At lunch Trish found Austin in the food court alone, enjoying a burger. "So you don't think Dallas is good enough for Ally either, huh? she said to him.

"Nope," Austin said casually with his mouth full of burger.

"Why not?" she asked digging for information.

"You said, yourself you didn't think he was good enough for," Austin replied more into his burger than he was in the conversation.

"Yeah but I want to hear your reasons"

"Well, it's like you said, I don't think he's good enough for Ally. She's out of his league. Ally could do so much better" Austin was still unsure of what Trish was getting at.

"Right…Ally needs someone who can match her creative musical talents,who can relate to her, understand her, but still be different from her so there's a balance…"

"yeah, yeah…" austin said not completely listening.

"someone like…YOU!" Trish pointed out.

"yeah..yeah…I mean-WHAT-NO?" Austin spat out the food in his mouth and caught on to what Trish was talking about, "what is it with you and Dez thinking I like Ally like that. We're friends and music partners. that's it. that's all. She's like a sister. I'm sure she would want someone good for me just as much as I want someone good for her. Now if you excuse me I…uh…gotta go…just remembered my mom asked me to mow my bedroom this afternoon…see ya" Austin darted off before Trish could say anything else to him.

" Mow his bedroom?" Trish said to herself, "oh he's totally into her" She began to drink his soda he left behind.

Back at his house, Austin was kicking himself in the head trying to convince himself that he didn't like Ally in that girlfriend-boyfriend kind of way.

"No. no. NO!" he said to himself as he kicked across some clothes that were lying on the ground of his messy bedroom. "She's your songwriter. A friend. That's all she ever will be. You care about her because she would do the same for you. We have to have each other's backs if we're going to make it into the music industry."

"you're not jealous. you don't care who she dates. just not Dallas. with his cool hair and charming smile. pfft he probably makes all the girls swoon. bet he could have any girl the mall. why did he have to pick Ally…"

"I mean I guess she smells nice. And her brown hair is really shiny and bouncy. The way that she smiles could light up anyone's day. And when her eyes twinkle when…"

"NO! stop it! shut up! You can't be falling for her! Even if she wasn't dating Dallas you could't be with her. If we were dating, it would mean risking breaking up and…then what? I'd be down a song writer…and a good friend."

"ARRGHH" Austin flopped on his bed screaming into his pillow.

"there's only one way to solve this…" he said to himsel