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Aaliyah

"Shawn?" I knock at his apartment door. When nobody answers, I take out my keys he gave me for emergencies and vacation-care and open the door slowly. "Shawn, hello?"

I stop in the entrance hall and stare at the mess I'm facing. Everywhere are shoes, clothes, framed pictures, decoration stuff laying around. It seems, like something did whirlwind through the apartment. Or someone. "Shawn?" I repeat my question louder. "Shawn?!"

I reach his living room, and I detect the piano, that has deep scraches on it, just like the whirlwind did work here, too. A destroyed lamp is laying next to it on the floor.
I try to stay calm.
The black, shimmering piano is Shawn's all and everything. "Shawn?"

Again no answer. I press the call-button on my phone, and a few seconds later, my mother's face appears on screen. "Aaliyah? – Is everything okay? Did you talk to Shawn?"

"No. But Mum, I am in his apartment, and I think, maybe you should come over."

"Why? Tell me what you see."

"A mess. I see a mess." I show her the apartment. "I guess, if he's here, he's in the bedroom."

"Then go, take a look!" Mum sounds more worried than normal, and I nod.

I reach Shawn's bedroom. The door is half-closed, and when I open it, I take a deep, unbelievable worried breath. "Shawn? Are you here? Are you okay?"

And there, he is. My brother's laying on his bed and stares at the ceiling. He doesn't move his head, when I enter the room. "Hi, Aaliyah. How're you doing?" He seems to recognize that Mum's on the phone. "Mum."

"Shawn, what happened?!"

He doesn't answer.

I sit down by his side on the bedcorner and put the phone that way that our mum can see what I can see. "What happened?!"

A long moment passes, then he says: "Mandy."

"Mandy?" I change an irritated gaze with Mum. She says: "Shawn baby, tell us, what is with Mandy?"

"I did everything wrong," he says, and his voice's broken. "We broke up."

"You broke up?!" I stare at him shocked. That was nothing, that I had been expecting.

"To be precisely: She broke up with me. But that doesn't change something in the end, does it?"

"Oh sweetheart!" our mum looks sad for a moment. I know, that she likes Mandy very much, and it breaks her heart to see her son that shattered and to know that Mandy's hurt more than probably, too.

For a moment, we all keep silent.

Then, Shawn says toneless: "She left me, just like Camila left me. I do everything wrong."
He's sobbing.

"Oh no, you don't," I say, and I feel absolutly helpless. "It's not your fault what happened with Camila, and I am very sure, that it isn't your fault what happened with Mandy."

"I agree," Mum says. "You'd never hurt her intentionally."

"I lied to her," Shawn whispers. "I destroyed everything. And it was my fault."

And then, my brother bursts out into tears.