Stay With Me
Chapter 12
Ally's POV
Things with Austin were going great. He hadn't asked me out yet and I was glad. I knew that he had feelings for me, he knew that I was developing feelings for him. The homecoming dance was coming up soon and I had a feeling he was going to ask me. I couldn't wait.
On Wednesday, at lunch time, it was just Trish, Dez and I. Usually Austin sat with us to but today he had practice for something. When they started sitting with us, I had my worries. I knew that if popular Austin sat with me at lunch I was going to get unwanted attention, but Austin convinced me. He said that how would we get to know each other even more if we didn't sit together.
"So, Dez, Austin tells you everything right?" I know what Trish is trying to do, I don't want to stop her.
"Yes, why?" He continues chewing his sandwich.
"Well, him and Ally are friends again, and he's yet to ask her out. The homecoming dance is coming, does Austin have plans to ask Ally?"
His eyes go wide. "I don't know, Austin doesn't tell me anything!" Trish winks at me.
"I think he does."
I continue sitting quietly, watching the scene unfold. "I promised him that I wouldn't say anything! Even if you threaten me I can't say how he plans to ask Ally to homecoming. It's going to be adorable!" My eyes light up, Austin's going to ask me to homecoming!
Trish is about to say something but I cut her off "Drop it Trish. At least I know he's asking me. I'd rather be surprised."
I couldn't keep the smile off of my face the rest of the day.
But as Wednesday turned to Thursday, Thursday to Friday and Friday to Saturday, Austin still hadn't asked me. I was getting annoyed and couldn't wait any longer. Homecoming was in exactly a week, everyone else already had their dates and dresses. I didn't know how much longer I could wait.
It's Saturday morning, I'm having a bowl of cereal, going through the pros and cons of just asking Austin to homecoming my self when Trish decides to come over. I let her in and she joins me at the table. She spots the piece of paper that has my list of pros and cons.
"Why are you making a pros and cons list?" I grab the paper away from her before she can see what it says.
"I'm getting restless! Why hasn't he asked me to homecoming yet?! I know that were not technically together, but he said that he likes me." I throw my hands in the hair, almost reaching my breaking point, when Trish starts laughing.
"What's so funny?" She starts to laugh louder.
Her laughing lowers as she says. "Nothing, it's just how angry you are about it." I know that there's more.
"I can't help it! The dance is in a week and I haven't even gotten a dress. For all I know he asked someone else. Maybe I should just give up." A look crosses her face.
"No! You can't! I'm sure that he will ask you, but if he doesn't than you can still go."
"No I can't! I haven't gone to any of the dances before. It would be different if I was going with Austin, but I can't go by myself."
"Yes you can! I'll be your date." She is way to determined to get me to go.
"Why do you want me to go so bad?"
"Because I know how much fun you would have!"
"Are you sure that's it?"
"Yes." She puts her hand on my shoulder. "Now let's go dress shopping."
So we head out to the local dress shop.
After a few hours of trying on dresses with Trish sneaking off to talk on the phone, I finally have enough.
"Is there somewhere you have to be? Because you keep sneaking away to answer your phone and you haven't tried on any dresses." Her face tells me that I caught her.
"No! I'm sorry I-" She pauses to think for a moment, her eyes sparkle when she finally knows what to say. "I'm dating Dez!"
"What?!" That was not what I was expecting.
"Yes, he swept me off of my feet." She says it through clenched teeth. I don't know if I believe her, but I know there's no point in fighting with her.
"That's great! I'm so happy for you." My voice is uneasy, not knowing what to think.
"I know, I'm so happy! I'm going to go call him, I'll be right back!" She runs out side, I slowly follow her. I don't believe that she would ever date Dez, they've hated each other since they first met. I stand a few feet away as I watch her dial her phone. The person answers on the first ring. "Would you hurry up! I just had to tell her that I'm dating Dez!" She waits for the persons response. "It is not funny! Just hurry up. I'm not sure how much longer I can stall her." She hangs up the phone and I rush back to the dressing room, not wanting her to know that I heard.
This was going to be fun.
When she came back to the dressing room, I knew what I had to do. "So, how is your boyfriend?"
I see her try to hide a gag. "He's great." Her teeth are clenched together, I have to control my laughter.
"Are you going to homecoming together?" This was the best time I've had in a while.
"He hasn't asked me yet. I guess both of our guys have that problem." She nervously laughs.
"I'm sure Dez will ask before Austin does." She whispers something under her breath. "What did you say?"
"Just that I'm sure that Austin will ask you eventually."
