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"Austin, I have to go." Ally said tearing herself apart from Austin and looking in his eyes.

"Oh, okay." Austin replied and let go of her shoulder, watching her walk out. "What did I do?" Austin said once she had left and he shut the door. "I'm a freaking idiot!" Austin kicked the chair closest to him, walked into his room and slammed the door.

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"Trish, I don't know what happened!" Ally said, sitting on the couch across from her friend.

"Well, you realized who he was and he realized who you were. Then he sang a song-"

"No, it was because of the song."

"Okay, okay, well, then he kissed you. So, what's the problem?"

"Well, I've spent the last five years of my life trying to forget him. Trying to forget that night and everything that happened."

"I know, but you're the one who believes in all that 'fate' and 'destiny' stuff, so why can't you believe that maybe, just maybe, he came back into your life for a reason? I mean, come on, not only does he come back into your life, it happens only a few weeks after you break up with the guy you've been dating for over four years!"

"Trish, stop. I don't want to think about him anymore."

"And didn't you say that after you and Dallas broke up, the first thing you thought about was Austin and that night?"

"Yeah." Ally looked at her hands. Trish was absolutely right. The night that Dallas had broken her heart she had come home from the restaurant, took out a pint of ice cream from the fridge and sat on the couch and cried. But she wasn't thinking about Dallas, or the four years that they had spent together, no, she was thinking about one specific night that had broken her heart even more. And the worst part was, she didn't know why. She had loved Dallas, or thought she did. there was always something missing with him. They had said they loved each other about a year and a half after they started dating, which Ally thought was fine, but Trish kept telling her that that was too slow for something like that. "I need to go to bed Trish." Ally said, standing up and heading towards her room.

"But it's only 7 o'clock!" called Trish, but decided to let it be.

"UH! Why did I let this happen! Why did I let him come back into my life. We never even dated, we were nothing, so why is he so important to me!" Ally screamed in her room. She threw pillow after pillow from her bed onto the floor. "I'm an idiot! Why did I give him my number! Why did I answer the phone again!" She collapsed backwards onto her bed and just laid there. "What makes him so special. Is it because of what happened, because we slept together?" she thought, "And why does he still matter to me. We were together for maybe 6 hours and then didn't see each other for 5 years. Why does he matter at all!" Ally's thoughts were racing, she got up and walked around the small room. She picked up one of the books from her shelves. The Notebook. "I'm Ally, why can't I find my Noah. Okay, Ally, shut up you're being really really sappy right now. There's no explanation! We didn't have some kind of summer romance. We didn't even know each other's last names." She put the book down and sat on the floor.

"Knock knock" Trish said from outside the door. She had been listening from her room to Ally scream and then thought she had gone to sleep for a while, but when she had heard footsteps she decided to come talk to her.

"Come in." Ally said, standing up and laid the book on top of the shelf, not bothering to put it back in it's correct place.

"I heard you yelling and stuff. Are you sure you don't want to talk."

"I don't know, Trish. I really don't." Ally flopped back on her bed, folded her hands across her stomach and looked up at the ceiling.

"You know this isn't a therapy session." Trish said sarcastically, sitting on the bed next to Ally. Ally just glared at her, then smiled.

"Well," Trish started, looking around the room for some kind of inspiration of what to say, when her eye stumbled upon the book Ally had put down when she had entered the room. One of her favorites, she knew because whenever Ally read it she would hear crying from her room because she always lost it when she finished the book. Trish wasn't much of a sap, but she knew Ally might believe it if it came from someone else, "maybe you loved him." Ally looked at her, then closed her eyes again, as if exasperated by the thought of loving someone after only a few hours, even though Trish knew she believed in love-at-first-sight.

"Can I just be alone now?" Ally asked Trish.

"Sure." Trish got up and left Ally on her bed.

"Come on, Ally, do you really believe that. Do you really believe that you were- are in love with Austin Moon?" She didn't have to answer her thoughts, she knew that she was, she knew that the boy who had stolen her heart that one night at the beach had kept it, and she was never getting it back. Ally stood up and walked over to the book shelf, picking up The Notebook and putting it back in it's rightful place. "Maybe this time Ally doesn't always end up with Noah, maybe sometimes the right guy is the one everyone reading the book thinks is wrong, oh what am I kidding, it never is. I don't know." Ally walked back over and picked up her cell phone. "I have to call him." she thought. It took what felt like an hour to her to finally work up the nerve to do, which in reality was only about a minute. As it rang, she felt a rush of fear and dread run through her, she took the phone away from her ear and was about to hit the "end call" button when she heard the familiar voice.

"Hey, Ally," It was so warm and nice. She felt almost safe hearing it, she didn't know why but the fear was still there though. Finally she got up the courage to speak.

"Hi, Dallas."

Oooo! Another cliffhanger. Tell me what you think! Anyway, obviously I don't own The Notebook, hopefully you get the references I made, if not it's a really good book and if you don't feel like reading the movie's pretty good too, but that's my opinion. Also I made a little reference to an upcoming A&A song if anybody caught it :). Anyways, thanks for reading and reviewing ;). I know this was a short chapter, but I wanted to get in a little more background and accomplish Ally realizing her true feelings about everything.