Come In With The Rain
Chapter 12
Austin's POV
Remember how I used to leave and Ally would let me? Now it's me who's letting her leave. I tell my self this while watching her car pull away. It goes all the way down the drive way before turning at the end, towards the main road. The pain in my head can't be dulled by anything.
The time is only noon, the red carpet, that I'm now attending alone, starts in two hours. I can already hear Evan yelling at me. 'What did you do Austin?' 'She was our only chance at clearing your name!' And blah blah blah.
It's not my fault. Ally's the one that woke up this morning already ready to pick a fight. "Why is this so difficult?" I say out loud to my self.
Something in me snaps when I see that Ally left a bag in the kitchen. I can't just let her leave like that.
I love her, so much. I have ever since the first time I saw her freshman year. It was in the cafeteria when she accidentally dropped her tray all over me. She was mortified since she was still in her shy phase. If I strain my ears enough I can still hear her tiny voice saying apologizes.
Then when her best friend started dating mine, we had to see each other more and I thanked Dez every day for that.
What has caused me to be so blind all these years? Why couldn't I see that she's all that matters? Her and Audrey.
Oh Audrey. I can't let her go either. I can't let either of them go. And I'm not going to. Who cares about stupid Brooke and her lies any way. Maybe I met her at a meet and greet and took that picture, but I obviously don't remember that. When her baby is born, I can just have a paternity test done.
All that matters right now is getting out my front door and getting to the air port on time. This time I'm not going to let Ally leave and I'm not going to let my self leave. I'm for real this time.
I make my way out the front door, not even bothering to lock the door. I never wanted to come back here any way. My home was with Ally. Ally and Audrey. I unlock my car door and hop in.
The road to the airport seems to go on forever. The sign on the road says that the airport is twenty miles away. "Hurry up." I say to my self while sitting in traffic. I couldn't let her get away this quickly.
Eventually the traffic goes away, I tell the blue tooth in my car to call Dez. If things don't work out, I want to tell Audrey that I love her. Dez picks up on the second ring. "Hey man."
"Hey, can I talk to Audrey?" I don't have time for pleasantries. Dez says yes and goes to get her.
"Hi daddy!" Audrey's voice says through the phone.
"Hi sweet heart!" She can always brighten any moment. "How are you?"
"Good! We went to the park today!" She starts to tell me about her fun day.
"I'm glad that you're having fun! I wanted to call to let you know that I love you and will always be here even if things get in the way."
"I love you to daddy!" We end the conversation after a few minutes.
I feel better, getting to talk to Audrey. By this point the airport is in my view. Still not close enough though.
I park my car as close as I can and hop out quickly. I could care less if paparazzi sees me because at this point I was done with them. I get through security as soon as I can. People are taking picture of me but I barely notice.
I'm looking all around the crowed LA airport for the petite brunette. "Where is she?" I whisper to my self. All I see are blondes and red heads. Tall girls and babies. Where is my girl?
I see her. She's sitting on a chair with her head down and blue suitcase sitting by her feet. How should I approach her after telling her to leave?
"Ally." When she hears my voice her head snaps up. What ever happened right now would either make or break us.
Ally's POV
The car pulls out of the long drive way while I lean my head on the hot window. Things always ended with one of us running away from the truth, I don't like when it's me doing the running but sometimes it has to be done.
The driver pulls on to the main high way while I dial my phone. Trish answers on the first ring. "Hey! How's LA?"
"I'm leaving early, does that give you a good enough answer?" Trish gasps.
"What happened?"
"I don't want to talk about that right now. Can I speak to Audrey?" Trish says that she'll go get her.
The saddest part of it all is that the main person who gets hurt is Audrey. She didn't deserve any of it, she was a little girl who didn't know anything. But she's in the middle of a stupid relationship that is now beyond repair.
"Mommy!" Audrey's voice comes through the phone.
"Audrey! I miss you sweetie."
"I miss you too mommy!"
After Audrey states that she can't talk any more, she hands the phone back to Trish. But I hang up before her voice can ask me what happened because I didn't even know what happened. One minute we're fine and the next I start to believe Brooke's lies. She is lying right?
"Arg!" I let slip. My driver turns back to make sure that I'm okay. "I'm okay."
"You sure?" The elder man asks while looking through the mirror.
"As sure as I can be." He doesn't look like he believes me but he stays quiet as we turn into he airport parking lot.
As he comes to a stop at the front of the busy place, he speaks one last time. "If he really loves you then he'll be here to get you soon."
"I doubt it, but a girl can dream." With that I close the door of the car and make my way into the crowed airport to get my ticket to Miami.
After finding my way through the crowd, I get to the front desk to get my ticket. The pretty blonde smiles at me and asks where I'm going. "Yes, I need a ticket to Miami."
Amy, as her name tag says, starts to click-through the computer. "I'm sorry ms." She says with a frown. "We don't have an available seat until Monday."
"Are you sure?" This couldn't be happening. Monday was another two days away, where was I suppose to go for two days?
