Hey, guys! I actually really like this chapter. There's a bit of Trez in it. :) Okay, so I'm kinda mad the promo for Couples and Careers didn't come out tonight. But, I don't think the dictionary and I have the same definition of "kinda." Anyways, if you happen to find the promo on youtube, PLEASE PM me what to look up. Thanks for all your lovely reviews! And will someone PLEASE help me? Just like give me one word to base my disclaimer around. For example, grapes. If you send grapes, I have to base my Auslly or Trez or Raura disclaimer around grapes. I don't like boring disclaimers, but here goes: I don't own Austin and Ally. P.S. Does anyone even read my Author's Notes?
The Beach
(Ally's P.O.V.)
Team Austin is sitting in Sonic Boom discussing preparations for the concert. We don't have much time. It's already four o'clock, and we haven't really got anything. We know where we're putting the speakers on the stage, but that's about it.
"Oh! I want really bright and colorful lights!" Austin says.
"I can go get a job at the light store," Trish suggests. When we all agree, she says goodbye and walks off to go get another job.
"Austin! What about your dance moves?" Dez realizes. That's right! If his memories are gone, he can't dance. Can he?
"Turn on some music. I'll see what I can do," he replies, hopping off the counter, which he was sitting on. Dez takes an iPod and speakers out of his backpack and turns on "Illusion."
Austin starts dancing, and it's like he still remembers all his dance moves. He's even doing flips. Dez and I are watching him with huge grins on our faces. Music and dancing. Two things that, no matter what happens, he will always have inside him. He realizes that we're smiling because he's dancing well, and he grins as he dances. Dez and I are clapping and singing along to the song, still watching Austin's amazing dancing. All too soon, the song ends, and Austin strikes a hilarious finishing pose. The three of us laugh and we do a group hug.
"You still got it," I say, smiling.
"Did you expect anything less?" he winks and smiles.
Dez frowns. "I didn't get any of that on video."
"Oh well," Austin says, shrugging.
"Oh! I just remembered, I forgot to feed Trish!" Dez starts running out of the store.
"You feed Trish?" I ask, confused.
"Well, who else would feed her? My parents don't even know I have her. She lives in my room," Dez replies nonchalantly.
"Trish lives in your room?" Austin asks with an eyebrow raised.
"Well, she doesn't have a house of her own," Dez says.
"Are we talking about the same Trish?" I ask.
"We're talking about my bull-mastiff, right?" Dez responds.
"Ohhhhh!" Austin and I say together.
Then, Austin says, "Wait, you named a dog after Trish? Why?"
"Because both of them are mean and scary and they like to hurt me," Dez says sadly.
"Fair enough," Austin replies.
"Guys, let's get back to the concert preparations. What order is Austin gonna sing the songs in?" I say, trying to get back to the conversation.
"I wanna sing 'Not a Love Song' and 'Say You'll Stay' last," Austin half-mumbles.
"Why?" I ask, just curious.
"They have the most meaning to me." Must be the girl he likes. Both are love songs. And I know it's 'Not a Love Song,' but everyone knows it actually is.
"Gee, I wonder why," Dez adds to Austin's statement. Austin looks at him with a surprised, nervous, and confused look on his face. Then, that look turns into a glare. Dez just smiles at him.
Eventually, I manage to get them to help me figure out the order of the rest of his songs. He's performing all of them. But, he says the show needs to be an extra five minutes after the songs are over. I don't know why, but I don't question it. I know he has a good reason. He has that mischievous glint in his eyes.
"Well, guys, I gotta go. I still need to feed Trish." Dez walks out of the store.
"And then there were two. Again," Austin says smiling. Suddenly, I feel the strange urge-no, need-to hug him. So, I do. I barrel into his arms. He hugs me back instantly, burying his face in my hair. After a while, we pull away. "What was that for?" he asks, still smiling. I shrug.
"I dunno. It was just kinda instinct," I answer. He doesn't need to know I needed his arms around me. "So, what do you wanna do?" I question.
"We could go to the beach," he says. "I wanna see what all the fuss is about," he adds with a sad yet playful smile on his face.
"Good idea," I reply. I like the beach now. That day when Dez, Trish, Austin and I went together really changed the way I think about the beach. "We should both probably go home and get our stuff. Meet me at my house in an hour?" I suggest. Austin nods.
"Sounds good," he says. "Should we invite Trish and Dez?" I kind of don't want them to. But, I don't want to make it awkward.
"Sure," I say. "I'll stop at Lindy's Lights to buy the lights for the concert and I'll invite Trish when I get there. You can text Dez." He salutes, smiling, and runs out of the store. I smile and shake my head as I walk out after him. I head over to Lindy's Lights.
"Hey Trish," I say to my friend at the cash register.
"Hey, Ally," she replies, not looking up from her magazine. Then, from under the counter, she produces a large box. "I put these lights on hold for Austin. They're just what he wanted. They're on the house."
