ALLY:

The day with I was having dinner with my handsome new neighbor and his family came by faster than I expected. I wanted to look nice, but still not try too hard. I just dressed in a light pink leather jacket, a pink top that had one cold-shoulder sleeve and exposed the other shoulder, black skinny jeans, a pair of pink high heeled sandals, a gold star necklace, gold hoop earrings (I know Laura Marano doesn't have her ears pierced in real life, but in this story, Ally has her ears pierced), and I had just come back from my local salon after getting my usually curly light brown hair with natural blonde highlights in straightened. I went back to my apartment to put my makeup on. I grabbed my keys, my phone and walked out the door to see Austin waiting for me.

He was dressed in a black blazer, a light blue dress shirt, khaki jeans and white nikey high tops and his sexy, short, blonde hair (it looked almost exactly the same way it did when we met after he had just gotten his hair cut) was slicked back. He was holding a bottle of red wine in a champagne colored bag. He grinned as soon as he saw me walk out of the door and I grinned right back at him.

"Hiya, Handsome!"

He giggled.

"Hey, beautiful."

He kissed my hand. I really liked this guy. He just made me tingle inside everytime I saw him. He asked me,

"Are you excited?"

I said,

"Yes. I can barely breathe I'm so excited."

He said,

"I'm excited for you to meet the rest of my family."

He held my hand and walked me to his car. His car was really nice- a white Nissan four door. The drive was about twenty minutes and I was tingling the entire car ride over. He held my hand and clutched bag with the wine bottle and he rang the doorbell. The door opened, revealing his sister Cadence. She was even prettier now than she was when she was my student. She was sixteen, but she was dressed like she was in her twenties in a long sleeved scalloped lace wine-colored bodycon dress, nude heels and hoop earrings. She was holding her phone, a gold iPhone 5S with a yellow gold case with pink butterflies that said Life is full of possibilities, in one hand and a light pink heart compact mirror in the other.

One thing I had always known about Cadence Moon was that she was a girly person. She flashed me her smile, which she never appeared to be without when she was in my class.

"Austin!"

She exclaimed and tightly embraced her brother,

"And Ms. Dawson!"

She embraced me tightly, too.

"Hey, Cadence! You're so pretty!"

Cadence giggled.

"Thank you! And I think it's so great that my brother and my favorite english teacher from middle school found each other and connected at the hip!"

She pulled a nude-colored elastic off her wrist and started to tie her long blonde hair into a high half ponytail.

AUSTIN:

I could tell my sister Cadence was already an Auslly shipper (that was the shipname for Ally and I). Ally went into the kitchen and my sister whispered,

"Is she your girlfriend yet, Austin?"

I said,

"No. We're just good friends. I moved in across the hall from her, and we've hung out twice. But I do have a crush on her."

My sister giggled.

"Well, she seems like a better girl than Brooke."

"More mentally stable than Brooke. Ergo, I agree with you, Cadence."

I could hear my mom ask,

"Which son of mine is here?"

I said,

"I am, Mom."

My mom took off her apron, that was covered in food dressing and sauces.

"Hey, sweetie,"

She tightly embraced me and kissed my cheek.

"That new haircut looks cute on you."

I said,

"Thanks. I'm hinting you saw the pictures and video Dez posted."

My mom laughed.

"Yes, your father and I are Facebook friends with him."

I smiled.

"Meet Ally Dawson. She used to be Cadence's english teacher when she was in middle school!"

"Ally!"

"Dr. Moon! How long has it been?"

Friends of Cadence, Randy and mine all called my mom Dr. Moon, because she was a dermatologist. Ally tightly embraced my mom.

"Look how beautiful you are."

"Thank you."

I went into the den to see my dad and Cadence sitting on the couch. My sister was drinking sparkling apple cider in a champagne glass. (She was sixteen. She couldn't drink yet.) My dad said to my sister,

"My baby girl's all grown up. It seems like only yesterday I was giving you piggy back rides and I was playing with you. Now you're dressing like a grownup and drinking out of a champagne glass."

Cadence said to him,

"I'm your only daughter and youngest child. But at least I'm not showing any knockers."

"Please don't use the concepts of dressing loose and the fact that you're not only my only daughter, but you're my youngest child in the same sentence."

I joked,

"Just what I want to hear my sister and my dad talking about."

My little sister laughed in a very embarrassed way.

"Sorry you had to hear that, Austin."

"It's all good. Some of my delinquents are in jail for working as prostitutes."

My dad stood up and embraced me.

