Here's the second half of New Year's Eve and the follow-up on the cliffhanger. It wasn't hard to guess who it was and many already guessed it. Let's see what happens.
''Cut the crap, Mike. You know damn well I go here,'' she replies irritated, waving away the smoke he casually blew her way. Thinking back, she never understood how she coped so long with his smoking addiction. Smoking a pack, sometimes even two, per day was really noticeable when you saw him. His breath made her feel nauseous immediately, his teeth, she once thought were perfect, were coloured yellow as a result of his habit. Let alone the smell of everlasting smoke that hung in her house whenever he was there and long after. ''This party is for Brown students only, you know.''
''For Brown students and party host's dates,'' he enlightens her quickly as she finally gives the bartender her order.
''I'm actually going to throw up,'' she mumbles to herself as she turns her head, refusing to give him another look.
''Speaking of, where's yours?'' Mike missed her statement or ignores it as he moves closer to her, his shoulder unnecessarily bumping against hers. She tries to catch the bartender's eyes to silently ask him for help, but he's too busy to notice, so she does a quick prayer he'll hurry up. Mike's sudden hand on her hip makes her inhale sharply. ''Or are you still hung up on me?''
She feels herself unable to move, incapable of stopping her eyes from filling themselves with tears as she feels his fingertips brush the side of her leg as he keeps shamefully inspecting her from the side. At that exact moment, Austin appears on her other side and she doesn't think she had ever seen him look more angry. If looks could kill, Ian would be digging his own grave as we speak. The fact that he removed his hipster glasses, which he was now unconsciously nearly breaking in his clenched fists, took the aspect of his quite silly outfit away.
''If you want to keep that hand, I advise you to get your fingers off her before I break them one by one,'' he hisses softly, but clearly as he grits his teeth. Ally releases the breath she didn't know she was holding as she can't stop the relieved smile. Mike's hand does disappear as he faces Austin with a knowing smirk. Glancing at her quickly, Austin grabs her hand to pull her next to him, determined to not let her alone anymore before he focusses on Mike again.
''Would you look at that, it's the bodybuilder from the bar. Something tells me this isn't a coincidence,'' Mike states sarcastically, eying their intertwined fingers. ''I knew you two were already screwing around at that time.''
''I never cheated on you and you know it!'' Ally sneers at him, walking right into his trap as Mike chuckles satisfied. She tries to take a step forward, making Mike back up, as she feels Austin pull her back firmly.
''Ally, he's not worth it,'' he whispers to her as he tries to pull her away from Mike and she eventually follows, unwillingly.
''Yeah, just walk away before you do things you regret, babe,'' emphasizing the last word loudly, he makes sure everyone in a few foot radius hears him, making them look up. Murmurs start to buzz around them, questions why the hell that unknown guy just called Ally Dawson 'babe', in front of her supposedly boyfriend. Austin slowly looks over his shoulder to see Mike watch them both cockily. This time it's Ally who has to hold him back, or at least try without success. Making sure to keep their hands connected, he takes a few steps in Ally's ex's direction. The urge to plant his fist on the guy's nose is so strong his hand is automatically clenching, but, looking at all the observers, he changes his mind last minute. Instead, he grabs the front of his shirt, bringing him so close his smoke filled breath was the only thing he could smell.
''I could snap you in half within seconds so you better watch your fucking mouth,'' the almost two feet shorter guy has to stand on his toes in order to prevent the collar of his shirt to hurt his neck. Multiple people gasp around them, awaiting what will happen next as the rest of the room fail to notice the scene. ''You're lucky we're at a party or you would've been lying on the floor right now.''
Without a warning, he releases the fabric, causing Mike to stumble backwards as Austin turns around to see Ally's eyes wider than ever, gaping at him. Austin's expression turns from furious to neutral in a matter of seconds as he asks a friend he runs into to bring the shots to their table. Ally stays silent as they make their way through the crowd before stopping him with a hand on his chest.
''As sexy as that was, you didn't have to threaten him like that.''
''He bothered you in the only environment you thought you'd never see him,'' with a stretched arm in Mike's direction, he expresses his disbelief. ''That's just weak.''
''He can't get to me anymore,'' she assures him with a sincere smile. ''Not now that I've got you.''
