NO ANGEL ★彡 S. MENDES

𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍.

eleanor anne kavinsky.

eleanor tried not to look at the technician putting in her ear piece. despite the hundreds times that she had had people taping strange things to her body, she still found it quite awkward. "okay," the technician told her, "here's your mic and you're out in two. you'll get the signal from the stage manager."

"thanks, got it," eleanor responded, flashing a quick smile.

so eleanor stood there at the stage steps, waiting for her signal and trying not to focus on her nerves, when she saw a guitar technician putting away shawn's guitars. "hey, that ones still hooked to the sound system, right? could i use that?" eleanor asked them, pointing to a white electric guitar that would look perfect with her flowing white dress that went to her mid-thighs.

"yeah, i think this is zubin's but i'm sure he won't mind," they said, passing eleanor the guitar.

"thanks," she replied, putting the strap around her.

"eleanor, you're on in five, four, three..." a voice said through her earpiece.

then shawn's loud voice started to blare through the arena, "and to help close the iluminate world tour off in my hometown, toronto!" the crowds screamed for him as he continued, "i would like to introduce the amazing, the beautiful and the talented - eleanor kavinsky!"

and then she made her entrance, the bright lights blinding her as she walked onstage. she put on her biggest and brightest smile as the crowds screamed and shouted for her. eleanor saw an empty microphone stand and placed hers on there and put her fingers on the guitar. "hello toronto," she said into the microphone and her voice was amplified, "this is american. shawn?" she looked over at him.

shawn nodded and eleanor heard the soft piano and violins and the crowd stopped screaming. "play house..." she started singing as she observed the crowd and smiled.

when she reached the chorus, she decided to switch it up a little and started playing the chords on her guitar and she looked over at shawn who was trying to figure out what to do - quite adorably she thought.

adorable? what was she thinking?

"come on, sing for me," eleanor spoke and the audience screamed in response.

"your skin so golden brown," came shawn's angelic voice from next to her, and honestly? it sounded better in real life than on his album.

"be young, be dope, be proud," she sang, "come on, toronto!"

"like an american!" they sang back.

"beautiful," shawn complimented, and honestly? eleanor couldn't stop looking at him.

he had a smile that could light up even the darkest room and you could truly tell that he was in his element right now and he was doing what he truly loved and he looked so happy doing it. somehow, eleanor had managed to keep strumming her guitar and singing while staring at shawn and when he spotted her staring at him, he winked. he winked. who knew he had that in him?

then american ended and the crowd cheered, thinking that it was the end of the show but when they heard the familiar baseline of there's nothing holding me back and they somehow managed to scream and cheer even louder. eleanor smiled at their reaction and took off her guitar and placed it on the side of the stage, near to where she came on and took her microphone off the stand, ready to sing.

shawn seemed to see what eleanor did and followed her to do the same. "i wanna follow where she goes," he sang, staring intently at her.

"i think about her and she knows it," eleanor sang back, smiling brightly at him.

"i wanna let her take control-"

"cause, every time that she get's close, yeah," eleanor grabbed his hand as they started singing the chorus.

and so they danced without a care and sang like there was no tomorrow because why not live while you're young?

when they were on the last chorus and dancing together while the crowd of 20,000 screamed the lyrics with them, eleanor sang, "manipulate my decisions."

"there's nothing holding me back," shawn and back and yet another thought popped into his mind.

there's nothing holding him back.

"i feel so free when you're with me, baby," eleanor sang, unaware of what shawn was planning.

"here it goes, mendes," shawn thought to himself.

"baby there's nothing holding me back," shawn finished, spinning her around and placing his hand on the back of her neck and kissing her.

well, that's one way to get a girl's attention.

a/n - the first half of this chapter is useless wow but we finally got some action and it's only chapter eleven! also please drop some sad/slow songs because it's the only music i can write to whoops. also thank you so much for 500 reads! it means so much wow