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ALLY'S POV
I was driving back into town early the next morning. I didn't have a license, but Austin was tired and wanted me to drive, an since I knew how, I decided to just go ahead and do it. Well, I didn't want to, but Austin convinced me. It's hard to say no to your fiancé after all.
I began to recognize the buildings and road names around, so I knew I was getting close to home. Wow, it seems like I haven't been home in a long time. Then again, that's probably because I didn't really have a home. Looks like I'm going back to sleeping in the shed. I was about to sigh, but I held it in, because Austin was awake. I didn't want him to worry about me, because I felt bad about being the cause of all the problems. He's given up so much for me lately, running around trying to help me, so I wanted to give him a break. I was going to try to stay out of trouble, and keep a happy demeanor.
"You missed the turn." Austin said, his voice interrupting my thoughts.
"What?" I asked, snapping back to reality.
"You were supposed to turn right there, but you missed it." He told me.
"Oh, I'll turn around." I said in a monotone voice.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. What makes you think I wouldn't be?" I lied.
"Because I know you. And you seemed distracted. Like something was bothering you." He explained.
It amazed me at how well he knew me. He could tell when something was wrong, even when I was trying my hardest not to show it. But I still didn't want to admit it to him. "Well, I'm fine, just a little tired."
He gave me a knowing look, and I knew he didn't believe me. But he let the subject go anyway. I finally pulled into Austin's driveway after what felt like forever. We got out of the car and I walked towards my house.
"Hey, you wanna stay over at my place for a little while?" Austin asked me.
I looked over at my dreary, disgusting house. I turned back to Austin. "Yeah, I guess I could stay for awhile."
He smiled and walked me into his house. I hadn't been in his house since I was like four years old. Yet, it still looked the same as I remembered it.
"Austin!" I heard his mom growl. She walked into the room with an angry look on her face. Then she saw me, and refrained her next yell. "I mean...Austin! You're home!" She said cheerily, immediately changing her tone.
"Hey mom!" Austin said with fake enthusiasm.
"You must be Ally! Wait, Ally? Oh my gosh, I can't believe you're that little girl that used to run around with my little Austy!" She said, resisting the urge to pinch my cheeks. I let out a giggle, looking over at Austin.
"Mo-om!" He whined, obviously embarrassed at his mother's nickname for him.
"Mike! Get in here! Look how much Ally has grown up!" She yelled through the house to her husband.
I smiled as I looked over at Austin again. 'I'm sorry', he mouthed. I laughed again, 'It's okay' I mouthed back. Austin's dad walked in the room.
"Ally! So nice to see you again!" He greeted me, shaking my hand.
"Nice to see you too Mr. Moon!" I said back.
"Please, call me Mike!" He insisted.
"Ooh! I need a picture! Hang on I'm gonna go get my camera!" Mimi said, running upstairs.
"Guys! Give her a break!" Austin complained to his parents.
Mimi came back down the stairs with her camera. "Alright you two, picture time!"
Austin put his arm around me, and I leaned against him for our picture.
"Aww, you guys are adorable! It's been so long since I've seen you two together. By the way, Ally, how are your parents? I haven't seen them in a while either." Mimi asked.
I felt a sharp pang of hurt in my chest. Austin's face hardened. He grabbed my hand and started pulling me towards the stairs. "C'mon Ally. We're just gonna go upst..."
"No Austin." I stopped him. He gave me a look, questioning me. "It's okay."
I walked back towards the living room to confront his parents. "You guys were like my second parents growing up. So you deserve to know. My parents aren't here anymore. My mom died of a heart attack four years ago, and my dad died of an alcohol problem about six months ago." I explained quietly.
"Oh honey, I'm sorry, I had no idea." Mimi said, coming over to hug me.
"It's okay, it's just...OH MY GOSH, MY DAD!" I yelled suddenly.
Everyone started questioning me and started to ask what was going on. "Austin, can I speak to you outside for a minute?" I said.
"Yeah sure." He said, quickly following me out the door.
We shut the door behind us when we got outside. "Well? What's going on?" Austin questioned.
"My dad. He's still laying dead in my house! It's been six months! Six months Austin!" I whisper-yelled in a panic.
"What are you gonna do?" Austin asked.
"Well, we gotta get him out!" I said.
"Now?" He asked.
"Well yeah, I can't sit around knowing my dad is laying around all gross and decomposed in my garbage dump of a house!" I exclaimed.
"What are you even going to do with him?" Austin asked, beginning to look a little disgusted.
"I don't know." I admitted. I drew a blank thinking of what I actually would do with him.
"Is everything okay out here?" Austin's parents asked, stepping out of the front door.
"Um...yeah! All good here!" I said, trying to convince them everything was okay. Austin just nodded along in agreement.
"Hey mom, can Ally stay for dinner? Great, how 'bout you make that really good beef roast you always make?" Austin said, rushing his sentences, not giving his mom a chance to talk.
