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Chapter Twenty: Cassidy

"I was looking for this shirt." Austin said wrapping his arms around Ally's petite frame from behind. He had forgotten that Ally had taken his favorite dark blue flannel shirt hostage because of his procrastination. "You run out of clean clothes or something?"

"No I just woke up late and this is the first thing I grabbed." Ally said turning around. Standing on her toes so she was closer to Austin's height she kissed him intending it to be a short chaste kiss, thanks to Austin it was anything but.

As she was pressed up against the lockers engaged in a very heated make out session with her boyfriend she couldn't help but think that something had changed in Austin over the first week of school. He wasn't pressuring her or anything he was just kissing her as if any moment their relationship would end. She wanted to know what had happened but he always refused to talk about his day instead he listened to her ramble on about her day.

"Austin...what was that?" She said in between breaths after he pulled away.

"Morning kiss." He said smiling sweetly at her.

"It looked like you two were one step away from getting it on right there." Indie said shaking her head at the two of them. "Come on Ally I'd like to get to English sometime this school year."

"I'll see you later Austin." Ally said stepping out of his iron tight embrace and following Indie down the hall. Tentatively Ally asked, "How was your trip?"

Quietly Indie answered, "It was good, Kaidan didn't recognize me at first but after a while he warmed up to me. My sister took pictures, I'll show you them later. He looks like me, thank god."

Ally nodded not knowing what else to say, she never had a friend in Indie's situation and she couldn't fathom what it would be like. Indie's boyfriend raped her and the outcome was a little boy named Kaidan who was being cared for by Indie's older sister Paige. In a small town such as Grover Beach nothing was personal so naturally the whole town knew that the school's top candidate for valedictorian had a baby and as a result Indie suffered at the hands of their classmates.

Indie poked Ally in the back with her pen after they took their seats in English. Ally twisted around to face her new friend. "Have you figured out what's wrong with your yummylicious boyfriend?"

Sighing Ally said, "Nope, he changes the subject every time I bring it up. You don't think he's planning on breaking up with me?"

"After this morning's not so PG rated make-out session I doubt that boy's ever going to break up with you." Indie said uncapping her pen and doodling in the corner of her notebook. "I've known Austin since we were kids, our parents were best friends, and I can tell that he loves you more than he loves pancakes. That's saying something because that boy loves his pancakes."

"What are we talking about?" Scarlett asked as she slid into her desk beside Ally.

"Ally's worried Austin's going to break up with her." Indie answered.

"Is he still acting weird?" Scarlett asked Ally. As a response Ally nodded. "He's not going to break up with you, he's probably acting weird because Cassidy's back in town."

"Oh trouble." Indie said stopping her doodling.

"Who's Cassidy?" Ally asked not really wanting to know because she had a feeling she wouldn't like what she heard.

Indie and Scarlett shared a look before Scarlett answered, "The girl that broke Austin's heart and changed him into the guy he was before he met you."

Ally nodded unable to do much more, Austin had never mentioned Cassidy before. The bell rang and she found herself unable to pay attention to the lecture about Shakespeare. There was still a lot about Austin that she didn't know, a lot of stuff that he wasn't sharing with her for some reason.

Austin felt bad for ignoring Ally's messages but he didn't know how to tell her that he'd skipped class to meet up with his ex-girlfriend. Hell he hadn't even told Ally about Cassidy, it wasn't because he wanted to keep things from Ally no it was because it hurt him to talk about the blonde haired beauty that ripped his heart apart. He set the empty can in his hands down in the sand.

"You're day drinking." Cassidy said as she finally walked into the cove. "That's not a good sign."

"It'll make this conversation easier." Austin mumbled popping the top of another can. "Now why the hell did you want to talk to me? What do you have to say to me?"

"I made a mistake walking away from you." She said sitting down beside him and taking one of the cans, she popped the top before Austin could stop her.

"That's too fucking bad because if you think that I'm going to take you back you're insane." Austin said thinking of the brunette who was probably sick with worry. "You broke me and right now the most beautiful girl in the world is picking up the pieces and putting me back together."

"Come on Austin you don't really love Ally Dawson." Cassidy said touching his arm suggestively. "She's not your type, you're just having a little fun with her."

"You don't know anything." Austin growled.

"I know that you still think about our time together, I still think about it. We were good together, especially in bed. I bet Ally doesn't compare to me when it comes to sex." He wouldn't know because they hadn't gotten that far in their relationship not that he was going to tell Cassidy that, it was none of her fucking business.

"You left and I've moved on." Austin said staring intently at the ocean. "I have no feelings for you anymore now get out of my life and don't come near me, Ally or any of my friends again."

