A/N
Thank you for reviewing 14, tephriam, LoveShipper and Chubbyhippos! The review contest thing continues. Also, thank you to any of you who checked out my Austin and Ally Halloween one-shot Haunting Love :D
So tonight, in the episode they're imagining how it would have been without Austin…interesting…
Please read the Author's Note at the bottom! And now, onto chapter 16 of The New Neighbor.
Disclaimer: I don't own Austin and Ally.
I wake up to Austin's face. It's close, but not uncomfortably so. "Good morning, Als. It's still raining outside, although the thunder and lightning has stopped," he says. I smile. I remember the storm last night, well, this morning and us building the fort we're currently in.
I run a hand through my messy bed-head hair, "So we're getting married, huh?"
A smile plays on Austin's lips, "Yup." He brushes a stray hair behind my ear.
"When should it be?" I ask propping myself up on my elbow.
"As soon as possible, I can't wait to call you my wife," he responds. I giggle; glad to be with him in this cozy enclosure. "How 'bout in a week?"
"A week?" I ask flabbergasted. He doesn't know how long it takes to plan a wedding, does he?
"Yeah! It'll be sweet!" he responds enthusiastically.
I sigh, "Not possible."
He pouts, "Is too."
"Is not."
"Is too." I fall back onto my back.
"Fine then! If you think you can plan a wedding in a week, let's try. If I get really stressed out up until the wedding though, it's your fault, Austin!"
"Ok." We lay in silence for a while. He's looking at something on his phone, the harsh light illuminating our fort.
I lean over and try to look, "Whatcha lookin' at?" I ask.
"Stuff," he grunts in response. Austin dials a number and holds his phone to his ear. I can only hear his side of the conversation: "Hello, is this Bridal Flower Gallery?...Yes, I would…Um, roses, lilies and lilacs…Yes, that's correct…Could you do four bouquets, seven boutonnieres*, and eight vases of flowers?..Thank you…The twentieth…Ok, thank you," he hangs up. "Flowers down, now we just need food, cake, a building, friends and family and nice clothes."
"Did you really just do what I think you did?" I ask him.
"Yes, yes I did." He smiles and pauses, "Listen." I do; rain and wind are no longer pounding against the house. If I were to open a door right now, I would see everything glistening and dripping water. Austin makes calls to a catering service, a bakery and somehow reserves a location and an officiator over the phone. He also reserves a hotel in Tahiti for us to stay in on our week-long honeymoon.
"You're really into this, aren't you?"
"Yup. Today, we'll all go shopping."
I grab his arm, "But I wanna be with you."
"We'll shop together, ok?" I nod.
"Can the colors be red, cream and lavender?"
"Sure, those even match with the flowers I picked."
"I know, you're lucky I like them," I laugh. We crawl out of the blanket fort and decide to leave it. Austin's parents won't be home for another day anyway. He goes to his room to change into clothes while I go back to my house to change. I wonder if I'll move in with him after we're married or if he'll move in with me. My house is nice, but his is nicer; on the other hand, his parents technically own his house. I take a quick shower, apply some make-up and get into a regular graphic-t and jeans. Downstairs, I eat a granola bar, grab my purse and meet Austin outside. We take his truck because it has more room for our friends to sit and to put bags. We pick up Trish and Dez from Trish's cousin's house. Apparently, Dez was helping Trish babysit them. Austin drives to the mall and we all get out and head to the wedding boutique. Trish and I go over to look at dresses first. It turns out that Austin and I won't be shopping together-together, but that's ok I guess. I want something elegant, but not too expensive or flashy. I sort through all the plastic bags of white material trying to find just the right one.
Trish holds one up, "How 'bout this one?" It has a ton of ruffles, isn't very long and the bodice part is zebra print.
"Trish, that's more like what you'd wear, not me," I laugh.
"We're here on business? He actually did it and you accepted?" Trish squeals.
Oh, yeah, we hadn't told Trish and Dez yet. "Um, yeah."
"When's the wedding?"
"Austin's trying to get it on the twentieth. Don't flip." Trish flips anyway going into rush mode with looking for dresses.
"I'm going to look at bridesmaids' dresses, what colors do you want them to be?" she asks me.
"A light lavender. You can look for them, but check them by me before buying anything please. You, Rydel and Austin's mom will all need a dress; they don't have to be the same though." Trish nods and walks away excited to shop. I continue looking through all of the dresses. Finally, I pull three to try on. I go grab Trish and we head to the changing room. The first dress is sleeveless and hugs my body down to my waist before flowing out to the ground. It's plain other than a vine like design on the left side from top to hip. The silk feels nice and there's a small train. I really like it and it makes me feel like a princess, but I think I should also try on the others.
The next dress is a silvery color as well as white. It's a trumpet mermaid something-or-other-design and is off one shoulder. There's beading on the chest, waist and where it's gathered at the small of my back. The back is lace up and I like the length of the train. How am I going to decide, I love both the dresses so far!
I slip out of the mermaid dress and into the next one. This one is sleeveless like the first; it has a design on the chest and a sheer, long ruffle that flows to the ground as another layer on the dress. I smile and spin around, usually I don't enjoy shopping all that much, but this is a lot of fun! "Can I find a dress for you to try on?" Trish asks, bringing me away from my wedding dress happy place.
"Um, sure, but just know there's a chance I won't even consider it."
