Austin was scribbling lyrics onto the back of a shopping receipt when he felt two presence's crowd the seat in front of him. Austin looked up and saw his two newest friends. His crumpled the paper inside his pocket and tossed the pen to the side.

"You didn't order anything?" Trish asked, taking a menu from a waitress as she walked by. The waitress looked dumbfounded but then kept walking.

"Uh, I didn't know what was good here." Austin said with a small shrug.

"Of course you didn't." Trish said, eyes roaming the menu.

"Trish," Dez said, "He's only been here for five days."

Trish ignored him. She pushed the menu to the side. "I'm going to get all of us an order of Melody's finest Pumpkin Spice Pancakes."

"Pancakes?" Austin's eyes lit up.

"Ah, What do you know? The kid does have a heart." Trish said. Austin stared at her questioningly. "As far as your skinny jeans and love for Zalien's goes, I'd assumed you had nothing to you."

"What does skinny jeans have to do with not having a heart?" Austin asked.

"And Zalien's are awesome!" Dez grinned.

"All hipster kids wear skinny jeans, everyone knows that. Hipsters don't have hearts, they pretend they do, or they announce to the world about how they long for love and I've never heard you once talk about girlfriends, so I just assumed you were one of those heartless hipsters." Trish said. "Unless you're gay. Dez is gay."

"I'm not gay!" Dez shrieked before sending Austin a sheepish look, "No offense to you, of course."

"I'm not gay." Austin said.

"Where is this conversation going?" asked Trish. The boys shrugged. She handed away the menu to a waitress, placing 3 orders of Pumpkin Spice Pancakes. "Austin's treat."

"What!"

"What, do you think money grows on trees? I can't afford this." Trish said.

"And you think I can?" Austin questioned her.

"I thought your parents own a mattress business?" Trish arched a brow.

"They do."

"So you can afford it?" Trish retorted.

"Yes, but-"

"-That's all we need to sleep at night." said Trish.

Austin shook his head. He glanced around the place. "What's up with the decorations?" asked Austin.

"Do you have something against Halloween?" Trish asked making Dez gasp in horror.

"No, no, I don't. I just...a dead cat?" Austin questioned, pointing towards the window.

"It's to add spirit." Trish replied, smiling with delight when the three orders of pancakes were set in front of them. "Now, these are the best pancakes in the world. It takes like a Pumpkin pie."

Austin grimaced, "I don't like Pumpkin pie."

"Oh, you could bitch about anything!" Trish rolled her eyes.

"I'm not trying to complain!" Austin said, "I just...I love pancakes, give me anything with pancakes and I'll eat it - anything but pumpkin spice."

"Eat it." Trish said.

Austin hesitantly picked up his fork and began eating the meal. The flavor bounced around his taste buds delightfully and he almost forgot that he had the taste of pumpkin spice because this was oh, so delicious!

"Huh, huh, See!" Trish poked him with her knife.

"Hey, Watch where you point that thing." Austin frowned at her and continued eating his pancakes. He looked up and saw Dez inhaling his pancakes and Trish moaning happily to herself. His eyes glanced over and he recalled the girl from yesterday. The one with the angel face.

She was sitting there with her book, probably the same one from yesterday. She sat alone and the waitress's and waiters passed her by without sparing her a glance. He dismissed it for the fact that perhaps she'd already been helped and refused their surface. Maybe she just wanted to read, no eating required.

Austin refocused on his pancakes, continuing to gobble them whole. When he finished, he looked back over to the girl and their eyes locked for a moment. Her lips parted again with that small gap. She slowly turned her head to see if anyone was behind her and when she realized no one was, she looked back at him. Austin looked away before the eye contact could get awkward.

"I'm stuffed." Trish announced while Dez agreed with a groan. Austin pushed his plate away as well and tossed a few bills onto the table, leaving the diner with Trish and Dez.

x

Austin showed up at the bus stop when he noticed the girl again.

