Forever & Always

Chapter 12

*Sarah POV*

I closed my door and slid down the back, my heart was racing, me and Hayes were still dating, and I mean, I still loved him but we hadn't really been talking for the last wile. I'm not sure why, we just hadn't been talking, nothing had happened, things hadn't changed since Shawn and I had left to head back to Toronto, and that was a week ago.

the guys had an early Christmas dinner with their families before coming up here so we could have a even bigger family dinner, or at least a MAGCON family dinner. though, I mean, Shawn never really mentioned that they'd be here this fast.

I didn't realize that I had been sitting against my door until Shawn came knocking on it, "hey Sarah? everything okay?" his voice startled me, I looked at the lock on the wall and it had been 4 hours?! I shocked myself, "uh- I mean, yeah I'm fine!" I stuttered out, "uh, okay well we're playing monopoly downstairs if you want to join?" Shawn said, "y-yeah ill be down in a minute" I yelled back out. I heard Shawn try to start a sentence with me, but quickly backed off and walked away from the door.

I changed my clothes as fast as possible and splashed my face with cold water, "wake up, Sarah. c'mon wake up!" I whisper/yelled to myself before drying off my face and collecting myself to head back downstairs and see everyone. 

I turned around to close my bedroom door and when I came around from that, there was Hayes, standing right behind me, with his hands in his pockets looking a bit like a lost puppy. "hey, Sarah" he paused, "hi Hayes," I said back, the awkwardness evident in both of our voices, I went to start saying something but Shawn cut me off, "SARAH?! Lets go dinners getting cold!!" he yelled up the stairs. I gave Hayes a quick nod and moved on down the stairs to have dinner.

the guys were all huddled around the counter watching something or talking, who knows, I kinda just budged my way through to get myself a plate and a limited amount of food and then sat myself down on the couch with my book, waiting for the guys to join. they never did, but thats ok because I just went back upstairs with my book and turned on some music and relaxed to that for a bit.

At least until Hayes appeared at my door.