Chapter 29: Out In The Open
"Wow, this has been one crazy day." I say as we reach my room.
"Definitely, but I hope all the drama can end now." Austin says tiredly.
"That would be nice." I smile as I crash on my bed and Austin lies down beside me.
He suddenly turns to me and kisses me gently before moving up the blouse I'm wearing up so that my pregnant belly is exposed to him. He caress my belly gently with his hands and it makes me smile, I put my hand over his. A knock on my door pulls us out of our happy moment, but we don't get to react before my dad and Mimi stands in my doorway. It's doesn't take long for them to focus on my belly much like Austin did when he first saw it.
"You're already showing?" My dad asks even though is obvious.
"Yeah, I noticed this morning." I admit before I pull my blouse down as Austin and I sit up.
"We have been talking and it's gonna take a while before we can trust you again after this huge lie, but we won't try to stop you from being together." Mimi says, I look over at Austin and he's smiling just as much as me.
"I would tell you that you couldn't stay in each other's room without a open door, but since you're already pregnant I don't see any reason too." My dad says and I almost giggle.
"No more lies now?" Mimi asks, Austin and I look at each other. If we want our future without any lies we better fess up about the record deal.
"There's one more thing." Austin finally says after looking into my eyes, we knows me too well and that also means we don't need words to know what the other is thinking.
"What is that?" My dad asks tiredly.
"Don't worry dad this one is a good thing." I smile and he sighs relived. "Remember that summer camp?" I ask and they both nod. "Well Austin and I performed together, we won and was offered a record deal with Starr Records as a couple."
"We have been signed with Starr Records since then where we write, perform and tour together." Austin says smiling.
"We even made a few records." I grin.
"But seeing as we had to keep our relationship a secret this had to be a secret too because it was a link between Ally and I."
"We got a contract saying that we were allowed to perform under aliases until we turned 18, we became Starr Records new mystery."
"That means that I've been performing as Jake Davis and Ally has been performing as Roxie Rocket." He confesses.
"That's why none of us is thinking about college, we both want to focus on our music since we're already famous and the pay isn't bad." I grin.
"You're both signed with Starr Records?" My dad asks shocked.
"Yeah." I grin.
"But that's one of the biggest record labels." My dad says shocked.
"You actually followed your dream, Austin?" Mimi asks proudly.
"Yeah, thanks to Ally." He smiles pulling my closer to him and let me tell you it feels heavenly that we don't have to hide anymore.
"That's amazing." My dad smiles.
"Ally and I are gonna end the mystery soon so we can perform as ourselves, then I was gonna ask Ally if she wants us to be an official duo because I don't want to make any records without her and I don't want to risk going on tour without her, ever." Austin says looking lovingly at me as he says it and my heart flutters.
"Yes of course." I say happily throwing my hands around is neck and for a moment forgetting that our parents are standing there, I lean in and kiss him.
"Ahem!" My dad protests.
"Sorry." I blush, but both they are both smiling, I know there and then that if we have fessed up earlier and they tried to keep us apart they wouldn't have done it for long because I think in a way that they knew.
"When are you gonna perform as yourself?" Mimi asks.
"When we have talked to Jimmy I guess, I would like to do this while I can still hide my pregnancy." I admit and Austin nods, I knew he would agree. "We would like the both of you to be there." I say nervously.
"We would never miss it." My dad says happily.
...
The next morning...
I wake up in my own bed with Austin's arms around me, I quickly think back to yesterday when we finally confessed our relationship. I'm surprised with our parents reaction to it all, I would have thought that they were angry, but they aren't they are just disappointed that we lied. I feel like this big burden has been lifted from my chest now that it's all out in the open.
I smile as I look over at Austin he's still sleeping and he looks so peaceful, I kiss his cheek before I caress his cheek softly. He stirs and seconds later his eyes opens, we gain eye contact instantly and his smile widens.
"Good morning beautiful." He whispers before getting up enough to kiss my belly. "Good morning to you too, my little intruder." He chuckles and I giggle, he lies back down pulling me even closer to his body.
"Good morning." I whisper, he leans in until our lips collide and I wrap my arms around his neck.
"I love you Ally and I love our baby." He whispers against my lips, my heart starts beating wildly in my chest, this is everything I've ever wanted.
"I love you too." I pull his lips back to mine once more and deepen the kiss, I pull him closer and take a minute to appreciate that we're both naked, it's so much easier. I think we had at least 7 rounds last night after our parents left my room. "I love waking up like this." I giggle as I pull him on top of me.
