Haha! I'm dumb! I totally forgot that plan I mentioned in the last chapter! I really should write these things down.

Disclaimer: I don't own Austin & Ally or anything else you may recognize in this last chapter

Ally and Gavin devoted the rest of the day to writing that song. They had just gotten to the second verse when Ally realized how much she enjoyed writing a song with someone else. She had always written by herself. Trish would help her, but then Ally would scrap the ideas because they were all so self centered. One song that Trish suggested was called I'm So Much Better Than You.

Gavin knew that this song would be a hit from the beginning. Once he heard Ally's voice, he was sold. On the song and her. He sensed something very special about Ally. He wished so much to get to know her more.

"Stuck on you-oo-oo. Me and you. You-ooo." Ally smiled as they finished the song. "That was great!"

"Yeah, it was!" Gavin exclaimed, holding his hand up for a high five.

Ally returned the slap. "You're a great song writer, Gavin."

"Not as great as you! I mean, 'just like glue' was genius!"

She blushed. "Thanks."

"Hey," Gavin snapped his fingers. "I've got a great idea! I heard that there's gonna be a music festival in Miami. We should go together!"

"Like... Together together?"

"Well, with Trish and Jace, anyway."

"I-I don't know."

"C'mon, Ally! Bruno Mars is gonna be there. I remember you tellin' me how much you like him."

"I'll have to ask Trish."

"Ask me what?"

Austin and Piper had such an amazing time together. It was as if they knew each other since birth. True love perhaps? Austin sure felt that way. He spent the rest of the day just getting to know Piper. Finding out her likes, dislikes, hobbies, pet peeves. Everything. Piper enjoyed every minute of it. She never knew a guy who cared to know this much stuff about her. Could this be a sign? She thought. She had been told stories of the "True Love Necklace" ever since she was little. But she never completely believed in it. Not until Austin, anyway. Austin gave her the hope of having her other half. She, then, began to fear that they would start moving too fast. It seemed as if Austin was all in already. But was Piper?

"Austin?" Piper asked, trying so hard to get a word into Austin's nervous/excited rambling.

"I'm serious, Piper. I think you and Carrie should come back to Maine with us and it-"

"-Austin?"

"-would be amazing because then all four of us would be together and we would be happy and-"

"-Austin!"

That got his attention. "Yeah?"

"Slow down. We just met today. What's the hurry in all of this?"

Austin sighed. "I'm sorry, Piper. It's just... I've been imagining this moment for so long. It almost feels like a dream cuz I've waited so long. Like, this doesn't seem real or something."

"Austin, I'm real. This is all real. But, I just think we need to take things slow."

"Why take things slow when you know it's true love?"

True love. Now that got Piper's goat. Yeah, her necklace got hot, but did that really mean anything? She wasn't so sure. "I... I would just be more comfortable if we did."

"Alright. I understand."

Piper smiled and lightly kissed his cheek. "Thank you."

Austin blushed. That kiss reassured him that this was the real thing. Piper was the one.

While waiting for the new duo to finish their song, Trish and Jace hit it off right away. Jace seemed almost too good to be true. He was funny, rude, sarcastic, sweet. Everything Trish wanted in a guy. She swore a guy like Jace could never exist. But there he was, being all perfect. Jace thought the same thing of Trish. She was so outspoken and down-to-earth. Just the type of girl to keep him on his toes. He liked it. He liked her.

"Ask me what?" Trish asked after hearing her name spoken.

"Do you want to go to Miami? Gavin said that there's going to be a music festival there and Bruno Mars is going to preform!"

Trish's jaw dropped. "No way?! That's awesome! Yeah, I wanna go!"

"Sweet!"

Trish paused and looked over at her possible love. "What about Jace?"

"Ah man, I wish I could, Trish. But I gotta stay here. My momma's been sick for a while and I havta take care of her."

"Oh..." Trish said, frowning. "I understand. A guy can't just abandon his mom."

"I hope you know, though," Jace added, taking her hand into his. "that if the circumstances were different, I would go with you in a heartbeat."

Trish blushed as they intertwined their fingers. Then she was overcome with sadness. She had just met and started falling in love with this amazing boy, and now she was leaving him. "Ally, I can't go."

"What? why?"

Trish gazed into Jace's eyes, longingly.