"Yes, I'm sorry. Is there anywhere else you would like to go?"
I shake my head in response before telling her thank you and start to walk away. I wheel the blue suitcase behind as I try to find a place to sit. This is the same suitcase that I had when I was going to run away with Austin. But I didn't because he left before I could get there and tell him about the baby that was growing in side me. That's exactly the moment where everything went wrong. If I wouldn't have hit traffic on the way to Miami on that summer day then maybe I would've made it. Maybe Austin would've found out and stayed with me. Maybe we would be married now and have another kid. But we don't because I didn't make it in time and Austin didn't find out until five years later.
I find my self a seat and plop down on it. The suitcase is placed beside my feet. I didn't want things to happen like this, I really didn't. When Austin first kissed me, under the mistletoe during the winter of sophomore year, I was admittedly hooked on the boy with the soft lips. I could say that it was the first moment that I fell in love with him but it wasn't. It was the day that he picked up my books when someone knocked them down. It was before the cafeteria incident of ninth grade, before Dez and Trish got together. I don't even think he remembers this, it was eighth grade, before puberty and changes over the summer were made. I still wore glasses and had bushy eye brows. His hair was shorter and his face was chubby when he kneeled down to pick up my binder and math book. "Sorry about them." Those were the first words he said to me. He apologized for his friends, handed me the books then walked away, already holding a piece of my heart. I never told him about that day.
That's what scares me the most. I fell for him so fast and haven't been able to get back up since. My mind is racing as I have my head resting on my lap. All of the noise of the airport is drowned out by my thoughts. Someone's voice breaks through the wall. "Ally." I know that voice, the voice that has been in my head for ten years. My head snaps up, I'm welcomed to his brown, beautiful, eyes. I guess the driver was right.
"Austin, what are you doing here?" I had a few options, I could push him away even farther. Or I could put my armor down and let the story of us have a happy ending. I could also let it become a tragedy that people are forced to read in English classes. What ever I do, I need to remember my daughter.
"I'm sorry." He starts to say as I stand up from where I was sitting.
"No, I need to apologize. I shouldn't have believed Brooke or said the things I did. I also should've found a way to tell you about Audrey." It was time. "I was scared, okay? I was scared because I had a piece of you growing inside of me and I knew that things were going to change if you found out. I didn't want you to have to give up your career that was taking off. I just wanted to raise your child while blaming you for something that was my fault."
His face softens. "Oh Ally. I'm the one that shouldn't have led you on for so long and make you think that I loved you only to leave. I should've stayed with you." He grabs my hands, cold mixes with warm. "I can't give up this time. I'm not going to give up and let you go. We can't keep making this same stupid mistake."
I bite my lip as he puts a strand of my hair behind my ear. Everyone's staring at us but we don't notice them as we're putting our hearts on the line. "How can we fix this?"
"By staying together, and believing in each other. Maybe I met Brooke at a meet and greet, I honestly don't remember because the only girl I've been able to remember is the short brunette who has had my heart since high school." He places his hand on my cheek which is burning red. "Look, I'm never going to forgive my self for leaving you. But we can move on from that. Move on from the past and rumors."
"I want to believe that we can but I don't want to be hurt anymore nor do I want to hurt you." My eyes are getting blurred from the tears that are coming.
"Then let's stop hurting each other. I believe that we can make it! Do you love me?"
The airport is loud, suitcases are being wheeled on the ground and people are whispering about the couple who's having the intense conversation by the window. Before I respond, I notice an airplane start to take off. I thank God that I didn't end up getting on one. "I love you, I have since I first met you."
Out of the corner of my eye I see a camera flash. "I love you to, so much. And that is why we can't give up on this. Let's become a family with Audrey and prove everyone wrong."
I'm tempted to ask him how he expects to do that but I don't. Instead I pull him in closer and attach our lips. There was nothing else to say, so we kiss instead. Through my thoughts, I can hear people clapping as Austin lifts me up a little. I always told him that I wanted to have an airport kiss before I died.
Hey! Are you happy now? I'm happy now. I rewrote this chapter a couple times, originally I wasn't going to have them get back together yet but after rereading, I decided that it was time. Since changing my direction a tad, there is now only about seven chapter left. That number might raise or lower, depends on if I combine or split chapters. I haven't updated this fast in a while.
Some of you have mentioned a sequel. I'm already writing a sequel for my first story now so as soon as I finish this one I'm focusing on that. But, if enough of you would like a sequel, I might think about it. Don't get your hopes up but it could happen. So leave a review to say if you would like one or not.
I'm not sure when I'll get to update again, It's a miracle that I'm updating right now. My grandfather was taken to the hospital yesterday and we don't even know what exactly is wrong. I'm home by myself now for a little while until my mom comes to get me so I figured it would be a good time to finish this chapter.
If you read Stay With Me, you should recognize the cafeteria incident that I couldn't help mentioning. Thank you for reading and being awesome. Hope you liked this and please leave a review :)
I do not own Austin and Ally