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Chapter thirteen:
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Ally's hand shook as she pressed her phone to her ear. Her breaths becoming shorter and shorter.
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All of her hopes were put into this phone call, all she wanted was for him to answer.
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Riiinnn- "Hello?"
Ally jolted up at his voice.
"Daddy? Thank god you answered, I was at the coffee shop earlier and their was breaking news and – aand A-Austin—" She couldn't get through explaining before she started uncontrollably sobbing into the phone.
Her father had stayed silent. He was well aware of the situation. He had just been waiting until his daughter had found out. Lester knew she wouldn't take it very well. He sighed and waited patiently, as he listened to her crying heavily, heaving and choking on her tears.
After a few minutes the sobs had come to a minimum and Ally brought herself back to the line.
"What happened?" She whispered in a hoarse tone.
Lester paused before explaining; even though there wasn't much too explain. Austin had just simply disappeared. There had been no signs of him leaving except for a few of his things missing. And no one had heard from him in over 2 days. Police were suspecting that he simply took off, and he didn't want to be found. Since he left his cell phone, his wallet, and his car, he was completely and utterly untraceable.
Ally stayed quiet for a few moments. At one point Lester had thought she hung up on him. But she sighed once in a while, possibly to let him know she was still there.
"Call me if there are any updates. I just want to know if he's okay."
Lester nodded to himself. "I know sweetie. We all do."
After the call ended, she sat silently in the dark on the worn couch. She felt like her body was shutting down. Her arms were becoming heavy along with her legs, and her feet. It was a strange sensation that seemed to have blocked away any thoughts that might have been racing through her mind at that point, any movement, any sound. She was just still, like a photograph.
She didn't even hear Connor knocking on her door, or hear the door open and see him stand in front of her with their tip jar in his hands and a puzzled look on his face as he studied her.
"Ally?" He said bending down to shake her by her shoulders.
She jolted, blinked quickly and looked up at him confused.
"When did you get here?" She asked in a quiet tone.
Connor shrugged nonchalantly. "Just now. I got our money back." He held the jar up so she'd notice it. Her cheeks were shiny, and he noticed her distressed puffy eyes.
He crouched down to her level. "What happened?"
Ally shook her head slightly, and pulled on her bottom lip with her teeth. She didn't want to talk about it. Or else she would start blubbering again and make a fool out of herself in front of Connor. And she didn't feel like crying again today.
He brought his fingers to her chin and made her look him in the eyes.
"Please tell me." He begged.
She rejected him again, shoving his hand away. "It's nothing." She muttered, getting up off the sofa and pushing past him.
He grabbed her arm and spun her around, using a little more force than he intended, causing her to bump into his chest. He held her hands and she looked down at her feet. However she couldn't really see her feet over her watermelon of a stomach, so she looked down at her stomach.
"Please look at me Ally."
She didn't want to. She was scared. They were standing so close she could smell the cologne on his shirt. His big hands enveloped her small ones, making them warm and tingly.
"I can't talk about it right now." She whispered quietly.
She was feeling incredibly overwhelmed at that moment. With Austin being missing and not knowing if he was safe, with having to be a mother of twins in a couple of weeks, and with the confusing mixed up new feelings she was experiencing being around Connor suddenly. Her head was spinning all the time; so much it made her dizzy. It was hard for her to think straight these days. She felt like she shouldn't even trust herself to make any decisions.
Connor had been silent. His hands were still firmly around hers, he wasn't sure why. But it felt almost wrong to let go, as if she would disappear if he did.
He didn't know what to say. Her voice was so fragile, on the verge of breaking. All he wanted was to make her better.
"Okay," he said. "What do you want to do?"
He heard her sniff before she rolled her head up and batted her wet eyelashes at him. "Can you just stay with me? I don't want to be alone."
He grinned genuinely down at her. "Of course."
Ally new it was dangerous to ask him to stay. But she needed him. Just for tonight.
Connor released her hands from his grip, taking away their comforting warmth. She fought back the urge to frown at the absence.
"Are you hungry? I can order some pizza." He offered trying to distract her.
Truth is she wasn't hungry at all. Which was odd, for pregnant women. Usually on a slow day she could eat half a cow. But right now she had lost her appetite due to recent events.
She nodded however, pretending she was starved. She knew he would eat most of the pizza anyway.
