Chapter 20- surprises...

At first we sat in a comfortable silence, as Shawn drove out of the city and more into the countryside rural areas. Shawn focused on driving and my attention was turned to the activities going on outside the window, starting to become sleepier and sleepier as the journey becomes longer and longer. I broke our comfortable silence when I asked Shawn how long until we were getting there,

"It's only been ten minutes," he chuckles "I'd say about an hour."

"How has it only been ten minutes? It feels like a lifetime! Will you tell me where we're going?"

"Nope,"

"I hate you," 

"I've been made aware,"

"Shawn, I mean it"

"Trust me, I'm working on that." 

"Stealing my muffins sure didn't help," I hint.

"I believe you offered them to me?" 

"Whatever," I huff 

"How are things with Noah?" Shawn asks, throwing me off guard slightly 

"Um, okay I guess."

"You sure?" he continues to probe

"I suppose so, I miss him but I can't help feel like I'm holding him back."

"From what?"

"It doesn't matter,"

"You know, if you're not happy you should have the right to move on." Shawn suggests, and I can hear how gentle he is with his voice.

"I'm happy, I love him." 

"As long as you're happy,"

I glance at Shawn and offer him a smile, with which he offers a tight one in return once again an emotion I can't fathom in his eyes. We soon return to our comfortable silence and my eyelids start feeling heavier and heavier until I settle into a comfortable sleep as we continue to drive to our mysterious location. 

"Eva," Shawn says whilst shaking my shoulder "Wake up, we're here."

I sleepily get up and rub my eyes, looking out of the windows taking in the fact that we are literally in the middle of no-where. 

"You're not planning to murder me are you?" I question taking Shawn's outstretch hand, getting out of the car as he leads me to our final destination.

"As tempting as that is, not today. I have better plans," 

We turn a small corner, around a tree and I stop dead in my tracks. What I see in front of me is beautiful, it's a small picnic blanket set up with some lovely food, fairy lights dangling from the trees adding to the beauty of the place. 

"This is beautiful Shawn,"

"This isn't the best part, do you see the screen there? It's going to be playing Harry Potter for us." 

"It's perfect," I beam at him as he drags me to the picnic blanket with him, and the Goblet of Fire starts to play as we settled down with our snacks, our attention focused on the screen. Well, my attention was focused on the screen, I swear I could see Shawn staring at me. As the movie proceeds, Shawn and I draw closer together to one another and as it starts to get cold we end up cuddling under a blanket, deep down I know this could be slightly wrong yet it seems so right. My head rests on his chest, with one of his arms secured tightly around my shoulders and the other drawing me closer to him. I feel comforted by his steady breathing and heart beat and I snuggle further enjoying the adventures of Harry and his friends whilst Shawn enjoys sleeping with me in his arms. 

As the movie draws to an end, so does my phone battery. I only realise because I check the time and soon my phone dies altogether, however certain notifications don't go unnoticed by me, two messages in particular stand out to me, one from my best friend, whom I haven't spoken to in ages, and one from Noah. My eyes quickly scan both before the battery runs out and my heart shatters, the one from my best friend said 

"Eva, I'm really sorry but Noah...we're at this party and he's with some other girl and he's cheating on you."

And the one from Noah said 

"Eva, honey. I'm sorry, I was drunk but I swear and Lauren was just there , you know I love you and only you- I'm sure you've heard the rumours by now."

My heart shatters into many pieces, anger bubbles up inside of me and I sit up and struggle out of Shawn's hold screaming in frustration as I throw my phone. This alerts Shawn as he sits upright from his peaceful slumber looking alarmed. 

"What's happened? Eva are you okay? Why are you crying? Honey? Who did it? Where did they go?" He pulls me close to his chest holding me tight looking around to try find a culprit. 

My sobs increase into an ugly cry filled with sadness and frustration wetting his shirt with tears, Shawn's questions overwhelm me and I try to answer them but I only manage to hiccup replies. Moments grow longer and my pain becomes worse, but with Shawn's gentle swaying of the two of us and his gentle strokes up my back manage to calm me down. Once my sobs have stopped, Shawn sits down and pulls me with him, with me perched on his lap cuddled into his chest, small hiccups coming out of my mouth. 

"Eva, please tell me whats happened. Let me help you, please."

"It's stupid," I whisper 

"It's okay, I want to help you."

"I opened my phone to check the time and I had two messages- one from my best friend and one from Noah. He cheated on me," And I commence my story, explaining each part to him, slightly re-living the pain through each word. 

"Do you know who with?"

"Lauren," I whisper 

"Oh duck," Shawn whispers making me giggle.

"You can swear you know," he ignores my statement.

"If it had to be anyone, of course it was Lauren. I thought someone had come up here a tried to do something I don't know, I mean we are in the middle of no-where, oh god I'm rambling now. Eva I'm sorry, I mean I did think he was bad news but then now isn't the time for I told you so. Are you okay?"

"I'm great," I reply sarcastically, letting my thoughts wander off thinking of all the reasons why I'm not good enough. 

"What are you thinking of?" Shawn asks lifting my chin up so my eyes meet his and uses his thumb to wipe the tears that are falling down my face.

"It was Lauren, I've seen pictures of her. She's gorgeous, probably everything I'm not. What was I even thinking? Guys like Noah don't go for girls like me, they go for girls like Lauren," 

"What do you mean that guys like Noah don't go for girls like you?"

"Girls like me? I'm not pretty I pretty much resemble a piece of trash thats been eaten and pooped out by a cat, my figure sucks, I'm not funny, I have no talents, everything about me is wrong. Anyone with good eyesight can tell you that,"

"Guys like Noah don't go for girls like you because they're stupid players, they lead you on and break your heart. They're not gentlemen what-so-ever. They don't go for girls like you because to them the qualities that you have such as your humour and kindness and sass and intelligence doesn't matter next to the first girl who'll give them a good night, in this case its Lauren. They don't go for girls like you Eva because Noah doesn't see pure perfection, but I do. You're perfect Eva, beyond perfect."

Before I get a chance to reply, Shawn's face comes closer to mine, our foreheads touch and in this moment we share the same air to breathe- that is if I remember to breathe. His smell flooding my senses, making me loose all sense, intoxicating me and my eyes flutter shut as his lips gently touch mine, slow and soft....

♡

GUYS AHHHH 

EEK 

SHAWN AND EVA!!! 

Sorry for the people that shipped Noah haha, but i mean come on..its shawn...how can you not love him?

Hope you guys enjoyed reading this update! My heart was actually fluttering as I wrote it eek aha!

Love you all, see you in the next update!