The Fallen
Ally's POV
After 30 minutes of brain racking homework I gathered my things off the lunch table and walked to my locker pushing in the huge stack of homework and slamming the locker door shut. I grabbed my brown book out of my leather bag and walked down the hallway but I came to a sudden stop when I heard music coming from the music room. I cracked the door open and looked in as the music was a beautiful. It was the ballet dance Raymonda Act III, it was the most beautiful sound I ever heard…it was elegant and lacked imperfection it was in perfect harmony and melody. As I got a better view of the person I finally realized it was the new transfer student Austin. He stopped playing and went stiff I could sense the tension in the air. "Who's there." He said not taking his eyes off the piano. I panicked and quickly shut the door quietly, I walked away as fast as I could to my next class. I walked into the gym and sighed deeply. I hated gym, it was my worst subject ever and I'm lucky I'm maintaining an A+ in this class. I walked to the bleachers as the Coach blew his whistle. "Ok last period of the day people let's make it count! You are all and I mean all of you are running two laps today I would make it four but we have to have enough time for a talk." Coach Sanderson said. I hated when we had "the talk" it's probably because he wants us to make presidential for this year. As the Coach was running through the drill Austin came out of the locker room with his gym uniform on. "Ah, there's the new transfer student." Coach said proudly. Austin was going to be his star student for sure, I could just see it written all over his forehead. "Two laps around the track Austin girls go get dressed we'll see you on the track." I walked towards the girls' locker room but a hand stopped me. "What were you doing spying on me." He said standing in front of me. How did he know I was there he didn't even look back at me! "I don't know what you're talking about." I said and he let out a low chuckle. "You're a really bad liar." He said in a teasing tone. "Can you just go." I said in annoyance. He rolled his eyes and backed away slowly before heading for the back doors of the gym.
I got in my gym uniform and walked out of the gym but not before bumping into a girl with black hair and light skin color. "I am so sorry." I said. "Oh no it's fine." She said sweetly. She didn't look familiar I don't think she was in my classes last year or the year before that. "I'm Joyel but you can call me Joy I'm the new student I just moved here from Chicago." She said as we walked towards the back doors of the gym. "Oh that's cool, I'm Allison but you can call me Ally." I said as she opened the door and we walked towards the track. "So what made you move here to this school?" I said, I mean yeah this school has so positive things about it but I don't like the people inside the school. "My mom got a new job here as a doctor so we had to move." She said sadly. I understood that she missed her old town I would miss it too if I had to leave my friends that I grew up with. "Oh I'm sorry…" I said as we finally got to the track. "Don't be sorry I kind of like it here the beaches are pretty cool." She said as we joined the group of students at the starting line. "Ok class 2 laps!" Coach Sanderson said as he blew the whistle. I started to run keeping up a steady pace with Joyel. I saw Austin running next to Daniel the team captain of the soccer team. They looked at each other and they both started to pick up speed. I looked back over to Joyel as we were getting closer to finishing our first lap. "You...ok?" she asked breathing heavily as we picked up a bit more speed. "Yeah…totally…fine." I said out of breath but managed to stay up with Joy. I looked frontward to Daniel and saw that Austin wasn't there, I rubbed my eyes taking a double take. He still wasn't there it was as if he disintegrated into the air. He was gone there was no remaining part of Austin anymore. "Did you see that?" I asked her as we passed a couple of girls who were slowing down. "See what?" she asked out of breath. "Daniel the guy up there who was right next to the new kid Austin he's not there anymore." I said as the finish line was coming into view. "You mean the blonde guy?" she asked breathlessly. "Yeah he's not there." I said. But she gave me a confused look, "Um yeah he is…" she said slowly. I looked back up to the front and there Austin was running right next to Daniel again…what the heck…? We finally passed the finish line as people fell to their knees gasping for air. I saw Austin and he gave Daniel a high five as if they were buddies. I put a hand to my heart as to calm down my breathing and the need to throw up. I could have sworn I saw him disappear…he wasn't there for a whole 2 minutes and when I looked away and looked back he seemed to show up again…I'm hallucinating aren't I?