"It's definitely much easier." He agrees, he hisses as I reach down between our bodies and close my hand around his member, I grin at him as I realize that he's already hard and ready for me.
"We're a good match." I grin at him and he grins back.
"Why is that?" He teases.
"None of us can seem to get enough." I moan as he suck on my sweet spot. "I'm gonna want you even more since I'm pregnant and all." I moan again when he touches me all the right places.
"If I had known you would want me all the time I might have gotten you pregnant long before now..." He says heatedly, I guide his member to my entrance. "You know, we forgot to lock the door last night." He reminds me and almost gets up, but I pull him back.
"I don't care, they know now and I assume they'll knock... Besides this is way more fun with the chance of getting caught." I whisper seductively and his eyes are burning with desire as he thrusts inside me. I gasp and moan while holding on to him desperately.
"I've been a bad influence on you..." He whispers in my ear before he continues his ministrations on my neck.
"Yet I'm only like this for you..." I whisper as my hands are in his hair pulling it.
"I like being the only one who have seen you this way, it turns me on..." He picks up his pace having me trembling under him and I can't hold on any longer, I let go moaning his name.
"Oh shit!" I moan throwing my head back as he keeps going.
"Look at me." He whispers and I do instantly, I move against him earring a growl from him.
He nibble on my lips and suck my bottom lip into his mouth gently biding it. I let go of his hair and let my hands slide down of his back, I feel him shivering under my touch. I feel the temperature rising once again and I can't stop myself from curling my toes. I know the end is close as his movements turn more frantic and I surrender myself to the feeling. We gain eyes contact as we both finally let go and the look of pure bliss in his eyes is overwhelming in a good way. I feel like we're one and I wish we could stop time in this moment and just stay here forever.
He rest his forehead against mine while his hands are on each side of my body, he's desperately trying to keep himself from crushing me and the baby. I pull him down for a kiss and I feel his hands trembling, I move us over in one shift move. Austin is now on this back with me on top of him, he looks relieved at me as he pulls me down to rest against his chest.
It takes us a while to come back to planet earth once I finally moved off him he spend I don't know how long studying my belly. We never got to this point last time and to see him so fascinated by my belly has me loving him even deeper, I didn't even think it was possible to love him more, but apparently being pregnant with his child changes everything. I know he'll love our child because it's clear he already does.
We finally get dressed when my stomach starts growling, Austin almost freaked out thinking that we were starving our child and all I could do was laugh. He's so considered and I know even though he never said it that he's terrified that I'll lose the child, in a way so am I.
We're in the kitchen now making pancakes since I'm seriously craving it, I watch him as he's making pancakes for all of us and I have a strange sense of deja vu. I'm wearing Austin's shirt and he's only wearing his jeans, last time I stood here watching him like this was the night before the accident and probably the night our child was connived. That night I was standing here wishing this could be our lives and now it is, we don't have to hide anymore. He turns around looking heatedly at me and I know he's thinking of the same moment.
"You really do like me without a shirt." He grins moving closer to me.
"I really do." I lick my lips and seconds later his lips are on mine.
"I love looking at you wearing my shirt." He says heatedly as he pulls me closer.
"I've noticed." I grin. His lips are on mine again as he lifts me up and places me on the countertop, he's standing in between my legs. "You're gonna burn your pancakes." I grin.
"No I'm not." He protest as his lips are back on mine. We're completely lost in each other forgetting our surroundings until a voice brings us out of our bubble.
"Alright... I already knew you've had sex in the kitchen, but I really don't need to see how it happened!" Mimi protest, we pull apart started.
"Mom! You almost gave me a heart attack!" Austin gasps and Mimi is just smiling.
"Um Austin? I think your pancakes are burning..." I say suddenly.
"Shit!" He curses and goes back to his cooking, Mimi approaches me.
"I really don't know how you could hide your relationship for so long, you can barely keep your hands off of each other." Mimi teases.
"I don't either, but I'm impressed with our self control... Well until a moment ago." I giggle happily.
"You know I'm still disappointed that you two lied to me, but seeing you two like you are now I understand where you're coming from. I think, no actually, I know that I would have done the same thing if I had been you. A love like that doesn't come around every day and I'm lucky that I found it both with Austin's dad and your dad, but some people never find that." She tells me, I smile at her and Austin turns around smiling too when he got the pancakes safely onto a plate.
"Thanks mom." He smiles.
"I've never actually seen you this happy and now that I know about the two of you I feel stupid for not seeing it because it was obvious." She smiles and I giggle. "You know, I love you like a daughter Ally and that's why I'm so happy to see you so in love with Austin. I always wanted him to find love like he has with you." She says looking at me with such love and I jump down from the countertop and hug her.
