Chapter 14

Ally sat back down on her sofa.

It had been a week. It had been one long, tiring, boring week since she had run from Austin. He'd made no attempted to try and talk to her, she did try once but she lost sight of him. What was going on? Was he avoiding her? She didn't want that. At least she think she doesn't. But she didn't want to think about that right now. It was just confusing her too much. She needed a break.

So she snuggled deeper into the warm comfort of her bed and pulled her laptop closer to her. She booted it up and brought up her story. It had been a while since she had updated. But that relationship was getting to her. She shook her, ridding of the thought and plunged herself in Pierson Clark, Missouri.

Justin was at his locker grabbing some books for his afternoon classes. He sighed. Why was school even invented? he questioned to himself. He would really love to talk to the person who even thought of that idea. Speaking of school, it was where he had met Halle. So maybe it wasn't so bad. It might actually be an idea place to meet some ladies. That thought was soon dawning upon him. It actually wasn't half bad.

Suddenly a loud crash met his ears. He flinched at the sound as it repeated a few times more, each time becoming louder and closer. Someone punched the locker next to his and that same person slammed his locker door shut. He yelped and jumped back in time or else his hands would've been crushed.

"What the hell, man?!" he shouted.

"Not me." It was Evan Aaron. "Hell with you."

"You could've crushed my fingers!" he proclaimed.

"Why?" Evan sneered. "That would've been even better."

"What's wrong with you?" Austin

Ally stopped. She had just typed Austin's name. Urgh! She needed to get him away from her mind. Forget him even. It was really frustrating for her. She really had no idea what to do with her life.

She sighed and deleted his name and typed in the right name. She really needed to escape her reality. That's why she became an author. Because books and the worlds the author creates is so magical. How one can be a wizard or an angel or be whatever they want. To set their imagination free and relief the reader of their reality and be someone else's. That experience was just surreal.

"What's wrong with you?" Justin demanded.

Evan laughed plus adding an eye roll for effect. "What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?! That's actually not the problem."

"Then what is?" Justin seethed.

"I actually wanted to crush your fingers so you'd lay them sticky fingers from the ladies that they've manipulated."

"What? What are you saying?"

"Stop cheating on my sister!" Evan burst, not able to contain his anger anymore.

"Cheat? Cheat? I would never cheat on Halle!" he defended.

"Oh yeah?" Evan sneered. "This is actually quite funny them." He pulled out his phone and scrolled though it, humming, completely amused.

"Oh yeah?" Justin warily scanned the crowed that had formed around them. Good. Halle wasn't there to see this.

"Yeah." Evan finally looked up and flashed a picture of Justin and some other girl from anther night.

The crowd gasped in effect as they saw the picture Evan displayed.

"What?! That's... There's no evidence there!"

"Really? Then this isn't a picture of you and some other girl named... oh I don't know... Kara. That's her name right?" he taunted.

Justin's hands clenched into fists. "No! It's Kira!"

Everyone gasped again, as realization clicked in for all of them.

"Here that everybody?" Evan declared, playing to the audience. "Justin's cheating on Halle!" He took a step forward, getting all up in Justin's face. "And I want you to stop. Break up with her."

Before Justin could retaliate, someone spoke for him. "No need."

Everyone looked at the speaker with wide eyes. Evan's mouth dropped and Justin turned to the speaker and about to make a rude comment when he realized who it was. His heart pounded as his voice was caught in his throat.

"Halle," Justin breathed, with pleading eyes.

She shielded herself against his sorry eyes and looked him straight in face. "You're cheating on me?"

"I... uh... nooo..."

"Mm-hm." She didn't believe him. She step sided Justin and faced her brother. "Thanks Evan. I'll handle it from here." Evan nodded gravely and stepped back to be part of the audience. He didn't' want to be part of this, at least not anymore.

Halle turned to face Justin once more. "Are you cheating on me?" she demanded once again.

As Ally was about to type Justin's reply as her doorbell rang. She groaned at the interruption. Who could it be? This late at night? She really didn't have a clue. But why now? She was just in the mood to write. Thank you to that person who interrupted her train of thoughts.

Sighing greatly, she forced herself to get up and groggily walk to the door. She hoped it wouldn't be any strangers because she was in her pajamas. Or burglars, but what type of burglar would ring the doorbell? She was going crazy herself.

What if it was Austin? Ally was fully aware now, thinking of all the possibilities of who was at the other side of the door. What if it really was Austin? What would he be doing here? Did he finally come so they could talk this out? Or did he come so he could break up with her? What if...

