Come In With The Rain
Chapter 9
Austin's POV
I open my eyes on Thursday morning to find tinier eyes on me and another body on my chest. Chestnut hair is tickling my chin. I would rub my eyes but I can't without waking up the person lying on me. I turn my attention to the tiny eyes that are looking at me. "Good morning Audrey." I whisper enough that Audrey can hear me but I won't wake up Ally.
"Good morning daddy." Daddy, I love the sound of that. "Mommy should be awake by now. She always has pancakes waiting for me." I turn my head to look at the clock hanging on the wall. 8:30. I guess we over slept.
"How about I make you pancakes and we let mommy sleep, that sound good?"
She nods her head, the little braids in her hair move up and down. Audrey skips out to the kitchen while I attempt to get off of the couch with out waking up Ally. I want to stop and think about last night and wonder how she ended up on top of me, but there isn't time for that.
I finally get up, Ally is somehow still snoozing away. Before going to the kitchen, I lightly kiss the top of her head.
Walking into the kitchen I see Audrey already holding the pancake batter. "I'm ready daddy!" I lightly chuckle at the opened refrigerator door and the gallon of milk that is now all over the floor. "I dropped the milk by accident." She looks down at her pajamas that are covered in milk. "Are you mad?" She puts her puppy dog eyes on when she looks back up.
"Audrey, how in the world did you do this?" I couldn't be mad if I wanted to because she's to adorable. Audrey points to the refrigerator. "I was just trying to take the milk out when it dropped out of my hand." She puts her hands up. "I'm sorry, all I wanted to do was help."
I step over the milk and reach for Audrey's hand. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up." She graciously takes my hand to follow me into her bedroom. "Okay, get dressed and I will clean up the mess then make you some pancakes. If you need any help yell for me." With that I walk out of her bed room to find a mop to clean up the sticky mess.
While mopping up the sticky mess, I allow my self to remember last night. Ally and I kissed. We ended up falling asleep, with Ally's head on my chest. I absent mindedly smile as I think about it.
Once I'm finished cleaning the floor, Audrey comes skipping in. She hops up on to the chair while I put the plate of pancakes in front of her. "Thank you daddy!" Before I can respond my phone rings. Evan. I have a bad feeling about this call.
"I'll be right back Audrey." I walk to the hall way to answer my phone.
"Austin!" Evan starts before I can even say hello. "This is not good!"
My heart races. "What happened?" It's only been two days since I last talked to him, what could've changed?
"What hasn't! Brooke talked to the press before we could and it's all over TMZ that you got some girl pregnant! We need to have a press conference right now! I'm on my way to the office in Miami, you need to be here in an hour."
I take a deep breath before responding. "Okay, I'll be there." I hang up the phone and hit my self on the head. Breathe, everything will be okay.
Walking back to the kitchen, Ally is awake and cleaning the syrup off of Audrey's face. They both smile when they see me. Ally's smile lowers when she sees my face. "Good morning. Everything okay?" I shake my head. "I'm not going into work today and Audrey doesn't have to go to day care. Were going to pick up the newly weds at the air port, do you want to go?"
"I can't."
Ally can tell that something's wrong. "Go brush your teeth Audrey." Audrey skips to the bathroom.
"What's wrong Austin? Who was on the phone?"
I sigh. "That was my manager. The girl talked to the press and now it's all over TMZ that I got her pregnant. I have to go to the office in a half hour to have a press conference."
She covers her mouth with her hands. "Oh my gosh. What are you going to do?" She stands in front of me.
"I'm going to say that it's false."
"Are you going to bring up me?"
I look into her eyes. "I won't if you don't want me to."
"It's fine, do what ever it takes."
"You don't believe the rumors, do you?"
Ally grabs my hands. "No, I don't. Now go get every one else to see the truth to."
I reach the office just in time for the press conference. Evan pushes me in front of the camera before I even have a second to think. The red light comes on and I start talking.
"Hello, I'm Austin Moon. Today an accusation has been made about me that I can say is entirely false. I didn't get a fan pregnant. Nor have I ever met her." I look behind the camera to Evan, he motions for me to continue. "I have some more news to share." I gulp before continuing. "I am in a relationship already. I have been for the last five years. Not only am I in a relationship," This was it. I was going to tell the world about Audrey. "We have a daughter who is four, almost five. I have kept all of this a secret for my career but not any more." Evan gives me a thumbs up.
"I hope that all my fans will support me while I fight these accusations. My family and I are very hurt by it all but we will get through it." I continue saying the typical things that you have to say for these things before saying a good-bye. I sigh a relive when the red light goes off.
