"How's your song?" Susie asks me at lunch. I sigh, "What song?"
She gives me an angry look, "Really Ally?" She says. "Yes really Susie. Are you going to write it for me?" I ask. She laughs and so does Kendall, which makes her stop, "What's that supposed to mean?" She asks me. He raises his hands in surrender and then picks his burger back up.
"Anyway, just write in that cute little book of yours and then practice!" She says. I just look at her, "Actually I threw that away." I say. Her mouth drops open and she stares at me for a moment. "What?" She asks. "Nothing." I reply. "Just worry about your dance moves and I'll worry about my song that I'll fail at thanks to you." I say.
"You'll thank me one day." She says with a smile.
The next day in math class we have a test. I'm not really prepared for it because every day Lily tries her hardest to upset me or make me extremely uncomfortable. She'll either stare at me, or she'll talk loudly to her friend about hanging out with Austin or what she's planning to do with Austin later. Today she decides to do what she does best; stares at me.
I try my hardest at ignoring her. After I'm done with my test I leave immediately and go into the hallway. I walk around the corner and see Austin and Susie talking. I walk backwards and hide behind the corner of the wall and can't help but listening.
"Talk to her!" Susie says to him.
"We've already had this talk Susie." Austin says.
"You're being so difficult." She says.
"Look, Ally and I are over okay. At least Lily doesn't keep things from me." He says. An invisible knife goes through my heart and I cover my hand over it.
"That's funny. I'm sure she does. She probably has your face all over her closet walls and has a little stool in there she sits on to worship you." Susie says. I hear a locker door slam and Austin walks by me, but he didn't notice me.
I walk over to my locker and Susie comes over. She moans in anger and leans against the locker next to mine. I ignore her and put a book into my locker. She reads my expression on my face and says, "You heard us didn't you?"
I shrug, "Only the part where Lily doesn't keep things from him. Unlike me" I say.
"I can't believe him." She says.
"It is what it is. I'll be gone soon though so she'll have him all to herself, even though she already does."
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It's Friday night, and Susie, Kendall, and Dez are making me go out to a pizza and hangout spot just outside of town. Dez is going to drive us. I didn't want to go, but Susie insisted.
Susie is sitting in the backseat with me and Kendall's in the front. It's not that far of a drive and it's nice not to have to be home alone. "So this place is pretty cool. A lot of people go to it. They have karaoke and pizza and wings and music. It's like an epic hangout. There's no other place like it near here." Susie says.
She made me get all dressed up in one of her flashy purple dresses and some awesome boot high heels. I thought it was completely unnecessary but she said its how everyone dresses there. When we arrived it looked really awesome. It was huge and just as Susie explained it to be.
We walked in and got a table. The boys ordered a bunch of wings and Susie and I got a few slices of pizza. Different people would go on the small stage and sing karaoke. Some were really good, and others were… well wicked bad. I'm halfway through another slice of pizza when I notice a few familiar people walk in, "Uh oh." I hear Kendall say.
Susie looks around, "What?" I just stare and Dez tilts his head towards what we're looking at so Susie could notice it too. It was Austin, Lily and two of her friends.
"You've got to be kidding me, right? This is so a dream." I say.
But it's not, of course. They sit at a booth in the front of the place and a waitress goes over. I could see Lily eyeing me. "Forget them Ally. Just have a good time." Kendall says. I nod at him and bite my pizza.
A little while later a woman walks on to the stage and walks up to the microphone, "Okay who's up to sing a song now?" She asks. She looks around and I see a hand go up in the air. "Come on up young man!" She says. Walking up to the stage, is Austin. Susie glances at me and I shrug. He sits down on a stool and adjusts the microphone, he smoothes his hair with his hand, "Sup everyone. I'm Austin Moon."
And then, the music starts and he starts to sing. As each word escapes his mouth I realize what song it is and I can't believe it. Of all songs why this one? Why would he sing this song knowing I'm here?
"Hey baby, I think I want to marry you."
That's when I realize the person who was listening to me when I told Susie about me and Austin's moment at his house was Lily and she saw me here tonight. She must have suggested to Austin that he should sing that song. As he continues to sing, his eyes search the crowd. And just when I'm still asking myself why he'd go along with this, why he'd be so cruel to let Lily talk him into singing this. I see his eyes find mine and his face drops and he stops singing. And that's when I realize… he didn't know I was here.