Patience ➳ Shawn Mendes

Chapter 27

It was Thanksgiving and I had been invited by the Mendes family because mine didn't celebrate it. Shawn wanted me to experience it and had asked his parents if I could celebrate it with them. Karen being the ever loving person, she invited me of course and told me that my family could all come and celebrate. 

My parents thanked her for her generousity but said that they already had other plans but I was free to spend the evening with them. 

Aaliyah had then gone and asked if I could spend the night with her and her family. She wanted some time with me and I felt bad for spending nearly all my time with Shawn while I was over at her house and nearly none with her. 

My parents had agreed, as long as I slept in Aaliyah's room or if the door to Shawn's room was open at all times. His parents had said that I'd sleep with Aaliyah but if I sneaked into Shawn's room in the middle of the night, they could do nothing. 

Shawn had told me that his parents weren't strict about the boyfriend/girlfriend thing but there were still limits and he also didn't want to cross any bridges we weren't ready for. 

I have always had the opinion that before you did something as a couple, you also had to be ready for it as a couple and not only as an individual. It is not because you're both ready for something as an individual that you're ready for it as a couple. 

I had the luck that Shawn thought the same because he didn't want to push me at all into something I wasn't ready for. I knew he had gone further in past relationships than I ever had and that he had probably gone all the way while I had barely hit third base. 

The most Shawn and I had done so far was heavy petting but that was okay because that was the most we were ready for. We weren't ready to go further... at the time. 

Lately, Shawn and I have had some wandering hands and every time we had been interrupted before something could happen when we both wanted it to happen. However I was very sure that we would do nothing while I was staying at their house because it would feel wrong. Both his parents would be in the house and so would his sister and I would supposed to be sleeping in his sister's room. 

He had said I could always sneak into his room at night, his door would be open but I had told him it was not likely to happen because I didn't want to disrespect his parents like that which he had completely understood. He had said it in the presence of his family to joke but I hadn't joked about it and I think I just won Karen and Manuel over even more. 

There was one thing I didn't understand though. 

Dad had always told me and my siblings that if there was ever anything, including having sex with boyfriend/girlfriend, we could come to them and he knew I would do it. I had always told my parents I would come to them with that because I'd like them to know what was happening in my life. 

So even if I were to sleep in Shawn's room, my parents had to have known that I would do nothing with him. 

It made me nervous though. His whole family would be there and I was going to meet them all and I was not sure if I was ready for that which made me seem like a hypocrite because I had no problems whatsoever with sharing our relationship with his fans and the whole world but actually meeting his family made me scared. 

"Hey." Shawn said as he rubbed his finger along my knuckles. "Don't worry, my family will love you." 

We were in his car on our way to his house. He had already informed me that his family was already there and all waiting for me to come so they could meet me. 

He told me it was a more formal thing but also casual so I didn't have to dress up to the nines but that jeans would not be accepted by his grandmother because she was the one that made a big deal out of it.