A/N: I am so so so sorry! I really don't have any excuse, except that life has been chaotic. I tried to make up for it with a slightly longer chapter, and I will try to have the next one up very soon. I'm still on break, so it's possible. I will definitely try. Enjoy this chapter!

The next day Ally was making her way up Austin's driveway to meet up with him when the door was thrown open. A little blond blur came hurtling towards her and she barely managed to catch it. The little girl managed to keep her balance by grabbing onto Ally's leg. She was now hiding her face behind the brunette and attempting to make herself as small as possible.

Ally was about to crouch down to ask her what was going on when Austin sauntered out the door. He smiled at her in greeting, before glancing down at the girl hiding behind her leg. Looking back up at Ally he asked, "Have you seen Ani? She's going to be in a lot of trouble when I find her".

Ally stifled her giggle when she felt Anika trying to muffle her squeals of laughter in the back of her leg. "No, I haven't seen her. What has she done this time?"

"She has been a very silly girl, and…" Austin cut himself off when Anika suddenly took off running from behind Ally, racing as fast as she could towards the other end of the yard. Austin ran after her, purposefully moving slower than Ally knew he could.

Anika reached the other end of the yard and circled back around, staying away from Austin as she came barreling back towards Ally. "Ally! Help me!" She was screaming with laughter as she ran.

Ally grinned and reached down to scoop Ani up. Austin jogged up to her and told her sternly, "Hand over the girl, or you'll be sorry".

"Oh really?" she retorted. "What're you going to do if I don't?"

"This!" Austin reached out and grabbed her waist, pulling her down to the ground and making sure that Ani landed safely as he did. He then proceeded to tickle the both of them. Both girls were rolling around on the ground laughing, until Anika managed to escape him, and wriggled around to climb on his back to pull him off of Ally.

Just then however, Mimi Moon appeared at the door, and called to Anika to come inside. Ani reluctantly crawled off of Austin, and ran to the house.

Ally sat up, still giggling, her cheeks flushed. Austin stood up beside her, and offered her a hand. She took it, pulling herself up off the grass. He grinned at her and threw his arm around her shoulders, guiding her into the house.

"Hey"

"Hi," she responded.

"Nice to see you again."

"You too. You know, your sister is really adorable."

"Isn't she? I mean, don't get me wrong, she has her moments. She is five after all. But yeah, she can be really cute."

Austin was leading her through his house at this point. They had walked through the grand living room (Ally didn't remember the house looking this nice when the other family had lived there; it was as if it was a whole new place), and the kitchen, and were headed up the stairs. They entered the first room on the right, and Ally stopped in her tracks, frozen. Austin, because of his arm that was still around her shoulders, nearly tripped at her sudden halt, but recovered quickly. He grinned at the stunned look on her face.

"You like it?"

Ally had to open and close her mouth a few times before she could say anything.

"This is all yours!?"

"Well… it's my family's. Most of it technically belongs to my uncle, but he doesn't have enough room in his house. Believe it or not, these are kinda his leftovers."

"…Wow. This is amazing." Ally took a few more steps into the room, moving as if she was in a trance. The room really was impressive. The walls were covered with posters of bands and musical groups, both the really famous popular ones, and ones that were so well-know, but amazing. Ally had believed she was the only one who knew about some of them. Then there were the instruments. She saw all kinds, from trumpets to drums. There was a microphone in the corner, obviously connected to a setup for recording songs. And then…oh.

The piano.

The grand piano.

Ally crossed the room and sat tentatively at the bench, running her fingers across the keys reverently. Then she pressed a key, just one, and a grin broke out on her face as she heard the clear sound produced by the beautiful instrument. She smiled up at Austin who had come over to stand at the piano.

"Don't tell me this is a 'leftover' too?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No actually. This one was a gift from my parents."

"Wow… what I wouldn't give for a piano like this. The one I have is much older, and slightly out of tune." She smiled down at the keys in front of her, still slightly in awe.

Austin replied easily, "Well you're always welcome to come over here and play on this."

"Thanks. That would be amazing." She grinned at him, eyes shining. He smiled back, before sitting down next to her, before nodding at the piano.

"Go ahead. Play something. You look like you're dying to."

She glanced back at the piano excitedly and thought for a minute. Then, as if an idea was occurring to her, she raised her hands to the keys and began to play.

For the next few minutes, Austin just sat next to her, mesmerized by the way her hands seemed to dance about the keys, producing heavenly music.

As she finished, she turned to him, smiling shyly. "That was amazing. You're so lucky to have this."

"Like I said, you're welcome to come over any time. You're really good."

"Thanks," she blushed, ducking her head briefly, before looking back up at him. "You said you played? Do you do duets at all?"

"Yeah! I have some duet music somewhere…" Austin stood up and moved to the basket in the corner, returning with several books of sheet music. He passed her a stack and began to thumb through the various books. She leafed through a few books, scanning the titles. He seemed to have a lot of Top 40 songs and some classical stuff, and… oh, there it was.

"You have Disney music?"

Austin looked up from his pile of books, and turned a bit red. "Yeah… Here, pass those to me. You can look at these." He made a grab for the books she was holding in an attempt to get them from her, but she turned quickly away from him, standing up to move the books out of his reach. He followed her, trying again to get the books out of her grasp as she walked away from him, turning and twisting around so she could keep looking through the music.

"Hey!" Austin had finally made a successful grab at the music, and managed to pull them from her grip. She laughed as he fumbled with the stack, trying to hide the (multiple) books of Disney beneath other ones. "You know, I actually think that's pretty cool. I love Disney songs, and I swear I have the soundtracks to most of their movies on my iPod."

She watched Austin process this information and smile sheepishly at her.

"Sorry. I just don't want that getting out."

"It's fine. I get it. Actually though, I've met a lot more people who like Disney than you'd think, and – you have this too!?" Ally's eyes had just landed on his CD set. She rushed over and pulled out the top one.

"Okay, first, I love that you still have a CD collection. I thought most people had gotten rid of all of theirs." She turned back to Austin, holding one of the discs in her hand. "Also, I thought no one liked this music but me!" The disc she was holding was from the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.

"Well, I kinda grew up listening to my mom watch that movie all the time, so I heard the soundtrack, like, constantly."

"Me too! My family used to watch this every Thanksgiving, and I've been listening to this music for forever!" Her eyes widened excitedly. "Do you have a CD player?"

"Of course!" Austin took the CD from her hand and started up the player on the shelf next to them. Ally smiled and closed her eyes as the title song started to play. She really did love this music.

"May I have this dance?" She opened her eyes in surprise to see Austin standing in front of her, one hand outstretched, just as in the movie, with the other one behind his back. She laughed, and took his hand. As soon as she did, she was whirled out into the middle of the room. She was laughing too hard to speak, spinning around the room so fast that everything soon became a blur. Austin spun her first out, and then back in, and Ally finally caught her breath.

"I don't think this I how they danced back then Austin," she protested, still giggling as they slowed to a stop.

"Well no, but back then everything was so slow. Their dances don't look as fun," he pouted.

Ally was about to reply when her phone buzzed. She turned away from Austin to check it, sighing when she saw it was from her mother, telling her she needed Ally back to watch Alec for an hour or so.

"Sorry Austin. I have to go. This was a lot of fun though. And this room is seriously awesome."

Austin smiled. "Like I said before, you're welcome any time." He walked back out the front door. "I'll see you before school on Monday."

"See you." Ally began the short walk back to her house, feeling like the smile from that afternoon was permanently plastered on her face.

A/N: Reviews are awesome!

P.S. Still trying to figure out how to do line breaks, so if anyone can let me know, that would be great! Thanks!