See You Soon

Him

Shailene's POV
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My dressing room is stuffy, and small. One of my lamps doesn't work, and all there is to eat is processed man made junk food and energy drinks. I sigh and just focus on my script. There's no use, thoughts keep clouding my focus. Ever since Divergent, I've been constantly criticized for my eating habits, my personal thoughts on things, hell even the fact I'm single. Just because I'm single doesn't mean I'm depressed or think no one is good enough for me, it just means I'm not up for dating, "THATS ALL!", I yell. I didn't mean to, but then again, I did.

I here a knock at the door and see Ansel's head pop in. "Hey shai... You ... Okay?", he says with a concerned face. I love how caring and passionate he is with everyone. No matter who they are, or what they do, Ansel's always making someone smile, especially at their worst. "Haha yeah! Of course, just thinking out loud.", I say. I give him a friendly wink, and a thumbs up. He gives me a sweet smile and returns the gesture before leaving the room. I stare at the door for a moment only just to see Ansel quickly stammer back inside. "Wait wait, I remember what I really came here for!", He says with an excited childlike expression. "Oh?", I say with my brow raised. "I was meaning to show you this.", He says handing me his phone and headphones. I put them on as he hands me the device. A song with a sweet melody comes on. Various string instruments compliment each other. I recognize a Violin, a Cello, a Harp, I can't quite pin point the rest, but all I can tell so far is that it's caught my attention and I like it. The melody keeps echoing verbratos, crescendos, decrescendos, while all maintaining to keep me guessing, and as soon as I begin to pull out the headphones a sweet soft melodic voice appears. It's almost as if it were something out of a dream. The pitch was perfect, words sweet and clear like water. All like romantic poetry, perfectly smooth and woven together with meaning and purpose. My eyes close involuntarily and I begin to drift away out of my stuffy little dressing room into a paradise like scenery with the early morning sun in a vast open forrest of green and orange. I inhale, the smell is of lemon grass, although it is nowhere to be found. The soil beneath me is soft and fluffy with little fragments of fresh green moss. If I had to picture what my heaven would be like, this would be it.
I begin to hum along with the music, until everything goes black and quiet. I open my eyes to see Ansel slowly and gently remove the headphones from my ears with an unsure face. "So what do you think?", He says scanning my eyes back and forth for approval. "Who.. was ..that?", I say pointing to his phone. "Well... it was me. I wrote and composed it for you. I know I do a lot of electronic DJ stuff, but I guess you just.. I don't know... Inspired me I guess.", He says with a smile, it quickly fades and transitions into a frown. I feel my eyes wide like the letter O and my jaw fall wide open. He quickly places a hand on my cheek. "Hey hey hey, Shailene are you okay? What's wrong? Shai?", He says with his brows narrowed. I realize I was blind to notice how much I loved him. I knew I had joked about it in various interviews, but never like this. I ... was .... In love ... With Ansel Elgort. I quickly came back to earth and responded with "Yeah Yeah fine. Wow! Wooooooooowwwwwww! That was beautiful Ansel, but I don't deserve such as breath taking song like that." In a heartbeat he places his other hand on my other cheek. "Are you kidding ? Shai, if it weren't for you I wouldn't have even made it, let alone think about making my own song and not a kick ass remix.", he jokes to lighten the mood. We stay there with his warm soft hands on my cold red cheeks staring deeply into each others eyes getting closer, and closer. Five inches away, four inches, three, two, and then the door knob turned. Ansel quickly moves to the gift basket and grabs 3 bags of Doritos in one hand and a single bag of hot Cheetos in the other. I stare at him confused and turn back to the opening door. It's John Green, the brilliant author who created our movie TFIOS. He smiles at me and says "Hey Hazel!", he quickly turns towards Ansel confused, "And Gus?", he questioned. He began to move his lips to speak but Ansel quickly smiled back at him then to me saying "Again, thank you for the chips shai, I guess no gift basket is safe from the terrifying annihilating Ansel." He smiles deeply and gives a subtle wink to make sure I understand. I move to my feet and hug him tightly and whisper " Thank you for my beautiful song." He pats my back and rubs it firmly and loving. I let go of him and say "No problem dude, come back anytime kid!", I say enthusiastically. Ansel turns toward John who's laughing and smiling. "Well I don't wanna interrupt you two, so I'll be heading out now.", Ansel says walking past John. He quickly grabs Ansel's shoulder and says " No you're fine, I needed to tell you too anyways.", He says ushering him to sit in the empty space beside me on the couch. John grabs a chair and sets it in front of me and Ansel. "Well as you know, we had scheduled one last Scene for the movie. As it turns out we've decided not to film it in at all, so we're all done now. We'll be leaving Amsterdam tomorrow morning at 5:00 sharp. I'll email the both of you about rides and locations fairly soon tonight. Please enjoy the rest of your day and get a good night sleep for tomorrow.", John says with an excited and proud face. He then left the room with a small skip in a step.

Ansel and I simultaneously turn our heads towards each other with excited faces. His expression relaxed and became professional " Okay ,well I'll be leaving now I guess.", He says walking towards the door. " Wait!", I yell. Ansel quickly turns his head back to me surprised. " What are you doing the day after we get back?", I ask. Wait wait wait. Did I just ask him out on a date? I've sunken low on my standards, but then again it's Ansel, the guy Im in Love with. His face blushes and he smirks. " I'm completely free that day.", He says cheerfully. " Good.", I reply. He left the room quietly yet fast. I bring the chair back to my desk and giggle like a little girl. "Until then Ansel Elgort.", I whisper.

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