Falling for you//Shawn Mendes

11

The rest of the school day had passed and it was finally time to go home. The day was extremely stressful, the entire day people would point at me and laugh, whisper about me and give me horrible looks, Katie still wouldn't talk to me so I stopped trying with her and ignored her, I also didn't talk to Nate much either, so I was alone and surrounded by other judging students.
Nate and I met at the front gate and hopped on the bus, we didn't talk much, I had my headphones in and was listening to music and he sat anxiously biting his nails, which he does when he's nervous, I had a feeling I knew what he had to talk to me about in private, but it was still worrying knowing that it's something important between just me and him.

We soon arrived home, although it didn't really feel like home anymore. I dumped all my stuff on the dining room table and made my way to the living room, I flopped myself on the sofa and unplugged my headphones, Nate walked in the room and sat down next to me, he turned to face me and gently held my hands "okay, let me finish everything I'm saying before you ask questions and get upset" I sighed
"Look Nate, I think I know what this is about" he looked at me and sighed "please...just hear me out" I said nothing and let him talk, he explained to me that he thought we were on a break and he was just friends with that girl, they were hanging out the entire time I was gone and it just happened, he slept with her, as soon as I heard him admit it, my heart just broke and the tears started streaming down my face, he wrapped his arms around me and held me, he held me for a long time, I didn't know if I was upset, angry, or both but either way, it broke me. I may have my ups and downs with Nate, and he may abuse me from time to time, but that's when his anger gets to him, I never actually thought he would cheat on me, and here Katie is, thinking it's me cheating, well she's got that all wrong.
"Alysia, you don't understand how sorry I am, please give me a chance, give us a chance, I'll make up for it, I still love you" he croaked, I sighed and shook my head to the ground , I couldn't even look at him "Nate" I cried, you could barely hear me, my voice cracked and tears were still running down my face "I think I should just leave, I need some time alone, I'll be back tonight to bring my stuff to dads house, I knew we never should've lived together anyway, we're 16" I didn't want to waste my time crying in front of him over this, I stood up "Sia... please don't leave" but whatever he could say this time wouldn't stop me, I grabbed my phone and keys and left the house, I was still crying, why couldn't I stop crying?! I didn't know where I was walking to but I was walking somewhere, I ended up phoning Shawn and asking him to pick me up

I soon saw Shawn's car pull-up, I walked over to it and he ran out and over to me, he saw me and just pulled me into a huge bear hug "it's okay hunny, let it all out, I'll take you to mine and you can tell me everything and cry all night if you need to" I nodded, soaking his jumper with tears. I pulled away from Shawn and wiped my wet face, I smiled a short and toothless smile and he did the same back, we walked over to his car and both slowly sat in it, he started up the engine and drove to his house.

We soon arrived, we walked into his house, I had cheered up a bit as we were blurting out song lyrics to one direction and having the time of our lives the entire journey here, we walked into his bedroom and sat on his bed "do you want to explain?" He asked me concerned, I shook my head and he nodded back "not yet, I don't want to cry again" I laughed glumly, he nodded his head "well then" he said, clapping his hands together "I've written some more of that song!" He exclaimed, a smile quickly grew across my face "go on then, let's hear it!" I cried, he stood up off the bed and grabbed his acoustic guitar from his wall, he had a lot of guitars, he had a wall full of them, acoustic and electric, although he played acoustic for this song. He sat back down on the bed with his guitar and prepared his voice as he sung.

I won't lie to you
I know he's just not right for you
And you can tell me if I'm off
But I see it on your face
When you say that he's the one that you want
And you're spending all your time
In this wrong situation
And anytime you want it to stop
I know I can treat you better than he can
And any girl like you deserves a gentleman
Tell me why are we wasting time
On all your wasted crying
When you should be with me instead
I know I can treat you better
Better than he can
I'll stop time for you
The second you say you'd like me too
I just wanna give you the loving that you're missing
Baby, just to wake up with you
Would be everything I need and this could be so different
Tell me what you want to do

I stood up and applauded him, he had such a perfect and angelic voice, and he was unbelievable on guitar. "Teach me how to play guitar, I want to be as good as you!" I cried laughing,he laughed back "okay then, I'll teach you a different song that I wrote, it's called Imagination" he told me, I smiled widely "yes please!" I said, clapping my hands together "okay" he said "you use this one" he passed me the guitar he was just using and got up and grabbed another acoustic off the wall and sat back down next to me. "Okay" he begun, I listened carefully, "I will play the introduction, although I don't want you to worry about that yet, when you play the chords don't worry about the strumming pattern, I'll do all the difficult parts and you just strum one long strum on each chord" I nodded, he started to play the introduction, and he played it just as well as usual "so the first chord is Aminor, place your first finger on second string fret one and your second and third fingers on strings three and four on fret two" he showed me the position of his hand and I placed mine the way he showed me "every time I nod play the chord" he told me, again I nodded, concentrating on not loosing position with the chord, he started to sing
Oh, there she goes again
And he nodded when he said again, so I strummed down, and the chord sounded beautiful "wow!" He said "that sounded perfect!" I smiled, feeling proud of myself as I had never played guitar before "now the next chord" he said excitedly "now this ones a bit harder, although I've got a good feeling about it" he told me, I nodded and smiled as I listened to him explain the chord, and he was right, it was difficult, and painful! But I managed to play it and by the end of the night I had managed to play the first page of the song he had written.