"What are we doing today?" I asked my boyfriend of seven months, Shawn Mendes, as we stood in the kitchen making breakfast.

"Well it's a nice day out. Do you want to go into the city?" Shawn asked. I nodded and smiled.

"That sounds perfect. I got a new shirt the other day and I really liked it when I tried it on. Like, I felt good about myself when I tried it on, and that doesn't happen often." I said. Shawn smiled at me and leaned over to kiss my cheek.

"I love it when you feel good about yourself baby. You deserve to feel good about yourself, because let me tell you something, you're absolutely breathtaking, beautiful, gorgeous, stunning, every nice word ever." He said. I couldn't help but blush at his words.

"Thank you Shawny. You're the most handsome, best looking guy ever." I said. Shawn smiled at me.

"Thank you darling." Shawn said. After breakfast Shawn and I went upstairs to get ready for the day. I put on a black crop top, black jeans, and black boots. I put on some makeup, some black mascara, blue eyeliner, and light eye shadow that blended well at made it look like I wasn't even really wearing much. I straightened my hair and then I looked in the mirror and smiled at myself, which wasn't something that I usually do, but I was feeling confident. I stepped out of the bathroom and saw Shawn. He was wearing black skinny jeans and a white t-shirt that I had gotten him. It had a tea bag on it and said "It's a TEA shirt." He was looking at his phone.

"Shawn?" I asked as I stepped out with a smile on my face. He picked his head up and when he looked at me, his eyes widened.

"Wow baby! You look incredible." He said. My smile widened, and my confidence went even higher. I twirled around to show him the whole outfit before walking over to him. I put my hands on his chest and he placed his hands on my waist.

"I'm wearing a crop top. Remember when I said that I was never going to wear a crop top?" I asked. Shawn nodded as he smiled at me.

"Yup. You look so gorgeous my love. Let me take a picture of you." He said. I backed up a little bit and put my hands on my hips with a huge smile on my face. Shawn smiled and took some pictures of me. "Do you mind if I post those?"

"No, that's fine." I said. Shawn posted it and then showed it to me.

"I swear she glows differently when she's feeling confident! I'm the luckiest man alive!" Shawn wrote and added some heart eye emojis. I smiled at the picture before realizing that you could see my stretch marks. But then I realized that I didn't care. I looked at Shawn.

"I used to worry so much about my stretch marks but today I don't care if people see them or not. They're part of who I am." I said. Shawn's smile widened as he pulled me in for a hug.

"I'm so damn proud of you Y/n Y/l/n. I love you and your stretch marks. I love every mark on your body." Shawn said. I smiled at him and gave him a kiss. He posted the photo on his Instagram story after we kissed.

"You know what? I know that the haters are going to make comments about my stretch marks because of that photo, and I know that we might be spotted when we got out, so I want to do something." I said.

"What do you want to do baby?" Shawn asked. I explained it to him and he nodded and smiled. I went up to the mirror that's connected to our dresser, got my phone, and started a video of myself in the mirror.

"Hi guys! I just wanted to say a couple of things. First of all, I'm wearing a crop top today, and I used to say that I was never going to wear a crop top because I was insecure, but I'm feeling good today, so I'm wearing one! I know that this might not seem like much to some people, but it's a victory for me. Also, I know that people are going to make comments about my stretch marks, so I just want to say that yes, I have them, and they're part of who I am. So, if you have stretch marks, don't ignore them, don't be embarrassed by them, embrace them instead." I said before I ended the video. I turned to Shawn and he had a huge smile on his face.

"I love dating a beautiful, strong, powerful, empowering woman." Shawn said before walking over to me and kissing me. I kissed him back and then posted the video on my Instagram story.

"Are you ready to go?" I asked Shawn as I grabbed my wristlet and he grabbed his keys.

"Yeah. So where are we going in the city?" Shawn asked as he put his shoes on.

"We could go to the park, Boston Public Garden, and walk around there. And maybe we could go Faneuil Hall. Does that sound good?" I asked. Shawn nodded as we walked out to his car.

"That sounds perfect my love." He said. We got in the car and Shawn drove to the Boston Public Garden. It was a beautiful day out as Shawn and I walked beside each other, our fingers intertwined as we walked through the park. I pointed at the sixteen feet tall statue of George Washington on a horse.

"Do you want me to take a picture of you and good old George?" I asked with a smile. Shawn laughed and nodded.

"Well of course." He said. I laughed as he ran ahead and stood below the statue. I took my phone out and took a picture of him.

"Perfect." I said. Shawn walked back to me and we kept walking with me as he held my hand.

"It's gorgeous here. Not as gorgeous as you, but still, it's gorgeous." Shawn said. I blushed at his words before bringing his hand up to my lips so I could kiss it.

