"That was annoying." I said to Shawn as we both got up and started exiting the class and headed to Spanish.
"I know! What the hell? She expects me to give her my number when she's never uttered a word to me? Not even a Hi first?" I laughed.
"Oh wow okay that was funny. I actually laughed. Let me document this real quick." I teased and took out my iPod and took a picture of him.
"Shut up." he said and nudged me. I laughed again.
"But seriously, I don't get it. She probably just liked how your puberty came in." He laughed.
"Probably!" He laughed and was about to say something else when we said hi to our friend Ian that was passing by. He did the bro handshake thing, I gave him a quick hug and he dipped faster than he came. We continued our journey to the only period holding me back from eating lunch, Spanish.
"What were you going to say?" I asked.
"I forgot. I don't know." We both laughed, and I nodded.
"Understandable."
"I don't know but I was just wondering if she would've put more of a fight if we weren't in class."
That's for damn sure.
"I'm sure she would've. But she better not have put me in the middle. She could've totally done all of that without me." I shrugged. I had enough to deal with on my own, I don't need random people adding to my plate.
"She was not nice at all when asking too." I said and made it a point to look at him in the face to cross my point. He shook his head in disappointment.
"What did she say?" He furrowed his eyebrows.
"Well it's not what she said it's how she said it. She was asking me why I wouldn't give her your number, but she was pissed and gave me a ton of attitude. If she was a hell of a lot nicer I would've been too." I shrugged and opened the door to go down the stairs.
"Well shit. You can tell a lot of a person if they're already not nice in your first interaction with them ever." I nodded in agreement.
"Right! If you're like this to me already, why would I ever give her anyones number? I wouldn't even give her my own." I checked my phone and we still had 4 minutes to get to class. Hell yeah.
"Aw look you look out for me." He wrapped his arm around my neck and pulled me in for his hug but I wasn't having it at all.
"Yeah, yeah get off." I slightly pushed him away and scoffed. He started laughing.
"Just don't get into another fight." Ugh, come on man. Why did you have to bring that up?
"As long as she's not an Anna I'll be fine." He nodded in agreement and smiled.
"Let's hope not." He said right before entering our Spanish class.
I sat in the seat to the right of Shawn and waited for the bell to ring.
Ugh, Anna.
Shawn really liked her in the 7th grade, and I thought it was so cute when she'd walk by him in the halls and he'd blush.
Of course, I teased him about it, and at the time, I thought they made a really nice couple. Well, one Friday night, Shawn calls me and tells me that he was going out with her.
Naturally, I didn't believe him, so I went to his house and he told me the whole story of how they texted all day, and she asked him out. That they were going to the movies on Saturday night, and after, they were going out for pizza. Shawn was ecstatic.
I thought she had balls to ask a guy out. Then, the night came, and I "helped" him get ready. He was wearing jeans, a white shirt, a red flannel over it, and black converse. He was freaking out saying how this was his first date, and how he was going to try and kiss her on the cheek and all that couple shit. I couldn't help him there.
His mom, Shawn, and I all piled in her car and drove to the theaters.
We all walked to the booth to buy the tickets for the movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Shawn being the gentleman bought her ticket, and gave his mom all the money. The movie was PG-13 so his mom bought the tickets. Then we went to meet her in the front. We were going to wait until she physically got there but he shooed us away.
I hugged him good luck, and his mom kissed his forehead. To which he scrunched his face, then his mom and I were off. Both being very giddy about Shawn finally going on his first date.
I remember like it was yesterday. The time was 8:18 pm when we dropped him off. His movie wasn't going to start until 8:45.
He was really excited, so he wanted to get there early to make sure he didn't keep her waiting. I remember asking him why not wait to leave at around 8:25 instead. His exact words were "What if I keep her waiting? That's not very boyfriend like", to which I just laughed and rolled my eyes.
7th grade - 2010
I was in my room watching TV, when I got a call from Shawn. I looked at the clock next to my bed and saw that it was only 9. Why is he calling so early? I thought right before I clicked the green button.
"Hello?"
"Hey." His voice was faint and small.
"Shawn, why are you calling so early? What's up?" I asked, as I grabbed the remote and muted the tv. I heard sniffling on the other end. Shit.
"Mendes, tell me what the hell is going on before I do something." I said as powerful as I could even though I was scared shitless about what he was going to say next.
"She stood me up." he said and cleared his throat. Fuck!
"I'm on my way." I said and clicked end and ran downstairs.
"Mom! Grab your car keys. It's a small emergency." I said as I was running down the stairs.
"What happened?" she asked frantically.
"I'll explain on the way!" I said as I got out the front door and ran into the car.
I explained to my mom on the way to the movies, and she understood completely. Even though the movies were about 10 minutes away from my house, they were the longest fucking 10 minutes of my life.
We got there and we finally found him sitting on a bench. He had his head hung low.
I went behind him and just hugged him. I didn't say anything, but just stayed there and held him. I'd be pretty sad if it happened to me too.
I stayed there for as long as he needed. He got up and hugged me again. Then pulled away and looked at me. I just smiled, hoping it was reassuring. He gave me a small smile back.
"C'mon."
"Thanks." he said to me.
"Anytime." I replied. We started walking back to my mom's car, when he interlocked arms with mine. Like how the characters skip in the Wizard of Oz. Surely we didn't skip, but it was nice either way.
"I'm sorry mijo."(son) My mom says as we get closer to her and she hugs him. "She didn't deserve you." I nodded in agreement with her and snapped my fingers. He just smiled.
To my surprise, my mom took us for ice cream and she let us rent movies.
