Chapter 30

Ally's P.O.V

It was December 29th, Austin's birthday, and I was going to make it the most memorable one yet.

"Austin, wake up" I said, nudging him slightly.

"Come lay down with me" he said, firmly grabbing my waist and pulling me towards him, with his eyes still closed.

"Only for a few minutes" I say.

I regret giving into him, as I feel myself slowly passing out, as I breathe in his intoxicating smell.

A few hours later I wake up in an empty bed. I get out and walk into the kitchen where I find Austin with two plates of pancakes.

"Hey you" I giggle, sneaking up behind him and tickling his sides. Austin flinches and turns around, grabbing me and pulls me in for a long kiss.

"What was that for?" I ask, sitting on the barstool.

"I can't kiss my girlfriend on my birthday without be questioned?" Austin asks, raising an eyebrow.

"I suppose not" I laugh, biting into my pancakes.

We eat in a comfortable silence, and about 15 minutes later Austin and I finish and I drag him into our room.

"We're going out, I have something planned for us so dress warm" I say, pulling off my shirt, exposing a black lace bra. I can feel Austin's eyes burning through my back as I slip on a red long sleeve t-shirt. I put on a black vest over that, and then grab one of Austin's hoodies out of my suitcase and put that over my head.

"You had that?! I've been looking for that hoodie!" Austin whines.

"Well it's my favorite" I say batting my eyes. "And it smells like you"

"I guess you can keep it" Austin says, pulling a black North Face over himself.

Austin is wearing a blue flannel underneath, and I dig through his suitcase and find a beanie and put it on his head, "Adorable!" I say, bopping his nose.

"Hey! I'm not adorable. You're supposed to say I'm smoking hot" he says chasing me out of the room.

A&A

Austin and I took a ride in a taxi cab, and I forgot to buckle, so when we turned I ended up on his lap. ß

"Nice of you to drop in" Austin chuckled.

I smiled and gave him a peck on the cheek, and then put my seatbelt on.

We pulled up to the curb of Central Park and we got out and strolled around in the park.

Austin and I were having a great time, he would go up to random people and make comments, (not rude, thank god) or ask weird questions, while I would pretend I didn't know him. Austin eventually started flat out telling people, "Oh yeah, see that girl right there, she's my girlfriend".

After about 3 hours of walking around, we decided to go back to the hotel. Austin said he wanted to walk, and since it's his birthday, I agreed.

We should have only taken about 45 minutes of walking, but Austin wanted to stop in almost every store. By the time we were halfway home it was dark, and we were walking through a bad part of town.

"Babe I think we're lost" I said quietly, observing our surrounding trying to determine if I was right.

"No we're not, we just have to turn up there" Austin said, pointing to an intersection ahead of us.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and opened up 'Maps' but Austin took it and ran ahead of me laughing.

"Austin come back, please!" I say chasing him with a smile. He stops at the corner and yells loud enough for me to hear, "I'm waiting!" and I slowed down and replied, "Then I'm going to take my sweet time!".

I take about 5 more steps until I'm suddenly pulled into an ally. I let out a small shriek and I feel sharp cold metal pressed against my neck.

"Say one word, sweetie, and you'll wish you didn't" I hear a raspy, and obviously drunk voice say. I suddenly feel dry, cracked, alcohol reeked lips pressed against mine.

Austin's P.O.V

I hear a scream from behind me and I turn to see Ally no longer walking towards me.

"Ally?!" I begin to jog down the street, looking for any sign of Ally, when I hear whimpering from the ally infront of me. I sprint to it and find a 40 year old man, pressing my Ally against the wall, kissing my Ally like she belongs to him, forcing his hands up my Ally's shirt, attempting to rip my Ally's clothes off.

Rage filled my veins and I ran and punched the sick man in the jaw. He stumbled backwards and fell on the ground. I looked at Ally, who was still against the wall, almost in tears.