"I love it here." I said after we walked a bit more.

"Wait, go over there near all of those flowers, I want to take a picture of you." Shawn said.

"Over there?" I asked as I looked at where he was pointing. He nodded and I did as told. I put my hands on my hips and smiled at Shawn. He took his phone out and took a couple of pictures of me.

"Beautiful! You look so pretty! Perfect!" He said as he took pictures of me, which made me giggle and blush. He then put his phone down and I walked back over to him.

"How many pictures did you take of me?" I asked.

"I honestly don't know, I just kept pressing the button to take pictures." Shawn said. I giggled and interlaced my fingers with his.

"Should we go to Faneuil Hall now?" I asked. Shawn nodded.

"Yeah. I have a question by the way." Shawn said.

"What's up?" I asked.

"What exactly is Faneuil Hall?" Shawn asked. I laughed.

"You said yes to going to Faneuil Hall but you don't know what it is?" I asked. He nodded.

"Yeah, pretty much." He said.

"It's a historic marketplace and meeting hall." I said. Shawn nodded.

"Got it." He said. We went to Faneuil Hall and there were different push carts and kiosks. Shawn held my hand as we walked around. I saw a cart that said Musically Yours and tugged at Shawn's hand.

"Baby, look." I said. Shawn saw it and he immediately began to walk towards it.

"Oh my gosh, look at this watch baby." Shawn said as he showed me a watch with music notes on it. I smiled at him.

"Don't you already have about a million watches?" I asked. Shawn looked at me with a smile and when I saw the twinkle in his eyes, I knew he was excited about the watch.

"Yeah, but none of them have music notes." Shawn said. I smiled and nodded. He paid for the watch and then we kept walking around. I bought some artwork of Boston and then we went to Newbury Comics and got some stuff there.

"Where should we go now?" I asked as we walked to the car and got in.

"Where do you want to go?" Shawn asked before picking my hand up and kissing my fingers. I thought for a moment as Shawn kept kissing my fingers gently.

"Can we go to the Lawn On D? They have a bunch of swings and it's really cool." I said. Shawn let go of my fingers so he could hold the steering wheel and nodded.

"Of course." He said. He drove to the Lawn On D and we got out. We walked around to the front of the car and I smiled when I saw Shawn holding his hand out for me to take, which of course I immediately did.

"We should go on one of the swings." I said as I began to swing our hands.

"How about that one? No one's on that one." He said. I nodded.

"Okay. Do you think someone will take a picture of us on the swing if we ask?" I asked. Shawn nodded.

"Yeah. Let me ask this person." He said.

"Okay." I said. Shawn asked someone if they would take a picture of us and they said yes. Shawn gave the person my phone to take pictures with. Shawn sat down first and I sat down next to him but put my legs on his lap so we could squish onto the swing. Shawn put one of his hands on my knee, my hand was on his shoulder as we smiled at the camera. After the person took the pictures, he gave me my phone back and Shawn and I thanked him.

"Should we go sit over there?" Shawn asked as he pointed at some blue adirondack chairs.

"They look like they only fit one person." I said. Shawn smirked and shrugged.

"You could sit on my lap." He said. I smiled and nodded.

"Okay." I said. Shawn and I carefully got out of the swing, and walked over to the adirondack chairs. He sat down and I sat on his lap. I felt a little weird about sitting on his lap in public but I just focused on him instead of that thought. My butt, and legs, rested on his lap and he wrapped his arms around my waist as he smiled at me.

"You look so beautiful sweetheart. You're absolutely rocking this crop top." He said. I blushed at his words and smiled.

"Thank you. You look really good too." I said. His smile widened.

"Thank you baby. Come give me a kiss." He said before closing his eyes and puckering up his lips. I giggled and put my lips on his for a few brief kisses. I didn't want to make out with him in public. I rested my head on his shoulder and he rubbed my back. I closed my eyes, feeling content in his arms.

"I love you." I said. I heard him hum before he pressed a kiss to my forehead.

"I love you too darling. So much." Shawn said. I kept my head on his shoulder as we sat there and talked.

"It's going to be weird when you go to Malibu to record the album in September. The house is going to be so empty without you." I said as I picked my head up. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and he wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me securely in his lap.

"I was thinking of trying to find a recording studio here in Boston." Shawn said.

"Really?" I asked. He nodded as I felt his thumb begin to rub my back a little bit.

"Yeah, that way I don't have to be so far away from you." He said. I kissed his forehead before smiling at him.

"I like that idea." I said. He smiled at me. A little bit later we got back in the car. I turned on the bluetooth in the car and started playing Dancing Queen by ABBA. Shawn smiled as we began to drive home.