"Wow, thanks, Trish," I say. Then, "Hey, Austin and I are going to the beach. Wanna come?"
"Of course!" she says, closing the magazine. "But, I gotta go get my stuff."
"Yeah, we're meeting at my house in forty-five minutes," I reply. I tell her forty-five because I know she'll be around fifteen minutes late, so now she'll be right on time.
"Kay. See you then," Trish says. Then, she walks off, probably to go tell her boss she's quitting.
I head back to my house quickly. I get into my black and white polka dot one piece with ruffles. I pack sand toys, snacks, and a towel in my pink beach bag. Austin and Dez love building sand castles. And Trish and I love doing it with them, though Trish wouldn't ever admit it out loud.
I throw on my white swimsuit cover up and head downstairs to wait for everyone in the living room. Trish shows up first, letting herself in. She's wearing her purple and white zebra one piece with her cheetah print swimsuit cover up. She's also wearing cheetah sunglasses and a bright pink floppy hat. In her purple beach bag, she has a towel, magazines, and tanning lotion, along with the blanket and the closed umbrella. "Hey, Ally," Trish says.
"Hey," I reply, not getting up from the couch. She walks over and sits down next to me, and we start talking about who knows what. I didn't realize until now that Trish was early.
Then, we hear a knock at the door. I stand up and open it. "Hey guys," I say. Austin and Dez came here together. Austin's wearing his hot pink swim trunks with a yellow t-shirt. Dez is wearing orange and yellow zig-zag swim trunks with red suspenders. That guy wears suspenders with everything. He's also wearing a blue t-shirt. Both guys have towels slung over their shoulders.
"Hey, Ally," Dez says, walking inside with Austin following.
"Hey, Ally," Austin echoes. "And Trish," they both add at the same time.
Trish waves. "So, you guys ready to go?" I ask.
"Yup," they say at the same time. Trish and I grab our bags and we head off. It's a short walk to the beach, and we're all talking and laughing the whole way there.
"Which condiment lost the race?" Austin says suddenly. We all look at him expectantly. "Mustard. He just couldn't catch up to Ketchup." I burst out laughing while Trish, Dez, and Austin look at me like I'm crazy. I've finally stopped laughing when we arrive at the beach. We find the perfect spot. Trish and I lay down the blanket and put up the umbrella, while Austin and Dez take their t-shirts off and run into the water.
"C'mon, guys! The water's great!" Dez yells to us as he jumps over a wave. Trish and I take off our cover ups and run in after them. We wade in and stand next to Dez.
"Wait, where's Austin?" Trish asks. Uh oh. What if he forgot how to swim? Just then, I feel something on my ankle and the next thing I know, I'm under water. I come up spluttering. I see Austin, Dez, and Trish cracking up.
"Hey!" I say angrily, pushing my wet hair out of my face. I splash the other three. They smile and we start a splash war. At one point, I duck under water, but they don't notice. I squint to see under water, and I'm just able to make out Austin's foot by the birthmark on his ankle. It's ironically shaped kind of like a guitar. I don't hesitate to grab his ankle and pull him under. I then do the same to Trish and Dez and come back up, laughing. Their heads pop out of the water one by one. By now, we're far enough into the ocean that the water's up to our shoulders when a wave comes.
"Hey!" they say in unison.
"You had it coming," I say, shrugging. Just then, a huge wave comes, sending us all tumbling under water. I don't know which way is up and which way is down. All I know is that I'm still tumbling and running out of air. Just as I'm about to black out, I feel a pair of strong arms picking me up and out of the water bridal style. I breathe heavily, taking in all the oxygen I can get. "Thanks, Austin," I say, leaning into his chest as he carries me to the blanket. I know it's him because first of all, I knew he'd be the one to save me-that's how much faith I have in him. Secondly, I can smell his scent, despite the salty water. And third, I look over to see Dez holding Trish the same way.
Dez and Austin set us down on the blanket. "Wait, how were you two not tumbling like us?" Trish asks.
"We're taller," Dez replies. "We just went over it." So I guess it only sent Trish and I tumbling. I hate being short.
"Well, thank you," Trish says. I'm surprised. Trish never says thank you. The boys wrap their towels around themselves and hand Trish and me ours. We dry off.
Austin eyes the sand toys. "Let's make a sandcastle!" He shouts.
"Yeah!" Dez agrees. He puts his hand out to do the 'What up' handshake, but then he remembers Austin doesn't know it. He drops his hand and follows Austin to an open area of sand. He forgot to grab the sand toys.
"C'mon, Trish. You know you want to," I tell her, smiling and grabbing the sand toys. She groans but gets up and follows me over to the boys, who are flattening out a place in the sand. Trish and I sit next to them, taking out the sand toys.
We build with sand for hours. Our sand castle turns into a sand palace with a draw bridge and everything. We actually make it big enough to walk inside. It's dark by the time we're finished. Finally, we all go to the water to fill buckets with water. We walk back and pour the water in the moat. We all cheer and walk inside the castle.
