Guys, I am so unbelievably sorry! I know I promised to update on the 26th but I've been ill for the past couple of days so I haven't been on my laptop and my Mom has put me on restricted timings to go on my laptop because I've injured my arm :(

Also, I'd like to thank you all for the wonderful responses I had for the last chapter and WELL DONE! We made it to 200! I'm so proud! :') You guys are the best, EVER! :D

I hope you all had a great Christmas :D I did, up until the whole arm injury thing :/ What did you get? I had a bunch of DVDs, a kindle, and some clothes ^_^

But regardless, I am trying to update a fast as I can before you guys stab me with pitchforks and what not... so on with the story, yes? :)

By the way, if you're disappointed with this chapter, I won't balme you because to be honest I am too :/ Though now is the time to start thinking if you want a sequel or something new, I don't mind either because I really do enjoy writing Auslly fics ^_^

Chapter Eleven

"Austin?"

The blonde was shell shocked, he clamoured to his feet and offered a hand to Ally helping her up. Neither said anything both caught up in taking the other in, wondering if they too looked as dishevelled as the other.

Austin ran a hand through his hair and adjusted his guitar around his shoulder, he was nervous and a familiar feeling of eating a volcano pepper was creeping upon him.

"Austin I -" Ally attempted but he cut her off, scared that she would begin yelling at him for being in the store.

"Wait. Just wait, okay? I know I'm not supposed to be here but just hear me out?"

Ally swallowed, both shocked and amused by his sudden assertivness. "Proceed."

Proceed? Proceed? What am I? Queen Elizabeth? Ally chided herself silently as Austin fumbled to get his words together.

"Right, well... uh, you see... um... I'm here because I need to talk to you."

"Obviously," Ally couldn't help it, the word had jumped out of her mouth before she had chance to object.

Ally's outburst had only made Austin more nervous, "Yeah... maybe I shouldn't have, um, said that... So, anyway, like I said, I'm here to talk to you. Which is pretty obvious, again but... well." Austin's voice cracked and Ally saw a bead of sweat roll down his forehead. She felt sorry for him, was this here fault? Was she the one making Austin Moon, The Austin Moon, nervous?

Ally gave him a sympathetic smile and took a step towards him, pressing her surprisingly cold hands on his shoulders, "Austin, calm down, okay? You're Austin Moon, you're a confident guy, whatever it is that's making you so jittery ignore it, you'll be fine."

Austin nodded agreeing with her not really taking in the significance of what the brunette had just said. It took him a moment but nevertheless a look of confusion spread across the boy's face, "Wait, what? You're not yelling at me?"

Ally shook her head and sighed, "Austin... I found out today that I was wrong."

Austin raised his eyebrows, his nerves slowly evaporating. "You admitting you're wrong?"

Ally snorted slightly with laughter, "Yeah, yeah. As I was saying, I was wrong about you Austin."

Austin smirked, "How so?"

Ally rolled her eyes at that darn smirk and led him towards the steps to sit down. "I was wrong because you weren't the bad guy. Dallas was."

"How did you -"

"Dez recorded the actual conversation you had with him and Trish showed it to me. Dallas recorded your conversation and used some app on his phone to adjust what you'd said," Ally was now playing with Austin's hand with her own, she was too ashamed to look him in the eyes. "I just wish I'd found out sooner. Then maybe none of this would have happened." Ally snorted, "Actually, I wish that I'd believed you when you asked me to, I'm really sorry for that Austin."

Ally finally looked up at him, and their eyes locked on to one another. Austin smiled at her and Ally felt an immense wave of happiness rush over her when he did so, it felt longer than a week of not seeing that beautiful smile grace his lips.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you about Dallas sooner,"

Ally shrugged, "What's done is done. We can't change the past, but we can change the present. From now on I say no secrets from each other. We tell each other everything, even if it hurts the other person. Honesty is the best policy."

Austin tried to keep his cool right there. 'No secrets', none at all? Couldn't he just have one? He wasn't sure he was ready to spill his guts to her about how much he liked her. "Deal," He nodded, hating himself for starting yet another cycle of lies. He quickly changed the subject, as to ease his mind, "So, what happened with Dallas when he found out you knew?"

"Nothing. He doesn't know yet, but Trish said she'd take care of it. I'm not honestly all that concerned though."

"Why not?" Austin asked, suddenly feeling outraged at Ally's chilled attitude. "How can you not hate the guy for what he did to you? For what he did to us?"

Ally chewed her lip, "Because, I don't care about him. At all. The opposite of love is not hate Austin. It is indifference. If I hate him, which I don't, it means I still have feelings for him, which I'm not sure were all that to begin with."

"But you hated me!" Austin argued.

"But doesn't that show you something? I still had feelings for you."

"What?" Austin heart did somersaults in his chest.

"I still cared about you Austin, I don't think I'll ever stop caring about you, you're my best friend," She smiled warmly up at him.

Austin's heart plumetted, "Oh."

"So, what did you bring your guitar over for?" Ally asked, nodding her head in the direction of the guitar Austin had placed against the the stairs.

