NO MORE EXAMS! IM FREEEEEEE. Literally it feels so good. I'm lying in bed, having a bag of chips (or fries) and a can of Coke and I don't even care. Life's good.

Okay, here's the chapter.

Chapter 17

Ally's POV

Mom and Dad had gone to bed early. Well, I say early, it was 10:00pm. We should really have gone to bed too, but I was in the mood to watch a movie, so that's exactly what Austin and I decided to do.

The movie we had picked was Titanic. (which I obviously don't own/have any part of)

"You're crying." Austin stated. It was the scene where Rose was blowing the whistle for attention after seeing Jacks frozen, dead body.

"So are you." I sniffled, handing him a tissue. He took it graciously.

"Thanks."

After the movie was over I was obviously going to have that rant that everyone has after watching it.

"Rose is so stupid! They both could have fit onto the plank of wood!" I exclaimed.

"Huh?" Ross was clearly new to the whole idea.

"The wood that saved her! Jack could have fit and then he wouldn't have died!"

"No, they couldn't both fit on that tiny plank."

I looked at Austin in disbelief. Did he just-

"Austin, they could have. It was like.." I look around the room, for something to relate it to. "..the size of half of this sofa." I say, referring to the sofa we were currently sitting on.

"Exactly. Half. Two people can't fit on half of a double sofa."

"Ohmygod! Yes. They. Can." I say, gritting my teeth in annoyance.

"No." Austin replied. I simple stared at him.

"Okay. Shuffle over." I order.

"What?" He replied, looking confused.

"Shuffle over. We are both fitting onto half of the sofa. "

He did so. I looked at the space left. There wasn't much extra room left for me to sit.

"See?" Austin said, with a smug smirk on his face, clearly thinking that he won. I wasn't going to let this happen. I sat directly on his lap.

"See?" I say, "perfect fit." There was a slight pause. Austin wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Yeah. You're right." He whispered in my ear. I realised how close we both were and how warm and comfortable Austin's arms were. "Come to think of it, I think Jack might have actually enjoyed this position a lot more too."

"Exactly! It's so much more comfortable. And warm." I say obliviously. We sat in a comfortable silence as I warmed up to Austin, leaning back into his chest. I could feel his heart beat speeding up.

"Ally?" Austin whispered, his breath lingering on my neck.

"Yeah?" I say. Austin picked me up and turned me around, so I was facing him. It also meant my legs were on his sides, wrapped around him gently, and my arms around his neck.

"Uh..I have to tell you something." He says, stammering and tripping on his words.

"Yeah?" I never got the chance to be this close to Austin's face. His eyes were like pools of golden chocolate. His lips as pink as cotton candy. I could feel his heart speeding up, so I stroked his cheek to calm him down. "What is it?" I say softly. Austin leaned in softly as he spoke, making the gap between up smaller, so the tips of our noses were touching.

"I really like you." He finally whispered. I smiled.

"Good, because I really like you too." As soon as I said this, I felt Austin's whole body relax completely, making me chuckle.

"So, would you like to go out with me?" He asked, putting a strand of my hair behind my ear, the contact between his hand and my face sending shivers down my spine. (I'm sorry if the spooky scary skeleton song came to mind to ruin this. If it didn't, then I'm sorry if I ruined it. 0_0)

"Yes."

Crystals POV

Wow. This is actually working out great. Of course getting Austin this way wasn't what I had planned, but it could work. I could get Dez to do what I wanted in order to get Ally out of the way. Obviously I would make sure Dez doesn't hurt anyone, it was pretty evident that he is...mentally unstable. He's probably taking medication for it or something, but that isn't my problem. I could do with a partner to try and sabotage the relationship between Austin and Ally. I would also be making sure that they would both be safe, I mean, me in charge is better that a crazy maniac killer being in charge. Okay, maybe an exaggeration, but Dez was definitely going to kill me. It was strange more that it was scary. I mean Dez always seems like a happy person, completely unlike how he seemed last night.

Anyway, forget all that. I should take some sort of action to try and show Dez that I should lead this.

I was still in bed, looking at my ceiling, my phone was on my bedside table. I grabbed it and started dialling Dez's number. He picked up at the first ring. He was waiting.

"Crystal." He said, slightly out of breath.

"Have you been running?" I immediately ask.

