I am really sorry for the late update but I have been really busy because of the New Year but I am free now. Okay, do you guys want me to continue this story? I want to but I am not sure if you want me to. If you do, please tell me in a review. Anyway, a HUGE thank you to all my followers and anyone who favourite my story. All reviews are appreciated and can you guys please GIVE ME IDEAS for what to do next? I am kind of stuck for ideas in the middle bit but I know how I want to end it. All ideas will be considered and appreciated. By the way, this chapter starts of a bit EARLIER THAT DAY.
Disclaimer: I do not own Austin & Ally in anyway. I also do not own the song One Last Dance by R5.
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Austin's POV
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
I groan as I roll over to turn the alarm off. What is the point of getting up early on holiday anyway? Some people may argue that 1:30 is early but to me, anything before 3 pm is early in the holidays. I close my eyes and try to go back sleep when I hear a knock on the door.
"Austin honey, I made pancakes. Get ready and you can eat."
My eyes jolt open at the mention of pancakes. Mom only laughs as she heads out the door. I shoot up out of bed and quickly put a shirt on and run towards the bathroom. After brushing my teeth, I rush over to the kitchen to see a stack of pancakes with my name on it. I stuff some pancakes in my mouth and hear Mom chuckle.
"Slow down, honey. You're going to give yourself a stomach ache." I stare her shocked.
"Mom! How can you even think about relating a stomach ache with pancakes! Pancakes are the best thing in the world!" I shout, my mouth stuffed with pancakes. Pancakes are the best thing in the world, well expect for Ally. But it evens out, since pancakes don't leave you after a silly fight. Mom notices my sudden change of mood and tries to cheer me up.
"So, what are you going to do today? Are going to head over to Sonic Boom?" I wince at the mention of the store.
"No, I don't really go there anymore." I say hoping that she doesn't drag the topic on. But of course, she does.
"Why ever not? You used to go there all the time." She looks at me expectantly.
"There is nothing to do there anymore."
"Look honey, I know you are upset about Ally leaving but it has been a year now. You need to get on with your life." I pleadingly look at her.
"Ok fine! I won't make you go to the store but at least work a bit on you music. You haven't written any songs in ages." I groan but give in to the offer. I finish the rest of the pancakes and grab my guitar. I sulk over to my room and start playing some random chords. I get to about the chorus when I realise that I am playing 'You can come to me'. This was supposed to be our song but there is no 'us' anymore. Anger starts to bubble out of nowhere and all of sudden I have the need to throw something. I grab the first thing I see and throw it hard at the wall. The loud crash breaks me out of that state of anger, only to put me in a state of panic. I pick the broken guitar up ad inspect the damage. Mom is definitely going to kill me. Guess I need to go to the store today after all.
I run over to Sonic Boom, desperate to get there before Mom notices I'm gone. As I slow down catch my breath, I see the entrance from a distance. All the memories start coming back as I think back to the time of Team Austin (& Ally, after she conquered her stage fright). It seems so long ago when we first met here. Back then we thought that we would be friends forever, now look at us. I mean me, Dez and Trish are still friends but Ally has left; it just doesn't feel like a team without her.
I let out a nervous sigh as I walk in the store and take a look around. Nothing really has changed except Mr Dawson works here instead of Ally now. I look around for Dez as he was supposed to meet me here. He is nowhere in sight so he must have gotten caught up or something. I go over to the counter to talk to Mr Dawson but he is not there either so I decide to look at the guitars myself. After 10 minutes of searching, I finally find a one that looks almost exactly like my old one. Yup, Mom won't be able to tell the difference. I walk to the counter to see if Mr Dawson is back yet but no one's there. I sigh and decide to wait there patiently until he comes back. Since I have nothing better to do, I look around the store. As I look around, my eyes see some very familiar hair. No, it can't be her.
I take a deep breath and walk closer to her. I am only an inch away from her when she turns around. I stare into those brown eyes and I can instantly tell it's her. My eyes widen as I realise that she's back. A million questions zoom through my head; when did she come back; why did she come back; how long will she stay? I open my mouth but I am unable say anything; I must look like a gaping fish! She finally breaks the awkward silence.
"H-h-hi, Austin." She stammers out and somehow, that give me the courage to talk.
"Ally? What, when, why?" I blubber out like an idiot.
"My course at MUNY was only a yearlong course so I am back." She says, shifting around nervously. I can tell she is resisting the urge to chew her hair. I feel my stomach do a summersault and all I want to do is hug her but I knock some since into myself. She must still hate me for what I did since she didn't even try to contact me even once nor did she say thank you for the flowers.
"So, how was the weather in New York?" I ask desperate to keep the conversation going.
"Good. How was the weather in Miami while I was gone?"
"Good. We had a few storms but good." This conversation could not be more awkward.
"That's good. The storms aren't good but that was good is good. So, do you want to buy something?" I suddenly remember the reason I am here.
"Yes. Can have this guitar? My other one broke."
"Sure." We walk over to the counter and I hand her the money. She gives me the receipt and I decide it's time to go because I don't want to make things anymore awkward.
"So, I better get going but it was nice to see you again, Ally." I hope she didn't see me wince at her name.
"It was nice to see you too, Austin. Bye." I walk out of the door, only to see Trish and Dez walking in. I immediately see panic in Trish's eyes but it is gone as soon as it came. Dez just waves to me and joins Ally in the store. I scoff as I walk away from the store. Obviously they knew that Ally was back but they didn't bother to tell me. I run straight home and see Mom waiting for me in the kitchen with my broken guitar in her hand. Her expression changes as soon as she sees me so I know she can tell something's wrong. I sit down and tell her everything.
Ally's POV
"How did it go? Was he mad?" I turn around to see a worried Trish behind me.
