Boarding School
Chapter Ten
Summary: Ally's Dad is sending her and her twin brother, Joey, to a boarding school as he is having to be transferred to Tulsa due to his job, and Ally and Joey don't want to go there. She will make friends, face drama, and will she face love too?
Author's Note: Hope you liked the ninth chapter! Hope you liked it! Sorry if it's a little OOC! Totally AU but this next one is graduation and their last night at Miami Coast Academy. Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Austin & Ally, if I did then why would you be reading this?
My smile dropped when I heard Austin's voice say we were going to see each other every day, because I know we're not, my heart silently broke inside my chest.
"Hey, what's wrong?" He said as he brushed his finger along my cheek. I had to make the most of these last hours, I had less than twenty-four hours to spend with him.
"It's nothing." My voice cracked, I couldn't hurt him like this, I couldn't tell him because he'd hate me. He wouldn't want me to go.
"Come on, tell me. It can't be that bad. Just tell me, pwease... For me?" He said, pulling his puppy dog face. I could never say no to that face, until today.
"I can't. I just can't." My voice continued to crack but eventually I got out the words.
"Please, I won't be able to do anything knowing your upset. Is it just about graduation? Because after that we will all see each other because Dez is moving with us. Our parents are super close. It was his parents that suggested to move to Miami, so don't be upset about that." He tells me as his arms loosely wrap around my back.
"It's not that, but I can't tell you what's wrong." I tell him as I look down at my lap, frowning slightly.
"Please tell me, please. Please? With a cherry on top?" He was practically pleading now, I had to tell him at some point.
But not now. Not when he could easily run away and never talk to me ever again. I shook my head at him and closed my eyes tightly, I couldn't look at his frowning, upset face. But instead of his begging anymore, I felt his warm lips brush against mine. I opened my eyes after he pulled away and smiled at him.
"What was that for?"
"It breaks my heart when I see you upset, and I know that whenever I comfort you it makes you feel better. Did it?" I smiled and hugged him tightly, I breathed in the embrace still smiling broadly. But this just made it worse, it reminded me of how I'm not going to see him for the next year.
"Not really, but thanks. It's sweet of you." I say, trying to make him feel good about himself, it was true, he was being unbelievably sweet trying to make me feel good, but it didn't make me feel better much.
"Can you promise to tell me after graduation?" I nodded at him, I was going to tell him before graduation because when they announce my name their going to say the name of the college.
"I'm gonna tell you before graduation, otherwise you're gonna find out before. I promise I'll tell you before graduation." I swear as I get off his lap and sit next to him, then he shuffles and puts his head on my lap. I automatically start playing with his flopping blonde locks.
He closed his eyes and smiled because the sun kept getting in his eyes, we stayed like that for half an hour, just talking about random things like any couple in high-school should. My phone began to ring after that half an hour so I got my phone out of my pocket and answered it.
"Hello?" Austin was now looking up at me intently, he obviously wanted to know who was on the phone as usual.
"Hey, have you nearly finished your date because it's two and we need to be at graduation by ten to three. You need to finish that video and..." Trish's voice said down the speakers.
"Oh, yeah. I'll be back soon. We're just by that lake." I interrupted.
"Can you like be back in fifteen?" She asked, shouldn't she be with Dez at the movies?
"Yeah, when's your date with Dez?"
"In ten, but you need to finish that video. Promise me you'll finish the video."
"I promise I'll finish it." I promised and then we said our goodbyes, but I couldn't help but think of why she sounded upset as I hung up but kept my phone in my hand. I wanted to put a picture of me and Austin on it.
"Who was that?" Austin asked me, his head still laid on my lap so he was looking up at me, I smiled and looked down to his face.
"Trish, wants me to go back in ten. But can I get a photo of us first, I want to get one of you and me and Trish and Dez to put on my wall at home." I ask him as he sits us smiling and nodding.
"Sure. But we'll still see you every day," He says as I click onto the camera on my phone. "You want me to take the picture?"
"Yeah, thanks." I say as I give him my phone and tell him what button to press.
"How many do you want?"
"Two, one of us just smiling and then I'll kiss you cheek on the other." He smiled at me and then he put his arm around my back and turned the phone around so the lens was facing us.
"Smile." He tells me as he smiled widely, the goofy grin I saw when I first met him, then I smiled also and he clicked the button down to take the picture.