Ally saw the look in her eyes and understood. Her best friend was in love. Before she could say anything, Jace finally realized what Trish meant and protested. "Trish, you shouldn't stay here with me. You should go with them and enjoy yourself."

"But, Jace, I-"

"-I have nothing to offer here." He interrupted. "Besides, you'll be back. It's not like you're staying in Miami forever."

Ally and Gavin got in the car and started it up, while Trish stared into Jace's loving eyes, trying to make her decision.

"Go." Jace whispered just before softly kissing her lips and letting go of her hands.

Trish stood in silence for a couple seconds as she watched Jace walk back to his house. She then got in the car, buckled up, and rubbed her eyes.

Ally wanted to comfort her best friend. "You okay, Trish?"

"I'm fine." She snapped back.

Dez was having an unbeliebable amount of fun at Carrie's family reunion. They took him in as if he was already one of them. He thought that that was a good sign. Her family loves him! This was increible!

Carrie, on the other hand, felt the opposite. She had wondered if she made a mistake choosing Dez. Yes, she loved him as much as a girl could love a boy she just met. But there was something off. Something in her heart. She had felt these same feelings for another boy a couple years back. But Carrie didn't realize those feelings until they returned when she met Dez. Now, she kept going back and forth from Dez to finding that other boy. She finally had come to a decision. A decision that would break Dez's heart.

"Dezi, can I talk to you over here for a second?"

"Yeah, sure." Dez got up from the table surrounded by Carrie's laughing relatives, thinking that she was about to do something really romantic. "What's up, babe?"

Carrie hesitated. "I... I don't think we should see each other anymore."

"What?!" His eyes grew the size of his head. "B-but why?"

She shook her head, unable to say the words. She finally found her voice and choked out, "You should go." just before running off.

Heartbroken, Dez trudged to the door. He looked back, just to make sure Carrie wasn't joking or anything like that. No one. So, he walked outside and dialed his best bud, hoping Austin wasn't busy with his now ex girlfriend's sister.

Austin picked up and Dez told him everything.

"Alright, we'll be right there." He told Dez while unlocking the car.

Just as they pulled up, Dez hopped right in, moping. "I just wanna get as far away from here as possible."

"Well, I hear there's a music festival in Miami. That's like 9 hours away."

Dez nodded as he sniffled and turned toward the window. "Yeah, that's fine."

Austin looked over at the pretty blonde girl. "Piper, you wanna come?"

"You know what? I do. I'm just as upset with my sister as Dez is. I can't believe she would do something like this!"

"Well then, let's head to Miami!"

"Dang." Trish marveled at the amount of people. "It is crowded."

Ally nodded with her jaw open, turning onto the next level of the parking garage.

"How many people do you think are here?"

"Could be almost a million." Gavin spoke up, in awe.

Trish scoffed. "Yeah right."

"Ooh!" Ally exclaimed, gaining Gavin and Trish's attention. "There's a parking space!"

"Well hurry up and get it!"

Ally quickly sped up, turned the wheel, and braked just in time to beat the other person to it.

"Nice parkin' skills, Ally." Gavin said. Yet another reason to love her.

"Why thank you! It is one of my many talents!"

As they got out of the car, Gavin looked at his phone. "We still have another hour till the festival starts. What should we do?"

"I saw this cool looking music store a in front of the mall. Let's go there!"

"Sounds good to me." Trish said.

Gavin put his arm around Ally. "Me too."

"This place looks awesome!" Austin shouted excitedly. "Look at all these people!"

"Look at all those instruments."

"Where?!"

Dez pointed out the window. "Over there. At Sonic Boom."

"Duuuuude! We're so going in there!" The exhilarated blonde boy turned into the first parking spot he saw.

Piper rolled her eyes. Though she didn't mind this spontaneous trip to Florida, she did, however, mind Austin's enthusiasm. She assumed that they would be in there for hours upon hours. Probably even past the music festival, which is the whole reason they came in the first place.

"Let's go!"

"Yay..." Piper and Dez groaned in unison.

Trish, Gavin, and Ally oohed and ahhed as they walked through the door. Everything about this store was amazing. The color, the music sign, the grand piano, and that tower made completely out of instruments.

"Wow." An astonished Trish let out. "This place is-"

"-Beautiful." Ally interrupted. "Look at that piano."

