Restoration [Shawn Mendes] AU

Chapter 53

After a Sunday night of leftovers and lovemaking, Monday morning rolled around sooner than they liked. Shawn and Michelle got up early to take a shower together, ate a quick breakfast of toast and coffee and made it to class by 8AM.

"I'll see you later babe, have a good day," Michelle kissed Shawn on the lips as he dropped her off at the CIT building before heading over to BEB to work in the studio.

"Alright, but I'm not sure when exactly, It's gonna be a marathon working on my project today. I'll text you later though, to check in."

"Ok. I love you!" she said as she exited the Jeep.

"Love you too honey, have a good day," Shawn replied, before he drove off.

The morning flew by and when she was done with her morning classes, Michelle walked over to Fleet library to work on some research for her senior thesis, sitting in a quiet corner surrounded by books, sticky notes, notepads, scraps of paper with jottings she needed to remember and her laptop. She had no idea what time it was or how long she'd been there, but she was on a roll and had no intention of stopping to go get something to eat at that point. She heard her phone ding in the front pocket of her bookbag and dug it out to see it was from Shawn.

Shawn: Hey sweetheart, how goes it?

Michelle: I'm at the library, up to my eyeballs in research for my thesis.

Shawn: Do you want to pause, to go get some lunch?

Michelle: Babe, I'd love to but I can't stop right now. I'm sorry.

Shawn: It's fine, I know the more you get done before spring break the better.

Michelle: I miss you though.

Shawn: I miss you too baby.

Michelle: Are you still at the studio?

Shawn: Yeah, I've got to get this project completed by Thurs. for crits

Michelle: You want me to bring you something for dinner later?

Shawn: Chelle, you're busy too. You don't have to do that.

Michelle: I'm not staying here all night! I miss you and want to see you.

Shawn: Only if you have time, but don't stress.

Michelle: I'll text you and see what you want to eat. I'll bring dinner.

Shawn: Ok, text me later when you have time. Love you xxx

Michelle: Ok, talk later sweetie. Love you too xxx

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By 5:32, Michelle was completely fried from working on her thesis and she still had to finish typing another paper for her Writing Approaches class that was due tomorrow afternoon. She had it finished for the most part, she just needed to edit it, tweak it a little and go over everything thoroughly before submitting it. The instructor was a stickler for perfection, especially since the class was aimed at technical writing for when submitting formal plans or proposals for projects or if writing for publication in trade or professional journals. It was tedious but important and even though Michelle had always loved writing and had a flair, technical writing was not where that skill came in handy necessarily, but she wanted to do well in the class and maintain her 3.9 GPA, so she always put in maximum effort in that class.