Chapter 17- Opening night

I stand in the meet and greet room waiting in anticipation for the first fan to come through, feeling giddy upon hearing their anticipating voices from outside. I was just as nervous as they were, and I fiddled with the ring on my finger. Noah hadn't text me just before I had come out, I know he wasn't obliged to but he always did and I idly start to wonder why.

My thoughts are cut short when a girl around the same hight as me comes through the curtain handing her phone , I flash her my widest smile and open my arms beckoning her in for a hug. Her eyes tear up and she embraces me, hugging me tightly which only makes me smile even more. I look over at Shawn from my shoulder, he looks excited and flashes me a smile and a thumbs up which strangely made more of my nerves go away. No one could really ever do that in a matter of seconds. Well, I guess Shawn can.

The girl pulls back from the hug and I look at her and wipe a tear from her face,

"Please don't cry," I giggle, attempting to cheer her up "What's your name?"

"Amelia," She whispers out.

"Thats such a pretty name," I comment making her burst into even more tears.

"Hey, why are you crying?" I ask hugging her once more, gently rubbing her back. Have I done something wrong?

"B-because I never thought I'd meet you, you're my biggest inspiration. Truly, if it wasn't for you I don't know where I would be right now. You helped me in my toughest times,"

Tears prick my eyes and I hug her even tighter, suddenly noticing the scars on her arm. Poor girl. The photographer yells at us telling us to hurry up, and I feel like yelling at them. I want to be able to spend as much time as I can with my fans, they mean the world to me and I don't want our time to be limited. At the same time, I remember that there are many others to get through so I pull her out of my embrace, smiling at her

"Shall we take a picture now?" I ask her and she pats her tears away giggling and nodding her head whilst wrapping her arms around my waist and I wrap mine around her shoulders and we both beam towards the camera. Once the photograph is taken, we say our goodbyes.

"Bye Eva, you're going to rock it tonight! Oh I got this for you by the way," She says handing me a small box, "I know I shouldn't and it's against the rul-"

"Thank you, I'm sure I'll love it. Can I have your twitter?"

"It's on a little card in the gift," she giggles.

"Thank you so much again, I'll follow you later and make sure to DM sometime!"

"Oh my goodness," she gushes "This might have just been the best two minutes of my life, good luck for tonight. Oh you smell amazing by the way!" She says collecting her phone and going next door to see Shawn.

I smile to myself placing her gift behind me as the next fan walks in barely saying anything, just taking her picture and going on her way. The next hour or so flys by; meeting many happy fans, many quiet shy ones and most definitely many teary eyed ones, very similar to Amelia. It's crazy how much of an impact I have on their lives, and Shawn too. Every now and then I would look over at Shawn while I would be waiting for the next fan to come through and he cared so much about each and every one of them from the intense look in his eyes and how his face lit up when someone came through.

I leave the room, escorted by the security guards getting ready to go on stage. Shawn shortly follow behind me and we all gather in from a team talk and then I'm set to go on stage. Andrew jogs over and gives me a quick re-assuring side hug and Shawn strides over after him.

"Good luck, you'll be great!" He says handing me a bottle of lemon water, which I take looking at it confusingly.

"Thank you, and what's this for?"

"Scientific studies suggest that lemon water always helps before going on stage,"

"Really?"

"Nope, it just tastes good." He laughs.

"Thought that was too clever for you Mendes,"

"Oh you wound me Eva," he wipes a fake tear from the side of his face.

"Cry me a river," I joke back.

"Eva get ready you're up in five," Andrew yells.

I sigh and turn on my heel, checking my phone to see if Noah had text yet. Nothing, sighing in defeat I put my phone away jumping as Shawn appears behind me.

"Don't worry about him if he hasn't text you then it's his loss. I'll give you double the good luck but trust me you won't need it."

"I swear you move like a ghost Shawn, but thank you I really appreciate it. I probably won't see you so good luck you'll most definitely rock it I mean it's you," I laugh giving him a quick hug and hearing my name heard I jog onto the stage, smiling widely as the crowd erupts into loud encouraging screams. I wave my hands and place myself in front of the microphone.

"How are you guys doing?" I beam through getting a chorus of replies. I start strumming a few strings on my guitar until they start to make up the first song I'm singing.

I start off by playing my cover of Scars to your Beautiful by Alessia Cara, it's a song so close to my heart and I want to be able to let my fans hear it, I then play another cover of the acoustic Kill em with Kindness (AN-guys seriously listen to the acoustic of this song, it's amaaaazing!) and then some of my original songs ending with my cover of Shawn's song- Life of the Party. It's one of Shawn's songs that I'm completely obsessed with and I knew he wouldn't be singing it tonight because it's the illuminate tour and it was mainly songs from- yep you guessed it, Illuminate! I loved this feeling, the buzz and the rush of excitement and adrenaline, it's the feeling I lived for.

I look out of the corner of my eye and see Shawn smiling, looking completely mesmerised and awed. He looked adorable, and I know I shouldn't be thinking that at all but I shake it off and completely loose myself in the last verse of the song doing what I love most- singing. Once I complete it, the crowd erupts into many loud cheers and Shawn walks on stage, he lifts me up and hugs me tight clumsily juggling his guitar and me in his arms at the same time whilst quickly whispering in my ear;

"That was amazing, you were amazing! Wait for me after the show?" I smile at him and nod my headI wasn't planning on going anywhere and walk off stage laughing at the crowd that was saying a chorus of "awws".

"Wasn't she amazing guys?" I hear Shawn ask the crowd as they cheer loudly once again, "How you guys doing there?" he steps back from the microphone waiting for an answer which the crowd once again blasts out, "Great guys! Okay so I'm going to start with my newest song Theres nothing holding me back, enjoy!"

He starts singing and I feel myself getting lost in his voice becoming completely enchanted, he has the voice of an angel.

Andrew interrupts my trance by coming and giving me a hug,

"You did so well Eva!" He beams at me

"Thank you so much!" I smile back, desperately wanting to sit there and listen to Shawn.

"Okay, I'll leave you to watch the rest of the show but Shawn asked me to give this to you," he hands me the bottle of lemon water making me laugh taking it from his outstretched hand graciously "Oh, and I think you're phone was going off, you might want to check it," and with a smile he leaves, letting me sit there enjoying the rest of the performance sipping my lemon water....

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Hey guys! A longish chapter to make up for the fact that I haven't updated in ages, I've had exams though but now they're over I've had so much more time for writing- thank goodness! Haha :) I hope you enjoyed my sucky writing haha.

Also, I just wanted to let you guys know I've published another book, so if you want to go check it out that would be great!

ALSO who's seen Shawn's new tattoo?

Love you all so much, and I hope you're having a great day/night!

See you in the next update!! Xx