Helloo! Can I just say that I am SO sorry that I haven't updated in AGES? Well I'll say it anyway. I'M SO SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T UPDATED IN AGES! Please forgive me? I feel really bad about it especially as I don't have a proper reason for not updating so I understand if you all get mad at me but I promise I will TRY and get back into the swing of things and upload more often. If any of you read my Hunger Games FanFic (It's Forbidden) I am truly sorry but I will have to put that on hold for a while because I mainly want to focus on this story. Sorry! Here's the Chapter though :)

Recap:

"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…

The Willow Tree:

We sat down on the bench and I awkwardly looked down at the floor while he gazed intently at me. I suddenly became fascinated with a small ant that was carrying leaves and such back and forth. It was almost as if I was embarrassed or ashamed even to look Austin in the face. Beside me, Austin coughed so as to get my attention.

"So," he began, "H - How have you been?" he asked, scratching the back of his neck – the first sign of shyness. Once again, I found myself stripped of the power to speak so I just nodded my head slightly, still determined on not looking him in the eye. He sighed,

"Please speak to me Ally. It was bad enough with you not calling me but now that we've met again the least you could do is answer my question!" he gasped. I knew it, I knew that me not calling had upset him and made him angry. Slowly and unwillingly, I lifted my head up and gazed into those mesmerizing eyes of his.

"I – I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you mad at me." I replied meekly. His gaze softened as he gave me a small smile.

"I'm not mad at you Ally. Sorry if that sounded a bit harsh, I didn't mean it to I promise. I just-" he paused, his beautiful face flushing.

I looked at him, "You just what?"

"I just thought that maybe you had forgotten about me or something." It was now his turn to look to the ground. My mouth fell open at these words – me forget about him! Was he crazy!

"Are you crazy?" I blurted out. Whoops – didn't mean to say that out loud. His head shot up again.

"Excuse me?" he questioned.

"No – No I don't mean it like that it's just I thought that you would be the one to forget about me! And the only reason I didn't call you every single hour of every single day was because when my I got home after we met, my dad saw my hand and then he started asking questions about until then he saw the piece of paper with your number on it and he started freaking out cause I'm not supposed to be interested in boys until I'm like 40 or something and so he jumped to conclusions and started shouting at me and then he –" I was cut off by someone's fingers on my mouth as if trying to shush me and only then did I realise I had not stopped to breathe during that whole time.

Austin looked at me: laughing and shaking his head,

"You are not like other girls Ally –" he paused making me blush.

"Dawson." I answered his silent question.

"Well Ally Dawson, don't worry about it. I understand that your dad may be slightly precautious. He's just worrying about your safety as any normal parent would." He said with a smirk.

"Well he shouldn't worry about me spending time with you." I smiled.

Austin looked at me with a glint in his eyes, "Hey! Don't jump to conclusions, for all you know I could secretly be a pedophile that just wants to lure you in so that I can-"

I cut across him because I don't want to know where he is going with this but all the same I am laughing along with him, "Ok! Too much information thank you Austin! Anyway, I trust you not to be a pedophile and I'm sure if my dad met you, he would see the good in you somewhere! No matter how deep down it may be." I smiled as he frowned at me playfully – God if he only knew how crazy he drives me!

"Now now Ally, play nice. Don't be a bad girl." I shushed him with a playful shove as he feigned getting hurt. "Huh! You've wounded me! How will I ever live? I – I see a bright light. Tell my mum I love her." He managed before "collapsing" to the ground below the bench.

Getting up and dusting my skirt, I crouched down beside him and shook his shoulders to get him up again. I was playing along until he didn't move.

"Austin? Austin get up, this isn't funny anymore!" he still wasn't moving. I started panicking now – I hadn't shoved him that hard had I? I lowered my ear to his mouth to check if he was breathing, when he suddenly shot straight up causing a collision between our heads. A thud echoed around the entire park, followed by loud groans from both of us as we clutched our throbbing heads.

"Ok we need to stop bumping in to each other!" moaned Austin.

I nodded my head in agreement, "It was your fault though, and if you hadn't scared me then I wouldn't have come so close which means we wouldn't have bumped heads in the first place!"

He smirked at me, "So you were worried about my well-being? Or could you just not manage to keep yourself away from my dashing good looks?" he replied cockily.

"Ha!," I snorted, "Don't flatter yourself Blondie." I remarked, referring to his hair.

Austin looked right up into my eyes and started to lean in closer to me, "Now why would I do that when I can easily get you to do it for me?"

We were both leaning.

Closer and closer.

His hand reached up to move some hair out of my face.

Our foreheads touched.

My eyes closed.

Everything was going perfect until,

"Austin?" someone screeched, "What do you think you're doing!"

My eyes shot open to see who had interrupted us but Austin had beaten me to it. He pushed me away and clambered back on to his feet to greet the intruder.

Once again, I am SO sorry for not updating in ages and I will definitely try a lot harder now. Hope you all had a good Christmas! Also, it was my birthday in November! Yay, another year older! :D