I don't own Austin and Ally
Ally's POV (Christmas Eve 10:00 p.m.)
"Ella, if you want Santa to come, you have to get in the bed. You don't want him to pass your house if you're still awake", I told my energetic daughter. I had been trying to get her to go to sleep for two hours now.
"But what if Santa's reindeer get hungry too? Santa gets cookies and milk at every house, but what do the reindeer get for flying him all over the whole world in just one night?", she asked. How does she even think of this stuff? She's so smart for a five year old. I mean most kids go with the flow about Santa eating cookies and milk, but she has to say the reindeer do more work and get nothing. She just thinks so far ahead.
"Santa has some special reindeer food he feeds them whenever they get hungry, Sunshine. It saves a lot of time, because the reindeer can't go down the chimney, and they only eat special food", Austin said. It was a pretty stupid answer, but pretty impressive that he could make up a story like that on the spot.
"Oh, okay", Ella said, but she still wouldn't go to bed.
"Sunshine, I think you're going to want to go to bed on your own so the tickle-monster doesn't have to do it for you", Austin smirked and started chasing her around. She was screaming and laughing as Austin tickled her to death.
"S-s-stop", Ella laughed.
"What's the magic words?", Austin teased just as he had done that day at the beach.
"I…l-love y-you…n-now p-please…s-stop", she begged.
"Will you go to bed?", Austin asked.
"Y-yes", she said laughing, and Austin finally stopped. We set out the milk and cookies, then Austin carried Ella up to bed with me following close behind.
"Goodnight Sunshine. I'll see you in the morning. Please go to sleep so Santa will come. Love you sweetheart", Austin said kissing the top of her head.
"Night Daddy. Love you too", she replied.
"Night baby girl. Love you and I'll see you in the morning", I said copying my fiancé's actions.
"Night mommy, love you", she said almost immediately falling asleep. Austin and I walked downstairs and put the many hidden presents under the tree. Then we stuck two straws in the milk, and split the cookies. We ended up wrestling on the floor for the only cookie left. It took us ten minutes of wrestling to realize we could just split it in half, and neither of us were going to win this fight.
"Well, I'm exhausted. Who knew Santa's job could be so hard?", Austin said plopping down on the couch with me doing the exact same, but I sat on him.
"Um…every parent who's ever done it before", I said laughing. I snuggled closer into his chest while he wrapped his arms around me, and that's exactly how we both fell asleep.
Christmas Morning
"MOMMY, DADDY, WAKE UP! IT'S CHRISTMAS!", Ella exclaimed jumping on Austin and I, waking us up. We ate pancakes with anything we could possibly find to decorate them. Of course, both Ella and Austin smiley-faced all of theirs. They both had me take pictures of them by their selves, and with the two of them in the pictures as well. Then I noticed a picture of Austin and I asleep on the couch this morning. I smiled to myself at this.
"Ella, did you take this picture of me and Daddy?", I asked showing it to her and Austin who were both gobbling down the rest of their pancakes. She smiled sheepishly while nodding. "Well thank-you. I love it."
"What is it with you Dawson girls always taking so many pictures of people sleeping", Austin asked through a mouthful of pancakes. That would be gross if I wasn't used to it already.
"Can't we just go ahead and open the presents now?" Ella whined.
"As soon as everyone else gets here", I said for the hundredth time this morning.
"Awe…", both Ella and Austin whined at the same time. Impatient little children…
"They'll be here soon", I assured them. Trish, Dez, and Maddie all slept over at mike and Mimi's house so Austin and I could get everything done here last night and get at least a little sleep.
"We're here!", Trish yelled.
"See, I told you", I said, then noticed they both had already ran in the living room. I rolled my eyes and followed. Oh well, what can you do?
"Merry Christmas!", everyone exclaimed.
"Merry Christmas to you guys too", I said laughing.
"Now can we open the presents? Please…..", Ella begged.
