Bad Reputation. ||Shawn Mendes ||

Couple?

*Alex's Pov*

Shawn has been very protective since the release party when I basically burst into tears after he asked me about my dream. I still haven't told him what the dream even though that was over a month ago. Shawn is very excited since Halloween is in a week tomorrow.

"What about the power rangers?" Shawn says.

"There are 5 power rangers, Shawn," I say as I scroll through costume ideas on my phone.

"So?" Shawn asked as if I was weird.

"That's not a couples costume," I say.

"So we are a couple?!" Shawn says raising his eyebrow.

"You know what I mean," I say.

"What about salt and pepper," Shawn says.

"Where would we get a salt and pepper costume," I grin shaking my head.

"Lifeguards?" Shawn asks.

"Is that your way of wanting to se me in a swim suit?" I laugh.

"Maybe," Shawn says.

"Em, no," I say.

"Fine, do you have any ideas?" Shawn asks.

"What about Bonnie and Clyde?" I ask.

"As long as if it's after they are dead," Shawn says.

"Fine," I say taking a bite of my lunch.

The bell rings and we head to class. The day goes by slowly. School is finally over and Shawn and I go shopping for our outfits. Yes I know we are choosing a costume very late but it took ages to agree on a costume idea.

"How much fake blood do you think we will need?" Shawn asks holding up a 3 gallon carton of fake blood.

"Not that much," I say taking it out of his hands and putting it down, "This will be enough," I say picking up a much smaller bottle.

The next few days go by surprisingly fast and it's already Halloween. Shawn comes over to mine to get ready.

"I can't get my hair to look right," Shawn moans from the bathroom.

"Let me do it," I say walking into the bathroom.

I have to sit up on the counter to be able to reach his head. As I do his hair he looks me in the eyes. We are so close I can feel his breath on me.

"There," I say in almost a whisper, but he keeps looking me in the eyes and I look back into his hazel eyes.

"Can you drop me to kc's on your way to your party," Hayden yells outside my bedroom door.

"Yeah, sure," I say hopping off the counter.

I grab my bag and then we all head out to the car. We drop Hayden off at kc's and then we head to Liam's party. We show up and it's like all the other parties, a lot of drinking, a lot of dancing, a lot of making out, a lot of throwing up, a lot of fighting, the only difference is that everyone is in wacky costumes so it's hard to take a fight serious when it's a dinosaur and a pirate fighting.

"Can you believe Shawn is going on Ellen," I hear Liam say to Daniel as I walk through the crowd to find Shawn.

"Hey," Shawn smiles when I find him.

"Hi," I smile back, "Why didn't you tell me you were going on Ellen?"

"I didn't think it mattered," Shawn says acting like it's nothing.

"What do you mean it's huge," I say.

"Yeah, I guess," Shawn says.

"What's wrong? you don't seem yourself," I ask Shawn.

"Nothing," Shawn says.

"Fine, I can't help you if you wont let me," I say walking off to the kitchen.

"Hey Alex do you want to do some shots?" Mike says when I walk in.

"Yes," I say picking up a 'the luck of the Irish' shot glass.

Way to many shots and way to many make out sessions later Shawn comes up to me.

"Come on we are going, You're drunk," Shawn says grabbing my hand.

"No I'm having fun, buzzkill," I say going to take another shot but Shawn takes it from my hand.

"Come on Alex let's go," Shawn says.

"I'm staying you can go if you want, I'll get a lift from josh," I say.

"No you wont, he has been drinking," Shawn says pulling me through the crowd.

"Why are you being so grumpy?" I ask.

"Hey, do you want to Play Truth or Dare?" Maya Shouts.

"Yassss," I yell back, "We can't go now Mr. Grumpy-Pants," I say pulling Shawn over to where people are playing truth or dare.

Maya, Daniel, Liam, Faith Lexa, Conor, Josh, Sami and Luke are sitting in a drunken circle about to start playing and Shawn and I sit down in between Sami and Luke.

"So the rule's are if you don't do a truth you do a dare and vies versa," Lexa hiccups.

A few people go and then it's Faith's turn.

"Alex, truth or dare," She asks.

"Dare," I answer.

"I dare you to make out with Conor," She smirks knowing that he's my ex.

"I'm not doing that," I say flicking my hair behind my sholder, I may be drunk but not enough to make out with my ex.

"Fine, then you have to do truth," Faith says.

"Hit me," I say instantly regretting playing Truth or Dare.

"Why did you break up with Conor?" She asks with and even bigger smirk on her face like she won.

I gulp. If I tell them why we broke up then everything I didn't want to happen would happen.

"You know what, we need to go," Shawn says standing up grabbing my hand and pulling me out of the house. Thank God.

"What's wrong with you?" I ask. No drunk brain thank him you idiot.

"Nothing," Shawn yells.

"Obviously not, you can tell me," I say as we get in the car.

"I'm fine," Shawn says as he starts driving us to my house.

"Okay," I say and the rest of the drive home is silent.

We get there and the house is silent. Hayden texted saying she is spending the night in Kc's and my mom is away on business again. I head straight to my room and I say nothing to Shawn. He goes straight to the couch. He's staying over for the next few days because his parents are away and don't trust him at home alone. His parents probably don't know that there is only a parent in the house 10% of the time.

I lay in bed looking at the celling trying not to think about everything that happened that summer, but it doesn't work.

"Hey," I hear Shawn say. I look at the clock and it's 2.37 A.M. Guess he couldn't sleep either.

"Hey," I say sitting up and flicking on my lamp. I look over and see he is leaning against my door frame with only pyjama pants on.

"I'm sorry about earlier I found out my ex got a new boyfriend and I was kind of pissed," Shawn says putting his hand through his hair.

"It's okay," I say with a small smile.

I feel bad for him but I'm also sad to see how caught up he is on his ex. I didn't even he had an ex that meant that much to him. Then again I don't know much about Shawn at all.

"So you and Conor," Shawn says jumping down on the bed beside me.

"Don't even," I say closing my eyes and turning off the lamp.

"Noted," Shawn says.