That night Austin laid in his bed, not able to sleep. He couldn't stop thinking about Ally. They spent the whole day together just laughing and talking. He didn't mention the kiss to her, in fear of what her reaction might have been. "she probably wouldn't have remembered it anyways," he thought to himself, "what she doesn't know can't hurt her."

But the thing was, was that it was hurting him. After that kiss, Ally was always on Austin's mind, more than she usually was. He couldn't stand being away from her, and he couldn't stand her not knowing.

He picked up the phone by his bed and dialled a number.

"Hello?" said a groggily, sleepy voice.

"Trish!" Austin said into the phone, "it's Austin!"

"Austin?" Trish said, still sleepy. She looked at her clock, " DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS? IT'S FREAKIN' 3 AM! YOU BETTER HAVE HAD A GOOD REASON TO -"

"Trish I need to talk to you about something that happened at the party last night,"

"Well why didn't you call Dez?" she whined.

"Because as much fun Dez is to be around and as good as a friend he is, you and I both know when it comes to talking about serious issues Dez doesn't control half the things says. He'd probably accidentally tell people the story that I don't want others to hear."

"So you called me?"

"It's about Ally, you're her best friend."

Trish was suddenly awoken by this, and started to listen more eagerly.

"and we're pretty good friends right?"

"austin i'm your friend and your manager, you can tell me anything," Trish said so he would feel more comfortable talking to her and she could hear whatever juicy story Austin had to tell, "okay so what's on your mind?" Trish said rushing to the news.

Austin had trouble for a moment where to start. "Well…I wanted to talk to you about something that happened last night…and I can't get it off my mind…so I thought maybe I should talk about it with someone…I can't talk to Ally because-"

"OH JUST SPIT IT OUT AUSTIN!"

Austin took a deep breath, "Ally kissed me last night!" he burst, "…and I kissed her back…"

"HA!" said Trish triumphantly, "I knew it!"

"Knew what?"

"That you're in love with Ally!"

"You really think it's love, Trish?"

"Austin, when I ask you to think of a girl, who's the first one to come to your mind?"

"Ally," Austin said like it was the obvious response.

"And if you had to pick only one girl to ever spend your time with, who would that be?"

"Ally"

"Which girl can you not stand to see with a guy that isn't you?"

"Ally"

"And can you imagine what your life would be like without Ally?"

"No,"

"I think you've answered your question," said Trish satisfied with her results.

Austin paused and thought everything through thoroughly. "Wow," he thought to himself, "So this is what love is? That tight feeling in your stomach when she's around. That uplifting feeling when she notices you. That incredible feeling when you hold her, it's like everything bad in the world has vanished and that everything is alright because you're holding her safely and you wouldn't dare let anything bad happen to her." Austin smiled into the phone, "Yeah," he said, "I think I have too."

"Good,"

"but Trish, what do I do now?" Austin began to panic, "what if Ally doesn't like me back when I tell her what I've realized! She doesn't remember the kiss! She probably didn't feel anything! I know she was the one that kissed me first, but that was probably the alcohol making her do funny stuff."

"Austin get a hold of yourself!" shouted Trish. She was about tell him that he has nothing to worry about and that Ally felt the same way during the kiss, but then she remembered she promised Ally that she wouldn't let Austin know that Ally remembered kissing him. Instead she said, "Ally's your friend, Austin, IF she doesn't return your feelings, which I highly doubt, then I'm sure she'll let you down the nicest most gentlest way possible. And don't you think Ally is worth the risk?"

Austin didn't need to think twice to answer that question, "Of course," he said.

"Good I'm glad we have that settled," said Trish with a yawn, "Now I'm going back to bed and sleeping in until noon. You better not call me again!"

Austin laughed and she hung up. Austin continued to think as he just laid in bed. He wanted a special way to reveal how he felt to Ally. He couldn't just give her pickles or take her cloud watching, that was too predictable. No, he was Austin Moon, and he was a Go-big-or-go-home kind of guy. Ally was special to him so it was about time she saw how special she was. He kept on thinking of ways to express himself but nothing was good enough. He continued to do this until he could no longer stay awake, and slowly fell asleep.