Ruin || Shawn Mendes

Give Me Love

{Shawn's Pov}

"Doing a livestream rn on insta!" I tweet as I put my phone up against my bookshelf and turn the camera on.
I had already set all my mic up and I got my guitar ready.
I'm loving these new instagram livestreams, I find them so fun to be honest, and it feels like I'm connecting with my fans.

And in no time at all we had an audience of over 60k!
I took some requests for a few songs, such as mercy.
I was looking at the comments and this girl asked me to play Give Me Love by Ed Sheeran. I covered this song years ago.
I chuckle as I start playing some chords on my guitar.
"Let's see if I remember to play this song. It's been forever." I smile into the camera.

"Give me love like her,
Cause lately I've been waking up alone,
Paint splattered teardrops on my shirt,
Told you I'd let them go,
And that I'll fight my corner,
Maybe tonight I'll call ya,
After my blood turns into alcohol,
No, I just wanna hold ya."

I knew I fucked up on of the chords, and most likely everyone noticed but I just laughed to myself as I sung the rest.

"Give a little time to me or burn this out,
We'll play hide and seek to turn this around,
All I want is the taste that your lips allow,
My, my, my, my, oh give me love,"

"GOD THATS SO HIGH!" I exclaim.

"My, my, my, my, oh give me love,
My, my, my, my, oh give me love,
My, my, my, my, oh give me love,
My, my, my, my, oh give me loveee."
I look at the praising comments and soon the livestream came to an end.
Even after performing a few songs in my room, I still missed the sense of being on tour and performing live. Nothing beats it.

As a matter of fact, Andrew suggested that I do a kind of tour around Australia soon. Maybe around July time, that's about 3 months away. It would be amazing if Lexi would come with me.

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{Lexi's POV}

I wait patiently for Olivia to open her front door.
"Finally!" I laugh as she opens the wooden door.
"I was upstairs." She replies.
"Ok so I brought snacks and a little bottle of something." I giggle, showing her a bottle of rosé.
"You haven't stayed round my house in so long." She says, as I put my bags down.
"I've been busy, but tonight is going to be so much fun." I smile.
"Oh yeah... You've been spending lots of time with Shawn." She jokes
"Shhh." I reply.

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After a night filled with food, romcoms and alcohol, it was almost 2am.

"Do you think we'll even sleep tonight?" Olivia asks, whilst putting her hair into a messy bun.
"Sleep is for the weak." I giggle.
"I feel like 2 am is the only acceptable time to have very deep chats."
"Go on." I hesitate.
"Lexi, do you remember the Christmas party?"
"I do." I reply, raising my eyebrow.
"Well you know how I mentioned I briefly spoke to that guy?"
"Oh yes... that tall, handsome guy that bought you drinks?"
"I can't get him out of my head." She blurts out.
"Livi's in loveeee."
"It's not even funny Lexi, I don't even know his name."
I laugh so hard at this comment.
"What's funny?" She asks, slightly pissed off now.
"It's just - Shawn has a song called I don't even know your name, maybe you should listen to it." I struggle to say as I'm laughing too much.
"You think it's all funny but I don't know what to do. He was honestly the sweetest and nicest guy. And he was so hot oh my life."
"I really don't know what to suggest, if we don't have a name it's hard to go on. If it's meant to be, then I'm sure you will meet him again." I say, much more calmly.
"That's what I keep saying to myself, it's just so annoying. Especially since you have shawn have the perfect relationship."
"It's really not perfect." I laugh.
"How comes?"
"There's been so many times where I've felt like I didn't matter to him. And of course he tries to make it up to me. Shawn is just Shawn and I can't ask him to change himself for me." I pause. "Just please don't think we're perfect."
"I didn't mean to assume-"
"It's fine, honestly. Hey, maybe I could ask Shawn if any of his friends would be interested in a double date."
"Oh god no."
"Why not?" I laugh.
"It's not my thing-"
"Shut up, you're going."
"No Lexi-"
"End of conversation." I chuckle.
"Urghhh."
"You love me really."
"Whatever." She huffs.
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"A double date?" Shawn replies down the phone.
"I think it's such a good idea. Olivia is feeling down about this guy she met at the Christmas party, so I thought it would be fun to let her meet other guys."
"Other guys, you mean one of my friends?"
"Well duh."
"I don't even think any of them would be up for it-"
"What about Ian?" I ask. "He's single at the moment."
"I mean I guess I could ask him."
"And you will." I smile to myself.
"I fucking love you, and that's the only reason I'm doing this."
"You should love me."
"So I'll see you tonight?"
"Picnic under the stars? Wouldn't miss it."

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{A/N chapter inspired by probablylivi }