''I lo-,'' the most meaningful three words are about to roll off his tongue, but he stops them just in time. Even when she had told him multiple times, without him knowing if she even noticed herself, this didn't seem the right place nor time to tell her what his feelings for her were. ''I'll always be here,'' he finally tells her instead, making her smile brightly before nodding thankfully. They approach the group when he realizes something, making him pull her towards him. ''Wait, did you really find me sexy just then?''
''Very,'' Ally giggles seemingly innocent before looking at him from head to toe as she bites her lip. This makes him raise his eyebrows surprised as a daring smile is now plastered on her face. Lifting herself up a little bit more, she brings her mouth to his ear while hooking two fingers in his shirt, behind the highest buttons on chest height, tugging a little bit before letting the tops run over the skin between the cuffs. ''Some might even say I was a little turned on.''
''Oh,'' is his go-to answer when he doesn't know what to say, like in times like this, when Ally surprises him. She lowers herself on her pumps again, gives him one more look before fixing her eye on her hands as she slowly undoes the next button from the top, revealing a few inches more of his chest before looking at him from under her lashes, an innocent pout making him swallow nervously. She fights a cocky smile, loving the effect she has on him sometimes. She's about to propose for them to get out of here, back to their dorm, when a loud voice is being heard.
''Can you stop eye-fucking each other and come here? It's a few minutes for midnight and the shots are getting warm,'' Lib yells, making the rest on the couches burst out in laughter. Poof; magic gone, tension gone. Having no other choice, they exchange disappointed looks paired with guilty smiles before shrugging. Once they arrive, the shots get handed out and, after the six friends toast, the sweet-sour, yellow liquid disappears within a second. The DJ plays the final few songs before the clock strikes twelve in which they dance, laugh and scream out of joy before they take their last shot in the last ten seconds.
''Five, four, three, two, o-,'' Austin had taken Ally to the side to give her a memorable New Year's kiss, the first one she's had with someone she genuinely loved and interrupts her counting by pressing his lips on hers and kisses her deeply, a smile forming on both their lips as keep pressing small kisses on each other's lips. Hannah had pulled Dan on the dance floor to dance their way to New Year in extreme euphoria. Lib was the only one who seemed slightly out of place.
''Guys, where is Ian?'' her question makes Austin let go of Ally as he looks around. The only thing amplifying his absence was the single untouched shot glass of which the sugar on the edge started dripping down. This could only mean one thing, he had disappeared minutes before the counting down. Austin starts looking around the room in panic, only one guess where he might be stuck in his mind. When he sees Sarah's group of friends dancing on the side without Sarah herself, it only confirms him assumption.
''He didn't... He wouldn't,'' he starts mumbling distressed, running a hand through his hair as the two girls look at him confused. Before they can respond, runs away, stopping multiple people as he asks something to each of them.
''Austin, where are you going?'' she calls after him before looking at Lib apologetically as she runs after him.
''I'm going to kill him, I'm honestly going to strangle him,'' Austin speaks his mind in panic as he roams the halls of the campus, looking around every corner in the hope of finding the lost boy, with or without the girl he had the idea of being with him. The longer they walked, the clearer the supposed destination got to Ally, Ian's dorm room.
''Austin, what is going on?'' Ally was still walking after him, her tempo a bit slower with her heels on. After a few more feet, she steps out of them and picks them up to catch up with Austin. He bluntly ignores her question and the others she had aimed at him in this search. She finally is fed up and grabs his arm roughly. ''I'm not taking another step without knowing what you're so stressed out.''
''I don't need you to come with me,'' he snaps at her before pulling his arm free from her grip, only to make her stop him by blocking his way.
''Jesus, Austin, snap out of it!''
''I will explain later, there's not much time. We might already be too late,'' he rushes her, but she doesn't move. ''Just trust me on this, alright?''
''Fine,'' sighing, she walks with him, constantly looking around without knowing exactly what she's looking for. When she notices Austin running away from her, she presumes they're getting closer. When he finally comes to a stop, she understands what, or rather who, he was searching for. On the ground in front of them, Ian was sat against the wall. Holding an empty beer bottle loosely by the throat, he's leaning his head in his arms resting on his bent knees.
''Where is she? What did you do?'' Austin asks him in a loud voice, startling the boy as he looks up to them with dull eyes.
''It doesn't matter,'' he mumbles in return, not answering his question in any way.
