3rd Person POV
It was early, Saturday morning. The sun crept through Austin's curtains and seeped through his shut eye lids, creating a red tint inside his vision. He squinted as he slowly woke to reality and saw that the clock said 6 am. Sunshine is a disadvantage to living in Florida sometimes.
Still lousy, his hand reached out to the night table on the right side of his bed and gripped his phone. He just woke up and his phone was already blowing up with text messages and reminders.
Trish: Don't forget to meet up with all of us at 5:30 so we can run through the show!
Yep. It was Austin's big day and for some reason he wishes it was over with. All the prepping wont be necessary if everything goes downhill. Hopefully everybody gets it together.
WeirdoICallMyFriend: Dude! They just gave out free pancakes at this place called IHOP! They really work! I've been hopping for an hour!
Austin chuckled under his breath as he read Dez's text. His mood is so bipolar though. One second Dez could be the most sincere person then out of nowhere he does something odd…..Yeah Austin doesn't understand it either.
Ally's picture instantly popped up on his screen and tapped it twice to view her message.
Allygator: Hey! I know it's early, but did you want to meet up sometime before the show? I have an idea for the performance tonight!
Austin held a gaze on the Ally's contact picture. It was a picture of the two of them in the back seat of his parents car when they went to the zoo once. Trish had taken it while when they arrived because Austin had never been to one and flipped out when they first saw the gate to enter.
He began clicking all the buttons, forming a reply then sending it within seconds.
Austin: Sure! Time and place?
Austin set the phone back on his chest, waiting until the familiar ringtone of Finally Me played. Sometimes he didn't reply immediately because he loved hearing the full song.
Allygator: Noon at the Jungle Café?
Austin began replying till the phone slipped out of his fingers and collapsed onto his face. He flinched as it hit his nose and slid down his chin and onto the covers. Screw technology sometimes.
Once he got out of bed, his vision began to be all weird and everything turned slightly black. It happened every morning when he woke up, a good stretch would make it go away.
That morning he showered, ate a pancake, went to costume fitting for the show and ended up rushing to meet Ally at the Jungle Café. He was 10 minutes late but knowing Austin's schedule, she probably wouldn't mind.
"Sorry I'm late!" Austin apologized as he ran up to the empty seat at Ally's table. He wore his usual skinny jeans with the chain on the side and a purple hoodie with a black shirt underneath.
"It's fine. I figured today would be a busy day for you," Ally said as she seemed awkward, with her hands folded in her lap and legs crossed.
"So, what's the big idea?" Austin asked, anxious to hear how to save the night.
"Radioactive is your opening number right?" Ally asked as he nodded. "Well you shouldn't start out on stage. Dez and I will get smoke machines and have strobe lights surrounding the center before you enter. To help that work, I've created an alternate intro to the song to give you time for all of it."
Ally opened her ipad and had the song recorded on it. She played it and the new intro consisted of background "Ohs" while a light strum of the guitar played.
"That sounds awesome!" Austin complimented. "How should I enter then?"
"Easy! You'll be onstage, but you'll start out on the ground like a dead zombie!" Ally informed.
"Isn't it going to look weird when I try to stand up?" Austin asked.
"No. You'll have the headphone mic on and you'll do that cool trick where you start out lying down but then you flop your body weirdly and jump to your feet," Ally tried explaining as Austin chuckled to himself. "Do you get what I mean?"
"Yeah, I get it. Thanks, Ally," Austin thanked. He rose from the chair but Ally wasn't completely done yet.
"Actually, I was hoping that you weren't busy," Ally spoke up.
"Well I have an hour before Trish wanted to meet up with me. What did you want to do?" Austin asked, quite curious.
"I wanted to talk to you. I thought we could take a walk on the beach," Ally said.
"A walk on the beach? Is this like some informal date?" Austin teased as Ally rolled her eyes in response.
"No. I never really get to talk to you without something interrupting and thought the beach was the perfect place. Calm, relaxing, no interruptions," Ally went into detail and Austin was afraid of what she would bring up while they were "talking".
"Um, sure," Austin replied as Ally smiled and they made there way to the beach.
No interruptions on the beach? Haha, wasn't Ally in for a surprise.
The slight breeze caused both of their hair to flow to the right as they strolled along the bay. Ally went barefoot, with her sandals in her right hand and her left hand occasionally brushing against Austin's. Her red shades rested on the roof of her head, slowly tilting forward.
"I want to apologize," Ally spoke up.
"For what?" Austin wasn't quite sure what for. Kissing him then repeatedly shoving him out the door, criticizing his girlfriend or was it for constantly messing up his mind…..He wasn't sure.
"Everything's been such a mess lately and I feel like no matter what I do, I seem like I'm doing something wrong. Kissing you for example," Ally paused while making sure to avoid contact with Austin.
"So, kissing me was wrong?" Austin lightly spoke while gazing off into the horizon.
"It was wrong in the sense of you having a girlfriend," Ally explained.
"So if Kira wasn't in the picture, you would admit to enjoy kissing me?" Austin assumed. Within milliseconds a strike of every emotion ran through Ally's system. Her cheeks swelled red as she couldn't help but to smile.
"No. I never said that," Ally defended but wasn't really good at it.
"You didn't have to," Austin simply spoke as Ally stopped her tracks. Austin continued with a smirk as she was stranded about four feet behind with a grin that went from ear to ear.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Ally asked with a hint of curiosity. She knew she was bad at hiding her emotions, but why would Austin assume everything.
"Nothing. It just means, your easy to figure out. When your happy, you take extremely fast and your hand gestures fly everywhere, almost slapping people in the face," Austin explained as he kicked his feet through the smooth sand.
"What about when I'm angry?" Ally asked.
