Come In With The Rain
Chapter 5
Ally's POV
Monday comes faster than I want it to. Austin called back on Saturday to tell me that Monday would work. So here I am, standing in Sonic Boom waiting for Austin to show up. He, of course, is 20 minutes late. Finally he comes running through the door with apologizes in hand.
"Sorry I'm late, there was traffic." He walks to where I'm standing. His hair is messy like usual and he's wearing jeans and a simple hoodie.
"I'm sure there was. Since you're a half hour late, I only have 45 minutes till I have to pick up Audrey. Let's talk up stairs." I lead the way to the practice room. I open the door and wait for him to enter, once he does he sits down in a chair, I follow.
"Lot's of toys." He looks around the room at all the Barbies and baby dolls.
"Some times Audrey will come to work with me."
He nods his head in an okay. "So, where do we start?"
"Well, I think you already know this, but Audrey is yours."
"Are you sure?" Did he really just ask me that?
"What do you mean by that? Of course she's yours! You're the only person I ever slept with and she looks like you! If you're going to act like this then you can just leave."
"I didn't mean it that way, I meant that I'm a celebrity and people like to say that I fathered their children."
"I thought I was different." It's silent now. "Any way, she is yours."
"When can we tell her?" Oh no.
"Not yet, I'm not telling her until I know that you won't leave. You don't have the best track record of staying."
"That was then, things are different now."
"Things wouldn't be different if you hadn't left and let me tell you when I planned to."
"How was I suppose to know Ally! I figured that you just wanted to tell me about something pointless."
"So finding out that you're going to be a father is pointless?"
"I didn't mean that! If I had known then we would not be in this place right now." Both of our faces are red with anger.
"Oh so if you would've known you would've stayed? Given up your career?"
"Probably!"
"Probably isn't a good enough answer. When you have a child you can't be jetting off places every night, you especially can't be getting drunk all off the time."
"Ally, none of those rumors are true. The ones about the drugs, I don't do drugs. I drink, yes, and I take pills to help me sleep but I'm not some dirty rock star." I want to believe him but I don't know if I can.
"When's the last time you slept with someone?" His face scrunches as he tries to come up with an answer. His face gives me my answer.
"Last week. Sex isn't some crime. It's how we got Audrey."
"It's how I got Audrey! And it does matter because you can't just sleep with random people all the time. I bet you don't even remember the girl's name."
He surrenders. "I get it! Okay? I get that I have become a terrible person. But I still have the right to know my daughter."
I feel bad that I said all of that stuff but what does he expect? Me to open up my arms and welcome him home? "Austin, Audrey is only 4, she will be 5 next month. She wouldn't understand it. What would I tell her when you have to be in another country? She doesn't like when people leave for long periods of time."
"Then I wouldn't go to other countries! Or I could take her with me."
"No, you would not take her out of the country, she's more my daughter then she is yours. And you can't ditch concerts." He looks in front of him, I can tell that he is thinking.
"I'm done this tour, then I'm going back to LA to record a new album. I can just record it here."
"I can't ask you to give up what you do. You love singing."
"Correction, I used to love singing. Now I hate it because I sing crap songs and get put down in the media every day." That's when I know that Austin's career isn't as good as it looks. I look at the clock and see that I only have 10 minutes.
"I have to go pick up Audrey now." I stand up and he follows.
"Wait, when can I see her?" I think for a moment.
"You can see her tonight, but you have to promise not to tell her who you are." He quickly nods. "Okay, I'll text you my address and you can come over around 5."
When I pick up Audrey, she tells me about her day but I'm to distracted to listen. Audrey notices when we pull up into our drive way and I don't move. I invited Austin to come over, why would I do that? Because you're a compassionate person. Yes, but it's happening to fast. I wasn't ready for this, Audrey wasn't ready for this either.
"Mommy, are you okay? Why aren't we getting out of the car?" Her voice takes me out of my daze.
"Sorry sweetie, mommy is just distracted." I open up the door and go over to her side to unbuckle her seat. She hops out of the car and runs to the front door. Someones happy to be home. She's going to be very happy when I tell her who is coming over. I unlock the door and Audrey runs to her room to get changed out of her sun dress.
When she comes back I tell her to sit down on the couch. "Do you remember Austin Moon who was at the wedding on Friday?" She nods her head.
"I really liked him!"
"Well, he's going to come over later, is that okay?"
"Oh yes Mommy! Can we play dolls! And play dough!"
"I don't see why not." She runs to her room to get ready. Once she's gone, I take out my phone to call Trish. I know I shouldn't since their on there honey moon but I have to tell her. That phone rings twice before she picks it up. "Hey, sorry to bother you."
"No it's fine. We just got back from swimming." She tells me through the phone.
