Shawn Mendes

Greg

SHAWN MENDES

CHAPTER # 17

It's almost midnight and I am freaking out of my wits. The sleeping arrangements are oh-too-awful and I want to.......well,

whatever I want to do I can't because I am kidnapped in every sense of the word. I have an intense gut that this is gonna be

awful. However, when we finished eating we all went outside. Ven won't even spare me a glance and I am feeling like a douche

for not telling her before. We will probably never be like we are now. So, we went out into the lawn, where a huge porch and

even higher walls added to the creepiness of the mansion. Outgrown trees and grass, wild tulips all seemed to add to the sad

aura surrounding the place. Around the backside, in the middle was a wide rectangular swimming pool, we could all swim in it all

at once and still, there would be space. If the kidnapper is already that rich that clearly acquiring wealth is not his motive.

He seems more cold-blooded and pre-planned than that. It would be a shame if the moral of this story comes out to be 'greed is

curse'.I would literally hit my head on the wall.

When we all came back inside it was like there was this unbreakable bond between us not to speak until and unless the merci-

less booms from the speakers.As if on cue, the voice sounded."You all may be wondering why there are four rooms instead of

eight so let me tell you. That is because you all will be sleeping in pairs which I will make and will change whenever I

decide to."I wondered how long he was planning on keeping us here and also that none of us has tried anything for an escape

yet."The first pair is Shawn and Ven, Justin and Selena, Ethan and Mason, and Taylor, Greg, and Ariana."

So now you know that I am stuck in between world-famous celebrities, both staring at the ceiling. I am pretending to sleep but

from my periphery vision, I can notice the tiniest action they take.

The sound of a glass breaking vibrates through the room and all three of us sit up abruptly. I wait with my breath hitching

in my throat and next to someone screams. I shot out of my bed and sprint towards the hallway, I can feel both the girls following

my lead but the scene in the corridor stops us in our tracks.

Ven was hurling every possible visible breakable object in her way to the opposite wall and screaming incoherent things

hysterically. Everyone was standing watching her. She was probably crying too. Just when she was about to throw a purple vase to the wall Shawn came in the way and grabbed her from the waist. She tried her very best to struggle her way out, but she

when she couldn't she started screaming at her too."You are a hypocrite. You play with people's feelings. Wh-what do you mean

by creating songs that you have no emotional attachment towards and are the living source oth-other people are clinging too?

You have n-no right to play with people's feelings. You are as b-b-big a criminal as he is."She was hiccupping badly, tears

were trickling down Selena's face too, watching her. Shawn was still holding on to Ven, afraid that if he would let go, she would

break. She was crying heavily, so much that it was becoming difficult for her to breath. Finally, she stopped wrestling against

Shawn and collapsed in his arms, unconscious and slid to the floor still in his arms. There was dead silence in the hallway,

worst than before, Shawn was looking at Ven's face like he was tired, lost, and hopeless. Slowly he wiped away the tears on her

face and Taylor bent down to tie up her hair in a ponytail. We all looked at each other for a moment and somehow I knew that

I was not alone in this. That night Shawn tucked Ven in bed but besides her everyone was wide awake.