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Chapter Two
"Hey, you're here early," Ally smiled as Austin entered Sonic Boom.
Austin shrugged in response, "Didn't have anything better to do, so I figured I'd show up a little bit early. You don't mind do you?" He hoped she didn't mind, but if she did what did she expect him to do? Leave?
"No, not at all. Actually could you do me a favor?"
"Uh, sure. What'd d'you need?"
"In the stroage room there should be a shelf with a load of boxes in it. Could you bring out the one marked 2012?"
Austin nodded, "Kay, won't be long."
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"I got the box," Austin called as he walked back into the main room.
"Just put it on the counter," Ally yelled back from up in the practice room. "I'll be down now, I'm just grabbing my book."
The blonde set the surprisingly heavy box down on the counter top before heading over to the piano where he and Ally had spent an entire night writing 'Break down the walls.' He wondered if that was how tonight was going to go. He hoped so. He had a lot of fun the last time they did this and if all went well then tonight would be just as great.
"I've go my book," Ally grinned as she sat down beside him on the piano stool. "So I figured we could either go from something in my book or we could go from scratch. What d'you think?"
"Uh... I like the second idea."
Ally giggled, "Really? You sure? Because last time you whined for quite some time when we couldn't think of anything."
Austin grinned remembering how after putting up with nearly an hour of his whining Ally had shoved him off of the piano stool. "Yeah, I remember but I also remember how much fun we had that night. And hey, this could be just as good."
Ally smiled at him, her eyes creasing slightly in the corners, "Shall we get started, partner?"
He laughed but nodded all the same.
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Ally had been right, the store had not been busy at all that night, and by ten when the pair closed up shop, they already had the first verse. Which in comparision to the last time they'd spent a night writing a song, a lot of work had been done.
The writer and the rocker were now sat on the floor at the legs of the piano, chowing down on some sub sandwiches Ally had prepared for them ready for the long night ahead of them.
"So..." Ally started. The brunette was feeling quite awkward, Austin could tell. After all, she looked the same way he felt. "How's life?"
"How's life? How lame can you get Ally?" He snorted as he took another large bite out of his sandwich.
"Shut up," She laughed. "Unless you can think of something better just answer the question."
"Good point. Life is... good. I mean, I'm a internet singing sensation," He smirked, gaining a playful shove from Ally. "But otherwise life is pretty much the same as it was before. I still spend a lot of my time hanging out with Dez. Though with you in my life I don't have a lot of free time in my life anymore."
She poked her tongue out at him and he inwardly sighed, she didn't quite understand what he meant, did she?
"What about you?" He asked, hoping to steer things away from himself, which was not something he was at all used to.
"Me? The same really, minus the whole writing songs for you thing of course."
Austin nodded as he finished up his sandwich, it hadn't taken him long really. Ally on the other hand wasn't even half way through her pickle and cheese sub. "So since we couldn't go to the movies today, do you maybe want to go tomorrow? I know you really wanted to go see 'She's Carly now.'"
"I'd love to," She grinned.
And Austin felt a grin rising on his face also, that is until Ally just had to go and burst his bubble.
"But I can't."
"What?" He asked in disbelief, she just said she'd love to.
"I've um... I've kinda got a date tomorrow," She answered a light pink blush appearing on her pale cheeks.
"Oh. With who?" Austin asked feeling crestfallen. The blonde didn't know why he'd bothered to ask since he had this awful feeling he already knew the answer to his own question.
"Dallas."
At this point Austin felt his fists clench and as he looked down he could see his knuckled turning white, "The guy who you mentioned in your book? The one who I thought was me?"
Ally nodded.
"Can I ask you something Ally?"
"Sure. Ask away."
"Why do you like him?"
"What?"
"Why do you like Dallas?" The name was like poison on his tongue.
Ally shrugged, "You know that moment where you just can't explain why you like someone? It's like that, I guess."
"Oh," The only thing she could do now to make this any worse was to tell him that she was running off to elope with Dallas, and if she did, that might just send him into insanity. Standing up and dusting his jeans off Austin said, "Well, we should get back to that song writing now, don't ya think?"
Ally nodded as she finished her sandwich.
Austing sighed as she sat down next to him, this was going to be a long night.
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It was way past three in the morning when Austin noticed Ally had fallen asleep though that might have been because he too had drifted into dreamland. The difference being the smile playing on Ally's lips told him that she was having a sweet dream, probably about Dallas (Stupid Dallas), whereas Austin had been dreaming about Ally telling him he never wanted to write songs for him again and that instead she was going to write songs for Dallas who she was touring the country with singing folk songs because he got her over her insane stage fright.
Ally was lying on the ground next to the piano, using Austin's jacket as a pillow. The blonde watched the young girl from his make shift bed on the counter, he smiled, thinking about how adorable she looked when she was sleeping, then chuckled to himself as she let out a loud snore. Ally once again decided to ruin the moment for him though, but unlike this time she managed to do it by not even being conscious. She mutter Dallas in her sleep.
Austin didn't know what had come over him at that moment, he had no control over anything. One second he was sat on the counter watching Ally sleep, the next minute he was at her side thinking, 'Why don't I help you with your make-up for tomorrow?'
Once the deed was done he felt mean but at the same time it was kind of satisfying to know that he may have stopped Ally's date with Dallas...
