Closets and Confessions

Part Three

"You know what I hate?" Ally speaks after the silence in the closet gets to be too much.

Austin had already taken off his coat and suit jacket, leaving him in his white dress shirt. Ally still stood in her blue jacket awkwardly. "What is it that you hate, Ally?" Austin asks aloud. He remembers from their exchange at the coffee shop that she doesn't hate very many things. Ally believes that hating things is over rated.

Ally takes a big gulp of air before responding since she was about to have her biggest case of word vomit ever. "I hate when people see me coming but won't hold the door open! It's like, I know you see me coming! We made eye contact! But yet you let the door close behind you when I'm right there! I'd hold the door for you! But you can't give me the same courtesy?! What really bothers me though is when people don't even look behind them before closing the door! What has our world come to!" Ally's spew continues, she takes off her blue coat, tossing it aside to reveal the red dress underneath it. Meanwhile, Austin watches her pace back and forth to get her frustrations out.

Ally takes a pause and Austin's about to ask her why she hadn't called him, when Ally continues. "Don't even get me started on boys! In high school, all I heard about was what party everyone got drunk at over the weekend, and which girl cheated on with what boy! It's like, newsflash, I'm listening! I know all about how you had to get tested for STDS and how your mom caught you with your boy friend and didn't care! I seriously need to write a book about it all!" At this point Ally starts to pace faster, while Austin stares with wonder at her. "The wort part is that these girls think they need a boy to be happy! You're in high school, for goodness sakes! No boy is worth ruining yourself over!"

The room suddenly goes silent again. Ally still paces, but she shuts her mouth. Austin clears his throat after a long beat passes. "Maybe we should go back out there?" It comes out as a question, he was feeling very overwhelmed. All he wanted to know was why she hadn't called him.

Ally was ready to answer the question; she looks up from the floor to meet Austin's eyes. "I'm sorry," she says lightly. "I was going to call, I swear. But, every time I dialed the number, I freaked. I would tell my self that you were probably busy, or didn't want to hear from me. Then when I finally got that voice to shut up and was about to hit call, I had my mom in the other ear reminding me how terrible men are. And 'don't put yourself through that!'"

Austin's facial expressions change at the new found revelations that make him feel a little bit better about the situation.

"I also had it in my head that maybe you were just a rapist who was hired to find a girl in a Starbucks and rape her then drop her off in a river." Ally sees Austin's eyes widen. "I watch a lot of Law and Order SVU before bed."

Austin feels for the girl, he really does. Unlike him, who grew up in the big city, Ally was new to it all. He knew that she had been living there for three years now but it was all really a lot to get used to.

"I'd feel a lot better if you said something." Ally starts to bite down on her bottom lip when she thinks that maybe she ruined everything.

Austin notices her pained expression, remembers how in pain he's been in the last few weeks, and for a second he wants to tell her to get over her feelings. Say, 'you should've known what you were getting into.' Instead he says simply, "I really like your dress."

Ally looks down at her dress, suddenly glad that she found it in the back of her closet this morning when the other dress was too wrinkly. After looking back up at him, she manages a smile. "Thanks, sorry about spilling coffee on you. I should've been paying more attention to my surroundings."

"It's all good," It was all good since he got to see her again.

"If we're being honest in this closet, I guess I should tell you that the reason I wasn't paying attention was because I was thinking about how awesome it would be if I saw you at the office." Ally grins her girlish grin. "Sorry that I had to spill coffee for it to happen."

"Well, since we're being honest, I guess I should tell you that I found someone else while waiting for your call. I mean, I waited beside the phone for a whole week but then I just had to get back on the dating horse and admit that you were never gonna call." Austin knew what he was saying was cruel, but he hoped that she could see through his lie, he was still grinning, after all.

Ally widens her eyes, a frown replacing her grin. "Oh, wow. Okay then. I guess I should go." She had a sneaking suspicion that he was kidding, but decided to play along.