"Do you like this song sweetheart?" Shawn asked. I nodded.

"Yeah. Oh my gosh. I just got the most wonderful idea." I said. Shawn chuckled.

"And what would that be?" He asked.

"We should make a little video of us dancing to this, we could choreograph it and everything, and maybe we could post it. Can we please do that? I love dancing with you and I think it would be really fun." I said. Shawn nodded.

"Alright, if that's what you want." He said but a smile was spreading across his face. I cheered.

"Yes! Thank you!" I said. Shawn laughed.

"You're welcome baby." He said. We got home and instantly started to choreograph the dance. We were laughing hysterically the whole time, but after a couple of hours, we finally got it. We played the song and recorded it on my phone. Shawn and I danced in our living room to Dancing Queen by ABBA as we smiled, and then turned to each other. Shawn twirled me and danced with me as we locked eyes and giggled. The video ended with Shawn dipping me. We posted a minute of the video onto my Instagram.

"Shawn and I worked way too hard on this to not post it for the world to see. We haven't stopped laughing for two hours now, lol. I love youuuu Shawny babyyyy." I captioned it. Shawn commented on it.

"I love you too bunny! I love dancing to Dancing Queen with MY dancing queen. Sorry I dropped you twice." He commented.

"LMAO it's fine." I wrote back. We had filmed the video in our living room, and on the wall were some signs that Shawn and I had bought online. The signs had different quotes, and you could see some in the video.

"Gather." Read one sign.

"Home Sweet Home." Read another one. There were others on the wall but you couldn't really see them. The next day, I saw the comments on the post, and some were about the quotes on the wall.

"Where did you get those signs??? I love them!" Someone wrote.

"I must get those signs!! They're super cute!!! Where did you guys get them @ShawnMendes @yourusername ?" Someone else wrote. I showed the comments to Shawn.

"What if you did a video that was like a tour of the house?" Shawn asked. I thought about it for a moment.

"Would I have to show everything? I mean, this is our home." I said. Shawn nodded.

"Right. Just show as much as you feel comfortable with. We have some signs in our bedroom but if you don't want to show those, you obviously don't have to." Shawn said. I thought about it for a little bit before deciding what to do. I decided to take videos on Snapchat, save them to my phone, and then post them to my Instagram story. I told Shawn what I was going to do, and he said okay and went in his office to write. I started the first video in the living room. I changed out of my pajamas and into a red t-shirt and some white jeans. I put on some makeup, not wanting to go makeup free if I was going to be showing my face in a video to Shawn's fans.

"Hi guys! So I saw that some of you were asking about the signs that Shawn and I have in our living room that you guys saw in the video we made. Shawn said that maybe I should just do a tour of our home, so here it is!" I said. I saved that video before starting a new one.

"Okay, so Shawn knows that I like to decorate, so when we moved in together, he basically left at least most of the decorating up to me. This is our living room, we have the gather sign, home sweet home, and this sign says 'So good to be home.' and this one says 'Now this feels like home.' and we got them all from a website called smallwoodhome.com. And this is the rest of the living room." I said before showing it. I saved that video before starting a new one and going into the next room.

"This room is the reading room which is also my office. Shawn, my brother Thomas, and our friend Johnny put it together. Shawn basically surprised me with a lot of it because I had always wanted one wall of shelving for my books and some comfy chairs, and Shawn, Thomas and Johnny surprised me with so much more than that. They put up this tapestry that looks like a library, this clock that has books on it, this artwork of books, and then Shawn took me to pick out the desk and chairs." I said before ending the video and saving it. I took a quick video of the kitchen and saved that before going upstairs and into mine and Shawn's bedroom. I definitely was not going to show all of that, just some of it.

"So, this is mine and Shawn's room, and I'm not going to show the whole thing, but we have some more of those signs from smallwood home in here. Above Shawn's side of the bed there's a sign that says 'I am yours.' and the sign above my side says 'You are mine.' Over on this wall we have some cute photos of us. I love our room a lot, I love how we decorated it." I said before ending that video and saving it. I walked down the hall and started to record again. I knocked on Shawn's office door.

"Come in!" Shawn said. I opened the door and he smiled at me, knowing that I was recording. He was sitting at his desk, writing, but turned to me more when I walked in.

"Hi baby." I said.

"Hi bunny. Oh, I have to turn the paper over so they don't see the lyrics!" Shawn said as he flipped the paper over.

"Oh yeah. Do you want to explain the decorations in your office?" I asked.

"Yeah, here, I can record." He said as he held his hand out for my phone. I stopped holding down the record button on Snapchat.

"Hold on, let me just save it. Here you go." I said before handing my phone to him. He smiled and began to record on my Snapchat as I sat down on the couch in his office.

