I wish you lived next door | Shawn Mendes fanfiction

Who's the mystery girl?

Shawn's POV
"We can't take the bus home. The paparazzi will find us. Can we walk?"

"Uh if you wanna walk for half an hour."
Emma sounds annoyed.

"Damn it. What's the plan?"

Emma's starts looking around. You can see that she's thinking about something.

"My dad is at my grandmother's place. We can walk, it's probably 5 minutes. My dad will bring us home."

I nod.

"But Shawn, you need to know something."

"What is it?"

"I made you believe that my grandmother is great at sports and we always play tennis together."

"Isn't it true then?"

"It's true. Well, it used to be true. Not anymore." Emma's voice begins to crack. I see her holding back her tears.

"Emma talk to me. It's okay. You can trust me."

Emma nods and her first tear streams down her face. She quickly wipes it away. "I know, I do trust you, with my life but.. Besides my family, only my best friend Sophie knows about it and she was there when we got the news so I never really told anyone exactly what is going on." She grabs my hand. "Last year, my grandma got breastcancer. It wasn't really that bad and the doctors were convinced that she was going to survive but about 5 months ago she got cancer in her brains. The doctors gave her 6 months. So 1 more month left.."
Emma starts crying really hard.

I give Emma a hug and a kiss on her head. "Honey, I'm so sorry."

Emma keeps crying in my arms.
We get out of our hug and I wipe away her tears.

"It's just, you need to know what's going on in my life and you need to know it before you see her because all she does is laying in bed, and puke and she is so skinny and pale all the time."

"I'm glad you told me. How are you dealing with it?"

"I'm fine.. Most of the time. I just don't wanna be sad. My grandma was like my second mom, we did so much stuff together and suddenly it ended. I wanna spend the time that I have with her great and being sad all the time will ruin it."

"And that's exactly how you should be dealing with it. Now give me another hug and let's walk."

Emma's POV
"Hi grandma." I give her a kiss on her cheeck.

"Hi darling." She smiles. Then she looks at Shawn. "And who is this handsome young man?"

I start laughing. "Uhm this is Shawn, my boyfriend."

Shawn gives my grandmother a hand. "It's nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too."

"Grandma, do you remember the songs Stitches and This Is What It Takes that we always played when we cooked together?"

Shawn turns his head and looks at me with a huge smile on his face.

"Of course I remember that song. Why?"

I point to Shawn. "Well this is Shawn Mendes. Those are his songs."

My grandmother's eyes get big and she opens her mouth really wide. "NO WAY."

I nod and laugh and tell the story about how we met.

"That's adorable. I hate to ask you but can you sing something for me Shawn?"

"Of course!" He answers with a smile on his face.

He takes her hand and starts singing This Is What It Takes.

There streams a tear down my grandmother's face. And after that, also a tear down my face, my father's face and Shawn's face.

After Shawn sang beautifully, we get into my dad's car and he brings us home.

Shawn's POV
When we get home I check my twitter.

@teenvogue: "Who's Shawn Mendes' Mystery Girl? http://www.teenvogue.com/aoojn976"

I open the link. I see all the photos the paparazzi & the girls at the restaurant took today.
I start reading the article.

"While everyone thought Shawn Mendes was still in Milan, he actually went back to Holland. The reason why is this Mystery Girl.
They were spotted in Utrecht today. First they were eating dinner together and then they got captured kissing.
Out of all the 10 pictures we have, we have 0 with her face on it. The girls who saw them together did see her face but they didn't know her. So Shawn Mendes, when are you going to tell us who this mystery girl is?"

I sigh. I'm gonna get so many questions about this in Interviews, from fans, friends and family. Not exciting.

I take a shower to clear my head, watch the Last Song with Emma and we get in bed.

"Did you read it?" Emma asks me with a really high voice like she's about to cry.

I nod. "But we'll ignore it. Don't worry, it's gonna be alright."

"Okay then." Emma puts her hair in a bun and she turns off the lights.

I give Emma a kiss. "Goodnight baby."

"Goodnight. Thanks for today."