A long way home {a Shawn Mendes fanfiction}

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Well, this chapter will be much longer than all the other chapters. ENJOY READING I LOVE U ALL💞
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Why?" I stand up while I feel tears burning in my eyes
"Go!"
"You want me to go away?"
"GO!" My dad lifts his hand to hit me again. Right in my face this time.
I run out of the house and knock at Shawn's.
"What happened oh my god Ashley!" Karen opens the door and lets me in
"I'm sorry that I came here, my dad wanted me to go and I didn't know where else to go"
Karen yells "SHAWN!! COME HERE IMMEDIATELY!"
Shawn runs down the stairs and sees me. "You have blood everywhere Ashley! Mom take care of her please I don't know what to do! Oh my god. Is it you dad again?"
I sigh. I'm okay, I just had nowhere else to go"
Shawn pulls me into a hug
"You are so stupid"
His surprised look makes me laugh "now you have my blood on your clothes"
"Oh, I really don't care about that"
Karen lays her hand on my shoulder "come on beauty, let me clean your face and let me look how bad it is"
I nod and follow her. I look at myself in the mirror
OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD.
The right side of my face, that hit the wall when my dad kicked me, is red and bloody, my eye is swollen and bruised and between my nose and the middle of my cheek is no skin, blood falls down on my shoulder and when I look where it comes from I see that there is a big wound on my head. I see nothing else but blood and I feel more and more pain. Karen gives me a worried look and I feel dizzy. "Come here girl" I hear Shawn's voice behind me and a strong arm that finds it's way around my waist and helps me not to fall. I slowly walk to the living room where that strong arm helps me to sit down on a chair.
"You're really white, I'll get you some water" says Shawn while his mom starts cleaning my face and head.
Shawn comes back with a glass of water and his mom gives him a worried look. "I think we need to go to the hospital"
Shawn nods slowly and helps me to stand up. We walk to Karen's jeep and he sits next to me in the back. He keeps talking to me to make sure I didn't faint or something.
He's so sweet
"How do you feel?" He asks again
"I'm okay, really" but the wound on my head won't stop bleeding and my face, which karen cleaned some minutes ago, is all bloody again. Shawn wraps his arm around my waist as we walk into the hospital. Immediately a doctor comes and helps us. "You look really sick" Shawn's worried voice slowly gets into my mind.
"You all need to leave her now." I hear a strange voice saying.
I think we arrived in a room because the doctor pushes me down on a bed.
"I... I want Shawn to stay here... please..."  I mumble "please..."
The doctor nods slowly. "Okay"
I feel some weird things in my arm and then slowly fall asleep

~ next day ~
"Ashley, Ashley..."
I slowly open my eyes and smile immediately because of the face that I meet with
"Hey Shawn" I say. I can't stop smiling. He is so beautiful.
"Hey beautiful" I hear some female voice whispering. I look at the other side of the bed and see Karen. "Hey. Thank you so much. For letting me in and caring for me yesterday"
She nods "of course"
"I really feel better" I smile
"Yeah, the doctor said it wasn't that bad. Your wounds only need time to repair. You were aloud to go home when you woke up."
I look sad "I... uhm..."
"What?" Shawn takes my hand "tell me, it's okay"
"I don't want to..."
"What? What don't you want to?" Shawn looks confused
"I don't want to go home... what if-"
I got cut off by the doctors extremely loud voice "well! I see you are awake! Fine, you can go home. Is this your mother?"
Karen shakes her head no "no, but I'll pay for everything"
"What? No, you don't!" I turn my head towards her "ouch"  I reach to the wound on my head.
"Be careful" Shawn holds my hand tighter. "I'm okay" I smile at him.
He caresses my forehead and still holds my hand. I can't help it.
I think I'm in love
In love
Love...

I look up at Shawn and we make eye contact. He smiles again and looks at his mother.
"Imma leave you two alone for a moment" she winks at Shawn
What the hell
Shawn blushes and scratges his neck "what was that about?" I laugh
"Well... I need to tell you something"
I'm the one that blushes this time not knowing what's coming.
Shawn takes a deep breath
"I.. I think... I think I like you... uhm not in that way." He scratches his neck again "fuck it, I'll just tell you" he whispers to himself
"I love you..."
Damn
I look down and see him blushing. He looks up at me and smiles. "I need you to know that..." I can't help but smile.
As he walks away I whisper
"Shawn?"
He turns around and looks me in the eyes "yes?"
"I love you too" A big smile appears on his face making me smile even more.
I stand up and he takes me in his arms.
I rest my head on his chest and we stand there for about ten minutes.
He lays his head down on mine.
*knock knock*
I jump up. Causing me to fall. I wait for myself to hit the ground. But when I didn't reach the ground some seconds later I open my eyes to meet with a beautiful smiling Shawn. I blush "thank you"
He just smiles. My heart melts. I love him.
"Ahw you two are serious goals" we hear a strange voice behin us. We turn around and see the doctor.
Shawn smiles
"We're not together"
I look down
"Oh I'm sorry"
"It's okay"
We should be together
My phone rings
"Shit... that's my dad"
"I will pick it up" Shawn grabs my phone
"No...." too late