Paper Airplane [s.m]

Thirty-Eight

I wake up to the sound of sizzling and laughing. I can smell bacon. I stretch and sit up. I look around the room and get confused for a second. I'm in Aaliyah's room and the door is wide open. I climb out of bed and walk down the hall. My eyes are still tired but I feel well rested.

Aaliyah is standing with her mom at the stove. She's flipping a piece of bacon while Karen is drinking coffee. Manny isn't awake yet, I'm guessing because he's no here. Shawn is sitting at the table with his head in his hands.

"Good morning honey." Karen smiles and sets her coffee down. She opens her arms for a hug but Shawn pushes he out of the way. He wraps his arms around me tightly.

"I'm so sorry. Aaliyah told me why you were upset. I was so tired and I was being stupid. I didn't know you slept on the couch." He says this all while hugging me.

"I honestly don't even remember why I was crying. I feel much better." I start laughing. Aaliyah laughs with me and Shawn looks unconvinced. Aaliyah whispers something to her mom and her mom starts laughing too.

"I get the same way." Karen laughs and pats me on the shoulder as she walks down the hall. She's probably waking Manny up.

"Seriously Shawn. I was having a mood swing or something. It's fine, no big deal." I shrug.

"Oh I'm so glad. I thought you were still mad at me." He hugs me again.

"No." I chuckle and wrap my arms around his torso.

The rest of the day is spent relaxing. Me and Shawn lay on his bed for a while, just talking.

"You should call the squad." He tells me.

"The squad?" I laugh. He has my hand laying on his stomach as he plays with my fingers. I can feel his stomach rise and fall with laughter.

"I don't want to say all their names." He admits.

"It's okay, I'll Skype them. Do you have a laptop?"

"Yeah." He reaches under his bed and pulls out a MacBook.

"Why was that under your bed?"

"Oh I don't know. I just like to keep it there." He shrugs like it's no big deal.

I log into my Skype account and call Thalia first. She picks up and I'm met with two faces. Well this makes things easy. Hopefully everyone with be with their boyfriend/girlfriend.

"Roni! Shawn!" Thalia exclaims and squeals. We haven't talked much since I left. Then again, I only left a few days ago.

"I'm gonna add Jade, you add Aaron." Thalia tells me. I guess she figured everyone would be with their partner too.

I add Aaron and he picks up pretty quickly.

"Hey guys!" Collin greets us with an arm around Aaron's waist.

Jade and Alex are together on the fourth screen.

"Isn't that a coincidence. All of us are with our other halves." Alex says and pokes her girlfriend's cheek.

"Um why are you wearing a Shawn Mendes shirt?" Aaron asks and we all look towards Thalia and Reggie's screen. You'd think Thalia was the one wearing the shirt but no, it was Reggie.

"Because my boyfriend is Shawn Mendes af." Thalia says and kisses his cheek.

"I mean, aren't we all?" I ask and look towards Shawn, who is sitting next to me.

He quickly kisses my lips with a smile.

"PDA!" Alex and Collins scream at the same time. They probably yelled it at different times but the delay on Skype makes it sound like it was at the same time.

We all laugh and change the topic pretty quickly. We spend hours on Skype before it's finally time to sleep again.

"Do I get a spot in the bed or do I have to sleep on the couch?" I joke. Even though I laugh at my joke, Shawn only frowns. I know he still feels bad but I was just trying to my funny.

"Okay..." I say and take sweatpants out of my bag. Why couldn't I find these last night? They were literally sitting on top of everything in the bag.

I peel the satin shorts off right in the middle of the bedroom. Shawn is sitting at his desk and can see directly at me. I don't feel like going across the hall to change when he's my boyfriend. I'm not embarrassed or anything.

"Veronica!" He practically squeaks. The chair almost falls over as he spins around.

"Oh grow up." I roll my eyes and grab my sweatpants. I know he was joking when he swirls back around and stares at me. I pull them up my legs and then grab the hem of my shirt. I take it off and put on an old YMCA shirt. I have this from when I played Volleyball in 8th grade. I can't believe it still fits me.

I get into bed and crawl under the covers. His comforter is big and fluffy and it feels like heaven.

"Shawn." I groan, reaching my hand out to grab him. His hand envelopes mine and he jumps into the bed next to me. I giggle when his arms pull me into his chest. Why the hell did I just giggle?

"Goodnight my love." He jokes. We don't use nicknames or pet names at all. I don't think either of us have anything against them, we've just never used them.

"Goodnight." I smile and bury my head in his chest. He smells so perfect. I've gotten used to his smell. It smells like coming home after a long trip and finally sleeping in your own bed. I wish I could fall asleep every night to the smell of Shawn.

His breathing is controlled and slow. He's asleep. I want to open my eyes and look at his sleeping face but I'm comfortable and my eyelids are heavy.

We spend our time in Toronto relaxing, before heading to Vancouver for his next Canada show. After Canada is Europe and I couldn't be more excited.