The Truth About Us (Austin Mahone Fan Fic- editing)

Epilogue

Scarlett’s POV

Epilogue- 4 years later

I sat at the empty café table in some random suburb of San Antonio, watching cars go by and little kids playing in the park across the street. I took a sip of the hot peppermint mocha and the beginning of the winter snow fell.

Snowflakes. They swirled around me, falling in my hair, resting upon my eyelashes. They were cold, yet beautiful. I stuck out my tongue, for old time sake, and felt the coldness spread like fog across the surface. The snowflakes fell and swirled around my ears, taunting me- Austin. They whispered. Austin…

A ball rolled into the hazy street and a little kid stood on the opposite side calling for his mommy. I dashed up and grabbed the ball, nearly being sandwiched in between two on going cars.

“Here,” I sad smile spread across my face as I handed the ball back at the kid.

The boy looked up at me and offered a huge smile with two missing front teeth.

The mom stood there in astonishment, her face morphed from surprised to one of slight anger, “you shouldn’t have done that!” She scolded, “You could have died and your life would have been over!”

I turned towards her and gave her a sad look, “my life’s already over. And it doesn’t matter because there is a mean boy up in heaven who won’t let me be with him.” I shook my head and gave her a small smile. Then I looked back at the little boy. “If you really love something, don’t ever let it go.”

He hugged his ball close to him and grinned. “Okay.” He gave a small giggle and ran off to play with it again.

The mom gave me a puzzled look, but followed after the child.

A mean boy in heaven…

it turned out the Austin wasn’t okay after the crash. Not only did it wipe his memory but it turned out he had brain cancer. After multiple screenings, it was confirmed. And of course he knew it… but he never told me. He didn’t tell me until it was too late.

It was the summer before he died and he told me. I remember he took my hand and looked me straight in the eye and told me he was going to die once this summer ended. I remember the tears that flowed down my face.

And so that summer was spent doing everything Austin had on his “bucket list”.

1.)    have a pie eating contest

2.)    make one final Ustream

3.)    go to Cancun

4.)    travel to asia

5.)    eat an entire gallon of ice cream

6.)    follow as many mahomies as possible

7.)    wish upon a shooting star

8.)    send a message in a bottle

9.)    have a scavenger hunt downtown

10.) If you live to 24…propose to Scarlett

Sometimes I look back at this list and I can feel tears prickling against my skin- Knowing that his bucket list would never be complete… that number 10 would never ever occur. Because… because Austin left after that summer. He went to sleep and never woke up. He was 18. He just turned 18 in April. It was the summer before college…

I remember that I had been accepted into Brown- my dream school and I remember celebrating. Maddi was so proud of me and Richard called his entire family and we had a huge celebration. I had invited Mia and Stacey and the Foolish4. I even invited Camila and her friends. It was amazing how everything turned out.