Disclaimer: The characters you recognize here are not mine, never have been, and never will be. I make no profit from this and I'll put them back where I found them when I'm done, promise. :-) Oh and: I got the title from the Goo Goo dolls song, without you here, that isn't mine either.
Warnings: Uh, it's a tad OOC, well I think. This is a happy chapter now. I don't really do angst very well, I'm too fluffly. Not very graphic, but you're the judge not me. I bumped it up to a T though.
Summary: Ally tells Austin how she feels about him, hoping that he'll return the feelings. When he stays mute at her confessions, can they ever get together? Well... They are the perfect match after all, Austin said so himself. Auslly. TWO SHOT.
Author's Note: So I wrote this in about three hours, today, and it's half nine at night. I have goo goo dolls, become, on endless loop. I'll probably write a songfic to that in a minute. No promises though :') Hope you like the chapter.
Word Count: around 2,356 ish
Please excuse any spelling errors. Thanks.
just say you'll understand
part two
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Ally spun around immediately, stopping herself from just walking away from him. She took a step closer to him, a hint of hope in her eyes. "W-What?"
He smiles softly. "I said, what if I said I love you too."
"C'mon." He says gently as she just kind of stands there, gaping at him, mouth open and eyes wide. "Ally, let's go talk about this somewhere else." He takes her hand gently and leads her up the stairs, but she's not really listening, just moving where he guider her to.
Ally just keeps repeating the words in her head —even if her head is spinning a little— and wonders when she got this lucky.
Because in Ally's mind, just yesterday, she'd poured her heart out to him, and he'd been unresponsive. Now, he's here doing the same things she was yesterday, and Ally realises all that crying was for nothing.
(But it was really, because she'd do anything for Austin, even cry her heart out.)
"Ally, we need to talk about this." He said turning to face her. Ally's mind was still a way away, in her own little world so Austin walked right up to her and took her face in his hands.
"Ally Dawson." She came out of her reverie abruptly, and found herself staring directly into Austin's deep brown eyes. She sighed in contentment and he smiled a little.
"Are you there now?" Austin said, half jokingly, letting one hand rest on her cheek and the other slip down to rest lightly on her waist. She nodded her head, smiling even more, and laid her hands onto his chest.
He has really nice abs, She though absentmindedly.
"Dez, they're in the practice room!" Trish says excitedly. "Do you think that's good news?" She doesn't really know why she's asking Dez but there's no one else to ask so she must settle for her red headed, eccentric friend.
"Of course it's good news." He says mock-seriously. "They're probably going to become the most disgustingly cute couple ever now."
Trish groans at exactly the same time Dez says Yay! And they look at each other weirdly.
"Don't get me wrong," Trish says, fighting off the urge to rub her temples with her fingers, "But I don't need to see the mushy stuff, just hear about it from a love-struck Ally later.
"Yeah..." Dez says distractedly. He turns towards Trish's laptop and says, "Aww!"
Trish lets the confusion show on her face and Dez motions her over to the laptop. On the screen are Austin and Ally, intimately standing next to each other. Well, more intimate than usual, Trish thinks, they have no awareness of this little thing called 'personal space' whatsoever. After gazing at them on the screen for a few seconds, Trish snaps out of herself and bangs the laptop screen down abruptly.
"Hey!" Dez whines, "I was watching that and it was just getting good!" He says with a pout. Trish mentally smacks herself and chants he is not stupidly adorable, he is not stupidly adorable, he is not stupidly adorable, over and over in her head.
"No Dez, we can't, it's their privacy and stuff." Dez gives her the significantly raised eyebrows as if to say, 'who are you, and what have you done with Trish?' and yeah, she's thinking the same actually.
"Oh who am I kidding?" She says dramatically putting her hands back in the air. "Turn that good stuff back on, you whackadoodle!"
Dez grins and gets the live feed from the upstairs camera back on, then hands Trish some popcorn from out of his backpack. She looks at him, silently asking 'is this stuff safe to eat?' and he nods, so she accepts that because they're missing the action.
"But if it gets too intimate, we have to turn it off alright?" Trish says and Dez nods. "Normally I'm all for this stuff, but it's Ally and she's my bestfriend, and I just feel weird about it."
"Yeah, same here with Austin."