Ally's hand goes toward the lock on the door, about to unlock, when Austin reaches out with his own hand to stop her. "You're not getting away that easily again."

With that statement out of the way, Austin captures her red lips with his own. Ally gasps in his mouth. Her right hand is clasped in his, her left leaves her side to travel up ward into blond locks. Austin moves his free hand to Ally's waist, he missed the feeling that kissing her gave him. He only kissed her two times before this moment, but he knew, just knew, that he never wanted a day to go by without kissing her.

They pull apart a minute later, out of breathe and grinning that same grin from Starbucks. "Your lips taste like strawberries with a hint of coffee underneath." Austin says after wiping away Ally's lipstick.

"Yours taste like syrup and bananas. Weird combination, but it some how works."

That was them; they were a weird combination but some how worked together to be something perfect.

"By the way, before I forget, I promise to always hold the door open for you." He's poking fun at her rant.

Ally starts to turn a crimson. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry about that. Sometimes I get really bad cases of word vomit! Like, this one time I was obsessed with a book and it was all I could think or talk about; I underlined my favorite lines in it and wrote lyrics along the edges of the pages. Or that time I was completely into the idea of moving to Alaska that I couldn't have a conversation with out mentioning it. It was a disease, or in my head it was. I can't stop the things that come out of my mouth, most of the time." Ally shuts her mouth with her hand as soon as she realizes that she was doing it again.

Austin takes her hand away from her mouth. "I like your word vomit. It makes you human."

"A really weird human," Ally says, leaving her hand wrapped around Austin's. "I think it's your turn."

"Well, I don't really have any weird traits about me." He teases her because everyone has a weird trait. "I guess there was this one time that I really had to pee when I was in a hot tub with this really cute girl but I didn't want to leave her so I peed and blamed it on her."

Ally starts to choke when her laughter comes out too fast. "Oh no! You didn't!" Austin gives her a look. "Oh no! You did! Remind me to never go in to a hot tub with you."

Austin smiles brightly, like the sun at its highest point in the sky. "So, does that mean we can go on an actual date some time soon?" There was no way he could live on coffee dates and closet meetings for all of his life.

Ally smirks, feeling much better than she did when they first came in the closet. They were now sitting on the floor against the door; all thoughts of work forgotten. "Is that your way of asking me on a date, Austin Moon?"

"I guess it is, Ally Dawson. What do you say, go out with me?"

Ally fake sighs loudly. "I guess." Austin gives her a long, puppy dog look. "I'm kidding, I'd love to."

"And you promise that you won't forget to show up?" He puts air quotes over forget.

"I promise," Ally says honestly because she was feeling much better about the whole situation; she had faith that it wasn't just a fling, it was more. "I know you're not a rapist and that my mother and father don't know anything."

"You haven't told me a lot about your parents?" Austin questions, he was getting curious about the Dawson's as each second ticked by.

Ally shakes her head. "It would take more than just one work day to get through everything there is to know about my parents."

With mention of work, they both realize that they were indeed at work.

They manage a good bye, promising to meet after work for coffee, and to plan a first date.

As Austin walks up to his office, ignoring the looks he gets about his coffee colored shirt, he thinks about how fast emotions change. How one second you're doing nothing but staring at your phone, then you have lip stick on your neck and a date on the way. He may get reprimanded for being late, the smile never does leave his face, though.

Ally hurries to her desk, loving that her smile is real. Just this morning she was staring at her phone, day dreaming about what it would be like to hear Austin's voice one more time, and now she knows that she'll be hearing it for a long, long time. And if she's lucky, he'll know everything there is to know about her, and she'll know every single thing about him.

Hello! That was part three! I felt so bad for leaving you guys with a cliff hanger that I spent an hour and a half writing this, even though I should be asleep! So I'm sorry if there's any mistakes. If you have any suggestions or requests for their first date/future chapters, let me know!

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