Ally was going to spend her week in Miami with her family and Trish and not with Austin. She pushed every thought about him in the back of her head. She would deal with it when she went back home. Austin did come to have lunch with them though. Both Ally and her family noticed something was wrong with him, but Ally told them not to say a single thing because according to her, she has done enough damage to him.
Trish stopped by the Dawson's household to catch up with both Austin and Ally, but frowned when Ally told her Austin was not with her.
"So he just left?"
Ally sighed and fiddled with her hands. "No, he just didn't want to inconvenience us because there was no where for him to sleep."
"Ally, he could have slept with you. Aren't you two dating?"
"No. We're just friends."
"You don't seem happy about it."
"I'm not. I just hope he hasn't moved on. Because he's been acting weird since I moved in."
"Why would you even move in with him?"
"I don't know."
"Because you love him. Love makes you do crazy things, Ally. Trust me."
"Then why don't you move out to Los Angeles if you're still in love with Dez?"
Trish immediately tensed up. She hasn't thought about Dez ever since the fight they got in after Austin left. They argued over whether or not to forgive him for what he did to Ally and of course, Dez wanted to forgive him because they were bros. But Trish did not want to. She was skeptical about Austin since he stole Ally's song, but let it slide because she knew Ally liked him in some odd way.
"I haven't spoken to Dez in a while, Ally."
"He asks about you sometimes."
"I'd rather not. I finally have a job that I like. Why get rid of it?"
"Love makes you do crazy things, Trish."
"I was referring to you and Austin. You two have been in love since you first met, even if you didn't know it. Dez would observe the way he acted around you and he liked you since the beginning of freshman year."
"But he dated Brooke and Kira?"
"That's the past. What scares you about him?"
"He lies to me on where he is going, he hides in his room for a week and does not come out, he only talks to Dez and Jimmy, sometimes when we get too close, he immediately pushes himself away," Ally rambled.
"What do you mean by hides in his room?"
"We'll sit there and read things about him online for fun, but if there is something negative he immediately excuses himself and goes into his room and then around midnight I hear him leave his room and sometimes he talks to himself assuring himself that he did not mess up."
"He's a boy, Ally," Trish laughed. "Boys are weird. Austin has always been weird. You and I both know how weird he was."
"Yeah, but he was also an open book and he's not that anymore. He's secretive."
"Do you think he's dealing drugs?" Trish joked and Ally swatted her arm.
"No, I doubt it. He is a multimillionaire pop star. He has the biggest house in Beverly Hills. And not to mention, that he is really good friends with One Direction."
"Austin lives the life that people die for," Trish sighed.
"Yeah and he hates it."
"Does he actually? He is such a boy."
"I think he secretly loves it, to be honest. I think it just overwhelms him because he is not the boy in high school: the boy who wanted to be famous and tour the world. I just want him to be happy again."
"What do you think he's doing now?"
"Sleeping probably."
Austin was in his hotel room, figuring out his future, his life, and trying to get back to his old self. He has never felt this lousy over himself, not even when he left for the first time. He was in love with Ally, but everyday he was with her, a piece of him didn't want to be around her anymore. He knew how much he hurt her in the past and he knows he is hurting her now. Ally should be with someone better, he thought: someone that was not pop star Austin Moon.
