Theres Always a Catch. (Austin Mahone One DirectionFAN FIC)

The Next Day

***Eli POV***

After everything that he said to me. Everything that happened. He has a fucking girlfriend. Does he understand how much I like him? And after that, how do I just say okay?

I slept a few hours. Cried mainly. I know its stupid to cry over a guy that youve only known 3 weeks. But damn. He had me fooled.

Todays my judges performance. The boys will finally see what Ive been rehearsing while they were gone.

I put on black skinny jeans and some black ankle boots with a one inch heel. My leather jacket and a purple flow top.

Im last to go, then we have our group performance. So we all piled in to the car around 10:30.

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We got there and the boys were on the stage, judges in their seats, amd the stage managers ushered us to sit right behind them.

Austin looked at me the whole time but I avoided his gaze. The song Im singing will get the message thru clearly. I finally looked up at the boys as they started giving us directions as to how the day will be going.

"The judges will call you up, give you a microphone and whenever your ready, youll start your song. Just motion for Bill to start the music. He has all the files up." Liam told us.

"Once your all done performing, after Eli, youll all come up and do your group performance." Zayn finished.

They asked if we understood and we all said yes. The boys just walked off stage, whispered to the judges, and went right behind us girls. Dammit.

Of course, 'Hed' sit right behind me. Good thing we werent allowed to talk. Elisa went first.

Looking at Louis the whole time. She deffinitely won him over. She was walking across the stage, and moving her hips like she was fighting global warming. That girl was so in there.

Next was Abby. She started off sitting down. Shes so adorable. She's the youngest of all us here, so I kind of look after her. She's an innocent little girl. She started singing her song, hitting every simple note perfectly. Once she was done, I looked at Cody. She had him wrapped around her tiny finger. She gave herself a tiny clap and skipped off stage.

Teal was after her. I've gotten used to her I guess. She was a little odd at times. Like ADHD or something but she's fine I guess. She winked at me, indicating she had this down. It was our thing. Well once the music started she moved straight forward, every slinging note, shed move her legs along with it. It was perfect. She looked at Niall the whole time. Looking away once it was a big note. I heard Niall say 'Tease' and it made me chuckle under my breath. She had this. Once she was done, she sauntered off the stage. Winking at me again.

Destiny got on stage and startes singing Good Girl by Carrie Underwood. I'm proud of her. She picked this song and though she's physically incapable of being sexy because she finds it awkward, she still nailed it. Getting on her knees and motioning for 'someone' to come toward her with a hint of hunger in her eyes. Perfect. She had Zayn right where she wanted him. She gave me a 'Am I Good' look in her performance so I gave a her a thumbs up and a head nod and she finished her song.

Genesis was next. She made me actually really happy. She was a quiet person but confident and smart. She was beautiful and tiny as well. She had such a strong voice and could hit any note possible. I told her to sing Leona Lewis but she said this song would express her feelings better. I looked at Liam, whose eyes grew wide as she walked on stage in her dark blue skirt and sky blue collar button up. She sang her song with such passion and elegance. I looked at Liam, after her performance and he seemed in a trance. Yay. I'm so proud of the tiny chick.

Stacys turn. She's singing an extremely tough song. But she got this. I know it. She started singing and looked straight past everyone, right to where Harry was. Her blue eyes could captivate anyone. And I could tell she was doing just that. Her notes came out angelically and once she was done, Harry was the only one who screamed for her. She blushed but smiled cause she knew she was in there.

My turn. After a half an hour of avoiding Austin, I have to look at him to sing this next song. I didn't care though. Once I got on stage, I looked at everyone in front of me. I scanned the room for the one person whose eyes had to meet mine. Found him. Once I did, I motioned for Bill to start the music. Demi looked at me shocked that I chose one of her older songs. Don't Forget. I ignored everyone and looked straight in to the guy who lead me on and left me feeling like a loser. Once the song was over, I just sat back down. Not acknowledging anyone. I looked at the girls and they all gave me a thumbs up. I only told Stacy about that night, and she tried to make me happy but it wasn't happening. She was the only one who understood why I chose that song.

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We sang our mashup and ,finally, we were allowed to leave. I was the last one out the door. I got halfway to the car before Austin came up behind me spinning me around.

I looked into his eyes, gave out a sigh of disgust and got out of his touch.

"Its not true!!!" He yelled at me from the same spot I left him.

"Ya know what else isn't true? The feelings you said you had for me. Just leave me alone." I yelles back at him. I got in the car and saw all the girls staring at me. Stacy knew Id be crying at any time so she came to my comfort. All the girls joined in. Except Elisa.

Shes hiding something. Theres no doubt.

I just brushed it off. I tried to fight back tears but I stopped when I realized there was no point anymore. I was hurt.

I hope Austin understood that I meant ever emotion from that song. And I was never going to take it back.