Fame | Shawn Mendes

Chapter 28; Family & No Photos

"What the hell."

I stared at my phone, watching the thirty second clip over and over again. I didn't know I was being filmed last night as I sang and I also couldn't believe that Shawn would upload this on his Instagram. It was all over Twitter.

"Mila your new microphone stand and also the new mic arrived and by the way did you saw Shawn's Instagram post?" Andre asked as he had pulled one of my earpods out of my ear.

"That's great! And yes I just saw that."

I was really excited for my new mic and its stand because it was like a little thicker and could change its colour so it'll have a great effect when the lighting crew coordinates it with the stage lights and effects.

"Well, if you didn't already know, tomorrow Shawn's family will arrive and we'll go out for dinner and all that. You up for it?"

Tomorrow.

"Uhm, no. I don't want to intrude you know since he probably missed them and I just want to go sight seeing. I'm sure Theo will join me if you don't want to come," I said but he just shook his head.

"Don't you think I know what tomorrow is?" he chuckled and left me alone again.

I took my notebook out of my backpack and finally after good a few weeks I started writing new songs. I don't always write from my own experiences sometimes I like to imagine being someone else and then I'll write what they feel about certain situations.

However, the song I was currently working on was definitely about myself. It was about trust and how people have stepped on it throughout my life. I don't like to go into detail nor do I like to explain what my songs are about but I do answer what they want to know even if I don't always tell the full story.

As I tried figuring out the second verse of the song I got distracted by the guys turning the TV on to play fifa. I sighed angrily as they disturbed my creative moment so I walked downstairs and laid down on the couch there.

"Hey Mila," someone suddenly said, making me jump in fear. "God, you scared me," I mumbled as I noticed that the person in front of me was the person I tried so hard to ignore.

"Sorry," he apologized and sat down next to me. I shut my notebook abruptly so he couldn't see what I was writing on. "Are you mad that I posted the video of you from last night because if so then I could just delete it and-"

"No no, it's alright," I cut him off, hoping that he would just leave me alone but that wasn't the case.

We sat in awkward silence for only a few seconds but it felt like hours before he spoke again.

"So you probably heard that my family is coming tomorrow and everyone is invited so I figured you're coming too?"

"Actually no. Theo, Andre & I have some plans, sorry."

I got up from the couch, wanting to get away from him so badly. "I need some time for myself you know. Writing and stuff," I waved my notebook in front of me and quickly getting back upstairs. I got to the bunks and closed the door to block out the noise coming from the guys.

I sat down under the window and continued writing the song that was only halfway done.

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