hello there readers that probably even forgot about this story, but to ones who didn't I want to thank for sticking with me.
I'm really sorry, I'm horrible at updating, but it isn't my fault, there are a lot of things going on and it's just really hard to keep myself together and write when I feel like doing absolutely nothing :(
I don't own A&A and I don't own any of the things you might recognize.
To tell the truth I didn't expect any of this to happen, Austin's dad getting married, that was unexpected. When Austin called me, I was really worried, he seemed really distressed about something, and when I went to his house I understood why.
Though we didn't know each others lives for past two years, even before, when we were friends he suspected that something was up with his parents and he was really worried about it. I tried to get his mind off of such things, but eventually his fears turned into reality and his parents divorced, I didn't know about that till now and I feel really bad because I wasn't there for him.
It happens, parents divorce, but for Austin, I think it was harder, he cared for both of his parents and he knew somebody would get hurt. In the end her mom suffered from a heartbreak and I know it was hard seeing his mother like that for Austin, he was sensitive and is even now, though he grew up.
He somehow tends to copy emotions of people around him and really feels everything they go through, if you're hurt he feels it, he will try to make you feel better no matter how much it will cost him. He is really kind and would never hurt anyone, he's honest and I love that about him. He can be brave and fearless, but he will always make you feel better and special in some way.
You can see it by just looking deep in his eyes, that everything that happened in this time changed him, he lost something, he's still old Austin who loved life, but somehow he's less cheery and more serious and he doesn't smile every second of every day.
When talking about Austin I always get lost in thoughts and talk while sailing in memories, it's practically impossible for me to describe Austin in two words, we've known each other far too long to just say a couple of words and stop. I have seen every side of his personality, I have seen him cry and get hurt, I have seen him in his happiest moments, most of them I shared with him.
Once I remember, his parents bought him his first bicycle and back in those years he was really clumsy, I know it seems impossible, but that's how it was, he always walked around with bruised knees until he mastered riding. He was really excited. He went to the park and invited me to go with him, of course I agreed. We were both playing, I with my fluffy bear, and he with his bike, it seems really silly now, but he wouldn't take his helmet off, he wore it the whole day long. So he was riding his bike and he came up to me and took me to ride with him, I was really happy, I sat in the back and hugged him on the waist, I was scared, crying out with fear and laughing at the same time. What did you expect for a 7 year old to act like. He smiled and sped up, soon he was riding so fast that he couldn't stop and we both crashed into a tree, it seems funny now, but back then it was really painful, I ended up with a dislocated arm and bleeding knees, he hurt his ankle pretty badly and he ended up with a couple of bruises in other places, if not his helmet he would have hurt his head too. Even though we were both hurt, we were still happy and what's most important happy together.
In less than three days we will have to go to the wedding and to say the least I'm really worried, I'm really shy in the company of strangers and I'm not really comfortable with going there, but I couldn't say no to Austin, I need to be there for him, without anyone to talk to, he will go crazy there.
I honestly don't know what to expect, from what I read Austin's dad or should I call him Mike seemed really happy and not really worried about Austin's reaction. I on the other hand am really worried, I feel that he has been holding a lot in for a long time and if Mike will get him to the breaking point he might explode and I don't really want to see Austin's anger burst out.
He's been tensed up, he didn't want to go there, but I think he made the right decision to go, it will give him opportunity to sort out a lot of things and get the weight off his chest.
I've been really nervous because none of us has told anyone else that we were going to the wedding not even her mother, and I have no idea what will her reaction be. She is really calm and collected person unlike Austin, he's really emotional and I think he got that from his father. I have honestly never seen Vi cry before, considering that I was in there house half of the day. She's really kind and pleasant to talk to, but she's not really open about her feelings, I have learned that through the years. We talked and we always talked for long, but almost always it was me that was sharing stories with her, I had a feeling that she didn't trust me enough, but through time I got used to it.
We haven't even told Dez or Trish about that and they are our best friends, I don't even know if they know that me and Austin made up, kind of. I'm afraid what their reaction will be. Trish's my best friend and we aren't that close with Dez but we are still friends, my point is that I talk about Austin a lot, but this whole thing about us never came up in the conversations between us, so I haven't really told Trish everything in detail.
