Boarding School
Chapter Fourteen
Summary: Ally's Dad is sending her and her twin brother, Joey, to a boarding school as he is having to be transferred to Tulsa due to his job, and Ally and Joey don't want to go there. She will make friends, face drama, and will she face love too?
Author's Note: Hope you liked the thirteenth chapter! Sorry if it's a little OOC! Totally AU, I am SO SO sorry for the long wait, but here it is!
Disclaimer: I don't own Austin & Ally, but I can dream.
It was the river he took me to while he was dating Natasha, we were both upset. I had just got a phone call telling me that my beloved Auntie Caroline had been involved in a car accident and to make it worse, we didn't know if she was going to make it or not. And to top that off? It was the anniversary of my mother's death. Let's say I wasn't having the best of days.
Austin was upset because Natasha ad been treating him differently lately, and he just got told by Madison White in our year that she saw Natasha making out with Bruce in the year above.
We both felt like crying and I could tell he was trying to put on a straight face for me. I was the one who could make him laugh when he knew he was about to cry.
He took me here because he knew what I was so miserable about; it was a small grassy area with a tree with green leaves growing swiftly on the branches. On one of the branches were two ropes that connected to a small plank of light brown wood as a swing. About two metres from the tree, was a beautiful lake, making sounds of fish swimming and the bubbles from the movement of the water.
We went there whenever we were worried or sad about something, but only together. The only time I went there alone was when I was really down about Austin and Natasha. They kept hanging around with me together or not at all, it was never just Austin and I. That was the only time I ever went here alone.
"Do you remember when we first came here?" Austin asks me as he stands next to swing. I was sat on the small plank of wood, swinging slightly because of the soft wind, and because of the fact that he kept moving the ropes back and forth.
"Yeah, we were both really upset and needed to get away from it all. Remember when you pushed me in the lake and a fish swam into my mouth?"
"Oh my God! That was the funniest day of my life." He laughed as I got up from the swing and pushed him onto the swing.
"It was horrible! I nearly drowned! I couldn't swim!" I exclaim as Austin kicked his legs backwards and forwards, making himself go higher on the swing.
"Yeah whatever, but you live in Miami and you can't swim? That's ridiculous and I helped you out afterwards! Then I taught you how to swim the next month, so it turned out fine." He tells me in defence as my phone beeped at me for what feels like the millionth time today.
I pulled out the phone and unlocked it, clicking on the message.
"It's not twelve yet, right?" He asked me, I shook my head and read the message.
Dad: You have 30 minutes, Love Dad.
"We have half an hour, and that's it." I murmur. Then my phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Is this Allyson Dawson?" A formal feminine voice replied.
"Yes. Who is this?" I question the voice on the other end of the phone.
"I am a receptionist at Miami Professional Staging. We are calling to inform you that you have been given the two-year scholarship, instead of one year. Our computers mixed you up with another girl named Natasha. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused." The voice explained to me, is that Natasha, the horrible Natasha?
"Oh, okay. That's okay, but can I call you later and tell you if I can take the option? I need to talk to my dad and my uh... friend about it first." I say back, not knowing whether to say boyfriend or not.
"Yes, that's fine. We'll expect your call later today?"
"Uh, yeah. Either later today, or early tomorrow." I tell the woman.
"Okay, we'll talk to you later, Miss Dawson." She replies.
"Bye." I say as I hang up the phone.
"Who was that?" Austin asks me as he sits down by the tree, leaning against it, he patted his lap - signalising for me to sit down there.
"Receptionist from the college I'm going to." I reply as I sit down on his lap, he put his arm around me to sturdy my position.
"What did she want?" He asks and kisses my cheek.
"She told me that I've been given a two year scholarship. I can tell them no though; I'll do that because otherwise I'm only gonna see you like ten times in two years. People can only visit at the end of each semester."
"You are going and I'm going to see you every single end of semester. I want you to have a music career, because you're capable of that. And you deserve it as much as I do, more actually. So you're going and you're gonna conquer your stage fright, get famous and then the two years will fly by." He tells me as he rubs my thigh gently.
