Fallin' all in you

17

Theona's P.O.V.

The silence is filling up the jet's interior. We can all feel Laura's pain. She really loves him. And Antonia? We all know she is always exaggerates. She always gets what she wants, exaggerating. I don't want to blame her on anything. I don't want to make things even worse.

Laura is just sitting in her casual seat, her eyes fixed in one, single, point. She is traumatized. She has never been like this. Not after a guy. There's nothing I can do to stop her from suffering. There never is.

Gustavo starts the jet and takes off. It's going to be a two hour flight so we won't have time to get bored, considering the circumstances. We haven't heard from our parents in two days, thing that really dives me crazy. I'm not gonna call home until we get to Quebec, because I'm pretty sure they are gonna be mad.

"Laura, please, talk to me! You haven't said anything in minutes."

She looks me in the eyes for a second, but then looks back at the window. She is visibly hurting. I try to take my mind off this situation and sleep for some minutes.

I can't sleep. I am woken up by a very sudden sound. I see, in front of me, Antonia and Laura, arguing.
"ALL I AM ASKING YOU IS: WERE YOU LYING? WERE YOU HITTING ON MY BOYFRIEND?"
"Ok. I lied. Happy? I was jealous of you for having such a sexy guy as your boyfriend and considering you look like shit, I thought he was gonna be smart enough to choose me."
"Well... thanks for being honest with me? No. You don't deserve him. You're such an immature person. How could you do that? After all I have done for you?"
"You, bitch!" I get involved " You should be greatful. If it wasn't for her to support you, you wouldn't have finished that shitty theater faculty of yours, to fake us all later."
"How dare you? Unless I've finished a faculty, unlike you."
"Girls, girls! Stop it! I can't fly this thing if you're fighting. You're being so loud!" Gustavo comes out
"Ok. But this, right here... is not over yet."
"Thank God!" he lifts up his hands, in relief
"Wait! If you're not pilotting the jet... then who does it?" Laura asks
"Oh, no!" he says
"Aaaaaaa!!!!" we all start to scream and run from a side of the flying object, to the other
"Wait? Why is it still not crashing?" I say
"Aaaaautomatic pilot mode! You should've seen your faces! PRICELESS!" Gustavo says, mocking us and laughing
"Stupid!" we all yell at him, breathless
"Ok, ok. I must have done something to stop your fight. I don't like to see my girls fighting." he says, while going for a mega-hug

We hug him too. It's like this was all we needed. A simple, but powerful, mega-hug.

As we take our seats back I see Laura is texting somebody. We never bother to hide it from each other. We trust each other too much to.

Laura's P.O.V.

#messeges#

L:"Hey!"
S:"Hi. I'm glad you texted me. I thought we were never gonna talk again."
L:"Yeah... me, too."
S:"Are you feeling better?"
L:" Yeah, I guess."
S:"Have you arrived home yet?"
L:"No. We're still on the road."
...
L:"Shawn, listen."
S:"Of course. What do you want to talk about? I'm here to listen."

Oh, I can't believe how much he can make me miss him.

L:"So, I've talked to Antonia, and she admitted she has lied. I'm so sorry I didn't trust you!"
S:"It's okay. I understand why you didn't. Are you and your sister okay?"
L:"Actually, we're super quarreled right now. But we're gonna get through it. Can you believe she did that because she thought you were hot and that I look like shit, so she thought you would choose her?"
S:"Really? She's said that?"
L:"Yeah!"
S:"Sorry to say this, but your sister is silly."
L:"I know."

"Why are you smiling like this?"
I look up and see that Theona was talking to me.
"Oh, nothing. It's nothing."
"Laura!"
"Okay! I just texted Shawn and I really miss him."
"Are you gonna get back together?"
"I hope he can forgive me. If he does, and he is okay with it, then yes."
"He will. After all, he is a Canadian, right?"
"Haha... good old days. Hey! Talking about that, have you talked to Anthony, in the past few days?"
"Yeah, just a phone call. I can't wait to see him."
"I feel you. Maybe the three of us will go out, somewhere, for dinner or something."
"Yeah, good idea! But when?"
"What about tomorrow?"
"Cool. So, it's set."
"Cool."

