Stopping the Bully

Chapter 10: The Libary

Ally felt asleep the rest of the day in the nurse's office. Austin and Trish came by to check if she was alright in lunch break. Ally didn't want to leave the school early since her dad was out working and she didn't want to be home alone, the nurse understood that. When the last bell rang, marking the end of the school day, Austin opened the door with a charming smile on his face and a bottle of water in his hand.

Austin helped Ally walk to his car. Ally was supposed to walk to her house but in her conditions Austin drove her instead. Ally felt asleep on the way to her house, every now and then Austin took a glimpse at the sleeping beauty in his passenger sit. When he arrive at the gate he signaled Ryan to not make a lot of noise pointing to the sleeping Ally. Ryan let him pass quickly but not before he told him to explain what happened on the way back, Austin simply nodded.

He, then, parked outside Ally's house and because she looked so peaceful in her sleep; he took the keys to her house from her back pack, opened the door before he picked her up and carried her to bed. He placed her gently. He took a chair close by and sat next to the bed. He watch her sleep for around 20 minutes when he hear the door open.

"Ally, are you home?" he assumed it was her dad.

Austin quickly ran down not before he close the door of Ally's room

"Hi" Austin wasn't sure is this was something normal. Imagine his positon: you come down from a girls room to find her only parent, not to mention that he never meet the guy before. And to top all that the father's only daughter was sleeping after being hit in the face with a basketball making her soon fall into unconsciousness. Yep, Austin was in a unique position at that moment

"Um, who are you?" Ally's dad ask with a confused look

"I'm Austin, sir, Ally's friend" Austin extended his arm to shake his hand in a friendly but respectful way. The man took it cautionary and unsure and confused, really confused

"Lester, what were you doing upstairs? Were you in my daughters room?!" he presented himself, then, Austin knew, all the questioning was about to start

"Yes… but is not what it seems" Austin added after he saw the mad look on Lester's face. Lester crossed his arm signaling him to explain his story.

Austin explain all. From how Ally was hit in the face, to how he knew where she live, to why he was whispering. Lester apologizes to Austin for been so rude with him, Austin understood where that attitude had come from and he left.

Ally woke up the next morning, more like night. It was 4 am, the sun wasn't even out. She couldn't sleep anymore, she was going to sit down when a strong headache started. She reached to the spot on her forehead to feel why it hurt so badly when she felt this huge bump. She go up slowly and made her way to the bathroom, she check her bruise on the mirror, then all the memories from yesterday came back to her o thou she couldn't understand how she made it to her bed.

Ally stayed staring into the ceiling of her room until her dad nocked on the door.

"Ally, you up?" Lester ask worriedly

"Yeah… how did I ended up in my bed?" she when straight to the point. Yeah, that much her head hurt

"This guy Austin carried you here"

Ally after slowly eating started to head out the door on her way to school

"Where you think you're going?" her dad ask in a warning tone

"School?" after she saw the negation in her dad's face she added "I want to keep my attends record intact" she convinced him

Lester took her daughter in his car, he wasn't letting a wounded girl walk by herself. When Ally reached the school everybody was aware of her incident and because of that everyone was asking if she was ok. None of people cared if she was ok or not, well, maybe some ones did but mostly every person was doing it to look good, to look like they have a heart. The only people Ally actually responded with the truth was her best friends: Trish, Dez, which was feeling much better today, and Austin… if she had bump up with Dallas she would be sure that he was in the list

The rest of the day when in a blur for the little old Ally Dawson. What she mostly remembers is asking the teachers permission to go to the nurse and ask for pain killers. After the fifth time, the nurse gave her a whole packet and begged her to keep it so she wouldn't have to walk from every class to her office

The final bell rang. Ally was walking to her looker alone since she left first the class leaving Austin, Trish and Dez behind her. She left in such a hurry because she tried to return the pain killers but the nurse insisted her to keep them. She did

"Ally!" her name was been call at the distance "Dez and I were wondering if you and Trish would like to go to see this new Zalien movie that just came out!" Austin ask after he reach her with Dez at his side. Both were looking with such an infant wonder. Before Ally could answer she was cut off

"Sorry but I can't, I'm busy working" Trish explained as she already catch up with the group of friends. We all can agree that when Trish means 'working' she truly means hanging with the A group and in her acting class

"Oh" Austin sounded disappointed "how about you, Ally?" his eyes were full of hope.