"Hello, I would like to order a large Hawaiian pizza with extra pineapple please…okay…Shady Shingles apartments room A17…..Okay thanks bye."
Ally grinned when she heard his order. "Funny, you and Mitch have the exact same pizza order, Large Hawaiian pizza with extra pineapple, that was Mitchell's favorite."
Connor contorted his eyebrow. "Really? For some reason, I thought he was allergic to pineapple. When we were kids we were never aloud to have Hawaiian."
She shook her head. "Nope, I distinctly remember Mitchell having some strange fetish for pineapple."
"Oh," He replied softly checking out the floorboards.
Ally stood up and sat down next to him on the couch. "How did you not know that?"
Connor stayed quiet. She felt like it was odd for him not to know anything about his brother. But now that she thought about it, Connor never really talked about him, it was like he didn't miss him at all.
"We had a falling out a few years ago, didn't I mention that?"
She nodded. "You might of, but you never told me what happened."
He sighed and tousled his chocolate hair, not wanting to persist in the subject. "Really nothing. We actually were super close growing up, but then…" he drawled out the last word, feeling a sharp pinch in his chest. He finally just shook his head. "Never mind."
There was no possible way she was going to let the subject slide. She was genuinely concerned why he had lost his relationship with his brother. She edged closer to him, "No, you have to tell me."
He turned to her appalled. "Since when did you get so bossy?" He smirked.
"Please just tell me what happened between you two."
He stayed quiet.
"Seriously, out of my entire time of knowing Mitchell and spending most of my time with him I don't recall him mentioning you once. You don't find that the least bit odd?"
Connor let out a weak-hearted laugh, mumbling under his breath. "Not after what happened I don't blame him for not ever mentioning me."
He rubbed the back of his neck harshly, keeping his head pointed towards the floor. He couldn't look her in the eyes.
"What happened?"
She was not going to let this go. He knew that too.
He sighed and started to speak in a low whisper. As if it wouldn't sound so bad if he did.
"Mitch and I were really close growing up. We were only a few years a part and we did everything together, from playing ball in the yard to going fishing on the weekends with our dad."
Ally noticed a slight smile grace his lips as he spoke. She broke in an unconscious smile listening to him, imagining him and Mitchell as kids.
"But as we got older, Mitch was getting better at piano. Our dad started making him practice all the time and didn't let him do anything that could distract him away from it. He barely hung with me anymore, I felt like I was losing my best friend. And as stupid as it was I started resenting music and my father for that matter. I thought it was the reason we drifted apart."
His eyes never left the floor. He fiddled with his thumbs in his lap. His voice was deep with sorrow and regret. Ally pitied him, not for blaming his father and music, but because he lost his closest friend growing up. She could tell how much he loved his brother.
He hesitated to continue.
"And then our sister died in that accident and it was probably the darkest moment in our lives. We needed each then you know, to grieve. But things started to look up afterwards. We got to high school and our father seemed to loosen the reigns on Mitchells practicing and let him be a teenager for once. So we started to go back like we used to be. We went out and did everything like we used to, and I was so happy to have my brother back." He beamed.
But his cheerfulness flipped in a swift second as Connors memories caught up.
Ally was very patient listening to him. He seemed to be reliving everything as he told it. He continued, this time with a little anger behind it.
"I had just graduated, and we were celebrating with the family at home… Mitchell had said earlier that he was going to make an announcement." He stopped his voice becoming shaken.
"He stood up at the dining table while the whole family was eating dinner and he… made the announcement that he… that he was gay."
Ally didn't say a word, she was afraid this was going to lead somewhere catastrophic.
Connor seethed. "A huge fight broke out. Between Mitchell and my father; between Mitchell and myself…" he said regretfully.
"We were both screaming at him, while my mother and my sister were both crying trying to get us to calm down before we said something we would regret. For once my father listened and calmed down. I didn't."
Connors eyes were glassy. He wouldn't look at Ally, knowing her eyes were the same.
He drew in a shaky breath before continuing. "The last thing I said to him was: I would burn in hell before accepting some sick fag like you as my brother."
Ally choked. She could not believe what she heard. She got up and walked away from Connor, who was holding his head in his hands. He looked up when he heard her footsteps.
"Ally please-" he begged but she turned and stomped her foot cutting him off.