"I've seen you like a second mom since you drove me to the group home." I whisper emotionally.
"I'm happy to hear that." I can practically hear her smile. I pull away and as I do I feel Austin's arms around me.
"Ally you need to eat." He whispers in my ear and I giggle.
"I know." I kiss his cheek.
"There's pancakes enough for everyone if you want?" He offers.
"Sounds good, I'm gonna go get Lester." Mimi smiles.
Austin and I set the table, once we're ready for breakfast he hugs me from behind. He kisses my neck softy.
"Austin's! Stop it!" I giggle gently hitting his chest.
"I can't, we don't have to hide anymore Ally and I don't know how not to touch you." He chuckles and I lean in pressing our lips together, I'm not even able to resist. He pulls my body flushed against his as we make out.
"Ahem!" My dad protest and I pull away regretfully.
We all sit down around the table as we begin to take pancakes onto our plates, Austin makes sure that I get some food before everyone else. I can feel our parents watching us together and they're both smiling at us. This time when Austin takes my hand he does it openly, this time he doesn't take my hand in secret under the table. I look at our joined hands on the table and smile as I intervene our fingers, when we look up our parents are smiling at us.
"I never thought I would see you smile like that again." My dad says happily.
"At some point I was afraid I would never smile again, but I guess Austin always finds a way to get me to smile." I lean into him. We eat for a while and I take yet another pancake onto my plate and I realize that Austin actually did burn it, I hold it up for him to see and his eyes widen. "I told you you would burn it." I giggle.
"It was all your fault!" He chuckles.
"No this is my fault!" I say with an evil glimpse in my eye.
"Ally? What are you doing?" He says nervously and as he says it I put the pancake on his face, the syrup makes it stick to his face. "Oh no, you didn't!" He chuckles as the pancake falls off his face and I laugh at him, he pulls me closer rubbing his face against mine so that I get syrup all over my face, but I can't stop laughing.
I look at Austin and he's a mess after what I did to him, but it doesn't bother him and I look around the table realizing that we're all laughing. I never thought our relationship could be like this and I'm thrilled I was wrong.
...
A week later...
January the 30'th
8 days ago we stopped lying and it has been heavenly to live like that, our parents are disappointed that we lied, but they actually support our relationship now that they know how much we love each other. They don't really seem mad because they understand why we did what we did and they smile whenever they see us together as a couple because they know we're happy.
We've also talked to Jimmy a few days ago and he agreed that it was time to end the mystery so Austin and I have spent the last few days writing a new song for our performance which takes place in a few minutes.
"Are you ready for this Ally?" Austin asks me sweetly.
"I think so." I smile.
We're going on stage as Roxie and Jake, but we're taking the wig off on stage so we'll be leaving as Austin and Ally. I'm wearing a blue sparkling dress while Austin is wearing a suit, it's not what we usually wear on stage, but usually we're pretending to be someone else, today we're ourselves. Jimmy made a publicity stunt out of revealing our true selves, so everyone knows the mystery will end today. Jimmy even booked us on the Helen Show.
"We have a very special show for you tonight, Starr Records two year long mystery is coming to an end here tonight where we'll finally learn the truth, please help me welcome Roxie and Jake." Helen says as we walk out on stage hand-in-hand. "Wow, you guys look different." She smiles.
"Yeah, today we're performing as ourselves." I smile.
"That's what I like to hear, I'm excited to end the mystery." Helen says smiling widely, her show will get a ton of hit on this one. Austin and I walk to the microphones center stage.
"For two years we've kept our true identities a secret." Austin says smiling at me.
"We hid behind a costume and a wig." I say.
"The reason we did it was because the relationship we have wasn't really allowed." He confesses.
"We were forbidden to date because our parents fell in love and that made us step-siblings." I explain.
"We were 16 when we met, young adults, so of course it wasn't illegal." He grins looking over at me.
"We realized that instead of lying and hiding we should have been honest." I say.
"And that's why we're here today." Austin says excitedly.
"We want to clear out everything that we have been hiding until today." We smile at each other as we pull our wigs off at the same time. "I'm Ally Dawson." I introduce myself.
"And I'm Austin Moon." He introduces himself and everyone cheers.
"Now that you all know who we are we have one more confession today." I continue.
"Ally and I are from today an official duo." Austin says.
"This way we can write, perform and tour together, always." I grin looking lovingly over at Austin while everyone cheers loudly and we see our parents cheering too along with Trish and Dez. "We wrote this song together for this day, it's about the struggle to keep our relationship alive when we had to lie to do it and how it feels to finally stop lying." The guitar starts playing and I begin to sing the lyrics in my heart.