I thought about all this a lot and I decided not to tell my father that I'll be leaving for a couple of days, I think he won't really mind, besides he has gone without any warning couple of times, himself.
Anyways, I don't really know how and why, but Trish and Dez want us four to hang out together. It's really unexpected from them because they can't stand being together for more than five minutes and after that their talks get out of control they often scream their heads off and things around them start crashing sometimes. It's really weird how they are friends and they don't get along well, but oh well if it works for them who am I to get in the way. I don't know what we will do, but I think we will find ways to talk still, we always had much to talk when we still had team Austin, but now there's no music making, so we didn't really have a lot to talk about, four of us together.
Austin told me that Dez was pretty nervous when he told him about this meet up, but he also said that he tried to cover it up, so he thinks this whatever it is must be important. Austin has to come around five pm and we are going together to the 'vertigo'* diner. He just suggested going together and I didn't really object.
It's a half hour till Austin will come and I'm getting ready, I decided to dress casually, we're going to the diner to hand out not to some fancy restaurant. So I put on a turquoise tank top and black high wasted shorts with a vest, I put on sandals and packed my phone, house keys and every other important stuff in my little leather shoulder bag.
While I was preparing myself I heard a doorbell ring, I rushed downstairs and opened the door, it was Austin. His hair looked perfectly messed up as ever, he was as well dressed casually, with his dark blue jeans and white shirt with black leather jacket, his earphones tossed around his neck. I smiled at him and said hi he greeted me back and said: "ready to go?"
"Yeah, yeah I'll just lock the door and let's go." He smiled at me and waited for me.
I finally managed to close the door and we slowly started walking down the road.
"Do you have any idea what they want to talk about?" Austin asked me after some time of silence.
"No, Trish's pretty good at hiding stuff from me, so I can't help you with anything."
"Well let's put things together maybe we will figure something out, we have some time to pass anyway."
"Well, is there something odd Dez has done lately, or if you feel like he's been hiding something?"
"For the first question, Dez is always doing odd things, and yes I have a feeling that he's been hiding stuff, he's a lot more tensed and nervous around me." He slightly chuckled while telling me about Dez's weirdness and I joined him.
"What about you and Trish, I know that you tell Trish everything, so is there anything you told her that got both of them alarmed?" I furrowed my eyebrows at that and answered
"Nope, I have been pretty busy with school this week and we didn't really have time to talk, but the only thing that is kind of out of the ordinary is that she hasn't had a boyfriend for quite a while, her last boyfriend was Danny and that didn't end very well, in the end Trish just blew out on him."
"Yeah, well Dez's not a girlfriend type." He stated simply.
"Wait, what do you mean no a girlfriend type." I think he got where I was going so he cut me off.
"No I don't mean that he's just not the relationship type, he likes to mess around, but just nothing serious."
"Oh well, still I have no clue why they want us to meet up." He just shrugged in response and we entered the diner.
We sat in the first unoccupied boot that we saw and decided to just wait for Dez and Trish to come and then order. We spent about half an hour waiting for them and we were just talking about random things when we saw them both enter the diner. What we saw made both of us crack up a little bit, but I think we managed to hold in our laughter.
The first thing that really caught my eye was that they entered together and when I looked closely at both of them I was pretty surprised with what I saw. Trish who always had her hair perfectly brushed and curled, had her hair like something exploded in front of her and her makeup was slightly smudged.
Dez, his pale face was flushed with bright red color, his hair messed up too. It was obvious they just had a pretty intense make out session just seconds ago. Just looking at that everything clicked in my head and it got obvious that those two were together now, I was to say the least shocked, even in my wildest dreams I never imagined those two to get together, but I guess I was wrong, the main question I have is will they last and what will this do to our friendship?
I don't even want to think about our situation getting even worse.
They came in and sat down like nothing was happening, we exchanged our hi's and hey's and then we ordered something to eat.
I ordered some French fries and a burger with extra pickles and coke to drink, Trish took the salad with French fries and the guys took burgers and onion rings with coke as well.**
We were half way through the food we ordered and nobody dared to speak, so I decided to break the silence.
