Bad Reputation - Shawn Mendes

10 - Shopping

Eleanor.

It's currently the middle of the second week, Aaliyah and I both end classes quite early today so we're going to go shopping. I'm excited to hang out with her and do things that normal teenage girls would do. The last person i had went shopping with was Chloe, and that was before all the drama ever happened. I enter the room and Aaliyah is already preparing to go to the mall with me. "You're finally back!" She exclaims and rolls her eyes with a smile. "I'll change my bag and we can go." I tell her and she squeals. I quickly grab the necessities from my backpack and transfer it into a smaller bag, so that i don't have to lug a huge bag around.

As soon as I'm done, Aaliyah and I hop into her car. She pulls away from the parking lot and drives straight to the mall. "I'm so excited to be spending time with you." She says as we hit a red light. "Me too." I smile. We didn't talk much on the way there but instead we jammed to the songs on her Spotify playlists. That girl has great taste in music. We finally pull up to the mall's parking lot and head out. It was a Wednesday so thankfully it wasn't as crowded.

The first store that we visited was Urban Outfitters. We tried on a few different clothes but i only bought 1 top. There were a lot of nice clothes but I couldn't afford to buy all of them. I set my shopping budget at $100 and I didn't want to spend it all at the first store. We also went to a few different stores like Zara, American Eagle, Adidas and many more. In the middle of our shopping spree, we stopped at Auntie Anne's to grab a pretzel, because we got hungry after trying on so many clothes. At the end, when we were both exhausted, we decided to call it day since we still had school the next day. Aaliyah had so many big bags from all the various shops we went to whereas I only had 3 bags and they each had 1 item. I guess it's one of the perks of having a famous brother, being able to spend a lot of money on clothes.

Aaliyah drove us back to the dorm and we both talked about how excited we were to wear our new clothes to school, despite it being the second week already. Once we reached, we both hopped out of her car and grabbed our things before going to our room. I saw Aaliyah struggling to carry everything so i gave her a hand. As we stepped out of the lift, her phone chimed and she reached into her pocket to look at it. "Are you free this weekend?" Aaliyah asks while staring at her phone. "I should be." I reply while unlocking our door. "Shawn wants to hang out with you again." She says before setting all her bags down on the floor and sitting on the chair. "I'm free." I answer. Honestly, my heart could not been beating any faster. Shawn did say that he wanted to hang out with me again, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. Thankfully, i have some new clothes now, so i guess i can wear them when i meet him. "Great, I'll let him know." She says while typing into her phone.

"I'm sorry if my brother asks you a lot of questions, he's very overprotective of me." Aaliyah tells me while she puts away her new clothes. "It's okay, I don't mind." I reply, thinking about the time Shawn and I spent together last week. "He's such a sweetheart." "He really is." I smile. "Well I'm glad you guys are getting to know each other. Shawn doesn't have many female friends." And my eyes widen in disbelief, how could a man like Shawn who is such a gentleman not have any female friends? "Really?" I ask. "Yeah, guess he must like you since he wants to hang out with you again." She says while winking and i can feel my cheeks heat up. There's no way he likes me, he probably is just treating me nice because I'm his sister's roommate, right?

I quickly push away all my thoughts, and went to take a shower to get my mind off him. However, no matter how hard i try, his face and his words are always popping up into my head. Although i did feel a connection between us, i doubt that he felt the same. He's a celebrity. I hop out of the shower and quickly walk back to the room to change into my pyjamas. I lay down in bed after drying my hair and my eyes started to feel heavy. I guess all the shopping with Aaliyah tired me out. I drift into sleep, feeling excited and nervous about hanging out with Shawn again.