𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 | 𝐒.𝐌

Chapter 48

Shawn Mendes - Higher

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Somewhere in the middle of the night, my phone starts to vibrate on my bedside table. I groan and turn around trying to grab it, but instead, it falls to the ground. 

For fuck sake. 

I roll out of bed and land on the floor with a thud, picking up the phone without looking who's calling me.

'Hmm?' I moan with my eyes still closed.

'Beth, hey, I'm at your front door. Open it.' Shawn's voice says through my phone.

At my front door? What the fuck is he doing here? I look at my window, it's still dark outside. What time is it? 

I roll over and push myself off the ground looking at the screen of my phone. It's three in the morning! What is so important that he can't wait until later today?

I stumble to my front door and blind myself by turning on the light in the hallway. I frown with one eye closed as I see Shawn standing on my doorstep with a bouquet in his hand.

'What the fuck is wrong with you, man?' I rub my eye with one hand.

I see myself in the mirror and smile a little. I look like a crackhead, my hair all messy and I don't even know how I managed to turn my pyjamas inside out while I was asleep.

'Happy anniversary!' Shawn says.

'Anniversary? Of what?' I sound like I'm going to cry.

'We've been together for three months and I have an important question to ask you.' Shawn says, stepping through the door.

'Please don't tell me you're going to propose. I will say no.' I warn him.

'No.' He chuckles. 'Come here.'

Shawn wraps his arms around me and I put my head against his chest, listening to his heartbeat. I close my eyes and start to fall asleep. No, I need to stay awake, he has an important question to ask me. But his body is so warm, and comfortable...

'Beth.' I startle awake again.

'Yeah! Question. Wait!' I say, breaking the hug.

I try to clear my mind. My brain is still asleep. I can't listen to him and think clearly when he asks me the question. 

I tell him to give me two minutes before running to my room, grabbing my bathrobe and running to the bathroom again. I quickly wash my face with cold water and I feel the fog out of my head disappear. Yeah, I'm awake now.

'Why can't this question wait till later in the morning?' I ask, sitting down next to him on the couch.

'I wanted to wait, but I couldn't fall asleep out of excitement. So I decided to come over and ask it now. When I arrived I saw the other doorman standing in the lobby and he let me through because he's not a dick like Sam.'

'Sam is not a dick, he just listens to what I ask him.' I chuckle.

'You still tell him I'm not allowed past the lobby?' Shawn asks with a smile resting on his lips.

'Yup.' I kiss him. 'Just ask the question Shawn, or I'm going back to bed.'

He nods and puts his hand in his pocket, searching for something. Seconds later he shows me a key. I look at it, not knowing what he means with this.

'I really enjoyed our vacation together and since we're back I've started to realize that being away from you frustrates me and even hurts me somehow.' He looks into my eyes for a second.