Found and saved by Shawn Mendes

Midnight Nightmares

And he stayed there.

I felt my eyelids falling.

So I fell asleep on the grass by my play set. 

I woke up and my phone was buzzing in my back pocket. I looked at the time and it was 3:00 in the morning. Devils hour. It scared me so bad. I was getting mean texts from the kids from school. I started crying silently knowing I would wake the animals up. I looked over to the other side of the yard and saw Shawn still lying on the ground... asleep. I slowly stood up and started walking over to Shawn. I now had tears rapidly streaming down my face and I was tripping and having a really hard time trying to get to Shawn. I was trying my hardest to choke down my sobs, until I couldn't anymore and a loud sob came out and I covered my mouth quickly, while sitting down next to Shawn, still crying.

*Shawns POV*

I couldn't get Alyssa to come out of her hiding spot so I just slept outside. Her dogs weren't looking for her either. They must have a  specific plan where they don't give away her hiding place. 

***********TIME SKIP****************

I heard crying but I didn't listen because it might be in my dream.  I was sleeping when I heard a loud sob. I opened my eyes and saw Alyssa sitting next to me crying. That was, of course alarming so I sat up and hugged her. She screamed and started pushing me away. "Shhhhh, it's okay, it's only me." I whispered. She calmed down and I set her on my lap. I started singing "Memories" to her.

♬When I wake up to your footsteps

As you get up out of bed

They make a sound that sounds so simple

But dances in my head

A melody so perfect

That it gets me through the day

And the thought of us forever

Is one that won't ever go away

All I need to know is

Where to stop

Take my hand and show me forever

So never will I ever let you go

So let's hold on together

To this paper and this pen

And write down every letter

To every word we've ever said

All I need to know is

Where to stop

Take my hand and show me forever

So never will I ever let you go

Let's write our story

And let's sing our song

Let's hang our pictures on the wall

All these precious moments

That we carved in stone

Are only memories after all

And let's sing our song

Let's hang our pictures on the wall

All these precious moments

That we carved in stone

Are only memories after all

Memories after all

Memories after all, and oh

Memories after all, and oh

You gave me hope

But I've got to let go

I've got to let go

Oh

It's deep in my soul

Deep in my soul

Now I've got to let go

We wrote our story

And we sang our songs

We hung our pictures on the wall

But I've got to let go

I've got to let go

Oh

It's deep in my soul

Deep in my soul

Now I've got to let go

We wrote our story

And we sang our songs

We hung our pictures on the wall

Now those precious moments

That we carved in stone

Are all the memories after all

That we carved in stone

Are all the memories after all

That we carved in stone

Are all the memories after all♬

When I finished singing i heard small snores. I looked down and saw she was asleep. I set her on the grass and stood up, then bending down and picking her up bridal style walking in the house, trying not to step on any of her animals, that were spread all over the yard. When I went and put her in my bed upstairs, I walked back outside and said "All right! Get up!" I said shaking the animals and picking Maverick up. All her animals came inside drowsily and lied down around the living room, some cuddling up to on another. I then heard a heartbreaking scream. I ran upstairs as silent as I could since my stairs were kinda creaky but who really cares. I walked into my bedroom and saw Alyssa sitting up on her bed crying. I looked at her and she looked at me and did grabby hands. "Oh, sweetheart." I cooed. I walked over to her and picked her up, holding her on my hip. She cried into my shirt and I asked what happened and she whispered, "My m-mommy a-and d-da-daddy were hi-hi-hitting m-m-me and ki-kicking me a-and..." She started breathing really heavy and I started trying to calm her down but it wasn't working, so I grabbed her hand and and put it on my chest where my heartbeat was. That instantly calmed her down, for some weird reason. I sat her down on the bed. She looked at me and looked at her hand that I was holding. She pulled it away and looked down at her hands.  I saw some tear drops fall onto her legs and she wiped them away. I put my hand under her chin to make her look at me. I wiped her tears away. "Why are you crying love?" I gently cooed. She looked at me shaking her head "no". "Why not?" She looked at me with the saddest eyes. "No one has ever showed me so much love for this long." She said choking back a sob. I had tears in my eyes and I kissed her forehead. I picked her up and held her close. I rocked back and forth while she cried into my shoulder. I eventually heard silence and I sat down on the bed. I was now holding her bridal style and I saw her sleeping face. Her body was limp in my arms and it was if she was dead, she wasn't really breathing like you should when you sleep . I checked her pulse on her wrists and it was how it should be. She was just holding her breath. I looked at the scars and cuts on her wrists and I turned soft. I picked her arm up and placed gentle kisses on her scars. I lied down and Alyssa was laying on my chest. I kissed the top of her head and wrapped my arms around her back and held her as close to me as possible.