After he took the picture, he turned the phone around and showed me a really cute picture of us smiling together.
"Awh, that's so cute." I tell him as he turns the phone back around so the lens was facing us again. He put his finger on his cheek and tapped it, signalising me to kiss it. I rolled my eyes playfully and leant in to kiss his cheek, and then he pushed the button down and at the last moment he turned his head so I accidently kissed his lips. When we pulled away, I playfully hit his arm.
"Hey!" I snapped while smiling. I had to say I'd rather kiss him on the lips than on the cheek but still.
"What? You can't say you didn't want that to happen." He said, still smiling broadly at me. I laughed quietly and stood up. There's that ego again.
"I've gotta go, you staying here?"
"No, I'll take you back to your room. I'll come for you at quarter to three; we could walk to graduation together?" He suggested as he stood up and gives me my phone back.
"I'd really like that." I tell him and put my phone into my pocket, we started to walk back after bumping into about ten people. Not helping the time issue.
Five minutes after, we actually got back to my room. We stopped outside the doorway before, just to say bye as usual.
"I'll see you at quarter-to, yeah?" He told me and I nodded my had, smiling.
"Yeah." I said as I pecked his cheek and turned to open the door. When I unlocked the door and walked in, Trish practically attacked me.
"Whoa!" I said as she dragged me to my bed and threw my laptop at me.
"Finish the video, we have half an hour to finish the video, get ready for graduation and be at graduation!" I could tell she was freaking out, but she was in a robe and her hair was curled, ready.
"Okay, okay. It'll take me five minutes." I tell her, calming her down. I had spent hours on it before my date with Austin so it doesn't matter.
"Okay well, hurry up!" She snapped at me as she began to do her make up at the dressing table.
I clicked onto the movie maker document and finished the video, even if I do say so myself, I loved it. I added the picture of Dez and Trish from prom night. I even found the one of me and Austin dancing at prom, and I put the one of me and Austin on. On the last seconds, I put on a picture of every twelve and then it faded back to me and Trish singing. I think it turned out really well; I uploaded it onto the memory stick and gave it to Trish.
"Finished." I told her as I passed her the small stick.
"It only took you five minutes."
"I told you it was nearly finished. It's in the folder with the picture of you and Dez in." I said with a smile.
"Okay, thanks. Get dressed, we have twenty minutes." I nodded and walked over to my wardrobe, pulling out a t-shirt and a skirt.
"Are you not doing your hair and make-up?"
"Uh, I guess. Why?" I ask as my phone rang. I answer, stupidly forgetting to look at the ID. "Hello?"
"Hey sweetie." My Dad's voice replied, making me happy and excited.
"Daddy! Hey! Are you on your way?"
"Listen, sweetie. I can't make it, I called Joey and he said it would come better from me than from him to you. I'm sorry, it's just the plane got delayed and I won't be able to get there until ten." He sounded apologetic, but that didn't stop the sadness in my voice.
"Oh, it's okay. I mean, it's just graduation. I mean, it's not like anything special. I'll call you later."
"Okay, love you sweetie."
"Love you too, I'll see you when you get here."
"I love you, I wish I could be there." He says as I sigh and hang up.
"Hey, what'd your dad say?" Trish asked me as she sat next to me, already dressed for graduation. I couldn't help but hear the hint of sadness in her voice - not sympathy, sadness.
"That he can't make graduation and will see me when I get home and something I have to tell people before graduation. What's wrong with you?" I ask her, genuinely worried about her.
"I've got this um, scholarship for a college in Miami and I have to tell you, Austin and Dez. How'd you think they'll take it?" She asked me, mumbling at the beginning but I could still hear her perfectly well.
"Well, I have to tell them the same thing," Her face looked up and she gave me a confused look. So I explained further. "I've got this year scholarship in this big professional arts college in Miami, I have to go. I just have to, and I have to tell them all and Joey before graduation because it's gonna be announced. Where's your college?"
"It's this big arts one, called Miami Professional Staging." She said as she stood back up, dragging me with her over to the dressing table.
(A/N: I don't know if it's a real college, I made it up.)
"Me too! That's the one I'm going to, but how am I supposed to tell Joey, Austin and Dez?" I tell her as she passes me a mascara stick.
