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Disclaimer: I don't own Austin and Ally or The Disney Channel.

Austin's POV

I wake up this morning in bed with Ally. She's snuggled into my chest as I'm lying on my back and staring at the ceiling. I lean down and let the strawberry scent in her hair wash over me. I really don't want to get out of bed. I want to just lie here with her in my arms, I'd be content like this forever. It then hits me that she's supposed to leave today, go back to Italy. I can only assume that she has a home there or was looking for one before she came to Miami. I can't have that. She belongs here with me, hell if she really wants to go to Italy I'll go with her.

I reach over on the bedside table with my right arm, see that it's about ten o'clock in the morning. Grabbing my phone with about forty percent charge left, I sent a few quick texts to our friends.

To Trish from Austin:

I need you! Now! Meet me at Mini's in ten minutes.

To Austin from Trish:

Ten in the morning? This better be worth it.

At the same time I send Dez a text as well.

To Dez from Austin:

You told me to get my girl! Well, I'm working on it. I need both you and Trish. Ten minutes Mini's.

To Austin from Dez:

If you need me, I'm there. See you soon!

Shit, I need to get dressed.

I walk over to grab a piece of stationary, as neatly as possible write Ally a note for when she wakes up and sees that I'm not beside her.

Good Morning Beautiful,

You looked so peaceful and I couldn't wake you. I know that you are supposed to be leaving to go back to Italy, but I want us to talk about it first. I had to run out, but I'll be back in a little while. I'll pick you up something to eat, knowing you Pickles would be the best bet. Please don't be mad, babe. I love you, Alls.

Love,

Rockstar

I grab the pair of basketball shorts sliding them up over my legs and throwing the shirt Ally still had of mine on my body as well.

Shoes?

Shit, well they do have those fuzzy sandal looking slippers. I'm sure this would for sure be a sight if the paparazzi sought me out. Reaching the lobby downstairs, I see that there's a cab waiting outside, lucky for me I kept my wallet and everything I needed with me yesterday and grabbed it before quietly closing the door to Ally's suite. I get in the cab and head over to the mall, when I get out after paying the driver I look to see that I have about five minutes before I'm supposed to meet Dez and Trish at Mini's. I pass Mini's after about a minute to see that Dez and Trish, hard to believe I know are already there waiting. They see me, get up from the table that they are sitting at and rush right over.

"Austin, what the hell are you wearing?" Trish asks, I just shrug knowing that I did the best I could and I was lucky I didn't come here in just my boxers.

"Can we go get me some normal clothes before we talk?"

"Yeah, man. This is for sure a sight to see considering I used to dress absurdly. You in a tee-shirt, basketball shorts, fluffy soft looking sandal slippers is well... NOT MANLY." My best friend teases.

I lightly shove him, "Okay, well can we please go to a store, buy me clothes?" I say with urgency in my voice.

Trish takes me by the arm, starts dragging me to the nearest clothing department store with Dez following right behind us. She settles on Lord & Taylor and yells, "Let's go boys!"

Dez and I just follow Trish to the men's section. Shopping, Trish was now definitely in her element, being my manager for many years she knows what sizes I need.

"Can you keep your voice down? I'm trying to keep a low profile."

"Oh, sorry." She starts pulling button downs off the racks and throwing them over my arm. She grabs jeans and throws them on Dez's arm. The other obvious essentials, socks, boxers. "Trish I need shoes too. Dress ones and Sneakers."

"Dress ones?" She looks at me curiously. "Don't you- Never mind."

I gulp, "Yes."

"Go start trying stuff on! I want to get you a ton of clothes and we're dying to know what the hell is going on that was so important for you to wake us up this early."

I groan, but follow her instructions. I come out in five different button downs and settle on a red one. I hand Trish my credit card, tell her to use my credit card to pay for the outfit I have on, stepping out and tossing them over the dressing room door so she can bring them over to the register. She comes back with my card, the clothes I handed over to her including at least another five shirts, a suit, pair of dress pants, a few ties, five pairs of jeans, boxers, socks, the only thing we need to pick out real quick are sneakers and dress shoes. Once I change into my outfit, take the tags off we see that the shoe section isn't that far. I'm barefoot with socks, but I'm sure that the associates have seen stranger things in this store. When we reach the shoe section, I grab a pair of Nike's, and black dress shoes both in my size. I go to the register, pay for them and we leave the store.

We start to walk over towards Mini's when I stop them,

"Hey guys, Uh. Which one of you drove?"

"I did!" A sense of relief washes over me. Thank God, Trish didn't drive.

"Why?" They both answer in unison.

"Can we just head to your car and I'll explain when we get there?" I ask Dez feeling rather hopeful that he won't press me for information just yet.

"Ugh, Austin. Will you just tell us!? We've been with you almost an hour now." I can hear Trish getting impatient.

"Just wait, we're almost at the car." Dez presses her into silencing herself for just for a minute longer.

He smirks satisfied, Trish grumbles. "Fine." She waves her hands in the air. As we reach Dez's car he unlocks it, I get in the passenger seat, Trish in the back seat, Dez in the Driver's seat.

"Alright, man. We're now alone in the car and the windows are up. What's going on?"

"Did you go to Ally like we told you to? Did you go to The Marriott?" Trish asks.

"Yes, I did. I went to Ally, I found her. I ran in the pouring rain and convinced a girl at the front desk to give me Ally's room number."

"But their not-"

I cut Trish off, "I know, but anyways. I got the room number and ran up five flights of stairs soaked to the bone. I pounded on Ally's door and she answered with a glass of wine in her hand."

"Shit." Trish said, starting to rub her temples no doubt trying to decide if she should abandon me and comfort Ally if needed. "Was she drunk?"