Ally hesitated since her head hurt a little but she then remembered that she had the pills. She opened her mouth to respond but then she remembered that Austin said 'Zalien Movie' and Ally didn't like Zaliens and less when it was a mindless sequel. She was about to refused the invitation however Ally saw in Austin and Dez's eyes the disappointment building up so she agreed. They were thrilled

"But only if we do a quick stop at the library" Ally hold up a finger to indicate that there was a catch

"Uuh, why?" Austin winced, he was such a little kid

"Because I want to read" Ally explained like it was to most obvious thing

"You know that is dark in the movies, right?" Dez asked her like she was some kind of stupid person

"I know that Dez, I have this little reading flashlight and I'll sit in the back corner of the cinema. If I have to go I'll have some fun" neither Austin nor Dez understood this logic, reading in the theater because it was more fun than watching the movie. But then again, they were talking about Ally

In the ride to the library Austin remembered Dez about the books they hadn't retuned. After all, they all needed to go to the library. The trio arrive at the library and Ally headed straight to the novels while Austin and Dez got in this huge line with their books in hand.

Ally got on her knees to get a better look at the lower books, she got on her tiptoes to see better to higher books. None of them were convincing enough for her.

"May I help you?" a work behind her asked

"Yes, I'm looking for-" Ally stopped in mid-sentence as she looked at the worker who apparently was as shocked to see her as she was to see him

"Ally?"

"Dallas?"

"What are you doing here?"

"I came looking for a book" Ally responded like it was the most obvious thing. Dallas laugh at the simplicity of her answer

"No, I mean what are you doing not resting? I heard what happened yesterday" Dallas started his sentence laughing but the sounded really serious

"Oh, well.. I… I wasn't staying at home doing nothing" she didn't know how to say that she was there because she couldn't say no to Austin. She saw the worried look on his face so she added "and don't worry, I'm not here alone. Austin and Dez are in line checking their books" she pointed to the boys, Dallas turned his head to see "I the mean time I'm looking for a book to read

"Oh. Well since I work here why don't I help you?" he gave her his best smile, which it wasn't good but in Ally's eyes was

"Wait you work here?" Dallas laugh wile pointing to his uniform and tag "yeah you're right, it's a dumb question"

"No worries. What type of book are you looking for?" Dallas asked

"I was thinking of reading Romeo and Juliet but I already read it 3 times this year so I was looking for something in the same genre"

"Uuh, romance. I know just the book" Dallas snapped his fingers. He went to the end of the hall and picked up a little chair. He stepped on in so he could reach the highest shelf. Ally observed how he took in his hand a thick-not-so-thick, hard blue cover, with no title or anything on it, book. It looked old, not old like 100 years ago, but old like 30 years ago "here" he said handing over the book

"What is this?" Ally spoke while analyzing the book in her hand without opening

"It's a book" he said it like it was obvious. Ally rolled her eyes "It's a really good book, it got discontinued so that's the only copy we have"

"And you're giving it to me?" Ally sounded shock

"Yeah, I trust you with it" he said smiling, but this time it was a natural smile. it looked sweet which made Ally blush and smile back

"Thanks" the two teens turn their looks from each other to Austin who shouted Ally's name and now was waiving to her signaling that they were leaving "I have to go and check this"

"I'll check it for you. Go, they are waiting for you"

"Aren't you going to get in problems?"

"nah, my mom does this for me all the time when the line is too long in the morning before school and In have to check books out" Dallas explained

"Ok, thanks you know for… for everything" Ally stated to jog to her friends who were laughing

"Ally!" Dallas shouted making her turn around "I was wondering if you want to, uhm… if you wanted to.. To go out sometime?"

"Like on a date?" she took everything she got from jumping in excitement

"Yeah. So what do you say?" you can see the hope in his eyes

"I'd love to. Text me the information, I really need go. Bye" she shouted her goodbye

"And that's how you make a girl fall head over heels for you"Dallas said to himself