"I don't know, but can you tell Dez after I've told him, you can tell Austin first though." She said as I gave her the mascara stick back and stood up, only to be stopped; sat back down by her and given a lip gloss wand.
"Thanks, but how do you think he's gonna take it?" I ask her as I wiped the moist light pink coloured part of the wand over my lips.
"He'll be okay, but don't lie to him." She tells me as I give her back the lip gloss wand, he put it back and then we both stood up and heard the door get knocked. It was either Austin or Dez.
"I got it," I say and make my way over to the door and open it to reveal a certain red-haired guy. "Hey Dez, Trish it's Dez," I greet and allow him to come in. "I'm gonna go meet Austin, I gotta tell him something." I tell them both as I grab my phone and keys and put them in my pockets.
When I got to their room I knocked on the door, usually I would've just unlocked it but I didn't want to walk in on Joey in his underwear. You only make that mistake once, trust me. I still have nightmares about that night. *Shudder*
Joey answered the door and I smiled at him straight away.
"Hey, did Dad call you?" I nodded and he hugged me and then stepped aside, allowing me in.
"Hey Alls." Austin greeted me as I walked over to him quickly, hugging him tightly. He seemed surprised at first but after a while hugged me back.
"Hey."
"Everything okay?" He asked me as we released from the hug.
"I have to tell you something." I tell him as Joey walked over to us.
"I'm gonna go get to graduation, don't be late." He tells us, since when am I ever late?
"Okay, bye." I say and then he left.
"So, what do you need to tell me?" Austin asked me and took my hands from my sides and slipped them into his.
"I've got a scholarship." I tell him, his face froze, like he was paralyzed.
"What?" He stammers, like he was pained. I couldn't believe I had decided to tell him this now, not earlier when the time was right but like ten minutes before graduation.
"I've got this year-scholarship for this big arts college in Miami. It's like ten minutes from my house. Called Miami Professional Staging. I knew you wouldn't wa-" I rambled on and on.
"You should go to the college." He states, making me surprised.
"What?"
"You should go, it's all you've ever wanted. You've wanted to be a singer since you were three. You deserve this. Yeah, I want to be a singer, but I haven't worked as hard as you to pursue that. You need to go there." His glossy eyes glittered in the light as my phone went off, but I ignored it. I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him gently. He almost immediately kissed me back and his arms flew around my waist. I felt everything, like the first kiss we shared.
When we released, Austin took my hands again and walked me over to the doorway.
"We should go to graduation, let's go."
"What about this scholarship?" I ask him as we walk out of his room, hand-in-hand.
"You're going to the college and I'm visiting you every single weekend." I smiled at him as we walked down the hallway and began to walk to the main field with him.
When we got there, we spotted Dez, Trish, Joey and some girl I've never met in the corner of the field.
"Hey." I greet as e and Austin approach them, still hand-in-hand.
"Ally! Joey!" I heard a familiar voice call our names, it couldn't be. Is it-
"Daddy?"
"Surprise!" My dad said, showing jazz hands. I smiled and giggled at him as Austin released the grasp he had on my hand and I ran over to my father.
"Hey." I whisper in his ear and when we release, he hugs Joey who had walked over to us. I went back over to Austin, who I wrapped my arms around in a side-hug. I heard Joey and Dad's voice getting louder meaning they were coming towards us.
"Okay, so who's everybody?" Dad said instead of greeting anyone.
"I'm Dez. Hi!" Dez exclaimed as he waved like a two-year-old.
"I'm Trish, excuse him he's got... problems..."
"Okay..." Dad said awkwardly as he moved over to Joey and that random girl.
"I'm Jennifer, I'm his friend." Jennifer introduced, Dad nodded and shook her hand and then made his way over to me and Austin.
"I'm Austin." Austin greeted and smile his million-dollar smiles.
"And..." Dad said, signalising for me to tell him what we were.
"We're dating." I explained to him as he shook Austin's hand.
"Nice to meet you, son. You been a good boyfriend to her?" Dad said, embarrassing me. Just like old times, huh?
"Dad!" I snapped as he rolled his eyes at me. "Yes, he's a great boyfriend." I say truthfully as I smile.
"Parents and teachers please take your seats. Students, please come and put on your robes, then take your seats." The principle announced and then the adults murmured as they walked over to their seats. We all walked over to the racks full over the red graduation robes by a teacher, Austin took the one with his name label on the hanger, Trish did the same and then I found the robe with my name label on it. After, me and Austin walked over to the caps where I found the cap with my name label on it.