Ally:
Planets align.
Suddenly, I'm alive.
Austin:
Eyes full of stars.
Guide me to where you are.
Austin and I look at each other as we sing together.
Ally and Austin:
Pinch me if I'm asleep.
Cause this feels like it's a dream.
We're like two in a million.
Can't even begin to find.
Where I found you.
What are the chances.
And there'll be this magic when we touch.
We walk towards each other as we sing.
Ally:
We've got something special.
On another level.
We gain eyes contact as we stay closer, but still have a lot of distance between us as we walk around each other showing how horrible the distance of hiding our relationship felt to us.
Ally and Austin:
Like it's just me and you and the room.
Because something's so brilliant.
It's meant for just two in a million.
Two in a million. (Yeah)
We move even closer as I sing the next part.
Ally:
We're like two in a million.
Can't even begin to find.
Ally and Austin:
Where I found you.
What are the chances.
And there'll be this magic when we touch.
Wa-oh.
Austin gently caresses my cheek and I can't stop myself from smiling.
Ally:
We've got something special. ( We've got something)
On another level (No, it's not like this)
Like it's just me and you and the room. Yeah. (Yeah)
Ally and Austin:
Because something's so brilliant.
It's meant for just two in a million.
Because something's so brilliant.
It's meant for just two in a million.
Ally:
Ooh Ooh Ooh.
Austin and Ally:
Two in a million.
We lower our microphones as we finish the song and I let the love of the song fill me up, we're both deep in the moment only feeling the song even though there's more than a hundred people in the room right know I only see Austin.
It feels like we're the only two people in the room right now, nothing else matters. He leans in and I wrap my arms around his neck, not even a second later my lips are on his and we're lost in each other until the cheering brings us out of the moment.
"Austin and Ally everyone." Helen cheers as we move to join her in the couch area for the interview. "So your relationship was forbidden?"
"Yeah, our parents were focused on that we should all be a family so that meant we couldn't date."
"Why did you date when you knew it was forbidden?" She asks.
"We fell for each other instantly and we both knew it, but we fought our feelings a lot and there was more than once were it almost drove us apart forever, in the end we just couldn't live without each other." Austin says lovingly as he takes my hand openly and it makes me smile.
"When did you tell your parents?" She ask almost getting lost in our story.
"Only 8 days ago, but as soon as we did we both wish we had a long time ago." I admit.
"How did they take it?" She asks.
"Surprisingly well... Of course they were mad that we were dating, but they were more angry about the lies that we told." Austin explains.
"Why did you tell them?" She asks.
"Well... It has been a long time coming, but we had no choice because I'm pregnant." I confess.
"Wow! I'm sorry to ask, but isn't it a little early?" She says shocked.
"It is and it wasn't planned, but it happened and instead of thinking that it's a bad thing I feel lucky. Of course we thought we were protected, but sometimes it happens anyway." Austin defends me.
"Well it's nice to see two young adults taking responsibility for their actions." Helen smile at us.
We shared a few details about our relationship, but kept a lot to ourselves. Of course we also remembered to make clear that we wouldn't have planned to have a child this young, but we also don't regret it. We both know there'll be haters, but we don't care because we know we've done the right thing.
Jimmy was happy with our performance since it made us even more popular with the story we had to tell them and he agreed to sign us an official duo. He always thought the best songs we wrote were the once we wrote together.
Our parents were also really proud of us after the performance, they've never seen us perform before. My dad almost cried because I looked so much like my mother out there, he could tell I love music as much as she did and that I've gotten her talent for songwriting. After the performance we went home with our parents.
"You we just so amazing out there." My dad says as we get inside.
"Thanks dad." I blush.
"Did you write that?" Mimi asks.
"Yeah, we wrote it right after we talked to Jimmy." Austin smiles.
"You wrote that song in less than a week?" My dad asks.
"Yeah, we've written songs in less than a day before." I giggle.
I'm exhausted as we finally get to my bedroom, I undress then I pull one of Austin's shirts over my head and Austin undress to his boxers. We lie down on the bed and I cuddle into his arms too tired to do anything.
"Just sleep." He whispers kissing my temple and I drift off almost immediately.
A/N:
I'm finally back with a new chapter :)
I'm thinking they'll be two more chapters before the epilogue :)
I'm considering making two bonus chapters, one would be about Ally's time in the group home and the other would be about Austin's time without her, how he pulled himself together. Please let me know if you want me to write that :)
Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts :)
- Until next time :)