"Yeah, please….", Austin begged. Trish, Dez, and Maddie all had the same pleading looks, while Mike and Mimi were looking amused.
"I guess", I said, and I'm suddenly surrounded by them all hugging me, screaming 'thank-you' over and over again.
Everyone had gotten Ella a bunch of toys, so now she had plenty to keep her busy. Yay! I was right about Dez. He got a ton of electronics, and some more wacky clothes. I knew he liked animals, so I finally decided on getting him a turtle. "Thanks Ally. This is awesome. Now Fred can have a friend", Dez said.
"Fred?", I asked.
"My turtle that's upstairs", he said as if it were obvious.
Trish got a lot of animal print things…which she absolutely loved. "Ally! How did you know I wanted this purse!?", Trish asked when she opened the present from me.
"You had a fit over it when you saw it in a magazine", I reminded her.
"That's weird that you know that. I read that magazine when you were zoned out", she said. I shrugged.
"Ally, this is like the best kind of power drill they have. Thank-you so much", Mike said. I smiled. I guess I did okay.
"Oh Ally, I just love this kitchen set you got me. This must've cost you a fortune", Mimi said.
"It's fine Mimi. I already said you were my mom, and you deserve it", I said. She smiled and hugged me.
Trish bought Maddie a zebra print outfit, and Dez got her a camera. Somehow they figured getting er stuff they wanted would be best. But when Maddie opened Mike and Mimi's present, she started screaming. "Maddie, what is it?", Austin asked. She couldn't speak and just ran over hugging Mike and Mimi tightly.
"Come on Maddie. Tell us what you got", Dez said. She turned around some papers, and only Trish and I knew what they were. Dez and Austin still don't know the Moons offered to adopt Maddie in the first place. They just looked so confused.
"Your parents are adopting her you idiots", Trish said. Maddie was still speechless, but grinning from ear to ear. Dez and Austin looked at each other, then to Maddie, then to their parents, then back to each other and smiled.
"We have a sister!", they exclaimed at the same time and ran up hugging her excitedly.
"We?", Trish asked looking at Dez. Ella looked confused with this entire situation as well.
"Oh yeah, you don't know yet. Mike and Mimi adopted me in kindergarten", Dez said.
"Trish, do you remember my crazy red-headed friend from the orphanage I was always telling you about, and the little baby we were trying to protect?", I nodded. She nodded still looking confused, but seemed to be catching on.
"Dez was my red-headed friend, and Maddie was the baby", I said. After a few moments of silence, Trish finally spoke up.
"I knew you two looked familiar", Trish said looking at Dez and Austin. How did she know Austin?
Flashback
"Come on Trish. Dez and his best friend Austin want to meet us", a five year old Ally said dragging her new best friend out of their classroom as the final bell rang.
"Why are you so happy? Aren't you sad Dez replaced you?", Trish asked.
"No, we're like brother and sister. Plus, you're my best friend", Ally said making Trish smile. "Look, there he is"
"You were right ally, they are cute", Trish said.
"Shh. I know, now hush. I call the blond one", Ally said smiling.
"Fine with me", Trish said as they walked over to the boys.
"Hi, I'm Ally, and this is Trish", Ally said.
"Hi Trish, I'm Dez. This is my best friend Austin", Dez said. Dez had started talking to Trish, so Austin turned to Ally.
"I'm glad Dez has you as a friend. He doesn't have many", Ally said to the blond in front of her.
"I don't get that. Dez is really fun", Austin said making Ally laugh.
"Yeah, he is. So, what do you want to be when you grow up?", Ally asked trying to get to know the new boy she already had a major crush on.(1)
"A superstar! What about you?", he asked the pretty little brunette.
"A famous songwriter. I would say a singer too, but I don't like to sing in front of people", Ally said looking down shyly.
"You write songs!?", Austin asked getting excited.
"I've written one song", she admitted. (2)
"That's so cool. I can't write any songs at all", Austin said sadly.
"Maybe we could work together. I write the songs and you sing them", Ally joked.