"You got everything?" Austin's soft voice whispered into my ear. I nodded, shaking slightly. He wrapped his arm around my back and pecked my cheek. "It's okay, shh." He comforted as he smiled and kissed the top of my head.
"Teachers, parents and guardians, meet your 2015 graduates!" The principle announced as our class began to walk onto the stage. Not only I was scared about graduating, now I have to get on a stage and see the video of me and Trish singing that I think may faint. Great.
After our class sat in our seats, I was sat next to Trish and Austin. We chose where we sat, this is how it went with us...
Jennifer|Joey|Dez|Trish|Me|Austin
It was specifically how I imagined my graduation to be when I was a little girl, me sitting with my best friends and boyfriend as my dad watches me with a proud look on his face. The only thing missing that I used to wish for my graduation when I was little was my mum with my dad.
But for some reason, I think she is here, she's watching me, Joey and Dad from up there. Yes, it might have been cruel and unfair to have her be ripped out of our lives at such a young age but she was watching over us and she had done everything to get the name of the best mother in the world.
"Grade twelve, I can safely say that every single person at this school will miss you guys. We've been through a lot and even after all we've been through, I can't believe I'm going to say this but I am going to miss you guys too." The principle says into the mic, I didn't know what he meant but I'm guessing Austin did as he smiled.
"You okay?" Austin whispered, leaning closer to me so only I could hear him.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I say, barely audible but he could hear me.
"No, you're not." He tells me as he takes my hand and holds it in both of his hands. I smiled to myself at how much he knows me, he knows me better than I know myself.
"I know. How long can he talk?" I asked quietly - barely a whisper - referring to the principle.
"And now, on the screen behind me will view a video of Patricia De la Rosa and Allyson Dawson singing a song Allyson Dawson wrote called 'Wherever I Go', and the video was also put together by Allyson Dawson." I sunk into my chair, shaking rapidly. Austin looked over at me, surprised and then noticed how scared I was and began to stroke my back, he knew not to touch my hands or face or anything. He knew he could only touch my ankles, knees or back because otherwise I will go all karate on him.
"Here we are now, everything's about to change," I sang in the video, oh God.
Trish took my hand, comforting me silently. Because she knew in exactly four seconds I will go into freak mode. 3, ... 2, ...1!
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OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! KILL ME! I AM ABOUT TO BE SHOWN SINGING TO THE ENTIRE GRADE! IN FRONT OF MY DAD, IN FRONT OF JOEY AND AUSTIN! OH MY FREAKING GOD! AUSTIN WILL HATE MY SINGING! OH JESUS! KILL ME!
Trish sang her line as she whispered into my ear.
"Your amazing, calm down."
Austin took hold of my hand and kissed it gently.
"You are an amazing singer. Calm down, there's no reason to be nervous." He said to me soothingly as the picture blurred into pictures of grade twelves.
The next few minutes passed like decades, just dragging on... Why did I make this song so long?
"We'll never fade," I sang in the video, the long note approaching me. And.. "Away..." Wasn't too bad, now it goes back to us singing KILL ME!
It just showed the guitar, Austin smiled.
"There's the guitar that I gave you." He whispers into my ear making me smile broadly. I heard our voices sing the chorus again in a slowed tone, I had calmed down slightly but I was still shaking. After that the song finished within about forty seconds.
"Let's give that a cheer and now, for your diplomas!" He called into the mic as the adults clapped. One by one he called our names up, giving us our dipolmas.
About fifteen minutes later, everyone had got their diplomas and some random guy was giving a speech. After the boring speech of what felt like a century, we threw our caps in the air like they do in all those movies and ran around the school like retards. That's was I call a good graduation.
About ten minutes after running around, Trish and I went back to the room to pack Trish's bag to sleep in Dez's room. Apparently, according to Austin anyway, Joey isn't sleeping there either. Joey's sleeping over at Jennifer's. I don't know what the deal is with her and Joey, are they dating or what?
"So, where are you going to pack everything of yours because we're kind of leaving tomorrow, if you didn't realise..." I stated awkwardly referring to all of her things still around the room.
"I'm packing now, that's why you're helping me, silly."
