The Fallen
Ally's POV
After science class I went to the school library to meet up with Joyel to research on our English report about medieval times. I walked into the library and saw Joyel at a table waving for me to come over. I walked over dropping my books on the table and sitting down as she looked at me intently. "What…?" I asked strangely…wow this wasn't weird at all. Note the sarcasm. "I saw you talking to Mr. Hunkalicious after your class with Mr. Randal." She squealed with excitement. "Look Joyel I've talked to Austin tons of times and to be honest he is not a hunk." I said pulling out my textbook and flipping a page. "Oh Prince Charming 3 o'clock!" she said discreetly hiding behind her back pack. I looked over to see Austin in the checkout line with a book in his hands. Is it strange he's everywhere I am this is like the third time this has happened in a week. "Oh he's checking out a book! It's probably called 'How to Be Sexy without Knowing It'" she said and my mouth dropped open. "What? It's true!"
"No it's not true we need to go like now." I said collecting my books and shoving it quickly into my brown bag. I didn't want to be here well anywhere near him considering what happened earlier.
"Ally you need to chill out!" Joyel said as I slung my bag over my shoulder. I made a quick bee line for the door as I easily slipped past Austin and the checkout lady.
"Ally can you slow down for just a minute!" Joyel said as the bell rang. I grabbed her arm and led her down the hallway. We stopped in front of the gym's front entrance. "Can you stop with the wrist pulling and tell me what's going on!" she yelled as some people gave her some strange looks. "Austin asked if we could hang out…alone…" I said and Joyel's eyes went wide with excitement. "Oh my freaking god! Did you say yes, no?! Did you guys kiss?" She asked as I opened the door to the gym. We walked across the gym as I opened the back door for Joyel. "No we didn't I just said no and he left." I didn't share the part about the whole "it wasn't a date thing" so I just continued on with the story. "Look it was nothing so just please do not bring it up I'm already embarrassed enough." I said as we walked outside and stopped in front of the trailers. "Ok I won't bring it up but he is kind of hot." She said as she walked up the stairs to the door. She opened it and a nice breeze of cool air hit me. It was nice and it felt really good…but the simple pleasure was over when I looked over to see Austin talking and laughing with Daniel and Jake. He looked up at me and winked making me mentally gag in my mind. I followed Joyel over to a seat and sat down. I could just feel Austin's gaze burning in the back of my head. "Ok guys listen up you will not be sitting in whatever seat you are sitting in now so Austin up here next to Ally and Joyel move back right next to Daniel and…" As Coach Sanderson went on with the list Austin came up to his seat and our eyes locked on each other's. "Hi Ally." He said with a taunting gaze. I scoffed and turned my attention back to Coach Sanderson as he blew his whistle…I swear he was addicted to that thing. "Ok today we will do a trusting exercise with the person to your right." I groaned as I saw Austin grin. "Looks like were partners Dawson."
"I don't think I want to be partners with you."
"Does it look like you have a choice?" he whispered to me as I felt like screaming. Was this guy always this cocky and arrogant? "Ok class you will need to get to know your partner so ask them questions write them down a paper and turn it in by tomorrow unless you want a zero!" Coach Sanderson said and everyone in the class turned to their partners. "Ok let's get started." I said pulling out a piece of paper.
"Ok so I'm taking you like classical music and pop." He said writing it down on a piece of paper. Wait how did he even know this stuff…? "You're wrong." I lied. I really didn't want to face the fact that he knew what genre of music I liked it seemed creepy at the moment. "You…" he studied my face for a minute and I gave him a strange look. "Sing you can sing." He said writing down more notes. "How do you know all this stuff?" I asked. He just shrugged and continued writing down some extra notes. "Austin I really need to ask you some questions if you don't mind."
"Family?" he asked me ignoring my comment.
"Yes but only my mom."
"What about your dad?" He asked not making eye contact with me.
"I don't have a dad." I said sadly. This was making me pretty upset. "What happened to him?" he asked, his features becoming softer. "He was murdered...look Austin do we really have to get into detail this is kind of personal." I said as I got out my own pencil. "You play an instrument..." he said writing down more notes. Ok, this was getting a bit creepy first he stalks me then knows more things than Joy knows about. "What songs do you like?" I asked looking him in the eyes.
"Favorite color?" he asked ignoring my comment once again.
"Can you at least answer one of my questions?" I asked him getting slightly annoyed with his constant questions, if he didn't notice this was my homework too. "Yes and I just did so my turn favorite animal?" I could not believe what I was hearing he was acting like a complete know-it-all and a jerk! Finally the bell rang for lunch and I collected my things stuffing my binder inside my bag. "I didn't get any answers from you Austin." I said as I got up out of my seat slinging my bag over my shoulder. "Here." he said grabbing a red pen from someone's desk and taking my hand. I felt a shock of electricity run through my arm as he started to write something on my hand. He let go and I looked at it as it was only his phone number...why would I want that? "Call me tonight." he said gathering his bags and slinging it over his left shoulder. I panicked. I did not want to call him he's a jerk why on earth would I do that...? "I'm going to be busy tonight!" I blurted out as he stopped in his tracks. "I know and so will I." and with that he opened the door to the trailer and disappeared. I pulled a strand of hair behind my ear as Joyel came over and hooked our arms. "Everything alright?" she asked giving me the eyebrow. Now I knew we were going to have a strict talk at lunch.