"Hey, son. It's good to see you again."

"Great to see you again, too! Where are Randy and Alanna?"

My dad's phone dinged and he looked at it.

"That was Randy, he said, they're in a bit of a traffic jam they're on their way."

My mom and Ally entered the room. They were each carrying a bottle of wine and champagne. They set them on coasters and later my mom came in with champagne glasses. Ally sat beside me and nuzzled up to me. Cadence walked in, holding her phone in the neckline of her dress, while holding her compact mirror and a pink pouch with a sketch drawing of Ariel from The Little Mermaid on it (but Ariel had a pink bra and had seashells in her hair on this pouch). She immediately took out her pink lipstick and put on black mascara and black eyeliner.

I asked,

"Doing your makeup?"

She said,

"Yup. Gotta make sure I'm on fleek."

Ally took a sip of her champagne.

"You look beautiful, Cadence."

My little sister smiled.

"Thank you."

My sister picked up a pink lip gloss from her bag and spread it on her lips. I nuzzled up to Ally. She was just beautiful and I was in love with her. The doorbell rang.

I said,

"I think that's my brother and his wife."

I opened the door. Alanna was feeling my brother's dark blonde buzz cut (He still had his buzz cut. He was in the military and had buzzed his hair multiple times, but he found it just easier to keep the buzz cut). I saw my brother and I said,

"Brother!"

And he said,

"Hey, brother!"

We man-hugged. I only occasionally got to see my brother since he was deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and different war zones. It made me regret that we fought when we were kids. There were times when I liked to fuck with him, but he was my brother and I loved him and he loved me. At times, I feared for his safety. We used to fight as kids sometimes, but when he left for the military after graduating high school, that was one of the saddest days of my life.

"Hey, Alanna!"

Alanna smiled at me.

"Hey, Austin. New haircut?"

I said,

"Yep. I cut it last week."

"I like it."

I giggled.

"Aww, thanks, Lani."

Sometimes my brother called his wife "Lani" and I guess it just rubbed off on me.

"You know, my older sister Emily is a hairdresser at this salon in LA, where my family comes from. She's amazing- she gives haircuts, coloring, blowouts and perms and she's great at it."

"That's amazing!"

"She's amazing!"

I had met Alanna's family at her and Randy's wedding. She was the third of four children- her sister Emily was the oldest, than her brother Gavin and than the youngest was her sister Alicia. I walked with her and my brother into the den. My parents were very happy to see their oldest child. My dad was saying,

"There's GI Joe!"

Randy laughed.

"Hey, Dad."

My dad and Randy embraced each other as Alanna got a kiss from my mom on the cheek and hugging her. She alternated to hug my dad and my little sister, and Randy was embracing Cadence, too. He graduated high school when she was six and I remember before he went off to war, she was crying. I don't blame her, she was only six at the time. I sat down beside Ally again and put my arm around her and I said,

"Alanna, Randy, I'd like you guys to meet Ally, my date."

Cadence sipped some of her sparkling apple cider from the glass.

"Also my former english teacher. You're going to love her."

Alanna laughed.

"I'm sure I will, Miss Thang."

Ally laughed.

"Thanks, Cadence."

Alanna and Randy both shook hands with Ally. Later, Randy and I were helping my mom serve dinner- chicken ribs, garden salad and baked potatoes. Randy whispered to me,

"Does my little brother have a new girlfriend?"

"Ally's not my girlfriend. She's just a friend. But I admit, I do want her to be my girlfriend."

"I like her better than that other girl. What was her name, the batshit insane girl who you used to go out with who was a hooker and a drug dealer?"

"You mean Brooke? She's in jail for all I know."

"It's ironic that you work as a juvenile corrections officer, you had a girlfriend who broke the law by working as a prostitute and drug dealer, and that in all this, Dad is a lawyer."

I laughed.

"Yeah it is."

"How old were you again when you had your first crush?"

I said,

"It was sixth grade. I had a crush on what was her name, Kelly Ross. Remember Dez blurted it out to you, Mom and Dad."

Randy chuckled.

"That Dez. He's such a character. When he got drunk at Alanna's and my wedding, I have to admit, that was definitely the laugh of the party."

"Yes, it was hilarious. He was like saying all that ridiculous shit and like acting like an idiot. Dez is an idiot sometimes, but I love him anyway."

Eleventh chapter everybody! I hope you're all having a great gay pride weekend! Support LGBT and wear rainbow! Peace, love, hugs and kisses because you all deserve it!