"Oh, well... I was worried you wouldn't want to listen to me, so I wrote you song."

"You wrote a second song?" Ally asked in mock shock.

Austin shoved her playfully, "Like I said, you inspire me Ally Dawson."

The small brunette blushed, "Do you mind singing said song to me?"

"Uh, sure," Austin smiled and pulled himself up off of the stairs, reluctantly releasing Ally's hands. "So it's called, 'Just So You Know'."

Ally nodded, "Oh and Austin?"

"Yeah?" He asked and he pulled the strap of his guitar over his head.

"Thanks for not reading my book."

Austin raised his eyebrows, "You didn't honestly believe I'd ever look in that thing? Especially after tha last time."

Ally giggled, "I guess not. But at the time we were in the middle of a heated argument and I was incredibly angry with you."

"Fair point," Austin struummed the guitar and began.

"I shouldn't love you but I want to,

I just can't turn away.

I shouldn't see you but I can't move,

I can't look away.

And I dont know how to be fine when I'm not,

Cause I don't know how to make the feelings stop.

Just so you know,

This feelings takin' control,

Of me and I can't help it.

I wont sit around,

I can't let him win now.

Thought you should know,

I've tried my best to let go of you,

But I don't want to.

I just gutta say it all before you go,

Just so you know.

It's gettin hard to,

Be around you,

Theres so much I can't say

And do you want me to hide the feelings

And look away

And I dont know how to be fine when I'm not

Cause I don't know how to make the feelings stop

Just so you know

This feelings takin' control

Of me and I can't help it

I wont sit around

I can't let him win now

Though you should know

I've tryed my best to let go of you

But I don't want to

I just gutta say it all before you go

Just so you know

This emptyness is killin me

I'm wonderin why I've waited so long

Lookin back I realize it was always there to be spoken

Now I'm waitin here

Been waitin here

Just so you know

This feelings takin' control

Of me and I can't help it

I wont sit around

I can't let him win now

Though you should know

I've tryed my best to let go of you

But I don't want to

I just gutta say it all before you go

Just so you know"

Ally wiped a stray tear from her face as Austin took off his guitar and placed it back against the stairs. He barely had chance to stand up completely before Ally talked him into a hug.

"That was amazing," She mumbled into his chest.

Austin wrapped his arms around her small frame and smiled to himself as he inhaled her tantalizing scent. "Thanks. You inspired it."

Ally didn't reply she simply clung to him tighter as if at any second she would be torn away from him.

Austin took a deep breath, her previous words still ringing in his head, No secrets.

"Um, Ally?"

"Yeah?"

"I've got something else I wanted to tell you."

"What is it?"

"This is really hard for me to say but I, well, I like you Ally Dawson."

Ally looked up at him, a weird look crossing her face, "I like you too Austin. You're my best friend."

Austin squeezed his eyes shut tight, she wasn't understanding him was she? "No Ally what I meant was -"

"Well, well, well. Look what we've got here," Came a voice from behind them.

The pair released each other and turned around, only to see Dallas sauntering into the store.

"What do you want Dallas?" Ally asked not giving away that she knew his dirty little secret.

"I came back to see you, I felt bad about what happened earlier."

Austin scoffed and Dallas glared at him.

"Shut your mouth pretty boy, I thought you'd been banned from the store," Dallas snarled.

"I don't think that's any of your business Dallas. In fact I think it's time you left, I don't appreciate you talking to Austin like that."

Dallas looked surprised, "Why do you care? He hurt you remember?"

Ally bit her lip for a moment and Austin watched her carefully, "Dallas, I asked you to leave."

From the way Ally's eyes were moving rapidly Austin knew ally was formulating a plan in her mind.

"And if I don't?" Dallas said dangerously taking a step closer to Ally.

"If you don't you'll soon live to regret it," Austin said sharply as he stepped in front of Ally.

"I think you better move pretty boy before I break that precious face of yours."

"And if I don't?" Austin challenged.

"If you don't I'll do a lot more than break your face, I'll hurt the girl."

Austin swallowed, he wasn't really sure what to do. Either way Austin knew Dallas was going to hurt Ally.

Austin felt a hand press lightly against his bicep, "Austin maybe you should go home? I can handle things here."

Austin looked down at Ally who was stood just behind him, her eyes looked scared and he knew better than to leave her alone with this brute. "No."

"Austin -"

"No Ally."

"I think you better do what she says Moon," Dallas snarled but Austin stood his ground, determined to protect Ally.

"No. Now leave."

Dallas rolled his eyes, "I don't have time for this." He shoved Austin out of the way and grabbed Ally forcefully to him by the waist. "You're coming with me. I'm getting a song out of you and maybe even something more." His smile was sinister and Ally could honestly say she had never felt more terrifed in her life.

Austin felt something inside him burst, it was like a fire had been unleashed within him and nothing could hold him back. The blonde charged towards Dallas and ripped him away from Ally. "Leave her alone!"

Dallas swung a punch in Austin's direction, catching him on the jaw.

"AUSTIN!" Ally screamed as Trish finally heard the commotion and hurried to Ally's aide.

