Author's note: Alright guys, to be honest, I cannot go to sleep knowing that chapter 3 is all done. I know that you guys are waiting to see if Austin won but before getting into that, here is chapter 3 with some details about Austin's past and how he came to be the rebel boy we are crushing on. The next chapter, which I will try to upload on Saturday the latest, will have be back in the present and we will have more Auslly on the way so stay tuned! Leave your reviews :) they make my day.

Disclaimer: This story is based on a book I read a while ago with the title: Three Meters Above the Sky by Federico Moccia. While it won't be exactly the same, it will be similar in some aspects. I do not own Austin & Ally.

Chapter 3

2 years ago

An afternoon like any other, Austin decides to take a ride on his new Vespa for a while. As he passes by his town's coffee place, he hears someone calling.

"Austin, hi!" Cassidy calls out to him, a beautiful blonde girl he met at his part time job. Austin comes to a stop.

"Hi, what are you doing here?" he asks her.

"Oh, I was just studying with a friend for an exam and now I'm headed home" She replies smiling.

Suddenly, Austin feels someone take of his beanie out of his head. He looks around a guy maybe a year or two older has it in his hands. He is followed by other four guys. Austin hops of his Vespa quickly.

"I give you about 10 seconds to get the hell out of here" The guy who took his beanie told him, (Austin was pretty sure his name was Andrew), and then he passed the beanie to the guy besides him while they all stupidly laughed.

"Give it back" Austin told him bravely or stupidly, depending on how you look at it. It was enough to compare both of the boy's bodies to know Austin standed no chance. But this beanie was a special one his mother had given him and he really wanted it back. Cassidy, understanding the situation starts to walk away.

"You hear him?" Andrew tells the guys and then turns to look back at him "What are you gonna do? Are you gonna hit me? Well… go ahead" he tells Austin with a wicked smile.

Andrew's friends have now made a circle around the two of them. "Come on..." Andrew insists putting his right cheek forward and signaling with his hand for Austin to punch him. For a moment, Austin is blinded by rage and without thinking he throws his right hook aimed at Andrew's face but before his fist makes a contact, one of Andrew's guys holds him from behind and from that moment it's a blur.

Andrew hits him first right on his left eye, cutting Austin's eyebrow. Next he feels the guy behind kick him straight in his lower back, making him smash the ground. After that all he feels is pain everywhere, they are kicking and punching on any space they can find and Austin tries to protect himself as best as possible but he can barely move.

"Stop it! Leave him alone" he hears a woman's voice yelling alarmed. It must be Cassidy, Austin thinks. But they don't stop.

Then he hears other men's voices and saying they will call the police. Andrew and his guys take off running.

"Boy, are you alright?" the same woman's voice says and as he looks up, he realizes it is the owner of the coffee shop that came out to help him as well as some customers. Cassidy is nowhere to be seen.

"Yeah…" Austin responds weakly, trying to get up but his body does not seem to want to move. Will all the strength he has left, he sits up and looks around. His beanie is lying on the floor as well as his Vespa. Crap! He has taken such good care of it and it is basically new.

"Those bastards" the woman continues talking, as she offers him a glass of water that a waiter came out to hand her. "But I think I know who they are, just a bunch of slackers who do nothing else than spend their time here in the streets and in the bar".

Austin drinks the water with difficulty and then hands the empty glass back at the woman with a grateful smile. He tries to get up again and one of the men that helped him steps forward to help him out.

"Are you sure you are alright?" the nice woman insists. Austin nods and tries to clean the blood out of his face with his sweater as best as possible. "Thank you" he says to her and the men who helped him and then he picks up his Vespa that seems to be dented on the side where it fell and a weird noise is coming out of the muffler.

When he gets home, he opens the door slowly and tries to go to his room as quietly as possible but the wooden floor betrays him when it cracks.

"Austin? Is that you?" his mother's voice calls from the kitchen.

"Yeah mom" Austin calls back trying to sound as casual as possible "I'll go to bed early, I'm exhausted".

"Are you okay?" she says and he hears her steps coming closer.

"Yep!" he says loud and he tries to hurry off.

Then the light turns on and his mother looks at him, her jaw drops and she gasps loudly. "Oh my god! MIKE COME OVER HERE!"

His father comes out quickly, his face full of confusion. "What's wrong Mimi?" he tells her worriedly and then turns to look at Austin. "What the hell happened to you?"

"I fell of the Vespa, okay?" he tells them tiredly. But his dad notices his ragged clothes and all the cuts on both his arms.

"Tell us the truth! Did someone did this to you?" his father demands and Austin sighs. He proceeds to tell them the basic story of what happened and his parents decided to call the family doctor who comes over, examines him, gives him some painkillers and sends him to bed.