"So when were you going to tell us?" I think it was obvious that those two were together, Trish hasn't insulted Dez in any way and Dez wasn't covering himself up to not get hurt.
"Tell what?" Trish asked innocently
"Oh don't play dumb, I think it's obvious that you two are together." I said in an annoyed tone.
"There is nothing going on between us." She said a little bit angrier.
"Ok, I don't want you guys to fight, just explain everything to us." Austin chimed in.
"We are not going to fight are we?" I asked and turned my head to Trish.
"No, No we aren't, the dating thing is the whole reason why we are here."
"Aha, so you are dating." I blurted out.
"Ally! Let me finish." She glared at me
"Ok, ok." I put my hands up in surrender
"Yeah, well me and Dez have been dating for some time now and well we talked about this and we thought it was time for you two to find out, we would have told you earlier, but I was just afraid you guys would get angry with us." She finished we a straight look.
"I'm happy for you guys, I didn't expect it but I'm happy for you."
"Yeah congrats guys!" Austin said from beside me.
"So… how long is 'for some time' exactly?" I asked.
"Yeah, well it's been a month already." Trish said shyly.
"Wow, Trish I think this is your longest lasting relationship for a very long time… Come I want to hug you." I stood up and so did Trish and we hugged.
I heard "congrats dude." From Austin and then "what up!" I slightly laughed at this and we sat back down.
After some time of being silent Austin asked
"Anyone's up for the desert?"
"Yep, lets order." Trish said and called over the waitress
"I'll have one scoop raspberry ice-cream and one scoop vanilla with nuts."
"We'll have ice-cream sundaes" Trish said for both of them.***
It was time for Austin to say what he wanted, but he wasn't saying a word, so I turned towards him and said "Austin? Tell me you don't want to order pancakes?" Austin looked at me with guilty expression and then changed it to his famous puppy dog eyes.
"Austin!" I whined "it's evening if you want to come over to mine tomorrow and I'll make you some."
His face lit up in a second and he started literally jumping in his seat with excitement like a five year old.
"Ok then I'll have chocolate chip ice-cream."
And with that the waitress left and came back a few second later with our orders.
We started eating and then the thought about Austin's father's wedding struck me. I leaned over to Austin and whispered in his ear "Austin we need to tell them about the wedding."
"Yeah, the wedding, I almost forgot about that." He whispered back.
For some seconds we were fighting with eyes for one of us to start, but none of us really dared.
I guess Trish saw this because she asked: "guys? Is there something you want to tell us?"
"Yeah well-." I started, but Austin cut me off.
"My dad's getting married." He kind of blurted out.
"What?" Trish said back. Her eyes widened and her mouth hung open.
"It was unexpected for both of us, but he invited me, and well he said that he was happy and that he found his "special someone'" he said in an annoyed tone making air quotes around 'special someone"
"And I guess you'll be leaving to attend the wedding?" Trish asked.
"Yeah, and I'm taking Ally with me." He said simply.
"Ally? Why Ally?" Trish asked.
"Yeah man, why not me?"
"I'm going to the wedding not to a party."
"Ok" Dez said more pounded and sat back slightly with a frown on his face.
We just laughed at this.
"So when will you be leaving?"
"In three days." I said
"Ok then, have fun." She said jokingly.
We all finished eating and it was time to pay. So I pulled some money out, but Austin said he would pay, I objected, but he insisted. After some time our talk came to "yes" from him and "no" from me. We were laughing at our childishness when we heard Trish say "are we going to be watching you two for a long?"
I giggled and stopped. "Just let him pay this time Ally"
"Yeah this will be for the pancakes, the delicious pancakes you're going to do for me tomorrow." He said grinning.
I gave up and let him pay. We left the diner and went our separate ways. Austin insisted on taking me to my house.
When we came to my porch I just smiled at him and hugged him, then I said "see you tomorrow Austin."
"Goodnight Alls." He smiled at me and went down the road.
I went inside. I didn't really pay any attention to the rooms or my father being at home or not. I just went straight to my room, my body felt sore and I wanted to take a shower, so as soon as I walked in my room I took my pajamas and towels and went to take a shower.
I waited for the water to get hot and I let it slide down my body, relaxing every tensed muscle on my body. I let the water relax me for some more time and then I got out of the hot water. I dried myself and put my pajamas on.
