Previously on Not Perfect:
I turned back to Ally, "I'm gonna get you outta here." I promised. Then I gently pulled her towards me, closed my eyes, and pressed my lips softly to hers.
"NOW!" The officer yelled.
I reluctantly pulled away. "I promise." I told her before I walked out of the door.
Austin's POV
"How's Ally?" Where the first words I heard as the officer shut the door behind me. Carson stood up from the chair that he was sitting on.
"She's fine, but we gotta get her out of there."
"There's no way you can get her out of jail. She stole lots of money, and ran away from the orphanage. Both of those things are reasons for her to need to be in jail." The officer said suddenly, causing Carson and me to turn around quickly.
"There's gotta be some way. We'll do anything." I pleaded.
"I'm not supposed to tell you this, but well, I doubt you kids have enough money to bail her out of jail, but I guess if you can come up with five thousand dollars, we'll let her out of jail. But then you have the orphanage thing to deal with. She still belongs to the state." The officer informed us. "Now, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave, and remember, you didn't hear that from me."
"Thank you sir," Carson told him, as we left the building. "We have to do something to get that money, and then I don't know what we can do about the state thing." He told me as I paced in front of a nearby tree.
"We can do something to raise the money, I know it, but getting her back from the state is going to be the hard part." I thought out loud, as Carson sat down with his back against the tree.
"Let's focus on getting the money right now. We could like do a car wash, or a bake sale, or, I don't know. All those ideas are stupid. Any ideas?" Carson asked.
"I don't know, we could like play music somewhere. I know how to play guitar, and I sing a little."
"That's perfect! But we don't have a guitar."
"I've got mine in the back of my truck. I never leave home without it."
"Yeah! Let's do it!"
We got the guitar and found a bench in the park. Carson walked around to tell people about the music, and I started strumming softly, trying to think of the perfect song. I closed my eyes and started to sing, thinking about Ally.
There's no way I can make it without you
Do it without you
]Be here without you
It's no fun when you're doing it solo
With you it's like woah
Yeah and I know Cause I own this dream
Cause I got you with me
There's no way I can make it without you
Do it without you
Be here without you (A/N: Like the slow, acoustic version he sings when Ally's leaving)
As I stopped singing, I heard lots of clapping. I opened my eyes to see a lot of people standing around me clapping. I looked down at the guitar case that I had left open to collect any money, and saw that the bottom of it was covered with money.
"Thank you guys!" I yelled out to the small crowd.
They all started cheering and begged for more. I continued singing, earning more and more money the whole day.
When it was dark outside, Carson and I met at a fountain in the park. "How much did you get?" he asked me.
I pulled the money out of my pocket and showed it to him.
"Holy shit!"
"I know! I'll play again tomorrow."
"How much is it?"
"115 dollars and 29 cents!"
"Wow! I got 17 bucks and this," he pulled two fist-fulls of wet coins.
"Where did you get that?"
He jerked his head towards the fountain and grinned.
Over the next week, we spent all of our days and nights doing anything that we could to get money. We tried everything. We looked for change underneath arcade games and vending machines, got stuff out of trash cans and sold it, sang in the park more, and any other little thing we could do to make money. Finally, we had earned five thousand dollars.
"It's all here. We got it!" I exclaimed, after counting the money for the third time.
"Yes!" Carson yelled, fist pumping the air. "What about the state thing, though," the smile melted off his face.
"I don't care. Let's just get her out of jail."
A/N: I'm sorry that this one was short. I was having trouble coming up with ideas that wouldn't mess up the next chapter. Hope you enjoyed it! Review! :D