"What else did he say!?" Joyel said as we walked to our table with our lunch trays...not that I had much to carry anyways I wasn't that hungry. "Joyel it's nothing."
"It's nothing!?" she yelled getting some strange looks from the people who passed by our table.
"Yeah it's no big deal it was just stupid questions he was asking me." but I knew they weren't stupid questions. What freaked me out was he knew everything about me...he knew what ticked me off the most and he used that against me. "What kind of questions?"
"Joy!" I yelled at her as she was getting on my nerves. "Ouch someone needs to take a chill pill." she said sipping on her drink as I couldn't but feel a pair of eyes burning into the back of my head. I looked back to see Austin at Cassidy's table laughing and playing around as I scoffed. I knew he would be just another one of those populars it was likely to happen. "Oh looks like Austin found where he belonged." Joyel said as she turned around in her seat. "Yeah I guess so..." I mean I was kind of disappointed. This explained his know-it-all attitude earlier. "Want to come over to my house tonight?" Joyel asked as we both turned back around. Suddenly I remembered that Dallas asked us both on a date to Persephone carnival tonight! "Sorry Joyel but guess what?"I asked trying to keep my excitement under control. She tilted her head and I smiled, "We're going to be hanging out with Elliot and Dallas tonight at the Persephone carnival!" She spit out her milk looking at me with wide eyes.
"You're joking!" she said with disbelief.
"Does it look like I would lie to you?" I said giving her my best puppy eyes.
"So what you're saying is that we get to hang out with hot guys alone at a carnival!?"
"Yup." I said with ease. She started to shake my shoulders causing me to drop a bit of my milk on my jeans. "Aw man look what you did to my jeans." I groaned. "Oh sorry just go to the bathroom and clean it off I'll be right here." She said with a smile. I smiled back before getting up and walking out of the cafeteria. I walked into the girls' bathroom and turned on the sink splashing some warm water on my jeans to get the cold stain out. I looked up and screamed as I saw Austin's face in the mirror. I looked behind me and saw that there was nothing behind me. I put a hand on my heart to control my breathing for a minute as I thought that I was losing my mind completely. After 5 minutes of inhaling and exhaling I walked out of the bathroom only to be knocked down to the floor. "Oh hey Ally." Austin said as my eyes went wide. I was still recovering from what happened in the bathroom 10 minutes ago. "A-Austin..." I said stuttering which wasn't helping me at all. "You ok you look a little frightened." he said smirking. I glared at him and that's when I was done with his little fun. "Look Austin I don't know why you're trying to freak me out but once I find out I will kick your ass." I said with a death glare. "Well then bring it Ally-cat." He hissed at me before walking away. Ugh why did he always get the last say!?
I walked back into the cafeteria and found that Joyel was talking to Dallas. He looked up at me and smiled making me blush deeply. I came over and sat by Joyel as she put an arm around my shoulder. "And that is why Ally is my best friend ever!" She said smiling at me. I gave them a confused look. "Joyel was just talking about how you guys became friends." he said sweetly. Man is his voice just sexy... I thought as he discussed started to discuss a topic on how Ravenswood Academy worked. Wow Ally blush much? said a voice in my head that sounded so familiar. I started to look at everyone giving them strange looks...I'm going crazy...I am going completely crazy. "Ally!" I jumped at the sudden voice.
"Are you OK?" Dallas asked putting a hand on my shoulder that made my heart speed up faster.
"Yeah I'm fine..." I said fake smiling but I wasn't fine I was getting scared...and I do mean really scared.
The bell for the end of lunch rang throughout the cafeteria. "I'll see you guys later?" Dallas said as he picked up his tray and dumped it in the trash. "Yeah of course!" Joyel said suddenly speaking up. He smiled at us as he walked away hands in his pockets. "Wow no wonder you like him Ally he's a charmer." She said giving my arm a little nudge. "You are joking I do not like Dallas we're just good friends...I guess..." I said the last part under my breath. Apparently Joyel didn't notice and we walked out of the cafeteria. "OK so what time are we leaving for Persephone?" she asked as we walked to her locker. She opened it and stuffed her back pack inside pulling out her binder and her textbook. "Come on we have to get to English class don't want Mr. Calfee to yell at us again." Joyel said slamming her locker shut. We walked to our class and got inside just before the tardy bell rang. "You're actually on time." Mr. Calfee said to Joyel as we took our seats in the back. Suddenly the door opened and in came my worst nightmare. Why was he in almost all of my classes!? "Oh Mr. Moon there you are you may take a seat anywhere you'd like." Mr. Calfee said nicely. That was the first time I've heard anything sweet come out of his mouth. Austin walked up to Joyel and looked her in the eyes deeply. It was like that for a nice 2 minutes...until Austin decided to ruin it with his voice. "May I sit here Joyel?" he asked as she just nodded and slowly got up walking over to an empty seat. Ok that was...creepy. "What are you doing in this class?" I asked hitting him on his shoulder.
