A/N: I am sooo sorry I haven't updated in like, a month! I was super busy with school ending, and final exams, so I was pretty much eating, breathing, and sleeping studying! But, it's summer vacation now, so hopefully I'll be doing lots of writing!

Enjoy this chapter! Oh, and hopefully I update "Living Life to the Fullest" soon, but no promises! I'm sorry!

Austin POV

It had been a week since Ally had woken up, and she was doing much better. She was allowed out of bed now, as her bruises were all gone, the cuts were cleared up, and her ribs were healed. All that remained was a broken leg and the stitched up gash on her forehead.

She still had to remain in the hospital for a few more days, but she didn't have to wear that hospital gown during the day, which I'm sure she was thankful for. Today, she was wearing jean shorts and a purple tank top with a locket that I had given her the previous day. Her hair was pulled up into a ponytail. Bottom line, she looked beautiful.

I was sitting with Ally in her hospital room playing cards at the table with her when her dad walked in.

"Sorry to interrupt, but Austin, Mrs. Mendez would like to see you. She says she has a surprise," he told me.

I looked at Ally. "Do you want to come with me? I'm sure Mrs. Mendez would love to meet you."

She nodded. "Okay."

"I'll see you two later," Mr. Dawson smiled before leaving the room.

I stood up and walked around the table to Ally.

"Have fun," she giggled as I grabbed the handles of her wheelchair and pushed her towards the door. She wasn't allowed crutches until she was discharged from the hospital.

"Pushing a wheelchair takes no effort, Ally," I said. "Especially if it contains someone who weighs as light as a feather, like you."

"No effort, huh?" Just as we reached the door, she threw her arms out and grabbed the sides of the doorway so I couldn't move anywhere.

"Glad to see your humour is back," I grunted as I tried to push her through the door. She broke into fits of laughter.

"Oh c'mon strong boy, you can do it!" Ally laughed.

A plan formed in my head, and I smiled smugly. "Oh my god, is that Melody Sanderson?" Melody was the most popular girl in our school, and tons of guys liked her.

"What, where?" Ally shrieked. "Austin, I swear if I look back there and your jaw is hanging open, I'm going to-" While Ally was threatening me, she had taken her arms off the doorway, and I took advantage of that to push her through quickly.

She realized what I did. "Oh, screw you."

I chuckled. "Oh, you love me."

"You're lucky I do, otherwise you wouldn't be getting off the hook so easily," she muttered.

I just grinned and kept pushing her towards the elevator. She pressed the up button and the door opened.

"You know, I think we should do something to thank Mrs. Mendez's daughter and their classes," I told Ally as I pushed her inside and pressed the button for the third floor.

She looked up at me. "Yeah, I was thinking about that too."

"I'm not talking about just writing them a thank you letter either. I'm talking about going to their school and thanking them personally," I replied. "Like with a mini concert type thing."

Ally smiled. "That sounds perfect."

The elevator dinged and we went out into the lobby. I spotted Mrs. Mendez behind the counter.

I wheeled Ally over. "Hi, Mrs. M."

She looked up from her work. "Oh, hello there, Austin! How are things?"

"They're much, much better," I smiled.

She grinned. "That's great." She looked over the counter and down at Ally. "Now, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you're Austin's girlfriend, Ally."

Ally giggled. "Yeah, that's me."

Mrs. Mendez laughed and stuck her hand out to shake Ally's. "It's nice to finally meet you, Ally, Austin's told me lots about you. I'm glad to see that you're okay."

"Thanks," Ally smiled gratefully.

"Austin was right, you are a beautiful girl," Mrs. Mendez said.

I could feel my face burning while Ally giggled. "Oh, thank you."

"How did you like your cards?" Mrs. Mendez asked.

"They were amazing, I love them. No one has ever done anything like that for me," Ally replied.

"I'll let my girls know you loved them," Mrs. Mendez said.

"Oh, speaking of your daughters, we wanted to do something to thank them for what they did, their classes too," I said.

"What did you have in mind?"

"Well, we were thinking of going to their school and I could put on a little concert thing, for free," I said.

"We'd check with the principal first, of course," Ally added quickly.

"Also, would you mind if Ally and I met your daughters ahead of time? Since it was their idea?" I asked.

Mrs. Mendez shook her head. "Of course, that's absolutely fine. You two can come over to our place while Jenna and Jaci are in school if you want. It'll be a surprise when they get home."

Ally grinned. "Does the fifteenth work? That's in a week, and it gives us time to get ready."

"Yes, that's perfect," Mrs. Mendez said.

"We'll check with the principal today," I said.

Mrs. Mendez pulled out a piece of paper from a file. "This is the school's information."

I took it from her and thanked her. "Oh, Ally's dad said you had a surprise for me?"

"Oh, that's right! I forgot about that." She checked her watch. "It should be here soon."

I looked at Ally and shrugged. "We'll wait over here then."

"Alright." I pushed Ally to the waiting area and sat down in a chair beside her.

"What do you think it is?" she whispered to me.

"I have no idea," I whispered back.

We waited for a few minutes before I heard a doctor's voice in the hallway. "Have her come back in a week and we'll see how her progress is doing."

"Thank you, doctor," a woman's voice answered.

I looked at Mrs. Mendez, who was smiling. "Looks like your surprise is here."

