I Need Your Love (Austin Carlile Fan Fiction)

Ch. 21

*Dahl'a POV*

I laid in my bed, my phone pressed between my ear and shoulder. Austin was talking something about tour. I was working on my drawing. It was a picture of a little girl, jumping in a puddle in a storm.

"Dahl?" Austin said.

"Hmm?" I mumbled into the phone.

"What are you doing? You seem so distant."

I chuckled. "I am distant. I'm at my house and you're at yours."

He laughed. "That's not what I meant."

"I know." I closed my sketch book and laid back. "I'm just thinking about my mom."

He sighed. "How was it? It couldn't have been easy dropping her off at that institution."

I shrugged. "It was hard. She latched on to me and was so scared. I told her we'd visit her as often as possible."

"How is it at the house with just you and Cal?"

"He hasn't really been around. It's been nice." I said, glancing at my picture of Anthony and Andrew. "I wanna move out though."

"Can you afford that?" He asked.

I closed my eyes. "I don't know. Probably not. I might just go stay with Benny."

Austin was quiet for a minute. I frowned. "You still there?"

"Yeah." He said. "I was just thinking."

"About what?"

"Move in with me?" He said.

My eyes flew open. "What?"

He chuckled. "I said move in with me."

"Austin, we aren't even like, officially dating."

"So let's make it official." He said.

I sat up. "Austin, you're insane."

"Dahlia, so are you." He said, mocking me.

"Are you serious? About me moving in?"

He chuckled again. "Yes. But on one condition."

I smiled. "What's that?"

"You have to be my girlfriend." He said.

I smiled bigger. "Fine. You got yourself a deal, sir."

He groaned. "I like when you call me sir."

I laughed. "Okay, crazy man. Call me in the morning. I gotta go to bed. I have a job interview tomorrow."

"Okay, crazy girl." He said. "Goodnight, honey."

"Goodnight."