• first you say you love me then you say you don't •
andrea martel meets shawn mendes after getting discovered from a cover she posts and they hit it off. their relationship spins out of control with mixed emotions and obstacles in their way. can th...
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"үσυ нαvε α вεαυтιғυℓ vσιcε"
"∂ι∂ үσυ נυsт-"
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andrea's pov :
i hesitated to click the upload button. my voice would be all over the internet if i clicked that send button. it made me nervous to think about it. it was a video of shawn mendes' song 'in my blood'. it was the first ever cover i did and i was about to post out there for the world to see. what if he sees? no, he would never.
to stop my irrational fear and battling myself about whether to post it or not. i hit upload and took in a deep breath. the weight on my shoulders was released and i felt accomplished. i has just uploaded my first cover onto youtube. my voice is just out there now and there was nothing i could do. i ring up my good friend chloe to tell her what had just happened.
"chloe, i uploaded it." my voice was soft but had crackles in as i was getting over the adrenaline high. "oh my god, really? you finally decided to post it. i'm so proud of you." chloe squealed through the phone and made me squint my eyes shut at the high pitch. "my nerves are calm knowing that no one will see it." i nodded my head even though she couldn't see me through the phone.
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my school day had nearly finished. i was twirling my pencil around between my fingers staring at the clock ticking. the cover i uploaded was an old one so chloe convinced me to record another one to upload as well. she was my best friend. she helped me through everything and that included getting my voice out in the world.
ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to become a singer. i looked at artists like ariana grande and rihanna and i knew straight away that i wanted to be as happy as them to be up on stage. my mom gave me singing lessons from a young age so i was familiar with what to do and what not to do. my mom used to sing in the choir for church when she was 10-17 as her mom made her. she had a breathtaking voice and i was grateful to have her teach me what i needed to know about the basics of singing.
the bell rung off and for once it wasn't an annoying sound. it was a sound i wanted to hear. i met up with chloe at the gate of the school and we walked home together. we didn't live far apart. her house was across the street from us. it was nice because she's like a sister to me. i'm an only child so it gets boring being home alone when your parents are out working. "are you ready to blow the world away?" chloe asked me as she linked her arm with mine. we were both eighteen but she acted like we were thirteen again. i loved her for it. "as ready as i'll ever be." i took a big sigh.
we spent hours recording my voice for this next song and my throat was in pain by the end of it. but chloe is the best person at editing, especially audio together. "how does it sound?" i asked her as i drink from my water bottle. i lena over her shoulder and she takes her headphones off her ears, handing them to me. "why don't you listen for yourself?" she clicked a key and i heard my voice over the guitar and felt happy with myself. "it sounds perfect now." i smiled, happy that we finally got the sound.
chloe was busy rendering it in the best quality before we uploaded it. i didn't have many views on 'in my blood' but i wasn't upset about it. there were two nice comments below so i liked them and thanked them. "oh it's done." chloe squealed and went to my youtube to upload it. oh boy this is really happening.
"oh shit it's already ten. i'll see you tomorrow andy." andy was the nickname chloe gave to me when we first met as kids. "see you chlo." i called out as she ran out of my room and down the stairs. i left my computer and scrolled through my phone on shawn mendes' instagram to look at his pictures again. he was my celebrity crush and he was perfect.
i was thrown back by suddenly being blasted with notifications from my youtube channel. i looked up at my computer screen and clicked on the notifications to see them all coming from my first video cover of shawn's song. "what the heck." i whispered out loud and clicked on the video. the views had gone up from 20 to 2000 in a few minutes and the comments were blowing up. i scrolled down to see a lot of people complimenting my singing as well as a lot of comments saying "omg" and "shawn is here". i scrolled down further to see a comment from shawn mendes himself. my heart stopped beating for a short period of time.