"You wanna play it?" Gavin asked, smirking.

"Do I ever!"

Ally and Gavin ran over to the piano like two little children trying to catch the ice cream truck. Just before Ally sat down, she sighed.

"What's wrong?"

"We can't play it..."

"Well, why not?"

She pointed to the sign on top of the instrument. Please do not play the piano.

"Bummer..."

Austin almost fainted from his gasping. This was his paradise. He can play any instrument in existence and this store had all of them. He he gasped once more. "Dez, Dez, Dez, Dez, Dez! Get out your video camera and film me playing these drums!"

For once, since Carrie dumped him, Dez smiled with joy. "On it!" He yelled, following his best friend's movements.

The loud banging severely irritated Ally. She leaned over to Trish and whispered, "Doesn't that guy know he's not supposed to play on those?"

Trish shrugged. Frankly, she didn't care at all. The only thing she cared about in that moment was why she was feeling her necklace overheat. Jace was back in Alabama.

Ally decided to do something about it, seeing that no one had already done it. She ran over to the boy with the drum sticks and whistled.

Austin immediatly stopped, looking up at Ally and feeling heat. A different kind of heat than what he had felt before. What the heck did this mean?

Ally felt the same kind of different warmth, but chose to ignore it. She figured Gavin was admiring her like he always does or something like that. "Did you not see the 'Please do not play the drums' sign?"

Austin flipped his hair, flirtingly. "It's okay, I'm an awesome drummer!"

Just the sound of his voice caused her necklace to scorch her chest. Ally's eyes widened as she realized everything. "You." She said in between breaths. "It's you."

Austin began to feel butterflies in his stomach and his heart beating out of his chest as well as his burning moon pendent. "Y-you're the one."

Dez was grinning from ear to ear. Not only did his best friend since birth find his other half, he also caught the whole thing on camera! He was way too distracted to realize that his forever was standing in that very room as well...

Trish rushed over to her BFF. "Ally! Gavin is talking to some blonde girl and he seems pretty interested in her!" She paused, seeing Ally lovingly stare into the guy that was playing the drums' eyes. "And you seem pretty interested in him."

Dez sniffled, still holding up the camera. "Isn't it beautiful?"

"Yeah. It is." Trish smiled. Ally had finally found him. In all honesty, she didn't really trust Gavin, so she was happy that she found her guy. Just then, her chest started boiling with heat. "Wait a minute..." Trish turned her head and looked at the strange, crying red head.

Dez has the same searing feeling from his necklace as he looked over at the beautiful, curly haired girl. He gasped, dropping his camera and running to hug her. "It's you!"

The Trish rolled her eyes. "You have got to be kidding me!"

In the end, everything turned out perfectly.

Gavin and Piper ended up with each other and are very happy.

After their 10th and most romantic date, Austin proposed. Unlike Piper, who was scared of moving too fast, Ally wasn't. After all, why take things slow when you know it's true love?

It was a magnificent Christmas Eve wedding. The stars and moon shined as bright as the sun. Austin's parents and Ally's father were over the moon! Yes, they were sad that they decided to stay in Miami, but they understood. It was where they met and they seemed very happy there.

Once they got back from their honeymoon, Austin and Ally offered to buy Sonic Boom. The owner couldnt refuse them.

They both graduated from the best music school in Miami and were expecting their first child, Ashley Marie Moon!

After Ashley came two more little miracles: Alexander Marcus and Alana Madison.

As for Trish and Dez, they're happily married, though Trish was rather reluctant. Dez finally broke her down after Ashley was born. Trish realized how much she wanted Austin and Ally's happiness. Dez was that happiness. Even though she knew she was destined to love him, she couldn't stand him. But that all changed when he kissed her.

They helped out at Sonic Boom all the time. In fact, there wasn't a single moment when they weren't there.

The March following their 1st anniversary, Trish gave birth to their son, Cameron August Wade.

Dez became a household name after a successful movie came out that he directed. The whole group was over joyed.

Within 2 years, they had two more kids: Mackynzie Arianna and Jacob Ashton.

The point is, these four people found their forever. They will never forget this incredible journey.

And scene!

That concludes The Journey! I hope you all loved this story as much I did. Thank you all so much for having the patience that went with this story. I'm sure it got pretty annoying at times. ;)

I LOVE YOU ALL!