Had she been following him? After the moment of eyes-locking-staring-into-your-soul from yesterday, Austin had noticed her for the rest of the day. She'd suddenly appeared at the mall coincidentally roaming through dresses, sneaking glances at Austin. He didn't want to admit to himself that he thought the girl was following him, he didn't want to think maybe she took a liking to him, because both of those things were all too cocky. But then, she'd appeared at the skate park where Trish was introducing Austin to Jace, her boyfriend. The next time wasn't her fault, it was his, he'd seen her in the library window and he'd openly gawked at her as he wondered why she was everywhere he was. She hadn't caught him staring, but this was just so weird.

"Can I ask you something?" Austin suddenly blurted, turning to her and taking a seat on the bus stop bench next to her. She slowly looked over at him, glanced away and then back to him again.

"Sure." she replied after a moment.

"Are you following me?" he asked. She'd looked surprised that he'd said it but then she started laughing. He sat there dumbfounded and could not figure out what was so funny. He stared at her with seriousness, not even cracking a smile because, really, he was weirded out, he was scared for god's sake! Yesterday could not have been made up with coincidences that he'd seen her. She had to have known where he was.

And that's creepy.

"Sorry, Sorry..." she apologized, clearing her throat and straightening up. She shut her book and set it beside her.

"You didn't answer my question." Austin replied.

"Do you want me to?" she asked him.

He looked at her with wide eyes, frantic and hinting a look of the obvious 'YES'.

She smirked at him. She brought her legs up to her chest, wrapping her arms around them. "Then, yes. I was following you."

Austin's eyes were round and big. "You...You were?" he stammered. "Er, Um..." he swallowed, "Why?" He really didn't move to Miami just so he could be stalked by some psycho chick who thought he was good looking.

"Because you're different." she replied before giving a wry smile, "But don't let that get to your head." She got up from the bench and started walking away from him.

"Different?" he echoed, "Different how? What does that mean?" Austin asked her, raising his voice so she could hear him as she walked further away.

"You'll figure it out." she replied, over her shoulder. Then added, "Maybe."

Austin stared dumbfounded as she disappeared around the corner. He blinked thrice. "I'm different?" he repeated to himself, arching an eye brow. "Alright, she's all sorts of weird." he muttered. He glanced over. "Hey," he mumbled as he saw she'd forgotten her book. He took it into his hands and looked at it.

He flipped open the cover and saw in neat black sharpie, a belonging: Property of Ally Dawson.

"Ally Dawson." he read out loud, her name seeming like it fit on his lips for some unexplained reason.

"Yes?"

Austin nearly jumped out of his own skin, dropping the book onto the ground. He looked over at her with wide eyes. It was the girl, Ally, from earlier. She was leaning over the back of the bus stop bench with a mischievous grin on her lips, her chin cupped inside her palm.

"How did you...You were just..."

"Yeah, I know." she said.

"But you were all the way over-"

"-You summoned me." she said. He stared at her and laughed slightly.

"I summoned you?" he repeated back to her. Ally stared back at him. He reached down and grabbed her book, dusting off the cover that was full of dirt now. "You forgot your book."

"That I did." Ally replied, taking the book from his hands. "Thanks."

Then she walked away again. "Where are you going?" Austin called after her.

"I'll see you again tomorrow." she called over her shoulder.

"Great." Austin muttered. He sat there for a moment, staring off where Ally had once been and then decided to get up and follow after her. He wanted answers from her: why was she following him? why was she following him? oh, and last but not least: why was she following him? And he didn't want that stupid answer of you're different.

Austin came around the corner before coming to an abrupt stop. "Huh?" he breathed, looking around. He could've sworn Ally had gone this way. He looked the other way and didn't see her either. His eye brows furrowed together in confusion. It's like she just disappeared. There was no way she could have been gone that fast.

Austin shook his head and prayed that he'd imagined her. That he hadn't really been seeing her the past few days. He slowly turned around and headed for the bus stop again.

x

so i don't know how long this is going to be. It might be less than 10 chapters, it might be more than 10 chapters, i'm not quite sure. if there was some confusion about my account, yes, I did change my user name but then I decided to change it back and I apologize if I confused anyone.