''What did you do to her?'' he repeats himself. Slowly, Ally starts to understand. When Austin found Ian to be missing at midnight, the only person he guessed he could be with, was Sarah. Even after he promised not to talk to her anymore. When Ian doesn't show he has any intention of answering, Austin grabs his upper arms to pull him up before slamming against the wall. ''Answer me!''
''Austin, calm down! Let go of him!'' although she didn't approve of Ian's actions, which were not confirmed nor disproved, but still very likely to be true, there wasn't anything she hated more than seeing two people she cared about fight. Trying to push Austin back, she defends Ian's intoxicated form. She then turns to Ian, lowers herself a bit so she catches his eyes that are focused on the ground. ''Ian, tell us what happened.''
''Nothing did,'' he starts speaking softly after a few seconds, finally opening up. ''I tried to kiss her, but she rejected me. She ran back to her room.''
''She's a smart girl, she made the right choice. I hope you stopped in time,'' Austin rubs it in nastily as he looks down on him. He could easily tell how miserable Ian felt and he had no sympathy for him, not even a little bit. ''C'mon, Ally.''
Before Ian could explain himself of Ally could ask him to, he grabs her hand to lead her away against her will. She lets herself being pulled with after a few seconds of struggling. Austin was more than done with the boy, who hadn't even told the whole story. Something told her there was more to it than they thought, but Austin didn't give him a chance. As she looks over her shoulder one more time before they turn around the corner, she sees Ian had let himself slide down against the wall again and was watching them with despair in his eyes.
''I didn't do anything, I swear!'' he yells, desperately trying to convince us as they start to disappear from his side. Once they finally turned the corner, his voice was only a weak sound, filled with misery. ''I swear!''
"Austin, I don't think he hurt Sarah," Ally carefully tells him as he walks back in the direction of the party with big steps.
"I don't care, he broke his promise. He could've slept with her, taken advantage of her, for all we know," most of this evening he has been angry, irritated, furious and suddenly, Ally felt bad for him. It didn't matter Ian probably never did anything wrong, he broke Austin's trust. They didn't know how Sarah experienced it and he was probably worried crazy about her.
"If you want, we can go to Sarah's room. See how she's doing," she suggests in order to sooth his nerves.
"No, that's alright. I wouldn't want to disturb her at this hour," he sighs before shooting her a thankful smile. He catches her by surprise as he lets go of her hand to pull her tightly against his side. "Thanks for being so great tonight. I know this isn't the New Year's Eve you expected. Me, being mad and all."
"It's not your fault. Besides, the night is still young," Ally shrugs, leaning her head on his shoulder as they keep walking.
"Do you want to go back to the party?" she thinks about that option for a moment before shaking her head.
''It's a pretty lame party, we didn't even get to dance,'' they keep mindlessly walking through the halls of the dorm when Ally takes his hand that's hanging from her shoulder to make a quick elegant spin. When Austin gets her message, he shoots her a small smile before softly pulling her back against him while wrapping his big hand around her tiny one. Jokingly, they make a few exaggerated moves by spinning each other around, making each other laugh by their serious inability to dance until they end up swaying silently. With their connected hands lay on Austin's chest, Ally's other arm over his shoulder blade to rest on the back of his shoulder and Austin's hand holding her lower back to make sure they're as close as possible, the vague sound of pop music and the loud bass that makes their hearts beat faster is their only guidance.
''This would be the perfect moment for you to sing,'' she whispers the obvious hint in his ear before leaning her cheek against his shoulder. She feels the vibrations of his short laugh against her ear, making her smile hopefully.
''Not a chance, but good try. Maybe next time,'' he refuses her offer, but presses a kiss on her hair lovingly. They stay silent again until Ally sighs deeply.
''Even though it wasn't the New Year's Eve I imagined it would be, it was still perfect,'' she admits, reassuring him again she didn't mind all the chaos of tonight. ''Just because you were there. And that was the first New Year's kiss I actually liked.''
''It was the first New Year's kiss I ever had, so I guess it was special for the both of us.''
''I'm glad I got to be your first,'' she tells him before pressing another kiss on his lips. ''Now tell me,'' she moves her arms to his neck to start teasingly play with the hairs in his neck. ''what else are you still a New Year's virgin in?''
I'm in the middle of my second exam week so I'll keep this short. Thanks for reading pretty people xx
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