They silently shake hands to seal the deal and then turn back to intently observe the screen.
"Ally, I meant what I said before." He says seriously.
"You know I'm going to have questions for you, right?" She asks.
"Obviously," He chuckles, "You wouldn't be Ally if you didn't."
But she doesn't really laugh. There's smile, but it's faded and Austin realises there's something he's missing, so he's just going to have to sit tight and wait and hope Ally tells him what it is.
He pulls away from her slightly, but she doesn't react so he decides not making physical contact may be better if Ally's upset.
You know, she might hit him spontaneously or something.
"Since when Austin?" She says suddenly and he realises this is what she must've been thinking about, the last chain of thought coming out of her mouth and he already knows the other half of the question, even though Ally hasn't said it.
"A while Ally. I can't pinpoint it really." He sighs, "I just remember there was a time before loving you, and during loving you, but the line separating that is a little bit blurry to be honest."
Ally nods but she looks sad, and not in the hysterical way, but in the broken way and Austin wonders why she isn't happy.
"Als?"
"It's just," She starts, "Yesterday I was so scared. I was scared that everything wouldn't go back to how it was. Us being close and being mistaken for a couple, not actually being one. And I just didn't want to lose you, no matter how much I wanted you."
He nods because he understands, he really does, but she's not finished yet.
"And now you're here, saying all of this and I'm feeling it, and it's more real than I'd ever imagined. And that makes me worried because what if— what if —" She pauses to breathe and Austin walks closer to her. "If we break up and it's worse than it was before and—"
He cuts her off with a kiss.
Dez and Trish watch, fascinated as their friends turn into more than friends. It's kind of beautiful in a weird way, because the two always expected it to happen, they just didn't know the how and when and why.
As Austin cuts off Ally with a kiss, Trish looks over to Dez. He sighs, giving her a knowing look and she gently shuts the laptop screen.
Trish doesn't mind, she'll hear about it over and over again from Ally later.
Dez probably will too, mind.
They're a bit at a loss, because the store's closed now and they're the only two there whilst the rest of Team Austin definitely do not want to be interrupted right now.
"Want to help me find a job that does evening shifts?" She says to Dez. She tries to tell herself it's because of lack of anything else to say, but deep down she's starting accept that she actually likes spending time with him.
"Sure." He says. He pulls a coconut out of his bag and continues: "Maybe this can help us?"
Trish doesn't know why she smiles fondly, but she does. She just feels happy at that moment. Instead of insulting Dez, she decides to indulge him and says, "Yeah. Maybe it will."
They leave the shop and Dez pretends not to notice the way Trish keeps 'slyly' sneaking glances at him.
It does make him smile though.
It's just a little more than a gentle brush of lips, and she holds his shoulders lightly. He mumbles Als softly against her lips, and relishes in the fact he can feel the curve of her smile. She pushes her lips a little more forcefully against his, and they start to kiss properly.
And Austin really, really doesn't want to sound like a girl but it's better than he'd ever imagined.
Somewhere in between thinking, I'm kissing Ally! and wow this is amazing he wonders when in the past two days did his life turn into a movie?
But it doesn't really matter because Ally has pulled away, and she's looking down shyly, fiddling with the hem of her shirt and Austin knew Ally was adorkable, but really?
"Don't tell me you're nervous after that?" Austin says and she looks up and smiles at him.
"No." She admits, a breathless laugh escaping past her slightly swollen lips. "I just..." She sighs. "Where does this leave us now?"
Austin stops to think about that one. It doesn't really take long though, because it's a bit obvious really.
"Well," He says; that lopsided grin that Ally loves sliding across his features, "You love me, right?" Insert a nod from Ally. "And I love you, so." He rests his forehead against hers, and whispers, "I think really, the best thing for you to do is be my girlfriend, right?"
She laughs and says yeah making his insides want to jump about. Ally knows he's a little immature, but he doesn't really think the phrase 'jumping for joy' should literally apply to him right now.
"Come on then, boyfriend." The word feels new and foreign on Ally's tongue but she loves it. She loves being able to take his hand and not having to let go. She loves how he stops her by pulling her back to him by her waist and holding her close.
