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Ally's POV
I sat up looking at the clock as my phone went off. "Hello, this is Ally." I yawned answering the phone the clock showing 7 A.M. "Hey, guess who got a job at The Candy Machine!" Trish's voice giggled. "Seriously, you're not even a morning person and you called me to tell me that." I groaned. "No, of course not, I have major news!" Trish said cheerfully before speaking to Dez who was saying something in the background "Don't touch that, I already told you it isn't yours!" I sighed "Come on, I want to get a little more sleep until I have to go open up Sonic Boom." "Dez and I were walking to the café and saw a package in front of your store. We're standing by it now and if you don't get here and open it soon, we'll open it instead." She said eagerly. I was more alert now and Austin woke up as I got up off the bed grabbing things as I ran to my bathroom.
"Ally, what's going on and who was that?" Austin asked confused from the other side of the door. "It was Trish, she said Dez and her were on a morning date or something and there's a package for me in front of the store." I proceeded to brush my teeth and brush my hair. "A package, if it is instruments you can get them later." He said as if it wasn't significant. "You should know just as well as I know that if it were a shipment of instruments it would be more than one box and I'd have some sort of notice and Trish wouldn't call me." I replied as I finished getting ready in a flash and hurrying out of the bathroom. "You think that it's from your dad, don't you." Austin caught on as I slid some slip-ons on. I stopped at the bedroom door "Yes that is exactly what I think." He was moving around behind me as I resumed my race to get to the store as he called out "Wait up!"
I turned and saw him hurrying after me "I'll take you, okay. It might be something else too, Ally. We have to be cautious." Austin handed me my keys and purse as he grabbed his own keys and wallet before escorting me to the car. "I know, but it is important either way. Anyways, Dez and Trish said they'd open it if I didn't get there soon." I glanced at him and Austin groaned. "If I know Dez he will open it and Trish is just devious enough to help." He shook his head in disapproval. We hurried to the car and Austin pulled a note off the driver's side window. "Hey Ally, this note is from those guys who took your dad pertaining to the box at the store." He slid into the driver's seat handing me the paper "They sent over a gift from your father and them for being good about the whole situation." I sighed wondering what it could be as Austin started the car and flew out of the drive.
Austin's POV
We ran to the store where Trish and Dez sat shaking the box in front of the door. Ally snatched the box growling "Don't touch my mail!" The other two moved away surprised as she opened the store hurrying to the counter. We followed her in and she slowly cut the tape hesitant to open the box. She started to open the box briefly eyeing me and she pulled out two small velvety boxes with a note. I stepped over to the counter standing in front of her confused as she pulled the note from its crumpled envelope thanks to Dez and Trish's shaking. Ally's hands clasped the boxes keeping me from touching them and I dared not take one. She turned three shades of red and then shook her head as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Ally, what are they?" I wondered and she shook her head again as if to clear it of any thought. "They aren't to be used for a while. They were my father's and my mother's. They are a gift that will be used to tie two together in such a profound way as a symbol of love for one another. My father gave them to me in hopes that in the future I will be with the one person I will love forever." Ally smiled and turned away to head up to her father's office as Dez blurted out "They're key chains!" We looked at him doubtfully and Ally laughed. Trish followed her first up the stairs and Dez and I followed close behind. "Oh, I knew it once you said that speech, Ally!" Trish smiled looking at a picture on Ally's father's desk "Their wedding rings!"
I wasn't shocked that they were indeed wedding rings, but the picture took me off guard. I had seen it briefly before, but now I could see something I could never explain. I stared at the picture of Ally's dad holding her mom in his arms as they posed for their camera, their rings shining. The woman that Ally was the spitting image of smiling with bliss just as happy as Mr. Dawson was what my eyes were glued on. The woman that Ally was growing to be, I saw briefly the woman in the picture seemed to move and then her lips did as well. I heard a chiming voice close to Ally's whispering to me "Protect her well and never let her go." No sooner I heard the voice and saw the picture moving did the voice and picture stop.
"Austin, what's wrong?" Ally sighed "Trish and Dez are downstairs already and you've been staring at that picture intently not even moving. Don't think so much about the gifts, like I said they won't be used for a while, meaning that is best left for the future." She pulled on my arm and getting me to focus on her. I followed her to the stairs and then grabbed her arm before she walked down to the others. "Ally, do you trust me?" I asked trying not to sound as awkward as I did. "Of course, I will always trust you. Why do you ask?" she looked at me confused. "I want to talk to you about something at dinner tonight. We'll go to Alimento Del Amor for dinner; I've been hoping to take you there for a while." I smiled and she nodded. "Did I mention how sweet and caring you are? You spoil me too much!" she laughed kissing my cheek and hurrying down to stop Dez from playing a guitar like a violin as Trish lay on the counter in her super soft cover sleeping. I hoped tonight went smoothly as my thoughts were briefly on what I was going to do before I soon hurried down to help Ally before she hurt herself chasing Dez. Tonight will go either one of two ways and it all rested on what Ally would say and do, but for now I would consume myself with work to keep from getting worked up, I decided as I caught Dez and he complained that I was becoming less fun than I usually was.
Sorry it's been a while, but here is my next chapter and I hope that it was interesting enough!
*Alimmento Del Amor is Spanish for "Food of Love".*