Hours...

Days...
Months...
A year

Summer Break (Two Months Before Wedding)

Homecoming

It's a dream, was all Ally could think. Miami Airport was bustling with people hastily walking to where they needed to go. And there was Ally, a little fish in a big pond in Miami who was returning for her dear father's wedding.

Many thoughts on how to escape crossed her mind. There was the classic sneaking on a plane, cutting yourself so you bleed to death or ditching your father and soon-to-be stepmother's wedding so you could hijack a car and drive all the way to New York City. They all sounded very tempting at the moment, but Ally had no weapons, no knowledge on how to hot-wire or any money except a few nickels she had acquired as change from the five dollars she had paid with. It was pretty safe to say, seventeen-year-old Ally Dawson was forced to spend three months in a hellhole helping prepare for her father's second wedding and seeing Austin Moon and Kira Starr again and sadly there was no escape.

"Ally!" she heard a familiar voice call her name.

Oh, shit. Like her life could get any better...

She spotted her father in the horde of people, holding up his hand, he was wearing his usual baseball cap and plaid shirt. Ally's stomach somersaulted as she began to walk up to him, yanking both of her suitcases behind her.

"Ally, sweetie," her father enveloped her into a tight bear hug.

Surprisingly, she didn't resist, she hugged him back. Ally didn't know she had missed her father so much, considering that she'd only actually talked to him through Skype at least three months ago. She couldn't bring herself to think about spending another three months not talking to her father again, after all it was inevitable, missing the wedding would reflect badly on her and besides not talking to him for months would just add to her I-don't-care-about-my-father reputation.

"It's nice to see you again, Dad," she said speaking half of the truth, in a way she had missed her dad but watching him get married to Lilith was going to hurt much more than seeing her father sign the divorce papers.

"Why don't we get out of here?" her father asked, Ally halfheartedly nodded her head in agreement knowing she was going away from the only thing closest to an escape.

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The drive from Miami Airport to Redgrove Lane was a blur for Ally. She hadn't realized how hungry and tired she was and to make matters worse, her father couldn't stop asking her question upon question, to which she lamely answered 'good' and 'yeah'. It was certainly not Ally's opinion of 'catching up'.

Her father pulled into the driveway of the familiar house Ally grew up in. Taking a deep breath, Ally lazily took off her seat-belt and opened the car door. The house was an old Victorian house her mother had purchased on her father's name, after the divorce she had stayed in Miami with her dad since her mother had to go to Africa to do a research trip for her next book.

"Ally!" her father called snapping her away from her trance.

Shit, she'd been staring into space?

"Yeah," she closed the car door and walked up to where her father was, nearing the house she could see all the lights were off downstairs, only a lamp was on upstairs. Lilith was probably out working a late shift, she let out a breath relieved. That took something off of her shoulders.

"Sweetie, are you okay?" her father asked her concerned.

"Yeah," she replied but after her stomach chose to growl with hunger as if it had a mind of it's own. Ally looked away embarrassed. Why did the most embarrassing things always happen to her?

"Look's like someone is hungry," her father acknowledged. Ally rolled her eyes pushing away the thought. Her father opened the house with his keys and Ally walked in, but simultaneously the lights went on and the pitch-black house was filled with people who all yelled 'surprise!'. Ally didn't know how to feel, the whole thing was cliche, she should've anticipated a homecoming party, she'd seen it in movies all the time. It was in that moment, when she realized everyone was staring at her for a reaction, some were family members she remembered from throughout the years, some classmates she'd gone to elementary and middle school with and others were neighbors she had known her whole life.

Ally held her hand to her chest dramatically, feigning astonishment, "Oh my gosh!," she cried. It didn't sound very convincing but it was something.

But well enough, people fell for it and Ally was bombarded with loads of questions. It was overwhelming to the point where she wanted to actually commit suicide. After finally escaping the crowd she went into the kitchen and snacked on some tortilla chips before anyone had the chance to ask her anymore questions. She assumed that all these people were coming to Lilith and her father's wedding.

"Ally," a familiar voice said.

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Ally froze in place nearly choking on the tortilla chip she was chewing. She forced herself to turn around to face her ex-best friend. Memories of Austin and Kira a year ago came rushing back at her with so much force she took a step back. Austin. The name that had meant everything to her. It still did.

"Kira," she choked out.

"Ally, I-" but Kira got cut off by someone standing behind her in the doorway. Kira was going to apologize to me? Ally thought.

"Kira-" Austin stopped mid-sentence.

Ally's heart stopped for half a second.

Austin was behind Kira, wearing a plaid shirt holding a red cup. His hair was disheveled and he was glancing at Ally, his eyes darkened. Ally tried hard to stop the tears from escaping her eyes, she wished it was a dream. But it was reality, Austin was still with Kira...

"Kira," he finally spoke.

"Austin-" Kira began to say.

"Kira, we have to go. Now." Austin was already half-dragging Kira out of the kitchen. Kira looked at Ally with an apologetic expression. Ally chose to ignore her and pretended to be unfazed by it.

Then, the realization struck her with such force she staggered backward.

Austin didn't care about her anymore.

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