I heard footsteps, and a few seconds later, Lisa appeared with Miranda at her side. Miranda was wearing a green sundress and her head was wrapped in a pink bandana. Her blue eyes were as lively as ever.

She spotted me and a huge smiled spread across her face. "Austin!"

I grinned and stood up as she came running over to me. At the last second, I leaned down and picked her up as she threw her little arms around my neck.

I laughed. "Hi Miranda, how are you doing?"

"Good! I missed you! No one else plays Kelly like you do," she said.

"Well, I missed you too! And that's because I'm the best at playing Barbie's," I joked, causing her to giggle.

She caught sight of Ally. "What's your name?"

"I'm Ally," Ally smiled kindly.

Miranda's eyes widened and I set her down. She wrapped her arms around Ally's good leg. Ally laughed and patted her back softly.

"Austin told my mommy about you when I was here last time. You're his girlfriend, right?" she said as she pulled away from Ally's leg.

Ally nodded and Miranda smiled. "Well, I'm happy you're awake now!" She saw Ally's leg. "You broke your leg?"

Ally gave a small, sad smile. "Yeah, I did, but it's getting better."

"I hope it gets better really, really fast!" Miranda exclaimed. "Like, this fast!" She held her arms out as wide as they could go, like she was trying to show how long something was.

Ally and I smiled. "I do too. Thank you, Miranda."

Lisa came over and patted my shoulder. "It's good to see you again, Austin."

"You too, Lisa." I put my hands on Ally's shoulders. "This is my girlfriend, Ally. Ally, this is Miranda's mom, Lisa."

They shook hands. "It's nice to finally meet you. Austin told me what happened. I'm very glad to see that you're alright, dear," Lisa smiled kindly.

"Thank you, I'm extremely lucky to be alive," Ally said. I wrapped my arms around her shoulders from behind in comfort and set my chin on her head.

"When Mrs. Mendez found out that we were coming in for another check-up, she said that you were still here, and Miranda was thrilled she would get to see you again," Lisa told me.

I glanced at Miranda, who was know climbing her way onto Ally's lap, making little grunting noises of hard work. The girl was only six. I smiled.

"Miranda, honey, be careful of Ally's leg!" Lisa scolded her daughter.

"It's okay, Lisa, I don't mind," Ally said. Miranda curled up onto Ally's lap, with her head in the crook of Ally's neck.

Lisa smiled. "She seems to really like you."

"Ally's a very likeable person. Too likeable, actually," I said.

"Hush up Austin," Ally told me quietly, though she was smiling.

"Just stating the facts," I replied simply.

"Mommy, can I go to the play room with Austin and Ally?" Miranda asked.

"If they don't mind." Lisa looked up at us, and we shook our heads.

"Yay!" Miranda exclaimed happily.

"I've got some forms to fill out, so you can take her while I'm doing that," Lisa said.

I nodded, and pushed Ally down the hall towards the play room, with Miranda still in her lap.

When we got there, I lifted Miranda carefully off of Ally's lap and set her down. She ran over to the coloring section. "I'm going to draw you a picture Ally! And then I'll draw one for you Austin." She happily started coloring.

"Austin, you must be in heaven," Ally teased.

"Why?"

"You're surrounded by coloring books," she said.

My eyes widened. "Good point." I sat down and grabbed a coloring book and started to color tons of different pictures.

Ally coloured too, and the three of us talked. After about twenty minutes, Miranda had two pictures drawn.

"One for you," she handed a picture to Ally, "And one for you!" She gave me the other one. It was a whole bunch of flowers with a Love: Miranda! in the corner.

"It's very nice, Miranda, thank you," I smiled.

"Very pretty Miranda, thanks," Ally smiled. Ally's was a big rainbow with two butterflies. Hers also said Love: Miranda! on it.

Miranda yawned and rubbed her eyes.

"Oh, looks like someone's sleepy," I said.

She yawned again. "Nooo. No, no. Not sleepy."

"You're not sleepy?" I asked doubtfully, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I'm sleepy," Miranda nodded tiredly. She crawled into Ally's lap again, and within minutes, she was fast asleep.

"She is the most adorable little girl ever," Ally whispered as we looked down at Miranda.

I smiled and wheeled Ally out of the room and down the hall back to the lobby. "I know, she's pretty great."

When we got back to the front desk, Lisa was waiting. She smiled when she saw her daughter. "Oh, someone is a little tired."

She came over and gently scooped Miranda up off of Ally. "Thank you, kids."

"It's not a problem at all, she's a sweetheart," Ally said.

Lisa looked at her watch. "We better get going. Thank you again!"

We smiled and waved as she left the elevator. We followed shortly after, after we had a quick conversation with Mrs. Mendez about our other plans.

"You know, I just realized something," Ally said as we entered her room again.

"Oh yeah? What's that?"

"That I love you about a million times more after seeing you with Miranda today. I have never seen a guy as good with kids as you are," she told me.

I chuckled and leaned down so that I was face to face with her. "You were just as good with her, and I'm pretty sure she adores you, so I love you a million times more too."

She smiled as I leaned down to kiss her. When we broke apart, she whispered, "Good."

A/N: Hope you guys liked that chapter! How did you like me bringing Miranda back? I just love her! :) Please review, I need reviews if you guys want me to post the last chapter! That's right, only one more chapter to go, but I've got a few more stories thought out, so hopefully those are up soon!

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