I slowly sit up and rub my eyes. The alarm clock in front of me says it's only seven thirty. Yay-that means I can get to the acoustic room again!

I quickly slip out of bed and get around. Hm.. what to wear? I guess I could wear my white sweatshirt that says püma in red and dark skinny jeans.

After slipping those on, I carefully apply my mascara and eyeliner, then I leave. This time I taped the note to Lauren's forehead so she won't miss it this time.

I scurry down to the acoustic room and pull out my guitar and start to strum A Thousand Years by Christina Perri. Then I start singing the lyrics carefully, trying to hit each note.

After singing that, I sing lots of others. But then my phone vibrates and i check to see what it was. It was an alarm that I put up this morning so I wouldn't be late. Wow, it doesn't even feel like ten though.

I quickly gather my things and get ready to leave, but my jaw drops. Shawn is standing there.

"Um, how long have you been standing there?" I ask quietly.

"Long enough to know your amazing. Why didn't you tell anyone you can sing?" he asks.

I sigh and then answer. "If I ever get famous, I want it to be for being funny-not for singing. If I was famous for singing, I wouldn't even know if it was because I'm good or not. I know that my fans would say if I was good no matter what. And please don't tell anyone I can sing..."

"Look, I wont, but you are good, you're-"

"Can we just go now?" I ask, cutting him off.

"Sure. But the guys think that Lox, Lauren, and you should rap a song. I won't mention anything about you singing though. So do you want to rap with them?" he offers.

"Yeah.. I need to go back to the room though and change into the Thrift Shop clothes I bought. WAIT! We should rap thrift shop by Macklemore and we can all sing the chorus too!" I shout excitedly.

"Wait-I thought you didn't want to sing in front of people," Shawn reminds me.

"Well we don't really 'sing' thrift shop. I mean we do, but we don't try hard I guess you could say. You just kinda sing it casually," I answer and Shawn nods.

"Okay, you go tell the girls and I'll tell the guys," he explains and I sprint up to my hotel room and burst through the doors.

"Guys, we should rap thrift shop and all of the Magcon people sing the chorus with us!" I exclaim happily.

"Sounds good! But you better put on your thrift shop clothes- we are leaving soon," Lauren answers and I nod.

I scurry over to my bag and pull out my accessories, which happens to be a fake beard, mustache, and nerd glasses. I carefully put them on and then walk to the lobby, where everyone was waiting for me. Everyone was also wearing their accessories.

"Ready?" Brent asks and I nod. We all climb into the limo and start talking about Magcon.

"It's the meet and great first, right?" I ask and Cameron nods.

"Yeah we get there and get in place and then we take the pictures and all dat jazz. After that we have the actual Magcon," he hints and I smile. I absolutely love meeting fans!

The rest of the ride we pretty much just figured out parts in Thrift Shop and practicing.

When we arrive, I get shoved out of the cab and into the building. "You'll be taking pictures here," a lady tells me strictly and then walks away. Well at least I didn't have any questions-can you say RUDE.

But then I see why she told me so fast, hundreds of people were already in my line.

"Hi, what's your name?" I ask the girl in front of me. She wanted me to sign her shirt.

"Shea," she tells me shyly.

I quickly write her a note on the shirt- Thank you for being a great fan! You made my dream come true, and I couldn't be happier. Thank you for being an amazing fan, Lexie Madison.

Then after that, I took a picture with her before she left. Basically, this is what happened every time a fan came over. I had a smile pasted on my face, until a familiar person came over for a picture.

"Hey beautiful," he says while giving me a hug. I hesitate and quickly pull away. Shawn and Cameron walk over, they probably saw my face when I saw him.

"Who is this?" they asks and I frown.

"I'm her boyfriend," Nate says and I shake my head.

"Ex-boyfriend," I correct him.

"Look I know you still like me and we should just get back together," he says, but I quickly step behind Cameron because he's stronger and so even if Nate tried, he couldn't hurt me.

"No, and I don't," I say softly before his face gets red with anger.

"Oh well, I don't even like you anyways and no one ever will you ugly, pathetic, piece of crap," he says angrily and I start shaking from being so scared.

