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After about a few more hours, yes hours, of splashing and playing around in the water with Austin, we both decided to head back up to our new found tree house and dry off. Right now, Austin and I were sitting on the wooden floor, his arms wrapped around my body, my head resting on his shoulder, and together we both stared out at the sun which seemed to slowly change color over time.

"Wanna play 21 questions?" Austin finally spoke.

"Sure, you go first." I said.

"Okay then, question number one. What's your favorite song?" He asked.

"Perfect, by Ed Sheeran."

"Okay, question number two. What's your favorite color?"

"Royal blue."

"Question three. What do you like to do for fun?"

"Read books, sit on my roof and stare at the clouds, watch cartoons, write songs, sing, listen to music.."

"Question four. When did you discover your passion for music?"

"When I was in kindergarten." I answered. "It was the middle of the school year, and the school was hosting a talent show for all grades. At first I was gonna dance, but...that didn't exactly work out." I shuddered at the terrifying memory.

"Then, I decided to do a magic trick, buuuut I wasn't exactly good at that either. So then my father decided to help and he suggested I'd try music, and at first I thought he was absolutely crazy, considering I had no clue on how to play an instrument and I knew nothing about music, but after a few days of convincing I finally agreed and he taught me how to play the piano. I'll admit It was a bit hard the first couple of times, but in a few weeks I was nearly an expert and I discovered I had a pretty good singing voice too. So anyway, skip to the night of the talent show. I performed, came in third place, which was not okay with me, and after the show I ran to my parents and begged them to sign me up for music classes, I wanted to be better, I didn't exactly know why, but I just felt the need to get better at this. So, after a little while of begging and crying, my parents finally agreed and signed me up for this three month summer music program. The first month was great, but the second month was better, and by the third month I realized how much I really loved music. The instruments, the notes, the songs, my voice, the books, the feeling I got whenever I would get lost in the music. It was so amazing and fascinating.. Ever since then I've set my mind to music and only music.."

By the end of my short monologue, I realized that Austin managed to slip his arms away from me and he was now sitting in front of me with his legs crossed and his eyes locked on mine. He had a small smile on his face and his eyes demonstrated some sort of emotion that I couldn't really figure out, but I knew it was something that I've never seen before. For a few seconds he continued to stare at me with the same smile that's been on his face for the passed three minutes. "What's wrong?" I chuckled.

"Nothing."He replied. "Nothing at all.." He softly said. "Shall I ask you your next question?"

"You shall."

"Question number five, what college did you apply to?"

"Juilliard."

"When do you start?"

"I'm not sure." I frowned. "I still haven't got the letter yet, actually.."

His eyebrows knitted together "You haven't? Ally, it's October, shouldn't you have gotten a letter before you even graduated?"

"Well, this is actually my second time applying.."

"If you don't mind me asking, what happened the first time?" Austin asked. His elbow was now resting up on his knee, and his chin was placed down on his fist.

"Well, I applied last year in November and they accepted my application this year, January, the only step left was to just audition. Auditions took place in February, and since the school is in New York, my principal arranged an audition to be held in Marino's school auditorium. So I go to my audition and when I go up on stage I look over at Mrs. Tibbet, the Dean that worked in Julliard, and all of a sudden the confidence I had before just seemed to disappear. I felt like the walls were caving in on me, and I suddenly started feeling extremely nauseous and light headed. However, I didn't let any of those things stop me from my audition. I cue the band in the back to start playing the instruments and I wait a few seconds before it was my time to start singing. When it was time, I open up my mouth, except for some reason nothing comes out. The guys look at me with confused expressions and the Dean is staring at me unimpressed. After a few more seconds, she holds up her hand, telling the guys to stop playing, and when they stop she simply gets up from the chair and walks out of the auditorium without saying another word.. Few weeks later I get the letter, and clearly I didn't get in.."

"So how did you apply the second time?" Austin asked.

"By the time I got my rejection letter it was already March, so I figured I still had enough time to reapply and try to audition again. But unfortunately, all the positions for the Fall semester have been already filled so I couldn't reapply until August. August finally comes, and I send out my application... I've been waiting two months for the letter.."

"That means it should be coming any day now.." Austin said.

"Yup." I nodded. "But I'm pretty sure it should've came a couple of days ago.." I whispered.

"Don't lose hope." Austin softly said. "I'm sure they've accepted you and when you get your acceptance letter, I gurantee you're gonna nail that audition!"

"How can you be so sure?" I asked.

"Because it's just.. you, that school has to accept you. You're amazing, Ally and I'm about 99 percent sure your singing is just as great.." Austin assured. He slowly leaned forward and rested his forehead against mine, he gently placed a hand on my knee and closed his eyes, "Trust me Ally, you got this in the bag." He whispered. I looked up at Austin and smiled at his encouraging words. He smiled back and then slowly leaned down, placing a gentle passionate kiss on my lips. I felt the usual butterflies, fireworks, saw sparks, nothing new. You know, the usual..

However this time, I felt a little something different too.. I felt as if I was floating, like I was in the middle of the ocean with my eyes closed, just casually floating in the water. I felt relaxed, I felt at peace.. I felt safe. I felt like I was flying. I felt like time had stopped and I felt like me and Austin were the only people on earth right now. The kiss we shared wasn't just a regular kiss, this time it was more passionate and it had more meaning to it.. it had.. Love. Love?

Then I came to the craziest thought, was I starting to fall in love with Austin? Could Austin possibly be falling in love with me?..

"You know, I never got the chance to ask you any questions during our game." I said as Austin drove me home.

