CH.11: A Game Of Truth

Part 1

I have no clue where I stand with Ally. Especially after the last encounter we had. She's not ignoring me anymore but she's still not paying any attention to me.

Well at least now she acknowledges me when we bump into each other. That has to mean that I've done something good right?

I shake off any thoughts of her as I make my way to my house for the nice, long, well deserved Christmas break from school

Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. I just love everything about it. I like seeing the bright Christmas lights hanging on the houses and the smell of a real Christmas tree in your house. Let's not forget about all the home baked goods that are to die for when the person knows how to cook. And how you can belt out Christmas songs without looking like a weirdo.

That reminds me, I need to buy a Christmas tree and get my decorations up.

I'm turning around the corner of the street when I realize that Dawson is at the bus stop. Swiftly I make a u-turn and I park myself right in front of her.

"Ally?" I ask to make sure.

She turns her head towards my direction with a small smile on her face. She looks beautiful but then again, when does she not?

"Oh hey Austin. What 'cha doing around here?" She questions me as she looks at her surroundings.

I let a light chuckle escape my lips before I say, "Well I saw you sitting at the bus stop and I thought you might need a ride."

She slightly tilts her head to the side as she lightly bite her lips. I know she's most likely debating whether she should take my offer or not. She's about to reply when the bus pulls up right behind me.

She turns her head to the loud groan of the bus stopping. People are lining up to get on but she's still in the same position. I see her slowly gathering her belonging as she tells me, "Well thanks for the offer but..."

I can feel my heart sinking at her answer. I know the next words she going to say. It's going to be something along the lines of her going on the bus.

I can feel my eyes closing as I wait to hear her rejection but it never comes.

"Or you know what... Yes I would like a ride to my house," she voices as she seems to take her guard down for a quick second. She opens the door and soon we're on the way to her house.

At first we don't say much. We just let the music from the radio do the talking for us.

I'm humming to the latest christmas tune when she asks me with a curious tone, "Really? Bad Ass Austin Moon can't stand class but he can stand an annoying version of Santa Clause Is Coming To Town?"

I let out a gasp of hurt and in a defensive tone I say, "First of all, yes. Bad Ass Austin Moon can make any song into a bad ass song if he's singing to it and second of all, who doesn't like Christmas songs in the season of the holidays?"

From the corner of my eyes I can see her rolling her eyes as she shakes her head in disappointment. Then she reaches for the radio to change the station as she says, "Well I can think of one person who can't stand Christmas songs and that's me."

Soon the jolly tune is replaced by a song whose name I can't remember but the tune seems familiar.

"You spirit killer! You're just another grinch!" I yell out at Ally in response to her belief of Christmas songs being annoying.

"Quite whining like a baby Moon!" she orders me before she softly starts humming to the song.

I let out a sigh in defeat as I try to remember who sings this song. It's a really catchy song and if I remember correctly, the girl is a new singer.

I lose myself in my thoughts but I get interrupted by Ally singing,

"Now I'm here in a sticky situation

Got a little trouble, yep and now I'm pacing

Five minutes, ten minutes, now it's been an hour

Uh don't wanna think too hard, but I'm sour"

I look at her amazed. She's looking out the window and acts like she just did nothing.

I can feel my eyes falling out and this girl is lost in her own world! She has an incredible voice, and to think that she told our music teacher that she has no singing talent whatsoever.

As I listen to the chorus I realize that the song is "Brokenhearted" by Karmin.

Seeing the brief sense of freedom that music brought Ally in few seconds that she was singing makes me turn the radio up a little louder.

Ally's now bobbing her head as she starts to sing again.

"What's the time, such a crime

Not a single word, sipping on a Patrón

Just to calm my nerves, uh oh

Poppin' bottles by the phone"

I know that there's a humongous smile on my face and that has to do with the fact that Ally's happy. For the heck of it, and feeling the mood, I decide to jump in which surprises Ally and leaves me doing a solo.

"Oh yeah

Had me up, had me down, turn me inside out

That's enough, call me up

Maybe I'm in doubt, uh oh

I don't even think you know, no no"

When I finish I can feel her gawking at me.

"What?" I ask her worriedly.

Do I sing horrible? Is that the reason why she's staring at me like that? Or maybe I was just off key?

I stop the car at a red light and turn to look at her to find her awestruck.

"Have I told you that you have an amazing voice?" she tells me in a serious tone. "You know you should let people see this side of you. The one where you're not being a jerk or trying to prove everyone how good you are."

