Whoops... sorry about posting the wrong chapter. Thanks to the people who were understanding about it :) I know I'm a day late with this.. well I guess I'm two days late now lol. I'll try sort it out soon, I've just been feeling so ill. I get in from college and sleep till like 2am. Anyway, some of you are probably going to be mad at this chapter, but I need to do something to keep the story going, so don't worry. They'll maybe get together soon ;)


Austin woke up in an unfamiliar environment. For a split second he forgot about the events of the nights before, but couldn't help but smile when they came back to him. He sighed as he sat up in the bed looking around. Ally was nowhere to be seen. He shrugged to himself, pulling his jeans on and stretching. "Good morning." Ally smiled entering the room.

"Morning." He nodded. "Where were you?"

"Well I took a shower and remembered I had to get an article in before it was too late. I didn't want to wake you."

"It's alright." He yawned. "Soooo."

"So?" She asked.

"About last night." He smiled. He was about to ask what it meant when the door went.

"Oh god." She jumped up in a panic. "It's Trish and Charlie."

"What's the big deal?" Austin asked.

"You need to leave, like now." She threw his shirt at him.

"Woah, you've changed your tune from last night." He pulled his shirt on.

"It's not that, I just don't want my son to see another man in his mother's bed! I'll call you or something." She looked out the window.

"Answer me this, was it just sex or did it mean something to you?" He asked.

"I don't know Austin, I'm confused. Can we talk about this later, please." She sighed.

"Ally open up!"

"Fine, fine. How am I supposed to get out without them seeing me?" He grabbed his keys.

"The back door." She grabbed his hand, pulling him down the stairs.

"I will be back later." He said.

"Whatever, just go now." She pushed him out the back door and ran to the front.

"What took you so long to answer?" Trish asked.

"I was upstairs, didn't hear the door." Ally lied.

"Right." Trish nodded.

"How was he?" She asked hugging Charlie.

"Great, we had a lot of fun, didn't we little guy?" Trish smiled down at the little boy who nodded smiling at his mother.


"So you two fucked.. and then.. you left?"

"It wasn't my choice to leave, she didn't want us to be seen together or something." Austin shrugged.

"I'm confused. You two are getting a divorce, why sleep with her?" Dez raised an eyebrow.

"I really don't know. It was weird, I don't know what came over me or her… I only went to apologize and then it happened." Austin smiled.

"Why do you have that creepy smirk on your face?"

"Because she was amazing."

"And we can leave this conversation at that." Dez shook his head laughing. "So, you think you two are in love now?"

"Love? No idea what the words means anymore." Austin sighed. "Anyway, I'm gonna head home and take a nap or something. My head is banging."

"Take care." Dez said walking to him the door.

"Oh I forgot to tell you my moms in town today, was gonna take her out for dinner around 8 on Wednesday, you should come."

"To your moms dinner?"

"You know she thinks of you as another son, she'd love to see you." Austin smiled.

"Well if you are paying I can't exactly say no can I?" Dez smirked.

"I'd be happy to pay as long as you don't order three desserts like last time."

"You know they all looked good! I have trouble choosing."

"Yeah yeah buddy." Austin laughed. "I'll call you."

"Till then."


"Son!"

"Mom?" Austin's eyes widened. "I thought you weren't due until tonight." He smiled and hugged her. "So did I but I got offered an earlier time and I thought why not. It's so good to see you!" She took a step back and looked him up and down. "You're getting fat." She patted his stomach. "Wow, I can feel the love." He laughed.

"I've been standing out here for an hour, can you blame me?"

"You should have called me." He pulled out his keys opening the door.

"I did, you didn't answer. Were exactly where you anyway?" She raised an eyebrow.

"I was just at Dez's." He shrugged.

"Oh sweet Dez. I've missed him too." She laughed taking a seat on Austin's beaten up couch. "Does your father not pay you?" She asked looking around.

"He does, he pays me more than enough. I just think there's better things to spend it on than furniture. You want a drink?" He asked heading in to the kitchen.

"Tea would be lovely."

"How was the journey here?" He said flicking the kettle on.

"Oh it was a nightmare! Let me tell you, if one more person…"

Ally - Sorry I had to rush you out like that. Thank you for not making a scene. It's better kept between us.

Austin - No worries. Did they suspect anything?

Ally - Charlie was clueless, Trish not so much, but she won't catch on.

Austin - Well that's good. You know I really did enjoy last night.

"Austin, are you even listening to me?" His mother said peering through the door.

"Huh?" He looked up from his phone. "Yeah, sorry."

"Who's that?" She smirked.

"It's just dad texting about work." He smiled and put his phone back in his pocket.

"How is Mike anyway?" She sighed.

"Same old. Nothing's really changed. He's still work crazy and obsessed with Gavin."

"Oh sweetie, you know he loves you."

