Hellooo! I actually had this Chapter written before I uploaded the first one but I just wanted to see what you guys thought! Thank you to Jay(Guest), queenc1, hoping for ally moon and Awesomesauce325 for being my first reviewers and to people that story alerted or favourited! :D

The Willow Tree:

The second time I met him was about a week later after my first day of school at Highwood. I had returned to the park everyday trying to see if Austin was there – he wasn't. I had debated calling him 2 or 3 times but I had eventually chickened out of it. Not too mention the fact that ever since dad found Austin's number, I had managed to convince him that it was the new librarian's number in case I wanted to join the new book club, he had been monitoring all my calls and texts. There was just something about him that made him unforgettable, his hair, his eyes, and his love for music – just everything! I had even written a few songs about him none of them were amazingly good and they were mostly just cheesy love songs but there was one that I particularly like that I had been working on for a couple of days and I only ever spend more than 1 day on a song that is going to be proper so obviously this meant something. It wasn't finished yet so I took my songbook with me everywhere I went incase I picked up inspiration out and about.

But anyway, it was my first day at Highwood. I woke up early and decided on the perfect outfit to wear. I chose a pale pink lace dress with a brown belt, brown shrug, brown low heel boots and a necklace with piano keys on it to symbolize my love for music. My mum had given me that necklace before she died; on the back it had been engraved to say Ally, Sophie and Lester Dawson the happiest family; now, forever, and always. Before I got too upset thinking about my mum, I went downstairs to get some breakfast to see my dad was already there.

"Ally, you look lovely. All ready for your first day of school?" he smiled.

I laughed at him, "Dad I'm 16 not 5, I have been to school before!" he sighed and nodded.

"I know but you're just getting so grown up and I miss the days when you were my care free little girl."

"I'll always be your little girl dad, but someday I'm going to have to grow up and become my own person too. I understand that to you I'm still little 5 year old Ally who couldn't play the piano to save her life but I'm growing up everyday." I calmly said, not wanting to hurt his feelings.

He looked up at me with tears in his eyes, "I understand. Gosh you remind me so much of your mum Ally. She would be proud of you, you're turning into the young woman she would have wanted you to be."

I smiled and went over to hug him, "I know you miss her dad, I do too but we have to live our lives without grieving too much. Mum would have wanted at least that and you know it" I gently comforted him.

He took a minute to collect himself before announcing it was time to leave for school. I followed him into the car as we drove off together listening and singing along to the radio, receiving odd looks from passers by – but hey, we were enjoying ourselves!

Once we arrived at the school, dad had to get to the Sonic Boom so he drove off leaving me with my lunch and instructions that the Headmistress had given me on where to go and what to do. I walked into the center of the court and noticed that all eyes were on me. Obviously they weren't used to new girls starting, especially not half way through high school life. The eyes followed me as I walked into the school building and unfortunately were still on me when someone barged by, knocking my belongings and myself to the ground.

I landed with a thud and looked up to see a group of 3 girls laughing at me.

"Whoops. Sorry didn't see you there!" a tall, thin, blonde girl giggled sarcastically flipping her hair back like they did in the movies. Her two friends, one with straight blonde hair and the other a curly brunette smirked at me.

"Oh um that's – that's ok I guess." I muttered. Remember how I said I get nervous around people?

"So fresh meat, what's your name?" she sneered at me.

I quickly stood up and brushed dirt of my dress before looking up at the girls, "I'm - I'm Ally, nice to meet you." I said sticking my hand out to them, at St. Teresa's the first thing we had learned was to always be polite to people and manners and stuff like that. The girl looked at my hand in disgust before sighing and walking away from me, her friends following in quick pursuit. So far, the day was not going well. I looked around to notice people were still gazing at me, but they quickly averted their eyes when they saw me look. I found my way to the Principle's office and knocked on the door. Once I was inside, I was informed on everything I needed to know about the school and my lessons. I was given a timetable and sent off to my first lesson with the promise that I was going to love it here and that I was a very 'valued addition'. I suppose that was true, you see, I didn't choose to come here but at St. Teresa's they choose one pupil every year who they think will excel the most academically and they give them a full scholarship to a prestigious school best suited for them. I was chosen and they sent me to the top school in the state for music – that school being Highwood.

