We've reached the 3rd chapter so welcome back!
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Austin and Ally but I'll let you all know when I do.
Recap:
"Why?" he asked me. I smiled and held the tiny book up.
"Because I'm going to track down my ex's and if you want...you're going to help me." I told him smiling.
He froze and looked at me like I was insane which at this point, I could be.
But I had no other options...I had to do this.
I was doing it.
I was going to find all my ex's and in hopes to finding if one of them is the one and I already knew I couldn't do it alone.
So, right now I was still sitting at the dining room table across from Austin who was looking at me shocked
He couldn't believe I actually said something as crazy as it sounded but it had to be done.
"So let me get this straight, you want me to help you search for your ex boyfriends so you can have a date for your cousin's wedding that's in three week?" Austin asked me trying to clarify everything.
I smiled and nodded to him. He summed it up pretty well if you asked me.
"Exactly. Look I know it sounds crazy but I need to do this. I mean, you heard what Helen said on the show...if I date one more guy then I will never find or ever get married because it's going to be too hard. And then, that will be another thing Amber will win over me." I explained to him.
He sighed and looked at me.
"So what do you do after you find one? Do you just take him to Amber's wedding and then dump him the day after it's over or-" Austin asked a bit confused. I giggled and shook my head.
"No. Because maybe after that night, he truly might be the one for me. And if you don't want to help, I was going to ask Trish anyway if she wanted to when I see her tomorrow but a guy's perspective is definitely needed." I told him. He looked at me nodding, finally understanding.
"Okay so what if you don't find the one. I mean, there is a reason why you dumped their asses isn't there?" he asked curiously. I shrugged.
"Yeah but maybe they've changed. And some of them dumped me maybe because they weren't ready for a serious relationship. I'm ready to settle down Austin. I know you're a guy who wants to be wild and out there, I don't." I said to him. He smirks.
"No one said anything about wanting to be wild and out." he told me jokingly. I laughed.
I knew he did. That's all he ever talked about.
That's why he was still single, he hated being tied down to one girl. That was just who he was.
"Austin, I don't want to be waiting on anyone anymore. I want to be with someone who loves me for me, and maybe one of these guys want to be with me...again." I explained to him. He sighed and nodded.
"Well, if it makes you happy then I'm happy. If this is what you really want to do...I'm going to help you. So Ally Dawson..." Austin trailed off grabbing my little black book as he held it up to me. "Looks like we're going to have a lot of traveling and tracking to do." he finished smiling at me.
I smiled back and felt a surge of happiness. I was going to have one of my best friends forever helping me
It was exactly what I wanted to do and if it didn't work, I could at least say I tried.
"Thank you so much Austin! I knew I could count on you! You are the best!" I said getting up excitedly as I ran up to him, wrapping my small arms and half body around his neck and head as he was sitting.
Austin laughed as I could feel him tensing up a bit for some reason, but quickly hugged me back holding his arms up to mine smiling.
"I know, I know." he said to me.
Quickly, those butterflies came back and this time another feeling came into the picture.
It felt like my whole body was shivering in ways I couldn't describe. Don't get me wrong though, it was a feeling that I always loved to have I just didn't know why it was always with him.
Trying to shrug the feeling off, I pulled away and began walking to my room as he got up from his seat.
"Well I think I'm going to go to bed now because we have a big day tomorrow." I said to him smiling.
He laughs and nods.
"You know if this plan actually works and you find the right guy, remind me not to ever doubt you again." he said to me. I glared at him playfully.
"Come on Austin, if I'm with you...it's going to go perfectly." I said to him.
And with that, I turn around and walked into my room closing the door as he did the same with the guest bedroom which I guess was now his bedroom.
I then sighed and got into my bed, wrapping the covers around me.
This plan had to work, it just had to. And with Austin's help...it was going to.
"So you're really going through with this? You're really going to go back to all your ex's?" Trish asked me.
It was the next day as and we were both at a coffee cafe inside the Mall of Miami, talking to Trish about the plan I had.
She was quite surprisingly taking it a lot better than I thought, but she was weirded out about the idea.
But hey, it was the only thing I could do now that Dallas was no longer with me.
"Well, I'm not going back to all of my ex's. I'm checking them all out. I mean, half those guys have probably been someone who was the biggest jerks. So, when I go back to them now...they might be the greatest gentleman ever." I explained as we sat down at a table with our coffee in our hands and sat across from each other.
"Well, it's not a bad idea. But Austin isn't going to help right?" Trish asked me. I looked at her confused.
Of course he was going to help. At least that's what he said he was going to do last night.
But then again, that didn't mean that he didn't want to back out of it now because it was too weird.
"Um yeah. I asked him because he's a guy and you and I both know, I need a guy's opinion when I do this and who is better with relationships than Austin." I told her. She sighed and looked at me.
"Ally, are you serious? You're having your old high school crush help you find the love of your life in one of your ex's? Am I the only one that thinks this might be awkward?" she asked me raising my eyebrows.
She did have a point. But that was in high school and it didn't matter how I felt about Austin, he clearly didn't feel the same way about me. If that was the case, we would have been together ages ago.
And maybe if that happened...I don't think I would even need to have as many boyfriends as I did now.
"No. I'm having my old high school crush who I happen to be over with and now is my best friend forever, helping me find the love in my life in one of my ex's...there's a difference." I told her. She smirks.
"Yeah okay...happened to be over with. I'll pretend to believe that." Trish told me. She was crazy.
I was over Austin. I didn't care if he was with me or not. Even though we never dated as much as I wanted to back at Marino High School, I still had him as my best friend.
I was upset that he didn't like me back at first but I wasn't Amber and held grudges.
