The Two Parts of Ally Dawson's Life
Chapter 1:
(3rd person POV)
Running swiftly at abnormal speeds for a human, Allyson Marie Dawson ran in the cold of the night, desperate to make it home before her father discovered. Her father knew about her… specialties, but had always warned her against using it.
"It only brings unwanted attention, and pain. It'll tarnish your life," Lester Dawson lectured to a little 7 year old Ally when she had discovered her special powers with water, and shapeshifting. He only knew too well what his air powers had brought him, it had killed his beloved wife, so he couldn't let Ally lose the life of her love or even worse, her life.
She subconsciously tugs the black as coal cloak around her, desperate to protect and keep her… powers from being shown. You see, whenever Ally controls water, for she can do many wonderous things with water such as heal, create anything from weapons to teddy bears with water, sense marine life in danger or the water polluted, and even transport herself using water or mold herself to a water form (1), strange cerulean glowing letters in the dialect of Poseidon himself will appear on her body. They are still glowing, so during that period of time, Ally always has to conceal better than usual, whether it's using makeup or using a dark-colored cloak.
Nearing her destination, she fingers her water amulet that helps control her powers before shapeshifting into a gecko. Little gecko Ally quickly crawls up the wall of her home before reaching her bedroom window. No one, aka Lester, is pacing frantically across the room, so she sighs in relief. A tiny crack is left open in the window, enough for a tiny spider to crawl through.
Ally shapeshifts into a black widow, crawls through the window, and shapeshifts back into herself. She hurriedly throws her pajamas on, and crawls into bed. She claps her hands twice, and the light that just a second ago had been accentuating the water letters now make those same letters quite covert.
She glances at the alarm clock. 11:57, the clock's glowing letters flash out. Ally swipes her hand across her forehead in relief, knowing that she made her curfew. If she hadn't, well, the chance of her coming without being noticed would have been a VERY slim chance. With that last thought, Ally closes her eyes and drifts off to a strange dream.
Ally has just finished explaining her strange part of life to Austin. After all, he's the one person she knows that would never judge or mentally slap her. To her surprise, he starts laughing , sides shaking.
"Why are you laughing?" Ally asks in shock, hurt lacing throughout the tone.
Austin manages to stop laughing to exclaim, "That was the best joke ever!" Then he starts clapping as another round of laughter starts up again.
Ally's eyes narrow as she quite bluntly states, "I wasn't aware that being abnormal was a joke to you, or anyone in this world."
"Wow Ally… Since when did you turn into an attention whore? Making up stuff that defy human nature, I'm disappointed in you," Austin sadly says, shaking his head in disappointment.
Breathing heavily, Ally suddenly shoots upward in bed.
'That was a horrible dream… Well, I guess that just supports my main rule about this abnormality: Tell no one or anyone. It'd just ruin my life if I told anyone about this…' Ally thinks.
Getting out of bed, she goes downstairs in her pajamas to get breakfast. Today was a Monday, so she always and ALWAYS woke up at 5:30 AM to be ready for the shop opening at 7:30 AM. She quickly gets a bowl of Fruit Loops (2) and practically shovels it al into her mouth, heads upstairs to brush and take a shower.
She then proceeds to get dressed in a yellow short sleeve blouse with a gray vest, a floral skirt, and a yellow chain necklace. She has her water amulet tucked into her shirt as she curls her hair to perfection, leaves her bangs out, and grabs her familiar brown boots. She slips them on as she grabs the keys and her bag full of her usual items, and jogs to Sonic Boom. She quickly checks her watch. 6:45 AM, the watch flashes out. She smiles as she heads down to her favorite chill out place, a little lake near the mall. She has 45 minutes, why rush?
She settles down near the lake, grabbing her diary/songbook. She brainstorms some songs, and then a song lights up in her mind. She frantically writes it down:
"Everybody's waiting
Everybody's watching
Even when you're sleeping
Keep your ey-eyes open
The tricky thing
Is yesterday we were just children
Playing soldiers
Just pretending
Dreaming dreams with happy endings
In backyards, winning battles with our wooden swords
But now we've stepped into a cruel world
Where everybody stands and keeps score
Keep your eyes open
Everybody's waiting for you to breakdown
Everybody's watching to see the fallout
Even when you're sleeping, sleeping
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
So here you are, two steps ahead and staying on guard
Every lesson forms a new scar
They never thought you'd make it this far
But turn around (turn around), oh they've surrounded you
It's a showdown (showdown) and nobody comes to save you now
But you've got something they don't
Yeah you've got something they don't
You've just gotta keep your eyes open
Everybody's waiting for you to breakdown
Everybody's watching to see the fallout
Even when you're sleeping, sleeping
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes
Keep your feet ready
Heartbeat steady
Keep your eyes open
Keep your aim locked
The night goes dark
Keep your eyes open
(Keep your eyes open [4x])
Everybody's waiting for you to breakdown
Everybody's watching to see the fallout
Even when you're sleeping, sleeping
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open" (3)
Ally smiles proudly before closing her songbook diary and checks her watch once more. 7:25 AM, the watch's flashing letters make out. She walks to the Sonic Boom, opens it, and goes to the practice room, where she sighs contently. Stashing her items in a safe spot that's well hidden, she grabs a pickle, a pen, her songbook diary, and heads down to tackle down the customers.
Author's Note: Well, I feel proud of this story. I feel like I'm growing up a little with this story. YAY FOR ME! Anyway, I started using numbers to put in my story for parts that might need further explaining, or places that'll have a disclaimer. I got that from LostAmongTheStars, so I'm glad to have read your stories to get that. I didn't want to feel like I was stealing it, so yeah...
Anyway:
(1)- From 'for she' to 'water form', it's basically a place in parenthesis. Apparently, in writing, you're supposed to put commas where you would put parenthesis, so I'm being writing-wise correct for doing that. Thanks 6th grade LA teacher for that!
(2)- I do not have the proud ability of owning Fruit Loops, sadly...
(3)- I am sadly not the proud owner of "Eyes Open". That's Taylor Swift's proud title, and I guess the Hunger Games soundtrack's title too.
Of course, I do not own the big whopper of this: Austin and Ally. If I could, Cassidy wouldn't exist, and Austin and Ally would already know they love each other.
Anyway, this will be a story mostly focused on Ally, but hey, this WILL be an Auslly story. That's a no-brainer.
Also, did you guys like me writing in 3rd person format? Please let me know if I should continue with that or just use 1st person POV'S. It will help me a lot!
I won't be able to update too frequently, as soon, the internet I have (for I'm currently vacationing on the opposite hemisphere of where I live) won't be with me forever. Soon, I'm going somewhere else, and I'm pretty sure there and for the rest of my vacation, I won't have much, if any, Internet interaction... Basically, until early August, I won't have definite Internet access. That's just a little heads-up in advance. But I'll do my best to get a couple of chapters up! I promise!
Alright, that's the end of this A/N, so guys please R&R! I love the others, but those two are the main priorities. At least, if you're going to favorite or alert, please review first. It would make my day!
Yours Sincerely,
The Reading Wizard
P.S. Any ideas or suggestions for the story are appreciated! If I decide to use it, I PROMISE to give you a shout-out for it! Alrightio, me must go! Bwye bwye!