I went to bed almost immediately, with my hair slightly wet, still. I stared at the sealing lighted with the moon shining brightly outside. It was peaceful and I had some time to think.
Stupid me, only realized at this time of the day that Austin's mom didn't know about the wedding still, and we had to tell her soon. I took my phone out and texted Austin saying "we forgot that we need to tell Vi about the wedding." The reply came quiet fast "oh god I totally forgot about mom, what am I going to do?" "Don't worry just, we'll tell her tomorrow, I'll come to the store, if she's busy." "Maybe you'll be just in time if you'll come in the morning?" "Yeah that's fine, I'll be at yours tomorrow morning." "Ok, Goodnight beautiful." I blushed at this and quickly typed reply "Goodnight to you too Austin." I put my phone on the nightstand and was about to close my eyes when a buzz from my phone made me turn back over, it was a text yet again from Austin "I bet you're blushing now." I laughed a bit and replied "aren't you going to go to sleep?" "Ok, ok, good night Alls."
I smiled put my phone on the nightstand and slowly drifted to sleep.
The other day, I woke up, ate breakfast which consisted of some juice and cereal because I was too lazy to make actual breakfast. I went back up to get ready, I put on some jean shorts plain black shirt my vans, I put my hair in a messy bun, grabbed my house keys and phone and quickly went outside.
I speed walked to Austin's house, I didn't really pay attention to the time and I wasn't sure what time it was. I rang the doorbell and the door soon opened. I expected it to be Austin but instead Vi opened the door. She instantly smiled and said: "oh Ally what are you doing here?"
"I just came here to see Austin, we have to talk about something." I didn't really want to say anything else so I said the least I could tell her.
"Ok, sure, he's upstairs I haven't checked on him yet, I can wake him up, or you go upstairs."
"Yeah, I'll just go upstairs you go back to what you were doing I don't want to bother you too much." I smiled at her and she smiled back.
I slowly went upstairs. I opened the door that leads to Austin't room. I expected him to be at least up, but no he was sleeping. I bit my lip, not to start laughing, he was sprawled on the whole bad, with his face in the pillow and one leg hanging on the edge. His shaggy blond hair even more messed up than usual. For a couple of minutes I was thinking what to do to wake him up and after deep thinking I came up with something. First I tried to wake him up quietly. "Austin, wake up… Austin." I whispered in his ear. He just mumbled something quietly and turned away from me. I giggled quietly and then said again "Austin… time to wake up!" A little bit louder. He didn't wake up. He just started rambling, it was the most adorable thing ever "Mom! I don't have school tomorrow, please I want to sleep, I didn't sleep well yesterday, I was thinking about something… " I started laughing louder. I tried to wake him up for about five minutes, but it seemed impossible, then I just got tired of this all, I even tried the pancake trick, but it didn't work out. I just took a pillow and started hitting him. He got scared and that high pitch girly scream came out of his mouth. I started laughing even louder and climbed on the bed. "Wake up, wake up you sleepy head." I said over and over between the giggles. He came to his senses soon and grabbed my wrists to stop me. "Ally, Ally stop hitting me, I'm awake." I laughed and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Alls I'll get changed and you just wait for me downstairs. Ok?"
"Yeah, yeah, be quick I have to open up the store." I smiled and went downstairs.
I set on the couch and waited for him to come downstairs. As the minutes passed by I was getting more and more nervous. Finally I heard footsteps and then Austin appeared in front of me.
"I think we can go out…" He said with a nervous look on his face. I furrowed my eyebrows and looked at him puzzled.
"We are supposed to tell your mom and don't play dumb." He whined like a little child and set next to me on the couch. I rolled my eyes. He was irritating me already.
"Isn't there any other way?... Like no to tell her at all?" I rolled my eyes again, he was getting ridiculous now.
"No, there's no way around this, so go I'm here she's your mom after all, does she know about the wedding?"
"I have no idea, they haven't talked for a long and…" he trailed off.
"Ok it will be a little harder, no big deal, she had to find out some day, I'm sure she'll be curious about why you disappeared."
"Yeah… ok, come on." He was not happy about this at all, I could see that by his face.