I open my mouth to say something but she interrupts me with, "Green light."

Soon we're both singing together on the last verse and I don't get enough of the sound of our voices blending together. Just sound so powerful.

"This kinda thing doesn't happen usually

I'm on the opposite side of it, truthfully

I know you want it so come and get it, cheerio"

We keep at it until the end of the song. We take turns singing different parts of the last chorus and some we sing together, both improvising while we make the funniest facial expressions to one another.

"Honest baby, I'll do anything you want to

So can we finish what we started

Don't you leave me brokenhearted tonight

Come on, that's right, cheeri, cheerio

When you gonna call

Don't leave me broken hearted

I've been waiting up

Let's finish what we started, oh oh

I can't seem to let you go

Come on, that's right, cheerio, uh!"

Just as we finish singing the last note I pull up the driveway of her house. I turn off the engine and silence starts to fill the space where the music one did. All we do is stare out the windshield.

Slowly I turn to look at her which causes her eyes to meet mine. As soon as they do we burst out laughing.

"That has to be one of the most amazing things I have ever done!" I shout out enthusiastically.

We're still chuckling but Ally chimes in, "I know. I haven't had this much in a while. Did you hear our voices together?! We were rocking!"

We let our laughter die out and we both have matching smiles across our faces.

After a few seconds later Ally sadly says, "Well I should get going, you know?"

She slowly gathers her belongs and is painfully opening the door when unexpectedly I shout out, "What 'cha doing this Christmas?"

I feel like hitting myself. Where the hell did that come from? I mean she was leaving one second and the next I'm asking her what she's doing on Christmas. Smooth Moon, really smooth.

She quickly tuns around to face me and have a curious look to her eyes as she cautiously asks me, "Why?"

I can feel my heart rate speed up as I ask her, "Well if you don't have any plans for... You know Christmas... I'm wondering if you'd..."

I take a few seconds to take a deep breath and to scratch the back of my neck as I quickly ask her, "If you'd like to spend Christmas with me?"

I have my eyes shut tight and I am not sure how Ally's going to reply.

"I would love to spend Christmas with you Austin," I had her sweetly whisper. I open my eyes and I can feel a lopsided smile form on my face as I feel butterflies in my stomach.

I'm about to add on to my invitation when she finishes her sentence with, "But this year, for the first time, I'm actually going to have a Christmas with both my mom and dad and don't want to miss it. If you want we can do New Years?"

I feel my heart drop at her sentence but it picks it's pace as I hear her ask about New Years. Her eyes look hopeful. Maybe Ally and I can become something.

I nod my head in agreement and tell her that we can text the details later. I wish her a merry Christmas and soon I'm on my way home.

The week before Christmas is crazy. I'm fighting middle aged women for decorations that are on sale and don't even get me started on the tree. When I went to go buy a real Christmas tree I felt like I had just survived world war three. I never knew how dangerous people could be!

Well at least now I am to the more easier part. I set up the tree, I've put the ornaments on it, and my house is covered in lights. I have Christmas dinner planned out already and I have the ingredients in my fridge. Christmas music is on the radio. All I have to do is wait for Christmas Eve to get here.

On December 24 I get a lot of phone calls from many relatives. It's always the same thing you know?

"Merry Christmas, take care of yourself, now don't you get in trouble," and what not.

I get up early in the morning to make sure I've mailed all of the gifts to everyone and soon I'm attempting to cook dinner for at least tonight. Who knows, maybe Santa might give me a miracle by not letting me burn down my dinner.

I call Dez to wish him merry Christmas and he tells me to go over to his house but I say no. He has all his family with him. I don't want to intrude in their privacy.

See, it sucks to spend Christmas by yourself. It just makes you feel so damn lonely.

In between cooking my dinner and baking cookies for "Santa", I spend the day watching movies I rented and Christmas movies from the Tv.

At some point I must have fell asleep because I'm woken up by the sound of my doorbell.

I fall off the couch from the sound of it at first. As I get up I look at the clock to see that it's ten in the night. Who would be at the door at this time of the hour?

I scratch my head and let out a yawn as I make my way to door.

When I open it I see the last person I expect to find. Standing in front of me is Ally Dawson.

"Umm hey Austin," from the sound of her voice I know that something's wrong but I can also tell that I shouldn't question it right now, "I was wondering if spending Christmas with you was still up for tonight?"

she has a weak smile on her lips and it seems like she's been crying. I just let a small, caring smile form on my lips as I tell her to come in.

She awkwardly makes her way to my living room and starts giggling at the movie I am seeing.

