She stepped closer and said "hi" I smiled to her, then she opened her arms and came to hug me, I was slightly caught off guard and I tensed up a little bit, but after a second or two I relaxed and smiled even bigger nuzzling my face in her hair, it smelled weird, but really pleasant, she smelled like flowers and if you closed your eyes you could imagine a valley covered with beautiful but simple flowers.

I closed my eyes, hugging her was the best thing ever, she seemed so small and fragile that I wanted to hug her and never let her go, I wanted to protect her. Soon she pushed a little bit back, switching her weight back to her feet , she broke the hug and stood straight.

"Well what was so important that you wanted to talk to me in person about?" straightly to business, I recognize my Ally. I slightly chuckled and I was left with a smile spread on my face.

"Yeah, come in and I'll show you." She got a little lost, but still followed me into the kitchen.

There on the kitchen table was the letter laying the way I left it, two envelopes one big, one smaller, a letter and two plane tickets. When she saw then she got even more lost. She had a puzzled face, eyebrows furrowed together and eyes shut a little bit, her lips in a small straight line, I must admit she looked really cute with that expression.

"Just read this and I'll explain everything later." She nodded her head and then sat on the chair. She calmly picked the letter up and started reading it.

I just went to the fridge and pulled out a soda.

"Alls do you want anything to drink?"

"Ha?" she looked at me and saw a can of coke in my hands. "Oh, yeah I'll just have a glass of water, thanks." She said and immediately went back to reading.

I poured the glass of water to her and sat it down next to her, then I picked a chair and sat close to her.

She seemed really occupied with reading, her features were tensed and her face was concentrated on the paper, her big brown eyes moving from left to right while reading. Her face was slightly flushed with a pleasant, soft pink color; probably from walking in the sun. Her hair looked beautiful as ever, it was curled and went in big bouncy waves all along her back. She looked so beautiful even though she wasn't dressed up or wearing any heavy makeup. The funny thing is that no matter how many times I told her that she looked beautiful she never believed me. She would smile and shrug the comment off, giving me a face like I was silly or stupid for saying that. To me she always looked beautiful, no matter if she was tired or sleepy; she is cute and really beautiful that is a fact.

She finished reading the letter and turned to me. She had a look on her face and I could see that she wasn't happy with what she read.

"So, he wants you to go to his wedding?" she said with a straight face, voice low and serious.

"Yes" I said simply

"And what are you going to do?"

"I really don't know yet. All this is confusing me. He seems extremely happy, but I don't think I will share that happiness with him, I mean he left us, why would he want me to be there?"

"It's simple, because you're his son, and this is really important to him according to what he wrote."

"So you're saying that I need to go?"

"No I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying that he needs you there. But if you will go or not, that's your decision."

"This is so hard." I said rubbing my face and stretching a little bit.

"To say the truth, I'm angry with him, he left like he didn't have a care for us, and now he sends me this letter, saying how he cares and needs me, who does that."

"Come on Austin he's marrying another women what did you expect from him, he couldn't come."

"Yeah I guess you're right."

"Besides if you have anything to say to him, this is a good opportunity to go and talk to him in person."

"I think I'm going to go, I will at least see him until he disappears for another year or even more."

'So the wedding is in two weeks? And what about the school?"

"Couple of days really won't change anything, so I think I'll miss a day or two, no biggie."

"I guess it's good that you're going you'll sort things out and tell him everything you want to say and will find the things you want to know. "

"Ally" I paused a little bit.
"What?"

"Will you come with me to the wedding?" I think it was a good idea to take her, I mean who else, Dez? Yeah right.

"What? But why me?"

"Come on, it's not a bad thing, I don't want to be alone there, it will be weird, and besides who am I going to take with me Dez? I don't even know any other people close enough to invite on my father's wedding… that sounds so weird."

"Yeah that kind of does." She said slightly giggling. I smiled too.

"Ok I'll come with you, but if you're going to annoy me or irritate me, I'm going to leave immediately." She said joking and punched my arm playfully.

