Red Piano (Shawn Mendes fan fiction)

Chapter 15 (Without you)

I woke up this morning to the sound of our home phone ringing from all the way downstairs. Damn that phone is loud. I could hear shuffling from across the house as the phone continues to deafen me with it's ring. After a few minutes my mom bursts through my bedroom door with the phone in her hand.

"It's the owner of the Wild Earth Bakery & Café, he wants you to come in and perform every Saturday from now on starting today" she informed me.

I nodded and gave her a thumbs up as she held the phone back up to her ear and confirmed with the owner that I would play for the Café later this evening. When she closed the door behind her I dragged myself out of bed and I was about to change out of my pajamas when my cell phone rang. What's up with all the phone calls today, it's like everyone's trying to get a hold of me all at once. When I looked down at my phone I saw Shawn's name and picture.

"Hello?" I answered the call.

"Melissa did you check your video yet?!" he basically squealed excitedly in my ear.

"What no why?"

"DO IT NOW!" he demanded.

"Ok, ok geez!" I pull out my laptop from under my bed and log into my YouTube account only to see that my video had 6,000,000 views and a little under that amount, likes. Holy crap!

"Did you check it? Are you looking at it? Are you looking at it now?"

"HOLY CRAP!"

"I know right?!"

"I can't breathe, this can't be happening." I gasp.

"Oh don't you die on me now, especially since now that you have fans who want to hear more of your work. Did you see how many subscribers you have?" he questioned.

I clicked back to my page and nearly dropped my phone. 7,369,184 subscribers! 7,369,184 people actually want to listen to my music, they are willing to put aside valuable time to watch my video. That's amazing, that's shocking, that's ..... so weird. Why would they want to do that?

"Mel- Melissa? Did you actually die on me? Oh shoot what do I do? I'll just convince her parents to not do an autopsies and-"

"I'm alive Shawn! Just in shock though." I reassured him.

"Pfft, I knew that. Anyways, I have things I need to do so I was wondering if you wanted to come over maybe later after dinner" he asked.

"I wish I could but I have a performance I need to give at 6, at the Wild Earth & Bakery Café."

"Oh...... hey this will be your first performance without me." he stated what should have been obvious to me but wasn't.

He's right. I didn't even realize that this would be the first time performing without him by my side. I tried my best to push the thought aside but the more I thought about it, the faster the butterflies in my stomach would fly. After ending my conversation with Shawn, I went straight to my piano and started practicing the songs that I would perform later tonight.

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By the time my mom drove me to Wild Earth & Bakery Café, I was flipping out on the inside.

"Ok, ok relax Melissa relax, you're going to be fine. Just pretend like Shawn's sitting beside you in the band room or at the Blue Chairs Café" I repeated in my head over and over again, trying to convince myself that everything going to be alright.

Let's just say, it only made me freak out even more. When I stepped inside the café, the first thing I noticed is that the stage was a lot smaller than the stage at Blue Chairs Cafe. I went up to a nearby waitress while my mom found a table, and I asked her where the owner was. She went away for a few minutes leaving me to stand acwardly alone in the middle of a sea of tables as people began to pile into the café. That's a lot of people. She came back within minutes with a tall, thin man who introduced himself as Mark. He showed me how to get the keyboard ready and helped me with sound check. He kept assuring me that there is nothing to worry about when I'm on stage while we were getting set. Once we were finished I sat behind the keyboard as he introduced me.