"I should have known that this was how you spend your Christmas." She whispers.

I shrug my shoulders in response but she's too busy looking around to actually see me do this action.

"You have a wonderful house. Very well decorated," she says in a more firmly tone than a few seconds ago.

"Well I do try," I say in a chuckle.

She giggles in response and sits down at one edge of the couch when she abruptly stands up and says, "Oh I have a present for you and I brought some hickory ham to eat. Well that's if you haven't eaten already."

She looks too nervous to be the brave, rebellious Ally that I've seen her pretend to be too many times. She's playing with her fingers and occasionally she's reaching up for her hair.

"Well you're lucky. I haven't eaten yet. Actually I fell asleep after I finished cooking," I tell her as I lead her towards the kitchen.

"You cook?" She asks me in a surprised tone.

"I know shocking right. Bad boy Austin Moon cooks. Just don't be spreading this information around school because I'll deny it all," I say and I finish by bobbing her nose.

She grabs my hand swiftly and threatens me to never do that ever again or else. And something tells me that or else has something to do with kicking me she the sun don't shine.

I just nod my head and remind myself to never ever try anything on Ally.

I'm getting out plates and such when Ally innocently asks, "where are your parents?"

Her question catches me off guard and I drop the glass plates that shatter as soon as they come in contact with the floor.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry," I tell her in a hurried, worried tone.

She keeps telling me that I have nothing to apologize for and is trying to help me pick up the broken pieces. We stay silent for a few seconds and I interrupt it as soon as we've picked up all the broken pieces with, "Do you like some homemade pizza? It's Hawaiian flavored."

I still feel shaken from her question and I think she can sense it but for now she just lets it go.

"Sure that sounds good," she replies.

We serve each our plates with whatever we want. We watch Christmas with the Kranks because apparently that's Ally must see Christmas movie of the year.

We have a nice time watching the movie but as the credits start to roll on the screen we can both sense tension from us.

We try to fill the uncomfortable silence with a small worded conversation when Ally surprises me with, "Austin are you ok?"

I turn to look at her but she's staring at the ground. In a rough tone I say, "I'll tell you if you first tell me why you came over when you told me you were going to spend Christmas with your family?"

Her gaze shoots up to look at me and I can tell that she has her guard up. Why does she have to be so complicated?

"Why don't we just play the movie and pretend as if the last questions weren't asked," she counteracts.

"Or why don't we play truths," I reply with a stern voice.

She's biting in her lips and she opens her mouth to tell me, "something tells me that the questions you're going to ask me are on a personal level."

She's challenging me and I know that. She wants to see how much I am willing to go to get to know her.

I walk over to where she's sitting. I look into her eyes for a quick second before I pull back a strand of her hair and say, "Ally I promise that whatever we say stays between us. You can ask me whatever you want and I'll answer them truthfully. But in the end of it is your call."

She's looking at me with an intense stare and she breaks the tension by stating, "How can I trust you?"

I shrug my shoulders as I say, "You don't know. You just have to."

I can hear the pounding of my heart beat in my ears. I've never been this straight foreword with her.

Her eyes look like she's searching for something in mine. She slowly lifts one of her hands to brush a strand if my hair that was covering my eyes. We both stare at each other and she says, "You promise that this will stay between us?"

"Ally I will never ever do anything to hurt you. I promise I would be the last person to hurt you," I say with all the love I have for this girl.

Here eyes grow big and hopeful as she hears the words I said. I place my hand on her cheek and I trace her outline for a few seconds before she nods her head and tells me, "I believe you."

A/N: ok so long time no see but here's another update. I'm glad you like the last chapter and hopefully you all like this one. So I am sad to say but no shout out today cause it's late where I'm at but next chapter they will be there. And Happy Holidays! i hope you all had a great Christmas because I did! And like always thank you, thank you so much for all the reviews and follows and favorites. It really brightens up my day! Like you have no clue so thank you and this is part one, the next chapter is about the the game they share. I tried to add it but my brain has stopped functioning right now and it might have to do with the fact that I've been sleeping really late at night for the last few days and because I just got my one direction Cd take me home so I'm obsessed with it for now. So yea thanks for all the support and have a good day or night!

I do not own Brokenhearted by Karmin nor Christmas with the Kranks or anything else recognizable.

And at last thanks you for all the support one my latest one shot, blow me on last kiss! So yea and you should also check out a fanfic by kooljen9 that is called, All the wrong ways. I recommend it. So thanks for everything once again and happy holidays! :)