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Austin pulled away after about two minutes of kissing and leaned his head down in the space between him and Ally. "I had to do that one more time, at least for now." he said, breathing heavily.

"Austin, what?" Ally replied, breathing just as heavily.

"I don't care about what you said, ok," he looked deep into her eyes while saying that. "I know what I heard, you said, and I quote, 'I love you, too' to him."

"'His' name is Dallas. The least you could do is speak like he's not a dog!"
Ally said, pushing Austin away from her.

"What? I thought you ended it with him because he is? Because, what did you say, he broke your heart? Cheated on you with some 'slut'?" Austin pushed back.

"I can't believe you!" Ally yelled, pulling her bag over her shoulder again since it had fallen off during the kiss. "Why do you think you know me so much? Why do you think you own me or something? And why the HELL do you think it's ok to come running out here all romantic like the end of some movie or something and kiss me like that and then say it was all because it's over. Because you had to do it 'one more time'."

"Ally, I-"

"Save it. I don't want to talk to you, ever, ever again. Just leave me the hell alone." Ally choked back force pulling her back to him, trying to coax her into falling for him and kissing him again. "I have to go now. And don't bother calling." With that, she turned on her heal and fixed her hair while she walked towards the stairs. Austin simply stared at her before putting his back against the wall and sliding down. Resting his head in his hands against his knees and mentally using every curse he knew against himself.

Ally walked outside and, not feeling up for the walk, hailed a taxi. During the drive it took all she had not to let the surge of tears forming behind her eyes through. After paying the driver and giving him the warmest smile and "have a nice day" that she could manage, she hurried into her building and ran up the stairs. Slamming the door behind her once in the apartment, she slid back against it and held her head between her knees and cried.

"Ally?" Trish asked, walking from her room. "What's going on? Are you crying? What happened at Austin's?" Trish sat down next to Ally, seeing that this wasn't the time for questions, and rubbed her back and let Ally rest her head on her shoulder. "Shhh." Trish said, quietly, over and over until Ally's tears had subdued and she sat back against the wall.

"Thank you, Trish." Ally croaked, looking sincere despite her bloodshot eyes.

"Any time." Trish smiled, leaning into Ally.

"I'm gonna go lay down." Ally said, standing and walking towards her bedroom. Trish rose as well and retreated into her bedroom.

Ally read the clock on her nightstand, 10:00 a.m. Only ten in the morning and it was already about as shitty as it could get. She paced around her bedroom for another fifteen minutes before finally settling on reading. After another 10 or so minutes looking through all her books she picked up the book she had been looking at the other night, The Notebook.

"Okay, what the hell." Sitting back on her bed, Ally began to read. Being a pretty fast reader, it was about one in the afternoon when she finally finished. Closing the book, she found herself staring at the cover. She had always liked the fact that the main girl and her shared a name, regardless of the spelling difference. After about fifteen minutes of staring at the cover, she began to realize that the faces were no longer that of the actors from the movie. But much, much more familiar. She saw herself, wrapped up in the arms in the pouring rain of none other than the boy she had just been crying over. The one she was certain was both a devil and an angel. The one she in no doubt falling for, or possibly already in love with. The thought of being in love with him, this boy whom she had met all those years ago, this boy whom she shared one night with, this boy whom had run into her a sidewalk just a few days ago, scared her to no end. Out of about 8 million people in the city, this is the one that she had to run into! This is the one person in the world that she had both dreamt of seeing again and wished to never have to lay her eyes upon him again. The fact that scared her the most, though, was that Dallas was right. She wanted to be something to Austin.

Settling back into the pillows after replacing the book in the book shelf, Ally closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. It was peaceful and when she awoke it was five. Ally checked her phone and, without realizing it, was silently wishing that when she hit the little home button that a missed call or a message from Austin would pop up. Nothing did. She cursed her stupidity and expectancy of him to call her or anything after the fit she had today. Deciding that she needed to make amends for what she did, Ally got up, fixed her hair which seemed to have an incurable case of bed-head. However, she knew it was only a way for her to stall what she knew was inevitable. She understood this because she knew her subconscious would only torture her if she didn't go. If she didn't try to make it right with Austin, whom, yes, she had decided that she was in love with. Ally fixed her make-up, grabbed her purse and headed out the door with a quick shout to Trish telling her that she'd be back soon.

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"You can do this! You can do this, Ally!" She gave herself a mental pep-talk while walking up the same stairs she had descended just a few hours earlier after her kiss with Austin. And the fight, yeah, that happened too.

