Austin woke up to the sweet smell of pancakes, eggs, and bacon. He followed his nose and found himself in the kitchen where Ally was making breakfast. Owen was on her shoulders, and she looked focused on the pancakes she was cooking.

He realized she didn't even see him walk in, so he tiptoed to her, and got up behind her. "BOO!"

She screamed, causing Owen to squeak. Ally started to curse as Owen flew all over the place, and Prince started barking. "God Austin you little..." he decided not to listen the the rest of her rant, because all it'd be was yelling and cursing. She never usually was like this. Austin started to regret causing all of this.

Prince continued to bark, and Ally screamed "shut up" as loud as she could, and that quieted him down. "Jeez Ally what is your problem? He's just a puppy. He doesn't know any better."

Ally was quiet now, and she put Owen back in his cage and put the rest of the pancakes on the plate that it was on. She didn't have to do anything with the eggs and bacon, because they were already done.

"I'm sorry," she finally said. "I just hate when people sneak up on me. It scares the hell out of me. You know that."

"No I'm sorry Alls, it was wrong of me. I just didn't know you would respond that way."

"It's okay," she smiled. "I still love you." She whispered, kissing him and pulling him into her embrace. He smiled and returned to hug, resting his chin on her head.

She pulled away from the hug and opened her mouth to speak. "It's just what happened last night I just..." she swallowed, taking her back to it. Everything that he went through was overwhelming. His scars... those caused Ally to tear up just looking at them.

"That doesn't matter now."

"Yes it does. When you are sad, I'm sad. So I wanted to make you a nice breakfast. I thought it was the least I could do," she explained.

"Listen I love what you're trying to do. Yes, I have depression, I'll always have depression, but I just don't feel sad right now. And I want it to stay like that. And if I'm feeling sad, I know I can trust you." He did love the effort, and he would take pancakes any day.

"Now promise me something," Austin continued.

"Anything," she whispered.

He took both of her hands and looked into her eyes. "Don't lose your faith and I won't lose mine. Okay?"

"Okay," she nodded. There was a tear rolling down her cheek, but she quickly wiped it. Austin didn't seem to notice. "Let's eat!" Ally went to the pancakes first and Austin followed close behind her and she get two off of the plate and went to the bacon. Austin got three and went to the eggs and passed Ally who was getting the eggs now and he was getting the bacon.

"Do we have syrup?" he asked hopefully.

"Yep. In the cobert."

"Thanks," he said as he went into the cobert and got the syrup and poured some on his pancakes. "Want any?" He asked Ally before he put it away.

"Sure," she smiled, grabbing it from him and thanking him; then pouring it until there was just as much as she wanted.

"I got it," he said as she handed it back to him and he put it in the cobert.

They both sat down on the table and eat quietly. Austin realized Prince was begging for the bacon, so Austin gave him a small piece of his and quietly whispered "shhh". He was surprised Ally didn't notice, because she began to speak. "So," Ally started. "There's something I've been meaning to ask."

Austin looked up from his plate. "Yeah?"

"When did you meet Gavin?"

He thought back to it. "At... at the hospital..." he trailed off, not meeting her gaze. He didn't want to talk about his two-week visit there, but Ally asked. "Gavin was very suicidal, and he's was more scarred than me, Alls. He's just been through a lot." He finally met her gaze.

She looked down at her plate. "Oh," she said quickly. "When did you meet Brooke?"

"We were in kindergarten," he smiled at the memory. "On the first day."

"She must be really special."

"Of course she is. She saved my life."

Ally nodded slowly and took another bite of her eggs. "So you attempted," her voice started to shake.

He nodded slowly, and his eyes looked so pained with memory. "No one was home; I was 10... and I tried an overdose. But if it wasn't for Brooke coming in and stopping me, I wouldn't be here."

Thank you Brooke. Without you my Austin wouldn't be here, Ally thought. A world without her Austin wouldn't be a happy world to live in. He made everything better. She had thought about cutting her wrists for a long time, ever since she had been bullied. But Austin was fearless about it. And he did it. But he wasn't dead.

The fact that he was only 10 made Ally want to cry. "I-"

"Don't say anything," he whispered. She knew he didn't want to talk about it, but that didn't stop her from being curious. It was human nature to be curious. "Things are different now. This is just reality. I can't change the past, but when we just take it a day at a time, we're gonna be okay." He gave her a reassuring smile.

That didn't stop Ally from worrying. She loved him, and she hated seeing the people he loved in pain. But he was right about one thing- this was reality. "I know. Just don't leave me alone in it."

"I won't. I promise."

"So do you think Gavin likes Jeanette?" Austin asked, breaking down the wall of silence.

Ally smiled. "I don't think. I know," she smirked. "Did you see how much he stuttered? It was adorable!"

"I noticed that," he replied. "As long as I've known him, he's never believed in true love. Even if he really liked you. He didn't believe that love was real because of the way his dad treats him. And he was turned down by several girls."

She frowned. Even if Gavin was a pain, everyone deserved a little love. "I have a feeling Jeanette is going to be different," she said.

"Yeah I hope so. Gavin doesn't exactly know how to communicate his feelings very well though." Ally knew exactly what he was saying.

"I just hope he treats her well, and she likes him back. That's all." Austin shrugged, then went back to his pancakes.

Sorry that this is really short but I just wanted to say something to one of my guest:

Brooklyn- You are not annoying me. If you were, I would have told you to stop a long time ago. All your reviews make me feel so amazing and I smile so hard like an idiot. That counts for all reviews. And Brooklyn, you have no idea how happy you make me when you tell me that I'm amazing. It gives me hope that I really am when I sometimes doubt myself and think I'm doing something wrong or stupid. So thanks so much you really don't have a clue how much you keep me going and I never knew you existed until this story so thanks for putting yourself out there. Oh, and also thanks for giving me my 50th review, that meant a lot to me and it was sweet :). So keep doing what you're doing, you're fine :).

That was really long... lol.

This is just one of those short and sweet (yet pointless) chapters that I just like to add. Kinda lost inspiration cause it wasn't as good as I thought it would be but oh well.

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