And a long painful hour later, we had finally finished packing her stuff, all I had to pack is my toiletries tomorrow. Then we heard a knock at the door, my first thought was Austin, but then thought it could be my dad or anybody. Trish answered it to reveal our boyfriends, she stepped aside and allowed Austin to come in; waved bye to me and left with Dez.
"Hey," Austin greets me as he wanders over to me. "You okay now?"
"I'm good," I tell him as I kiss his cheek softly. "Thanks." I say quietly as I look down.
"For what?"
"Just for being you these last few days."
The night flew by, we had an amazing time together, just laughing and joking around. Like we used to before all this senior stuff got put on our shoulders. Joey stopped by at about seven, congratulating me on the video of me and Trish. We sat and talked about the video - making me get nervous but it was over with half an hour.
It's already one, usually I'm asleep by now but as it was the last night, I'm gonna make it count. We were both sat on my bed, leant sat up against the wall - his arm around me and my head was laid against his shoulder. We were both kind of bored; he gazed at my bedside table and picked up two small photo books. He put them on my lap and I realised he had picked up my only two scrapbooks I had made the first one of everyone and the second was just of me and Austin. He picked up the one of him and I, looking at the label on the front.
Austin & Me :)
It was in my handwriting, script, flowing handwriting, I've never really liked my handwriting but I guess it looked nice when it was on the scrapbook. He smiled at the cover and saw how it was decorated, it was covered with cut out red hearts and cut out pictures of us that somehow Trish had got hold of. He awed and smiled at the cover, slowly opening to view the first page to show a large picture of us, crooked to fit the page and taped to the bottom was some yellow line paper.
29/12/12 Happy Birthday Austin :)
(A/N: That's actually Ross Lynch's birthday, he plays Austin on Austin & Ally if you didn't know.)
Was written in my script handwriting, it had been Austin's birthday and it was great. It was a Saturday so we spent 11AM-3PM just us two and then we were joined by everyone else and at the end of the day I gave him his present.
Austin flicked to the next page to show five pictures on angels, surrounded by about seven heart doodles. I remember making that page, it was about two weeks after I realised I had a crush on him.
"When was this? I don't remember seeing this book before." Austin's soft voice tickled my cheek.
"It was around January in eleventh grade." I say back, staring at the pictures.
"When did you start to like me?" He asked.
"It was a couple of weeks after this photo was taken." I told him.
"You liked me for that long?"
"Uh... maybe?" I say, realising what I just said. He obviously didn't like me back then; he probably didn't even like me as a friend back then.
"I started to like you in eleventh grade too." He said, breathing his words into my cheek. After he was finished, he pecked my cheek gently.
"Really?" I said, stunned at that. I couldn't believe that, he was dating Natasha then, he didn't like me then. "But you were dating Natasha."
"You mean I was dating her, or getting screamed at by her every day for hanging out with you?" He had a point, but I still didn't believe he liked me. I refused to believe I wasted two years of my life just liking him while watching him and Natasha date. I wouldn't believe that.
"I refuse to believe that you didn't love that freaking teenage model." I said, exaggerating that she was a model but she wasn't far from it. She had the hair, the body and the face plastered in make-up. The only thing missing was the cameras.
"One, I loved her for the first month or two, but after that she got over the fact I was her boyfriend and starting screaming at me for the little things I used to do that 'annoyed her'. Two, she isn't a model, who would want to see a model plastered in make-up with a dress the size of my finger?" He explained, he did love her but after she started shouting at him, he got over it. It was weird hearing from a boy what he thought of girls with dresses the size of a peanut and a face full of make-up.
"Oh, uh I don't know... maybe the magazines, reporters, teenage guys, teenage girls, p-" I rambled but he stopped me.
"Not me. I wish they'd find models like you. Beautiful on the inside and out, the kind of girl that you won't find applying make-up every ten minutes of your date. Not the kind of girl you'll see with football players, but the kind you'll find with certain hot blonde guys that love them very much..." I giggled at his compliments and references to me and him. There's that ego that I had to love, no choice about it.
"Let's put this thing away and do something, you know like normal eighteen year olds would do on their last day." I say as I take the book from his lap and put it in my suitcase along with the other scrapbook. It broke my heart knowing that tomorrow I would have to end everything with him.
:OO Ally's going to dump him tomorrow? I'M SO EVIL! I hate myself! Review!