"Austin that takes a really long time to make, how about we just order pizza?" Mimi reasoned.
"We just had pizza, and Ally doesn't mind waiting a while do ya Ally?" Austin said, turning to look at me, giving me a look that said to agree with him.
"Yeah, sure! I don't mind to wait." I said, nodding.
"Well, okay then. If...if that's what you kids want..." She said, giving us an unsure look.
We just continued to nod, and Austin even threw in a thumbs up. They both walked back inside, still looking at us like we had serious problems.
"Well that gives us three hours. You better think fast." Austin told me.
We walked over to my house, and I immediately began to feel my breakfast try to make a reappearance. "Sorry about the smell, were gonna have to deal with it. Just hold your breath as much as possible. And try not to pass out." I informed him.
I pushed the door open, and took a few steps into the horrid house. I hadn't stepped door in this house for about six months either. The floor creaked, and I heard small animals scurrying around. Sounded something like squirrels, raccoons, or rats.
"So uh, where...where is he?" Austin asked me.
"Upstairs in his bedroom. In the middle of the floor." I said quietly.
We walked up there, and just as I was about to open the door, I stopped. I stepped back from the door.
"You okay? What's going on?" He questioned.
"I'm scared Austin." I whispered.
He stepped closer to me, wrapping an arm around me. "Of what, I mean, you've already seen him...in this state...haven't you?"
"Yeah, but that was when it was recent. It's been half a year, there's animals living in the house. I've never seen an eaten or decomposed body, and I don't plan to. Especially not if it's my own dad." I explained.
"Well I thought you hated him anyway." Austin said.
"I thought I did, but after losing him, it made me think of all the things I loved about him. He never was a bad guy, he was just upset about losing mom. He took up drinking to try and get his mind off of her, and the alcohol made him do the insane things that he did. But he always tried to be the best he could be, even if we were never that close. I don't know, the point is, he was my dad and I loved him, no matter what the case. And I'm afraid to see what's inside that door. Because I won't be able to unsee it." I explained.
"Well do you want me to go in first? If its bad, I'll just tell you it's better not to go in. If I think you can handle it, I'll let you come in and help me decide what to do with him." Austin suggested.
"Okay, if you think you can handle it." I told him.
He nodded and cracked the door open. He walked in the room, pulling up the door behind him so I wouldn't see. He was only in for a few seconds then came back out with a bit of a pale look on his face. All he did was shake his head 'no'. A tear slipped out of my eye, and he pulled me into a hug.
"Do you have a blanket? I think the best thing to do is cover him up, and take him out." Austin said.
"Yeah hang on." I walked into my old room and grabbed my old comforter. I walked back to where Austin was. "Will this work?"
"Yeah. Wait out here." Austin said, walking back into the room. He came out a few minutes later, revealing my mummified father. "Now what do you intend to do with him?"
"I guess he deserves a proper burial, right?" I suggested.
"Yeah, so where are you gonna do it? In the backyard?" Austin asked.
"Ew no!" I exclaimed, slapping Austin in the arm. "We should call somebody and give a traditional funeral service and have him buried in a casket at a church or something."
"Oh...right. You know that costs a lot of money, don't you?" Austin pointed out.
"Oh yeah. Well I don't want to bury him in my own backyard! That's just not right! We've gotta think of something else." I thought.
"Well I've got something in mind, but I don't think for a minute that you'll go through with it." Austin said, looking at me with a grin that I found discomforting.
"What is it." I said with a sigh, closing my eyes, waiting for the worst.
"I say we sneak into the graveyard at that big church on the hill. Get a few shovels, flowers, whatever, and give him our own little ceremony before anybody finds out." Austin explained his plan.
"So you're saying we sneak into a graveyard, dig a hole, bury my dad in it, and act like nothing ever happened?" I questioned.
"Yep." Austin confirmed.
"Well that still doesn't seem right, but I don't see any other options. So I'm in." I sighed.
"Okay, we'll sneak out tonight after my parents go to sleep. Now all we need is a box of some sort to bury him in." Austin said.
"Oh, we've got a big long box downstairs. I don't know what it was for, I think our Christmas tree or something. But I think it'll fit him." I suggested.
Austin agreed and we walked into the basement to get the box. It looked just the right size, so Austin took it back up and laid my dad into it. He closed up the box and we left it just inside my front door. That way, tonight we could just get it and go.
"I guess we better get back over to my place before my parents think I ran away or something." Austin said.
We walked out of the house, gasping for fresh air on the front lawn. "Ew, our clothes smell like rotting alcohol. Your mom is gonna think we were drinking or something." I told Austin, wrinkling my nose in disgust.
"Well what are we gonna do about it?" Austin asked.
"I don't know about you, but I'm changing into different clothes." I said, walking down to the shed in the backyard.
After I changed, I met Austin back in the front yard. He was literally rolling in the grass, trying to mask the smell on his clothes. I shook my head and laughed at his childishness. I grabbed his arm, pulling him up of the grass, and dragging him back towards his house.
