"Hey Dallas, um.. it's Ally... again... I um.. I called you about an hour ago, I don't know if you checked your phone yet, but uh, we really need to talk about us and our relationship, so.. please call me back.."

I closed my eyes and let out a breath. Pulling the phone away from my ear, I ended the call and tossed my phone beside me.

It's 8pm right now, 5pm in Cali.. I called Dallas about three times already and he hasn't called me back or even texted at all. I don't know if he's ignoring me, or busy, or his phone is just simply dead right now.

A part of me wants to make things right between me and Dallas, but another part is telling me that the only right thing to do is just break up with him. I mean, how are we gonna even work with this long

distance thing? He's like 40,000 miles away, and we go to different schools. How can we work? It pains me to even think about ending our relationship, but holding onto it will only make things worse..

Suddenly, a gentle knock tapped on my bedroom door. "Come in." I said. Slowly, the door opened and a all too familiar mop of blonde hair peeked through. Austin? "What are you doing here?" I asked as I got up from my bed and straightened out my clothes.

"My mom said new people moved into the neighborhood, she wanted me to come introduce myself." He said.

"Well did you tell her we already met in school?" I chuckled.

"Well, I didn't realize you were my new neighbor until I actually came here."He said. "You know you really look like your mom." He mentioned.

"So I've heard." I nodded.

" I really like your room. I love the posters." He said, as he looked all around my room. Walking over to my guitar, he picked it up and started playing a tune that I've never heard before.

"Did you make that up?" I asked.

"Yeah." He smiled. "You like it?"

"I love it! All you need are lyrics, do you have any?" I asked.

"That's the thing, I can write music, but I can't actually write lyrics."

Thinking about it for a moment, I reached under my pillow and grabbed my brown songbook. Flipping through the pages until I found the perfect song, I placed my book beside him. "Well your in luck. Sing that song, with that tune." I said. Austin smiled at me and attempted to reach over and grab my book, but I quickly slapped his hand and clutched my journal under my arm. "Don't touch my book." I glared.

"I just wanted to bring it closer." He chuckled. Relaxing a bit, I placed my book beside him again.

"Can you see it better?" I asked. Nodding his head, he started strumming the guitar again playing the same tune as before.

"Ohh.. ohh.. yeah..

okay maybe I'm shy, but usually I speak my mind

But by your side, I'm tongue tied.

Sweaty palms, I turn red you think I have no confidence, but I do, just not with you

Now... I'm singing all the words I'm scared to say... yeah... So forgive me, If I'm doing this all wrong, I'm trying, my best in this song, to tell you what can I do? I'm stuck on you.

I'm hoping, you feel what I do, cause I told mom about you, I told her, what can I do? I'm stuck on you. And like the night sticks to the moon... Girl... I'm stuck on you."

Slowly coming to a stop, he lifted his head up away from my book. Eagerly waiting for a response, he tightened his lips and spoke. "You wrote that?" He asked.

Speechless, I simply nodded my head.

"Did I sing It right?Was it good?" He asked.

Still trying to find my words, I nodded again.

With a wide smile, Austin looked at me, "That's a really great song you wrote, you're really talented."

Finally, I spoke. "T-t-thank you." I stuttered. "Y-y-your voice. It's a-a-amazing"

Austin's smile grew wider. Placing the guitar back on the stand, he hesitantly sat at the foot of my bed. "Thanks" He finally said. "But what about you?"

Knitting my eyebrows together, "What about me?" I softly chuckled.

"Sing something."

"I sang earlier in class today." I said.

"Yeah, but I wanna hear you sing one of your songs."

Thinking about it for a moment, I nodded my head and picked up my songbook. It took a moment for me to find a good song, but when I did I started singing.

"Yellow diamonds in the night

And we're standing side by side

As your shadow crosses mine, what it takes to come alive.. it's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny.. but I've gotta let it go

We found Love in a hopeless place

We found Love in a hopeless place

We found Love in a hopeless place

We found Love in a hopeless place"

When I was done, I looked up from my songbook and stared at Austin for a response. He stared at me with a small smile on his face and mouth slightly opened. "So how was it?" I asked.

"You're amazing." He blurted out. I giggled at his compliment and looked down at my hands and blushed.