"But, I will only see you like ten times. I can't do that. I can't be away from Joey for that long either. I'll go for a year."
"No, you're going for two years, I'm gonna drop Trish off at college so I'll see you then too. And we can talk and call and video chat with your phone and that iPad I got you. You're going to make a career of yourself, a music career because you're talented. You're the most talented person I've ever met." He tells me and kissed my temple softly.
"Then, I guess I'll go but can I just not think about it for the moment and just enjoy these last," I begin as I unlock my phone to reveal the time. "Thirteen minutes with you?" He nodded as me and pecked my lips.
"You do realise every single person in this area are staring at us, right?" He says as I smile and nod my head.
"Of course I do."
"And you realise that I know you're freaking out silently, right?" I nodded my head and giggled, even at the toughest of times, he can still make me laugh.
I smile lastly as I saw my Dad walking along the path of school. I kissed Austin's cheek softly, cupping my hand on his other cheek. He smiled at me and kissed my lips, it broke me to know this would be the last few minutes with him. When we broke apart, everything got to me and before I knew it, tears were slowly leaking from my eyes. Austin noticed this straight away and his finger immediately stroked underneath my eyes, wiping away the tears.
"Hey, none of that. I thought we weren't thinking about that." He tells me as he strokes my cheek gently; I close my eyes, letting the tears leak out of my eyes silently.
"I know, I-You can't just not think about it though, I mean. Look at us now, in about ten minutes I'm gonna crying my eyes out and waving to you through a car. You-You can't tell me you haven't been thinking of that since we got down here. Since you woke up this morning, since you-" He cut me off by kissing me, softly on my lips. He gently grazed my arm with his hand and cupped my cheek with his other hand. I couldn't help but smile against his lips, and he did too.
I felt his smile against my smile too. For some reason, when I'm kissing him all the problems float away. When we pulled apart I was still smiling, with my red puffy eyes still wet and well, red and puffy.
"That's a good way to tell me to shut up." I say as I peck his lips once more and then my phone rings, I sigh and answer it. Whoever it was, I am mad at them, I don't care who the hell it is, even if it was the freaking queen.
"Hello?" I snap.
"Well, nice to talk to you too. Sweetie, go grab your things from your room and get Joey, we're leaving in about three minutes." My heart sank when I heard those last six words. Three minutes? Oh my God. I'm gonna die. I am actually going to die in the space three minutes.
"Okay, fine. Goodbye." I continue to snap and hang up the phone.
"You okay?" Austin's soft voice asked me.
"I'm going to get my things and leave. Kill me?" I say as I stare at the ground and stand up, off of Austin's lap so he can stand up. I begin to walk away but he shouts after me.
"Hey! Wait up!" He calls as I stop and turn around. "Do you really think I'm letting you carry that amount of stuff by yourself?" I smile at his sweetness as he continues. "I think you need Mr Boyfriend to help? With these biceps, I think you'll be fine." He says, pointing to his "biceps". There's the ego.
"Oh really, do you now?" I say to him, one hand on my hip while the other down at my side.
"Yes, I do." He tells me as he smiles broadly at me and pecks my lips.
When we got to my room, I only had a carry-on and two suitcases, not counting the scrapbook which I was carrying. I had put the iPad into the carry-on, the only other thing in there was my laptop in the red laptop case.
"Hey, what's this song in your book? The title's My Crush. When'd you write this?" Austin asked me as he flicked through my book.
"Don't. Touch. My. Book." I tell him slowly as if I was talking to a two-year-old, very sternly. I snatched the book from his hand and put it in the carry-on with my laptop and the iPad in.
"Answer the question, when'd you write this?" He says, does he think I wrote it recently? Ooohh. Never seen a jealous Austin before. This should be fun.
"Aww. Your jealous." I tease him as I sit down on my bed, forgetting about leaving at all.
"No I'm not. When'd you write it and who's it about?"
"About a year ago and you." He smiles as he sighs out of relief.
