AUSTIN'S POINT OF VIEW

Ally's gonna be okay and everything will go back to normal. She'll work at Sonic Boom, Trish will have another 500 hundred jobs, Dez will direct my videos and I'll go back to making music with Ally.

"Mr. Dawson," I say. "When do you think Ally will be let out?"

"I don't know, Austin. I'm just glad she's okay," he says.

I nod in agreement.

Then I have an idea. "Can I go to Sonic Boom for a bit?"

He looks at me. "Sure," he says and gives me the store keys. "You can go, too, if you want," he says to Trish and Dez.

"No, thanks, Mr. Dawson," Trish says politely.

"Thanks, Mr. Dawson!" Dez exclaims and jumps beside me.

"Thanks," I smile. We head back.

Once we're in Sonic Boom, I look around at the quiet room, where everything began. "I love it here," I say to Dez.

"Me too," he agrees happily.

"It's so quiet."

"I'll fix that!" And as Dez does, before you can stop him, he enters his own world of obnoxiousness. He picks up a set of drum sticks and crashes the drum set, causing wicked echoes throughout the once-quiet store.

"Dez!" I exclaim. "I like it quiet."

"Oh," he says. "Oops."

I chuckle and shake my head. "Let's go," I say to him, and head up the stairs to the practice room. My ears are still ringing. I scowl at Dez. "I want to finish the song for Ally for when she gets back."

"The one about fears?" Dez asks.

"Yeah," I reply.

For the next 2 hours I'm there with Dez, desperately trying to finish the song. "Argh," I moan. "I can't do this."

"Yes, you can," Dez encourages. "Just remember why you wanted to finish it in the first place and let that guide you."

I nod. "You're right," I say. I start hitting keys and experimenting with notes. I write some lyrics down and when I'm done and happy with the product, I smile. "Finally."

ALLY'S POINT OF VIEW

I feel so much better, but this extensive interrogation is a bit much. I don't know how many times I can tell a doctor that I was conscious for the surgery but I didn't feel a thing. I'm getting really frustrated.

Later, Dr. Holden told me that my plan is coming along great. My plan wasn't spectacular, but I wanted to be able to go home before any of my friends knew about it that way it would be a surprise. He said that my dad said my friends are kind of distracted with everything going on, they'd never expect it. He said it wasn't his first time he had a patient request this of him.

I'm honestly so glad I'm getting better. No one has told me what the actual problem with me was.

AUSTIN'S POINT OF VIEW

When we get back to the hospital, Mr. Dawson tells us that her condition was literally caused by stress. Ally experienced so much stress from Sonic Boom, from me, from herself.

"The heart pumps the blood through our bodies. But begin so stressed, there was a lot of literal pressure on her heart. It couldn't pump the blood properly through her. Because of that, the lack of sufficient blood flow made her body internally cold. Because humans are warm-blooded, it affected her quickly. The reason she fainted was because as oxygen travels through blood, and there wasn't enough blood pumping through her veins, she suffered a deficiency to the brain. Blood travels more easily while the body is in a horizontal position. Basically, her body was trying to correct itself the whole time. She's going to be fine."