"Yeah, I saw Austin and Ally leaving the house and I wanted to see what was happening. They're on a date I think." As soon as the words left his mouth and felt my stomach twist.

"Where are you?" I ask.

"Outside the movie theatre near Austins house."

"I'm on my way." I threw on a jacket and drove my car as quickly as the speed limit would allow. I mean, I look away for one second and they go from being 'just friends' to 'dating'? No. Not on my watch.

I parked outside the movie theatre and Dez immediately sat in the front passenger seat.

"They came out." He says as soon as he sits.

"Where?" I respond, looking around. I spot the two of them on the sidewalk talking casually. Austin wore a grey Tshirt with black, faded and torn jeans, paired with white sneakers and black shades hooked onto his top. God, he looked so good! I look over at Ally. Yeah, it was mediocre are the most. Her cut-out panel, pastel pink top was a bit outdated, and together with light blue, denim shorts and white converses it didn't look amazing. But whatever... Austin seemed to like it.

"What are they doing?" I ask Dez as the two of them start moving.

"I think they are going back to Austins car." He replies. "They drove here, meaning that they aren't just going to the movie theatre, otherwise they would have just walked."

"Where? Where are they going?" I demand, turning to Dez.

"I don't know! I don't know." He says, holding up his hands.

"We'll, find out. You're his best friend. Just sound like you're casually asking-" I stopped as Dez looked uncomfortable, so I instantly knew something was wrong. "What? What did you do?"

There was a pause before Dez replied.

"Austin may be angry at me for shouting at Ally."

"I'm sorry, what? Why the hell would you shout, at ALLY?" I say, "I mean, why? Obviously he-"

"I couldn't stand it anymore! She was tying to take Austin away from me and I couldn't take it!" Dez cut me off.

"We'll, unless you do something about it, Ally already has done that." I say, folding my arms. That should work to get his brain start ticking.

"I'll...call? To apologise to him." Dez says after a while. "And ask him what he is doing? Sound good?"

"I don't know, just do it!"

Dez nodded and pulled out his phone, he dialled in a number and a few seconds later, he was talking to Austin, Dez putting the conversation on loud speaker in order for me to hear.

"Hey, Austin. Wait- before you cut me off, I really feel bad for what I said to Ally. I haven't got her number so..if you could give it to me, then that would be great." Dez says to Austin.

"Well...she's here, if you want to say it now."

"Oh really! Yeah, okay had it over."

I looked over at Austins car and I could see him hand his phone over to ally, who looked confused. She took the phone and soon enough we could here her voice over the phone.

"Heeh-llo?"

"Hi ally, it's Dez."

"Oh. Hey Dez. How are you doing?"

"I'm fine. I wanted to apologise actually, for being rude yesterday."

They said their words before she handed the phone back to Austin.

"So what are you guys up to?" Dez asked casually.

"Uh..." Austin seemed reluctant to reply, clearly he was embarrassed.

"Austin..." I quickly switched off loudspeaker.

"Ask him is he's on a date and then what it's going to be. Act like you're giving him advice" I whisper, Dez nods and switches loudspeaker on again.

"Austin, are you on a date?" He asks, as if he didn't know.

"Yes." As he says this I notice him leave his car and stand at the curb.

"Dude, you should have told me! Where are you taking her?" Dez says, excitedly.

"Well, I took her to see a movie that she wanted to watch, and now we are going to a theme park, then we are going out to eat."

"Which theme park." Dez said this a bit too harshly so I nudged him to sound more happy.

"Universal."

"Okay, okay, that sounds like a good plan. Tell me how is goes afterwards."

They hung up and Dez wasn't too happy.

"I can't believe he didn't tell me." Fez said, staring at Austin through the windshield.

Normally I would have laughed. I mean, Austin was angry at Dez for being rude to ally, of course he wasn't going to tell Dez that he was going on a date. But, I needed to use this anger.

"Exactly. It's like he thinks Ally is more important that you, what kind of best friend is he? And Ally, she knew this would happen." I said, carefully watching Dez, noticing his anger rising up inside him.

Then everything went wrong. I wasn't ready for him to react as he did. Dez snapped his head to look at me. It was as if flames were burning inside his eyes, his cheeks had gone pink and he was huffing. He pushed me out of the way and stepped on the accelerator. Before I knew it we were hurling towards Austins car, with both Austin and Ally sitting inside.

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