"Can I hear it?" He smiles.
"Tell you what, if you're right about this college, and I get over my stage fright - I'll perform it. And... you were so jealous!" I exclaim and crack into laughter at the end of my sentence.
"What? No, you can't make me wait that long! And I was not jealous."
"Yeah, I can make you wait that long. It's my song and I can show who I want, when I want. And can you honestly look my in the eyes and tell me that?" I say, squinting my eyes at the end.
"Okay," He begins, moving closer to me and locks eyes with me. "I was not j- I was not j- Fine! I was okay? What's the big deal?" I giggle at him and then my phone went off. AGAIN! I knew it was Dad telling me to hurry up but I couldn't be bothered to look at it, but I did yell at it.
"I'm hurrying! Sheesh." Austin laughed at me and helped me up from the bed and pecks my cheek before taking both of the suitcases and carries them to the door. I walk over to the corner, where the wallpaper corner was slightly hanging off. Where Trish and I had written something about a year ago, I lifted the wallpaper and Austin crouched down next to me.
"What'cha doing?"
"Writing something." I tell him, pulling a pen out of my skirt pocket.
"What'cha writing?" He asks me as I write down,
Austin & Ally, Trish & Dez, Joey & Jennifer. :)
Austin smiled at me and I flattened out the wallpaper, this room has being the scenery for so many amazing memories, happy, sad, angry, or just plain funny. Austin stood up and took my hand.
"Come on, it's time to go." I nod as I put my pen back into my pocket before standing up.
"I know." I murmur and pick up both of the carry-on's putting them both on the same shoulder, carrying the scrapbook Austin made me in my other arm. I head towards the door, but taking my key and putting it in my pocket. I'm keeping this key, I don't care. I am keeping this key.
Austin and I made our way to the front gates, I got out my phone, it was hard but I did it.
"Hello?"
"Joe! You have literally about forty seconds to get you and your bags to the front gates, Dad's waiting and you know how Dad gets!" I whisper/shout.
"Oh right... Is there any plates around?" He says, referring to a childhood memory of our family game night.
"That was Pictionary! Now get your butt down here! Where are you?" I exclaim.
(A/N: I don't own the game, Pictionary.)
"With Jen. I'll be right there."
"Now!" I say as I hang up the phone.
"Two questions... one, where's Joey and two, what the HELL happened at Pictionary in your house?" I laughed at him as I look down the road for Dad's car.
"He's still with Jennifer. Should be here in exactly, 3, 2, 1..." I count as Joey and Jennifer approach us.
"Hey guys! Dad here yet?" I shook my head as Austin laughed at my preciseness. Then Dez and Trish approach us.
"Hey, thank God your still here!" Trish greets as Dez waves at us like a two year old.
"Trish? What're you doing here? I'm gonna see you at college anyway. And that's tomorrow."
"I don't care, I'm still gonna wave you two off." Trish begins and then turns to Joey. "What's the deal with you two though?" She asks, referring to him and Jennifer.
"We're friends." Joey explained.
"Oh... right. Friends, I get it!" Trish says, putting air quotes at 'friends'.
"Trish, we are just friends." Joey mutters as I saw Dad's car pull over to the curb about six or seven metres from the main gates. We walked down there and Joey and I put out bags in the back of the car, it had the roof down so we didn't actually open any of the car doors. Dad looked at us to say "hurry up, I'm getting bored here," and we nodded in reply. Everyone had sort of forms a semi-circle shape thing. It went, Dez, Trish, Jennifer and then Austin.
I went to Dez and Joey stood beside me.
"Okay, I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I'm actually going to miss your weirdness." Dez smiled and then we hugged, like people do.
"So, I am gonna see you after college, right?" He nods at me as we break apart and I step to the left so I'm in front of Trish, we immediately hug despite the fact we're going to the same college tomorrow. I heard Dez and Joey say their goodbyes but I couldn't hear them.
"I'll see you tomorrow, but still. NOOO!" She always made me smile, even at the saddest of times, like best friends are meant to.
