SWMT 11

I sprint to the house to see if Cherry or Eric is here. But caught in the act when Austin notices. Why do I even try?

"What are you doing?" He asks walking around the car.

"Uh...racing you." Smooth move.

"You didn't tell me we were racing."

"Well, I am now."

We stand there for a second until I start running and he chases after me. He grabs my torso and spins me around. We fall to the ground in laughter. We start looking up at the stars.

"How come we always end up looking up at he stars?" I ask.

"I guess it's just something of ours." I smile at his answer. He stands up and wipes the grass off of himself.

"What are you doing?" I ask.

"Going inside. I have to tutor you now."

"But I want to stay out here." I grab his arm a tug him down but he pulls me off the ground.

"No, your not getting out if it that easy." He laughs. "Let's go." We walk into the house. I am very nervous because I saw both of their vehicles outside.

"Thank God your home! Now you can clean!" Cherry says walking around the corner. "Oh, you brought a boy home. What? Aren't you going to introduce me Ally?" I take a deep breath.

"Austin, this is Cherry, my foster mom. Cherry, this is my friend, Austin."

"It's nice to meet you Cherry." He puts his hand out. She doesn't take his. He pulls his back. "Okay."

"Wow, he knows about the F word." She laughs. I have a confused look on my face as well as Austin. "So he knows your in Foster care."

"Yeah, he's here to help me study. You wanted me to get better grades so." I out my arm around his. It makes me feel a bit safe from her.

"Good. So you can graduate and have a better job to pay the bills around here." My eyes widen. "Not, like you don't already."

Austin looks at me and back at Cherry. I put him in an awkward position. "We are going to my room."

"Whatever. Clean when he's gone." We walk to my room with arms connected and I close the door behind me and let go of a deep breath. He it comes...

"What the hell was that?" Austin asks with anger, frustration, and worried in his voice. It's also written all over his face.

"I don't know what to tell you." I sit on my bed and he sits next to me.

"Well, you could have told me that your Foster mom was tyrannical."

"She's not tyrannical. She's just very bossy and makes me do everything."

"No she's obviously more than that. What are these?" Austin takes my arm and lifts it up revealing a large bruise on my upper right arm.

"I fell." He drops my arm in disbelief.

"You fell. You really think that I would believe such lie? Obviously this was Cherry."

"Cherry has never touched me."

"It was obviously someone else."

"I told you that I fell."

"Why are you lying to me? I know that you're lying to me? Was it someone else? Please tell me Ally. I just want to keep you protected. A few weeks ago you had bruises on you and them it stopped for a while then now you have them again. What's up?"

"What am I supposed to say?"

"The truth!"

I start to tear up, "Cherry's son."

"He's beating you?"

"Not technically."

"What do you mean? That doesn't make any sense."

"He tries to-" I choke up and Austin places me in his lap. He rubs my back.

"Shhhh." He rubs my back as I cry in his shoulder. He is making me calmer but it's too hard to say.

"He's attempted to get in my pants." I can see Austin's face change. "But he's never." He relaxes a bit. He brings me down to the bed and I cover us up under the blanket. He grabs my hand which makes me smile and rubs the palm of my hand on circles.

"Oh, Ally. I will do anything to keep you protected no matter how long it takes. You will have a happy life."

"I don't think that will happen."

"How come? Don't you believe that one day you will be happy?"

"I don't know. It's just hard to believe after everything that has happened in my life. Loosing my family. Getting out in a adoption center for girls and then foster home to foster home. I ended up here. This is the worst of them all."

"How come you never ask for a replace?"

"Because I'm tired of moving. And of I ask for another place they are moving me out of Miami. I went through a lot in Miami. They are still looking for girls in Miami they just aren't good homes."

"What made them think this was a good place?"

"It was good at first.

"Well, I will make sure you have a better life."

"How?"

"You'll see."

We decide to study a bit. I'm actually getting better marks thanks to Austin. He's such a great friend. I am so blessed to have him in my life. I would be in a black hole or worse if he hadn't tripped me. Thank God for gravity. Science is amazing. School is getting easier and our birthdays are soon and I have to get Austin something. Mine is in seven days. It's the last day of May. I open my eyes and realize that we must have feel asleep. My head was lying on his stomach and he was lying on a textbook. I laugh at it. I see my phone going off and notice a missed call. It was from an unknown caller so I ignore it. I look at Austin how funny he is sleeping. I laugh and take a picture of him. I sent it to him and he phone goes off. I quickly lay my head back on his stomach as he wakes up from his phone buzzing in his pocket. He sits up and I pretend that I was sleeping. I stay there as I hear him unlock his phone. He goes to messages and starts to laugh.

"Really Ally?" I get up and start to laugh.

"What? It was fanny and cute."

We spent the rest of the day apart because his parents and him had to do something around town. He was practically forced into do it. He said he rather spend his day with me but looks like that never happened. I decided to stay as far away from the house as I can so I go and hang out with Trish. I text her and she texts me back saying that I can come over. I go over to her house. I knock on the door and she opens it up.

"You know you could have just walked in right?" She laughs.

"Oh."

"Just walk in next time." We go up to her room and sit on her bed. "Do you listen to music?" I laugh. "What?"

"I write songs and play the piano so yeah. You could say that." She plays her phone on her speaker. We start to listen to One Republic- If I lose Myself. She comes over to the bed and starts to talk.

"You make music?"

"Not professionally but one day I wish I could."

"That's cool. I have a piano maybe you want to play something for me? It's downstairs."

"Maybe later."

"So, you write songs? Do you sing them?"

"Yeah, but I have stage fright."

"So you can't sing in front of anyone?"

"No."

"That's funny, Austin told me you sang him a song of yours."

"Well, I can sing in front if him only. I don't know, it's just is vibe calm me I guess."

"Are you guys dating or something?"

"No. We kissed once but that was a long time ago."

"You guys have known each other for a month. How long is a long time ago?"

"I don't know. We decided that being friends was a better option."

"Okay."

We hang out for a couple hours but then Austin calls me over to his place saying that he is back. I text him back saying that I'm getting on my bike and I'll be on my way. He doesn't life THAT far from Trish. I get on my bike and put my helmet on and go there. I ride my bike for a while listening to some music. Stop at a traffic light and wait for the pedestrian cross light. It turns on and I ride my bike across. It's a large street so I have to hurry up. The light stays on long enough so people can walk across so since I'm riding my bike I should have enough time. I look at the trees and decide that I will have to learn to enjoy life as it is and don't take anything for granted. I try not to anyways. I can't wait to see Au-"

No Ones POV

As Ally is riding her bike across the crosswalk a car comes speeding and attempts to stop but to brakes to stop the car fast enough before it comes towards Ally and hits her. Everything goes black for Ally and you could hear the ambulance come towards the scene.

I seriously cried when I wrothe Ally's confession scene. No one should have to go through anything like that. And now no one knows what happened to Ally in the end. What do think will happen next? Let me know in the reviews. Follow, Favroute, Reveiw? Thank you so much!