Hey guys! I have some awesome news!
But first I must apologise. I'm so sorry I haven't updated but you must understand that while you guys have summer vacay right about now, I'm waking up at five every morning to write midyear exams. And it's soooo cold here! Brr...
BUT I wrote my last exam today and I am FINISHED! Whoop whoop! But I'm still at school. *cries*
Now for the awesome news. Remember a while back in March when I told you guys that I wrote this book competition at our school?! Well... I WON! It felt phenomenal. And I was the youngest person to enter!
AND IT'S GOING TO GET PUBLISHED! YAY!
But since it's a local publisher, I don't think you guys will be able to read it since majority of my readers don't live in Africa. But I will upload it here on FF. I just have to tweak it a bit (maybe a lot) so that the characters resemble Team Austin. BUT YAY!
There was something else I was going to say but I can't remember so...
Review responses!
Laura Marano: I don't understand. Do you mean the TV show's characters or the actual actors? Because on this site you're not supposed to write about the actors anyway. And I do it because it's fun and because I love writing. So, there may be no point in it, but I love it so I do it.
XxRauraXAusllyxX: I actually wondered what happened to you. I'm glad you liked the last few chapters.
Raeganb123: Thanks for that. I thought people would hate the last chapter.
Jamesmaslow4evz: Me too! He's just so adorable.
Inkling13: You weren't the only one who thought that, hahaha.
Queenc1: Love you! I know you'll like this one. Well, I hope you do.
Jarlcarriers: Thanks. Although I'm embarrassed to admit I don't really have a proper plot. I mean, I know how this fic is going to end and I know certain highlights and what events are going to lead up to them, but everything else I just go on with whatever comes into my head.
Randomsmileyperson: Thank you!
R5Forever: Thank you. I like making people smile too, but you're better at it. :D
IreneTomboyLife: Um, thanks for at least reading. I'm sorry it got confusing because I'm crappy at updating. If you're even reading this. But thank you anyway!
Lalalala07: I may be sweet, but you're awesome. And in all honesty, I hate Dal and him mom, too. And I did a face palm too when I read your review, because I hadn't noticed that! Hahaha, I think now, though, I guess I kind of did base them off of R5 without realising it. I'm part of a big family too so I know how crazy it can be.
BunneyBearsXD: aw, you are literally too sweet! I don't mind that you don't review often, as long as you're reading and enjoying. Besides, I'd rather you review once in a while than never. So thank you for that, I really appreciate it!
URxGORGEx: I was actually laughing as I wrote that chapter. Hehehe.
I hope I didn't miss anyone out. If I did, please say so! I hope this chapter isn't like one of those chapters that gets me less reviews than usual. I have a bad feeling...
I Own Nothing!
Ally's POV
The last night with the Sloanes wasn't as awkward as I thought it'd be. I mean, before I got to know them better. Just think about it, if you look past the obvious drama that happened and them being related to Dallas, they're a pretty awesome group of people. Aside from Logan's mom. Man, that woman gives me the creeps! But, whatever. Tomorrow morning, I'll be leaving her at last! But I will be kind of sad to say goodbye to Logan's brothers. Oh well.
"Ally!" Austin snapped, bringing me back to the present.
"Huh? Oh, sorry..." I stuttered, blushing. Austin rolled his eyes and laughed, "Can we just please focus on the song?"
Austin and I were attempting to write the song he was going to sing for the competition, I'd finally had some inspiration for it. All it took, really, was some yellow nail polish and one of Austin's shirts, which then led me to...
"ALLY!" I jumped.
"Huh? Wha-?"
Austin groaned, "You were doing it again." I blushed, "sorry. Let's just... continue." I grabbed my songbook and a pencil, reading over the two verses we have so far.
Wasn't looking for trouble,
but it came looking for me
I tried to say no but I couldn't fight that
she was looking lovely
Austin came up with the lyrics, with me occasionally suggesting better was of phrasing them. I had the tune figured all out, though. When we had the first verse, I automatically thought that he was singing about me. Then the second verse came along, and I was like huh? I mean, seriously, listen to this:
She kinda reminds me
of a girl I know.
This pretty young thing that I got
waiting for me back at home
But when I mentioned my confusion, he simply laughed and stated that 'it's just a song, Ally'. So now, I'm okay with that.
"Okay, how about, 'She's got my engines started, this happens every time," I suggested. We needed to think of a great chorus. Austin smiled and sang the two lines in the tune I taught him. Then, to my surprise, he added his own lyrics.
"I see a pretty girl, and I wanna make her mine," he sang. I gasped and wrote them down, circling the word 'mine'.