"Ask away."

I shifted a bit in my seat until I felt comfortable and then I turned to look over at Austin. "Okay, chocolate or vanilla?"

"Ummm, vanilla."

"Question two, If you can have any super power what would it be?"

"To travel to the future and to the past. Not only would I be able to see the winning lottery numbers, but I can also go back to the day when I ate a five pound pancake."

"Five pound pancake?" I gawked.

"Uh huh! It was five pounds, Ally." Austin said.

"Yeah, I kinda got that part." I chuckled. "Next question, how many colleges did you apply to, and what were they?"

"I applied to five colleges and they were Yale, NYU, Stanford, Georgia state, and uh... Julliard." He mumbled the last part.

"Julliard?"

"Yeah." He sheepishly smiled. "Clearly, I didn't get in.."

"What happened?"

"Just didn't get accepted." He shrugged. "Guess I wasn't qualified enough.."

"So you went to.."

"Georgia State." He finished for me.

"Did you like it?" I asked.

"It's college." He chuckled. "Who doesn't like college? You get to do whatever you want. Stay up as late as you want, throw parties, go to parties, get drunk, show up to class in your pajamas, leave class whenever you feel like it, plus the tests are extremely easy; you're gonna like college... I don't know how things roll in Julliard, but you're gonna have the time of your life."

"Austin, I don't even know if I got in." I chuckled.

"It doesn't matter if you know, I know you did." He smiled.

"Oh, so you predict the future now?" I smirked.

"No...maybe? Why? Does it turn you on?" He wiggled his eyebrows and looked over at me.

"No." I snorted.

Playfully rolling his eyes, he then stopped in front of my house and turned off he engine. "You're coming inside?" I asked.

"Yeah.. D-d-do you want me to?-only if you want me to..fuck! I'm sorry I just invited myself in your house without even asking." He quickly reached for the keys and started up the car again, but I pulled the car keys out of the slot and held them between my fingers. I watched in amusement as the chill vibe he had, just moments ago all of a sudden shifted to a much nervous one.

"Would you like to come in the house, Austin?" I asked.

"O-only if you want.."

"Great then! You're coming in." I smiled. With the car keys still in my hand, I exited the car and made my way up to the front door. "Question number, I have no idea-." I chuckled. "What was your major in college?"

"Music." He replied.

"What made you like music?"

"I don't know actually, I guess I've just always liked it." He shrugged, "I remember when I was little, whenever I'd watch music videos, or hear songs on the radio, I'd imagine myself being the person who's singing and dancing." Austin explained.

We made our way to the couch and sat down with our legs crossed, facing each other. It was 5:45pm, Mom wasn't going to be home for another two hours, but Laura? I had no idea where she was right now and frankly I'm not really interested.

"What do you like to do for fun?"

"Sing, dance, watch cartoons, eat pancakes, play my guitar, hang out at the mall.."

"What clique we're you apart of back in high school?"

"The populars." Austin said in a 'duh' tone.

I couldn't remember what number of questions I've asked, but I was pretty sure we've reached the last one. So, as an Ally Dawson tradition, I asked Austin the question, the question that has an infinity amount of answers. The question that nobody truly knows the answer to. "What is Love? Like, relationship wise.."

Austin was quite taken back by my question, considering it was very random, but after a few minutes of thinking he settled his eyes onto mine and began to speak.

"Love is like the ocean... Now, let's say your in the middle of the ocean, swimming down into the water.. what happens?"

"You drown?"

"No-we'll yeah." Austin chuckled. "But you're also going deeper into the water, and the deeper you go you get to see how beautiful the ocean can actually be. You see fish, plants, shells, bubbles, the sun shining through the water, giving the ocean it's light. Although everything looks beautiful, it also seems a bit scary, but when you go back and tell people what you discovered, you're not gonna really talk about how terrified you were, but instead you're gonna talk about everything you saw and you're gonna talk about how beautiful your experience was."

"So, how is that like love?" I slowly asked.

"The deeper you fall in love with someone the more beautiful things you discover within that person. The feeling is scary because you don't really get to have that feeling with everyone you know, so it's all kind of new for you, but you don't really think about how scary it actually is because the feeling of being in love with someone is just...way too good." Austin explained.

It took me a few seconds to completely understand what Austin was saying, but when I finally understood what he meant I realized something.

Agreeing to having this 'friends with benefits' relationship with Austin was a horrible idea, and even though I know it's wrong I still can't help, but to enjoy It. We've had this relationship for about a week now, and the only thing I really thought about was the feeling he manages to make me feel. He manages to make me feel like I have super powers and he manages to make me forget about all the things I worry about. I've never felt this way about anybody, which makes this situation scary because I seriously don't know how to handle this, but I know if this feeling was to disappear, if Austin were to leave my life, I'd just feel...empty.

And then it hit me... I've officially fallen in love with Austin Moon.. fuck..

HEY GUYS! We have made it to chapter 10! I don't know how long this story is going to be, probably 15 chapters? 20? Somewhere in between there... I just want to say that I really enjoyed writing this chapter, I feel like it's the best one yet and I'm extremely proud of it! I thought it was pretty cool to talk about Ally and show you guys her background story, as well as little bit of Austin's. What did you guys think? Also, I'm sorry if my definition of "love" didn't really make sense, that's just how I look at the meaning of the word. What do you guys think love is? Please let me know in the reviews, I'd really love to hear you're opinions about it :). But anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, let me know in the reviews how you felt about it! Thank you guys!

-Sierra.