"Kiss me Austin Moon, if there's no spark then I won't come near you ever again."

Ally didn't care that she was barging in unannounced nor did she care that she may have freaked Austin's aunt out all she cared about was why Dez had picked a beyond wasted Austin up from the cove. She didn't knock she just slid the door to his bedroom open and marched up to the bed. He was sleeping peacefully and while a part of her didn't want to disrupt his slumber the other part didn't give a damn that he was asleep. She tore the covers off of him and pulled the pillows out from under his head.

"Wake up!" She was angry for the first time since they started dating she was genuinely angry at him. Hitting him with his pillow she said, "Wake up Austin!"

Groaning Austin mumbled, "Stop it with the yelling."

"No I'm mad at you." Ally all but shouted at him. "Why the hell did you leave school and get drunk?"

"Ally don't..." He said cracking an eye open and regretting it because Ally was close to tears, he hated it when she cried. "Please Ally just don't."

"Austin just tell me." Ally cried. "You've been acting weird this whole week and then you go and do this, I want to know what's wrong. I want you to be able to trust me with your problems, I want to help you through them just like you always help me with mine. I love you Austin and I hate seeing you like this."

She was full out sobbing and he couldn't handle it, he got up off of the bed and took her into his arms. She protested a bit but eventually she gave in and slumped against him. He led her back to the bed and sat down with her on his lap. Slowly and carefully he began to tell her about his relationship with Cassidy. How they met in junior high and dated until sophomore year. He told her that Cassidy helped him through the death of his parents and how she introduced him to the numbing effects of alcohol. Looking back at it he couldn't help but think that his relationship with Cassidy was sick and twisted mostly consisting of alcohol, drugs, and sex. They did do couple stuff but all the sweet and innocent moments of their relationship were overshadowed by the not so sweet and innocent moments. He told her how Cassidy went on vacation to California and when she came back she broke it off with him because she'd met someone in California. A week after their break up she ran off to California leaving him more broken than he had been.

"That's terrible." Ally said wiping her nose with the sleeve of Austin's shirt.

"I met with her today that's why I skipped school." Ally tensed in his arms. "She spewed some bullshit about how leaving me was a mistake and then had the fucking nerve to tell me that I'm not in love with you." As if sensing Ally needed some reassurance he bent his head down until their lips met and kissed her softly. "I so totally am don't ever forget or doubt that Allyson Olivia Dawson. She then tells me to kiss and if there was no spark then she'd get out of my life. I told her to fuck off and somehow made my way down to the cove where I drank until Dez found me barely conscious."

"You didn't kiss her?" Ally asked.

"Nope. Do you want to know why?" Ally nodded. With his index finger he tapped her nose. "Because you're the only girl I want to be kissing."

Tears pooled in Ally's chocolate brown eyes and she smiled at Austin before capturing his lips with her own. He responded immediately wasting no time in parting her lips and exploring her mouth with his tongue. She had no clue at what point Austin had gotten her on her back, she had been too lost in his kiss to have noticed. Her hands slipped under the thin cotton of his shirt and explored every part of his perfect torso before coming back down to the hem and tugging at the offensive material.

Breaking the kiss she said, "This needs to come off now."

Austin smirked and sat up slowly pulling his shirt off, he tossed it into the pile of blankets on the floor not once breaking eye contact with Ally. Ally sat up slightly looking at Austin expectantly, he removed his flannel shirt from her body and tossed it so that it landed where the shirt he'd been wearing did. He searched her eyes for any sign that told him that she didn't want to go further, he was surprised when he saw no such sign. Her grey tee joined the other shirts on the floor. A deep red blush painted her cheeks and she couldn't meet his gaze.

"You're so fucking beautiful." He said easing them back down onto the mattress. In between kisses he repeated. "So. Fucking. Beautiful." His hands freely roamed over her almost naked upper body, touching places she'd never let Dallas touch.

He didn't remove her bra nor did they go any further than that because Ally had put a stop to things before they wound up buck naked while his aunt and cousins were home. She still wasn't ready for sex and he understood but that didn't stop them from continuing to make out. When they stopped Austin picked up the pillows and blankets, he returned the pillows to their place on the bed and draped the blankets over Ally. He climbed under the covers and brought the girl he thought more beautiful than Aphrodite herself into his arms.

Kissing her forehead he said, "How did I get so lucky?"

"I think you were at the right place at the right time." Ally said referring to that day in the ice cream shop. "Your kisses make my lips all tingly."

"Well get used to it because I love kissing you." Austin said bringing his lips down to hers again.

"I love being kissed by you." Ally murmured snuggling closer to him.

Austin fell asleep first, Ally was lulled to sleep by his steady breathing and the rise and fall of his bare chest.

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