"No! How dare you! He was your brother!" She yelled.
He was frantic now, he stood up and stepped after her. "Ally I know, please I wasn't thinking right!"
"Out of everyone in the world you should have been the one to understand! He was counting on you to have his back! But you failed him by shunning him from your life, as if who he was, was a crime?"
He was trying so hard to get through to her. After all of this she wasn't going to listen to him and he was going to lose her. But then he stepped back and realized.
"You spent all those years shunning him for who he was that you missed everything that he'd become!" She shook her head madly, droplets rolling down her cheeks.
He tried to grab her hand but she snatched it away from him and gave him a cold stare.
"You know, I actually feel sorry for you. Because of your selfishness and ignorance you didn't know Mitchell. Not like I did. He was selfless, kind, and was no question the best person I have ever known who only thought of others first. And you never made the effort to see the best of him. He did not deserve what you put him through and you did not deserve the privilege of having him as your brother.
Her tone was chillingly calm. It shook him to the bone. He looked at her pleadingly with his pooled over eyes. And his heart broke in two when he couldn't find any kind of mercy.
"Ally-"
"Go."
His mouth gaped open. He started to beg. "Ally, please-"
It was as if she didn't hear the desperation in his voice. She was hard as stone.
"I said, go." She ordered. "And don't come back."
Connor stepped back at her iciness and stared at her in defeat. Her fists clenched by her sides and her eyes were frozen to one spot in the room. She couldn't even look at him when he left the room and silently shut the door with his head hung low in shame.
When he was gone she gasped, trying to let the air squeeze through her lungs so her throat wouldn't close up. Her body shook with anger. She couldn't imagine what Mitchell had gone through and how he died thinking his own brother thought the lowest of him. She was furious with Connor, cause he never tried to apologize or fix his relationship with his brother. Which meant he was either a coward or he didn't care. And that's what sent her over the edge.
She hit her back against the wall and slid down to the floor. She wrapped her arms around her stomach and cried. Her life has been nothing but hell since she stepped foot in New York and all she wanted to do was go home. She was so tired and sick of everything so much it made her mind and body ache. There was nothing for her here and because of everything she winded up stuck here completely and utterly alone.
She ended up dragging herself to her bed and crying herself to sleep just like most nights. After just a few hours she woke up to a knock on her door.
She groaned knowing right away it was Connor back probably with another pitiful excuse to his actions. She sat up and yelled. "I told you to never come back asshole!"
The knocking repeated, quicker and more desperate.
Ally hoisted herself up and stomped to the door and banged on the face of it. "Go away Connor!"
The knocking still didn't falter and Ally was becoming agitated. She grasped the doorknob and yanked it open. "Seriously Conner-"
She became face to face with a tall hooded figure. The room was too dark to see the face but before she could say another word they came barging past her.
"Close the door!" She heard a panicked voice.
She immediately thought of the robbery, and became frightened. Had they come back?
"Who are you? What do you want?"
She didn't have time to finish before they shut the door quickly and locking it. She could hear them panting as she moved away. "What the hell?" She yelled before she could flip on the lights to see the strangers face.
Their back was facing her and their hood of their jacket was blocking her eyesight. They began to turn toward her and she gasped as soon as she noticed the unmistakable mop of blonde hair…
She found herself unable to speak as he scooped her up and held her closely and then quickly putting her down and stepping back suddenly.
"Ally?" he whispered.
She felt her eyes prick. "Austin? What are you doing here?" She was beaming, smiling from ear to ear, and she couldn't help it. She was just couldn't believe he was here.
Austin stood in front of her mortified. His eyes had not shifted since they had set on her stomach.
"…How?"
He finally looked up and she locked onto his golden brown eyes she had deeply missed so much. But she grew worried when they were filled with hurt and despair.
He then silently reached into his pocket and took out a folded piece of paper he had received in the mail a few months ago. He opened it and held up her ultrasound from when she was only a few months along.
She smiled weakly, it seemed like forever ago. Tears leaked out and steamed down her cheeks freely. But they were grateful, relieved tears.
She sniffed and stepped closer to Austin taking the picture from his grasp. She peered up at him through her wet lashes, smiling brightly "I have so much to tell you."
Bam!
Lots of crying….
I am so sorry it took me so long to update. My life has just been….bleh.
I actually like this ending.
(of the chapter)
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