tired!" I whined.
*Austin*
"Oh come on, weirdo." I said and led her to a treehouse.
"Since when has this treehouse been here?" she asked me.
"Two days ago, I built it.." I boasted.
"So that's where all of the tools went to," Ally said.
"Come!" I called as I climbed into the treehouse.
She slowly climbed after me.
"I swear, if you murder me, I'll haunt you." She warned.
"Yeah, like I'd waste my time and energy on you," I said and sat down on the floor.
Ally stuck her head through the treehouse's door, looking impressed. She seemed to be battling to get in, so I grabbed her hand and pulled her in. She rolled onto the floor, laughing. She eventually sat next to me as there wasn't anywhere else to sit.
"This is pretty cool, but can we get out of here now?" she asked and began to climb out.
I grabbed her arm. "Nope," I said.
"I can smell your cologne, I think you put too much on." She said, wrinkling her nose.
"I know you like it," I grinned and leaned in closer.
I could hear her breathing, but she didn't say a word. She just looked at me.
I leaned in more, ready to kiss her.
She leaned back "If you think you're going to kiss me then you're wrong." She declined and hopped out of the treehouse. I heard her footsteps as she walked out of the forest and back towards the house.
'You're tough, Ally Dawson.'
Did you expect that?
What on earth is wrong with Austin?
Trent will be making a comeback in chapter 11 and he won't be such a minor character anymore.
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