Disclaimer: I don't own Austin & Ally or any characters I didn't make up.

Ally hurried to the door and opened it to let Austin in quickly before anyone sees him. He caged her to the now closed door and smiled, "Good morning, princess." She leaned on her tiptoes and kissed him deeply. "Good morning," she said as she escaped his arms and walked to the kitchen, "Breakfast is ready." He followed her and stared at the delicious food she prepared, "I thought I was the only one coming for breakfast."

She laughed, "You are the only one, but I didn't want to serve just one thing." He wrapped his arms around her waist, "You could make smoked tires and I would still eat them, as long as it's your cooking." She scrunched her nose in disgust, "Smoked tires? You couldn't think of something more appetizing?" He chuckled and they sat down to have their meal.

"How's the album coming?" she asked as she sipped on her orange juice. He swallowed his food and replied, "It's coming good. We're trying new things, adding new sounds to the songs this time, but I think the results will be amazing." Ally nodded, "Will I hear anything before it comes out?" He rolled his eyes, "You said the same thing about my last album." She whined, "But I didn't get to listen to it like you promised." He winced at her high pitched tone that seemed annoying to both of them, "Alright, you'll hear it once it's recorded." She gave him a big triumphant smile.

"By the way, my manager knows about us now," she informed him as she finished her plate. He seemed alarmed, "Oh God, what did she say?" Ally looked serious, "She said that we can't keep this up for too long before people start getting suspicious, and that we need to agree on a time to come out to the public soon."

He sighed, "I know it isn't long until everyone catches us, even I'm annoyed that I can't take you out on dates or even hold your hand in public, and all this secrecy and sneaking is without doubt my least favorite part of it all. But I still like it that we can hang out and not have a million people judge us. I mean how do you feel?"

Ally bit her lip, "I want to have a normal relationship, Austin. This isn't what I want. I know that it's nice to be able to walk in the street and not get bombarded by people, but it's not nice that I can't tell people that you're my boyfriend. I feel like we're constantly lying to others, and that's not a good feeling."

Austin nodded, "I understand. I want everyone to know you're my girlfriend and stop trying to steal you away from me. Let's have some time for ourselves and we can come out in public later."

She asked, "How about we make our debut in your album release party?"

He looked at her as if he wasn't listening, "Huh, oh, yeah. My album release party. Sure."

Ally smiled accomplishedly and stood up to clean up. Austin excused himself to the bathroom as she placed the dishes in the dishwasher. He walked past her art room but retracted his steps when he noticed the door was open. "She must've been painting," he muttered to himself as he went inside to look at her most recent painting.

He furrowed his eyebrows in confusion at the almost too depressing image she painted. It spoke sadness and fear all over it with the grey colors. He shook his head and went to the bathroom.

He leaned on the kitchen's doorframe and watched her turn on the dishwasher. Her jacket fell off her shoulder and something caught Austin's eye. She smiled at him oblivious to her jacket and walked past him into the living room, "Come on, I have a few movies we can watch."

She was stopped when a hand grasped her wrist. She turned around to find a serious and determined Austin. "What happened to your arm?" he spoke firmly. Ally looked at her arm and noticed her jacket fell off her shoulder. She quickly put it back on and swallowed, "Nothing, I just fell."

She pulled her wrist from his hold and continued her walk to the couch. "Don't play that shit with me," she heard behind her, "there's no way you get a bruise like that from falling. What. Happened. To. You?" Ally faced him and stayed quiet, too scared to talk.

"Ally, talk to me," he insisted, "Who hurt you like that?" She fiddled with her fingers and said in a barely audible voice, "Him." His eyes widened and he exclaimed, "Scott found you?! How the hell did he do that?! Why didn't you tell me?!" Ally wrapped her arms around herself and looked down, fearing to look into his eyes and see how angry he was.

Austin noticed that and spoke softly, "Alls," she raised her head at his gentle tone, "when did that happen?" She swallowed, "Yesterday." He tried to stay calm, "What did he tell you?" She dropped her arms and sighed trying not to cry, "H-he said that I need to get punished for the restraining order. I knew he was going to punish me like he used to. Thank God a security guard stepped in."

Austin felt fire in his blood, "Why didn't you tell me?" She looked at him, "I couldn't. You have your own issues with your family right now. I couldn't throw this on you." He couldn't believe what she was saying, "How can you think that you can't talk to me? Ally, you can tell me anything. I don't care if I had the entire world's problems on my shoulders, I still care about you."

She nodded and whispered, "I'm sorry." Austin looked at her and calmed down, "Come here, Alls." She ran to his open arms and hugged him tightly letting several tears fall. "Did you report him?" She shook her head, "No, please don't. I don't want more spotlight on this. I'll just be careful when I'm alone." He nodded wanting to stop her tears, "Okay." He wiped her tears and rested his forehead on hers. "Now I know what your painting was about," he smiled. She smiled back and kissed his cheek.

"Hey," he said to get her attention, "Didn't you say you have a few movies we can watch?" She smiled and nodded leading him to the couch.

Totally not proud of this chapter…

Enjoy this until I get more ideas for the next chapter;)