Rauslly-and-Percabeth-Rock- I swear I am going to need to send shout outs your way more times than I can count.
Sorry for the late updates, I currently have no internet where I am, and I don't know how long that is going to last. Anyhow I will post when I can.
Chapter 3.
-Austin-
"Hi," I speak up, as I see her walking. I was impressed I finally got to say something to her. I smile quickly, so she wouldn't see it.
As cliche as it sounds, she's quiet at first, and I wonder if this had ever been her first time encountering a homeless person, or at least, one she would see everyday as she walked to school. This time the scene was different. It was the library.
"Hi," she answers back, as I see her pull a book off the shelf. I wasn't familiar with the title, so I assumed it had something to do with school. I wasn't sure. I didn't ask.
"I'm Austin," I tell her as I decide to pull a book off the shelf as well, despite the book not seeming interesting, and I turn back to deciding if I should tell her I recognize her or not, and then decide against it.
"Ally," she tells me, and then puts the book down on the table, and scrolls through it, as she stops on a page, I assumed she had found what she had wanted to find, and finally sat down in the empty chair and opened her notebook to take notes. As she wrote down what the subject was, I realized I had recognized it. The Donner Party.
"I doubt you want it, but I can help you with that research," I throw it out there.
"Austin, no offense, but I don't even know you, so no thanks," she tells me. It seemed weird as though, I had imagined her to say yes, and then I would help her, but I didn't want to push her. That was as if by magic, someone else had come in, and sat down beside her.
"Calum, does Dez know you're here?" I hear her ask, and then I walk away, leaving the book abandoned on the table where I had left it. I doubted she would use it, or even look at it.
-Ally-
I watched as he had walked away. He looked hurt, but I was with Calum, and there was no way I was going to ditch on him, since we had just become a couple. A part of me had wanted to go chase him down, and ask him if had wanted to go to Dunkin Donuts. If I had been with Dez, I knew exactly what he would say, but he wasn't here, so it didn't matter.
"You alright?" Calum asks, and looks at me waiting for an answer.
"I'm fine. I'm just going to get a drink from Dunk's," I tell him, as I pick up my messenger bag, and head to exit the library. It wasn't exactly a lie. "You want anything?" I add, despite knowing that he didn't like Dunkin Donuts.
"I'm good. I'll keep doing research," he tells me, as he scrolls through the book, and begins to take notes.
I leave hoping he didn't screw this up too much. I at least owed him an apology. I just hoped I could find him. I wasn't even sure I would be able to do that, but I had hoped.
That was when I noticed the blonde hair. If it had been anyone else, I wouldn't have figured it out. He was just standing at the entrance of Central Park, and I walk over to him.
"Austin?" I ask, though, I knew it was him.
"What makes you think I want to talk to you? You don't know me, remember?" he half yells at me. I look around to see if anyone was snooping in on this.
"I came to apologize, and I was also wondering if you wanted something to eat or drink," I tell him. "Though, I doubt you'd want to, and I'd understand if you didn't want to," I add.
"Fine. Apology accepted. Under one condition though," he tells me, as he smiles at me.
"Name it," I tell him, as I turn around, knowing that at this point, I would have been gone longer than just a simple Dunkin Donuts trip.
"I help you Ace that essay," he offers, and I knew that I shouldn't give in that easy, but hell, it would be a lot more help than Calum, so I figure why not. I finally smile, and answer him back, and then we head to Dunkin Donuts.
-A&A-
"I was starting to think you had gotten lost," Calum announces as he sees the both of us. "Who might this be?" Calum adds before the both of us can get either further.
"This is Austin. He's a friend of mine," I tell him, as we look at each other, and then sit down at the table.
"I have basketball, so I'm out." Calum tells me, and leaves.
"Is he always that way?" Austin asks me.
"Sometimes," I answer him. "The basketball tryouts start soon, and he wants to make varsity, besides that, he's in the running for Homecoming King," I tell him, as we turn the page for another part of the Donner Party subject.
"The typical, secretive jock boyfriend," he tells me jokingly.
"How did you know he was my boyfriend?" I ask him, as I pick up my pen, and write down about the horrific events.
"It wasn't that hard to figure out. Besides, he's your Whitney Fordman, and you're his Lana Lang," he tells me, and points out something that I should probably write down in my notes.
"What do you mean by that?" I ask.
"Someday you'll figure it," he tells me.
"You speak too much riddles," I tell him, and then meet his eyes for a moment. Those brown eyes.
"It's philosophy, my dear Watson," he tells me again. "Take a break," he tells me, as he stands up, and stretches.
"Again. Too much riddles," I tell him.
"Then let's check out the movie section. No one watches DVDs anymore, and I think someone needs to help them make a comeback," he tells me, as we head to the media section.
"I need to finish this draft," I tell him, and smile again. Jesus. I hated smiling for him so much when I was in a relationship with someone else. Then again, I wasn't really doing anything wrong.
"Fine. I'll go pick something out. The most cheesiest DVDs at that," he adds, and then walks away. As soon as he walks away I get a text from Calum asking me if I was still at the library. I text him back saying that I'd probably be at the library until close, and then I'd head home. I didn't receive another text after that.
"So I found these on DVD," Austin tells me as he shows the movies.
"None of these seem interesting," I argue back, as I had given up on trying to finish this draft.
"That's the point. That's why they're the cheesiest," he adds, and hands them to me. "I don't have a library card," he tells me.
"Do you have a place to stay?" I ask him finally, as I had been thinking about it since earlier. I just didn't want Calum to find out.
"Sorry, that was a stupid question," I add, as I pick up my messenger bag, and we head to entrance to the library and check out the DVDs and books.
"I'll stay tonight, and then head somewhere else tomorrow," he tells me, as we enter my father's apartment, in which, I would be shocked if he was around, since it was a night that he'd work the night shift at the hospital. He was obsessed with his work, and rarely ever noticed his own daughter. Well at times he did, but still it wasn't enough.
"Your parent's home?" Austin asks, as he seems confused on whether he should come inside or not.
"Dad's probably at work, and my mother left when I was little," I tell him.
"Sorry," Austin tells me.
"You can come inside," I tell him, and I follow him looking around, as he notices my art.
"You do amazing art," he tells me, as he notices my sketching of Calum, and then he notices some more art I had done over this course of the summer, and I realized not even Calum had seen all this work. I wondered if he would ever appreciate it if he had.
"Thanks. I started drawing when I was a little girl. Four, I think," I tell him.
"Let's take our minds off that. We can pop in Citizen Kane, if you want," he tells me, this time without a smile. "Of course, I don't really see how it tops AMC's greatest movies of all times though," he adds.
"Sure, if you want," I tell him. "Want some popcorn to go with it?" I ask, as I head to pantry. I wanted some, even if he didn't, so I pop it anyways. About twenty minutes later, we're out of popcorn, and he's almost asleep on the couch.
"We can stop watching if you want. You have school tomorrow," he tells me.
"No. I'll stay and watch it with you," I tell him, even though, I did find the movie quite boring. So far the plot line was only about a sled.
"Good night, Austin. I'll see you in the morning," I tell him, as I saw that he was asleep, and not bothering to move. I fell asleep with him on the couch.
Holy sh!t! according to Google Docs, this is by far my longest chapter (just over three pages. Almost four to be exact.) and I am beyond excited, despite being mostly told in Ally's POV. I'm really happy to finally have them talking, and already Ally is starting to have second thoughts about Calum.