We went to his house to watch the movies because he's the one that had the bigger TV. We chose Coraline to watch first. Shawn chose to get the movie 9, said it looked interesting. I chose 17 Again with Zac Efron, and we both chose Fantastic Mr. Fox. We both sat on the floor with our ice cream as the movie was playing. I loved my cookies and cream while he got chocolate. All I remember was laying down with a blanket his mom gave us and I was out like a light.
I woke up that day on Shawn's bed with the blanket half on me and half on Shawn. I looked at the clock he had and it was 11:37 am.
I better get home and start getting ready for church, I thought. As I was getting up from the bed, I felt stirring in the bed and I looked back and Shawn was yawning.
"Do you have any idea how I got on the bed?" I asked him as I was tying my left shoe.
"I carried you on." he said as he sat up from his laying position and rubbed his eyes.
"You didn't fall asleep watching the movie?" I asked him, now tying my right shoe.
"Nope. At the ending of the movie, I asked you something, and after you didn't respond I turned around and you were fast asleep. I thought I'd just carry you on." he stated, putting his shirt on. Yeah, he always fell asleep with no shirt, but I was used to it.
"Oh. Well thank you." I said standing up and putting my hair in a ponytail.
"Are you going home?" he asked as he was attempting to fix his hair.
"Yup. Sunday remember?" I said, then started looking for my phone. I was kinda in a rush and my god damn phone wasn't anywhere.
"Oh, church." he said walking out of his room to go to the bathroom.
"Yup!" Where is my damn phone?!
"Shawn!" I said after 5 minutes of not finding it.
"What?" he said coming into the room with a toothbrush in his mouth.
"Have you seen my phone?" I said. I was currently on my knees looking under the bed.
"It's right there." he said. I looked where he pointed and it was lying on the floor, next to the door.
"How did it get there?" I said standing up and grabbing it. He shrugged.
"Okay, gotta go. See ya later!" I said leaving the room and walking down the stairs.
"Bye!" I said as I opened the front door. I didn't wait for a reply, so I just closed it and went home to shower and get ready for church.
Later on That Day
(Shawn and Nicole were both finishing homework in her room)
"What did you get for number 4?" I asked Shawn.
"35." He said and I wrote the answer down. Even though we had different periods, we had the same teacher, and they gave us the same homework. Thank Jesus. I have someone to copy off of.
Just kidding.
Not really.
"Tomorrow is going to be eventful." I said working on number 5.
"Why?" he asked from my desk across the room. I was sitting on my bed.
"I'm not telling you, it's just going to be an eventful day tomorrow.'' I said.
"If if involves An-" I cut him off.
"Don't even say that name. From this day on, she's the most irrelevant person in the world." I said as I started to finish number 5.
"Sheesh, you hate her that much?" Shawn asked me.
"No, I don't hate her, I very strongly dislike her. Life is too short to hate people." I said as started to do number 6. He looked at me and arched an eyebrow.
"Okay, maybe I hate her a little bit." We both laughed and continued with our homework.
The Next Day
I didn't have any classes with Anna so she was lucky. At least for now.
Then it was time for lunch. I looked all over for her and l finally found her sitting at a table in the cafeteria with her friends. There she was. Just looking at her, l felt like l had to bleach out my eyeballs.
l went up to her. I was so mad. Anyone with eyes could see that.
"Anna can I talk to you?" I asked as sweetly as l could.
"Um, yeah?" She got up and walked with me to a more secluded area. The fewer witnesses, the better.
"What did you do this weekend?" I asked and smiled at her with my arms crossed.
"Nothing important, just hung out with family. My cousin came over. Why?" Oh HELL NAH! This bitch about to get it!
"Oh really? Shawn Mendes doesn't come to mind?" I was fuming.
"Shawn? What about him?" she asked and furrowed her eyebrows.
"What about him? Despite the fact that you stood him up on Saturday." I was seething. My hands were in fists and they were itching to pop her in the nose.
"Oh, that! Yeah, it was a bet. No one wants to go out with Shawn! Have you seen him? And because of the bet, I won and I got these new shoes! They were kinda expensive." She said.
"Damn that's all it takes? If I throw some ugly ass shoes your way would you be a decent ass human being?" I'm pretty sure I was hella red from how furious I was.
"The fuck does that mean?" She stepped back. Stupid bitch.
"I really have to spell it out, huh? Who the fuck are you to make a bet over some shoes when you look like that? You should be taking every opportunity girl." I said and smiled at her.
"Shut up you're just mad I stood your little friend up." she said and then... guess what. She pushes me. I stared at her with my mouth agape.
"Get the fuck away." I pushed her back.
She pushed me again, only this time, pushed me hard enough to hit my back on the wall behind me.
I couldn't feel anything because I was numb. Like literally, I was so mad everything was numb. Now that she was the first one with physical contact, I could beat the shit out of her and it would be self-defense.
"And what the fuck are you gonna do about it?" She told me. And pushed me against the wall again. I just swung. Then we ended up on the floor, and one of her hands immediately went for my hair. Really?
I managed to pry her right hand off my arm and punched her in the face, in an attempt to get her off me completely.
I don't believe in violence, so I don't know why I haven't stopped this yet, but I think I was kinda enjoying this.
I just kept going at it. She was pulling on my hair and I was trying to get her nose.
Then I felt someone grab onto my waist and haul me up. I just kicked at her. The adrenaline rush inside me was crazy. I felt that I could run a whole mile in 5 seconds.
I was finally off of her and was enslaved into someone's arms. I couldn't move my arms anymore and my heart was racing. I looked at my knuckles and they were bruised and bloody, but I could care less right now.
"What in God's name is going on here?!" The dean screamed at me and the girl on the ground clutching onto her bleeding nose.
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