Best Friend (Shawn Mendes)

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Right when I reach my room, I slam the door and the tears spill. I'm not sure what I'm crying over but I don't need one reason. It's everything.

I just sit and sob as quiet as possible so no one hears me. I hear footsteps on the stairs and pull myself together. In the mirror I see my cheeks and upper eyelids are red and puffy. Shit.

Just as I expected, knocking at the door. "Yeah?" I ask sqeaking my voice.

"Christians here," says Shawn.

I put my hands to my head, "shit shit," I whisper. "Okay," I say louder to Shawn so he'll go away. "One sec,"

I fix my mascara and my hair and open the door to Shawn and lightly smile. His face goes straight and look down and around for anyone, then pulls me back into the room.

"Shawn what the hell?" I ask as he closes the door.

"Don't cry, Al. Taylor is an idiot and he's been on some drugs lately..," he says putting his hands on his hips.

"What?!" I ask.

He nods, "don't worry about it. He'll be good soon, just don't waste your tears on him," he says.

I sigh, "thanks. Where's Christian?"

He looks down for a second and looks upset but stops, "downstairs," he says. I smile and put my hand on his cheek, then walk down.

I smile when I see him, "hey Christian," I say and see him talking with Jack and Jack.

"Ally, he wants to go for a smoothie," says Johnson.

I run my hands together and stand in front of them, "good. I love smoothies!" I say and hear Shawn walking down the stairs.

"We'll be back before midnight," he says and winks at Jack G, making me laugh. He grabs my hand and we walk out.

The door shuts and we walk onto the driveway, "how we gonna get there?" I ask.

He smiles and points over at two long boards. "Sweet," I say and hop on one. "How far away are we from it?" I ask.

He shrugs and walks next to me, "uh like ten minutes. Right out of here," he points to the opposite direction of the pond.

"Cool. You lead?"

"Yeah. Try and keep up," he says smiling and then winks. I laugh and we start skating out and through the neighborhood.

Ten minutes later we walk into the local smoothie place and wait in line. He turns and smiles at me, "what's your favorite smoothie huh?" He asks.

I smile and lean in on my toes, "strawberry-banana. What about you?" I ask happily.

"Mango," he says. I raise an eyebrow and shrug as it's our turn in line.

Christian orders and we quickly get them and sit down. I dig in my pocket for my phone but then remember it's broken..

"What time is it?" I ask.

He laughs a little, "in a rush?" He asks.

"No no I'm just wondering how much time we have left," I say.

He checks his phone, "it's eight," he says.

I take a drink and we just talk. Soon our drinks run out and the store's about to close. "Shall we?" He asks and gets up and throws away his cup.

We go outside into the dark and we see the boards are missing. "Shit!" He says and looks around. "They're gone!" He says.

I cross my arms at the temperature drop, "are you joking?" I ask.