Best Friend (Shawn Mendes)

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We walk slowly through the rubble of tree branches and rocks. Shawn walks in front of me, and I walk close behind him.

"Where are we going? We totally lost the others!" I say annoyed.

He puts his arm back as we hear a slight growl. What. The Fuck. We both stop walking and my heart starts racing, what the fuck is that? I look up at him really scared because I'm sure a tiger will eat us.

He looks me in the eyes, but they somehow make me feel a little better in that second. Until we hear a more of a roar.

Shawn's face goes blank, "run," he says quietly and we do. We run and jump over the trees and rocks. All the way back to where we started. I ran so fast too, man I didn't know I had it in me.

Two boys are sitting in the small rocks and sand but I can't see who. I lean on my thighs and try to breathe. I see the boys get up and walk over to us: Taylor and Matt.

"What the fuck happened?" Taylor asks standing a few feet away.

"Growl. We h-heard a g-growl," I say out of breath.

"Yeah. Don't know what it was, but we need to tell everyone to go back to the boat," he says and we all look out into the water.

Shit, the boat is twice as far as last time.

"Damnit," I say and place my hands on my hips and walk to the edge of the trees.

"Boys!! Boys come back!!" I scream.

I turn back around and jump at the sight of Shawn a foot in front of me. He laughs and grabs my hand, "come on." he says lightly and starts walking to the water.

He walks in front of me but still grabbing my hand. We stand back by Taylor and Matt. Shawn looks at me then at the two boys, "we're gonna go swim back to the boat and drive it up here before it gets too far away," he says.

My eyes go wide, "we're what?!" I ask dropping my hand to my side.

He sighs, "Ally come on. Its gonna take at least ten minutes for everyone to get out of the god damn woods," he says.

I sigh and look into the water, the waves roll in small. I look at Shawn, "okay let's go," I say and grab his arm, pulling him to the water.

Once were in, the only thing I hear is the water and our breathing. "Shawn.." I say.

"Yeah?" He says spitting water out of his mouth.

"Sing," I say. Shawn has always been a good singer, still is. Back when I used to come to his house crying, he'd sing to me. It really soothed my nerves more than a hug or anything.

"Sing what?" He asks breathing faster.

I look at the water and just dive under, engulfing my whole body in the cold water. I breast stroke under the water and finally swim back up. My hairs all slicked back and out of my face now.

"Your original," I say.

"That stupid thing?" He says.

It's actually really good. A few weeks before school let out, I would go over after school and help him with the lyrics and shit. Its really good..

"Yes please," I say and notice were about 30 yards away from the boat. I mentally groan.

He takes a breath and we both swim slower. I look at him as he gets serious, then takes a breath and sings.

"We don't have to be ordinary.. Make your best mistakes. Because we don't have the time to be sorry, so baby be the life of the disco," he sings beautifully.