Chapter 17

Austin's P.O.V

I woke up to a soft whisper.

"Austin, Austin wake up" Ally said softly. I rolled over, "No, I don't want to" I said flopping my arms to the side.

"Your phone has been going off all morning, I think it's your cousins" she said.

I jumped up and grabbed my phone off the charger, I loved it when my cousins came, because since there are so many of them, there is never a dull moment.

Riker: We will be there in about 30 minutes

From 25 minutes ago.

They will be here in 5 minutes!

"Ally we gotta get dressed, they'll be here in 5 minutes!" I said running into the bathroom to do my hair. When I came back in the room, Ally had on a Tyler's t-shirt with jean shorts. "I'm ready, are you?" I asked.

Ally smirked, "Shirt much?"

I looked down to see I was still wearing my sweats. I looked out the window and saw a familiar white van pulling in the driveway.

"AH!" I screamed. I ran to my dresser, "Shirt shirt shirt shirt shirt" I said frantically throwing clothes everywhere. I pulled out a light blue v neck and slipped it on. It didn't match with my sweats so took them off and started digging for shorts.

I heard a gasp and then a small laugh, and turned around. "What's so funny" I asked.

"You wear hot pink underwear?" Ally managed to ask through laughs. I looked down slightly embarrassed, to see I was wearing my favorite pair of American eagle boxers, but I knew how to turn the tables. "You don't?" I smirked.

Ally ran out of the room yelling, "I can't take this!"

I found a pair of coral colored shorts, and put them on, running outside to greet my cousins. Ally followed me down the gravel driveway to the white van.

Rydel jumped out as the van was still moving, and ran to me giving me a huge hug.

"Austin, I missed you so much, how are you?" she paused and gasped, "Is she your girlfriend?" she asked with wide eyes.

"No no no no no, Ally and I aren't dating, we're just friends" I turned towards Ally and smiled. The next person out was Ryland.

"Hey, Austin! I'm really glad we were able to come" he turned and saw Ally, and muttered, "Really glad we could come" he walked over to her and put his arm over her shoulder and said, "Hey girl, do you have a name, or can I call you mine" he smirked.

I slapped him on the back of the head, "Jack off, she's too old for you" I said. Ally let out the loudest laugh I had ever heard from her, and Ryland went inside with his bags.

Next was Riker and Rocky, they came out and gave me a hug and introduced themselves to Ally. I was about to ask if Ross came until I saw him get out. I ran up to him and gave him a huge hug.

"I haven't heard from you in forever, what's up?" I asked, patting him on the back.

"Nothing much, I've been good, what about you, and her?" Ross asked pointing to Ally, who was talking to Rydel.

"Oh, that's Ally, but we're not together, just friends" I sighed happily.

"Okay, well we have all of our stuff out of the van so we're going to unpack our stuff and then we can all do something together" Ross said, walking to the front door.

"Yeah, that's cool, my mom should be making lunch pretty soon, so don't take too long" I laughed walking over to Ally.

"I didn't realize there were 5 of them"

"Yep, they've always been quite a handful" I said.

"Do you want to do something?" Ally asked.

"Like what?"

"Like whatever you do for fun around here" she said.

"We can ride the 4-wheelers" I suggested.

"You have multiple 4-wheelers, like for racing?" she asked with the biggest smile.

My face quickly inched into a smile equally as big, "Race ya" I said before quickly sprinting off to the shed.

A&A

Ally's P.O.V

After Austin and I raced 4 wheelers in the woods beside his house, we went back inside where everyone was eating lunch.

"Why didn't you wait for us?" Austin asked running over to the table.

"We did but then we got hungry" Rocky replied.

I quietly took my seat in between Austin and Rydel, she looked about 19 or 20, we could probably talk about girl stuff together. As I listened to everyone have their own conversations, I caught Ross looking at me a few times. I talked to Rydel a little, turns out that they live in LA, but were all born in Colorado, and they drove all the way here. They all live together without their parents, because they died in a car crash about 3 years after Ryland was born. Also they all really like to be in the water, ocean or lake, and they can all surf.