"He sure has a funny way of showing it. I mean, I appreciated the job and stuff but sometimes it would be nice to hear, 'good job son' or 'that's my boy', you know?"

"I know." She nodded in agreement. "He's stubborn, part of the reason I left him."

"Sometimes I wish you had stuck around." Austin handed her the cup of tea he had been busy making. "It's not the same without you.. ever since the whole Piper thing."

"Darling, I know it's hard.. but I couldn't stick around here any longer. It was never going to get any easier for me." She sighed. "But I'm here now, if only for a few days." She smiled.

"Yeah, let's make the most of it." He smiled back, just as his phone went. He pulled it out and looked at the name calling. He had to double check that he wasn't seeing things before answering. "I'll be back in a sec mom." He answered the phone closing the door behind him.

"Piper?"

"Austin.. can you come pick me up?"

"Are you okay, what's going on?"

"Please, just come get me.. I don't know who else to turn to." He could tell she was crying.

"Uh.. okay.. where abouts are you?"

"The office."

"I'll be there as soon as I can." He hung up and thought to himself for second, completely ignoring the text from Ally. "Honestly, so did I."


"Thank you for coming." Piper got in the car.

"Sure.. what exactly happened?"

"Can you just drive me home, I'll tell you when we get there." She wiped her eyes.

"Alright.. alright."


"So, what happened?"

"It's Gavin.."

"What's wrong, is he okay?"

"He cheated on me."

"Oh fucking wow. You seriously get me over here to tell me that?"

"Austin please.." She looked down.

"I don't get you. You do know that you cheated on me with him, right? Serves you right."

"I never wanted to hurt you."

"But you did. You fucked me up, and now I'm supposed to feel sympathy for you?"

"Why are you being like this? I called you because you're usually understanding…"

"Goddammit." He sighed. "What happened exactly?"

"We were supposed to do lunch, and he didn't show up.. I went back to the office and he was there with some woman. It was horrible." She began crying again.

"Yeah, I know the feeling." He shook his head. "Was he actually doing anything though, or just talking?

"I didn't hang around long enough to see." She shrugged.

"So he could have just been talking to her. Look, I'm really sorry that he done that too you, if he did. But I don't know what you want me to do."

"I need you." She blurted out.

"Excuse me?" He raised an eyebrow.

"I've missed you.. I should never have left you."

"No no, we aren't't doing this." He pointed between them.

"So are you over me?"

"Yes.. maybe.. No. Look, I don't know Piper, but this just doesn't feel right anymore. I gave you everything I had, and you threw it all away." He sighed.

"Don't deny that you still have feelings for me." She said.

"Maybe I do, in fact, yeah I do. And I probably will for a long time, but do you not understand what you done? This is just some half ass attempt to get back at Gavin and you know it." He looked down. "I'd be lying if I said I didn't want this to happen at some point. For him to screw up and then you'd come back to me.. but things have changed now."

"Are you seeing someone else?"

"It's complicated."

"You either are, or you aren't." She stood up and walked over to him.

"Piper, please don't." He looked away from her.

"Just give it another chance Austin.. I'll make up for everything I done." She smiled. "I promise." She took his hand.

"I'm going to hell." He muttered.


"Alright spill, what's going on with you?" Trish closed the door behind her.

"Um, nothing." Ally shrugged.

"Bullshit. He was here wasn't he."

"Who?" Ally raised an eyebrow.

"Paul."

"Oh god no! Do you think I'm that low?" Ally scoffed.

"Someone was here! You are way too happy." Trish folded her arms.

"Am I not allowed to smile every now and again?"

"I'm your best friend, I know for a fact you're lying."

"Trish, cut it out. Please, it's not important."

"So someone was here! I knew it." Trish smiled and Ally rolled her eyes. She heard her phone and pulled out her pocket. "Is that the mystery man?" Trish smirked.

"Stop it." Ally shook her head before answering. "Hello?"

"I've been wanting this for so long Austin."

Ally's face dropped as she listened to the breathless conversation going on.

"Gavin never meant anything to me, it's always been you."

Ally took a deep breath before pressing the hang up button and throwing her phone to the floor. "Ally?" Trish rushed over to her. "What is it? What's wrong?"

"I should have known it was too good to be true…" Ally looked down.

"I'm really confused.." Trish picked up the phone and looked at the recent calls. "Austin?" Her eyes widened. "It was him who was here? Ally what the hell?"

"It doesn't matter anymore." Ally shook her head.


"Stop." Austin pushed Piper off him.

"What?"

"This doesn't feel right.. I can't do this."

"We've been over this Austin.. you know you want it as much as I do."

"Maybe, but there's something else I want more." He got up fixing his shirt.

"Are you kidding me?"

"I'm sorry, go talk to Gavin. It might not be what you think." He turned to the door.

"You'll regret this." She called after him, making him sigh.