If You Were Mine

XXVIII. There for you

It's a sunday evening and you're supposed to meet up with a friend at the cafe near your house.
You're very excited about the meet up as you hadn't seen her for a couple of years by now; she moved to Germany for further education just like you did, but to England instead.

You were absently tapping on the screen of your phone and didn't notice that the lift wasn't empty when you got into it, so when a stranger yet familiar voice greeted you, you flinched

S: Look who's showing up! Hey darling!

As you looked up you saw Shawn, the popular boy of your class who would always mess up with you, smirking
You rolled your eyes at his sight and felt annoyance invading you.

It's not that you hated him, you were not enemies...but his playboy character and habit of messing up in serious situations would more often than not piss you off.

S: Where are you up to?

Y/N: It's none of your business, Mendes

S: Duh you know you look damn cute when you're mad? Ngl most of the times I make you mad it's to see that bunny face

Y/N: Oh shut up you idiot!

He lets out a small laugh as you turn around to see if the lift was there.
All of a sudden you hear a deafening sound and right after that the cabinet stops abruptly.

You flinch as fear takes over you: chills start running down your spine and panicking is the only command your mind manages to give to your whole body

S: What the hell- I guess we're stuck...Press the emergency button over there Y/N, we should let the control room know so that they can send someone to get us out of here

You don't move...you can't move. Although you had heard what Shawn asked you to do, your body didn't seem to be able to move anymore

S: Y/N!! Oh for God's sake!

He bypassed you to reach the buttons panel as he thought you were ignoring him on purpose, but little did he know you were experiencing what you've feared for years...

You've had claustrophobia since you were a little child, you would never let your parents go to small, closed and crowded places as those environments would make you feel out of breath...
You would always rather go up and down the stairs than taking the lift, even after growing up. But the doctor had recently forbidden that to you since you got your ankle injured a couple of weeks ago.

Soon enough your breath starts getting heavier and your gasps for fresh air can also be heard.

S: Hey, are you okay?

You started to feel less and less strength in you, so you leaned your back against the metal wall and sat on the ground, your breath getting even heavier time to time...

S: Hey hey hey! Listen to me, everything's gonna be fine okay? Don't worry, you just take a deep breath and it'll be okay, look at me

You look up at the boy, who is now sitting in front of you with both of his hands on your thighs, trying to inhale as much air as you can.

His eyes were so calm and deep, yet full of care and love...
As you let the air out a tear rolled down your left cheek, but you definitely felt a little better after the breath

Shawn's big hands are now caressing your cheeks, his right thumb drying off the tear.

Slowly your heartbeat starts to decrease a little and your breath gets in control.

As soon as you start feeling yourself again, you realize you were staring straight into his eyes all the time, so you break the eye contact moving your sight to the ground

Y/N: Th- Thank you Shawn...

S: Oh please, this is the least I could do...are you feeling a little better now?

Y/N: hmm...

S: Thank god!

Y/N: Thank you for caring for me Shawn...I'm actually feeling so guilty rn, I always treat you so bad I-

S: Hey miss, listen! Don't get me wrong okay? It's not that I'm in love with you or something, I would've done this for anyone cause I'm a gentleman, yk? You're just the one who will never get that.

Y/N: well, I guess I did, now

S: YAH FINALLY!

A giggle runs out of your throat after seeing his cute face trying to prove what he was saying

After not much you hear some voices coming from the other side of the metallic door

X: Hey, hello? Is anyone there?

Shawn gets up and starts banging the door in order to let them know that you're there

S: Yeah, we're stuck in here

X: How many of you are there?

S: We're two

After asking some more details about the situation and trying hard to open the door, the technicians finally make it and you get out of that death spot

X: Are y'all alright?

Y/N: Oh yeah we're good, thank you so much!

After greeting your life saviors, the two of you head out of the building, your eyes start sparkling out of joy as you see the light of the day and your nose smell fresh air coming ahead

Y/N: Hey Shawn, I'm gonna meet a friend at the Cafe, would you like to join us?

S: Wait wh- What did you just say?

Y/N: what?

S: Are you asking me out? I mean I would never refuse but I'm in a kind of hurry...but I can come over at your place this evening if you want to:)

Y/N: What- Oh lord why did I even try

You pushed him sideways and leave while he bursts into laughter after succeeding to make you mad once again and see the cute mad face of yours once again.