SPOILER ALERT, you have been warned: Ally does NOT die. Just to clear things up, I already faked a death in my other story, you all went mental, and that was enough fake deaths for me...

2 days in a freaking row! woohoo

Onwards my friends!

~chapter 18: Surprise!~

"Dallas!" I cried after him.

I sniffed and felt a burning in my chest, probably worry or regret.

So this is how it ends I guess. A fire. Crushed under all this, burning to death. All because I didn't freakin' jump. Maybe if I did I would be free, laughing about this.

Well there is one upside to this, a couple actually, one being now I'll be with my parents again. Finally. Another that I wont have to face Austin and not face the fact that he might have never forgiven me. And there's the upside that when I do die, I'm going to haunt the shit out of Dallas! That twat-faced ass hole. Why would you just run away like that? Surely people with a consonance would at least try to help? But no, not him, the chicken. Running away when he's out, leaving me behind to choke on the ashes.

There was a loud piercing siren and yelling.

I stopped in thought as I heard yelling from outside. "She's in there!" a voice screamed.

I felt tears roll down my cheek, either I was hallucinating from the smoke or, I was about to get rescued.

"One! Two! Three!" a large masculine voice yelled. Before I knew it, I saw figures running towards me.

I smiled slightly to myself, feeling tired. I let my eyes close slowly. Darkness over came me.

Lets reflect, shall we? Let's reflect on what's happened over the last couple of months, 5-6 to narrow it down.

I was known as a nobody, a shadow in a dimmed light that everybody ignored. Even the teachers thought I was a waste of space. I thought it too. I was alone for so long, and I gave up a long time ago.

Then, to my amazement, a blonde haired, brown-eyed angel came up to me, took one look at me, sat down, and actually smiled AND spoke to me. No 'What do your parents do?' or 'why are your clothes so filthy?'

Nope, none of that, it was just 'Hey, I'm Austin' and that was that, friends. He was the definition of open-hearted.

Then, he introduced me to other people, and boom, I had 3 news friends. 3 people who actually took notice in my existence. Maybe it was that fact that made it all go to my head and made me come across as a bit of a...stuck up brat? Yeah pretty much.

I mean, 'I get a private jet to school everyday!' what the hell was I thinking? And to Austin too. The guy who just stopped believing in the tooth fairy at 17, not that he told me that at all...

Maybe I wasn't meant to have friends, who knows?

Then Dallas I'm-a-fire-starting-ass-hole comes into the picture. And instantly I can see something off about him. Not only does he yell at me the first time he sees me, but the next day he apologies and acts like we're BFF'S or something?! I should've seen it coming.

And then, some random idiot (Dallas and his friends, but I didn't know that at the time) started trashing my house, threatening me!

And then my favorite part of the 5-6 months, not. Austin finds out the truth. I tell him the truth. I didn't expect him to be all 'well that's fine because actually, I'm not rich either, I lied too, we're twins...' you get the picture. Well actually Austin never actually told me that he was rich, I figured that out on my own. But no, I didn't want that. I didn't want him to flip out though. I wanted him to try to at least out himself in my shoes. At least try to understand. I really should have explained to him.

Then the end event, the fire! Which is over now. And it's been a few hours, or so they've told me. Not that I can actually see 'them'.

"It's been 4 hours, she has to wake up soon!" a voice yelled, sounding frustrated.

There was a loud sigh "She's been though a lot, her body just needs to rest"

"Can't we at least stay?" a new voice asked. Wait, I knew that voice.

I tried my hardest to open my eyes but no luck.

I felt my lips move as I tried to talk "What's-what's going on?" I asked in a scattered mumble.

There was silence. "Did she?" the first voice asked.

"She talked!" the third voice yelled.

I frowned, now there were defiantly more people in the room.

I moved my hand a little and groaned

"Ally? Can you hear me?" the unknown voice asked.

I nodded slowly. "Y-yeah. I can't open my eyes" I mumbled.

"Okay, I', going to shine a dim light in your eyes, tell me if you can see it, okay" there was moving and I felt a hand on my eyelid. My eye lid opened and I saw a small light.

"Okay, ouch! That was bright!" I yelled snapping my eyes shut.