"See you tomorrow." I say as I step to the left again so I was stood opposite Jennifer.
"I don't really know you that well, Jennifer-" I began.
"Call me Jen."
"Okay, I don't really know you that well Jen, but you really make Joe happy and I think you're gonna be around for a while. Am I gonna see you again?" I ask as I smile.
"Yeah, I live about five minutes from where you and Joey live." She answers with a smile.
"Well I've got a feeling you're gonna be around for a while so I guess I'll see you after college." I say with a smile and give her a small hug, and then Dad called me over to the car, told me to straighten one of the bags in the back. I put it back into the car so it was straight and then went back over to them.
By that time, Joey had said goodbye to Austin and was about to say goodbye to Jen. Trish and Dez had walked down the street a few feet to give them privacy, here's what I've been dreading for like ever.
Saying goodbye to Austin.
I slowly walked over to him, not looking into his eyes, or even his face. Just the ground. If I look at him, I know it will be too much and I'll burst into tears. He put his index finger underneath my chin, and pushed my head up gently, making him look into his eyes.
"Look at me."
"I can't." I stutter as I close my eyes to prevent seeing him.
"Please." He says as I open my eyes, to see him, inches from me.
He brushed his lips against mine and our eyes fluttered closed, my hands held the back of his neck, while his cupped my cheeks. When we released, that was when I realised that was the last time I'd ever kiss him. I'd never feel his lips against mine for about two years. Unless we kiss when he visits.
A tear trickles down my cheek, then another, and another, followed by another ten and before I knew it, I was full on crying. Austin kissed my cheek and wiped some of the tears away with his thumb.
"Hey, I'll see you tomorrow." He tells me, trying to make me smile.
"Yeah, f-for like f-five minutes then n-n-not for fourteen weeks." I mutter as he takes my hand and puts his palm against my palm, putting his fingers in between the spaces of mine.
"We have now, then we have that time tomorrow, and then we'll video chat, call and we'll text and everything." I could tell he was trying to make me smile, but now, he couldn't. This is going to be the worst five minutes of my entire life. I saw the glimmer of tears in his eyes, but he quickly blinked them away.
"I'll miss you." I whisper as he kisses our hands, which were still collided.
"Me too. I love you." He whispers into our hands.
"I love you too. Are you sure I'm not holding you back?"
"Positive." He says with a small smile, a glint of tears in his eyes. He closed his eyes and a single tear dripped down his cheek.
"Come on, we're going now." Dad's voice tells us, making my organs spin in circles around my body.
Austin lowered our hands and walked over to the car, opening the door for me. I sat down inside, not letting go of our entwining hands.
"It's okay, I'll see you tomorrow." He tells me as he kisses our hands once more, closing his eyes while doing it. Even though he was putting on a straight face for me, I could feel tears on my hand leaking from his eyes. I wiped away the tears frequently dripping down my face with my sleeve of my spare hand.
When Austin lifted his head from our hands, he crouched down so he was the level of the car. His eyes were red and puffy from how he had been crying, and now he's forcing himself not to. I've only seen him cry twice before, hardly ever.
"It's alright, you can cry." I say, knowing he's forcing himself to keep his eyes dry.
"I love you." He breathed out as he kisses my lips gently.
The car engine turned on and slowly began to drive off.
"I l-love you t-too." I struggle to get out, as Austin walks with our car, we were still connected by our hands. Then when Dad sped up, my fingers slipped away from his.
"Miss you already!" I heard him call, I turned my head to see his face, wet cheeks, red eyes, lips quivering and silently crying with his hair ruffled up.
Then I heard his dog whistle, the one I have him a few hours ago, engraved with I Love You.
"I love you too." I whisper, tears streaming down my face, dripping onto my legs.
Review? Sorry it's kind of short, decided the next chapter's going to be the last and then there's gonna be a sequel. :)
It might not be very long, just maybe one or two chapters of college, one of something else and maybe even a family scene... You never know with me. :)
Sorry this was kind of sad, but they'll see each other in the next chapter. I'll update soon, please review!