11| cousins

Allie POV

I walk inside my house, trying not to draw attention to myself, as I discretely run upstairs to clean myself up. I drop my present from Shawn into my room, and when I look in my bathroom mirror, my eyes are red from the crying, and my left cheek is badly bruised from when Justine slapped me.

I wash my face, taking the red away, being careful not to press on my bruise too hard. It is very sore. I then put on some mascara, and cover my face with foundation, trying to hide the bruise as much as possible. It works. Barely noticeable. I compose myself, and head downstairs.

When I get downstairs, I walk into the main room, and I am bombarded with 'hello's and 'how are you's, and I reply to them all with the same lie, which is "I am doing great, how are you?".

But I am definitely not doing 'great'. I am a mess, and I am broken. Shawn has helped to fix me, and I am sure he will keep doing so until I am complete again.

I go over to my mom, to say hi. She is talking to my Aunt Chrissy. (her real name is Christina but we all call her Aunt Chrissy.)

"Hi sweetie, how are you?" she asks. "How's Shawn?"

"He's great. He spoiled me."I blush.

"Who's this we're talking about?" Aunt Chrissy says, raising her eyebrows and putting her hands on her hips, "Allie, do you have a boyfriend?"

"Yes, she does." my mom replies. "And its not just any boyfriend. It's Shawn Mendes."

"Like THE Shawn Mendes?"

"Yes" I blush.

"So he spoiled you? What did he get you?" Aunt Chrissy wonders.

"Well, apparently my mom has known for awhile now," I glare over at her and she just smiles, "but he is taking me on tour with him!!!" I exclaim.

"Wow, that's amazing. I'm so proud of you, Allie. You must be ecstatic."

"I am. He also got me a giant teddy bear that smells like his cologne, the new Chanel perfume, and a silver necklace. I actually have it on right now." I say, pointing to the necklace that still rests on my neck.

"Wow," my mom says. He didn't tell me about this other stuff. I thought the tour was it for you!"

"Nope, I guess not!"

"Your cousins are going to be very happy when they find out that you're dating Shawn Mendes." My aunt adds.

"I bet. I should go see them now. It was nice chatting with you!" I say, giving Aunt Chrissy a hug.

My Aunt Chrissy is my mom's only sister. She has two kids, Ellie, who's 7, and Patrick, who's 9. They live in British Coloumbia with her husband, my Uncle Joe, so we don't see them very often. Mostly just at Christmas.

Then there's my Uncle Adam, my dad's brother. He lives here in Toronto with his wife, my Aunt Janice. They have 3 children, the baby, Mika, she's almost 1, Lily who's 5, and Aidan, who's 8.

And the last family is my dad's sister, Aunt Audrey. Her husband is my Uncle Bryce. They also live here in Toronto. They have two children, Mya is 13, one year younger than my sister, and Kiera is in my grade, but she has a late birthday, so she is almost a year younger than me.

So I am the oldest kid in the whole family.

I go downstairs to find the kids, and sure enough, the boys are playing video games, just like I thought. Maddy and Mya are playing Barbies with the rest of the girls. I laugh at this. I go over to where the girls are playing.

"Hi girls!" They are all excited, like they always are when they see me. I honestly love kids. My mom calls me a kid magnet because kids like me too.

I talk to and play with the girls for awhile. Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Ellie gasps. "When you marry Shawn Mendes, that means that we will all be related to him!!!"

Maddy and I look at each other. I try to hold in my laughter but it doesn't work. I let it out. I laugh to the point of crying. All of my cousins and my aunts and uncles know how much I was obsessed with Shawn Mendes. I remember I used to basically stalk him. It was crazy. The girls all look at Maddy and I with confused looks on their faces.

Once I calm down enough, I say, "Ellie, um how do I say this, um," I look to Maddy for guidance, still trying to hold in a couple of giggles.

"Allie has some news to share." Maddy says. "Do you want to tell them?" she whispers to me. I nod my head 'yes'.

"Okay, so I am actually dating Shawn Mendes right now..."

"WHAT???" all of the girls say in unison.

"Yeah, we met while I was skating on the rink one morning."

"So when can we meet him?" asks Lily.

"I don't know, when do you want to meet him?" I ask.

"Right now!" Ellie yells.

"But he's celebrating Christmas with his family right now."

We keep talking about it for awhile. Eventually the boys come over too, because somehow to them, me dating a famous person is more interesting than video games.

We decided to ask him to come over tomorrow, so I call him. I put him on speakerphone so that everyone can hear.

"Okay, everyone needs to stay quiet, okay?" I plead.

He picks up. "Hey baby girl, what's up? You miss me already?" he chuckles.

I see the looks on all of their faces. They all look shocked. They're funny.

"Frankly, yes I do" I giggle. "Just hanging out with all of my cousins. I told them about you and they really want to meet you. We were wondering if you would like to come over tomorrow afternoon? You're on speaker by the way."

"I would love to."

"Thank you! Can everyone say bye to Shawn?"

"Bye Shawn" they all chorus.

"Bye!" he replies.

I put the phone up to my ear now. "It's just me now. Sorry my cousins are kind of crazy."

"They aren't that crazy" he laughs.

"So what's up?" I ask.

"Not much, I was just watching Elf with my family before you called. Now I'm sitting on my bed"

"Cool! I love that movie. It's hilarious."

"Yeah it is. How's your cheek?"

"It's okay, I covered it up with foundation so no one would notice." I giggle. "But it's pretty sore."

"Awe, I'm sorry babe. I hope you feel better."

"Thanks Shawn."

"Anyways, I should let you go watch the rest of the movie-"

"No, baby girl, stay here. I would rather talk to you."

"Okay." I smile, even though he can't see it. While we talk, I start to walk upstairs to my room.

"So you're excited for the tour?"

"Are you kidding? There are no words to describe how excited I am for the tour. Plus, I've never been anywhere outside of Toronto, and now I'm travelling the world."

"Wow. Really? That's crazy."

"I told you my parents were overprotective" I giggle.

"Did I tell you that Fifth Harmony will be opening for me?" (a/n i know this really isn't how his tour will go but again, just pretend.)

"Omigod really? That's awesome! I love their music." I smile. "I also like your song 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' with Camila."

"Yeah they're pretty cool. But I'm mostly just excited to spend so much time with you."

"Me too. I just need to pass all of my exams first." I laugh.

"Don't worry, I know you'll do amazing."

"Awe, thanks babe."

"Allie! Dinner!" I hear my mom yell from downstairs.

"Ok, I'm coming!" I yell back. "Sorry that was my mom, I have to go eat dinner." I say to Shawn.

"No problem." he says. "I think I'm eating dinner soon too."

"Okay, I'll text you later, bye."

"Bye."

a/n sorry, kind of a filler chapter. Next chapter will be all about opening presents and stuff so that should be exciting ;)

I honestly didn't know where this story was gonna go like honestly I don't have a plan, I just kinda make it up as I go lol, like I literally came up with the idea of him taking her on tour as I was writing it

qotc: favourite colour?

aotc: purple, just like allie :))

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