I headed towards room 232 for Algebra and when I got there I noticed everyone as already seated and the teacher was just about to begin the lesson. I feebly knocked on the door as I entered the classroom; again all eyes were on me. I noticed that the three girls from earlier on were also in this class, as they saw me they immediately started laughing and whispering between the three of them.

"Aah wonderful you must be the new student from St. Teresa's, Allyson is it?" the teacher beamed at me. She was quite young and very pretty indeed, not exactly the type of teacher I thought would be teaching algebra but she seemed very nice.

"Um – it's – it's Ally actually." I corrected her.

"Ally." She nodded her head in approval and I was taken back to when Austin had done pretty much exactly the same thing. Oh Austin, was I ever going to see him again? I mean I had his number but I didn't want to risk getting caught from my dad and what if he had forgotten all about me! Maybe he hates me because I haven't called him? I was brought back to Earth by the teacher addressing me.

"Well Ally it's lovely to meet you, I'm Miss Browne and I teach music but the Algebra teacher Mr. Darris is ill today and I studied Algebra at University along with Music so I'm covering. I understand that you're here on the scholarship from St. Teresa's?" I nodded, liking this teacher more and more with every second.

"Well we have heard some amazing things about you, especially in Music, Algebra and English!" I blushed as some people gave me dirty looks for being praised from this teacher having only been at the school for 2 seconds - these people being Barbie and her cronies.

"Now if you would like to sit down, there is a seat next to Trish at the front here."

I rushed to the seat next to a short, Latino girl with impressively frizzy hair and got out my books. The lesson flew by and I soon learnt that Algebra definitely wasn't Highwood's strong point, most people starting shouting complaints when Miss Browne introduced letters into the equations. Me, I was fine, it was all stuff I had done years ago and I had finished most of the questions before people had written their names on the sheet.

After Algebra, we had a break so I just followed everyone else to the cafeteria. Once again, Barbie came up to me and knocked all of my stuff out of my hands.

"Well look who it is, Little Miss Know-It-All. You might want to watch your step around here, some people don't like being showed up." And with that she left me alone in the hallway to collect all of my things until someone came and helped, I looked up to see Trish from Algebra there smiling at me.

"I see you've met Cassidy then." She grimaced. So that was her name then?

"If by Cassidy you mean that walking Barbie doll then yes, unfortunately I have had the displeasure of meeting her." Trish laughed and I realised that I hadn't stuttered or mumbled or anything – maybe we could actually be friends!

"Yeah, that's her. Her blonde friend is Tilly Thompson and the brunette is Amy Jones, her twin goes to the boys school opposite here and along with some blonde dude he rules the school. Dallas I think his name is?" I wasn't really paying attention to his name though; did she say he went to the school opposite here? Didn't Austin say that he went there? Could it be -?

"I'm Trish by the way – I didn't really introduce myself back in class. Then again you were working through those equations so fast I didn't really have the chance!"

"Nice to meet you Trish, I'm Ally." I smiled thinking that maybe I was going to have at least one friend here.

The rest of the school day was a blur to me, in every lesson I was introduced and welcomed. The end of the day came to me so quickly that I was shocked when the finally school bell rang, still thinking myself to be in 2nd Period. Everyone rushed out of the school and I went to the car park to wait for my dad. It was about 15 minutes until I got a text saying that I would have to bet the bus to Sonic Boom to help out with the flow of customers, we weren't normally busy on Monday's so my dad had said he would close up for a bit and come and pick me up. Sighing, I made my way to the bus stop to find that all of the girls had left, and the Boys' School had just finished. Taking in my surroundings, I realised this was probably my worst nightmare ever. There were at least 20 boys all my age crowded around the bust stop and they stopped talking when I arrived to all stare at me. Some of the braver ones even wolf-whistled at me, which I really didn't understand but it was probably all just a joke. Feeling very uncomfortable, I went to walk to the other bus stop but collided with something strong and muscular. Something I recognized very well.

"Ally?" the blonde haired boy with the hazel eyes who had been on my thoughts for a week asked me in amazement.

"H- Hi Austin." I replied nervously. I was suddenly very aware that everyone had stopped talking and were all watching Austin and I very intently. Noticing this, Austin grabbed my hand and pulled me all the way to the park and right to where exactly a week, 2 days and 3 hours (but seriously who was counting?) ago we had met for the first time. It was the bench underneath the Willow Tree.

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