"I sure hope so, because if he doesn't I will have to hang out with you and Dez all night and I would hate to be a third wheel." She looks like she is officially going to break down when her eyes sparkle when I walk out of the dressing room.
"What is it? Do you not like it?" The dress is red and has crystal detailing on the top. It's long and flows. I felt like a princess.
"No, it's perfect! This is the dress! Austin will love it." I twirl around in front of the mirror.
I go into the dressing room to change. "Who knows if Austin will even be my date."
"He will! Now hurry up and change so we can go get some dinner!"
After I payed for the dress, we headed to Suzy's Soups. I wasn't done messing with Trish about Dez. After we ordered our soup, I started again.
"So, how did you and Dez get together? When did you get together?" I knew that she was lying but I didn't know why.
"We, uh, um, Dez decided to ask me out yesterday when we realized that we both liked the Zalien movies!" She stuttered to get the sentence out.
I take a sip of my soup, enjoying my self. "Aw that's so sweet! Why did you keep it from me."
"I didn't want you to be weirded out. I mean, me and Dez, that's weird!"
"I think you guys are cute! I've secretly been waiting for this moment forever." I was waiting to see how long it would be till she cracked and so far she's going strong.
I continue asking her questions about her 'relationship' when a cute boy comes by our table. "Hello ladies, what's your name?" He points to Trish and she blushes. I cut her off.
"She already has a boyfriend. Sorry." I point to the door for him to leave. She looks like she wants to kill me.
"Ally! Why did you do that? He was cute."
"Don't you already have a boyfriend?" I almost catch her lie but she recovers fast.
"I meant that he would be cute for you! You know if Austin never asks you to homecoming."
The rest of the evening goes the same. Me trying to get Trish to break, her some how not throwing up at the mention of slow dancing with Dez. After we leave Suzy's Soup, she insists that we take a walk. I tell her that I'm tired but she says that I can't go home yet. I've finally had enough.
"Why can't I go home? Why are you lying to me about dating Dez? I heard you tell someone on the phone to hurry up. What are you keeping from me?"
She sighs, knowing that she's been caught. "Fine, I'm not dating Dez, and I will never date him! Austin kind of has something planned. My job was to keep you away from your house."
My face lights up. "Austin has something planned? What is it?" I'm about to start dancing because I'm so excited.
"I can't tell you that, I've already said too much." Her phone dings, and she checks it. A smile appears on her face. "You're free to go home now."
I've never been this excited to go home. I almost rip open my front door with excitement. I run up the stairs and stop when I see a trail of roses. My smile gets wider, if that is possible.
I follow the roses to my bedroom, the first thing I see are balloons. Red and yellow balloons, to be exact. I grab the first balloon I see, it says to pop it. There is a needle on the string so I pop it. Inside of the yellow balloon is a coupon to get free pickles at the pickle factory! He knows me well.
I go to the next balloon and a card falls out of it. It has an H and a picture of us from last week when we went to the arcade. My smile gets bigger.
I continue popping balloons and my smile keeps getting bigger and bigger. I have collected all the letters in homecoming, a bear, flowers, and a stuffed pickle! As I pop the last red balloon, Austin sneaks into my room. I turn around to see him standing with an even bigger balloon with a question mark on it.
"I know this is a little late, I was so nervous and I didn't know how to ask you, but will you, Ally Dawson, go to homecoming with me?"
"You did make me wait and wait. To the point where I was about to ask you myself. You made me think that you weren't going to ask me. You made Trish lie to me and the poor girl had to say that she was dating Dez. You put as all through emotional damage because you couldn't ask me a simple question." I decide to play around with his feelings.
"I mean if you don't want to go I can always ask someone else." He starts to turn around but I grab his arm.
"No you don't!"
"I know that you have never gone to a dance before so this might be weird for you, but I want us to have a perfect night." Were staring into each others eyes.
"I'm not going to lie, I'm a little nervous about going to a school event, especially as Austin Moon's date, but I know that it will be perfect cause you'll be there." I know that right now is a perfect time for a hug. We're hugging for a few moments when Austin says.
"Does this mean I can officially call you my girlfriend?"
I pull away from the hug and playfully punch his arm. "Don't push it."
He goes in for another hug. "I don't want to push you in any way, Alls" he whispers in to my ear, then kissing the top of my head. He may not know it, but he was pushing me into liking him even more.
I'm currently typing this author's note at the lake :) I'm not sure when I'll post the next chapter but hopefully it won't take to long. I hope you like this chapter because I do :)
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Edited on September 13, 2014
i do not own Austin and Ally