Escape || S.M.

2- Iconic duo

[27-11-2017 // dd-mm-yyyy]
[Maggie's POV]

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It took me a while to realize what happened just a couple of days ago. One day I was living my normal, boring life and the next day I bump into Geoff who I hadn't seen in ages, and he was just casually walking around with Shawn Mendes, who I've been crushing on for the past 2 years or so. OK, I don't think I have a crush on him, I just find him really attractive.

I was never that crazy about him, unlike my sister, but I love his music. To be honest, he's just like I've always imagined in person, he's nice, funny, definitely has the looks and he's just a good person in general.

He told me we should meet up one of these days for a coffee to talk a little more, in my mind red flags were flying around, making a mess, but I ignored them. It's totally normal for people to hang out before being friends. That just never happens to me, the only time it did I got my heart broken and so I'm being paranoid.

I don't think I'm even that interesting, what would he want to know about my life?

My birthday is on the last day of the year so when I was little I used to think the whole world was celebrating my birthday.

Not self-centered at all.

I was treated like a trust fund baby my whole life, but I'm really not. I don't want anything to do with my family's money or future they chose for me and so I moved away from home at 18. I guess LA didn't change me completely because while growing up I had to deal with people only wanting to be close to me so they could enjoy a big house with a game room, the pool, free vacations, etc. It's sad really.

I have a little sister. I love her so much, she's my best friend and confidant for everything, we would only have each other at times, that made our bond very strong. Her name is Dani which is short for Daniela.

I'm not sure if I should lead Shawn on, even if we're just trying to be friends, I would probably be too much for him to handle. The other day, at the studio, we briefly spoke about how he was trying to take a break from social media and cut out toxic people from his life. I totally support that but I can't help but think I would be ruining that for him.

I tend to ruin everything that's going well for me and multiple people have told me throughout the years that it's because I'm too much.

"Maggie, can we go out today? Let's get some lunch." Mar walks in the kitchen while I'm sitting at the counter writing down some stuff I thought of last night on my used and old journal.

I look up at the blonde girl to notice the pretty smile I know so well. We became best friends when she moved to my home town and so we grew up together. We like the same things and so when I decided to move to LA she was the first one to pack her bags and come with me.

We share a house with two people, Jake and his sister Sammy. We have so much fun in this house, Jake and Mar make Youtube videos so there's always something happening. It's a bit cliche nowadays but it helps pay the bills so I'm not complaining.

"Sure, I just have to do my hair, is anyone else coming?" I close the journal and get up, stretching my back in the process.

"No. Jake is at the gym and Sam is out with some friends." Mar explains while walking over to the fridge to put herself a glass of water. I nod at her and put my things away in my little backpack.

"Ok. Be ready, I'll be back in a second." I run upstairs to my bathroom, my makeup is done since we filmed some things earlier so I simply take the black scrunchie off and let my curly brown locks fall from the ponytail I previously had my hair in. I get the spray bottle filled with water and gently wet and then scrunch up my hair up just a little bit so it looks less frizzy.