"When we record this, I want this word to be exaggerated in a way," I said, ideas flowing freely now. Austin nodded.
"Hey, can we include outer space in this song?"
"Don't you think that's a little off topic? I mean, we're talking about girls here."
"Yeah. Girls are out of this world!" he exclaimed, making me roll my eyes. Austin wrapped his arm around my shoulder, "But you're the only alien of my eye, Miss Dawson."
"That is cheesy and weird," I said with a laugh.
"Please? It could go something like, 'then send my rocket to the sky, I want in. But should I go for it?'" he paused, thinking.
"Houston, I think we got a problem," I joked, tapping at his head, "No, Austin."
"But that's perfect! Houston, I think we got a problem. Girls, girls, girls! I just can't say no."
"Never see them coming I just watch them go," I added, grinning widely as I jotted the lyrics down.
"This song is going to be awesome!" he exclaimed, making me grin.
"HEY LOVEBIRDS! DINNER'S READY!" Logan screeched from somewhere in the house. Austin rolled his eyes and stood up, stretching. I stood up and made my way out of our bedroom with Austin in tow.
In the kitchen, Logan sat at the table, impatiently drumming on the table as her father tried to stop Liam and Matt from fighting – as usual. Mrs. Sloane was just taking off her apron when we came in.
"Where's Rory?" I asked, Logan as I took a seat next to her. I tried to ignore the icy stare that come from her mother.
"Out," she simply stated, "But he said he'd be back soon, so I don't know where he could have gone." I nodded. Beside me, Austin took my free hand and absent-mindedly drew patterns in the palm as he talked to Carlos. It seemed like Liam and Matt had cooled down long enough to take a seat.
"Hey! How come he gets the blue one?" Liam asked, motioning to the blue plastic cup that had some superhero printed on it.
"Because it's my turn!" Matt argued back, holding the cup away.
"But it's my turn!" Liam wailed.
"No, Liam, you had it yesterday. Today its Matt's turn," Mrs. Sloane sighed as she took a seat across from me.
"See? You're not the only one who gets a turn," Matt said triumphantly. Liam scowled, "So unfair."
"It's just a cup," Logan sighed, "Honestly! Can we just get to the eating part? I'm starving."
"Okay, okay. Whose turn is it to say grace?" Carlos asked.
"My turn!" Matt said, closing his eyes. "Dear God, thank you for the-"
"No, it's my turn!" Liam interrupted before closing his eyes. "Dear God, I pray that..."
"FOR THE FOOD THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO RECIEVE!" Matt said, louder than his brother.
"YOU MAY BLESS THE HANDS THAT HAVE..."
"WE ARE GREATFUL. IN JESUS' NAME..."
"PREPARED THIS FOOD! IN JESUS' MIGHTLY NAME..."
"AMEN!" the boys yelled simultaneously, before opening their eyes and glaring at each other.
"Nice to see that they're extremely religious," Austin sarcastically drawled.
"Boys, that is not the way to behave when praying to God," Mrs. Sloane scolded.
"But mom, it was my turn!" Liam shouted.
"But I just wanted to do it tonight," Matt muttered, looking down.
"You're such a baby!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Please can we just eat?!" Logan said, slamming her fork onto the table. Austin and I exchanged glances. What a family... A week and we still weren't used to them, I thought with a giggle.
The doorbell rang, and I stood up to go and get it. Ignoring the fact that I could still hear the family bickering, I forced a smile and opened the door, only to be greeted by Rory carrying a box. He grinned and let himself in. Confused, I closed the door after him and followed him.
"What's with the box?" I asked. He smiled at me, "dessert."
"But your mom already made brownies..."
He snorted, "She can't bake brownies without burning the house down. She probably bought them. And anyway, this is better," he said, walking into the kitchen where his family sat. Austin had his head in his hands, and Logan scowling at her younger brothers, impatiently stabbing the mahogany table with a fork. Mrs. Sloane was still preaching to her youngest sons about respecting God when praying and Carlos was nodding along and going 'uh huh' and 'very true' and all that. However, this all stopped when Matt and Liam noticed Rory setting the box onto the counter.
"Rory!" Matt exclaimed, "You got it! You got it! You got..."
"Got what?" Mrs. Sloane asked, eyeing the white bakery box with suspicion. Carlos just sighed, "Let's just start eating."
"Finally!" Logan exclaimed, loading her plate with food. Mrs. Sloane sighed and rubbed her temples as she watched her daughter gorge herself with food. "Really, dear, you shouldn't eat like that. Women eat respectably. And sit up."As she was saying this, Rory and I took our respective seats and soon we started eating.