Shawn steps up and confronts Nate, but I stay behind Cameron while he holds me in a tight comforting hug.

"She is far from ugly. Lexie is the prettiest girl you could see and she is not pathetic. She has four million followers, and what do you have? Defiantly too much hair spray," Shawn smirks.

"Look-," Nate starts saying but Cameron cuts him off.

"Leave her alone or we'll call security," he says firmly and then Nate angrily walks away.

"Are you okay?" Shawn asks me quietly and I nod my head.

"Are you sure? Your really pale. Do you want a drink? Or a break?" Cameron offers and I nod.

"Yeah I think I just need a break," I mutter and then I walk towards backstage to get a drink. Nash was standing there drinking some water. I quickly grab a bottle of water and walk over to him.

"What was that all about? Who was that guy?" he asks and I shake my head.

"Nothing really-"

"Don't lie."

I sigh and tell him the story. "My ex-boyfriend came over and started being a jerk-"

"Did he punch you? Are you okay?" he asks worriedly and I nod.

"I'm fine. I was kind of afraid of that so I hid behind Cameron and Shawn stood up for me."

"Oh.. Well the next time I see him I'm going to go off on him," Nash says and I laugh.

"It's fine, I don't think we'll be seeing him around anymore." I look behind the curtain and see the line was getting longer and longer. "Oh well I'm gunna go back and continue the meet and greet."

"And guess what? I met this really cool girl! Her names Shea and I even got her number! Oh, and good luck," he smiles.

"That's awesome! And thanks I guess I'll need the luck!" I laugh and then I walk back to the giant line of people.

For what seemed like forever, I took pictures and signed shirts and phone cases until my hand throbbed. After all of the fans got their pictures, it was time for the Magcon event to start.

"For the moment you've been waiting for," the announcer says and the room got quiet,"Magcon now begins!"

"Walk out when your names called," Shawn whispers in my ear and I nod.

"Today's Magcon is featuring Cameron Dallas, Nash Grier, Matthew Espinosa, Brent Rivera, Carter Reynolds, Jack Johnson, Jack Gilinsky, Taylor Caniff, Shawn Mendes, Lexie Madison," he says, but when it was Shawn and my turn to walk out I jump on his back. He laughs and we (well basically he) walk out on the stage as the person continues reading off the names,"Princess Lauren, and Mahogany Lox!" Then after he finished naming off all of the people, everyone starts clapping. I jump off of Shawn's back and stand besides him grinning ear-to-ear.

The person in charge gives everyone a microphone and then let us start the activities.

"Hey guys, as you know I'm Lexie Madison! And right now, we need five lucky contestants to get on stage! Carter, how about you call them!" I say excitedly as Lox plays suspension music.

"Okay," he says while choosing four people. "And how about you...!" he says while pointing at someone who made my heart drop. Nate.

I quickly look at Cameron, Nash, and Shawn. Of course Carter didn't know so it wasn't his fault, but I was starting to worry.

"Okay how about each of our contestants get into a group of two or three Magcon people," Carter says and next thing I know, Cameron and Shawn are by my side. And so is Nate.

"Okay now with your group, try to guess what is being drawn up on the board!"

Whatever was being drawn on the board looked really ugly. Maybe it was a monster or something. But it looked like there was maybe mirky water and sticks...

"It's Lexie!" Nate laughs and I clench my teeth.

"I think its a swamp," I say quietly and Cameron says it into the microphone.

"Your correct!" the announcer says and we add a point onto the board. "Okay, next question! It's named after a song!"

Now on the board was something dark being drawn, but before I could say something Nate speaks up again.

"Looks like Lexie's soul!" he teases and I stay quiet.

"Starry Night," I whisper, now close to tears and Shawn puts his arm around me and mouths 'it's okay'.

"Starry night," Cameron says into the microphone and the announcer says we were wrong.

"Dark Horse by Katy Perry," the girl in Nash's group says and they got the point.

After a few other questions, we end up winning.

"We won!" I say but my voice cracks. Cameron looks at me sadly.

"Now we need all of our contestants to sit back down," the person says again and everyone leaves.

The rest of the Magcon I was fairly quiet until it was time to rap.

