Say You'll Stay

Chapter Four

Austin's POV

You searched the world for something else, to make you feel like what we had
And in the end, in wonderland, we both went mad
We found wonderland
You and I got lost in it
And we pretended it could last forever
Taylor Swift- Wonderland

As Saturday comes upon me, I find my self going to the jewelry store to pick up something that my dad ordered for my mom. I have no idea why I agreed to this but I do it any way. Probably because I needed a good distraction.

A week has passed and I feel as though I'm walking on egg shells. Why? Because I'm afraid of seeing Ally. The last time I did we had a good talk and I don't want to ruin that. So I make sure that we're never going to be at the same place.

Like yesterday, for instance. I wanted to stop by Trish's store to pick up a tie for work, but Ally was there. How did I know that? Because I saw her car and admittedly pulled out of the parking lot. So I had to wear the last tie that wasn't dirty, a tie that had little Santa's on it. It's mid April.

I walk into the jewelry store to say what I'm here for, when I hear laughter. Annoying laughter. I turn my head to see who the owner of the laugh to find Ally's boyfriend. He's standing at the counter with a sales clerk who must have said something funny to cause him to bend over laughing. My feet move before my mind can process the events that were about to occur.

"Hi." I poke his shoulder to get his attention.

He turns to me with a smile. "Hello, you must be a fan. Would you like an autograph?" I forgot who this guy was, Gavin Young. Country star.

"No, I'm an old friend of Ally Dawson, your girl friend."

His face turns into confusion. "How do you know my Ally?" My hands clench when he says 'my Ally' because Ally is not his. Ally is her own person who doesn't need to be defined as being someone's property.

That's one thing that I never did, claim Ally has mine. Maybe if I had then we would be together but I didn't feel the need to belittle her like that. Sure, I called her my girlfriend, because she was. But I never said that she was 'my Ally'

I attempt to smile at the man. "We went to school together. Austin Moon." The one question that continues to circle my mind is, does he know about me. Did Ally ever mention a boy who broke her heart, did she talk about me when he asked about who inspired this or that song. My mouth has a bad case of word vomit. "We dated for a little while." We were together the first time for two months, the second time was two and a half years. His face answers all of my questions.

"I'm sorry, Ally never mentioned you." His accent is thick with a hint of embarrassment. "Are you sure that you're talking about my Ally?" There's that statement again.

"I only know one Ally Dawson." Who was once my Ally Dawson but I would never say that. "I'm sorry, I just figured that. I don't know. Nice speaking to you Gavin, nice hair." I start to walk away to ask for my order but Gavin stops me.

"Well, if you were with Ally, I'm sure you have an idea on what I could get her." I stand still with my back turned from him, thinking through the possibilities.

"Sure." I say with a smile, a fake one. Might as well find out some information on their relationship.

Gavin guides me to the display that holds the bracelets and all I can think is that Ally hates bracelets. She used to say that she would never wear a diamond bracelet in her life. And here is her lovely boy friend, price checking them. He shows me one and asks what I think. I have two options, I could lie and say that Ally will love it even though I know that she won't. Or I could tell the true. "Actually Ally doesn't like wearing bracelets, especially not diamond bracelets."

I flash back to the day that Ally mentioned her hatred towards diamond bracelets.

It was in May of our senior year. Home work was winding down so we had decided to watch a movie for the night. "I can't believe that we've been together for over a year and you still haven't watched Breakfast at Tiffany's." She had said after putting the movie in the DVD player.

As Ally put her head on my chest to get comfortable, I responded. "Are you sure that this isn't just a movie about a girl having breakfast at the jewelry store because who would name a movie that."

She simply hushed me and said to enjoy the movie. Half way through the movie, she spoke up. It was the part where the main people, Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak, or Fred as Holly called him, was at the Tiffany's jewelry store. Paul offered to buy Holly something and she simply said that she didn't want diamonds because she felt that they were too tacky for some one her age. "You know, Holly's right." I asked Ally what she meant. "Diamonds are a little much for people under fifty. Except diamond rings of course, but never buy me a diamond bracelet."

"Why?" Gavin's question brings me back to present time. His face is concerned.

"She doesn't like diamonds because she finds them tacky. Except diamond rings of course." I smile as I remember when Ally stated that she wanted a ring from Tiffany's or she wouldn't get married at all.

"Well than what should I get her?" I can tell that he's feeling left out over the memory that he wasn't a part of. He moves over to the case that held the rings. "She has a gold ring that she wears but maybe she would like a silver one." He thinks out loud.

The ring. The gold ring with the three hearts. I remember giving it to her. I lied and said that I got it from my dad but really I bought it for her. After she told me that diamonds were tacky, I decided to get her a gold ring. She still wears it. My heart swells at the information.

"How is that idea?" Gavin waves his hand in my face. "Why do I feel like you were with Ally longer than you're letting on?" He's questioning before I can even think.

I didn't want Ally to get in trouble but I didn't want to lie either. She shouldn't have lied to him. "I mean, we were together for about two and a half years." Gavin's eyes widen at the information.

