Fate ~ Shawn Mendes

Chapter 2

"I've got to run, but I hope to see you later..."
"Clara." I smiled to finish his sentence. He smiled and quickly licked the corner of his mouth before looking to a man in glasses beside him and then back at me.
"Where are you seated?" He Quickly asked touching my forearm with his smooth hands.
"I'm not, I'm dancing tonight so I'm spending the majority of my time backstage." I said stepping toward Shawn to let people behind me past.
"That's awesome! I'll look out for you." He smiled showing his perfect set of white teeth and with that he disappeared into the sea of people beside me. I took a deep breath and smiled to myself knowing that I had just spoken to the Shawn Mendes without embarrassing myself.
"Clara!" I heard a shout and someone grabbing my arm causing me to spin round. "Come on were on soon!" It was Adam and he didn't look very happy with me for some reason. I made my way back to the dressing room with Adam pulling me along like a child. I was soon met with Ryan again and he re did my hair into two tight Dutch braids. He applied dark makeup onto my face as I was firstly performing a dark dance with four other dancers, including Adam. I wore black leggings and a black fishnet crop top on top of my black sports bra.
"Dancers to stage!" A man knocking on the door shouted. We all hopped off our chairs and made our way into the corridor and followed the stage manager to backstage. A quick run through was needed to calm nerves as we all went through the dance in our heads as the act on stage performed.
"Guys." Ally addressed us all and we all looked towards her. "They've stopped singing."
We all turned to the stage and sure enough the crowd were cheering as the act walked off to the other wing and the lights faded.
We saw David Guetta and Charli XCX enter the stage and we knew we had to take our places. I stood behind the wing closest to the stage and I saw Sarah opposite me giving me a nod of reassurance. The music started and the crowd went wild as the others started dancing on stage better than they had ever danced before.
I closed my eyes listening to the music as it vibrated through my body waiting for my cue. The chorus came in no time and I opened my eyes as I started running onto the stage throwing myself into a round off followed by three backflips. I landed and started doing my combination doing quick Sharp moves in sync with Sarah. A smile appeared on my face as I started to relax and enjoy myself more and I looked out at the audience as they held up their phones and jumped with the music.
I made my way to the back of the stage and Adam was diagonally in front of me, we stood towards each other and as the Music built to the final chorus the others knelt down and I ran at Adam and he held his hands upwards intertwined as a platform for my foot, I placed my foot in his palms and did a backflip in the air before kneeling in the same position as the others. We all stood up in perfect timing and performed the last part of the dance, and man did we dance hard, we were giving it everything we had got and the crowd were loving it.
Charli came in the middle of us all and we all made our way round her and posed as the song ended, me crouching in front.
We all smiled as the presenter came on stage and thanked us for our performance. As I looked out to the crowd I saw Shawn looking at me slightly biting his lip, turning it into a smirk when he saw me looking back. We didn't break the eye contact as we continued smiling at each other. I suddenly felt an arm grip round my small waist and pulling me closer to their body. Adam. He was looking dead ahead where I was just looking, at Shawn. His jaw clenched as he noticed I was looking and I furrowed my eyebrows at him mentally sighing to myself and then looking back at Shawn who had a confused expression on his face.
We were cheered for as we exited the stage and I looked out for Shawn but his chair was empty. Had he thought Adam and I were dating and gotten pissed off? I walked into the wing and out the fire exit to get some air, I think I was having a hot flush. As I pushed the door harshly I heard a groan and saw a built man rubbing his arm.
"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" I said putting a hand over my mouth.
"Don't be such a baby Geoff!"
I looked behind me and saw Shawn laughing at his hurt friend rubbing his arm.
"We meet again." I smiled.
"So we do." Shawn said coming in front of me next to Geoff.
"I'm going to get an ice pack." Geoff awkwardly smiled as he went indoors and Shawn sighed rolling his eyes.
"I-"
"Your boyfriend looks pretty territorial." Shawn cut me off and placing his hands in his pockets.
"He's not my boyfriend." I stated.
"Does he know that?" Shawn questioned, his eyes becoming darker.