We went to the kitchen where her mother was making pancakes. "Mmm, pancakes." Exclaimed Austin, but I grabbed him by his arm and stopped him.
"Austin!" I hissed.
"Mom…" Austin said quietly scratching his neck, one thing I'm sure of is that he almost never gets nervous, imagine if he was nervous in what state should I have been.
By this time he was acting so childish that I wanted to slap him across the face hard to get his manliness back.
"Yes Austin what do you want?... Ally would you like to have breakfast with us?"
Austin was really nervous "Do you remember the letter Dad sent me a couple of weeks ago?" he said slightly stuttering and pausing between the words.
"Yes what about it?" She was getting suspicious.
"Was there anything dad told you or wrote to you?"
"Yes he told me that he is getting married and he wants you to be there, that's what you want to talk about right?"
"Yeah, first I didn't want to go there but Ally here made me change my mind… she thinks it will be better to go there she said I will be able to settle things with him."
"I agree with her, you haven't talked to him for what a year now, and no matter what he's your father after all, you have to talk to him." I smiled at her, it made me happy that she agreed with me.
"So you are going right?"
"Yes and Ally's coming with me, she agreed to come, because I don't want to be alone there."
"You're dragging Ally there? If she agrees to go, then I'll let you take her." She said laughing a bit.
"When's the flight?" Vi asked
"It's in three days." Austin answered.
"Well you kids have to pack, if you ask me the flights pretty soon… so Ally would you like pancakes." I wasn't really hungry, but seeing those pancakes made my mouth water, I guess Austin rubbed on me a tiny bit.
"Those pancakes look delicious." I replied, but before I could take the plate from her Austin snatched it from me.
"Hey Austin those are mine." He just laughed and started eating like a dog I should add.
"Don't worry I'l give you another plate." Said Vi while laughing a bit.
"Thank you." I smiled and took the plate from her. I started slowly eating. After she finished cooking, Vi left the kitchen and left to get ready to go to work.
We ate in silence only Austin's moans of pleasure were heard. He was just so cute and childish, he made all my worries vanish.
After we ate I said: "I'm so glad that everything ended up without a lot of drama."
"Yeah I didn't want to have to argue with mom or Trish or even Dez."
"I'm going to go, open the store, see you later."
"Actually I will come with you, I don't really have to do anything."
"Ok." I replied and we left the house.
We walked to the store. Whole walk was a lot of fun, we were joking around and talking about random stuff.
When we approached the store I opened it and went behind the counter, while Austin went to look around the store, the whole morning until lunch break he spent playing every instrument in the store, he would run up to me and show me how awesome he was, I would laugh at his childishness.
The work was really tiring, doing same routine over and over can get a little bit boring after some time.
We went to the food court on my lunch break where Trish joined us. She got a new job at some shop and was having one of her two hour long lunch breaks. After some time Dez came, he was overly excited and was holding some fliers in his hands. It came out he shot the movie, that he had Auditions for, some time ago in Sonic Boom. He was having a small premier this evening somewhere in the mall. You could see the excitement in his eyes, he was beyond happy.
After some time of doing nothing in the food court I decided to go back to work, Trish had left a while ago, because her manager called. Austin and Dez were talking about Dez's movie.
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, after the premiere Austin came back to the store. We hung out before I had to close the store.
It was about eight in the evening when I closed the store and we both went to our houses. The flight is pretty soon and to be honest I'm a little bit nervous.
*just a random diner name I came up with.
** Ihave no idea about the diner food, I don't like fast food very much and I just wrote a bunch of stuff I remembered.
*** Again I have no idea what ice-cream flavors there are, I had to look up sundaes lol
please point out any mistakes for me to correct.
I want to thank everyone who encouraged me to come back and write this, for some time I had completely abandoned fanfiction and to be honest I missed reading reviews and reading stories.
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I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, it's getting interesting isn't it?
tell me in your reviews which parts you liked the most and if you have any ideas any scenes you want me to include, I will be more than happy to use your ideas.
Until next time
Salome ;) (I found out from someone on tumblr that most of the people I talk to pronounce my name as salami, and I was shocked, it isn't salami, please don't say that haha)