New Rise

Party

He pulls into his driveway. We walk in the door and the ceiling is covered in twinkling lights. I also see a table with presents on it.

"I have outdone myself," Lyla says walking into the living room.

"No kidding." Everyone walks into the living room.

"I know you got a camera, so let's get a picture of you two," she says pointing at Shawn and I.

I hand her the camera. Shawn wraps his arm around my waist and I look up at him. He is smiling perfectly at the camera. I see a small flash out of the corner of my eye and I turn to face Lyla.

"Perfect. Now, I know you said no party or presents, but I couldn't help myself," she says bouncing up and down.

"Fine, I will be happy at this party because I know you put a lot of time and effort into it." She squeals and walks over to the gift table, she hands me a fairly large one.

I open it up and inside is a new sound system, but it feels to light. "Jordan got this for you, he took it out before wrapping the box and is setting it up now." I'll have to thank him when he gets back. Next, she hands me a smaller present.

"This one's from me," Shawn says.

"Another present." He nods his head. I open it and I see that it's a CD case. It's dark blue with a purple zigzag in the middle. "Open it up."

I unzip the case and inside is a CD. "It's a CD of songs I recorded, of me playing the piano."

"I didn't know you played the piano," I say to him.

"I learned how over in London." I give him a kiss on the cheek and I thank him. I'm always learning new things about Shawn everyday. I love him.

Lyla hands me a really small present. I go to open it, and I get a paper cut. I see Shawn has tensed up and is holding his breath. "It's okay, I'll just grab you a band aid," Lyla says as she goes to get me one. She comes back, and wraps it around the cut.

"I need some air," Shawn struggles to say. He runs out of the house, leaving me just staring after him.

"He'll be back in a second," his mom says as she gestures back to the present in my hand. I open it up and inside is two planes tickets to Toronto. "They're round trip tickets to visit your mom whenever you'd like to, non refundable."

Of course, Shawn probably put the idea in her head. Shawn then reenters the house and stands behind me. "What did I miss?" Jordan asks, walking in shortly after Shawn. We all shoot him a death stare. "Alright, I really didn't want to know."

Lyla and her mom then bring out a cake. I blow out the candles and Shawn cuts the cake. He gives me the first piece and he grabs one himself. "You don't have to you know," I tell him.

"It's alright, I have to at least let my family see me eat once." I smile at him as he eats a bite of the cake. "I don't know why you like this so much."

"It's good if your human," I whisper and he chuckles. Jordan walks over to us.

"Well, this is the first birthday party she's had since you left, if fact probably the first party in general," Jordan says to Shawn. He looks down at me and I blush.

"So, my going away party was the last party you went to?" he asks holding my face in his hands to look at him.

"Yes. Nothing was the same without you, I have always loved you," I tell him truthfully, looking deep into his honey golden eyes.

"That's funny, me neither." I blush even more and he kisses the top of my head. Jordan gushes and I just wrap my arms around Shawn. "So, if I had stayed, we would've eventually ended up together?" he asks, a twinkle in his eyes.

"Obviously, I told you, I have always loved you, even when I shot you down when we were kids." He smiles even more as I turn the brightest shade of red. It was now 9:13, so I decided to head home. "It's getting late, so I'm going home."

"In working a night shift so I won't be home till 8:00 am," my dad says. I nod my head and he heads off to work.

"I'll see you later sis, my school is having a huge game of manhunt, it starts at 10:00" Jordan says to me.

"Alright see you tomorrow I guess." Shawn grabs my hand and leads me to his car. We drive in silence the whole way.

"See you later," Shawn says.

"Your not gonna stay?" I ask him.

"It is your birthday but you didn't want to celebrate."

"Okay, I changed my mind, we can celebrate. Please stay." He nods his head and goes to wait till his family falls asleep.

I jump out of bed when I hear my window open. It was about 11 and he was standing there looking amazing as always. "You should get some sleep."

"When are you gonna leave?" I ask him, hoping never.

"After you wake up." I nod my head and we cuddle up on my bed. I didn't want to fall asleep.

"Are you okay?" I ask him.

"I'm fine, why?"

"You left when I got a paper cut."

"The smell was driving me crazy, and I felt like I was going to lose my self control."

"Your fine around other people, why me?" He shakes his head, he didn't even know himself. "I love you Shawn Mendes."

"I love you too Kaitlyn," he says, wrapping me in his arms. I close my eyes and I slowly drift off to sleep, safe in his arms.