"He was fine. Though, it was pretty awkward between us, we couldn't find anything to talk about." I sit down, prepared for the long conversation that just started.
"Well Ally, he was in shock. The last time he saw you wasn't the best time for the two of you. You were both mad at each other and he found out your leaving. And he didn't know when you would come, if you even would." Trish explains. I sigh.
"I know. I didn't expect it to be like old times but I just hoped that things wouldn't be awkward. I hope it will get better though." Without any warning, a single tear rolls down my cheek. I wipe it away and Trish doesn't comment about it. Either she didn't see it or chose to ignore it; I hope it is the first one.
"Cheer up, Ally. Come on, we are going to have an awesome time at your welcome back party! Maybe he will warm up to you being back then." Dez says trying to cheer me up, only to get elbowed in the ribs by Trish.
"You dooshbag!" She turns to me and tries to explain. "Ignore him, Ally. I have no idea where he got that party idea from!"
"But you said-" A very confused Dez begins.
"Shut it!" Seeing this will take forever, I butt in.
"Come on, let's go to the practice room, we have a ton of catching up to do." With that, we get up and head over to the practise room.
The practice room hasn't change a bit. Straight away, I could tell the no one had been in here for ages. But I didn't let that bother me; we talked for ages about different things without even being interrupted once. It was just like the old time but how the conversation somehow got back to Austin.
"So, Ally. Why haven't you called me and Austin at all during you time in New York? We would have loved to have heard from, especially Austin." Trish shoots Dez an evil eye because of the sudden change in my mood.
"You guys never tried to contact me so I figured you were still mad at me for leaving. I mean, Austin didn't even come to the airport." I squeak out in a small voice. Trish hand me some water to make me feel a bit better.
"What? No, Ally. I didn't contact you because I thought you would call me if you wanted to and Austin did contact before you left. You didn't reply so he thought you didn't want to talk to him ever again." I choke of the water.
"He did?! But I never got anything from him!" I exclaim, my eyes going very wide.
"Didn't you get the roses?" I think back to the night I left.
Flashback
Somehow, word of me leaving had leaked through to the public and now they just won't leave me alone. I am trying to pack my last minute things but I keep interrupted by flower deliveries for me. I try to change my clothes before he comes back so I can finally leave for the airport. I pull down my shirt as I hear another knock on the door. I groan plaster a smile on my face as I open the door
"Flower delivery for Ms Allyson Dawson from-"
"Yes, yes. Thank you." I grab the flowers from the delivery guy because was I honestly didn't have enough time to listen to the name every one of my fans. As I close the door, I notice these aren't the usual kind of flowers I get. Someone went to a lot of effort to buy these red roses for me. Red roses aren't usually available in December here. They are beautiful but I can' take them to New York with me so I put them on my bed side table. As I do, I notice there is a card as well but I don't have enough time to read it so I just stuff in my drawer. I hear Dad call me so I know the taxi must be here.
End of Flashback
"Yes, I did! I remember there was a card too! Do you guys mind if I go to see if it's still there?" I ask, hoping for a no.
"Yes!" Dez exclaimbut Trish stomps on his foot to knock some sense into him.
"Of course not. You go ahead, Ally." I give Trish a thank you look and head off.
I enter the house and look around for Dad. I see my luggage lying in in lounge and I can tell he has gone off somewhere. I sigh; I can't believe I expected him to return to work. I run up the stair to my room but much to my dismay, it's locked. After searching the house 3 times, I finally find the key inside the cookie jar (?). I unlock the door to find my room exactly as I left it; the bed made, my keyboard on my desk and a bunch of dead roses on my bedside table. Frantically, I search through my drawer, finally succeeding to pull out a card addressed to me. I rip it open and start reading.
Dear Ally,
I am sorry for being such a jerk. Please don't leave because of me though. I will miss you too much. I am really bad at expressing myself, so I wrote you a song to tell you how I feel. I will wait for you at Sonic Boom tonight.
Austin.
I turn the card over and find some lyrics.
Tear drops in your chocolate eyes
I can't believe I made you cry
It feels so long since we went wrong
But you're still on my mind
Never meant to break your heart
Sometimes things just fall apart
So here's one night to make it right
Before we say goodbye
So wait up, wait up
Give me one more chance
To make up, make up
I just need one last dance
Tears stream down my face. I feel like such a brat right now. He has every right to hate me; I should have read that before I left. I collapse on my bed and start sobbing. I just wish he can forgive for what I did.
Austin's POV
Mom listens to everything I have to say, surprisingly without interrupting. When I finish, she stare in my eyes and starts to talk.
"Listen, Sweetie. If you think that she has moved on from you, then you need to move on from her."
"But I can't!" I exclaim, hoping she will understand.
"Why not? You have a new songwriter and everything. You don't need Ally." I can't believe Mom would say that. I will always need Ally.
"I will always need her! If not as my songwriter, then as my friend!"
"Austin honey, are you sure this isn't about something else?"
"No…Yes…I don't know! All I know is that she makes me feel really happy and that I don't want to lose her. But it seems like she doesn't want me anymore."
"Austin, I'm sorry but if she has moved on then you must too. You always did that before her with other people, what are you waiting for this time?" I look away and stare at the sky.
"I still need my dance."
Whew, that was a lot! This is as a sorry for the late update. By the way, I changed the lyrics in the song. So, instead of "hazel eyes", it is "chocolate eyes" because Ally has brown eyes. I have a request for you readers. Can I please have 5 reviews this time? Please, I put a lot of effort in these chapters and I get a bit put off when I only get 1 or 2 reviews for them. Hope guys enjoyed the story and let me know if you want me to continue it. Also, I can't update tomorrow, but if you guys want me to continue it, I will update on Monday.
Delayed Happy New Year!
Amn