Madness <3 || Shawn Mendes

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"Katherine if you don't send the damn message." Kayla groans, both sister's sprawled across their couch. The afternoon light fading into evening through the windows.

The use of Katie's full name makes her sigh. "Kayla, I'm going too. Relax." She explains. Staring at the typed but unsent message in her instagram DM's.

@BillieEilish
'Hey, this is insane. but i'm doing it anyways. I've got a song. And I think your voice would be perfect with mine.'

The words sat in the typing box accusingly. This was crazy. Katie knew that. Kayla knew that. Yet they sit before the phone, prepared to hit send.

"I can't do it." Katie blurts out suddenly. Tossing the phone onto the coffee table. It makes a soft thud as it hits.

Kayla groans dramatically and snatches the phone before Katie can stop her. It hadn't turned off, so as a supportive twin sister would always do...Kayla hits send.

"There. Sent." Kayla admits triumphantly.

Katie shoot's up, staring at the phone like it was an active bomb. "Kay! I-" She cuts herself off shaking her head, though her gaze stayed on the phone.

"It's fine." Kat explains. "She probably won't even see it. It's in the digital world. She probably gets thousands of DM's like that." She tries to convince both herself and her twin.

It was not working. At all.

"Katie breath!" Kayla laughs. Phone still clutched in her hand happily. "It's a text, Kat. Just let it go. Either she'll respond or she won't."

Katie takes a dramatic deep breath. "Okay. You're right. I'm...i'm gonna go to bed. Night, Love you." She blurts, snatching her phone.

Without a word she turns rushing to her bedroom. Hiding from the world and the undeniable fact that she just slid into a celebrity's DM's like some insane fan.

She wasn't insane. A fan? Absolutely. It's Billie Eilish. Who isn't? After all, Kat's own music was similar to her's. The haunting pop music. The personally deep lyrics.

Katie had idolized Billie's music. The duet of "Lovely", with Khalid was a personal favorite. The sounds of their voices together was the perfect combination. And almost four million people on spotify agreed.

Regardless of the mental warfare going on in her mind, Katie stripped from her jeans and top, changing into her underwear and a big t-shirt. As she does almost every night.

She tosses her phone face down on her nightstand and crawls into the comfort of her bed. The one place she can hide away from the reality of what Kayla had just done on her phone.

She can hear her sister rummaging around as she heads off to her own bed. "Night Kat!" Kayla calls out, a second later the sound of her own bedroom door shutting echoes down the hall of their apartment.

The two girls had moved out of North Carolina the second they hit 18. Moving to Los Angeles, California to pursue their dreams. Katie's in music, Kayla's in fashion.

Now at 25, They've made it work. Kayla graduated college with a major in fashion design, now working as a design assistant for a well known designer in LA.

Meanwhile Katie has wrote and released music. Eight songs total. Each one deep, haunting. Her voice and a guitar. Over the years she's acquired over a thousand followers on Spotify, her most popular song having over 20,000 listens.

Yet she's always dreamed of more. Of writing with other artists, of writing songs that mean something. She wasn't one to care about the fame, the cameras. She wanted to write songs that saved lives.

Songs that meant something. That people could relate too. And so far...so far it's working. Her biggest song, 'Till the day I die' having nearly twenty-three thousand listens.

The song she wrote when she was 18, right after her and Kayla had moved to California. Cause after all, all songs come from a story. And that one was about her twin. About how she'd be by her side 'till the day she died'.

Katie's eyes shut, her mind finally quieting as sleep pulls her under. Her breathing evens, her phone remains silent. The message still holding the 'deliverered' mark. Still unread. As it would stay....right?

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