"She sees it" an amused voice says.

I scoffed "Shut up Austin" I mumbled.

I froze and opened my eyes slowly. My eyes adjusted to the light. "Austin?" I asked cautiously.

He smiled at me "The one and only" he replied.

I turned to the next person and glared at them "Dallas what the fuck are you doing here?" I snapped.

He sighed "I think I should tell you what happened when I ran off" he sat on the end of my bed.

-Just before Dallas runs off (bear with me I really hate writing in 3rd person)-

Dallas turned to face Ally, before looking into the distance at a familiar figure, he looked back at her and sighed with relief.

"I'm so sorry Ally" he apologized before running towards the figure.

He didn't to leave her, hence the apology, but he knew he needed help if he was going to do this. Besides, it was the right thing to do wasn't it?

He ran up to the person and stopped in front of them "Austin! Over. there. Fire. Ally. Stuck. Help" he breathed.

Austin frowned "What do you mean fire?" he asked.

Dallas rolled his eyes "Dude, I don't think I need to make it any clearer. Your girlfriend Ally is stuck in a fire, we need to get help" he cried.

When Austin finally caught on he whipped out his phone and dialed the three numbers, while running towards the fire with Dallas.

They got to the house, hearing Ally's violent coughing and hacking. Austin soon hung up the phone and turned to face Dallas.

"They'll be here any time soon" he said, worry in his eyes.

"This is all my fault" Dallas mumbled to himself, running his hands through his hair nervously.

If only he didn't listen to his dad, Ally was nothing like his dad had described. She wasn't needy, stupid, selfish, arrogant like he said. She was a very likeable person actually. But he was so stuck up in getting his father approval, it blinded him.

There was a loud siren in the distance and both boys sighed with relief. The truck stopped as 5 men came out.

"She's in there!" Austin yelled pointing towards the burning building.

The men looked in the building. "We'll have to break in" one of them yelled. "On three" he added.

"One! Two! Three!" another man yelled before they ran and broke into the building, running towards Ally.

-Present time-

I blinked. I couldn't help but feel a little guilty towards Dallas. I thought he'd ran off and left me.

"So you didn't leave me?" I asked.

He laughed "Ally I may be related to my dad, but I could never leave someone in a burning building, I now realize that" he replied. I smiled.

"Thanks Dallas, I'm really sorry for calling you a selfish, idiotic ass hole" I said.

He frowned "You didn't"

I grinned "No but I thought it" I said with a shrug.

I turned towards Austin and cleared my throat.

"I'll leave you two alone" Dallas mumbled as he walked off.

I smiled nervously at him "So you came to the hospital with me?" I asked.

He nodded and crossed his arms.

I bit my lip "And you helped save me?" I asked.

He narrowed his eyes at me "Where's this going?" he asked, an amused smirk on his face, probably feeling heroic at the moment.

I sighed "It's just. I thought you hated me, I mean I lied to you about everything, for ages, I betrayed your trust, I treated you like shit, and I'm not making myself in any better of a position with you..." I trailed off and laughed nervously.

He shrugged "Ally, that's not a reason to let you burn to death" he replied.

I laughed a little and looked down. "I'm really sorry, Austin" I mumbled.

He uncrossed his arms and looked across at me "I just want to know...why?" he asked.

I gulped. "You were the first person to talk to me, maybe all my life, and you didn't judge me or anything, I just got caught up in all of it" I replied.

He sighed "You know what Ally?" he mumbled, walking slowly over to my bed. He reached it and looked down at me.

I sighed and bit my lip "You still hate me, don't you?" I asked sheepishly, lowering my head.

He shook his head and bent down to me "No, I forgive you" he whispered.

I looked up to him, wide-eyed. Before I could digest everything that just happened he placed his lips on mine gentility. Okay. Now I'm shocked.

I feel awful for leaving it there, but, I'm tired and school's in the morning and all that chiz. I need an education too, even if I do wanna be a journalist.

Sorry for any mistakes I haven't read through any of this like I normally do.

Now finally whoever yelled at Dallas and called him mean names... Apologize, now! Just kidding. In my eyes he's still a jackass, he started the god damn fire in the first place anyway.