"Yeah, maybe", Austin said thinking it wasn't really a bad idea. Plus he would be getting to see the pretty girl in front of him a lot more.
"Yeah, well it's pretty hard when you live at an orphanage with a bunch of mean people that make you work. I guess that's why Dez hangs out with you so much", Ally said.
"Orphanage?", Austin asked confused.
"Yeah…Dez didn't tell you?", Ally asked.
"No, he didn't. Sorry, I have to go. My mom's here. See you later Ally", Austin said dragging Dez with him to his mother's car. Ally wondered why Dez hadn't told Austin about the orphanage. She had told her best friend, so why couldn't he tell his? She even thought he was ashamed of the entire thing…including her. Little did she know, that would be the last time she ever saw one of her only friends in the world, and the blond cutie…or so she thought at the time.
End of Flashback
"You thought I was cute?", Dez asked Trish at the same time Austin asked me. I rolled my eyes.
"Is that all you two air-heads got from that story?", Trish asked.
"Anyway", I said interrupting. "The next day I found out Dez had been adopted, but never said goodbye", I said looking at Dez.
"Sorry Ally", he said looking down shamefully. "I didn't know you thought that's what happened. I was never ashamed of you", he said looking like he was about to cry. Oh man, what did I just do? He's always thinking I'm going to hate him, and now I made it sound that I still hold that grudge on him.
"Don't blame Dez, Ally. We wanted to get him out of that place quickly, and they said that you and the baby were already adopted together the night before", Mimi said. I looked over at Dez who nodded.
"Dez, is that why you think I hate you? Because you thought I left and took Maddie without you?", I asked. He nodded again. "Dez, I'm so sorry you thought that!"
'No, you thought the same thing. It was Freemans' faults", Dez said.
"Wait, you were going to take me and Maddie too?", I asked Mimi.
"Of course, and we would've if they hadn't told us you both had already left. They kept trying to convince us not to adopt Dez too, but there wasn't much they could do since he was already with us", Mimi said.
"I thought nobody cared about me at that time", I said honestly.
"Hey! I was still your friend then", Trish said.
"Sorry Trish. I meant besides you. I always knew you cared about me", I assured her. She nodded understandingly.
"Guys, let's not worry about all of this right now. It's all in the past now, and everything's fine. Come on, it's Christmas", Maddie said.
"Yeah, mine and Dez's new sister has a point", Austin said. Maddie ran over and hugged both of them when he said that.
"Come on Maddie, you still have to open the presents Austin and I got you together", I said. She smiled and opened the cute outfit I picked out for her. It was a white V-neck T-shirt, skinny blue-jeans, a cropped black leather jacket, and some long black high-heeled boots. Austin insisted on buying her a killer acoustic guitar from Sonic Boom, even though I could've given it to him for free since I own the place and it's not close to bankruptcy anyone. Being with a superstar really brings good publicity to a store.
"Thanks guys. I love these gifts", Maddie said hugging us.
"You're welcome, but that's not all", Austin said. She gave us a confused, yet very curious look considering there was no more presents under the tree with her name on it. Austin just put his hands over her eyes and carefully led her outside.
"Austin, can I look now?", she asked.
"Wait…hang on…just one more second…and…MERRY CHRISTMAS!", he exclaimed removing his hands to reveal a brand new motorcycle. Maddie was just staring at it with her jaw dropped.
"T-this is m-mine?", she stuttered out.
"Yep. D-do you like it?", Austin asked nervously, which I found extremely cute.
"I love it! Thank you both so much!", she exclaimed.
"No prob. Sis", Austin said throwing her the keys, which she caught perfectly.
Then it was Austin's turn. He got some pretty cool music stuff, and new clothes. I couldn't think of anything special enough for him, so I just wrote him two songs. They kind of fit us, but there are parts that don't sound like us, but they sounded great in the song, and that doesn't mean that I didn't mean what I said. They were called Love Story and You Belong With Me (3). When I finished singing, he was just smiling at me. "What?"