"Hi guys, so this is my pretty office that my pretty girlfriend helped me decorate. There she is, sitting on the couch. Sometimes she comes in while I'm writing and naps on the couch. We have some quotes up above her, that one says, 'The world needs who you were made to be.' which Y/n picked out for me. That quote over there says 'And together they built a life they loved.' The time's about to run out on this." Shawn said. He saved it and then started to record again.

"This is my desk, and I have a lot of photos on it, and above my desk is a star certificate that Y/n bought me for our seven month anniversary. Out of all of the gifts she's gotten me, a star named after her and I is my favorite. Alright guys, we love you, bye!" Shawn said as he turned the camera back to us and we waved. He ended the video and we saved it.

"Do you want to see the other videos that I did?" I asked.

"Of course I do." Shawn said. I showed them to him and he smiled.

"What do you think? Did I do okay? Do I look okay?" I asked as I sat on his lap.

"You did great and you look incredible. You always look incredible baby. So are you going to save these to your phone and then post them to your Instagram story? I think the fans will like it a lot." Shawn said. I nodded.

"Yeah. I'll do that now." I said. I saved the videos to my phone and then posted them on my Instagram story. Afterwards I sat in the chair next to Shawn's desk as he wrote lyrics. I like to sit with and just watch him do his thing. He had a pencil in his hand and I watched as he jotted down his ideas. After a couple minutes of this, I glanced at his face. There was something about his expression that amazed me. He was just so focused. So in the zone. His lips were in between his teeth, his eyes going back and forth along the page. I put my chin in the palm of my hand and just watched him at work. He glanced over at me and smiled.

"Darling, you're staring." He said. I blushed, having been caught in the act.

"I can't help it. You're so handsome and I love watching you do your thing. You get so focused and so in the zone. And then to see you with a guitar? Oh my gosh you're incredible. You close your eyes and your head goes back and you're so in it. It's so beautiful to see. I love seeing you with a guitar or piano or when you're writing." I said. I finally stopped rambling and Shawn was smiling at me. He rolled his chair over so it was in front of mine. I couldn't help myself, I put my hands on either side of his face and kissed him with a passion. After we kissed, he nudged his nose against mine gently.

"I love you." He said.

"I love you too. Is it okay if I keep watching you do your thing?" I asked. Shawn smiled and nodded.

"Of course darling, always. I love watching you read. Did you know that? I love watching your eyes go back and forth across the page and I love the way your eyes light up when you talk about the books that you're reading. You get so excited about it and I love it." Shawn said.

"I didn't know that." I said. Shawn nodded.

"Mmm hmm." He said before kissing my lips so gently it was like he thought I was glass, about to break at any moment. When he pulled away from the kiss I moved my head down a little, and he chuckled before kissing my forehead a few times. I kissed his lips again before sitting back in the chair. Shawn rolled his chair back to his desk and got back to work. I watched him before taking my phone out and going to Snapchat. I just wanted to capture the moment. I snapped a picture of Shawn just as he began to smirk at me. His pencil was to the paper, but you couldn't see any of the lyrics on it. I smiled, loving the look on his face. I saved it to my phone.

"Sorry, I just had to capture the moment." I said. Shawn laughed.

"That's fine darling." He said. I smiled at the photo and then showed it to him.

"Look at your face. I love the look on your face." I said. Shawn chuckled.

"You're a silly girl, but you're a silly girl that I'm writing a song about right now." He said.

"Really? Can I hear some of the lyrics?" I asked.

"It's not quite finished yet. When it's finished and perfected then I'll play it for you, my love." He said. I nodded.

"Okay. Can I know the title of the song?" I asked with a smile.

"My Love. That's the title." He said, returning the smile. I felt butterflies in my stomach at the sight of his pearly whites.

"I love you." I said.

"I love you too, my love." He said. I giggled and sat there as I continued to watch him work.

"Can I post this picture of you on Man Crush Monday?" I asked. Shawn nodded.

"Of course baby." He said. The following Monday, I posted the picture.

"My incredible and very hunky #mcm! I absolutely love sitting back and watching Shawn do his thing, whether it's writing a song, playing the piano or playing the guitar, I get completely mesmerized just watching him get lost in the music. I was sitting next to Shawn while he was at his desk, I wanted to capture the moment of him writing a song and when he saw me take my phone and aim it at him he made this face, lmao. I'm so proud of how far my man has come, and I can't wait to see how much farther he goes! I love you Shawny baby!" I captioned it. Shawn liked it and commented on it.

"You are the absolute cutest. I love you so much MY LOVE!" Shawn wrote. I giggled, knowing that he was making a reference to the song. I love Shawn so much and I'm so happy he was happy for me when I was feeling confident and for our happy days together.