Stay with me || Shawn Mendes

21. Ice skating ?

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.-Robert A. Heinlein

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"Is it a date?!" Emma winks at me as I open my closet.

"Nope."

"Ya sure? 'Cause from your smile I can see the babies coming and-"

"EMMA! Goodness no!" My eyes widen and my face goes on looking like a tomato. The thoughts come swinging into my mind just like Shawn opens the door of my bedroom which revels two brown heads popping up like two basket balls.

"Hey girls! So what are y'all talking about?"

Emma and I look at each other. She smirk. Oh no, only not that smirk.

Emma smiles. "Babies."

"Babies?" Shawn crosses his muscular arms over his chest while leaning over the door frame.

"No! A-Actually we were talking about.... um." I swallow hard as my mind is going crazy trying to find a topic. Oh come on Rose, you got this. Just say anything, anything that pops in that small head of yours.

"Turtles!" I snap my fingers.

"Turtles?"

"Yeah, we were just talking about how interesting they are. Right Emma?" Nice one Rose. Really. So proud of you.

Silence.

Emma gives me that poker face and I smile one of smiled where you can barely see if my eyes are open or not. I clear my throat and come back to my normal face while swinging my hands back and forth.

"I mean, they are really fascinating. You know?"

"Yeahhh. They are! And they are really cute." Shawn says biting his lower lip.

"You see! That's what I'm saying!" I clap my hands and Emma touches my shoulder.

"You guys can talk about turtles, but I'm still sticking to babies." She clears her throat. "Much cuter." She looks at Shawn and then at me as she slowly starts walking towards the doorway. "Much. Much cuter." She gives us one more glance and then she is out of my room leaving me and Shawn staring at each other.

Shawn giggles. "Soo-"

"BABIES! I SEE THEM COMING! LOTS AND LOTS OF BABIES!" My sister's scream is so loud that probably the whole house heard her.

"I'm just so lucky to have her as my sister. You have no, idea." I say sarcastically. I mean I do love my sister, but sometimes I just wish her mouth wouldn't open so much.

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Shawn pushes the door open and lets me enter first into the ice skating building.

"Why thank you. What a gentleman." I say putting a bit of a British accent, feeling special as he did the 'ladies first' gesture. After he lets go of the door he gracefully takes my hand in his.

"Anything for my lady." He smiles and a bit of British accent rolled over his tongue; making him more hotter than he already is.

After getting our ice skating shoes we sit down on a banch to put them on. I take the left one and felt the weight of it in my hand. I being anxious and start shaking a little bit just as I slip my foot into the shoe.

"Hey." Shawn places him hand on my knee. I quickly shoot my head up, feeling the heat of his hand through my jeans. "You okay?"

"Y-yeah."

"Well, come on. Hurry up babe. The ice rink is waiting for us." He smiles and I quickly put my other shoe on. I awkwardly stand up almost falling. Shawn is already on the ice, skating with no problem. I stop just before stepping on the ice and look down closely, swallowing the lump in my throat.