"Trish I am. I know I am." I told her trying to make her believe me. She nodded at me.
"Sure.." she said, trying to tease me about it. I was positive about my decision.
"Well the matter is still at hand. Do you want to help me out with this?" I asked her smiling.
She looked at me and sighed, shaking her head.
"I would love to Ally...but I can't. See, my family is coming back today and they're going to be here for 3 weeks which sucks ass. So, I have to be there with them and spend a bunch of time with people I don't want to be with so I can't do it. But promise me you have to tell me everything that happens wherever you go." Trish explained to me. I smiled and nodded.
It was a bummer that she wasn't going to help me but I still had Austin and Dez was still an option.
"Don't worry about it, I will. And it's okay I can always ask Dez if he wants to help." I told her.
"Ask Dez if he wants to help with what?" a familiar voice said to me in front of us.
Me and Trish quickly looked up to see Dez standing in front of us holding a coffee cup.
Saved me from going all the way to find him.
"Hey Dez! What are you doing here?" I asked him smiling.
He smiles back as I scooted over so he could sit next to me.
"Stacy always sends me in to get her usual coffee she gets everyday." he told me. I nodded.
"Oh look, she's finally making use of you." Trish told him. He glared at her. I laughed.
Trish and Dez never got along with each other. It what made them, them.
"Whatever. So what did you need help on?" Dez asked turning to me. I sighed. Here it goes.
I could get turned down once, but not twice.
"Oh, well I'm doing this new thing where I track down my ex's and see if anyone is the one. Austin is already helping me, but Trish has family stuff, so if you want you could help out too." I said to him.
"Ally seriously, can't you find someone who has enough common sense to help you?" Trish asked me.
I laughed as Dez looked at her offendedly.
"Oh come on Trish, everyone can help...so what do you say?" I asked turning to him. He sighs.
"Oh Ally, I would love to help you but I'm going to be booked with moving in Stacy and getting use to living with her for a while so I can't. I hope you don't mind though." he said to me. I sighed and nodded.
Great, now it was just only two people helping me with this big project.
"Of course not. It's fine. I guess it'll just be me and Austin doing this whole thing then. But don't worry, everything is fine and cool so it's all good." I assured him smiling. He smiles back and looks at his watch.
"Great well I have to go Stacy is meeting me in the car but tell Austin, I miss my best friend and then tell him and you...good luck." Dez said to me smiling and running out of the cafe.
I nodded and turned back to Trish who looking at me knowingly. I didn't know what it was now.
"What?" I asked innocently. She smirks.
"Nothing, nothing at all. But if anything happens like I don't know you finding your ex's or you hooking up with Austin...you let me know." Trish said smiling and got up leaving the cafe.
I blushed as my eyes widened.
"Trish!" I shouted to her as she was finally gone.
Me and Austin were just friends...just.
I was now at home with a piece of paper in front of me and my little black book that was completely unorganized.
I was sitting down on my couch bending over on my coffee table, as I tired to organize a list of who I was going to go to first as I wasn't getting any luck so far.
All day I had been crossing off, redoing, and editing who I was meeting.
To be honest, I was still scared to see them again.
I didn't know if they wanted to see me again but I had to do what I needed to.
As I continued doing so, the front door opened as I saw Austin entering the house with a bag in his hand as he smiled at me.
"Hey, hey, hey. How's my favorite girl doing?" Austin asked me. I laughed blushing.
I loved all these compliments he was giving me...I could get use to it.
"Okay, okay. I won't tell Trish." I told him playfully. He smiled and chuckled walking over to me.
"What are you doing?" he asked me sitting down next to me.
"Well right now, I'm making a list of all of the guys I've dated. I wasn't sure if I should have organized the list by putting it alphabetically or if I should do it by who I dated before a certain someone." I told him.
He smirks and laughs.
"How about putting in the order of who was better in bed." he suggested chuckling.
I looked at him and glared at him jokingly. He would be the one to mention something like that.
"Haha very funny. I would do that...but I don't want you to get jealous." I told him. He shakes his head.
"Oh Miss Dawson, I never get jealous of anything." he said to me. I smirked. That was true.
"Yeah, yeah. What's in the bag?" I asked curiously as he held it up. He smiled.
"Oh it's just something I got for you when I was out." he said giving it to me.
I looked at me gratefully as I smiled, opening the bag up as I looked down and grabbed whatever it was.
Once I grabbed the object, I pulled it out holding it up to see something that I really did need in this case.
It was a new check booklet that I could put all the guys I ever went out with in.
I smiled and looked up to him.
"Austin! Did you really get this for me, how did you know I was going to need it?!" I asked him happily.
He laughed and held up the piece of paper I was using with a bunch of scratch outs on it.
I shyly smiled and looked away. God, this guy was literally the best when it came to things like this.
"Well I figured we were going to need it along this journey but that's not all I did...open it." he told me.
I looked at him confused and looked down opening the book up to see something so shocking.
It was my list, and it was organized. No scratch outs, no circles, no crumbled up paper...just the names of every guy I dated in the order I met them as I smiled and looked up to him.
I couldn't believe it. He had actually took the time out to do one step I was struggling with.
"Austin thank you so much! I can't believe you did this for me!" I shouted happily and excitedly looking at him.
"Hey, it was the least I can do for having you allow me to live with you on such short notice and besides, I was free on my time all day so I thought I could save you the trouble and do one thing for you. I mean...we are in this together right?" he asked me smiling.
I smiled back and nodded.
"We are. So Austin, let's do this." I said to him. He smiles.
"Cool. So who's the first douche on the list?" he asked me sitting back casually. I laughed.
I then looked down to the book he had filled out for me and read the first name on there.
"Look like we're going to Elliot."
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