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AUSTIN'S POV

The weekend was over and it was time to head back to school. Mondays were already bad enough, now throwing drama back into the mix, doesn't help at all. I showered and got dressed in a t-shirt, jeans and hi-tops. I looked out my window for a few minutes, watching Ally's house intently. I was waiting for her to come out and walk to school, but she never came. I finally gave up, and since today was rainy, drove to school.

I got there in probably less than five minutes. I usually met up with the guys in the main hall, but since I'm done with them, I went straight to first block. I was about fifteen minutes early considering I skipped my usual morning routine.

There were four other people in the classroom. Two kids catching up on homework, one kid reading, and Ally Dawson. She had the hood of her sweatshirt pulled down covering most of her face. Her hair was laying loosely over her shoulders hiding the parts of her face that weren't hidden from the sweatshirt. She had her headphones in, focused on her iPod.

I decided to try again to get her attention focused on me. She probably wouldn't be able to hear me if I said her name so I walked behind her and tapped her shoulder. She turned around pulling one headphone out of her ear with an expectant look on her face.

"Hi." I simply said with a smile and wave.

As soon as she saw it was me, she groaned, shoved the headphone back in her ear and turned to face the desk again. I was slowly beginning to get annoyed with her ignorance. But I wasn't gonna give up yet. I sat down backwards facing in the desk in front of her. I rested my elbows on the table looking at her intently. She paused her music.

"What do you want? Homework? Test answers? Doesn't matter, I'm not giving anything to you." She said coldly.

I wanted desperately to say, 'I want you' but decided against that.

"Why won't you just talk to me?" I asked seriously.

"Oh you mean how you talked to me for three years? No thanks." She said as her voice cracked slightly.

I immediately felt a pang of guilt. So many different thoughts and emotions flooded my mind at that time that I didn't know what to say. I felt awkward having our past brought up in the conversation. Although I did feel a distant piece of hope knowing that she still remembered who I was. I felt bad that she was upset about that. But I didn't understand why she hated me so much. I thought we just grew apart naturally. I didn't know she had a reason to hate me. She gave me a strange look as I was still zoned out on my thoughts. I had finally come up with the simplest response.

"I'm sorry Ally." I said.

I got up and walked back over to my seat. I could see her giving me a surprised look from the corner of my eye. I turned my head to look over at her, and her eyes quickly flicked back down to her iPod. The first bell rang, causing the classroom to fill up with students. Dallas came in and sat next to me. I sighed.

"Hey bro! What up?" He said slinging his bag to the floor.

"Oh, uh, nothin much." I said.

"Where were you this morning?" He asked.

"In here." I said shortly.

"Why?" He asked in a slightly disgusted tone.

"Why not? Aren't you supposed to come to class when you get to school?" I said a little rudely.

"Yeah, but no one ever does. It's lame. I mean, the only kids that ever do are the nerd twins, bookworm girl, and Dawson." He said.

"And your point is?" I asked sourly.

"The point is, we don't want the king hanging with the nobodies." He reasoned while giving me a friendly punch on the arm.

"Well if I'm the king, then I should be able to do what I want. And I wanted to come here. Any problems?" I said, bitterness clearly evident in my voice by now.

"Dude chill out. I didn't know you had 'a thing' for being lame." He said sarcastically.

"Shut up Dallas." I said through gritted teeth.

"Whatever bro..." He said focusing his attention back to his phone.

The teacher came in and started the class. I attempted to do my work today, but became to focused on Ally.

After what seemed like forever, the bell rang to get out of class. I headed to second block. It felt just as long, if not longer. Finally lunch came around.

I had waited in the lunch line for my food and went out to find Ally. Nathan and Zack from my usual table were waving and motioning me to sit with them. I sent an insincere smile and halfhearted wave in their direction. Then I walked right past them and plopped down right across from Ally at her table. My friends sent me confused glances then started laughing and giving me thumbs up because they thought I might prank her or something.

"Hey Ally!" I said cheerfully.

"Again? What's your deal? I swear if you have any egg salad on you, I will hurt you." She said with ice laced in her voice.

"I don't have any food other than what's on my tray. And I don't plan on it ending up anywhere except my stomach." I said with a short laugh.

She just shot me the death glare so I quickly refrained the laugh. I noticed she still had in one of her headphones.

"What music do you listen to?" I asked.

She just plain ignored me.

"Aren't you going to eat lunch?" I asked also noticing she didn't have any food with her.

"No. I'm not hungry." She muttered.

Then she got up and left to the girls bathroom. Crap. The one place that I can't follow her to. I sighed with frustration and continued to eat the rest of my lunch. This was going to be a lot harder than I thought.

ALLY'S POV

I arrived to school from Trish's house. She offered me more clothes to wear to school, but I declined her offer because I felt more comfortable in my sweatshirt. I sat in home room waiting for the day to end. Although I didn't want to go home either.

Out of nowhere, Austin started trying to talk to me. What was with him? I accidentally mentioned our past when we talked. He sat there looking very distant for a while then simply apologized and left. I was shocked, maybe even hopeful that he apologized. But I let it go because I know that I can't trust him. Our entire friendship was lies. He said we would be best friends forever. Just look at us now.

When lunch rolled around, he approached me again. I was beginning to get very annoyed with him. He kept asking me pointless questions trying to get me to talk to him. I just ignored him and left. I went to the girls bathroom to make sure he wouldn't try and follow me again.

I ended up just deciding to ditch school. I snuck out of the girls locker room exit and wandered back into the woods hoping to find a place where I could just give up on life. That seemed to be the best option at the time. I honestly don't see how my life could actually get any worse.

I walked until I could no longer stand. I fell to my knees and curled myself into a ball on the forest floor. I didn't even cry. I didn't even have enough strength to cry anymore. I had cried out all my tears and I was officially done.

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