Hey guys! I'm back once again with yet another chapter! I know you guys have had a lot of questions, and they will be answered soon enough. This chapter will not be quite as dramatic, hilarious, or suspenseful as some others have been, but it is definitely important if everything is going to tie in. Well, enjoy!

Ally sliced another cut through her arm in her bathroom, letting the blood drip into the sink. She couldn't feel the pain anymore. She had been cutting herself for about three years, ever since the big fight. She sliced another cut through her wrists and let the blood slowly drip out. She wanted to die so badly. She didn't want to exist anymore. She paused for a moment in hesitation. She held the knife up to her throat, but this time, she didn't stop herself. She completed the action in one swift flick of the wrist. She died. Seems awfully familiar, doesn't it? Well, it wasn't the same dream. It was a whole different situation. It wasn't because Austin hated her, like in the hospital. No... It was different this time. Though Ally couldn't quite put her finger on it...

Suddenly, Ally's mind switched gears and Myia's words quietly yet consistently rang through her head. It drove her insane. What was she trying to tell herself. Surely, Myia was wrong, right? And that dream she had of Austin in the hospital, that must have been fake... But her brain told her otherwise. Her dream in the hospital all those days ago... The day she found out she couldn't have children... After the big fight... She had already broken up with Austin, but her dream was against it. Why? Was Myia right all along.

Ally should have learned by now to follow her heart, but she was following her mind. Except it was different thus time, because her heart and mind were telling her the exact same thing. Through the dream, through her thoughts after her fight with Myia...

She still had feelings for Austin.

It was morning and Ally was at her locker, struggling to put her stuff away. It was a lot more difficult today, since Gavin wasn't at school that day. Once she finally got her stuff away in her locker, she noticed Myia passing by. "Hey, Myia! Haven't seen you in a while! How's it been..." She stopped talking when she realized that Myia had ignored her and was continuing down the hall, talking to Trish, who also ignored her. Today just wasn't going as planned.

That day during lunch, Ally decided to not sit next to Gavin, but to go and sit with her old friends again. She was hoping for the best when she walked towards her usual seat, but Myia immediately scooted over, covering both her seat and Ally's. She sighed, bringing her tray to the other side of the table next to Trish, but to her dismay, she also took both seats. This was really frustrating. Ally then decided to speak up. "Look, guys, I know you're mad at me, but does it really mean you have to keep me from sitting down?"

Trish and Myia nodded, not making eye contact with her. "Guys, please stop this. I'm trying to help..."

"Help? What the hell do you mean by help? Do you honestly think, after everything I've tried to tell you, that we need help?"

Ally shrugged after Myia's outburst. "Well sorry if you can't handle sitting next to me..."

Trish stood up and didn't bit her holding herself back before she slapped Ally across the face. "Shut the hell up! I can handle what ever the fuck I want, but at the moment, and for really every moment, I really do not want to have to handle you! Keep in mind that the only person who really needs help is you. We can accept your attempts to make amends with us, but you just can't seem to understand it. You had your chance. So you had best be extremely careful what you say to us from now on, because for the time being, if you don't get your act together, we are not your friends. We don't WANT to be your friend at the moment. So what you need to do is leave."

Ally touched her cheek, now stinging and red. Is that how her old friends really thought of her now? What if she could never be friends with them again? What would happen then? As if on cue, Austin walked into the cafeteria, as sickly as ever. Ally's jaw hung wide open at the sight of him. She hadn't seen him in forever, and she could now see what everyone had been talking about. He was pale as ever and his bags under his eyes were growing ever so dark. It didn't look healthy.

"Is that...my fault?" Ally murmured to Myia, after staring at Austin. She nodded, solemnly, and that was all it took for Ally to go bawling out of the cafeteria, passing by Austin, who noticed her crying, and began to follow her. She sprinted down the hallway, careful not to let anyone see that she was crying. Once the coast was clear, she entered the janitor's closet. She shut the door behind her and slumped against the wall, letting all of her tears fall down. She looked at the small sliver of light coming in from the crack under the door, and she tried to calm herself down. Finally she stopped sobbing and looked around her.

She recognized this place. All of the memories of last year came flooding back, and she smiled slightly, remembering the warmth she felt, curling up against Austin's chest... She missed him now, more than she ever had before, but now all of her friends hated her. Including Austin.

"Hey, I don't hate you."

Austin slowly opened up the door, entering and sitting beside Ally. She froze, her face reddening, realizing that she had been thinking aloud. "I promise, Ally. I don't hate you. I couldn't ever bring myself to feel anything like that towards you."

Ally looked down into her lap, not feeling very reassured. Austin sighed. "Look... I will admit, I was very upset when you broke up with me, and I knew it was for no reason, but In know that you had very good reason to believe that I was cheating on you. Though I wasn't, I could tell you were not very keen to listen to your ex... Of course my heart was broken, but I still loved you. I even brought myself to cut myself. I wasn't even that sad, it was more out of anger... But think about how I would have turned out if I had let that anger rule me forever. I could have been angry for a whole year, but then, when I would've finally realized that I still loved you, you would have already moved on. So that's why I don't cut anymore. It was a bad habit that never should have started in the first place. That, and a couple of psycho girls stole everything sharp in my house... Then again, I see you've already moved on..."

Ally blushed, embarrassment obvious in her face. Austin continued.

"Well, that would have been a pain so much worse than what I felt when we broke up. I do still love you, but I've just never been sure if you still loved me."

Ally smiled the biggest smile she had in a very long time. "Of course I still like you. Austin, I don't even know why I ever thought of dating anyone else. I still want to date you."

Austin grinned widely and wrapped his arms around his Ally, kissing her. Ally smiled into the kiss, pulling his head closer, trying to get as much contact as possible, oblivious to her 6th period bell ringing.

Hey guys! Well, I have the whole rest of the fan fiction planned out now! I have it set up so that it should only last for another ten chapters or more... Probably about till I get to 50 chapters... Anyways... Yeah. Keep reviewing! I really hope you guys don't hate me, but I really think you are going to like the ending. Well... most of it anyway... ;) R&R!