"You have trouble completing your sentences because you don't know the words to say. You're not the one to use negativity towards others," Austin was hitting these answers out of the park. Ally didn't even recognize these signs.
"Upset?" Ally wondered.
"Your face goes blank as if you saw someone rise from the dead," Austin joked. "That's when you start speaking about 5 words per minute and try avoiding all direct contact."
They went about half a mile down the beach already and the sun was directly on Ally. She tried doing that cool trick that Austin could do with his sunglasses, when he jerks his head forward and the shades were supposed fall perfectly on the tip of your nose. Her head bobbled back and forth and without noticing, Austin walk alongside her, giggling lightly.
"What exactly are you trying to accomplish?" Austin wondered. He worried about her sometimes. She finally got the shades to land on her nose and could see that the light of her vision had dimmed.
"There we go! I was trying to do that little sunglasses trick you do," Ally informed as she lightly blushed. They walked in silence for a good 15 seconds till Austin spoke once more.
"You know what your most obvious emotion is?" Austin spoke.
"What?" Ally really had no idea.
"Admiration," Austin gushed. "Your eyes fall into this haze when you lock them with someone else's, you start using this high pitched voice and your body gets all flimsy and your cheeks turn red," Austin said as he glanced at her and flushed her cheeks.
"I guess you could say I'm an open book," Ally suggested.
"It's better that way. You got nothing to hide. People see the real you," Austin began to blush as well, but his face was turned toward the ocean rather than Ally. To get his attention she kicked a mound of sand towards his feet, causing him to slip a bit.
All her rows of teeth beamed at him as she had a teasing attitude taking over. With a smirk, he kicked sand towards her feet, and it went back and forth. Ally saw an abandoned bucket lying in a half built sandcastle and assumed somebody left it there. When Austin wasn't looking, she dashed towards it and snatched it from the sand. Luckily, it was half full with sand and to avoid any problems, she aimed for his chest as the sand flew into the air and slammed into his hoodie.
Austin was caught off guard as he saw the sand stick to his clothing. With his jaw drooped open and a smirk slipping on his face, he ran up to her and captured her in his arms. With the bucket still in her grasp, she leaned over and got a handful of water and splashed it in Austin's face. That didn't keep him from releasing her. Ally grew weak as she got tangled in his arms, her shades collapsed into the sand and he lifted her over his shoulders.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! PUT ME DOWN!" Ally demanded as she let out some chuckles as he crept in the water. He decided to throw her into the water, until she caught his arm and ended up bringing him under with her.
This gave her time to get back to the shore. Her clothes were soaked and slowly dripped as her body rose above water.
"I hope you know you ruined a perfectly good outfit!" Ally yelled as she observed her clothes while on shore. Austin was fumbling in the water, trying to trudge his way through the waist deep water he was in.
"It was totally worth it," Austin admitted as he approached Ally.
This is Miami of course, and you are always going to share the beach with strangers. Half of the people tanning were watching them and a few others observed as they passed by.
Austin leaned over to retrieve Ally's shades from the sand. With the edge of his hoodie, he wiped the lenses and the rims until you could see the red. He carefully slid them behind her ears and onto the tip of her nose.
In this moment it wasn't Miami, it wasn't reality, it didn't feel fictitious either. It was as if it was just the two of them. Austin & Ally.
There eyes locked and Ally was hypnotized by Austin's chestnut eyes, but he couldn't see hers very well. The tips of his fingers gripped the glasses and slid them off.
Inch after inch, they crept towards each other. Austin was the first to lean in, but Ally wasn't being hesitant anymore.
"There's something I've been needing to tell you for a couple days, but something always seemed to come up," Ally spilled.
"Well now would be a good time," Austin teased as they grinned, noses touching, lips inching closer till he felt a tug on his soaked jeans.
They both glanced down at a young girl, who had her hair up and a pink one piece swim suit holding a boogie board. They slowly parted as Austin kneeled down to her level.
"You're Austin Moon right? The one who sings on the internet?" The little girl spoke with a high pitched tone. Austin giggled as he nodded in reply.
"Sure am! There's only one of me," Austin joked as the girl smiled. She seemed about 7 years old.
"Could you sign my boogie board?" The girl asked, holding out her board and a sharpie she had. First Austin was curious to why she had a sharpie at the beach, but then again, it's Miami. You never know who you might run into.
His signature printed across the board in big letters. The smile that appeared on her face made both his and Ally's heart light up. The feeling of being a role model was a feeling that still overwhelms him.
The little girl was about to turn away till she glanced at Ally with wide eyes.
"Is that your girlfriend?" She asked. The two of them giggled as Austin glanced up at Ally.
"That's my music partner, Ally," Austin informed.
"I heard you on the radio once! You could sing like…..6 different languages!" The girl grew excited and jumped around in the sand. Technically it was Trish that was doing the radio interview that day, but it was nice that she recognized her. " Can you sign the other side?"
Ally froze, she had never gotten asked to sign anything before. Especially from a fan of Austin's. She knelt beside Austin and the little girl gave her the marker.
"I'd love to!" Ally finally got the chance to use her signature for something. Once she was finished, she handed the marker back and girl threw her arms around the both of them in a hug. Austin and Ally glanced at each other even thought they were embracing a little girl. She ran off and they rose to their feet in shock.
"That was my first autograph," Ally could hardly believe what had just happened. Austin gripped her hand tightly.
"Tonight, you'll have your second."
OOOOOH WHAT DOES THAT MEAN! The next chapter is the last one and then...THE EPILOUGE! It will feauture my thoughts on the end of Season 2! So who knows what will happen! Hope you enjoyed! Please Comment! You cold also check this story out on my QuoteV account Scream4R5FanFic!
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