patience

Chapter Fourteen

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A month had passed since Shawn and I started sneaking around. We were currently in Canada. Alessia still had no idea about us, and it was working pretty well. We had a lot if huge run ins with the paparazzi, but I was getting used to saying we were just friends. After all, I knew the truth, and it was kind of fun having a huge secret like this.

Today, Shawn and I were hanging out. Alessia had been sick, so I was trying to spend time away from her. Shawn and I were planning to just go walking and stuff. We hadn't got to do that in what felt like forever. Of course we were followed by all the paparazzi, but we were used to it, so we knew what boundaries we weren't going to cross.

"A few more weeks and we get to go to Korea" He says. "Are you excited?".

"Very. Getting to travel with you is si much fun" I say. I kind of hated saying that just because I was only on this tour because of Alessia. It wasn't really fair to her.

"Traveling with your girlfriend is pretty amazing" He says. I pause.

"Are we actually putting a label on it?" I ask.

"For us? Yes. For everyone else, No" He says. J smiled.

"I can get on board with that" I say. He smiles and out his his on the lower part of my back and pulled me into him. I didn't think that was make people speculate much. I mean, not much more than they already were.

"I'm so glad you're mine" He says. I smile.

"I'll be yours for as long as you want me to be" I say. He smiles down at me.

"How does forever sound?".

"Perfect".

***Alessia's POV***

It has been an interesting month since River joined the tour. Not like a weird interesting, but like a surprising kind of interesting. She and Shawn hit it off so well, sometimes she talked to him more than she did me. River was always so shy growing up, she had some...issues. I was happy she had been coming out of her shell. I just missed my cousin. And honestly, I was kind of getting worried about her with Shawn. It wasn't like I didn't trust her with him. I didn't trust him with her. Shawn wasn't the person that River thought that he was. I had told her before that he and I had a past, but she didn't want to hear it, but the longer her and him hanging out continued, the worst I kept feeling about having a secret from her. Actually,  was it a secret if she knows that it exists, but refuses to let me tell her? I don't know, but I did know that there was something that she didn't know and I was sick of keeping it from her. I was just so afraid of hurting her, because if I told her the truth about who Shawn was she would learn that for the past year, I haven't been the person she thought that I was. Either way, she was going to lose her faith in one of us, and she was my bestfriend. We never kept secrets, never fought, no negativity ever intersected she and I, and I knew that when the truth came out, her heart would break, and I would be the one that broke it.

So Alessia and River both have secrets. What do you think Alessia could be keeping from River?