Black Nail Polish | A. Mahone

01. "Got big hearts but they're just still kids -- Cali made flashy sins."

"Hey," Jesse turned around and faced Andy. "Whoa, what happened to you?" He stared at the stain, and tried to not stare at certain areas.

"I ran into a kid." She sighed. "Is it bad?"

"No, no." He assured her. "I was wondering if you wanted to get something to drink with me? Maybe coffee?" He laughed a little at his joke.

"Very funny," She glared at him. "but sure - although, I'm not in the mood for coffee." She gestured at her stained t-shirt.

"Do you want to change first?" They walked out of the lecture hall together.

"Yeah, if you don't mind." She took her jacket off, and held it in her hands all the way back to the apartment.

Alice wasn't home, she had a class, so everything was quiet. Luckily, the apartment was clean, and they wouldn't seem like a bunch of slobs.

"Just wait here, I'll be back in a second." She told Andy and rushed to her room in search of a t-shirt.

She put on a random shirt, and walked back out to see Andy flipping through the DVD's they had stacked on the coffee table.

"Ok, I'm ready."

***

Right after Austin's lecture, he went to his house to change before heading over to Sierra's dorm. She didn't feel like going to her class, so she'd stayed home, and had convinced Austin to come over to visit her. They weren't doing much, so Austin offered to go out to town and walk around a little. The weather was nice, so Sierra suggested going out to lunch and eating outside.

While she got dressed, Austin sat on the couch and looked around her room. There really wasn't anything that stood out, so he propped his feet up, and laid on the couch. He found himself thinking of Sierra, he thought she was really nice, had a nice personality, and not to mention the fact he found her very attractive.

When she was done getting ready, they walked out and towards the town square.

***

The town square wasn't boring, it was actually quite interesting. There were many small shops: boutiques, music stores, book stores, little restaurants, antique sores, and many other things that Jesse didn't even know where there.

Andy and Jesse agreed on getting fruit smoothies from a ice cream parlor, and sat right outside the shop on the cute little chairs, which included a table, and a decorative umbrella. They talked about everything that came to mind: music, reading, their classes, and even joked around. Andy had never asked Jesse out on a date, but she hoped he would, she really liked him. When they finished their drinks, they continued walking around town, and stopped at every little shop they thought looked interesting. Out of all the shops, they stayed at the music shop the most. They looked through all the old vinyls, and rummaged through the stacks of CD's, and even suggested music to listen to.

Meanwhile, Austin and Sierra walked around town, too. They each got a coffee, and walked around aimlessly. At one point, Austin finally managed to hold Sierra's hand; she didn't say anything or snatch her hand away, so he kept it there, and after a while, she began to swing their hands back and forth.

"Hey, look." Sierra pointed at the music shop's sign, and dragged Austin with her.

Austin didn't really care where they were going, as long as he was with Sierra, so he followed her in. The store wasn't booming with business, and everything was calm; it was a great environment. The two walked around and finally settled on looking through the shelves and stacks of pop CD's. They found a lot of music ranging from old Christina Aguilera, all the way to Rhianna's newest album. Sierra also picked up some classics, like Backstreet Boys, and they collected their things to check out.

Austin carried the CD's, while Sierra walked ahead trying to look for a checkout desk. This time, Austin was sure, wasn't his fault - he had yet again ran into someone. Austin and the other person's CD's fell on the floor, and immediately Austin fell to his knees to pick up his discs. The other person who, again, was Jesse also got down and began to pick up her and Andy's stuff.

"Are you following me, or something?" She asked, and pushed a Backstreet Boys CD at Austin.

Andy got down too, and began picking up Austin and Sierra's CD's and handed them to them.

"It was your fault, yet again." Austin scoffed, and slid a Nine Inch Nails CD at her.

"Please, I was paying attention to where I was going unlike you." She picked up Andy's Slipknot CD and handed it to him before she stood back up and dusted her knees. "Watch where you're going next time, asshole." Yet again, she flipped him off, and walked away with Andy.

Austin scoffed, shook his head, and stood back up.

"Are you okay? Who was that?" Sierra asked him.

They kept searching for a checkout desk while Austin explained to her the incident this morning, and the incident on Friday at the laundromat. Sierra agreed that both had been embarrassing, and let the subject drop when they finally found a checkout desk.

***

"How do you know Austin?" Andy asked as they walked to a little Italian restaurant.

"Who?" Jesse honestly didn't know who he was talking about.

"Austin, the guy you were arguing with." He explained.

"Oh, that's his name." Jesse shrugged, and explained what had happened on Friday, and the reason she had a big coffee stain on her shirt.

Andy only laughed at her, and led both of them into the restaurant.

"How do you know him?" Jesse questioned once they were seated in a booth that gave them a view of the busy sidewalk.

"He's in my music class, he's a pretty cool guy." Andy shrugged and looked through the menu.

"Not when he's looking through your laundry." Jesse whispered and looked up at Andy.

He laughed at her, and flicked packets of salt at her. "But seriously, he's a pretty cool guy. I could re-introduce you guys."

"Thanks, but no thanks."

"Seriously, though. I promise he's cool, definitely not a perv."

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/ Author's Note \

Andrew Velasquez from Crown The Empire will play Andy in this story, and he's gonna be a good character and he's just good, b/c I love Andy with all of my heart and can't have him as a bad guy :-(

I'm so flippen exited for this story!! :-)

- selfish-machines