Before knocking on the door, Ally repeated her little chant, urging herself to just get it over with.

*knock*knock*

"Okay, you can do this, Ally. Just say you're sorry and that you didn't mean what you said. You can do this." Wringing her hands, she eagerly awaited the door to open. When it finally did, she saw a face that was not Austin's. In fact, she had never seen it before. After a few seconds of shock, she put together that this must be Austin's roommate and her heart sank.

"Hi." Trent said, looking her in the eyes.

"Hi... um... is... uh... Austin here?" She stammered, peering into the apartment and seeing him sitting on the couch, watching something on T.V.

"Yeah, uh, who is it?"

"Ally. It's Ally."

"Yeah, I'm not sure he would want to talk to you right now." Trent said. Ally realized that Trent must have been Austin's confidante about this whole affair and she desperately tried to plea with her eyes, since she had nothing else to offer with words.

"Please. Please. I really need to talk to him."

"Austin, Ally's here." Trent sighed, giving up on getting her to leave his friend alone.

"Why?" Austin deadpanned, still engrossed in the television.

"Why?" Repeated Trent, curiously.

"I have to tell him that I'm really, really sorry about this morning. Please, let me talk to him!" Ally pleaded with Trent.

"Austin, just come talk to her. It can't hurt."

"Alright," Austin paused the T.V. and walked towards the door. He motioned to Trent that he'll be okay and walked into the hallway, closing the door behind him and standing directly in front of Ally.

"I'm not in love with Dallas." Ally started, "I'm in love with you". Austin nodded and she stood on her toes and kissed him, just as she had done earlier. Austin wrapped his arms around her and lifted her gently. The kiss got sweeter and more passionate, and before long they had to separate so they could breathe.

"Ally, I hope you already know this, but I love you, too." Austin said, smiling. He leaned in for another kiss - and that's when she woke up.

xxx

"Oh my God." Ally said, sitting up and putting her head in her hands. Her resolve was both strengthened and weakened by the dream. She needed to know if what he had said was true. Whether or not it was a dream, she knew it could be. She was, she was absolutely sure now that she was, so maybe he could be too.

Getting up she fixed her make-up and yelled to Trish. Once out the door she walked the few blocks to Austin's building and climbed the steps, repeating the same little chant that was featured in her dream. She knocked on the door and was surprised when Austin came to the door, rather than Trent. Then again, she wasn't some kind of psychic, so she wasn't sure why she was so surprised.

"Hi." Ally began.

"Hi." Austin said. Ally felt something off about him, just the way he said that and the way he was standing. Her eyes became worried and her smile started to fade. "I need to, uh, talk to you." Austin said, pushing her out of the doorway along with himself and shutting the door behind him.

Concern filled her voice and her person as she started to think of what to say. Finally deciding to get straight to the point, she looked Austin in the eyes, those amazing, gorgeous brown eyes, and started to speak.

"Ally, I'm glad you came by." Austin said, cutting off her thoughts.

"Well, me too." She laughed, suddenly feeling it was the worst thing she had ever said and her cheeks started to burn.

"Yeah, um, I need to tell you something." He continued.

"I do, too." Ally replied, wringing her hands again and fighting off the desire to chew on her hair - she had been trying to quit doing that for a couple of years now.

"You first." Austin said.

"No, you go ahead." Ally said, smiling easily.

"Same time?" Austin asked, immediately cursing out the stupid idea in his head.

"Okay." Ally replied, much to Austin's surprise. He looked over her whole self, just taking her in before responding.

"On three." Austin sounded exasperated and Ally picked up on it right away. Suddenly, she became very self-conscious, crossing her arms across her chest, despite the fact that what she was wearing was not at all revealing, and looking down at the floor. Austin began to count, dreadfully slow in Ally's opinion. She needed to get this out, she needed to tell him and she needed to know how he felt.

"1... 2..." Austin looked over her from head to toe. Taking her her beautiful ombré hair, her skin which seemed flawless, her eyes, her cheeks - just a little bit red from blushing. He felt a weight sink down upon him. He prepared himself to speak as he said, "3".

"I'm in love with you." Ally quickly responded, needing to get it in before whatever her might have to say. Unfortunately, her own words did not drown out his, and she felt the rush of tears surge through her and her eyes welled up. Her face was hot and she felt a single tear roll down her cheek. She heard his voice echo in her mind, over and over, "My record company transferred me to L.A.".

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