Hey guys, I'm really sorry for the late update. I had the worst case of writers block. Fortunately, my best friend- who recently became a fan- pestered me until I finished the chapter. Thankyou, to all of you who carry on reading this story. I honestly can't thank you enough.

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LAST TIME ON ENEMIES WITH BENEFITS

Trish, who had just finished her lunch decided to go to her locker and grab a prop for her drama monologue. That's when she saw Austin and Ally. By their lockers. Kissing.

"Oh. My. God." She said gob smacked.

Austin and Ally froze as they heard this and pulled away before letting each other go and slowly turning towards the direction of Trish's voice. Trish had just found out their secret.

"What the hell is going on here?" She asked Austin and Ally incredulously.

They both, being the awkward people that they are sputtered their answer. "Umm" "Well" "Nothing" "What?"

"Are you two… together?" She asked them.

"What? No! That's ridiculous! Could you ever see us working as a couple?" Ally exclaimed.

"Umm let me think- YES! Why the hell did you think I've wanted to get you two together for the past year?" Trish practically shouted.

"Girls could you keep it quiet please, I don't really want the whole school to know what just happened." Austin said rationally. This seemed to calm the girls down.

"What exactly did just happen? If you're not together then what are you? Was that a one-time thing? Did the sexual tension just catch up on you?" Trish asked excitedly.

"We do not have sexual tension." Ally denied.

"Really." Trish stated deadpanned. "After what I just saw you still think you have no sexual tension." The sarcasm seemed to be dripping with every word said. Austin, who seemed to agree with Trish's statement, turned towards Ally, crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows.

"Ok. So maybe we do have some… tension between us. But it goes no further than that. The thing Austin and I have is purely… raw, sensual, shameful sexual attraction for one another." Although Austin was unhappy with the fact that Ally had just stated that they went no further than a physical attraction he was pleased to know the effect he had on her.

"You know you still haven't told me what's going on."

Ally took in a deep breath, praying to the gods that Trish wouldn't make a big deal out of this. However unlikely that was. "Austin and I… are… enemies with benefits."

"WHAT?!"

"Shhh! Keep it down!" Austin and Ally exclaimed in unison.

"So you mean to tell me that you two have been having… benefits and you didn't tell me! Ally we're best friends, you're supposed to tell me when big things like this happen!"

"Wait what do you think… Oh. OH! No, oh god Trish not those types of benefits. You really think I'd give that away to someone who doesn't love me?" Ally asked with a miffed expression on her face. I am in love with you, Austin thought spitefully.

"Well if you haven't been having… those benefits what benefits are you talking about?" Trish asked urgently.

"We've just been making out… every once in a while." Ally said.

"So you guys still hate each other?"

"Yep 100%." Ally replied.

"So there's no progress whatsoever."

"Nope." Austin replied.

"Aww man! You guys are boring. I was hoping there would be this big romantic story between you."

"Trish that would never happen. I would never let it happen even if he did like me, which by the way he doesn't. Look I'm sorry to let you down but you've got to get over it! Please." Ally begged.

"I'm going to go. I think that you two need to talk. But please Trish, don't tell anyone." Austin said before he walked off.

They both watched as Austin walked away before Trish pulled Ally into an empty classroom. "Look Ally, I'm your best friend. That means that I'll do anything to make you happy. But please, just listen to what I have to say." Trish begged.

Ally sighed and leaned back against one of the classroom walls before sinking down and pulling her knees up towards her chest. "Of course I will Trish."

Trish joined her on the floor and copied Ally's position. "If you really don't like Austin I can handle it. I think sometimes you think that I've forgotten what he did to you. But I haven't. I really do hate him for what he's done."

"If you hate him for what he's done then why do you want him to be with me?" Ally asked a tear forming in her eye.

"Ally, all I want is for you to be happy. I'm sorry for pushing you. It's just, sometimes I feel like you've never been truly happy since you stopped being friends. I feel like I'm just not good enough." Trish explained and a few tears slipped down her face.

"Oh Trish." Ally said before leaning over to hug her. "You're my best friend. You made me happy in a time when I thought I could never be happy again. That's something that I'll be forever grateful for. You'll always be good enough for me."

"I'm an awful best friend!" Trish sobbed.

"Trish! Stop it why on earth would you think that?"

"Because I was happy that Austin ditched you Ally! In a way I'm still happy. You were the first person that got to know me for me and didn't judge me. If he hadn't ditched you then we would never have been friends. So maybe that's why I wanted you to get together so badly. So that I wouldn't feel so guilty about being your best friend and if you were together, he would never replace me as your best friend. He'd be your boyfriend, plain and simple. I'd be your best friend."

"Trish, please don't feel guilty. Of course I'm furious at Austin for what he did, but I'm not mad at all for you being my best friend. I guess in a way it's a good thing he did ditch me. I found out who my true friend was and that was and still is you. You are my best friend. And Austin Moon will never ever change that. My relationship with Austin's complicated. I still don't understand how he can throw away all those years of friendship, and I don't think I ever will. We will never be best friends again. That place is taken. And we'll never be anything else either, please accept that. I think I'll always despise him too much for that to ever happen." Ally said gently.

