Chapter 13

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Arri's POV:
The phone begins to ring as me and Shawn watch TV.
"Ugh, who is it at this hour," Shawn moans as I begin to get up. "Don't go babe,"
"Shawn, let me pick up the phone. I'll cuddle with you in a second,"
"Fine," He replies, defeated.
I see its Mom and pick up.
(T- Taylor, A- Arri.)
T: Hey sweetheart,
A: Alright Mom?
T: I'm fine but I have some news.
A: Okay, what?
T: Karlie's had her kids-
A: Wait, you just said kids.
T: She's had twins- a girl called Summer and a boy called Finn.
A: Awe! That's so cute,
T: And uh, I've spoken to Karlie and she asked me to ask you something,
A: What?
T: She'd like you to be Summer's godmother,
A: Mom, you're joking.
T: I'm not baby girl,
A: So you're Finn's godmother?
T: Absolutely,
A: Wow, okay. Thanks for calling Mom, see you soon. Love you,
T: Okay honey, love you, bye!
I end the call and walk back into the lounge where Shawn was waiting.
"What was that about?" He asks, encasing me in his arms.
"Karlie's had twins, a boy, Finn and a girl, Summer. I've been asked to be Summer's godmother,"
"That's awesome beautiful," He kisses my cheek as I move closer to him. "It's not long until your album now," He says and I nod.
"Like 3 days,"
"I'm so proud of you babe," He pecks my lips and I smile at him.
"I'm so scared for tour though,"
MTV had asked if they could do live coverage of my shows all over the world so we had been so busy organising it all.
"You'll do incredible," He tells me as I rest my head on his shoulder.
"I hope so,"
*Album release day*
"Wake up gorgeous," I feel Shawn shake me from my slumber in the hotel bed in LA.
"Morning," I say and he smiles.
"Ellen now then," He gets up and I go to get ready into a black tube skirt with a mustard jumper, it was getting into November and very cool. I chuck on tights and slightly heeled ankle boots and grab my coat. We meet the team downstairs and head off.
We get driven to the studio and we climb out of the car to a whole swarm of paparazzi. Shawn takes my hand and we walk through them as best we can and reach the entrance to the studio.
We wait to be called and then walk onto the stage.
"Hey guys! How you doing?" Ellen asks and we both smile, hugging her.
"I'm good," I reply and she grins.
"So, no news, no new rings, nothing like that..."
"No,"
"But I will be invited,"
"We're not engaged," I tell her.
"But I'll be coming right?"
"Whatever,"
"Awesome, so Arri; tell us about your album then,"
"Well, there's quite a few tracks that have been written for ages and some that were written and recorded like a month ago."
"Any about the other half?"
"Maybe,"
"What are they called?"
"It's self explanatory, listen to the album and pick out some little hints,"
"Where are we supposed to look?"
"Track 4," I say, I'm Yours was a song of written for Shawn specially (song originally by Alessia Cara).
"Any other interesting ones?"
"There's one about my biological family,"
"Yeah, I heard you met them for the first time in a while."
"Yeah, that was interesting. I met my little brother for the first time,"
"Are your parents okay?"
"I think my Mom is, she's remarried and got a little boy called Tom."
"So you've got another sibling?"
"Yeah,"
"Is he cute?"
"Really cute but I don't want any attention pulled towards them otherwise the worst will happen so I kept it private;"
"That's the easiest thing to do I guess,"
"Yeah,"
"So you've also got your many recent duets with Shawn on this album, right?"
"Yep, Never Forget You and Secret Love Song."
"And Shawn you've been posting very suspecting images of you two in the studio, how much longer do we have to wait for more?"
"Well, rights and things like that have to be passed but we have some ready."
After the interview Shawn leaves to go to the studio and I carry on to do my day full of press.
The following morning I flew out to England for more promo there and on the Friday I headed down to Brighton to see Zoe (Sugg) as we'd been meeting up for a while and she wanted help with decorating her house for Christmas.
"Arri!" Zoe squeals when she sees me and hugs me tightly as I reach her door. I was staying with them for 3 nights and I believe Zoe had a lot planned.
"Hey!" I respond as I hear feet padding down the stairs.
"Hi A," Alfie was holding his blogging camera and hugged me. "Well I'm off, I'll be back later," He hugged Zoe and left.
"So, how are you doing?" I ask as she boils the kettle.
"I'm good, how about you?"
"Busy, my bag is entirely stage and costume designs for the tour."
"Exciting!" She laughs and I smile.
"So, considering your 3rd day is the 1st of December it's only right to have an Xmas movie marathon, right?"
"You're a bloody mind reader, where's Alfie gone?"
"To pick Joe up from the train station," She replies.
"You didn't tell me he was staying,"
"Because I found out yesterday, he's so unorganised its bad," I laugh and shake my head.
"Anyway, when the boys get back I think we're going shopping,"
"I should probably put on more make up," I sigh, "Oh well, I really cannot be bothered." My phone goes off and it's Shawn. Zoe slides the answer button and puts the call on speaker.
"Hey Mendes," I say and Zoe grins.
"Afternoon Swift,"
"What do you want?"
"To know when to book our flights to Mom's,"
"Uh, 3rd?"
"I thought Karlie and Josh were staying then,"
"5th then,"
"Okay, all set. See you soon A, love you."
"Love you too, bye."
I end the call and Zoe is still grinning, "So when are you getting married?"

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