I quickly clear my throat and then speak up. "Okay guys, we now have a special performance for you! And after we have the performance, you'll all understand why we are wearing thrift clothes!"

Lox quickly puts on the background music to Thrift Shop and then comes up to join the rest of Magcon.

Lauren raps the first part of the song, and then we all sang the chorus together. After that, it was my turn to rap.

I start rapping to the beat and getting all the lyrics right, but then I hear a 'Boo!' out in the audience. I hold back the tears and continue to rap.

When the song was over everyone clapped and it was almost time to leave.

"Okay guys, before we go I have something I want to say," Taylor says into a microphone. "As most of you guys know, I'm not a really romantic guy. I don't know what to do to ask a girl out. But I think that this might be a nice way. Lauren, will you be my girlfriend?"

Lauren runs over to him and grabs his microphone. "Yes!" she smiles and then gives him a hug."Now it's time to go. Thank you New York City!" Lauren yells and then we all run off the stage. As soon as I get off the stage and get backstage, I start bawling.

I sit down and Shawn and Cameron run over. Before I can say anything, Shawn pulls me into a hug. I just sit there and bawl while Shawn tightly holds me.

"Lexie, I'm so sorry... there was nothing I could do. But I'm going to go find him-" Nash insists but I cut him off.

"D-don't.. It won't make any difference if you do or n-not..," I stumble and he shakes his head.

"C'mon Cam," he commands and then the two took off to find Nate.

As soon as they left, Carter came running over. "What's wrong? Nash, Cameron, and Shawn kept giving me dirty looks as we picked that guy. Do you know him?"

I try to speak but the words won't come out. "He's Lexie's ex-boyfriend," Shawn explains and then Carter immediately covers his mouth.

"Gosh, I'm so sorry Lex. I didn't know.." he apologizes and I just shrug.

A few minutes later, after I stopped crying, Lauren came over. "Ready to go?" she asks and I shake my head.

"Nash and Cameron went looking for... someone. They aren't back yet," I respond.

"Wait, shouldn't they be back by now? They left like half an hour ago," Shawn reminds me and I quickly stand up.

"We have to go look for them!" I address and then I grab Shawn's arm and start running.

"Nash! Cameron!" I holler while looking around.

Most of the lights were off because most people were already gone.

"Wait, let's try this," Shawn suggests while pulling out his phone. He tries calling Nash's phone and no one answers. Then he tries Cameron's and you can hear a faint ring in the distance.

I sprint towards the sound and look for rooms it may be coming from. But we end up reaching a locked door, but I'm sure that's where the ringing is coming from! I pull a bobby pin out of my hair and pick the lock. As soon as I hear a click, I open up the door and turn on the lights.

Sure enough, Nash and Cameron were sitting there, arms tied with a bandana over their mouths.

I gasp and quickly untie Cameron's hands as Shawn unties Nash's. They quickly pull the bandana off their faces and start talking.

"What the crap, when we saw Nate, we went to go yell at him. But then he somehow tied up our hands, put the bandana's on our mouths, then shoved us in the closet!" Cameron yells angrily.

"Hold on, is he still here? We should report him to security, because.. What if he's still here? What if he tries to do that again? What if-" I whimper, but I get cut off.

"Stop worrying. I won't let anything happen to you," Shawn assures me. "But we should go report what he looks like to security."

"C'mon," I declare and then start running back to backstage. When we get their, we look for security then start talking.

"Hey! Someone by the name of Nate was bullying Lexie and locked me and Cameron in a closet!" Nash tells a security guard.

"Mhm. Okay describe what they look like," the guard commands and I think.

"Brown hair that's spiky, brown eyes, and probably around five foot eight," I respond and the guard nods.

"Thank you, we'll keep a look out for him."

Cameron, Nash, Shawn, and I walk back to where everyone is.

"You guys ready yet? I don't want to miss my flight," Lauren asks while smiling next to Taylor. Wow, I'm really happy for them that they're dating.

"Wait- what flight?" I ask.

"Magcon in New York is over. We're all going home," she says and my heart drops. I totally forgot!

"Oh ya," I mumble. I walk over to the limo and sadly get inside. I really don't want to leave...