"No, she was tipsy. I stood there like a fucking idiot at first. She just looked so breathtaking that I couldn't even breathe let alone focus." Dez looks at me with a look of awe knowing how exactly how it feels to love someone that much.

"Did you tell her that you broke off the engagement with Piper? That you left her at the altar?" Dez asked me. "Please tell me that you were honest with her Austin." I look at Dez and then back at Trish.

Trish looks pissed, "Did you fucking break her heart again you asshole? I swear to God Austin if you just walked away from her again. So help me-"

"Whoa, easy there killer- I told her everything. Everything about how I felt, that I shouldn't have ever proposed to Piper let alone let her walk down the aisle."

"YOU DID WHAT?!" Trish screams.

"Trish, calm down." Dez chastizes her.

"Calm down?! Austin why the fuck would you tell her that?"

Ohhhhh she's definitely angry!

"If you would just listen." She sighs in defeat, " I told her that when Piper was walking up the aisle I didn't see Piper I saw her. I told Ally that I've always been in love with her, it's always been only her."

"Then why the fuck did you propose to Piper? Austin that's supposed to be something special. Something truly intimate and emotionally cementing a couple. That should have been you and Ally. Not you and Piper."

"I know. Did she tell you about Ethan, Trish?"

"That he had a ring, nearly proposed to her and she didn't want to scar him so she stopped him? Yeah, she told me."

Dez looks expectantly at me and then Trish, "Why didn't she tell me?"

"Well, Doof. You're Austin's best friend, knowing Ally if she ever saw Austin again she wanted to tell him herself. It simply wasn't our place." She just says simply.

"Alright, Austin. Now that we're still sitting in the parking lot. Where are we going?"

"A high end jeweler, about fifteen minutes from here. He deals with celebrity clientele, so we won't have any issues with paparazzi. We're actually going to go over to his house. I have the address, Trish I need you to call him and let him know that we're coming and make sure that he doesn't have any other clients with him."

I hand Trish my phone and she dials his number, it only rings three times before the guy is on the other line.

"Hello, Neil Lane. I have Austin Moon with me and our friend Dez you should be expecting us in the next fifteen minutes. Will that be a problem?"

Trish hangs up the phone, "It won't be a problem."

The drive to Neil's is scenic, the ocean glistening in the sun and the weather is favorable and for once on my side. We finally pull up to Neil's iron gate, he buzzes us in and Dez drives his car up the somewhat long driveway, we park the car. Once parked the three of us head up the stone stairs, and ring the doorbell.

We're greeted by Mr. Lane himself,

"Hello Austin and friends, please come in."

We walk through the front door and he closes it and then leads us to his living room.

" I need to go grab a few cases since I'm unsure of what it is exactly that you need."

With that he leaves and comes back with relatively large rectangular velvet boxes. Trish nudges me, "Austin, what are we doing at Neil Lane's house? Isn't he famous for?"

"FINALLY!" Dez says loudly, "It's about time!"

"Trish?"

"Wait, Dez fill me in."

Mr. Lane cuts in and opens all three boxes revealing their contents. The first box contains necklaces, the next holds earrings, bracelets and the last holds diamond engagement rings. He takes the boxes and places them on the glass coffee table in front of us.

"So, Austin. What exactly is it that you're here for?"

"I'm here to purchase an engagement ring for my girl."

Trish's jaw drops, "So, if you're here to pick out an engagement ring then why are Dez and I here? Considering everything that happened yesterday.."

I look at her, "You're here because I want you to be a part of this experience. I want you both to help me choose the perfect ring for Ally."

"Is it too soon?" She asks, "I mean, you better not screw this up Austin. Ally won't be able to come back from this if you leave her standing there."

"I've never been more sure about anyone in my life Trish. I'm meant to be with Ally."

Dez who was sitting in the chair across from me and next to Trish nudges her, they both get up to come sit next to me on the couch.

"I support you buddy, so let's do this. Let's pick out the perfect ring."

"I'm going to trust you, so I'll help. Mr. Lane please start showing us the rings that you have."

"So, tell me about your girl Austin. So, I can better assist you in choosing the right ring for her."

"She's stunning, absolutely stunning. She's the type of person who wears her heart on her sleeve. She's selfless. She cares more about others and the compassion that she shows other people is remarkable. She's incredibly talented, intelligent, sweet and I could go on forever."

Neil just smiles, the first ring he pulled out and held up for us to look at was pretty, a decent sized emerald cut, but it had a plain band and that was just not happening. I think he could tell because I made a face. That was definitely not Ally's style. The next one was a round, it was big, had pretty diamond clusters on each side, but it would have been more suitable for the old Ally. I saw him looking at me curiously, did I like it yeah? I looked to Dez and Trish and it seems like they were thinking that they weren't sold quite yet either.

My Ally, she's a pop star and a huge success. She needs something that screams amazing, confident, beautiful, she needs something different.

We looked at a few others in different shapes and sizes.

The last caught my attention. I took one look at it and I could see it physically on Ally's hand, it was beautiful, perfect, just like her.

Mr. Lane holds it up for myself, Dez and Trish to look at carefully, giving us all the specifics: carat, cut, clarity, etc.

Trish's eyes start to water, I look at Dez and he's swallowing to keep it together.

"I'll take this one!"

Mr. Lane takes the ring and puts it in a really nice velvet box, I hand him my credit card. I don't care how much this ring costs, I can afford it without any trouble and Ally's absolutely worth it.

A/N: Thoughts? Now, while this may seem absolutely flipping crazy it's not. Dez: "When you're in love you'll know." from Cupids and Cuties when he was Dr. Cupid.

You'll find out why in the next chapter. ;)

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