As he lays on his bed that night, Austin makes a promise to himself: No one will ever lay hands on him like that. Ever. Again.

...

The next day Austin heads to nearest gym and gets a membership. While he is paying the receptionist takes a look at his black eye and comments: "You made the right choice. Seems like you need it". Then she proceeds to give him a tour of the installations and takes him to meet his personal trainer.

In the gym is where Austin became friends with Jace, Dallas and specially Dez, they always train together. Austin never misses one day of training. He has changed his eating habits as well and never complains about the routine his personal trainer assigns him. The first weeks it's painful but as the time passes, he seems to be getting used to it and his body is also changing its appearance. He is now broader, his arms have gained muscle slowly but surely.

...

One day, two months later, Trent comes to the gym.

"Who wants to do some push-ups with me?" He calls out loudly to no one in particular.

He is one of the first members of this gym, or at least that's what Austin has heard. A guy of a strong complexion. No one wants to compete with him.

"Well, well… it seems like there is no one in this shitty gym that dares to do some push-ups with me" he says again loudly.

Dez and Dallas continue training in silence. With Trent you always end up fighting. If you lose, he never stops making fun of you about it and if you win… well everyone knows what could happen to you but no one has ever won against him.

"I'll do it" Austin calls out. Trent looks at him up and down.

"All right. Let's go there" He says pointing to an empty spot in the gym. "You ready?" Austin nods "whenever you are" he adds.

They start doing push ups and Austin resists as much as he can. At the end, feeling wasted, he falls on the gym's floor exhausted and his arms lay beside him completely sore. Trent does another 5 push-ups at top speed and then stops and sits besides him. He claps on his back and with a friendly smile tells him:

"Not bad boy, that was great. And the last ones you did, I could tell you were putting all of you into them".

Austin smiles. Trent did not mock him for losing. Everyone watching goes back to their own trainings. Austin massages his sore muscles. But nothing special has happened: Trent is still much stronger than him, it is still too soon.

...

That day. Only eight months later.

Andrew and his friends are right in front of the town's coffee place. They are laughing and joking while drinking beer. Some girls that are with them listen entertained to the stories they are telling. Cassidy is also there. The night Austin was beat up, she did not call him and she did nothing to see him again. But Austin does not care. Ever since that day he knew nothing about any of them. But this time, it is him, who is out looking for them.

"Andrew, my old buddy." Austin exclaims while throwing his arm from behind around his shoulders. Andrew looks at the stranger greeting him friendly with confused eyes. He seems familiar, his eyes and hair color, his facial features but he does not recognize him. He is of a strong complexion.

"It's been so long!" Austin continues "How have you been?"

Trent, Dez and Dallas, who were happy to come along, get in the middle of the group. Cassidy, still smiling, meets Austin eyes. She is the only one to recognize him and her smile fades away slowly.

"Sorry man, but I don't remember right now" Andrew tells him still confused.

"What? How's that possible?" Austin tells him smiling and keeping his arm tight around Andrew's shoulders. "You'll make me feel bad. Wait! I think you might recognize this" Austin tells him while taking ihs beanie out of his jean's pocket.

Realization draws on Andrew's face as he turns too look back again at the stranger that has his arm around him. Of course! Those eyes and that hair color… it's the guy he and his pals beat up some time ago.

"Shit!" Andrew mutters as he attempts to remove Austin's arm from him but fails miserably. Austin is too strong.

"Ahh… you had some memory problems for a moment there?" Austin asks him and a wicked smile plastered on his face. Then he pulls him towards him and gives him a strong head butt that breaks up his nose. Andrew falls to the ground while trying to hold with his hands the blood. Then Austin kicks him straight in the stomach knocking the wind out of him.

Some of Andrew's friends try to intervene but Trent is fast to prevent that. Austin throws the right hook at Andrew's face, the one he never got to, the last time and blood starts coming out of his mouth. Then he starts kicking him everywhere he can just like once they did with him. Andrew falls to the ground and moans as he says: "No more please… please!".

Trent and Dez both come to hold Austin. "That's enough Austin, let's go" Dez tells him.

"Yes, let's leave before one of these pussies calls the police" Trent tells him looking everywhere. He has had trouble and would be the most affected if they get caught.

Before they leave Austin comes closer to Cassidy who is shaking slightly but smiles at him nevertheless. He smiles back and without saying anything he turns around, punches straight in the nose the guy he recognizes was the one to hold him so Andrew could hit him last time. Then hurries up to the bikes where the others are waiting for him.

That night Cassidy comes looking for him at his place. She apologizes to for not calling before and tells him it's because she has been busy. They sleep together a couple of times. She keeps calling him in the next few weeks insistently but he is too busy to pick up any of her calls.