"I just had to tell you that I talked to Austin today and he's coming over soon."
"What?! Are you telling Audrey that he's her dad?"
"No! I just agreed to allow him to come over. He seems like he really wants to get to know her."
"He does, he called Dez a few minutes ago. He sounded very happy." I smile, and blush, luckily Trish can't see it through the phone.
After I get off of the phone, It's almost time for Austin to come. Audrey already has her play dough set up. A few minutes past then there's a knock at the door. Before I can get it, Audrey already has the door open. 'Audrey! What did I tell you about opening the door without knowing who it us!" Austin is standing in the door way awkwardly.
"I'm sorry, but I couldn't wait for Austin any longer!" Austin looks like he's never been happier. "Come play play dough with me!" She grabs his hand and drags him into the kitchen. I follow them into the kitchen to see Audrey pulling out Austin's chair.
"Audrey, why don't you let Austin talk before you push him into his chair?" Audrey stares at Austin.
"Do you want to play play dough?" She has her puppy dog eyes.
"I would love to." Those are the first words he says.
Audrey, Austin and I sit on the kitchen table playing play dough. Audrey and I are used to it just being us, so it's a little weird. Music is playing through my iPhone speakers and Audrey is happily nodding her head. A slow sad song comes on and she puts on her thinking face.
"Why is this man sad?" She looks at Austin, then back at me.
"Well, he loved a girl and he let her go." Austin answers her question.
"Why did he let her go?"
"Because he didn't want to hurt her." Audrey lets the subject go for a moment before asking another big question.
"Have you ever been in love Austin?" Austin chocks on his own saliva. I grin, remembering when she asked me that question.
"Well, I was for a little while." I perk my ears up.
"What happened?" I know my daughter and I know that she's not going to drop it.
"Why don't you ask your mommy if she's ever been in love?"
"I already have. She said that she was in love with a man who wasn't ready to love her back, but she still thinks about him every night." She says the statement like it was written in a script. She asks me this question when ever she hears a love song. So I give her the answer a lot.
Austin looks over at me, I shrug my shoulders. "Yes, Austin what happened?" Audrey has her puppy dog eyes on again.
"Well, Audrey, you know sometimes boys can be very dumb." Audrey laughs. "And sometimes they make mistakes." Audrey cocks her head to the side, trying to understand.
"Why don't we put the play dough away and you can show Austin your dolls." That got her to drop it.
Austin's POV
After the awkwardness with Audrey, she shows me her dolls. We play with them for a little while until Ally comes in and says that it's time for bath time. I take that as my cue to leave. "I will see you later Audrey."
"Do you have to leave?"
"Yes, but I'll come back."
"Okay, bye Austin!" Ally walks me to the front door.
"You shouldn't tell her that you will come back."
"Why? I plan on coming to see her again." Our voices are hushed.
"I just don't want her getting her hopes up. I'll see you later." She opens the front door for me.
"Wait, when can I come again?"
"I'll call you. Good bye Austin." I know that there is not point in fighting her.
Once I get back to the hotel, I call my manager to tell him that I'm going to be in Miami for a while, but he starts talking before I can answer. "Austin, we have a problem!"
"What is it Evan?" I ask him.
"Some girl is claiming that you slept together and she's pregnant with your baby." I chock on the sip of water I just took.
"What?! Who is this girl?" This could not be happening.
"Her name is Brooke and she says that you met at a meet and greet in San Diego. I'll email you a picture."
"Has she told the press yet?" I pace in the room, what would Ally say if she found out?
"No, but she's going to." My email dings and I look at the picture. "Do you recognize her?"
"No! But the press will have a field day with this one! What are we going to do?!"
"You need to come back to LA, so we can have a plan." Wait, what about Ally and Audrey. I know what I can do.
"Wait, I have a plan."
"Well what is it!"
"You're going to think I'm crazy, but I already have a daughter, and I think I can use this to fix my reputation."
"What? Austin when did you have a kid?" I have known Evan for 5 years, so he knows about Ally.
"Do you remember Ally?" He says yes. "She had a kid 5 years ago and it's mine."
The line is quiet for a few moments. "You there?" I ask him.
"Yes, and you just solved all of our problems." What did I get my self into?
Hello! Austin and Ally talked! Austin's in some trouble! Oh no! I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter but I need to get to the main plot somehow.
Thank you so so much for reading and reviewing :)
The little scene where Audrey asked about love happened to me in real life. I was baby sitting a 5 year old and he asked me about the song that was playing and then asked me if I had ever been in love. It was so cute and funny.
I hope you like this chapter, please leave a review :)
AAR5- I agree, I don't like when that happens to. So I won't be doing that :)
I do not own Austin and Ally.