"Me irritating?" I played along, with my hand on my chest hurt playfully. "Never!"

"Shut up" she said Giggling again.

"Do you want to do anything?" I asked after a second or two.

"Nah I need to go to the grocery store, we are out of food at home."

"Oh ok." I said a little sad.

"Hey wait a second" I said after she stood up. "I'm going to call mum if she wants anything at the store, maybe I can join you." I pulled my phone out and dialed my mums number.

"Hey mom, do you need anything in the grocery store, I'm just going there." I said the moment she answered. "Yeah grab some milk, some beacon and eggs for the breakfast, tomorrow." "ok nothing else?" "no, you have the money right?" "yeah you gave me in the morning." "ok see you in the evening." "ok bye."

"I'm coming with you." I said happy dancing.

"Ok come on happy boy let's go." She said still smiling. God I love her smile. I get happy when I make her smile.

The day was coming to an end, but the sun was still shining brightly in the sky. I jogged happily along with her to the grocery store.

We passed dozens of departments in the store and got what we needed, we had two hand baskets with us and slowly filled it with the food we needed.

We were talking about nothing really specific, just random things, topics that came up in the talk. We laughed and fooled around. With Ally even the boring shopping became more fun. She says she isn't a fun person, she likes reading and is serious most of the time, but she kind of radiates fun and happiness, you instantly want to smile when you're next to her. It's something that I can't really explain.

Finally we went to pay and left the grocery store. Time by time the Sun slowly hid behind the horizon. It was really beautiful, the clouds reflected the colors of the Sun, those red, yellow and orange mixed together looked really beautiful high about our heads, in the sky.

We slowly approached my house, I left my things there and then we went to Ally's.

I was really curious to find out more about her, even though we talked her private life was always guarded by her. She didn't tell me much. I wanted to know how was his dad so after a long time of arguing with myself, I decided to ask her.

"So how are you, how's your dad?"

She shrugged and said "well nothing special, he came back by the way and he seems a little more sober and in shape than usual. He's always out of control in the evenings and I have to 'babysit' him, but this past week he drank only once or twice, I don't know what to expect from him, he had the times similar to this, when it seemed that his old self was coming back, but then he would turn to the worse… so, yeah that's basically it." This is probably the most I got from her for the past month, every time we talked she always avoided this conversation.

"And how are you coping with all that?" I think I asked too much, but she didn't resist to answer.

" I don't know really I guess I got used to it, seeing him drunk and getting him to his senses became like a routine to me, sometimes if I can't deal with him anymore, I leave the house or just shut myself in my room, I can't really ignore him, but I try as much as I can."

The conversation got serious and well the walk was short, so through our conversation we got to her house. The lights were out and it was quiet in the house.

" I suppose he's asleep now?"

"Yes probably, it's really weird how he acts when he's sober and when he's drunk, it's like when he's sober he has all those emotions bottled up inside,he never shows any signs, but when he's drunk all that spills out like a monster living inside of him and he gets uncontrollable. He does whatever he wants and whenever he wants, there's nobody in power to stop him. I can't really go against him, I'm not that powerful, I'm just really tired of all this and I want to get away, but I haven't found a way yet." She said and took a deep breath.

I hugged her once more and said quietly in her ear " We will figure out something, we will."

"I know Austin." She mumbled softly. Then we let go of each other.

"Bye Austin, see you tomorrow?" she said smiling.

"Yes defiantly" I smiled too.

I watched her small figure as she opened the door and went in slowly, until she disappeared and shut the door behind her.

I walked back home, smiling and slightly chuckling to myself, despite the letter and conversation in the end, the time spent with her really cheered me up.

Hope you liked the chapter, I wanted to show all this situation from Austins side kind of and make him talk about his unspoken feelings for Ally.

Thank you guys for the reviews, they really help me and cheer me up. So I'm between those two places southern California and Paris, which one do you think would be best?

Any suggestions, ideas? I would be more than happy to use them :3

It took me some time to update, I don't have any excuses, it's just summer and well I'm not home that much so sorry guys.

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Until next time…

Salome ;)