"You're truly amazing", he said and kissed me.
Mike and Mimi got me a fifty dollar gift card for any store in the mall. Trish got me a really cute cropped leather jacket like the one I got Maddie. Maddie bought me a cute new pair of wedges. These girls know fashion. Apparently Dez and I are on the whole 'animal themed' gifts, because before I knew it he had brought a small puppy out of that strange room, and it is now licking my face. "I thought you, Ella, and Austin would like a Chihuahua. He's eight weeks old, and doesn't have a name yet", Dez informed me.
"LUCKY!", Ella exclaimed.
"What's lucky Sunshine?", Austin asked.
"That's what we should call him; Lucky. He's lucky to have us, just like we're all lucky to be in this great family", Ella explained.
"I think that's perfect", I said passing Lucky over to Ella.
"Now, from me", Austin said handing me a small box. I smiled grabbing the box out of his hands. I opened it, and gasped at what I saw. It was a beautiful music note charm bracelet with two big hearts, and one small heart joined together. It read…'A Better Together(4); Forever and Always' on the bigger ones, and the small one read…'Our little Sunshine, Ella'. Finally, the music note said, 'I love you'.
"Oh Austin, it's beautiful. I love you", I said kissing him.
"I'm glad you like it. Oh, and look. There's even room to add more charms for anything special", Austin said. Hmm…
"I know I already gave you both a card, but I wanted to give Daddy an extra present. It's kind of for Mommy too, so don't feel bad. Grandma and Grandpa helped me get it", Ella said smiling as she handed us some papers. I wonder what it is…
Austin's POV
I unwrapped Ella's present for me and Ally to find…ADOPTION PAPERS! NO WAY! "A-Are these…", I started, but couldn't finish. I looked over to Ally who looked equally surprised, but Ella was just smiling and nodding.
"Yes, they are Daddy. All you have to do is sign on the dotted line, and I'll be your daughter forever", Ella said. I couldn't help the tears that were forming in my eyes. Yes, Austin Moon is crying, but I'm so happy. This family really changed me.
"Sunshine, you will always be MY daughter, even if I didn't sign these. Is it okay with you that I sign these Ally?", I asked with the most hope I've ever had since I proposed to Ally.
"Is it okay with me!? Are you serious!?", she asked. Oh no… "Of course it's okay with me! That would make me so happy! Somebody give me a pan before I wake up from this wonderful dream", she said. We both quickly signed the papers, then grabbed Ella wrapping her into a huge hug. She's legally mine now! All mine and Ally's!
"And don't you forget it Daddy", Ella said. Huh? Did I say that out loud?
"Yeah bro, you said it out loud. You might want to stop trying to think, because the more you try, the more your peanut sized brain doesn't listen, and it ends up coming out of your mouth instead", Maddie said. Trish gave her a high-five while everyone else just laughed. Dang, she's been my sister for less than twenty-four hours, and she's already annoying as crap and acting like a brat.
"Hey! I heard that!", she exclaimed.
"Yay, then it worked. You were meant to hear it Dumbo", I said earning myself a pillow to the head from her. Suddenly seven more pillows started hitting me repeatedly. Even though this kind of hurts, this is what family is all about, and now I'm legally Ella's father. How could my life get any better? Oh yeah…there is one thing. Making Ally Dawson my wife, but that's only less than two ,months away.
"Merry Christmas Daddy! I love you!", Ella exclaimed.
"Merry Christmas Sunshine. I love you too…more than anyone could ever know."
Hey guys! Wow, this is like my longest chapter yet! Guess what the next chapter is? Sorry to let you down, but it isn't the wedding. But…it is the night before the wedding. It's going to be pretty short, but I wanted it to have its own chapter. Plenty of Auslly in the last three chapters. Wow, I can't believe I'm almost done with this story. It feels like just yesterday when I started it! I love you all for taking me this far, and I'm so glad you liked it. Please continue to read, review, follow, and favorite.
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