"Don't worry," Jack J informs,"we'll meet up again soon."

I smile but look out the window. I pull out my phone and smile at my lock screen picture of Shawn and I. After unlocking it, I quickly jump on twitter.

@Lexie_Madison_xoxo: noooo! I don't want to leave my new family. Anyways, thank you to everyone who attended NYC Magcon!

I quickly tweet that and then put my phone away.

"Are you okay Lexie? Your awfully quiet. If it's because of Nate, zero percent of what he said was true," Shawn states and I smile.

"I'm fine... It's just that I really don't want to leave you guys. You guys are all like my family..."

Shawn pulls me into a hug. "Don't worry. We can always face time and there will be another Magcon soon, and hopefully Aaron can make this one." I just nod.

When we get to the hotel, I go upstairs and pack everything.

"So, Lauren, I guess Lox is right. She's a fortune teller," I laugh.

"Told ya so!" Lox yells and I smile.

"I guess so. But I'm really happy. I really like Taylor," Lauren replies and I smile. She's so happy!

After packing everything, we head down to the lobby. I quickly purchase two Dippin' Dots and give one to Cameron.

"What's this for?" he asks.

"Just for being a great friend," I reply.

"Oh gosh, don't get all sappy or I'm gunna cry," he laughs while pulling me in for a hug.

"Okay, y'all ready to go now? Its raining so we have to be fast," Jack G says and I nod.

I sprint out the door and quickly put my stuff in the trunk. Then I climb into the limo and wait for everyone else.

After everyone piles in, we ride in silence to the airport.

By the time we got inside the airport, I was soaked. And we had to all say our dreaded good byes- except I didn't have to say goodbye to Cameron. We both live in California so we're taking the same plane.

"Oh gosh," I say while tears blur my vision. I quickly say goodbye to everyone except Nash and Shawn.

I run over to Shawn and give him a giant hug, not letting go. I don't want to let go. We don't say anything but the silence wasn't awkward; it was a nice silence, the kind that said everything that words aren't capable of. But then Nash coughs, signaling for me to hurry up. "Bye Shawn," I whimper before letting to of the hug.

"N-Nash," I cry while giving him a giant hug. He was like the brother I never had.

"Have a safe trip," he whispers before letting go. We all leave and go to security. Shawn and mine were right across from each other's.

Right before I was about to go to security I start having a reality attack; I realize that we were all saying good bye and I didn't want to.

I try to run over to Shawn but one of the security guards grabbed my arm. "You'll be late if you don't go through security right now. You'll miss your flight," one of them tell me.

"I don't care!" I rage while trying to run over but Cameron grabs my arm.

"Lexie, c'mon. You have to go," he said calmly.

"B-but, I can't!" I cry out and I see how much commotion I was causing; almost everyone was staring.

"Yes you can, Lexie," he says quietly while giving me a hug as I sob into his chest.

I force myself to walk towards the airplane, but before I do I look back at Shawn and our eyes meet.

As soon as I walk into the airplane I start crying louder. I quickly take a seat next to Cameron and try to make myself stop crying.

"Look, it's okay if you cry. I know it's hard-especially sense you really like Shawn," he says trying to comfort me. I nod. "You should maybe try to sleep-it'll help you stop crying."

"Okay," I whimper and rest my head on his shoulder.

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"Lex, we're here," Cameron says while carefully shaking my shoulder.

I quietly get up and go to the luggage area. After getting our luggage, we go outside.

"Hey Cameron, can you give me a ride home?" I ask.

"Of course," he says while popping the trunk and putting our luggage in there.

I carefully slide into the front seat and shut the door. I give him my address and then we drive in silence to my house.

"Bye Cameron," I whisper while giving him a hug. "Thanks for the ride."

"No prob! Make sure to stay in touch," he smiles and then drives away. I walk inside of my house and sigh. It's good to be home, but I already miss everyone else.

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Oh yeah- suppppper long chapter! Ireally enjoyed this chapter- do you like it? And thank you for all of the votes and comments! Reader of the week is... @pt_janoskians (I hope I spelled it right LOL). But thanks for being an active reader! And once again, thank you for reading!