"Someone's trying to bring the fire." he said with a smirk.
"Joyel wouldn't have done something like that."
"Maybe she can't take my hotness and decided to listen to me." he said crossing his arms and making a smug face at me. Wow big ego he's turning more and more into the populars every minute. "Whatever." I said as Mr. Calfee started to write notes on the board. I started to copy my notes I felt Austin's eyes on me. "Ever heard of personal space?" I said as I scooted my chair away from his. He just scoffed and began writing down the notes. I looked at his paper as his hands gracefully wrote in perfect cursive. "Ever heard of keep your eyes on your own paper?" he said with a smirk tugging at his lips. I glared at him and looked away returning to my notes.
An hour later the bell rang and I quickly gathered my things stuffing them in my leather bag. I darted past Austin as he was talking to some girl with red hair and brown eyes. I walked down the stairs to my locker as I saw Joyel standing right at her locker. "Hey Ally." she said as she stuffed her bag with textbooks. "Why did you let Austin sit by me?" I asked in annoyance. "Ally what are you talking about?" I asked as she slammed her locker shut. I followed her around the corner as we made our way to the front entrance. "I'm talking about how you let Austin take your seat!"
"What are you talking about Ally! I was sitting by you the whole time Austin was sitting by some red chick..." I looked at her like she was crazy.
"No Austin was sitting by me during English class." I argued back as she gave out a frustrated sigh. "Look Ally are you um like...on drugs?"
"What the heck Joy!? Why would I be on drugs!" I yelled causing people to stop and stare. "Ally chill out I was just thinking it's just that you have been acting really strange lately..." she said as I opened the doors of the front entrance. We walked down the stairs and through the parking lot. Joy was right I have been acting strange with the whole Austin thing and the track stuff and the mirrors...it was all just my mind probably the lack of sleep I've been getting. "I know Joy and I'm sorry. I'll text you later ok?" I said. She nodded and hugged me tightly. "Dallas is picking us up at 8!" I yelled as she disappeared behind the cars. Hopefully she heard me. I walked away from the parking lot and onto the sidewalk. Many things were running from my mind and I couldn't help but feel as if these things I were hearing or seeing were actually real. I mean if I told anyone any of this people would think I was crazy and I would be a bigger loser than I already am...
Austin's POV (FINALLY!)
I leaned back against the cold hard brick walls as I chugged down a full bottle of Monster and threw it on the ground. School was a complete waste of my time and for someone like me I would never be caught dead in a school like this one but unfortunately life isn't always what you want it to be. I felt the the cold rain hit against my hand and I sighed as I pulled up my hoodie to my coat. "Austin." a voice said as I turned around. "Boreas." I said casually as I continued to sip on my drink. "I know what you have been doing and you're doing perfect." Boreas said as he came over and leaned on the wall next to me. "But..." oh here we go again. "You are making yourself too obvious to her."
"What do you mean?" I asked taking another sip of my drink.
"You're using magic and power which is too obvious you need to draw her to you not from you." he said doing his usual effects with his hands. Boreas was the leader of the Fallen as we call ourselves. The Fallen are obviously people who have fallen from Mount Olympus such as myself. "Asclepius are you even listening to me!" Boreas snapped at me pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Of course I'm listening."
He scoffed and slammed me against the wall. "You remember our deal Asclepius...you kill the girl and I can get you back into Mount Olympus." He said with a witty smirk tugging at his lips. I inhaled deeply as the sound of Mount Olympus made me shiver at the thought of going back...to my mom to my dad my sisters and my friends...going back to my home. "Get closer to her Austin and when you kill her I want you to bring her to me dead or alive will do."
"Why do I have to do this?" I complained.
"Well you do want to go back home...either way Asclepius I can give you what you want if you fulfill the task." he said darkly. I knew what I was getting into and I was fully aware of the consequences if I failed. "Or I can make you human Austin I can make you feel again." And my ears perked up. "What do you mean by that?" I said as the rain started to fall down hard. "I can make you human I can make you feel love and feel pain all the things a fallen god cannot do!" he said with a dark smile. I normally didn't believe Boreas but it was hard not to take up on his offer. "Are you saying you can make me completely human?" I asked sliding my hands into my pockets. He smirked, "I knew you would come around...and yes Asclepius I can make you be an actual human with powers and everything. All you have to do is bring me the girl or simply kill her yourself." I hesitated looking deeply into his eyes before I sighed... I couldn't tell if he was lying or not so I just took a chance.
"Fine." I said as I walked away disappearing into the woods.
Author's Note- I hope that Austin's POV helped you clear up on what was going on in that little mind of his!:) I know it wasn't long but this probably his only POV in the entire story!:( Anyways keep voting for your favorite story of mine and make sure to review it!:) Keep up the amazing reviews and tell me what you think about this chapter don't be shy to tell me your opinions!:) and I think you all know I don't own Austin and Ally sooo...yeah! biiii:)
-Taylor:)