Restoration [Shawn Mendes] AU

Chapter 76

Shawn: You gotta help me man.

Brian: What's up?

Shawn: I fucked up big time. I've been up practically all night trying to figure out how to make this right.

Brian: What?

Shawn: I said some things I should never have said and Michelle left me.

Brian: Have you tried to talk to her? Did you call her? Did you go to her apartment?

Shawn: Yes. I've called, I've texted, I've gone over to her apartment to see if she'd let me in so I could apologize and she's completely shut me out. Her phone goes straight to voice mail and she wouldn't even open the door to talk to me last night. I mean she gave me a key to her place earlier this summer but I wasn't gonna use it after what happened. When I asked her to open the door she didn't say anything, instead she turned the deadbolt and put the chain on the door. 

Brian: Damn dude, you must have REALLY fucked up.

Shawn: I did. I implied she'd cheated on me. I was so fucking stupid! It just came out and then she got this look on her face like I'd just hit her. She was so upset she was shaking, but she told me I didn't deserve her, to fuck off and have a nice life, right before she slammed out my door.

Brian: What the hell man? She doesn't seem like the kind of woman who'd cheat. From what you've told me and from being around her when she came to Toronto, I didn't get that kind of vibe from her at all. She seemed pretty devoted to you.

Shawn: She has been, at least up until I royally fucked up last night by saying that to her. WTH am I gonna do? I need to apologize to her. I need things to go back to how they were!

Brian: Yeah...that may be easier said than done. Why the hell did you even say that to her?

Shawn: It's a long story, but over the last few weeks she's received two expensive gifts of jewelry from someone and she has no idea who gave them to her. One was left at the front desk of her building and the other was left for her yesterday at her job. They both had notes in the box, but no name and she insists she doesn't know who sent them. I kinda implied maybe there was something going on with another man behind my back because it's all very suspicious.

Brian: So you don't believe her?

Shawn: Well she's never lied to me before as far as I know. She's always been open with me.

Brian: So why would she start now? If she had something going on with someone else, why would she show you the jewelry in the first place? Wouldn't she try to hide it?

Shawn: You're right. I just was so fucking pissed that she's getting expensive gifts from some unknown person and I know damn well it's a guy, but who the fuck could it be? I mean she's only in class or at her part-time job and she was at PT after her accident. Where would she have had any contact with some guy who would send her jewelry from goddamn Tiffany's?