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"What was that?" Ally asked, sitting up in time to catch a glimpse of gold running away from the café.

"Who knows? Come here." Dallas said, leaning over the table toward's Ally. He wrapped his arms around her and she did the same. When they pulled apart, Dallas moved to connect their lips. Ally pulled away.

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."

"Why won't you kiss me? I mean, you're my girlfriend again, right?"

"Dallas, I know what I said. I do. But, just you being here, and trying to kiss me, I realize... you can't take back what you did."

"I know, baby. I know, but I'm so sorry! You forgive me don't you?"

"Yes, yes I forgive you. But that doesn't mean I still want to be with you."

"But you just said that you wanted to be my girlfriend again! Ally, make up your mind!" he said, a trace of anger rising.

"Maybe, maybe I said it because I want the old 'us' back. But, I'm know now that that can't happen. You ruined that chance when you slept with her." Ally replied, slowly. Looking deep into her hot chocolate, which she had resumed her grip on.

"No." Dallas replied, looking at their hands, "This isn't about me." he took his hands away from hers, "This isn't about what I did." and he looked her straight in the eye, "This is about him."

"What?" Ally asked, shocked.

"Yeah, I don't know who he is. I don't know why you think he's better than me. But you do. I see it. I know you. There is no way that you would have called me if there wasn't someone else."

"What? Why would I even think about calling you if there was someone else?"

"Because, Ally," he said, standing up and beginning to gather his stuff, "you may not be his girlfriend. But you sure as hell want to be and that scares you. I gotta go, bye." he made his way to the door, waving to the lady at the counter and opening the door. Ally listened as the bell chimed, signaling the door closing and closed her eyes.

"Fuhhh..." Ally groaned into her palms. She stood up and gathered her bag and hot chocolate and walked out the door, freshly determined.

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"Hey, Austin? You here?" Trent walked into the apartment and threw his jacket on the couch.

"Uh huh." Austin mumbled from under his jacket.

"Oh, man, I'm sorry!" Trent said, quickly picking his jacket up and throwing it onto a kitchen chair, "Hey, what's up?"

"Just... nothing." Austin said, sitting up.

"Okay, I'm assuming girl-problems so, do you want to talk?"

"Uh, I don't know, Trent. What help could you be to me? I mean, you're all happy with your girlfriend and stuff."

"Yeah, I know." Trent laughed and sat down in the chair across from Austin, "But, you know, I've had my fair share of heartbreaks. And, to be honest, I didn't even know you were dating anyone. Let alone that you were so serious."

"That's the problem! I'm not even dating this girl and I'm already completely involved. I mean, it's like freaking Titanic."

"What?"

"You know, the whole 'you jump, I jump' thing? No, okay, never mind." Austin said, flopping back and pulling a couch pillow under his head.

"Anyway... what happened with this girl, then? If you're not even involved with her-"

"That's the problem!" Austin yelled, standing up suddenly, "I'm pretty freaking certain that I'm in love with her and now she's back to dating this scum of a guy who broke her heart."

"Hey, man. I'm sorry." Trent said, standing to meet his gaze, "maybe you just need to move on?"

"Yeah... thanks." Austin grabbed the blanket he had been under and made his way to his bedroom.

"Or you could be her Romeo." Trent called. Austin paused briefly, before continuing into his room and shutting the door and collapsing onto his bed.

After a couple of minutes Austin stood up and looked around, hoping for some kind of inspiration or comfort. That's when noticed the box of books his mom had gave him, they were just some books that his parents had in their basement and he had said he would like to read them. He got up and started looking through the books, mostly horror books and other random ones they had collected over the last couple of years. He had three stacks of books around him, all very mysterious and scary. Very his type. However, the last book in the box didn't look like horror or mystery.

"The Notebook?" Austin whispered to himself, picking it up and reading the cover and summary. Before he could stop himself he was deeply engrossed in the story.

Austin stayed up all night reading, he wasn't sure why, he wasn't a romance book type. Something about this book, though, captured his thoughts and he didn't understand why.

"Hey, Austin, I'm going down to the studio, bye!" called Trent from the living room. Austin didn't bother to answer, seeing as it was only 8 in the morning and he had already devoted the entire night to finishing this book and he only had one chapter left.

When Austin finished the book, he just held it and stared at the cover. Somehow the faces of what he deduced to be Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, merged into his own and his very own Ally.

That was when he realized why he had kept reading, why it was so gripping and he just couldn't stop. Because, somewhere in that story, was his own life, and the love interest was Allie. Just like his Ally. Just like... Ally. Not his Ally. Ally wasn't his to claim, she was... what was his name? He didn't even know. He didn't even care, because he wanted Ally to himself.

*knock*knock*

"Ugh!" Austin said, heaving his tired self off of his bed and wrapping himself in his red blanket. "I'm coming, I'm coming!" Austin groused, way too quietly for whomever was at the door. "Who is it?" Austin swung the door open, dropping the blanket around his ankles when he saw her. The beautiful, little, brunette standing in his doorway, hand still fisted as if she was about to knock again. "Hi." Austin said, blocking the entryway into his apartment with his arm.

"Hi. Uh, I'm sorry to be by so early." she said, studying her hands and wringing them together, "But, um, I just wanted to say, uh, how do I start this?" she grabbed her head as she finished speaking, as if deep in thought.

"There's nothing to say. I get it. You're back with... whatever his name is... and-"

"Dallas, and what are you talking about?"

"I saw you, I saw you two in the café yesterday. You said you loved him. I get it, I get it, he was your first love and your first relationship and, I'm just about nothing. We're nothing!"

"Austin, no! Just let me-"

"Let me say this, it's already really hard and I don't know why. I get it. We're nothing, we've never ever been anything. Not that night on the beach, and not on that date, and just, never. We've never been anything and we'll never be anything." Austin finished, looking her in the eye and fighting back the urge to kiss her.

"Austin!" Ally yelped, "That's not what I'm sayi-"

"Goodbye, maybe we'll, uh, meet again on some street corner in some other city one day." Austin began to close the door, before it was completely closed, he felt it stop. Looking down, he noticed a little yellow wedge stuck in the door and slowly opened it again.

"Austin, we are something. We've always been and I'm damn sure that we always will." Ally said, examining his eyes for any sign of regret or opposition to what she was saying. Without warning, Ally felt herself rising to her toes and connecting her lips with his, as if a wave of energy had pushed her forward. Almost the way their first kiss had felt. She stepped back, looking at Austin's warm but seemingly unemotional face. "I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry." Ally said, "I'm an idiot, bye." and with that she was almost the the stairs when she heard the familiar voice of the boy she had met that night at the beach.

"Ally, wait up!" and the footsteps came running up behind her and her lips were against his and her back was against the wall.

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