Auslly One Shots

Terrible Things

By iseesparksfly

This is long but it's so beautiful. Give it a go❤
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"By the time I was your age I would give anything

To fall in love truly was all I could think"

At 5 years old Austin isn't too fond of girls.

He thinks that girls are annoying, bratty, have cooties and never play Zaliens properly.

In kindergarten Austin hadn't had the best of experiences with girls. He had yet to find one that didn't try to plait his hair (he reassures himself that he allowed it that one time because Viking's have their hair plaited and Vikings are the epitome of cool). He thought that, besides his mum, girls were all aliens from another planet who had come to abduct him. What other explanation was there to the fact that they were teeny-tiny and had such high voices? Aliens were the only plausible explanation in his mind.

But that all changed when he started to kind of like this girl in his class.

He hadn't noticed her at first because she was quiet but then his teacher had placed her next to him (he heard something about her being a good influence on him). She had her pencils neatly arranged on her side of the desk and politely shook his hand in greeting.

Of course the moment he'd seen her he'd pulled on her pigtails and then she started to cry (his flirting evidently wasn't quite up to standard).Luckily he had managed to stop her from crying by telling her a funny joke his dad had told him involving a monkey and a banana and her distraught tears turned into tears of laughter while he just watched as she laughed. The joke wasn't even that funny but it made him happy that she liked it so much so he decided to try and make her laugh as much as possible. She was very pretty and could even play musical instruments which he had to admit was very cool. (She was also shy and didn't talk much, but he didn't really mind much because he talked enough for the both of them.).

He'd talk to her almost every day and he held her hand during the class picture because she got a little nervous in front of camera and always listened to her rambles and in return she would continue to laugh at his jokes even though he'd got them from the back of a cereal box (but he didn't tell her that because he liked being the one to make her laugh and for some reason he wanted to be the only one who could do this.)

But he wasn't the only one because there were other boys in their class too and somehow they had found out about her love of pun jokes too. She would laugh at their jokes, so Austin promptly decided that because of this they couldn't be friends anymore.

She missed him and his jokes but when she had tried to talk to him he would just ignore her, proceeding to play Zaliens with the redheaded boy that had got multiple coloured pencils stuck in his nose on their first day and can now sneeze in all the colours of the wind.

The poor girl didn't understand why he'd done it (Austin ignoring her that is, not the boy sticking pencils in his nose) because even though she did like the other boys she always liked Austin the most (but she felt bad saying that because everyone was so nice to her). But then a vicious rumour about cooties spreads around and that ended pretty quickly, with the boys scattering and keeping their distance from anyone of the opposite gender (of course excluding their mothers. They didn't count).

Luckily she had found a new friend; a girl that was very loud and they balanced each other out and the two were inseparable (they'd even made a pinkie promise to stay friends forever and ever). They became best friends and she started to forget about the blond boy that she had liked so much (even though she still got a little sad sometimes when she saw him doing colouring and scribbling outside the lines)