The Player

Chapter 12

At this point I don't know what to do. For one this is the first guy that ever stood out my house in the pouring rain singing. I'm crying of course but I just don't know if I can trust him. He gave me every reason not to.

I just stood in my door way contemplating if I should give him more chances then he deserves but at the same time I didn't see his truck. Did he walk here? But my heart is too big to let him stand outside. I mean after all it's down pouring. So I tell him to come in.

"Shawn you're crazy. What the hell are you doing standing out there in this storm. I could barely hear you but I heard you." I said as I handed him some dry clothes and a towel.
As he takes off his shirt I see his body is way more toned then what I thought was. "Look Bailey I'm not asking for another chance, I'm not asking for a just random date with you. I'm asking for you to be mine." He explains.

I'm not sure how to respond to this. "Look Shawn I-" he cuts me off "look Shawn nothing, look I was an asshole, but I made you a cd. It explains all my feelings. From when we first met until now. And I need to tell you something, no one knows yet. But I'm starting to write and produce music. I'm just starting out so there's really no big concerts. But I fly out to L.A. In two weeks and I don't want to leave and knowing I don't have you." He explains. But I'm still pissed at him for everything he's done. "Shawn that's great that really is, and I'll give a cd a listen, but don't expect me to be running into your arms, how many songs does the cd have? I ask out of curiosity. "There's only five, I haven't wrote anymore but i want you to be the first to listen to them." He says. "Well I can do that without a problem" I say as I smiled at him. He looks up and smiles. Damn that smile keeps getting better and better every time I see it.

We stay silent for a while, then I finally speak, "so where's your truck?" I asked. "What do you mean?" He answered. "Well I didn't see it anywhere" I answered. "Oh I ran here, I didn't want you to hear me. I wanted it to be a surprise." He explains. "Oh well that's thoughtful" I said.

It came around 10:40 and I yawned. "Shawn I'm going to go to bed, are you fine with sleeping on the couch?" I asked. "Uh yeah sure not a problem" he flashes a smile. God I swear it melts my heart. "Okay well goodnight see you tomorrow" I say "goodnight" he replied.

Once I get in my room, I don't actually go to bed. I texted Jordyn.

Me: "you'll never guess what just happened."

Jordyn: "what what what???"

Me: "Shawn ran and sang to me in the rain."

Jordyn: "wait what? Is he over there right now?"

Me: "yeah but he's sleeping on the couch tonight."

Jordyn: "BAILEY ARE YOU STUPID. HE OBVIOUSLY FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU."

Me: "I don't know. I mean I like him but he's an asshole."

As I was texting I hear him humming, and strumming his guitar. So curiously I went out to check what he was doing, I see him writing and strumming and humming. Then he starts to whistle. He stops for a second and starts to sing softly as if he's putting it all together:

"I promise that one day, I'll be around I'll keep you safe I'll keep you sound, right now it's pretty crazy and I don't know how to stop but slow it down, hey I know there are things we need to talk about."

He writes it down and starts doing what he did before. I go back to my room, lay down and keep my door open. He has an amazing voice and I want to hear him singing. I only hear a few words before I start to drifted off.

The next morning I wake up and Shawns gone but he left a cd and a note:

"Hey instead of five songs there's six. Please listen to them. They mean a lot to me." -SM

I look and it's only 5:45 am I have plenty of time to do nothing. So I grab my clothes and back pack and get to school earlier then I usually do. It's around 7 once I get to school. There's really no one here beside teachers. So I decided to listen to his cd. I pop it in and I hear his voice.

"Hey my name is Shawn Mendes I'm only 18, the songs on here are how I felt towards a girl. She changed me from who I was to who I am today."

As I hear the first song he says the title,
This is Called "imagination"
As the song starts to play I realized that this was about the first time we met and it explained why he would show up at the weirdest times. As the song ended I hear a knock on my door, I look over a see Jordyn "hey what are you doing?" She asked "oh just listening to the radio, why?" I answered "nothing I just wasn't expecting you to be here this early, wanna go get breakfast?" She answered.

I agree and once we get to the place we grab our food and sit down. I tell Jordyn everything Shawn said to me last night. She just sits there taking all the gossip. When I get a text.

Shawn: "hey, um turns out I'm leaving in two days... can I spend the last two nights with you? We don't have to do anything I just want to see you before I leave."

I show Jordyn the text and she takes my phone and types and sends a message. "JORDYN WHAT THE FUCK" I say. I take my phone back and look at the message she sent.

Me: "well of course Shawn. I'll see you tonight then?"

Shawn: "yeah I'll see you soon"

I didn't respond to his last text, a little annoyed I tell her we have to go and get to school. The first six hours are as usual. The semester is almost half way done and so far my grades are amazing. I only have one C+ and that's in 7th hour.

I walk into class to see Shawn already there talking to the teacher, he seems to beam with excitement as he telling the teacher something. The teacher grins and shakes his hand. I'm guessing he's telling him that he won't be here for a while. I start to feel something deep down inside. It's not a good feeling either. Tears start to form in my eyes. Shawn sees this and comes over and hugs me.

"What's wrong baby?" He asks. "I don't know I just started crying and I feel like I'm empty and I just don't know" I say as I start sobbing, by this time class started and were in the halls. And guy comes by and says something "look I think Shawn finally knocked up a girl, oh and it's the miss goody two shoes" he chuckled.

I don't know what really happened it went all so fast. But Shawn let go of me and started to fight with the kid as all I heard him said was "leave her the hell out of this" and then the next thing I know their fighting and Shawns on top of him beating the shit out of him. The teachers come and pull them apart, they get sent to the office. The rest of the hour I couldn't pay attention, all I could think about was when Shawn was leaving. It's hurt bad.

After school ends I see Shawn still in the office i decided to wait for him. It seemed like forever but once he got out he saw me and walked over to me "hey I'm sorry about that I just got angry and I didn't realize what I was doing" he explained. "It's fine." I replied. We quietly walk to my car. "So you leave on Wednesday huh?" I asked my heart sinking as I knew the answer.

"Yea I leave here at 3:45 am" he says looking down. "The sixth song on the cd I gave you, if you ever actually missed me listen to it. Okay?" He asked, I nodded. "Shawn?" I asked "yeah?" He answered. "What made you change? Like what about me made you change so much?" I asked. "Honestly I don't know, all I know is I have this feeling I can't describe and when I'm with you it seems to come out a lot and I get nervous around you and I just don't know, I think I'm falling in love with you." He explains.

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