"Are you the boy who inspired every song that she wrote for the first two years of her career?" I shrug at his question. "You, wow, you were her first boy friend." Obviously he knows something about our relationship. "I read about you in an article." Huh, I wonder if my parents read that one. "It said that she had been in love with some one but they broke up. You're him." Gavin continues to look ahead of him.

"Look, Gavin-" He cuts me off with his finger.

"No, I have to talk to Ally." With that he runs out of the jewelry. After stopping to take a picture with a fan.

Ally's going to kill me.

Ally's POV

I'm grabbing the photo album before I can stop my hand from moving. Last time I was this close to looking through it was when I found out that I was going to see Austin. Luckily Gavin texted me before I could. This time, no ones around to stop me.

After everything that happened at the engagement party, I have tried my best to stop thinking about the blonde devil but nothing seems to be working.

The week had been going by so slow that I was relived when I woke up to a Saturday morning. Gavin had been extra clingy and I don't like clingy.

So that's why I'm now sitting on my bed with the opened photo album resting beside me. The book has a purple cover with two big A's on it. Trish made it for us on our second anniversary. The pictures range from our first try at a relationship, junior homecoming. To senior graduation and a picture on the top of the Empire State Building.

I smile bitter sweetly as I look through the pictures of a life that seemed like a wonderland. I reach the picture that holds the memory of me and Austin when we went to the beach. We were laughing in the waves while Trish took the picture.

My hand stops on the page to take a breather. "Why do you this to your self Ally?" I ask out loud. I'm sighing to my self before I can stop it. The room seems so quiet. But then again it doesn't.

Before I can flip the page, I hear foot steps coming up the steps. I assume that it's just my father coming home from work, but I'm wrong because Gavin comes walking in before I can put the photo album down. He has an expression on his face that I have never seen before. It looks like anger but also has a hint of hurt. "Hi, Gavin. How are you?" I hear my self speak the words as I see his face scrunch up.

"I could be better." Gavin crosses his arms on his chest. He told me that he had a place to go to today, so I have no idea what would cause him to be this upset.

"Where did you go today?"

He answers my question with a question of his own. "How come you never told me about Austin Moon?"

My heart stops as I hear him say Austin's name. I move my eyes to the open photo album on the bed. "What are you talking about?" I manage to choke out.

"You know what I'm talking about." Gavin walks over to where I'm sitting on the bed. "I ran into your friend at the jewelry store when he let it slip that you two dated. For two and a half years." His eyes are glistening with anger. He takes my silence as a sign to continue. "How could you not tell me?"

How could I without exposing everything about me? "I didn't think it was important." I sit on the bed while playing with the gold ring on my right ring finger, twisting it back and forth.

Gavin looks over at the open photo album on the bed that's opened to the page with Austin and I at prom, kissing. "You sure about that?" He picks up the photo album before I can stop him. "Cause it sure looks like it was mighty important to you or you wouldn't be looking at photo albums."

"Gavin, please let me explain."

"Okay." Words aren't coming out of my mouth as I continue to twist the ring around my finger. "Let me guess, he gave you that ring." He gestures to me. "He also managed to make me feel like a terrible boy friend when he stated that you didn't like diamond bracelets. Isn't a boy friend supposed to know that stuff?"

I can't believe that Austin remembered. I had casually mentioned it to him one day when we had watched Breakfast at Tiffany's.

I find my self smiling at the memory. Gavin doesn't take that well. "So, I'm guessing that he did." He runs his fingers through his hair. "Ally, you should have told me about this."

"I didn't know how."

"How are we supposed to make this relationship work if you're not completely honest with me?" He sits down beside me on the bed but I get up. "Don't you want to talk?"

"I can't right now." I look around the bed room for my purse.

"It's never the right time to talk is it?" Gavin sighs loudly but I'm too busy hunting for my keys that I could care less. "Do you love me?" Wow, wow, wow. We haven't even been together for six months yet. "I'll take your silence as a no."

"You can take my silence as a I need time to think." I walk out of the bed room, keys in hand, on a hunt for the blonde.

I find him at the park, of all places. I just had a gut feeling that I would find him here. So I start walking to the bench where he's currently sitting. I know it's him because of his hair. The blondness of it.

I walk over to him with my hands clenched tightly. Who is he to tell Gavin about us? If Austin thought I was cold towards him back in high school, he has no idea what he's in for. Because this time there is no book for him to read.

Oh my God, It's been a month since I last updated :( Sad, sad, sad. But I'm back now! Family and school stuff caused me to be busy. And I ran out of inspiration but Taylor Swift's new album came out and really helped haha.

There's not much else to say about this chapter other than that the next one with be where some secrets and revelations come out. Here's a sneak peek. "Ally, we need to let go everything that we're holding on to." "I've tried."
"We're holding on to the pain because that's all we have left."

If you recognize that quote from any where let me know ;)

Sorry for the long wait. I hope you liked this and please leave a review :)

I do not own Austin and Ally or Breakfast at Tiffany's, one of my favorite movies.