A/N: Sorry for making you wait! I was going to update a couple weeks ago, but I went away and didn't have access to Fanfiction. Apologies!
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Ally POV
"Ally, get Maci!"
I groaned as I heard faint cries coming from the room beside ours. "No, you get her!"
"I can't," Austin moaned from the bathroom.
"Right, because you're hungover," I mumbled in annoyance as I slipped out of bed and shuffled over to Maci's room. I opened the door and saw her standing up with her hands on the edge of her crib. "Hey baby," I smiled. "Don't want to sleep anymore?"
She held her arms up to me, whimpering, and I picked her up. I brought her over to the chair in the corner of her room and rocked her a bit to calm her down. She had her head buried in my chest and after a while, her whimpers were starting to stop.
I carried her out of her room to go downstairs for breakfast. Austin came out of the bathroom as I was walking down the hallway in his direction.
"Ally-"
"Don't talk to me right now," I said quietly as I slipped past him.
"But Als-"
"I said don't talk to me right now!" I kept moving, storming down the stairs into the kitchen. I set Maci in her highchair and got her food ready. While she ate, I grabbed the wedding catalogue again from where I had left it the night before and sat beside her, skimming through it, but I was only half in the mood.
"Daddy!" Maci said happily five minutes later, with her eyes planted behind me. I turned around to see Austin slowing walking in the kitchen, bleary eyed.
He gave me a small smile, but I ignored it and turned around again. "On a scale of one to shoot me in the face, how awesome are you feeling today?"
"Kill me," he said.
"Now, Maci, take a good look at your father. That's what alcohol does to you, and the people who abuse it, like your dad did last night, they feel like dying the next day." She tilted her head at Austin, staring. "Good girl."
Austin walked over and stroked Maci's head before going to the cupboard, presumably to get an aspirin. "You know, I don't really get why you're mad at me, Ally," he said harshly. "When you were wasted that one night, I wasn't pissed at you, and I actually took care of you the next day; I didn't throw daggers your way like you're doing to me."
I whipped around in my chair. "Yes, I know you took care of me and I appreciate that greatly, Austin. But that wasn't when we were in the middle of planning a wedding, now was it? That was a night to celebrate! You also said that you were going to be going for a couple of drinks last night, not a couple times two. I know you can hold your alcohol good, so don't tell me it actually was only a couple of drinks." I stood up. "I did everything yesterday by myself."
"You had your friends with you," Austin defended.
"That's exactly my point. They're my friends;None of them are the person I'm getting married to!" I shrieked.
Austin rubbed his eyes. "Okay, yes, I know I should have been there yesterday."
"You think?" I snapped.
"But," he glared. "I can't give up my job completely, Ally. I have a duty to my fans, and since I'm starting the tour up again after Christmas, which in case you hadn't noticed is a week away, I need to be working on my music, too."
I sighed. "I know. Look, I'm not trying to be rude and ignorant here. It's just easier if I have my other half with me."
He shuffled over to me and ran his hands up and down my arms a couple of times. My scar tingled a bit when his hand moved over it because it wasn't fully healed yet. "I promise I'll go with you for the next one."
"My next appointment is for my dress."
"Okay, then the appointment after that." Austin looked at me. "We're okay here?"
"We're good," I smiled.
"Good, because I need to go throw up again." He bolted out of the room.
I turned to Maci. "You aren't allowed to drink until you're thirty."
"He went out last night and got completely hammered."
"Really? That doesn't sound like him," my brother said over the phone that evening.
"Well, he did, trust me. He didn't do anything all day; he just lied on the couch."
"Maybe something's bothering him."
"He would have told me; he tells me everything," I said.
"Did you at least take care of him?"
"No. Not at first; I was mad at him."
"Oh, Ally," Jesse sighed.
"What?! Don't you think I had a right to be mad?"
"A little, I guess. But come on, Austin's trying his best," Jesse said.
I glanced over at the couch where Austin was snoring away with a cold cloth draped over his forehead. Maci was lying on his chest, sound asleep as well.
"I know, Jesse, but it's so stressful," I said.
"Isn't wedding planning supposed to be fun?"
"You watch way too many movies," I told him. "They romanticize that shit. Sure, some of it's fun, but when you're doing it by yourself, it's not." I sighed. "Anyway, I'm making this all about me. What did you do today?"
"Quinn and I took Sheridan to the zoo. She caused a huge scene when we had to leave, though; apparently she loved it that much."
"Well, at least she had fun. It's easier to entertain kids. Damn, I miss being little," I said.
"Don't we all?" Jesse chuckled. "I better go, though. I've got an exam tomorrow and I haven't studied nearly as much as I should be doing."
"Sounds good. Good luck!"
"Thanks. Call if you need anything or just want to talk," he said before he hung up.
I put the cordless down on the table and went to do some laundry while the other two slept. Pancakes followed me into the laundry room and lied down on a pile of clothes.
"Pancakes, no!" I scolded. "Come on, up you go."
She yawned and stood up as she was told. She went to sit in the corner of the room to watch. She loved watching Austin and I do laundry. It was like one of her hobbies. Odd, but at least we knew she wasn't getting into any trouble.
Jesse's voice popped into my mind. That doesn't sound like him. Maybe something's wrong with him.
I closed the washing machine door. Austin would have told me if something was wrong with him. He always told me everything that was on his mind. That was the basic point of a relationship, was it not? Trust and honesty. It was probably nothing, he just felt like going out with Dez. Oh well, it was done, and he was safe at home. I would just ask him about it when he woke up.
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