A/N Last part. Aww. I missed writing so much. Enjoy. I am in no way affiliated with actors or production of Austin and Ally

Calum hurriedly threw all his belongings back in his bag. He could get there in ten hours if he didn't take any breaks. That would give him time to talk to Raini before his flight. Hopefully, he could sneak her away from her family and make everything alright again.

He drove like a man possessed and it didn't occur to him that maybe from now on when it came to Raini Rodriguez that was exactly what he was going to be.

He pulled up beside her house at around seven that evening. Cars lined the driveway.

Great. All her brothers are here.

He jogged up and rang the doorbell. The door swung open and there stood her father looking formidable and yet teddy bear at the same time.

"Good, you made it. Raini said you might be late. I hope your meeting went well." Roy stood back so Calum could enter and clapped him on the back in greeting. "You know the way to the living room."

Calum maneuvered through the house, greeted by family members, some whose names he had forgotten since Thanksgiving, and hugged by Raini's mother.

He felt a surge of guilt. As if he had defiled them in some way. Then, he saw her. Sitting on the sofa, laughing at something a cousin was saying. The night before all came flooding back. Her lips, her scent, and the sounds she made when he pleased her. The look in her eyes when he told her how beautiful she was. The memories of it started to affect him physically. He back pedaled as fast as he could to the bathroom. He shut the door and rested his forehead against it. He tried to think of anything but her at that moment. Changing a tire, geometry, anything. A knock at the door made him jump.

"Calum, are you okay?"

Oh, this was not going to help.

He opened the door and pulled her inside the door and locked it back. He pressed her back to the wall and his lips to hers hungrily. He pulled her hand down to touch him.

"See what you do to me? " He half growled and half purred. He slid his hands down her back, past her ass and lifted her legs to wrap around his waist. He placed her on the bathroom vanity and furiously started removing clothing.

A loud knock and twist of the door handle brought him back to reality and he quickly finished in the toilet flushed and washed his hands. He walked out and made another attempt to find her and get her alone. She was occupied with another family member and hadn't even said hello. It hit Calum that she was doing it on purpose and he was suddenly a little hurt and a lot pissed.

Rico arrived then and dragged him away for a twenty minutes conversation about a football team he really didn't follow. Soon, the family gravitated towards the kitchen. He grabbed her hand and pulled her back. She looked at him sharply.

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? You won't acknowledge my existence for one thing. It doesn't have to be uncomfortable unless you make it uncomfortable, Raini."

She put her head down.

"Calum, really, we don't have to talk about it. It's not a big…"

"Are you about to say what we did wasn't a big deal? It was a big deal to me. Why are you trying to act so indifferent? Are you embarrassed? You can't say you didn't feel something. I have claw marks on my back that say otherwise."

"And I have your handprints on my ass. So, we are compatible physically. So what?"

Raini gasped as Calum noticed Roy, Jr. standing in front of them. He prayed for the safety of his face that he hadn't heard much. RJ looked back and forth between them and only said "Come on. Supper time."

Raini refused to look his way again.

"We should go. My grandmother cooked for us."

He followed behind her wondering where to go from there.

The time came to go to the airport; RJ and Calum were at the door and turned to look at Raini.

"I'll think I'll stay here. I've got a headache that's killing me."

"Okay, well, we will talk later."

He gave her a pointed look and before she could protest, slid his arms around her. Raini put her arms around him tentatively and he pulled her in tight and maybe for a little too long because her father started to fake cough. He saw a tear on her cheek as she turned away down the hall.

Raini watched them drive away as she lay on her bed with tears rolling down her cheeks. His friendship meant so much and she knew the way it had been would never be back. She cried until she was too exhausted to keep her eyes open.

The next four days he attempted one call a day. All of them ignored and one text message a day.

Are you just going to ignore me?

Please answer me

This is not like you. Please.

Are you still going to ride back with me?

She had forgotten about that. She looked in the mirror at the almost completely faded love bite on her left collar bone. It seemed ridiculous to pay for a plane ticket or have her brother drive her. Rico had gone back yesterday. She should have gone with him but something held her back. She knew exactly what held her back. She wanted to prove to herself that she could get past this.

The next day, she waited where her father and brother had dropped of both her and Calum's car. A knot of dread in her stomach. He came walking out bag in hand. Butterflies did back flips in her stomach as she remembered how every inch of him felt. How he knew just when to be gently and when to be rough.

He silently unlocked the trunk and put his bag next to hers. He stopped in front of her.

"Don't talk. Just listen. These last five days have messed me…they fucked me up. You fucked me up. What we did, it was great. Best I ever had if you want the truth. Then, you wouldn't even talk to me. We talk every day. I lost my best friend. Ruined it all. Then, I realized I loved you. Not just that though, that I loved you and I am in love with you. Do you know how hard that is to achieve? I have been wrestling with what to do all week. I know the right thing to do would be to keep our friendship because I would rather have you in my life than not. Truth is, I need you there."

He started to walk to the driver's side. He took a deep breath and turned back.

"Fuck it. I'm ruining it."

He pulled her into a lip bruising kiss. They pulled apart out of breath.

"That was just like a movie except for the car door handle sticking in my butt."

"Remind me to take you to swanker places, so you can get the full experience."

"So, just like that we are a thing."

"I don't know, I think a three year build up is not just like that."

"So, I'm your girlfriend?"

"You're my girlfriend."

"You didn't ask me if I wanted to be."

"Are you kidding? I made a big, dramatic speech in a parking lot full of strangers."

"I appreciate your grand gesture but you know a girl likes to be asked not told."

"Okay. Fine."

Calum went down on his knees in front of her. She felt mildly panicked and acutely aware of all the strangers in the parking lot.

"Raini Rodriguez, after three years of sharing ice cream, popcorn, bottled water, laughs, dressing room couches, Thanksgiving Turkey and a part of my soul, will you please by my girlfriend because if you think about it you always were anyway?"

"I guess so."

"You guess so? Oh, ok." He smacked her bottom playfully and opened her door.

"So, now that is settled. I know this nice hotel we could stop at around Albuquerque." She said as she sat down.

"Really, now. Well, I want to know if we are going to your parents or mine for the holidays and also, do you think their guest bathroom is sound proof."