Shawn Mendes, the Secret? [COMPLETED]

Chapter 11 - Performance

I walk into our house and am immediately met by my extremely excited mum. She's made muffins and is blasting music through the messy house - which is something she hasn't done since he disappeared.

"What is going on here?" Shawn whispers.

"I have no idea." I say equally confused. Normally mum likes everything neat and tidy. Shawn and I close the front door and walk carefully towards my mum.

"What's going on?" I ask puzzled.

"He's ... he's ... alive!" She says pausing for breath.

"He's alive?" I ask for confirmation.

"Yes!" she yells ecstatically. Which makes adrenaline run through my body and before I know it I am even more excited than mum. I need to do something, anything to express or get this adrenaline from my body I feel like I am on top of the world. I feel like I could do anything! I turn around back to Shawn who is even more confused.

"Yes!" I say which leaves him even more confused.

"Yes?" He asks

"Yes, I will perform with you but, it has to be today!" I say while running up stairs to grab my ukulele. "Let's go!" I say pulling on his hand making him come stumbling out of the house.

"Charley! Are you sure?" He asks stopping me in my tracks. Truthfully I'm not sure I want to perform but I really want to and what better time than when I'm extremely hyper?

"Yes!" I say tugging on his arm making him jog with me to the coffeehouse, which is where we will preform.

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"Shawn?" I ask timidly.

"Yeah?" He asks calmly, like extremely calm. How can somebody be so calm when they are about to perform in front of people!!!

"I don't think I can do this!" I say on the verge of bursting into uncontrollable tears.

~~~~{Shawn's POV}~~~~

"Charley, you can do this. You don't even have to look at the audience;  just look at me or the back wall." I say reassuring the girl who's hand is shaking violently. I reach up and rest my hand on her shoulder turning her around so that she is facing the entrance to the small stage. "It's now or never?" I say taking her hand so that I can lead her on to the stage. Okay, so maybe I also wanted to hold her hand. I quickly introduce us and I can see Charley slowly tensing up. I sit down at the keyboard and start playing the cords to history like we agreed on.

~~~~{Charley's POV}~~~~

Once Shawn let's go of my hand I suddenly feel extremely vulnerable. I stand awkwardly behind the microphone waiting for my cue to play and sing.

Once it is my turn I can feel my legs shaking so much, I just hope nobody noticed. Even though you could hear that I was nervous because of my voice. I take my eyes off of Shawn for a split second and look at the crowd. I can see an older couple sitting at a table directly in front of me, however I also see a lot of teenage girls some of which I recognise from school. Oddly they are just looking at Shawn and probably haven't even noticed me yet. I look back towards Shawn and his eyes connect with mine for the whole second chorus. Oh no now it's my solo. A solo! I'm so not ready for a solo. I connect my eyes back to wards the audience suddenly feeling very uneasy. My cheeks start to flush red and my head starts to feel a slight bit dizzy.  I NEED TO ESCAPE!!! The door. I sprint off of the stage and out of the door immediately collapsing on a bench.

Few! I'm out of there! I suddenly realise that my breathing has become heavier however, my hand has stopped shaking. I sit on the bench for a minute before realising that it has started raining heavily. I stand up and am met by Shawn's concerned eyes.

"I'm sorry!" I blurt out immediately followed by tears rolling down my cheeks. "You probably hate me now!"

"It's okay Charley, I don't blame you!" He says pulling me towards himself. I rest my head on his chest and stay in that position sobbing for a good minute or two. I lift my head up and look into Shawn's normally hazel eyes that have magically  turned green. Weird! "It's okay to cry" he adds while my cheeks start to go red with embarrassment. Shawn tucks a piece of loose hair behind my ear and whispers "do you want to go back inside?" I shake my soaking wet head not wanting to go back to my place of embarrassment. As yet another tear falls down my face Shawn rests his hand on my cheek - which evolves that weird butterfly feeling - he moves his thumb to wipe away the tears. I look into his eyes and notice that his are either looking at his thumb or my lips.  Suddenly his eyes move position returning back to mine, he lifts my head up a little and pulls me in. I couldn't even register what was going on before his soft lips touched mine. Wow!

He quickly pulls away, which makes me wonder if I did something wrong. "Sorry I shouldn't have done that ..." he keeps muttering apologies as I try to stop him. The only way to stop him was to kiss him, so I did! Well maybe it isn't the only option but it was my favourite one that came to mind.

"You are forgiven!" I laugh resting my forehead on his.

"I like you Charley!" Woah this took me by surprise, even though I should have seen it coming seen as well did just kiss twice in the last thirty seconds.

"I like you too,  Mendes!" I say with out thinking. Then Shawn pulls me in for another more passionate kiss.

"Wow! I've wanted to say and do that for ages!" Shawn bursts out laughing and so do I!

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