How I Met Your Mother- Shawn Mendes

The lucky one

Shawn's POV
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The next morning, it was raining. The kids were already down stairs. i heard the kids giggling and talking. i walked down the stairs and greeted my children in the kitchen. "Hey dad." Ginny said with a mouth full of pancakes. "Hi sweetheart." I said. "Can you tell us more stories dad?" Ronan said tugging at my shirt. i picked him up and sat him on the counter. "Ok i guess."
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Shawn's POV (told in flashback)
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It was 2021. I was on my 7th tour and i hadn't seen Violetta in 4 years. I had lost faith in getting back together with her. I heard that her boyfriend Leo had died in the war and she graduated college and was working at some hospital in New York. She moved there to be with her dying cousin. She was putting herself through med school with student loans and he minimum wage paycheck that she received ever month. My next stop was in New York. It was getting closer to my time to get on stage. I was feeling a little light headed and there was a pain in my side. "Shawn, its time to go on" the stage manager said and smiled. I ran on stage and smiled. I thanked all of my fans for coming out.

I got through 3 songs before everything went black. I woke up on a gurney, getting moved onto a hospital bed. The paramedic told me to "hold tight" and a nurse would be in shortly. It was about 10 minutes before a nurse came in. She said reading my papers, "Hello Mr. Mendes, I'm just going to run a quick blood test for you." we made eye contact. It was Violetta. There was a deafening silence and we stared at each other for 5 seconds before she grabbed my arm and stuck a needle in it. She took some blood and put some IV's in. "Be careful, if you move too much it will start to hurt." she said calmly. "I'll be back in 20 minutes with the results. Here's the tv remote. Theres the nurse button and if you need to use the bathroom ring the button and i will help you out of bed." I gave her a small smile and she walked out.

It had been 20 minutes and she came back. "Shawn. Unfortunately, your appendix has either appendicitis or it has ruptured. You will need surgery and have to stay here for the next couple of days maybe even a week." She said with an apologetic look. "I can't. I am on tour right now. I can't let down my fans." i said. "Shawn your fans are not important right now. You will die if your appendix is ruptured or has appendicitis, because if untreated it will rupture anyway." She said sternly. "Wow your like the hot doctor now." i said laughing. she sighed and rolled her eyes. "I'll get you signed up for a surgery." She bent over at the table at next to the bed and wrote on a clipboard. Her butt looks good. "You're thinking out loud but thanks." She said smiling at me. i looked at her mortified. "You heard that?" I said and she nodded, smiling. "How's noon tomorrow for the surgery? You can eat something now but you can eat after midnight. What do you want to eat." she said kindly. "Surprise me." i said. "Violetta?" I looked at her at she began to leave. "Yeah?" She said "I'm sorry. For everything." i said. I really was sorry. "Its forgotten. It's been so long that it just doesn't affect me anymore." she said. She left and I fell asleep. I woke up the next morning.

Aaliyah was there. She was eating Jello. "Hey Shawn. Do you know that Violetta works here." She said swallowing her spoonful of jello.
"Yeah. Is she still here?" I asked. "No. She said that she works nights so she would be here when you wake up after your surgery. Oh yeah it's in an hour. The anesthesiologist will be here in 45 minutes to have you sign some papers and put you under. Oh and Violetta left this for you." Aaliyah handed me the letter. it said "Shawn i hope everything goes well in the surgery. I will be at work from 4pm to 1am so i will take care off you. I missed you a lot. I forgive you and myself in some instances. I am so glad I met you. Everyone says I'm lucky for meeting you. They're right. Im the lucky one."

*back to 2045 and Shawn's POV*
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"Ohhh..... Thats the letter that you have in your suitcase." Ginny said
"Yeah. It was the first of many letters you mom and i sent to each other." i said, "God, your mom was so cool." They laughed. "Your mom always said how lucky she was for meeting me. When in all honestly, i was the lucky one."