"And where are we going?" He whispers into the back of her neck. Austin's breath against her skin makes her all tingly inside and she wonders how she felt so sad this morning —and yesterday— and now she feels like she could do anything.
Except a cartwheel, that is.
"Hm, I don't know, maybe we could get ice cream or something; take a walk in the park?" She felt him give her waist a squeeze and she smiled. "I feel like being couple-y." She admitted, a rosy blush splashing prettily across her pale cheeks.
"We do that anyway, Als." He said chuckling.
She sighed. "Yeah, but this time we can hold hands and stuff."
"Alright then." He says smiling. "But I get to give you a piggy back." He said, knowing that Ally refused all of the piggy backs he had ever offered her.
"Fine." She said, but she wasn't really annoyed. He grinned, causing her to roll her eyes fondly and drag him enthusiastically out of the store by his hand, making sure to lock up on the way out.
It was the next day, and Nelson entered the store in a pretty good mood. "Hey Ally." Nelson said. "I'm ready for my— Oh hey Austin." Austin had been crouching down to pick up a colouring pencil he had dropped on the floor, and rose up behind Ally to find Nelson standing there.
"Hey buddy." He said politely whilst Ally nodded her hello.
Austin put his left arm lightly around Ally's waist, his hand curling delicately over her hip. The intimate contact made Ally smile, because it seemed like second nature to Austin, he then continued to colour with the other hand.
"Excuse me?" Nelson said, noticing how Austin and Ally looked together. "She's my woman!" His voice rose slightly higher than his normal, high pitched range in shock.
Nelson had never openly stated his crush on Ally, but they had both always suspected it.
"Aw, I'm sorry Nelson. But Austin's my boyfriend now." Ally had to stop herself from gushing as she finished her sentence. She couldn't believe how amazing it was to say that.
"Yeah. Sorry buddy, I kinda beat you to it." Austin's face was mock-apologetic, and it made Ally want to smile at his cuteness.
"Aw nards!" Nelson said dejectedly. "Do I still get my lessons?" He asked Ally.
"Of course you do!" She said, trying to make him less upset. "I'll see you tomorrow for your oboe lesson, okay?" He nodded happily and ran out of the store, whilst all Ally could do was "Aw."
"He's funny, thinking he can steal my girl." Austin said and Ally laughed. He turned to look at her. "I'm serious Ally. I don't care how old he is. He can't have you." She nodded and smiled in contentment.
Austin leaned over to bury his face into her hair. "I mean it. No one can have you."
Ally could've died a happy girl right then.
"You're my Ally." he said looking down at her, "And I need you."
He leaned in to kiss her, colouring forgotten, and whispered, "My Als." Against her lips. Just as they were about to kiss, Trish burst in and groaned.
"Ugh! You guys are cute but I don't need to see this!"
This caused Austin to grumble. "Can a couple not get any privacy?"
Ally laughed wholeheartedly, "We are in public Austin."
He crossed his arms and pouted. "Still." He said, like that was a good argument.
"What's the drawing?" Trish said instead, the light bulb hat on her head dangerously wobbling. Ally took one look at Trish's apron and knew she had gotten a new job at the lights store, Turn Me On. Ally blushed just thinking about the name.
"Nothing." Austin said, snatching it away. "It's for Ally." Was all he said and Trish smirked. "Why don't you go and make-out with Dez?" Austin said, wiping the smirk right off of her face.
She gave him a look of disdain, and spun around, stalking off. Just before she reached the exit, Austin shouted, "I know you're thinking about it."
"SHUT UP!" Was the heated reply and both Austin and Ally chuckled.
Once the laughter died down, Ally turned to face Austin. "Can I see my drawing now?" He nodded his yes and placed it back on the counter.
There was a picture of a heart and the rest was writing. It said:
I love you.
Do you love me?
Check:
Yes.
Or
Yes.
The ending made Ally laugh and she buried he face in Austin's chest, muffling her laughter.
"I love you Austin." She said fondly.
"I know you do." He replied. "I love you too."
A/N: CHEESE BALL ALERT! Hahaha. And there you have it! A little shorter than the first chapter, but I hope it met your expectations! I don't know how happy I am with this, but I hope you all liked it! If you could leave me a review telling me what you thought, that would make me very happy.
Well, that's all from me for now, PM if you want to chat :-)
- Sophie.