"Mom, you need to stop criticizing me on everything I do."
"I will when you learn to act like a proper woman," she retorted, "Sometimes I forget that you're not a boy with the way you act." Logan scowled but ate slower. After this exchange, the air tensed for a bit until Liam tried some hot sauce. Let's just say, he broke two glasses in the process of trying to get water. What he doesn't know is, water doesn't help. As soon as everyone was done, I started collecting everyone's dishes and pilled them into the sink, out of habit. No one seemed to mind that I was doing the dishes and they all piled into the living room to watch something. I hummed the tune of the new song as did the dishes. Suddenly, someone cleared their throat behind me. I turned around and saw Mrs. Sloane standing there with her hands on her hips.
Most of the time Mrs. Sloane always looked like she'd just walked out of a glossy magazine, what with her fancy clothes and her hair always done elaborately. But today, I noticed for the first time, she was wearing not a suit but some dark blue jeans and a plain green tunic top. Yet still in these somewhat casual clothes, she still looked like a super scary CEO of whatever.
"Um..." I stopped, not really knowing what to say or do. I wonder how I've offended her now...
"That's my job," she said, walking up to me. Her tone wasn't cold, but it wasn't friendly either. I blushed, "I-I'm sorry?"
"Go ahead," she said, glancing at me, "I'll finish up."
I nodded slowly, "O-kay..."
Then, she chuckled. It was strange; it didn't really have any traces of humour in it. This woman is scary. But... I think she's trying to be... nice. Huh. How about that? Of course she would, I'm leaving the following morning.
I walked into the living room, still in a daze. I took my seat next to Austin and he automatically wrapped his arm around me. I snuggled into his chest and sighed. Everyone seemed to be transfixed on, surprise, surprise, a football game. I rolled my eyes and toyed with the hem of Austin's shirt.
"What's bothering you?" Austin asked quietly, now looking down at me.
"I'll tell you later," I whispered back. Austin nodded and kissed my forehead.
"Who wants cake?" Liam asked suddenly. Logan immediately responded, "ME!"
"Shh!" Austin, Matt, Carlos and Rory hissed, eyes transfixed on the TV.
Liam ignored them and ran to the kitchen, "Mom! Can we eat the cake now?!" he loudly asked. The game ended, and almost everyone in the room was happy because their team won. I don't even know who is playing and who isn't. At least they're happy. Rory got up to go help his little brother, and he came back in holding a massive cake. He placed it on the table and lit a match, lighting it on fire. I gasped as the cake burst into flames, spelling out something on the chocolate covered surface.
"Austin, Ally and Sis, we'll miss you!" I read aloud just as the flames extinguished, "Aw, guys!" That was phenomenal, I thought with a wide grin. I wonder what made it burn.
"Whoa, what made it burn?" Austin asked, voicing my thoughts.
"Alcohol, probably," Logan said. I stood up and hugged Rory hard. He was totally one of my favourites out of the family. Austin, Logan and her brothers joined in the hug. And then Carlos joined as well, pulling his wife by the side. I'm not sure if she hugged anyone back, but I do know that I felt her small hand patting my shoulder. That's when I decided that we had hugged for long enough.
"So let's see if it tastes just as good as it looks," Logan said, grabbing a plate.
The airport was bustling as usual, even though it was still very early in the morning. The sun hadn't really begun to rise yet, and I was freezing. I was wearing one of Austin's hoodies but he was wearing a pair of sunglasses and a simple black shirt with no sleeves and some ripped jeans. He looked so good I just wanted to tackle him to the ground. I'm a little surprised he wasn't feeling a little cold. The airport was always cold. We were in the waiting area that was situated right next to the gate for our plane. This time, Alfie stayed right by our side. We were about to enter the gate for our plane, after already having said goodbye to the Sloanes, when Logan's phone started ringing.
"You know you're going to have to turn that off when we're in the plane, right?" Austin said without looking up from his magazine. He wasn't really reading it, I could tell, because it was about gardening at home.
"You know you're going to... of course I do," she snapped. She didn't make any effort to answer it, though.
"Are ya gonna get that?" Austin asked, flipping a page. I scoffed beside him and grabbed the magazine, replacing it with a sports magazine. He smirked at me and started t read.
"It's Dallas," she said, "I'm going to take this," she walked away, now talking on the phone. I sighed and turned to Austin, who was reading with his face covered. I pulled it down to his lap, but he put it back up.
"Why are you doing that?" I asked, rolling my eyes.
"'Cause this is really interesting," he said.