Once inside, we cheer again and high-five each other. "It's not every day you can walk inside a sand castle!" Dez shouts, smiling.
"Good job, guys!" Trish says.
"Wow, it's already ten!" I say. "We should go."
"Are you kidding? We gotta do something with this castle!" Austin says. I hate it when he's right. But first, we take a picture of it. Then, we take a picture of the inside. We made sand furniture and there are multiple stories with sand stairs. The guys insist on playing princes and princesses. So, Princess Ally is back.
Trish-or should I say Princess Trish-and I are trapped on the castle balcony (yes, we made a balcony). Our swimsuit cover ups are our flowing gowns. The boys are the princes that will come to our rescue and save us. They run down to the water and shout "GO!" so we know to get into character. Prince Dez and Prince Austin are taking their time with their huge battle to save us.
"So," Trish says. The boys are still down by the water, so they can't hear our conversation. "I'm guessing you get Prince Austin and I get Prince Dez?"
"Yup," I say, smiling. No point saying anything like 'what makes you say that?' or 'I don't automatically get Austin.' Of course I automatically get Austin. I'm in love with him. I told her and Dez. Dez'll go for Trish, anyway. I mean, he knows I want Austin to be the one to 'save' me. And I'm almost positive he likes Trish.
Finally, the boys come into view. Trish and I get into character. "Prince Dez!" she says dramatically. "The queen! She locked us up here and is going to kill us in the morning!"
"Princess! I'll save you!" Dez shouts. My turn.
"Prince Austin! Please help!"
"Don't worry, my princess! I won't stop until you're with me!" he yells up at me. Dez and Austin pretend to hold swords and fight. Austin yelps and falls to the ground. "My arm!" he yells. He looks at it like he's seeing loads of blood. In his mind, that's probably what's happening.
"Austin! We need to get inside that castle!" Dez shouts. Austin nods and gets up. They 'fight' their way across the draw bridge. Finally, they get inside the castle and make their way up to us.
"No! Queen, don't push Ally over the edge of the balcony!" Trish shouts. I look over the edge. The boys hurry with their 'fighting' up the stairs. Luckily, the balcony isn't that high up, and I'm right above the water. I climb over and hold on to the now hard sand.
"Prince Austin! Help!" I shout. I'm actually a little scared. I see the guys standing tall on the balcony. Dez and Trish are hugging-if I say anything to Trish about it, she'll say she was playing a character-while Austin rushes to me.
"Princess Ally!" he shouts, grabbing both my hands. He manages to pull me up, and we hug. "Come!" he says in his prince voice. "We'll get married in the morning!" He takes my hand and pulls me out of the castle and down to the water.
"As will we!" I hear Dez say. He and Trish follow us. The four of us stand next to each other. Austin and I are holding hands and facing each other and Trish and Dez are doing the same. "I now pronounce you husbands and wives," Dez says through the corner of his mouth." Dez gives Trish a quick peck on the lips and Austin does the same to me. None of us think anything of it. We play games like this all the time. Well, Austin doesn't remember, but I know he thinks nothing of it.
Of course, I would like to think something of it. But the quick pecks on the lips we get in these games don't count as kisses. Just being in character and playing a game. That doesn't stop my lips from tingling though.
"Good game!" Austin says, smiling and letting go of my hands. Dez does the same to Trish. We all walk back up the beach to gather our stuff and say goodbye to the sand castle.
"I love that game!" Dez says happily.
"Me too," Austin, Trish, and I say at the same time. We blush. I can see it on Austin and Trish's faces and feel it on mine. But, we just change the subject and keep walking. We stop when we get to the point where we don't go the same way anymore.
"Bye, guys," Austin says. The other three of us say our goodbyes and we all go our separate ways.
Luckily, my house is close. I walk in quietly, locking the door behind me. It's midnight. I take a really fast shower and climb into bed. I dream of none other than Prince Austin Moon.
So that's chapter 14! So, there's gonna be three more chapters, and a short epilogue. I don't really have anything else to say except here's my schedule for my stories:
1. Finish Forgotten
2. Write Raura one-shot
3/4. (Depending on which one you guys want more-review which one you want more please) Auslly or Taken (Sequel to Forgotten) So, the Auslly isn't the sad one I was thinking of doing. It's where Austin and Ally are transported to the future and meet their future selves, married obviously, but they don't know it's them. Future A & A know, but not present A & A. So yeah tell me which one you want more in a review or a PM. Whichever one loses will be the fourth thing I do, and whichever one wins will be the third.
5. Kick (I'll think of an idea.)
6. Peddie (Maybe)
And all throughout that I'll be doing the one-shot series I told you guys about. The one where I write my own version-in story form- of each episode as each new promo comes out. Auslly in all of them. So, yeah. Thanks for reading and please review! Love you more than Austin and Ally love eachother!
~Maddie :)