After Coach had "the talk" with us about how we'll be in the trailer for the next 6 weeks I mentally had happy dance. I've wanted to get out of gym like since day one when Daniel threw a ball right at my face…he said it was an accident and who am I to believe him? I got out of my uniform shoving it in my locker and putting the lock on it. "Ready to go Ally?" Joyel said slinging her back pack over her shoulder. "Yeah." I said grabbing my bag and walking out with Joyel. She smiled and hooked arms with me, "So do you want to go to this cool coffee shop it's just down the block." She said with excitement. "What's it called?" I asked as we walked to our lockers. Her locker was in the next section of lockers right next to mine. "Sound wave." She said and the name of the place hooked my attention it seemed pretty cool if you ask me. "Yeah of course." I said opening my locker and shoving in Cassidy and my homework in my leather brown bag. I shut my locker and walk with Joyel to the main entrance but stopping myself when I see Austin talking to Jake and Daniel. "Here wait one second." I was determined to find out about what happened on the track. "Hey Austin can we talk for a minute?" I asked. It seemed more of an order than a question. "Yeah sure…talk to you guys later?" Austin asked the boys and they nodded leaving us to be alone. "What's up?" he said shoving his hands in his pocket. "You disappeared on the track." He looked at me as if I was crazy. "I disappeared on the track? What are you talking about?" he said now leaning back on the lockers. "Yeah one minute you were on the track running with Daniel the next minute you um..." I said but my memory was becoming foggy and the memory of what happened one the track was starting to fade away. As if it didn't happen… "I did what?" he asked. "Ally are you ok?" he asked with a concerned expression. "Yeah I'm fine…" I said slowly stepping away. "Well this was a waste of my time bye." He said lamely and walked back around the corner. I stood there dazed and confused… one minute I knew what I was going to say to Austin and the next minute I don't even know what I'm talking about myself. Maybe I was just hallucinating about the whole track thing... "Hey Ally come one the shop closes in two hours!" Joyel said and I ran over to her. We walked down the stairs and across the parking lot and around the corner. There stood the Sound wave the coffee shop… it looked amazing. It was a tan colored shop with a huge coffee mug on the top of it. "Come on!" Joy said laughing as she grabbing my arm and we ran across the street. We opened the door and the smell of fresh coffee and chocolate hit me like a ton of bricks. It made me feel cozy and warm, not that it wasn't warm enough in Miami already. I inhaled in the delicious smell of warm coffee and hazel nut bread. We grabbed a table right next to the window. Joyel was smiling, "So how do you like the place amazing right?" she asked and I nodded. This was an amazing place it really was. "Oh my gosh." She said tapping my shoulder. "What?" I asked whispering. "See those two guys over there?" she asked me and I secretly shifted my eyes over to them. They were extremely cute one had brown hair down to the top of his ear and bangs with hazel eyes and another one had the same color but his hair wasn't as long. He had piercing green eyes and showed no emotion on his face…it was kind of scary.
Suddenly the guy with bangs and hazel eyes came over to us. "Hi I'm Dallas and this is Elliot." He said sweetly. "Hi I'm Joy and this is Ally." She said and I smiled shyly. Dallas gave me a genuine smile as Elliot just nodded solemnly. Wow depressing much? Dallas grabbed a chair and scooted it over to our table as Elliot grabbed his own chair. "You guys want anything to drink?" Dallas asked sweetly. He seemed really nice but I needed to get home to finish up homework or in other words Cassidy's homework. "Sure." Joy said before I had a chance to say no. I gave her look and she mouthed a "sorry" to me, I nodded forgiving her and smiled. "I'd like a hot chocolate with marshmallows' on the side please." She said smiling. "Oh I'd just like a vanilla bean thanks." I said shyly. "No problem be right back." Dallas said getting up out of the chair. Which only left us with Elliot in awkward silence. "So…" Joy said breaking it. "What school do you go to?" she asked nicely. It looked as if she was interested in Elliot and she wasn't afraid to hide it, I wish I was more like her. "Ravenswood academy it's a private school all the way in Bellona." He said. I've heard of Ravenswood it's a great school but highly expensive, Bellona is on the other side of Miami it would only take an hour for me to get there from where I lived. "Oh that's cool some of my family member live Bellona." Joy said as Dallas returned with our drinks. "Ok one hot chocolate with marshmallows' on the side and a tall vanilla bean." He said giving us our drinks. I sipped on it and Joy was right this is an amazing place. I looked out the window to see Austin and Daniel walking across the street to Sound wave. I saw the panicked look on Elliot's face as he got up out of his chair. "Excuse me I have to go." Elliot said as he went to the back of the coffee shop and out the back door. "Sorry he probably had a family problem going on." Dallas said apologizing for him. "Oh it's alright." Joy said as the door to the coffee shop dinged and in came Austin and Daniel. "Oh hey Ally." Austin said walking over to us. Dallas' happy expression dropped into an expression I just could not tell. "I have to go." Dallas said getting up out of the chair. "I'll see you later." he said winking at me and walking out the door. "I see they bought you a drink." Austin said replacing Dallas' empty seat. Suddenly Austin's eyes went wide as he started to smell something he looked up at Daniel and their eyes went wide. "Do we smell weird or something?" Joy said in annoyance. "No…" Daniel said finally speaking up. "We've got to go bye." Austin said as they both walked out of the coffee shop. "That was strange the only thing I smell is hot chocolate and coffee." I said smiling. "Duh we're in a coffee shop…boys will use any excuse to get out of something." Joy said sipping her hot chocolate slowly. But still that was weird…why did everyone leave when Austin and Daniel showed up? I shook my head and continued to drink my vanilla bean as the rain started to pour down the windows of the coffee shop.
Author's Note- Hey guys I know this chapter is a bit long but I just wanted you guys to get what was going on and all that remember if you have any questions about the story I would be nothing but happy to answer them!:) Keep up the amazing reviews everybody!:)
-Taylor:)