Sorry for making you guys wait so long for a update. The Songbook should also be updated before the end of the week so there's something to look forward to. Once again, thank you for reading :)
"Austin, what up, buddy?" Dez holds out his hand for a high five and then leans in to look at his face more closely. "What happened, you look like you didn't sleep at all last night." Austin nods and groans exhaustedly.
"I slept, just not very much." He slumps back in the chair across from Dez and studies the people on the beach and sitting around him at Shredder's.
"Yeah, let's be a little more vague please?" Dez kicks his feet up on the table and sips from his straw, staring at Austin. He laughs and turns to face Dez.
"I was at Ally's house. She, uh, called me last night because she was upset and I ran over there to make sure she was okay." He shifts a little in his seat and calls the waitress over, ordering a plate of fries and then turning back to Dez.
"Why wouldn't she just call her boyfriend?" Dez questions, still sipping his soda.
"Well that's kind of why she called me." Austin reaches out and takes the plate of fries from the waitresses hands. Dez smiles and winks at her and she giggles before walking off, blonde pig tails bouncing.
"Damn, they broke up?" Dez says, taking a few fries from the plate and stacking them on the side into a little tower.
"Yup." Austin grabs a bottle of ketchup and squeezes it on the side of the plate then dunks a fry into it. "She was really upset."
"Why'd they break up?" Dez inquires, pulling the bottom fry out from his tower and watching it tumble, then dunking it into the ketchup. "Him or her?"
"Him." Austin mumbles, shoving more fries into his mouth and running his hand through his hair, trying to keep himself awake now. "He wanted to do something that she didn't and he dumped her for it and now I really feel like punching the daylights out of him."
"Ah because you're still in love with Ally?" Dez smirks and rolls a fry in the remains of the ketchup and sticks it in his mouth before squeezing some more onto the plate. "Oh, and your oh-so-secret code isn't so secret to your best friend." Dez waits for Austin to understand and when after a second Austin nods. "So Ally was really going to do it?"
"You cannot, I repeat, cannot tell her that I ever told you, okay?" Austin demands, swallowing a fry and then wiping his hands on his jeans. "Yes."
Dez picks up a fry and says sarcastically, "Who knew that our Ally, the pristine image of chastity had it in her. Hmm." he laughs and points one of the fries at Austin. "She's eighteen, dude, it's going to happen eventually."
"I just wish it wasn't going to be with some dick." Austin says, the corners of his mouth turning up just slightly and brows angled downward, then returning to their normal place.
"Like you wouldn't," Dez says, putting another fry in his mouth and biting down, "take the opportunity to do it with Ally if it was presented? Really? I find that very hard to believe." He leans back against his chair and lifts one of his eyebrows, challenging Austin to go against his statement.
Austin stands up fervently and puts his hand on the table in front of Dez says, "I'd never, ever take advantage of her." suddenly infuriated with his best friend.
"I never said take advantage, dude, I said that if she was there and totally wanted to that you're just way to in love with this girl and way too hopped up on hormones when you're around her to tell her no. That's all." Dez says calmly, reading into the situation a little more tactfully than usual and trying to get himself out of it. Austin sits down heavily and shoves another fry into his mouth, then another, then another, until the plate is empty and Dez is staring at him, half a fry still dangling between his fingers. "What happened last night, Austin." He throws the last bite of fry to a pigeon strutting along the sand and turns away from the frenzy of birds that dove on the morsel of potato. "Austin you've been in love with this girl since you met her. Would you have come to my house at some ungodly hour if I called you, or would you have gone to Trish's house if she ever-"
"Why would Trish call me?" Austin asks, searching for a route away from the current subject.
"Well, whatever the chance that could happen, you know that you wouldn't have come that early just from a phone call. You're my best friend, Austin, but I don't think you would do that for me."
"Of course I would!" Austin protests with only half his usual zeal for his defense. "Maybe." Dez laughs and calls over the waitress, a spunky girl named Carrie whom he'd been dating casually for quite a while. They make a cute couple, actually. She skips over and wraps a hand around Dez's shoulder which elicits a smile. He asks for more fries and she happily obliges, picking up the used plate and smiling at Dez.
"Thanks, Carrie." Dez says as she walks away, then turns back to Austin. "So?"
"Swear you won't tell another living soul?" Austin says, sitting up and leaning across the table at Dez, smacking the palms of his hands against the wood.
"Swear." he replies slightly taken aback, and then leans forward again. "So?" Austin slumps back against his chair again and sighs, deep and contemplative, then leans forward and grips one of his hands with the other, wringing it dry of some intangible secret or anxiety.
"Ally was kind of- well she- Ally had a beer or maybe two or something. I'm not completely sure. And when she was laying on my shoulder and she told me that she had thought of me, well, she kind of said that she wanted to..." Austin motions with his hands in a little circle, trying to make Dez connect the dots before he actually had to say it, and cocking his eyebrow just slightly.
"No way Ally asked you to have sex with her." Dez says, incredulous.
"Well not asked so far as," Austin stumbles over his words searching for one to express it without making Ally come across as desperate or sad or anything that would deface her ethereality and finally asks quietly, "implied?"
"And you actually said no to that." Dez asks, receiving the plate of fries and thanking Carrie again. "Still doubt it."
"It happened. And I didn't do anything like that with her because I couldn't. I care about her too much. But then her dad came in and screwed everything up this morning and now I just want to go back and tell him that I didn't sleep with his daughter." Austin states with an air of finality to the discussion. "And you can't tell anyone- anyone- what I just told you."
Dez relents but leans closer to him once more and says in a hushed tone. "But did you want to?" Austin pulls back slowly and, with a note of pensiveness in his face and a glance downward, he nodded just slightly, almost invisibly, at Dez's question.
Ooo drama. Well maybe. I'm not really sure where this story is going. It's just kind of... going? Well we'll see if I make anymore. I doubt it will turn into M or anything so just get ready for some Auslly goodness if you decide to stick around.
Also any ideas for what to come next would be great because I don't really know where this story is going if it's going anywhere.