"Hey, I'm Shawn, and this is Matt"

Chapter 1: Be careful what you wish for

I woke up in Lydia's house, on her low full size bed. It was so hot, but for some reason her warm covers felt good on my skin. She was sleeping, so I took my phone from the charger and unlocked it. I went on Instagram and checked my feed, I gained 3,000 followers overnight, probably because of the new YouTube video I just posted with Lydia, singing just a little bit of your heart by Ariana Grande. "And so it begins" I hear her say in my ear, I start laughing because we want to be famous so bad, and gaining 3,000 followers from one video last night is a big thing for us. "I'm literally not going to school Monday" she says. "We aren't cut out for these normal lives, going to school for like 15 years, then getting married to some normal guy and having normal kids in a normal house with Normal pets and a norma-" I cut her off. "I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND YOU." I said. "okay I'm gonna go cry in the shower because yeah" she says. I get out of bed and start doing my make up, i straighten my curly hair and I put on a burgundy skater skirt with white thigh highs and a black shirt, and white heels. Today we are going to the city to go to Island records and pitch a deal to David Massey, who contacted us ask us to meet with him in New York City. It would take us like 30 minutes to get there from Forest Hills, Queens where we live. Lydia comes out with black leggings and a white flowy crop top and white heels. Her hair is a little longer than her shoulders and wavy. We should already be famous.

As we get in the car I get a notification on twitter. @davidmassey started following you @madisonbeer started following you @bradleywillsimpson started following you, one after the other. "Who's Madison beer?" I ask Lydia. "I have no idea" she says. I know who brad is though, he's a part of the Vamps, and he's ridiculously hot. I had just heard about them performing at the Arthur ashes program thing with two other people.. "Oh Madison beer! The girl that sang with the vamps at that thing!" Haha, she was kinda bad but she was probably so nervous. "Oh ew" Lydia says. I can't remember who else was at that event, i think another boy sang with them. "Wait, Alyssa don't you get it! If David Massey started following us, and then a few of his singers followed us he must have told them something! Something really good!" I just put it all together. "Lydia, we're in!"

We got to the city, it was so beautiful. We finally got the island records, and we got out of the car. I can't tell you how many screaming girls were like waiting outside, maybe a celebrity is in New York that's signed to island records and visited. They were taking pictures of us too, but they didn't even know us. We got inside and the man at the desk said to go to floor 11. So we got in the elevator and were about to go up when we heard "Wait wait wait hold the elevator!!" So I pressed the door open button for the guy. A really tall, handsome boy walked in with a guitar case on his back, and a blue flannel. His hair was in a quiff and he had the cutest lazy eye. "Wow" I said out loud. Oh my god I am so stupid. The boy blushed, even though he already had really pink cheeks. Lydia tapped me and I turned to her and mouthed "I know". "Um, can you press 11 for me?" He said, then he realized that it was already pressed and he said "oh, sorry" as he laughed. I just smiled and hooded. From the corner of my eye I saw him look me up and down, and I blushed. I had weird butterflies in my stomach, but I didn't even know him. The bell dinged and I went to go, and I guess he went at the same time and we kinda bumped into each other. He pushed me a little too hard and I almost tripped back, but he grabbed both my shoulders and pulled me to his chest so I wouldn't fall. His hands are so big, he's so much taller than me, he smelled so amazing. As he was pulling me in I looked up and he looked down and we made eye contact. I have never felt my stomach drop so much more, it's a bigger drop than going on a roller coaster, the fireworks were louder in my mind than on the Fourth of July, the electricity of his hands on me felt more electric than EZOO and our eyes connecting made me feel more alive than going bungee jumping. It felt like ten minutes of this going on, but in reality it was only about 5 seconds. I really wonder if he felt the same way.

He let go of me and I took a step back, never breaking eye contact. "I'm so sorry I am such a clutz I fall at least twice a day." He says. Laughing, I say "no it's my fault I'm definitely more of a clutz than you." He just smiles, and I look to Lydia and she has the biggest smile on her face, she was probably freaking out inside just like I was. All of a sudden I hear someone say "Welcome!" I turn and it's David Massey, he shakes my hand and then shakes Lydia's, and hugs the boy. "Alyssa, Lydia I see you have met Shawn, my newest client!" Shawn, wow what an amazing name. It definitely suits him. "Not exactly!" I say. The boy, Shawn, takes my right hand and starts to shake it "Shawn" he says waving to me with the other. "Alyssa" I say, smiling. Lydia comes and breaks our handshake and grabs his hand and says "hey I'm Lydia, nice to meet you shawn!" He smiles and says "its a pleasure."