Bzzz, bzzz. I open my phone and see a new message from Shawn.

S:"Laura, do you mind if I asked you something?"
L:"No, not at all. What's up?"
S:"I know it's not a good time, but would you want us to get back together?"
L:"What kind of question is that? Of course."
S:"Great."
L:"Great. Hey! Has Aaliyah found out about all of this?"

He is not responding.
L:"Did she?" ... "Shawn!"

I am starting to panick, so I decide to call him.

*Hi, It's Shawn. If you'd like to leave a voicemessage, please, feel f-...*

"GOD DAMNIT!"
"What?"
"Shawn is not answering his phone. I am worried."
"Laura, it's 3 AM. I'm sure he just fell asleep. Not everybody is on the road at this time of the night."
"Ok. Maybe you're right."

Theona's P.O.V.

Bzzz, bzzz.

"Wait. Somebody is calling me."
I take my phone out of my pocket.
"Aaliyah. ... Hi! What's up?"
"Shawn is up. Somebody found him on the street beaten up. With bruises on his face and many injuries on his torso."
"WHAT? He was just texting Laura, and then, he wouldn't answer."
"I don't know, but we are at the hospital, but he wouldn't talk to any of us. He wants to talk to Laura, only. Please, do something."
"Okay, I'll see what I can do."
"Okay. Be safe."
"Will do."

I end the call.

"What's up?"
"I don't how to say this, but we need to turn this jet."
"What? Why?"
"Shawn. He was found beaten up on the street. The whole Mendes family is at the hospital and he only wants to talk you. Face to face."
"No way!"
"I am shocked, too, but we have to turn this thing."
"Gustavo, I'm so sorry, but we have to return."
"Is it that important?"
"Is your job that important?... That's what I thought."

Another 2 hours start to go by and this time, it felt like minutes.

"The hospital, please."
"Done."

We lend on top of the building and we get out. We enter it through the trap in the ground, ceiling, from the inside.
We find a doctor and ask.

"Where can we find Shawn Mendes?"
"Are you a first degree relative?"
"Yes, I'm... his... fiancé."
"Perfect. I want you to put this on."
he points at some medical robes. "The bruises are pretty bad and he can easily get infected."
"Okay. Thank you, doc."
"Salon 8. This way."

He goes first, and we follow.

"Right here."
"Thank you so much!"
"No problem."

It takes me all of my power to step inside, when I see his entire family standing next to his hospital bed.

"Hi!" I say, shily
"Hi, Laura!" Manny responds

Hearing his father's words, Shawn instantly turns his head in my direction. He has many wounds on his faces. Blood, all over it.
"Lau-ra..." he whispers, as if he couldn't speak until now. You can feel his pain in his voice
"I'm here, Shawn. I'm so sorry for letting you alone. I'm so stupid-.."
"S-s... stop! It's not your fault. I'm the stupid one. I let you go..."
"Please, don't say that..."
"Well, it's my fault. I'm so sorry. I am ashamed of what I did. I shouldn't have done it, especially for my interests." Antonia rises
"I've forgiven you." he says
"Really?"
"Yes. I am what you did was really wrong, but anybody deservers a second chance."
"Thank you. I really don't deserve you. You deserve to be happy."
"Maybe."
"So what happened?"
"Wel, I might need us to be alone at this one."
"Okay, we're just gonna get out." Manny says
"Thank you!" Shawn responds
"May I?" I say, asking him if I could take a seat next to him, pointing at the bed
"Of course. ... So I have some bad news, and I really don't know how to say this."
"Just do it. Straight to the point."
"Umm, there is... a possiblity of Jonas being back."