Austin although in pain hurried to attack Dallas. "There is no way I am ever letting you lay another finger on her again, understand? I don't even care how badly you hurt me but to even think about hurting the girl I love, well, you've got another thing coming!" Austin roared.

"He loves me?" Ally whimpred to Trish who gave her a knowing look.

The boys scuffled on the floor and eventually Ally plucked up enough courage to head over and attempt to pull them off each other with Trish's help. Once seperated they stood at opposite ends of the room, their chests heaving heavily and scowls imprinted on their faces. Trish stood behind Dallas and Ally was behind Austin.

"Dallas, leave now before I call the cops," Ally said sounding surprisingly dangerous.

Sending one last look of pure hatred in Austin's direction, Dallas skulked off out of the store. Once Ally knew Dallas was gone for definite she span Austin around to look at his busted up face. He hand a cut above his left eyebrow, his hair was touselled and their was a chance he would have a black eye soon enough but otherwise he didn't look too bad. He certainly came out of it better than Dallas, who had a cut lip and possibly a broken nose due to the force Austin had hit him with.

"Are you okay?" Ally asked softly. "Obviously you're not, what I meant was, how much pain are you in?"

Austin chuckled and then groaned in pain. "My ribs hurt and so do my knuckles from where I punched that jerk, but otherwise I'm fine."

"Good," Ally grinned with relief.

"Good?"

Ally nodded, "I can't believe that jerk did this to you."

Trish agreed, "You sure you don't wanna call the cops?"

"Oh no, I do, I just didn't want him here while I did it. Just incase he tried to stop me or something."

"I'll do it if you want?" Trish suggested. "After all I've got all the proof."

Ally's nose scrunched up in confusion, "What do you mean?"

Trish chuckled nervously, "Well, ya see... While we were watching that video on Dez's camera, I got a text from freckles himself saying Austin was on his way over. By the time you had ran off to go find Austin, I knew he would probably be in the store by then anyway, so I snuck out after you and put the camera on the stairs so Dez and I could watch what had happened afterwards. And it's a good thing I did because now we have the proof of Dallas attacking you!"

Ally glared at Trish, "As thankful as I am for that, I can't believe you and Dez would invade mine and Austin's privacy like that."

Trish dashed up the stairs while Ally yammered on about personal space and other stuff Trish couldn't say she cared about, "Well, I'm gonna take this over to the police station, I'll see you two later."

Once Trish was gone, Ally returned her attention back to Austin, "This has been an... eventful day."

The blonde chuckled, "No kidding."

There was a minute of silence between them before Ally asked, "Are you sure you're okay?" Curiousity laced her voice.

"Yeah, a little bruised but I should be fine. Now would you quit worrying?"

"I'm not worrying."

"Then why do you keep asking?"

"Because I don't want to hurt you when I do this."

Austin never got a chance to ask what because within seconds Ally had her arms wrapped securely around his neck and had crashed her lips into his. Austin stood there shock before easing into it. His arms snaked around her waist and brought her closer to him.

They pulled apart, Austin grinning feeling as if he was about to explode with happiness and Ally feeling the same way.

"Did you mean it?" Ally asked him softly.

"Mean what?"

"That you love me? When you were yelling at Dallas you kinda let it slip," She blushed.

Austin laughed, "Of all the times I've accidently let slip that I like you or hinted at it, the only one you pick up on is the one that it completely obvious?"

"That doesn't answer my question though, does it?"

Austin rolled his eyes but he was smiling all the same, "Yes it's true, happy? I love you Ally Dawson. I've loved you for a while now, I guess I've just been in denial about it." He kissed her softly on the lips once more.

Ally hugged him tighter, "For the record, I love you too."

I guess that's the end :( Unless... you want a sequel? ;D This is your decision guys, would you like a sequel or do you want something new? It's up to you, let me now and I'll get to work as soon as possible :) I already have an idea for the next story :P

Now, who's ready for replies? ;D I am! ^_^

x KawaiiAngel x - Yay! I'm beyond awesome ;D I did have a plan for Trish but when Dallas attacked Austin, Dallas had to go down right there and then.

WitchWithWords - I am excited, yes :D Though I don't like Jessie :/ I just find it ins't quite as good as other Disney shows, I like ANT Farm and I adore Austin & Ally, but Jessie... not so much. And the sweet Dallas idea? I like it ^_^ If I don't do a sequel it will definitely be the idea used for the next story.

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chelsea - If only! Instead, he will probably go to jail, depends on the response I get. If I don't write a sequel we'll find out in the epilogue :)

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Alyssameep - Aw, thank you :)

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Ann Le - To answer your question, I am a girl and I've been obsessed with Disney all my life and Disney Channel since I was about five, so around the time of Lizzie McGuire, That's so Raven, etc. It's not the only good one but I am flattered you think that :D And I have thought about doing a Harry Potter fic, but in comparison to some of the ones on the archive mine would be a load of chizz :( But I will think about it :)

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Peace Out Suckahs!

Evie xxx

PS. Once again sorry for the long wait for an update. (That rhymed! ^_^ )

PPS. And sorry if this chapter was disappointing :/