The man was trying to get up so I punched him in the stomach, and he bent over. I tackled him and started beating the crap out of him, the image of him violating Ally flooding my mind. In my rage, I didn't see him reach into his pocket.

"Austin! He has a-" I couldn't hear Ally's warning over the burning pain in my right arm.

"AARRGGHHH" I yelled in pain, punching the lifeless man in the nose, I felt a crack, and jumped up grabbing Ally by the waist.

"Head to the subway" I said, gritting my teeth in pain.

After about 2 minutes of jogging we found a flight of stairs going down. We rushed down and jumped over the turn stands, getting into the almost empty subway car, right before the doors closed.

We sat down and I pulled Ally into my chest and she started bawling. My arm was burning, but I didn't want Ally to worry any more than she already was. It could wait until we got to the hotel.

As we rode, I continued to hold Ally against me, whispering comforts into her ear. We rode for about 15 minutes, I guess we were lost, since we were pretty far. We got off and I was stumbling around, everything was blurry.

"Bench…" I murmured. Ally led me to a bench and sat down with me.

"Austin what's wrong?" Ally asked, unknowingly placing her hand on my arm. I hissed in pain and pulled away.

She gently took off the sleeve of my jacket and unbuttoned my shirt and looked at my arm.

Ally let out a small gasp, "Austin we need to take you to the hospital" she said worriedly.

"No, I'm fine, let's just get to the hotel, it's not far" I stood up and pulled a protesting Ally with me.

After 4 more blocks we reached the lobby and we rode up to the penthouse.

"Austin, stay awake for me baby" Ally said softly. She kissed me and I gave a weak smile as the elevator doors opened.

"Trish! Dez! Help me!" Ally cried, pulling me out of the metal doors.

"What happened?" Trish asks.

"We got attacked" Ally said breathlessly "I need rubbing alcohol, a needle and thread, he refuses to go to the hospital"

"Ally, you can't sew him up, I'll do it" Dez said, with the needed supplies in his arms.

"I know how to Dez, I think I can manage"

"No Ally, he's your boyfriend and he's going to be in a lot of pain. You won't be able to watch, it will hurt you too much" Dez said, slowly leading me to the bathroom.

"You stay here Ally, listen to Dez, Trish- don't let her worry about me" I said sleepily.

Dez opened the bathroom door and made me sit on the toilet seat.

"Let me see it" he said, pointing to my arm.

I slowly took off my shirt and looked down to see the cut for the first time.

A very large vertical clean cut slice down the center of my bicep, about 4 and a half inches long. That's going to leave a nice scar

Dez pulled out a bottle of vodka from under the cabinet and took 3 huge gulps and handed it to me.

"You're going to need this" he said, getting the needle ready.

"I know" I agreed quietly, and took 4 swigs myself.

Dez took the rest of the vodka and poured it on a rag.

"This is gonna hurt a lot, do you want a bite rag?" he asked. I shook my head and he laid the wet rag on my cut.

Damn, that burned like hell. I let out a short yell, and soon there was a knock at the door.

"Dez? Dez, let me in. What's going on?" Ally demanded from the other side of the door.

"I'm fine!" I called out.

Dez pushed the cut together and bent the needle to make it curved and started sewing.

I took in a sharp breath of air and Dez continued, no matter what I said in protest. Ally would have been a mess if she was in here.

My arm started to go numb and my body was covered in a thin layer of sweat, from nervousness, and the pain.

After about 15 minutes, Dez wrapped my arm with a cold towel to soothe the pain.

"I'll be right back don't move" Dez said. He came back a minute later with a bottle of pain reliever. I took 4 pills even though the amount you were supposed to take was 2, but in this situation I think it's okay to overdose a little.

I walked to mine and Ally's room to find her asleep with red puffy eyes. She wanted this to be the best birthday but now she feels responsible for this. she never told me that, but I know how Ally's mind works.

I lay down beside her, right arm up, and fall asleep, despite the burning pain.