"That was perfect man." Evan pats me on the back. My phone rings before I can answer. It's an unknown number.
"Austin Moon." The line is silent for a moment.
"Austin Moon, it's a pleasure to talk to you again."
Oh no. "Who is this?"
The girl laughs. "The mother of your child, the unborn one." Brooke. "I just watched your press release and I must say I am impressed. That was fast."
"What do you want?" Evan grabs his phone to contact people.
"I just want my child to have a father." She continues. "I don't believe any of that crap you just made up and I'm sure that no one else will either."
Ally's POV
When Austin leaves, Audrey and I spend the day watching Disney movies. We are half way through Cinderella when Audrey asks speaks up. "Mommy?" I look over at her. "Why did daddy just now come?"
I was expecting this question but not yet. Many possible answers come to my head, none of them feeling right. Audrey's brown eyes are staring up at mine. "He has been busy."
"Busy doing what?"
"Well Austin is a singer which means that he has a lot of responsibilities."
Audrey thinks before responding. "What kind of responsibilities?"
"He has to jet off places and do interviews." I poke her stomach to make her laugh. "And he has to slay some dragons and evil queens."
"Just like the princes in the movies!"
"Yes, just like the princes in the movies!"
Audrey laughs before continuing. "Then that makes you the princess!" Before I can respond, there's a knock at the door.
I get up to open the door to see Austin looking distraught. "Daddy!" Audrey comes running to give him a hug. Austin's face brightens a little.
"Hi sweetie." He puts her down and walks into the door. I tell Audrey to go wash off for dinner.
"How did it go?" I ask once Audrey's gone.
He sits down on the couch. "Okay, until I got a phone call from Brooke."
"She's the girl whose pregnant right?"
Austin nods. "She is still convinced that I'm the father of her child."
Audrey comes running into the living room before we can finish the conversation.
We go into the kitchen to have dinner. I go into the refrigerator to get a glass of milk when I see that the milk is gone. "What happened to the milk?"
I look over to see Austin pointing to Audrey and Audrey pointing to Austin. They both say, through their mac and cheese filled mouth, "He did it!" "She did it!" I ignore it and try to enjoy dinner.
"Goodnight Audrey!" Austin and I say when we close Audrey's door. All three of us spent the night together, another night. My mind told me no, you're getting attached. But my heart enjoyed the feeling.
Austin and I go into the kitchen to start the dishes. "So what actually happened with the milk?" I hand him a plate to dry.
"When I walked into the kitchen this morning I found Audrey holding a box of pancake mix and a gallon of milk at her feet."
I laugh before handing him another plate. "What did you do?"
"I asked her what happened and she said, with her puppy dog eyes, that she just wanted to help and the milk dropped out of her hands. It was the cutest thing."
"That sounds like my daughter." I pause when I realized what I said. "I'm sorry."
He puts his hands up. "It's fine, I get it."
Once the dishes are put away we go to the living room to sit down. Were both silent, still trying to get used to everything. There is one thing that I want to know.
"Austin?" He thinks over at me. "Remember how you asked me if I still loved you?" He sits up straighter and nods. "Since you asked me that there's been something gnawing at my mind." I pause, trying to get my thoughts together. "Why didn't you come back?"
He looks down at his fingers. "I wanted to."
"Then why didn't you?"
He gulps. "Every time I tried, I would get your face in my mind and I would remember how hard it was to leave you. I knew that I wasn't ready to be with you completely so I attempted to get you out of my head. It never worked."
"Do you still love me?" If Austin got to ask me this question then I have the right to ask it to.
He doesn't have to respond, I see it in his eyes. We could spend the night arguing, arguing about how Austin never had the courage to come back. Or about how I never had the courage to tell him about Audrey. We could spend the night apologizing for every wrong doing but that would take to long.
So instead we just turn on a movie and ignore all the other things. For now any way. There is a dark cloud looming over our heads, just waiting to spit out rain.
Hello! I'm finally updating! I don't know how I feel about this chapter but I stayed home from school today because I'm sick so this was the best time to write and update. Last night, while coughing out a lung and using a whole box of tissues, I couldn't stop thinking about this story. Is it weird that I'm already thinking of what Audrey would be like as a teenager? She's not even real. The thing with the milk actually happened to me. I was putting away the milk and I dropped it all over the floor, the whole jug of it. So now it's an inside joke between my mom, step dad and I.
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Sneak peek for next chapter- It's Audrey's birthday and someone crashes the party.
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