David leads us to a room and tells Lydia and I to sit down, and I look back to see shawn but he's not there anymore. David comes in and closes the door, Lydia's mom and my mom come in and my mom, Rosa says "sorry there was no parking!" David nods and says "it's fine." Then he looks at both of us and says "I am prepared to offer you girls a record label." "You are getting pretty popular very fast, and I think you guys can be my third web star clients." I am speechless, and so is Lydia. "I just recently signed Shawn. Shawn Mendes, you just met him. He sings as well, but he also plays guitar and he is quite extraordinary. I'm surprised you girls don't know who he is, have you heard of magcon?" Magcon. It was on the tip of my tounge, but I couldn't put my finger on it. I nodded my head no. "Well, he is quite popular and quite famous, and he just came from a tour with Austin Mahone." "Wow that's amazing" Lydia's mom, Teressa says. "I have also signed Madison Beer, who got discovered by Scooter Braun and Justin Bieber, she hasn't been as successful as Shawn, but that's because he was famous before I discovered him. What I am trying to say is that I could make you guys just as famous, maybe even more famous than Madison or Shawn."

Before I knew it, my mom and Lydia's were signing papers, and so were we. Before I knew it he gave us a recording times and before I knew it he made a video of us on Instagram of us saying that we were the newest members. And before I knew it, the whole staff were congratulating us and telling us that we were going to be the first girl duo in history.

We got assigned our room and we had to come in tomorrow to start to record covers. First we would record covers, and soon we would have to start to write our own music, with help of course. He said that we would be helped by someone who is used to writing. I wonder who.

We went to the bathroom by ourselves just to take it all in. We have been wanting this our whole lives and our friend, Maggie definitely helped us gain followers, since she was so famous. Lydia looked at me, and I looked at her, and we just cried. "This is really happening." She said. We had to fix our make up because it was all over the place, but now we looked extra good. It was like we were glowing, probably from being so happy. I had normal brown eyes, but they were kinda hazel at times. Liken right now, my emotions change my eye color, just like my dad. And my hair was brown but it faded to a really light brown at the end, kinda like Ariana grandes hair. Lydia has really thick, straight beautiful hair that she recently cut, I could never cut my hair like that but she pulls it off. She has brown eyes too, and tan skin while I'm fair. I guess there's something about brunettes!

We were walking out about to take the elevator while we were texting Maggie, but we got stopped by a voice. Someone was singing, and it sounded like I had just died and gone to heaven. I really liked the melody, "I wanna go back, forget that it's over, painted in black. When you left me alone. I never knew, she was sleeping next door with the kid I grew up with" I stopped listening because Lydia gasped. "Wow that's so sad" the boy singing kind of had an accent, probably a Canadian one because it wasn't America but It wasn't English. "Tell me you were happie-" he stopped. "I can't sing this god damn song anymore! Every time I do I think of Lauren and I don't want to think about her anymore, I really don't" we heard the guy dial something on a phone. "Wait I think that's shawn Alyssa" Lydia said. Wow. That's definitely shawn. He's amazing, but who's Lauren? We saw the knob on the door open and we ran in the bathroom. We stood by the door. "Hey Matt, its shawn. How soon can you be here?" We heard him say. Then someone pushed open the door and it was shawn. "Um what are you doing in the boys bathroom? He said laughing, it's crazy because he was laughing, but his eyes we watery and red and his cheeks were redder than usual. He looked beautiful. "Shawn, this is the girls bathroom" Lydia said laughing, he looked at me and I smiled, I could hear someone laughing on the phone. It was such a cute, loud laugh, it sounded like mine actually. "Yeah I'll call you back" he said in the phone and put his iPhone in his pocket. He was wearing black jeans, and white shirt and a blue flannel. Wow, boys who dress good and smell good and are tall and muscular and handsome an- I got cut off by shawn saying "Alyssa?" "What?" I say. "I heard that you guys are now signed to Island! Congrats" he flashed a beautiful half smile and hugged me, and then hugged Lydia. I got a text from Maggie, she said she was close to forest hills. "We have to go home, but we'll be back tomorrow" said Lydia. "Will you be here tomorrow?" I said. Shawn's face lit up. "Yes, I'll be here the whole day" I smiled. "I'll walk you guys down I have to go there anyway. We went in the elevator and it was just quite, kind of awkward, but I could feel shawn looking at me from the side. I blushed, as usual. We walked out and Lydia was in front, I was in back of her and Shawn was behind me, I could feel him looking at my ass. I got a text and I said "Lydia Maggie's at your house" Lydia turned her head and before she could talk she bumped into someone. He had strawberry blonde hair and he was really tall, almost as tall as shawn. I saw Lydia's head look up to him, and I saw her almost say something, but when she looked at him she stopped, they just stared at each other. "Hey, I'm Matthew"