Valentine’s Day. (Shawn Mendes)
Tomorrow was Valentine’s Day and you were talking on the phone with your boyfriend of 8 months Shawn.
“Baby, I’m so sorry I know I told you I would fly out to see you this valentine’s day, but it just that this thing about my EP came out and I have to fix it, otherwise I won’t be able to release it in time, I’m so sorry, I really am, I know that you were really excited about this, and so was I, but I just can’t, I promise I’ll make it up to you baby, I swear it” He said, and I could tell, he was really nervous about my reaction.
If I have to be honest, I kind of saw it coming, he wasn’t as excited as he was about it last week, and he always changed the subject when I said something that we would do while he were here. But I just kind of hoped that it was just me freaking out.
“Baby please say something, I’m freaking out here” he said more worried than before.
“Sorry, I just got lost thinking” I explained to him “I guess it’s okay, like I know it’s really important to you, so I’ll just go grab a bite or something with my parents, I guess meeting you for the first time can wait, like I’ve waited 8 months, what a month more or a year? It’s nothing babe” I said.
And that’s the thing me and Shawn have never properly met before. I saw him on YouTube when he wasn’t as famous as now, and we just kind of started talking and then he gave me his number, and that’s how things went, so, no, we have never met, and in case you wonder, no I don’t like in the states, nor the u.k. I live in Dominican Republic. You don’t what that is? I don’t expect you to. But I was happy when he knew what it was and where it was. (Quick pause, Shawn actually knows where this is, and I guess he has been here, I stalked Aaliyah on instagram and she has a picture here. Moving on to the story...)
“I feel awful now Eliza, I didn’t really meant for it to happen, you know I really wanted to be with you” he said, his voice filled with sadness “I’m sorry”
“Don’t be Shawn, just do whatever you need to do” I said with tear in my eyes “I’ll call or text or whatever, bye babe” and hung up fast, and let out a sob.
And that night I cried myself to sleep, I was just so sad, my mom saw me in that state of sadness, that she told me I could skip school tomorrow, yay more time to feel alone, I told myself with sarcasm.
The next day I woke up with a massive headache.
“Awesome” I whispered.
I got up and went straight to the bathroom, I did my usual routine and instead of putting my school uniform, I put on a hoodie, a pajama short and a messy bun, everyone in my house already left so I was all by myself, I looked at my phone and I had 2 unread messages, one from Shawn and another one from Abbie. I opened the one from Abbie first.
“From: Abbie.
Why aren’t you at school?”
I quickly typed back.