Raising my head up to look at him, I smiled "Thank you." I softly said..

For a few minutes we both stared at each other. Neither us said a word, we just stared and cherished the little musical moment we just had.

As I stared at Austin, I noticed some things about him. Like his eyes.. his eyes were a nice dark chocolate brown and his hair was such a pretty blonde with perfect brown specks all around.

His lips were a perfect shade of pink and they were also nicely plump.

I have to admit, Austin was a pretty good looking guy...

Breaking the eye contact, Austin cleared his throated and turned his head to another direction. "Your phone is ringing." He announced.

Turning my head to where I tossed my phone, I saw that it in fact was ringing. Without even thinking, I grabbed my phone and turned it over to see who was calling.

My eyes immediately widened at the name that displayed itself on my screen.

I guess Austin noticed my facial expression change because he leaned over to take a look at my phone. "Dallas? Who's- wait.." His eyes widened as he realized who was calling.

"Yeah." I nervously swallowed.

"Are you gonna answer?" He asked.

Licking my lips, I slowly nodded. "I have to." I whispered. Pressing the answer button, I stared for a moment as the seconds of the call increased.

"Ally?" I heard through the phone. "Hello?"

Slowly raising the phone up to my ear I let out a breath, that I didn't even realize I was holding, and spoke into the phone. "Hi." Is what I said.

Getting straight to the point, "What is it that you wanna talk to me about?" Dallas asked. I closed my eyes and braced myself to come clean, but then the next words Dallas uttered, I immediately froze. "Besides you leaving without telling me."

"I'm sorry." I quickly responded. "I didn't know how to tell you and I was afraid you would break up with me. I just... I-I-I-I panicked."

"So, instead of telling me the day of you leaving or even before that, you decide to make a phone call and tell me a week later."

"I'm so sorry." I whispered.

"You really think a stupid apology is gonna cut it?" He softly asked. "Ally you left me, without saying a word about it- do you really think this is okay?"

Nervously biting my lip, I looked up at Austin who was already staring at me. He flashed a sympathetic smile towards me and mouthed. "It's okay."

"No." I spoke into the phone. "I was just so scared to tell you, I thought that you would break up with me." I whispered the last part. For a few seconds the line was silent, which just added on to my nervousness.

"Yeah. I probably would've." He finally said, "I mean, do you really think long distance would work?"

I shrugged my shoulders, forgetting he couldn't even see me. "I don't know." I softly said.

"So now what?" He asked.

I let out a dry chuckle and looked down at my fingers. "I don't know." I repeated. "What do you think we should do?" I asked.

On both ends it was completely silent for a moment, but then words defeated the silence and Dallas uttered words I wish I hadn't heard (I think) "Break up." He said.

I expected myself to just burst into tears or actually feel my heart breaking, or even hang up the phone out of anger, but oddly, none of those things happened. Infact, I was kind of relieved that he said those words. I'm not sure why, maybe it's because I haven't registered what he said yet or maybe it's because I wasn't really hung up on him like I portrayed, but all I know is, when he said those two words, my heart felt like it was finally free.. like I had a ton of bricks laying on it and now it's been lifted.

With ease I let out breath and agreed with his words. "Yeah. I think we should." I nodded.

"So, friends?"

"Yeah." I smiled.

For a few more minutes, the conversation went on, but then we said our goodbyes and I ended the call. Placing my phone beside me, I pushed my back against my mattress and just stared up at my ceiling.

Completely forgetting Austin was even in my room, I closed my eyes and let out a breath of relief.

Breaking the silence, Austin's soft voice filled the room. "Sorry to interrupt your little 'Ally moment', but uh... what did he say?" He asked.

Opening my eyes, I turned to Austin and smiled. "We broke up."

"And you're okay with that?" He chuckled. I lifted myself up and stared ahead of me, assuring myself that I really am okay.

Turning to Austin and slowing nodding, "Yeah." I smiled. "Yeah I am."

For a moment we both stared at each other and then at the same time, we bursted out into uncontrollable laughs. I have no idea why we're even laughing, but it feels good.

Once our laughing stopped, Austin wiped a tear from his eye then asked me, "How does it feel to be single?"

"Amazing." I chuckled, "I feel free.. FREE!"

Throwing myself back on my bed, I close my eyes and take it all in..