"Lets go in the back entrance. That way I can get to my room and change clothes before they notice the smell." Austin suggested.
We walked around to the back of his house and he peeked in the window to see if his parents were in the room. They were sitting on the couch watching TV. Austin opened the door slowly and quietly and took a couple steps into the room.
He grabbed my hand to lead me through the house. He walked on his tippy-toes behind the couch. Once he got past the couch, he bolted up the stairs, still being swift and silent. I kept up behind him and we made it to his room. He had already flung off his shirt, while scrounging through his closet for something else to change into. I tried to keep my eyes looking in a different direction than him. I knew I was emotionally attracted to him, but saying I wasn't physically attracted to him was a lie.
He finally came back out of his room, fully clothed in different attire. Now that I had relaxed, I began to smell the mouthwatering scent of beef roast.
"Smells good doesn't it?" Austin smiled at me, noticing the way I was sniffing the air.
"Yeah, really good. Are we actually staying to eat it, or were you just saying that to get her off our backs?" I asked.
"Are you kidding me? I might've actually been trying to get her to leave us alone, but she cooks one mean beef roast. I wouldn't pass up eating it for anything." Austin laughed.
"Really? Not for anything?" I asked doubting his last statement.
"Well, maybe not anything..." He trailed off in a seductive voice as he began to step closer to me.
"Austin!" I shrieked, pushing him away.
"Kidding! I'm kidding!" He laughed, holding his hands up in mock innocence.
I just rolled my eyes and smiled at him anyway. "How much more time do we have until the beef roast is ready anyway?" I asked, changing the subject.
He shrugged his shoulders, then leant over the railing of the stairs, looking down towards the living room. "Mom! When is dinner gonna be ready?" He shouted loudly down the stairs.
"In about forty five minutes!" His mom yelled back.
He turned to look at me. "Does that answer your question?"
"What are we gonna do until then?" I asked.
"I don't know." He said walking into his room. "Oh wait! The game room!" He shouted, walking back out of his room.
I gave him a questioning look.
"Just follow me." He said.
We walked back down the stairs, through the room his parents were in, and down another set of stairs. There was a big screen on the wall, along with big couches an bean bag chairs. They had a second kitchen down there as well. Looks like Trish isn't my only rich friend.
"Welcome to the game room!" He said in a deep announcer-like voice.
"Wow, this place is awesome!" I gushed, admiring all the components of the room.
"I know right? So what do you wanna play? I own pretty much every game under the sun." Austin stated.
"Do you really think I know about games? You're gonna have to tell me what these games are about. Or just pick one, and I'll play it." I reasoned.
"Okay, I'll randomly pick three games, and you pick which one you want to play." Austin decided.
I huffed a sigh. "Okay..."
"Alright. These are your choices. We've got Crash City 3, which is a car racing game. There's Just Dance 4, which is a dancing game, obviously. And finally, there's Guitar Hero." Austin listed.
"Isn't Guitar Hero kind of old?" I pointed out.
"Hey, Guitar Hero is a classic. Now what do you wanna play?" He asked.
"I don't know, they all sound fun. But I've had enough driving for a while, so no Crash City. I can't dance or play guitar for my life, so just do the dance one I guess. It seems easier." I decided.
"Okay, Just Dance it is." Austin said, putting in the game. He handed me a controller.
"Don't laugh at me if I suck at this." I informed him.
"Hey, if I laugh at you, just know I'm laughing because I love you and your suckiness." He told me.
I rolled my eyes. "Just start the game."
...…...
We spent the next half hour or more playing that game. Just laughing and dancing like little kids. I actually turned out to be better than I thought. We both flopped down on the couch with laughter and exhaustion.
"When did you get good at dancing?" Austin asked me.
"I don't know, I guess it just came naturally." I laughed.
Austin continued to laugh as he turned to look at me. I smiled as, I too, looked at him. We were close in proximity as we laid on the couch. Our laughter died down and we settled into the couch, still locked in each other's gaze. It felt as if we should've said something to one another, we wanted to say something. But no words escaped our lips as we became hypnotized by the other.
"Austin! Ally! Dinner is ready!" Mimi's voice snapped us back to reality.
Austin let out a breathy laugh as he flicked his eyes away from mine. His cheeks turned a subtle shade of pink as he rose from the couch. His lips curved to a grin as he waited for me by the door. I don't know what had just happened between us, but I had never seen Austin blush, and I only imagined what could be going on in his mind. There was only one thought in my mind right now though. Whatever just happened between us was unexplainable, but I knew I wanted to live in that moment forever.
Okay! 29 chapters down, one, maybe two, to go! YAY ME! *excessive clapping* sorry, London Tipton moment there. Haha anybody remember that show? Anyways, I hope you liked it! I left you with another Auslly ending! Review and tell me what you thought! Thanks so much! :D