"I didn't know you could read upside down," I said, with a laugh. He put down the magazine to look at me disdainfully, which only made me laugh harder. Suddenly he swore and hid behind the mag again. I abruptly stopped laughing.
"Really? There are no paparazzi for you," I teased, nudging his shoulder.
"That's not it," he said in a hushed tone. I looked around.
"What?"
"Over there by the pillar near us," he whispered. I craned my neck over the bustling crowd to see a beautiful blonde girl leaning against it with her phone in her hand. She was texting, oblivious to her surroundings.
"You mean the blonde girl?" I asked, feeling suddenly jealous. I know I don't like this girl somehow.
"Yeah. She's one of my exes. And I might have ended it the wrong way."
"So why do you care?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Hey, no need to be jealous," he said, putting down the magazine to put an arm around my shoulders.
"So you're hiding because you acted like a jerk to her? What is she gonna do to you?"
"She happens to be a black belt in karate and judo. And I might have stood her up on our one month anniversary-"
"Austin!" I interrupted, angry. He'd better have a good reason. I can only imagine how upset she was.
"I forgot! Sue me!" he said in defence.
"Did you at least apologise?"
"Err, I wrote her a note the next day-"
"And?"
"I sent Ross to give it to her. I told her I was breaking up with her."
"Austin Moon!" I shouted, just as Logan returned from her phone call.
"Austin Moon?" the blonde girl asked, looking in our direction. I guess I must have been too loud. Whatever, my ass of a boyfriend deserved it.
"Ah crap," he muttered, taking off his sunglasses. The girl growled and grabbed her hand luggage, anger vibrating from her body.
"Uh, what's going on?" Logan asked, confused. No one answered her, because the blonde girl slapped Austin hard against the face. Logan's jaw dropped. She pulled the angry girl back, "hey! Lay off!" she snapped.
"How could you leave me sitting at that restaurant by myself for five hours?" she demanded, "Do you know how embarrassed I was? And then you dump me in a note sent by your little brother?!"
"What?" Logan exclaimed, "Beat him up, girl," she said, letting go of the girl.
"And you didn't even get my name right you jackass!" she screamed.
"I-It was a huge misunderstanding," Austin stammered, trying to save himself.
"Which part was, huh? The standing me up part or the dumping me in two sentences part?!" she asked, turning red and bringing her hand up to slap him again. I shook my head. How do you mess up your girlfriend's name up if you've been together for a month? I remember the old Austin all too well. It actually surprises me that I, of all people, could change him in a summer alone.
Austin gently held her wrist just as it was going to come in contact with his already red cheek, "It's been three years! Move on from it!" he snapped.
"It's not that easy to have your heart ripped out by someone you love," she retorted, tearing up. Austin stopped and looked at me before looking back at the girl. He sighed, "I'm sorry, Alexis, I'm sorry. I know I acted like an ass and I'm sorry." He actually was being sincere. The girl did not expect this and stopped for a few seconds. The people who were here watching us were silent, waiting for something to happen.
"Kick his ass!" a random old lady shouted.
"Hey!" Austin exclaimed, "This is our argumeh... ah!" While he was defending himself, the girl made use of her judo skills and knocked him off of his feet.
"Okay that was not necessary," I said, helping Austin up. Logan snickered, "you got beaten by a girl." Austin brushed himself off, "I don't hit girls." The girl huffed, threw him one last haughty glance before walking off. The crowd dispersed. Austin took a deep breath and sent me a small smile, "glad that's over." I ignored him and walked to the gate, which had finally opened.
"So what did Dallas want?" I asked Logan. She shrugged, "I don't wanna talk about it. I just can't wait to go back to school," she said with a groan as she handed the woman her ticket and passport.
"Me too," Austin and I said at the same time. It was hard to pretend that the scene that had just happened didn't happen. Canada was just a piece of work – for all of us. As we passed through, we all couldn't help but release a breath simultaneously. We're finally going home.
As soon as we stepped out of the airport in Miami, I removed Austin's hoodie and handed it to him. Dez, Tasha and Ross had come to pick us up and here helping us put all our belongings into the car.
"So how was your Spring Break?" Tasha asked brightly.
"Awful."
"Horrific."
"My cheek still hurts."
So they're back home at last! Next chapter I'm bringing back everyone else and things will be business as usual... NOT! There will be more drama mwahahahahahahahah!
What did you guys think of Austin's ex? Don't worry; she was just a onetime thing. Did you hate this chapter? Or did you like it? Please tell me! If I get over six reviews, I'll update by next Wednesday. Cross my heart. Please, please review! No more random drama, if you guys say so.
Sammie ;)