Trish shrugs, "Ok," and walks out of the dressing room. I take off the third wedding dress and get into the silk slip in the dressing room for in-between dresses. As I wait for Trish to return I wonder about how the boys are doing. They have to find suits for Austin, Dez, Riker, Ryland, Rocky, Ratliff and Austin's dad. That's a lot more shopping than Trish and I have to do by numbers of people, but I know that the girls will be pickier. After about ten minutes, Trish opens my door holding a dress. I'm kind of scared at what she picked out, but when I open the plastic bag to keep it safe, it actually looks pretty nice.
Getting out of the slip, I put on the dress. This one is strapless as well and instead of going to the floor, it only goes to my knees. No beading is on it, although there is a large black bow and ruffles. I admit it's not too outrageous so I add it to the dresses that I'll consider. I place all the dresses back in their bags and change into my t-shirt and jeans. Trish and I take the dresses to the counter and put them on hold under the names Ally Dawson and Ross Lynch. Ross Lynch, because that's the name Austin'll be paying for all this under. We decide we should probably check on the boys seeing as we've left them alone in a store for over an hour. We come across them arguing over whether Dez can wear his clown shoes with his suit.
"No, you cannot wear your clown shoes to Ally's and my wedding!" Austin practically shouts.
"Why not? They go with everything," Dez counters.
"Because they're clown shoes!" Austin hisses, obviously exasperated.
I step in, "Boys, boys, chill out! Dez, you will not wear clown shoes to my wedding."
"But-" I cut him off with my death glare.
"Since you two haven't made any progress, we'll make this simple," I declare and walk over to the area where there're separate pieces of outfits. I pick up seven white, button down shirts, seven black jackets and seven pairs of black slacks. "Here, these will be for the guys. I know that the Lynches could afford their own, but it would just be easier to buy them ourselves. Austin and Dez, you guys purchase these while Trish and I find some bridesmaids dresses," I say dropping the clothing in their arms and walk off with Trish following me.
"So did you find anything earlier while you were searching?" I ask Trish.
"Yeah, I found one that works for me and might for Rydel as well from what you've told me of her."
"Ok. So we'll find one for Austin's mom and then see what you picked out." Since I had gone shopping with Rydel, I know what size she is and Mimi doesn't look much bigger than me so I think we'll be able to find one that fits. We spend another thirty minutes searching until we find a nice one for Mimi. We return to the dressing room to look at them and for Trish to try on hers. Trish looks really cute in the lavender dress she chose. It has spaghetti straps, a gauzy layer over the actual dress and is tied at the waist with a black ribbon and bow.
"It looks great, Trish! You said you had one for Rydel?"
"Thanks! Yeah, I grabbed three that are all exactly the same, pick out the one that's her size." I sort through the three dresses and put the one that'll fit her aside.
"She can wear her black leather jacket with it as well," I laugh.
"You're going to let her?"
"Why not?" I smile. The dress I chose for Mimi is a simple, dark lavender and strapless. I just know she'll look beautiful in it! Trish and I return the dresses that were extra to the rack and buy the ones we chose. We meet the boys outside sitting on a bench.
"You guys took so long!" Dez complains. Austin just smiles tiredly, I think he understands how perfect this has to be. "I'm starving! Let's go eat!" He leads us to the food court, not exactly classy, but it'll due. Austin and I have pizza, Trish has fish 'n chips and Dez has a hamburger. When we're finished, we all grab the bags that contain the guy's outfits and the bridesmaids' dresses and go back to the vehicle. The guys sit in the back and I sit in the passenger seat since we're all exhausted from shopping other than Trish who does this type of thing regularly. Instead of going home, everyone decides to crash at my place. Apparently they all agreed to it, but I wasn't included in the vote. Inside, I put the bags in my room and sit down on the couch next to Austin. I have a large couch so Trish is on my other side with Dez at the end. Austin has the controller and is flipping through channels.
"What are we gonna do the rest of the day?" I ask my three friends.
"Stay here," they all respond. I guess even Trish is tired; must be because she was shopping for me instead of herself. Austin finds something he wants to watch, it's some Disney show called Ross and Laura. Laura writes songs and Ross is a performer, they're constantly getting into odd situations with their friends Callum and Rainy. We end up watching a marathon of it, all of season one and two late into the night. The opening song, "Without You" is already stuck in my head.
There's no way I can make it without you
Do it without you
Be here without you
It's no fun when you're doing it solo
With you it's like whoa
Yeah and I know
I, own this dream
Cause I've got you with me
There's no way I can make it without you
Do it without you
Be here without you
I'm a hardcore Raura fan now. I couldn't believe it when in the end, Ross, Callum and Rainy left on tour while Laura stayed behind for a record deal and Ross was about to tell Laura something, but didn't. Instead, he just gave her a card, but we never got to hear or see what it said! At some point, we got hungry so we ordered Chinese take-out. After the first season, Dez and Trish got bored so Austin took them home at a commercial break before coming back and snuggling with me while we finished up the marathon. After that, Austin carried me upstairs since I was super tired and tucked me into bed. He kissed my forehead and left, closing the door gently. I sigh, wow, in a week, if all goes as planned, I'll be Ally Moon.
A/N
The URLs to view pictures of the dresses Ally is considering are at the bottom of my profile in order of occurrence in the story. Also, the URL for Trish's and Rydel's dresses will be there. Finally, I'll be setting up a poll for you guys to vote for which one you think she should buy so please vote! Please check it out, if no one does, I'll just have to decide on my own and that'll be hard. Please review, follow and/ or favorite if you haven't already! :)
* Boutonniere- this is that flower thing guys wear
Until Next time,
~Maggie