After about 20 minutes of eating I excused myself and went to my room to be by myself. After an hour of working in half completed songs, Austin comes in.

"Hey, we are all going into town to see a movie, wanna come?" he asks.

"Sure" I say, I grab my stuff and we walk outside to the van. We get in waiting for everyone to come until Austin speaks, "Crap, forgot my wallet, I'll be back" he says. He walks in and Ross comes out joining me.

"So, Ally, what do you think of this place?" he asks.

"Um, I really like it, actually, it's just far enough from the city to feel like you're in your own little world" I reply.

"You're really pretty" he blurts, blushing slightly, scratching the back of his neck. "Has anyone ever told you that?" I blush at his compliment and reply, "Austin's tells me a lot".

I look back to the front door to see Ryland coming out, yay I won't be alone with Ross anymore. Ryland gets in the van and pushes Ross, "Move so I can sit by the lady" he says sassily. Ross rolls his eyes and sits in the back while Ryland turns to me, "Sup" he nods his head and puts his arm over my shoulder. I take it off and put it by his side, "No thanks, I'm good" I say as Riker, Rocky, Rydel, and Austin come out. Finally.

We drive about 20 minutes until we are in town, Riker must know the way, because he drives straight there. As we walk inside I see a display with a zombie alien thing on it. "We should see Zaliens 12!" Austin says. Everyone else agrees, but I think scary movies are boring. I go along anyways since it's 6 against 1.

During the movie I sat watching the screen, unamused, eating popcorn, while Austin was clinging to me like a baby. "Is Austin scared?" I asked in a teasing voice, throwing popcorn at him. "No" he scoffs, sitting up and straightening his shirt. On the screen, a Zalien pops up and he lets out a small scream and grabs onto me again, "Just making sure you weren't scared" he says. 'Yeah right' I think to myself. After an hour and a half of girlish screams from Austin, we all head back.

A&A

Once we all had dinner, I was in my room writing in my song book when Rydel came in.

"Hey, we are all going on the boat in a bit when it gets dark, do you want to come?" she asked.

"Is Austin going?" I asked. I wouldn't feel safe if he wasn't on the boat with us.

"He should be, you can ask him though if you want" she said and then left the room.

Austin came in and plopped onto the bed right beside me, "Whatcha thinking about? How hot I am?" he teased.

"Nope, I was thinking about asking you if you were going on the boat tonight" I said.

"Yeah, I'm going, why?" he asked

"Well, I don't want to go if you're not going to go" I said.

Austin smirked, "Well it's going to get dark soon so I'm going to get the boat ready".

"Okay I'll come out in a bit then" I said as he walked out. I went in the bathroom and got my swimsuit on, and then put a t-shirt over it, since I don't like showing my stomach to the whole world. I walked to the kitchen and grabbed a ziplock for my phone and headed down the stone path to the dock.

A&A

About 15 minutes later everyone was outside and ready to go. The sun was setting and I was a bit nervous, but I shook it off. We all got in and Rocky drove to the middle of the lake, where Riker got a wake board and jumped in the water. Rocky put the boat in full thrust and we sped off with Riker behind us.

"Whoa!" Rydel yelled. Riker just did a backflip, and Ryland was getting a board ready to join him. I looked over at Austin who was staring out onto the water like he was studying it. I went across the boat ad sat next to him, only realizing I sat down when I put my head on his shoulder.

"Are date is tomorrow" he whispered with a smile.

"Yeah, are you excited?" I smirked back.

"Obviously" he said, he wrapped his arm around me and gave me a tight side hug. "I'm really glad you came" he said.

"Well I didn't want to be left out on the fun while everyone else goes boating" I said with a slight laugh.

"No, I mean like on this trip, I'm glad you came" he smiled. "I'm glad I came too" I said.