Come In With The Rain
Chapter 7
Austin's POV
Our lips are attached for barely a second when my cheek starts to sting. Ally slapped me. She steps away from me, hand still raised in the air. My hand goes up to hold my newly red cheek. "Ow! What the hell was that for?!"
She moves her hands to her hips. "That was for kissing me and being a jerk!"
"I'm sure you could come up with a better word than that." The glare she's giving me could kill.
"I could but my daughter is in her room sleeping." She puts extra emphasis on the my part.
Ally walks away from me, going to the door and reaching for the door knob. It can't end like this. "Ally, I'm sorry. Just let me explain." She turns away from the door, her eyes, that are filled with tears and anger, are staring into mine. I walk over to her, attempting to reach for her hand but she moves it away from my reach.
"You've explained enough." I see her hand slip to the door knob, about to open it, but I put my hand on the door to stop her. "Austin, stop. I want you to leave. That is what you're best at." I move my hand from the door, putting it on her chin. I push her face up so I'm looking directly at her.
"Ally, calm down." She tenses from my touch.
"I want you to leave! You should be used to it." She moves my hand away from her face. "I hate you Austin Moon, and I wish that you would have never came back. Leave!" Her hand is about to turn the door knob, until we hear a small voice.
"Mommy?" We both turn around to see the little girl holding her blanket and small tears coming from the corner of her eyes. "Why do you hate Austin? I don't want him to leave!" Ally's face immediately softens at the sound of her daughter's voice. She quickly walks over to her, bending down to talk to her.
"Audrey, what are you doing up?" I stand awkwardly at the front door. Audrey's eyes are on me.
"I heard yelling. Why did you tell Austin that you hate him?" Audrey's eyes are about to over fill with tears.
"Sweetie, why don't you go back to bed and I promise to be quiet." Ally attempts to get Audrey to go back to her room, but Audrey wants to know what's going on.
"No!" She runs over to me. "I don't care what mommy says, I don't hate you. Please don't go." I look from the little brunette to the bigger brunette. Before I can say anything Ally speaks.
"Audrey, go to bed." Her tears have now started to come from her eyes, her face turning red.
"I don't want to!" Audrey's arms are shaking. Out of instinct I kneel to talk to her.
"Audrey, you need to calm down." She stops shaking but the tears are still coming. "Mommy, doesn't hate me, she just is upset with me."
"But why?" Her lip is quivering, trying to hold in her sobs. Ally has now moved to where I'm standing with Audrey. "Did you do something bad?"
"Sort of." I look over at Ally, she has tears in her eyes to. "But, you have nothing to worry about. I will always come back to see you."
"Promise? Cause I heard mommy tell someone on the phone that you're not good at keeping promises."
I sigh. "I promise that I won't leave you." She takes me by surprise when she wraps her arms around my shoulder.
"Good, cause I don't want you to leave." Were still hugging when Ally clears her throat and bends down to out level.
"Audrey?" She brings her head to look at Ally. "I'm sorry that I woke you up sweetie."
"It's okay mommy. You need to say sorry to Austin to." Audrey's hand is still holding on to mine.
Ally looks down at our clasped hands and sighs. "I'm sorry Austin." I can tell in her eyes that she's not completely sorry.
"Why don't you let mommy take you to bed?" I start to move my hand but she tightens her little hand.
"I want you to take me to bed to." I look up at Ally and she nods an okay. I stand up and Audrey leads me to her bed room. Ally follows behind us. I walk into Audrey's room for the first time and the first thing I see is a picture of me. I was 16, it was on a random spring day. I remember that it was taken the day that Ally and I first hung out alone at Sonic Boom. She caught me off guard when she took the picture so my smile was natural. It's in a purple picture frame, sitting on Audrey's white dresser. Audrey notices me staring at it, she walks over to it and picks it up.
"I found this in mommies room yesterday and she let me have it!" The evidence of tears are erased from her face as she smiles at the picture of 16-year-old Austin. The Austin that didn't screw things up.
"Audrey, you can show Austin your room another time." Audrey climbs into her bed and Ally puts the covers over her. "I'm sorry I made you sad." Ally leans down to kiss her head. I don't know where I belong in this so I stand at the foot of the bed.
"It's okay mommy, I forgive you. Can you keep a secret?" Audrey leans over to Ally's ear and loudly whispers something. "I really like Austin." She must not know how to whisper. Ally laughs.
"I'm glad sweetie." They hug then Audrey looks over at me.
"Austin? Can I have a hug good night?" That's when I know where I belong. And I pray that Ally feels it to.
Ally's POV
After Austin hugged Audrey and kissed her on the head, we turned off the light and closed the door. I gesture for Austin to follow me to the living room. "Listen, Austin." He cuts me off.
"No, Ally I'm sorry. For kissing you, for asking you to pretend to be my girl friend. And especially for leaving you 5 years ago. It's the biggest mistake of my life and I'm sorry that I ever asked you to repeat it. I'll tell my manager that we have to come up with a better plan. Tell Audrey that I will stop by tomorrow for a bit, if that's okay with you."
His speech catches me off guard. It makes my decision for me. He starts to walk to the door but I stop him. "Austin, wait. I'm sorry to. I should've called you when I found out I was pregnant. I should've tried harder to tell you. You shouldn't have kissed me, but I shouldn't have slapped you." I take a pause. "I will do it." He turns to face me.
"You will? Are you sure? I don't want you to do it if you don't feel comfortable." Did I want to do it? No. Did I need to do it? Yes. For Audrey and Austin.
"I'll pretend to date you, only if you promise not to drink, or do anything like that in front of Audrey."
"Of course I won't. Audrey means a lot to me already."
"I'm glad." I look over at the clock to see that it's already midnight. "I think I should go to bed now. Why don't you come over tomorrow for lunch and we can tell Audrey."
"You want to tell Audrey that I am her father?" His eyes are sparkling in a way that I haven't seen in years. Not in magazines, not even on the stage.
"Yes, I want her to know before the press does." He nods. I walk him to the door before he stops to look at me.
"I never wanted things to be like this Als. I always wanted to end up with you. I could never find the way to say it. I'm sorry that this is how things ended up." He opens up the door and starts to step out. I try to ignore that he just called me Als. It's been five years since I've been called that.
"I'm sorry to. Maybe we can make things work this way."
"I hope so, because I can't leave now. Goodnight Ally."
"Good night Austin." I close the door, sliding down it. My hands run through my hair, pulling at the roots a little.
What did I just do? I agreed to pretend that I am Austin's girlfriend, to tell the world about Audrey. To tell Audrey that Austin is her dad. I'm sure that Audrey will be over joyed to find that out, but I am not. Once I tell her, I can't take it back. Once she knows, she'll know for the rest of her life. Just stay calm. Breathe in, breathe out. Stress is not good for me. Austin is not good for me. But I'm not good with out him either.
Hello! I'm back! Ally agreed and they're going to tell Audrey! The stories in full swing now.
I'm so happy that I can say I'm typing this from my lap top! I got it back last night and I was so happy and had to write the next chapter since it has been a week since the last one. This chapter is on the shorter side, but I wanted to post it now because I'm going to an Ed Sheeran concert tonight and I'm so excited! YAY!
Any way, since my lap top is fixed, I will now be able to update more often :) It won't be every day because of school but it won't be as long of a wait.
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