Red Piano (Shawn Mendes fan fiction)

Chapter 4 (So we meet again)

The whole time I was walking home I could not stop replaying what happened during lunch in my head. How did we not bump into each other before when we only missed each other by a few seconds? As I ran through the memory a tenth time I realized

"even though we spent the whole lunch period in the band room together, not once did he actually introduce himself." That's odd, then again I didn't either so I guess we're even. I'll just ask him tomorrow. When I arrived at my house my mom was sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea in her hand, staring out the window. I cleared my throat, pulling her attention away from the window and asked

"Are you alright?"

"Sit down" she replied pulling out the tucked away chair that was beside her. So I obeyed and asked

"What's going on?"

"Your father and I are getting a divorce" she sighed.

"WHAT?!" I exclaimed, jumping up from my seat causing the table to shake.

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding" my mom laughed.

"That was cold."

"But anyways, you and I are going to eat dinner at the Blue chair Cafe tonight so that you can see what it's like to perform there since it will be the first place that you perform at. Just you and me because your dad has work" she continued.

"Ok." was all I said before I went to my

room to play the piano.

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I took a shower and put on some casual clothes (since it was only a cafe) and got in the car with my mom by 6 o'clock. When we got there, a waitress came and showed us our table right away.

"I heard that a boy about your age is performing here tonight. Apparently he's really good. Everyone loves him." my mom smiled.

Everyone loves him. Now that's going to be hard to compete with. When the waitress came back to get our order, the lights went dim all around us.

"Hello ladies and gentlemen. We are truly blessed to have a very special person play for you all live here at Blue chair Cafe. Let's give a warm welcome to Shawn Mendes!" a lady announced as she moved out of the spotlight only to reveal the boy who I met in the band room today.

No freaking way. I held my breath as he sat down on a stool with his guitar and started to strum along to summer time sadness by Lana Del Rey, the song that he played for me today. He sounded just as angelic as he did earlier. His eyes started to wander around the cafe as he sang, and eventually his locked with mine. He smiled a smile that would have stretched around his head if his ears weren't there. I awkwardly waved back in shock, my mom noticed me wave and asked

"You know him?"

"I've met him" I said mostly to myself, my eyes glued to him. He performed five more songs after summer time sadness, when he finished he jumped of the stage. I got up from the table and told my mom that I would met her at the car in 5, so she left the cafe. Me and Shawn started to walk towards each other, he still had his guitar on his back.

"So, we meet again" he joked.

"Yeah and this time you were introduced!" I laughed.

"Sorry, I was kinda hoping I could tell you who I was myself rather than have someone else do it for me" he rubbed the back of his neck, looking down at the ground.

"Here, why don't we start over? Hi I'm Shawn Mendes!" he held out his hand. I giggled and said

"Melissa Rivera" while taking his hand and shaking it.

"There, isn't that better? Well, I have things to do so I guess I'll see you tomorrow? Unless you plan on stalking me to my house and "bumping" into me and acting as if you didn't expect to see me there" he teased.

"I am not stalking you!! I really didn't expect to see you here!"

"Mhmm, sure you aren't!" I laughed and waved him goodbye as I walk back out to the car where my mom is waiting for me.

"That was longer than 5 minutes" mom teased.

"Sorry." I say as I thoughtfully stare out the window. During the drive home, we didn't talk. To be honest, I was to busy thinking about seeing Shawn performing on stage. Was he playing at the other restaurants I am? Is he trying to get recommendations as well? Is music his life too? Is he exactly like me? These questions circled through my mind all night until I eventually fell asleep.

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If anyone were to walk into my room while I was writing this chapter, they would think that I am mentally unstable. I swear, I sat here smiling at the computer screen while I wrote this. Creepy, but whatcha gonna do 'bout it? Anyways, to the side of this chapter is a video of Shawn's cover of Summer Time Sadness. It's my all time favourite cover by him! Anyways, thanks for reading (like always) :)