The Call That Changed My Life (A Shawn Mendes fanfiction)

Tournament

All night long Shawn's words had repeated in my head. 'Im in love with you, I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you...'

I quickly walk downstairs and sit down at the kitchen table. I put my head in my hands and moaned. I know that Shawn likes me now, but what if I messed everything up? And I thought the sweetest person alive was a jerk...

"Hey sweetie!" my mom yells while running into the kitchen.

"Hey... Where's Lox, Lauren, Meg, and Shea?" I ask.

"Oh, they went back to Cameron's house. They all understood that you were very tired. And how's your ankle?"

"Oh, my ankle feels a lot better. Carter defiantly helped a lot-if he didn't help me around, I probably wouldn't be able to walk or anything," I respond.

"Carter is a sweetie!" She exclaims and I laugh.

"Yeah, all of the guys are really sweet," I smile while looking at the fridge, which has a calendar on it. "Oh, I have a softball game tonight!"

"How could you forget? You've been wanting this ever sense you were a little girl-to make it to the state tournament. If you win this game, you win the tournament,"she reminds me and I grin.

"Hey, mind if a few of the guys come over?" I ask, hoping she doesn't mind. I need to talk to someone about last night...

"Yes, that's fine-just remember, the tournaments at six," she says as I look at the clock. It's only five, so I could go to the park now and warm up.

I quickly run upstairs, because my ankle doesn't hurt anymore. As soon as I reach my room, I put on my softball uniform- a neon yellow shirt and white softball pants. Then I put my hair up in a high ponytail and then my cleats.

When I reach the bottom of the stairs, I grab my phone out of my pocket and start to text.

Lexie: Hey... Do you want to come help me practice for my tournament 2night?

Shawn: Yeah, can the guys and I watch the tournament?

Lexie: please! I would be 20x more motivated if my besties were there to support me ;)

Shawn: We'll be there, & I'll be at the ballpark in five minutes.

Lexie: ok ttyl <3

As I walk to the ballpark I frown. What if everything is awkward between Shawn and I? What if he changed his mind? What if-

"Hey, Lex," Shawn spits out nervously as I approach him at the baseball diamond.

"Hey! Do you need a glove and a bat? I brought an extra," I offer and he smiles.

"Okay good, I need one," he laughs.

I quickly hand him a brown glove and a black bat. "Can you set the bat aside? We aren't going to use it right now. I was thinking that I could pitch and you could be the catcher?" I ask and he agrees.

He sits down and then I get in my position. After a moment, I pitch the ball and it goes right to Shawn. "Wow Lex, you can sing, act, and play baseball?" He laughs and I giggle.

After about fifteen minutes of pitching, I decide to move onto batting. "Here," I say handing Shawn his bat again and then we start walking to an empty diamond.

"Thanks," he says while walking to the pitching mound. "Okay, so how do I pitch?"

I laugh and then throw him a ball. "Girls do it a different way, so just try to throw it where the catcher would be." He looks at me like I'm crazy, and I quickly scurry over to home plate. "Now throw the ball."