I have been working on this chapter for a week now. It's not that I have writer's block, I have tons of ideas, it's that I never had enough time to finish it! It's Ramadan right now, so I'm a little busier than usual for some reason. Anyway, finally after a week, here's a chapter:)
Disclaimer: I don't own Austin & Ally or any characters I didn't make up.

"I really don't understand why you won't just do it!" Ally exclaimed as she followed him to his living room. "Ally, just let it go," he growled as he turned to face her. "I don't want you to regret never spending time with him just because you're so stubborn," she said. He was being stubborn. They have been at it for at least half an hour and neither of them was happy.

Cassidy had explained to her the entire situation with her father and Ally was now on their side. But he had to hear the information she was told from his dad. His parents and sister had organized a family day to get Austin to come. Only Austin refused to come.

After a few minutes of back and forth arguing he snapped, "Fine! But on one condition." Ally nodded for him to continue, grateful that they're so close to the end of the fight. "I'll go with them only if you promise me that you'll report Scott to the police for the other day." Ally stepped back thinking over what he proposed. She almost didn't agree but then remembered what Cassidy had told her. She had to do this for him.

He felt bad for doing this to her, but if he had to do something he didn't want to do, so did she. She looked up at him and nodded, "Okay. But you go out with your family first, then I'll go to the police." He nodded approvingly, "Fine by me."

They were interrupted by her phone ringing. "Hey, Cass," she said cheerfully, "Yeah, he just agreed." She walked out of the room to talk to his sister. He could hear her happily talking about him agreeing. Austin smirked to himself at the little loophole he found in their deal.

Ally said he had to go out with his family, she didn't say that he had to actually talk to his father. He wasn't about to tell her that though, he wanted her to do her part of the deal.

"Hey," Mrs. Moon smiled as she let her son in. "Hey, Mom," he said slipping off his sunglasses. He walked further to the living room to see the other two sitting smiling at him.

"Austin, nice to see you," his father smiled, "Good to know I won't be the only guy today."

Austin gave him a small glance before turning to his mom, "When are we leaving?" Mimi looked at the clock before deciding, "We should leave now if we want to be there in time for the sunset."

They all left the house and headed for the car. Austin headed to his own car before being pulled by his sister to their dad's car. "We go out as a family, we ride in the same car as a family," she reminded him smiling.

Austin hated how happy everyone looked in the car. If someone looked at the family riding in this car, they would think of them as a perfect happy family. Austin knew they were nowhere near perfect. He wasn't happy sitting in the backseat as this stranger he had to call dad drove. He wasn't happy at how his mom sat next to the driver talking like a cheery wife to her dedicated husband. He wasn't happy his sister was gladly joining the conversation with her dad when she had to be mad at him, like himself.

"Austin, your mother says you're a good surfer. Who taught you?" his dad asks trying to get him to talk. 'Not you,' he wanted to say but didn't want his mom to get upset so he stuck to a simple, "A surfing instructor."

"I'm a good surfer as well. Maybe we could go surfing together sometime," Mike spoke. Austin plainly hummed a response and resumed staring out the window.

Austin stuck to short comments to the conversation during lunch never even looking to left where his dad was seated. He knew his mom and sister were annoyed with him for not attempting to get closer to his father, but he could care less at this point.

Mike Moon has tried really hard to get him to look at him by asking him to pass the salt and asking him questions about himself. Austin never gave him too much information to prevent him from getting to know his son.

It was hard for Austin to keep a straight face or not get interested in the conversation. Mike Moon turned out to have a great sense of humor and an interesting personality. Austin hated that he could see similarities between him and his father.

It wasn't until Mimi and Cassidy excused themselves to the restroom that Austin felt his plan weakening. He knew they did this on purpose. He felt overwhelmed with relief when Ally called.

"Hey, babe," he smiled pressing his phone to his ear.

"Hey," she cheerfully replied, "how's things going?"

He shrugged, "Fine, I guess."

"How are things going with your dad? Are you getting to know him?" she asked. Austin answered while refusing to look in his dad's direction, "Yeah."

She hummed knowingly, "Then why did Cassidy just call me and tell me that you're barely talking to him and even ignoring him?" He closed his eyes for a moment mentally cursing his sister, "Ally, I-"

"We had a deal, Austin! You do your part and I do mine. I trusted you to talk to your dad like you said you would. And because I trusted you, I was on my way to the police station, but then Cass called and I immediately turned around," she interrupted angrily.

He sighed and stood up to walk away from their table, "You know how much I hate this man, Alls. You know how angry I am at him. You can't just expect me to-"

"But I do! You know how terrified I am of reporting him, but I'm doing it for you! You promised! I want you to talk to him for your own good! I don't want you to regret shutting him out one day!" she exclaimed.

Austin sighed and ran a hand through his hair, "Fine! I'll try to be nice! But I can't promise you anything."

"You already promised that you were gonna talk to him, but you broke that. Talk to your father, Austin, or I'm not reporting him anytime soon," she hung up.

Austin looked down at his phone for a moment trying to calm down before going back to the table. He slumped into his chair and carelessly threw his phone on the table. "Women, right?" his dad tried to lighten the mood. Austin just hummed a response as their bill got to their table.

His dad immediately reached for the bill but Austin snatched it quickly. "I'll pay. I always pay," he murmured as he fished his wallet out of his pocket.

Austin was always the one to pay for their meals when they went out before Mike Moon came along. His mom and sister always tried to stop him, but he always had a way to pay it himself. His excuse was always that they shouldn't spend their money when he was around, he felt responsible for them.

"I'm so proud of how you've become, Austin," his dad commented. Austin glanced at him and wanted to say, 'You were never there to see me grow up, so you have no right to say that,' he knew that if he said that, his mom, sister, and Ally would be upset, so he instead said, "Thanks."

After his mom and sister came back, they all went down to the beach for a walk and watch the sunset. While the rest of his family were standing together staring at the sinking sun while having a what seemed to be a funny conversation, Austin was standing some distance away throwing rocks into the water.

"That's a good throw you got there," his dad commented as he walked up to him. Austin threw another rock as he said, "It's all in the wrist." That surprised both of them. That was the first loud-spoken sentence he's said to him. Mike seemed to be overjoyed by it, but Austin tried to ignore it.

"I've been meaning to talk to you about something," his dad said when Austin ran out of rocks. "If it's about why you left, save it. I'll still be mad at you no matter what your explanation is," Austin spoke firmly.

His mom and sister were standing a few feet away from them watching them with smiles, probably thinking that this was going great.

His father seemed desperate, "Please, Austin, I really want you to know everything. I want to be in your life with no secrets. Just hear me out, I know you'll understand. You're just like me, stubborn and strong minded-"

Austin's head snapped up at this and he got closer to him. "Let's get one thing straight," he angrily spat, "you and I will never be the same." Austin walked away from them in anger and hailed a cab to his mother's house to get his car. He couldn't be near that man anymore.

Austin drove to Ally's house as he practiced what he was going to say. He knew she was mad at him, but he had his own good reasons. He knew that if she just listened to him, she wouldn't try to force him to listen to his dad anymore.