Her palms were really moist now. She couldn't stop biting her lip as she slowly approached the door. She unbolted it and pulled it open.

...

A day later Ally was at the mall. It wasn't one of those big shopping malls, like Miami Mall, but for a small town it was pretty decent. It was her day off and she wanted to spend it shopping. Frankly, she hadn't gone shopping in a while. She had just come out of a small boutique and was preparing herself for her favorite store of all time before she'd grab a quick dinner before going home, when her thoughts strayed to the conversation last night.

It replayed over and over in her head, and she just couldn't shake it. It was now really starting to bother her. But she couldn't let it go.

Instead she distracted herself as she caught sight of this pair of booties. She rushed up to it to examine it.* In the end she ended up paying for it. They really were cute! As she was walking to another cute blouse she heard her stomach growl. Wow, she was hungry. She looked around and found a restaurant nearby. Then she looked down at her phone, which was in hand, it was nearing seven in the evening. Wow, she could really shop that long?

Shaking her head, she was looking into the restaurant to see if there was any empty seats or free tables when she caught sight of Austin. What was he doing here? He seemed very nervous because he was fidgeting and always looking around. Ally dodged out of his field of view as he turned to look at her direction. As she was she bumped into a lady about her age. "I'm sorry," Ally mumbled before looking up at the girl.

"It's okay." The girl smiled and soon walked away. She walked into the restaurant in a great rush and Ally's shopping bags dropped. That girl had walked up to Austin, tapped him on the shoulder, as he looked up and greeted her with a hug before they sat opposite of each other.

Was he on a date? No way, he was dating Ally! Well, not so sure about that...

Suddenly last night's conversation starting to roll again in her head.

-Flashback-

Ally pulled the door open to see her brother. She sighed in relief yet disappointment. It wasn't Austin. "Oh, hey Elliot."

"Hey, Alls," he returned with a smile.

"What are you doing here?"

"I want to talk to you," Elliot responded.

"Talk to me about what?" But before she continued she let him in. "Oh! Where are my manners? Come in. The fire's already reduced to embers, but i'll start it up again. Gosh, November is just the beginning of all this cold weather."

"Ally. Ally! ALLY!" Elliot shouted. "You don't need to. I'm here only for a brief moment."

"Oh." She should've noticed as he didn't take off his heavy coat. "So what's it about?"

"Well, I've already stated it, but I want to remind you."

"Elliot, for the last time I'm not going back to Miami. Sure, I'll visit, but I'm not moving back. I live here now."

"What? No! I know. It's about Austin."

Ally sighed. "Look for the last time, I'm not breaking up with him." But she held back, stating how she was really unsure of herself right now.

"Ally, please," Elliot begged.

"No, Elliot. I'm sticking to what I know."

"But Ally!" Elliot argued. "He's not who you think he is! He's out there to break your heart! It's all an illusion. Don't believe what he says!"

"Why? I believe what I want to believe!"

"Just no him!" Elliot shook his head. "I'm just looking out for you Ally. I'm your brother! Plus, I've know Austin before. He was a huge player."

"Maybe... Maybe people change!" Ally countered back.

"Oh yeah? He can change that much? I doubt that!"

"Well... uh... Austin's different. Different from most guys!"

Elliot sighed. He really didn't want another argument with his sister. He just wanted to relay his message to her. "Look Ally, I know you fell for him, but be careful. I just don't want to see you hurt. I know you can take care of yourself, but its just that I know Austin, and he left many girls heartbroken. Just please, be careful."

Ally softened also. "Thanks Elliot. That means a lot. Thanks for the heads-up though."

"No prob. I should get going." With that he excused himself and let himself out into the cold leaving Ally alone with her thoughts.

-End of Flashback-

Ally stared at the scene. Were they kissing or something? Because Austin had leaned in close to that girl's face and from her angle they looked like they were, but she wasn't sure thought. After thinking that it would do her no good, she walked home in the freezing cold. She'd get a cold later on, she knew it, but she didn't care. At the moment she was immune to the harshness of the weather. After dropping all her shopping bags and climbing into bed with her clothes on she laid back thinking.

Who was that girl? Why was she with Austin? How close were they? Was there something she was missing? Is Austin's and her relationship going down the drain? After assuming her answers, which didn't look too good for her; she was left to ask:

Was Elliot right?

*That's me shopping. Haha.

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