Trish wiped the tears off her face and looked into Ally's eyes. "If that's how you feel Ally then I need you to stop doing whatever you're doing with Austin." Trish told her.

"Why?"

"Because, Ally no matter how you look at it you have a history. Whether you see yourselves as enemies, acquaintances or best friends. Right now you're fine, but one day Ally there's a big chance you'll get hurt. And I don't want you getting hurt."

"Trish I can look after mysel-" Ally was cut off.

"You're not listening to me Ally! No matter whether you want to admit it to yourself or not, you have feelings for Austin. You know you do. The fact that you're having all these benefits proves that. I know that you're angry and hurt by him. I believe you. But having those bad feelings for him doesn't mean that you don't have any romantic feelings either. In truth I think Austin's a good guy, and it would be a shame for you two to just never make up. But you're my best friend and I don't want you to get hurt. He's hurt you before; you don't have to be hurt by him again. Don't hurt yourself. If you carry on with this you will get hurt. So please Ally, stop. For me." Trish said sincerely.

Ally sighed and sat back. "I see where you're coming from. And I know you're just looking after me. But, what do I say to him?"

"Tell him the truth, that I don't want you to get hurt. And that I'm uncomfortable with you keeping a secret from everyone else."

"It's going to be weird." Ally said. "Being where we are now and going back to hating each other completely. Arguing all the time."

"You don't have to go back to what you used to be you know." Trish told her. "You could be friends."

"How can I be friends with him? After what he did to me?"

"Ally, you don't have to be best friends. You don't have to trust him as much as you used to. Just try, it's better than being enemies."

"I guess. It's just… It hurts Trish. That he would do that to me after being friends for so long." Ally said softly, before laying her head on Trish's shoulder.

"I know." Trish said softly. "I know."

Ally was lying on her bed, reading Harry Potter, her favourite book series. Harry Potter was the perfect way to forget everything that had happened on that eventful day. She could immerse herself into the magical, wonderful world and just forget. Unfortunately, she was taken out of her peaceful state by a knock on the balcony door. Ally placed her book down quietly as her eyes widened with worry.

Who could it be? It was… eleven o'clock at night. What if it was a murderer? She was too young to die!

Ally stood up slowly and picked up her pillow slowly before creeping over to the door. She stood in front of the door and saw a dark shadow behind it. The shadow started knocking frantically at the door as Ally stood frozen in shock. This was it. She was going to die. Her parents were on a business trip and the police wouldn't come in time to save her! She even forgot to lock the balcony door! How could she be so stupid? The murderer would notice any second now and kill her.

She couldn't even run, she was frozen in place. The shadow placed his hand on the door handle and Ally backed away in fear. The murderer stepped inside and Ally's courage suddenly came to life. She screamed as loudly as she could and started whacking him hard with the pillow.

"Ow, ow… Stop it Ally that hurts!" The murderer exclaimed.

"I" whack "will" whack "not" whack "die" whack "this" whack "close" whack "to" whack "graduation. Wait did you just call me Ally?" Ally asked stunned.

"God Ally, it's me Austin. And can I say, Ow!" He whined.

"Well I'm sorry." Ally huffed. "It's completely my fault that I hurt you, after you knock on my door, in black clothes, at ELEVEN AT NIGHT! And by the way…" whack. "Don't" whack "scare" whack "me" whack "like" whack "that" whack "you" whack "moron" whack. "Okay. I'm done." She said.

"God, you're violent. I'm sorry okay? And by the way Ally, a pillow? Really? You really think a pillow would stop a murderer from killing you?" Austin asked sarcastically.

"Well… I was scared okay. It was the best I could think of." Ally scowled, crossing her arms and walking over to her bed in a huff. "What are you doing here anyway?"

"Well you were really quiet after you talked to Trish today. Is she okay with everything?" Austin asked sitting next to her.

"Oh yeah, I need to talk to you about that." Ally said pulling her legs up to her stomach. "Umm, I don't really know how to tell you this."

"You can tell me, I won't be angry." Austin told her.

"Umm, I think…I think we should stop being … you know…enemies with benefits." Ally stuttered. Austin became stiff.

"St-stop? Why?" He asked.

"Well… I just… It's not right for me, or you Austin. It's not fair. I mean this is our senior year! We should be hanging out with our friends, taking photo's. Having fun. Not stuck in a closet, making out." Ally told him.

"Yeah… I guess. So umm, I guess we're going back to normal. I should just go." Austin said standing up.

"No, Austin wait." Ally begged, grabbing his hand stopping him. She stood up and walked to face him, not letting go of his hand. Austin stared at their entwined hands and stood still.

"I- I can't go back to normal with you. It's too hard. I- I want to be friends." She told him looking down.

"Friends?" He asked in disbelief.

"Yeah. Friends, I mean if you want to. If you don't want to that's okay. We could just ignore each other instead, but I really can't hate you any more-"

Austin cut her off, "You always did talk too much Ally." Austin said smiling. "Yes, I want to be friends. I missed being friends with you."

"So friends?" Ally asked.

"Friends." Austin stated.

That's the chapter done, I hope you liked it. I was really worried that it was too confusing, but I am happy with the ending.

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