Love Me

|Chapter 22|

Shawn Mendes

Emptiness.

Complete emptiness after she'd left. In the house and in my heart. Usually she'd be jumping around or bumping into things.

Or her loud laughter would echo around the house as she watched multiple episodes of her favourite tv show. The house was now empty. Except it was a total mess. After she'd left, I'd thrown things around in anger.

Aaliyah sat next to me now, as our parents cleaned up the mess. I was numb, totally numb.

"Do you think it's time to bring the old guitar out?" Aaliyah spoke softly.

"Hm. Like old times?" I asked her, my voice sore from not speaking for so long.

When I was younger, I used to write songs and play on my guitar all day everyday. I loved singing so much that I'd always thought I'd be a musician when I grew up. But when that flew out of the window I started my music company.

Whenever I finished writing a song I'd perform it for my mom who'd always give me an honest opinion on it. After the song was perfected Aaliyah and I performed it in front of our entire family. Sometimes even when either of us were having a bad day we'd sing together to make ourselves feel better. It always worked.

After I'd started working in my company I'd had no time for music, so my guitar ended up at the back of the storage room.

"Yeah." Aaliyah answered. I shrugged.

She got up from the bed and brought out the somewhat dusty guitar and handed it to me, sitting back down. I re-tuned it a bit and began strumming an old but familiar song I'd written a few years back.

"I thought that I've been hurt before
But no one's ever left me quite this sore
Your words cut deeper than a knife
Now I need someone to breathe me back to life.." I sang.

It had been so long, the feeling of the guitar in my hands felt good.

"Got a feeling that I'm going under
But I know that I'll make it out alive
If I quit calling you my lover
Move on.." Aaliyah joined me and our voices harmonised.

"Needle and the thread
Gotta get you out of my head
Needle and the thread
Gonna wind up dead
Needle and the thread
Gotta get you out of my head, get you out of my head.." my strumming got louder and louder.

"You watch me bleed until I can't breathe
I'm shaking falling onto my knees
And now that I'm without your kisses
I'll be needing stitches.."

Aaliyah stopped singing but I didn't notice it until later.

"And now that I'm without your kisses
I'll be needing stitches.." I sang until my voice died out. A tear escaped my eye and fell onto the guitar in my hands.

"It's going to fine brother." Aaliyah comforted, hugging me.

Was it really though?

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Wow.

Okay I never know what to say at the end so uh... YEHA 😂

Do ya'll think I'm gonna give u a happy ending or leave it sad? :)))

-Taylor💋