A/n: I know that I've already written a story like this, but I don't like how I originally wrote it and I've had this idea for a bit now. Also, let's pretend that Shawn's friends have never posted a picture of Y/n because her and Shawn aren't public yet, but the fans have seen Shawn and Y/n together because someone called the paps on them when they went out to dinner in Toronto. Also, some swearing in this imagine. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this imagine! Okay, without further ado, let's begin!
"Are you excited for tomorrow darling?" My boyfriend of a little over three months, Shawn Mendes, asked me after we had gotten changed into our pajamas. I nodded as a smile spread across my face not only at the thought of my birthday the next day, but also at the fact that my mother had said that Shawn and I could sleep in the same bed. We had slept in the same bed before, but he usually got a hotel room near my house so we could have more alone time. He didn't get a hotel room this time so when I woke up on my birthday, I could be with not just him, but also my family.
"Yeah, I'm really excited. Thank you for flying in baby." I said as I loosely wrapped my arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around my waist. He rested his forehead against mine and my smile widened.
"My love, I wouldn't miss your birthday for anything in the world. I love you." He said.
"I love you too." I said.
"Let's go to bed." Shawn said to me. I nodded and we got into bed and Shawn laid on his back as I rested my head on his chest.
"Good night my love." I said to Shawn before placing a gentle kiss on his jaw.
"Good night darling." Shawn said as he wrapped his arms around me. I closed my eyes and soon fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning and opened my eyes. My head was still on Shawn's chest. I carefully picked my head up, looked at his handsome face, and saw that he was still peacefully asleep, his lips slightly parted as his eyes remained shut. I carefully rested my chin on his chest, worried I would wake him up. I didn't want to get out of bed just yet - it was the weekend, my birthday, and I wanted to continue to lay in bed with my man for a bit longer. I studied his face for a little bit before I noticed that he was about to wake up. When he opened his eyes and saw me, he smiled.
"Good morning handsome." I said before kissing his jaw.
"Good morning beautiful. Happy birthday." Shawn said as his smile grew.
"Thank you Shawny. I'm hungry." I said at the same time that I felt him place his hand on the back of my head and tangle his fingers in my hair.
"Do you want to have breakfast here or do you want to go somewhere for breakfast?" Shawn asked. I thought for a moment.
"Can we go to IHOP?" I asked. Shawn nodded.
"Of course we can." He said before we got up and got dressed and ready for the day. I put on some light makeup, high rise black jeans, a striped button down shirt, and black ankle boots. Shawn put on black skinny jeans and one of the shirts that I had gotten him. It was white with a tea bag on it and said "It's A Tea Shirt." My mom saw me and gave me a hug.
"Happy birthday sweetheart." She said.
"Thank you Mom. Shawn and I are going to IHOP." I said. She nodded.
"Okay. Are you guys still going to the art museum?" She asked us. I looked at Shawn. We were supposed to go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for my birthday.
"Do you want to head straight to the museum after we have breakfast?" I asked Shawn. He nodded.
"Yeah, that sounds good. I know we're doing presents later, but one of my gifts was a Barnes and Noble gift card. Do you want it now and then after the museum we can go there?" Shawn asked. My face must have lit up, just like it always does when I hear anything about books or Barnes and Noble, because my mom and Shawn started to laugh.
"I would love that!" I said with a huge smile.
"I got you a Barnes and Noble gift card as well, let me go grab it." My mom said. Shawn grabbed the gift card he got me and my gave me hers. I hugged them and then headed out to Shawn's rental car.
"I'm so excited for today." I said as Shawn and I buckled in. Shawn chuckled.
"I can tell. Your smile is huge." Shawn said. I directed him towards IHOP and we soon arrived there and ordered.
"This looks delicious." I said as my pancakes, bacon and eggs, along with Shawn's country omelette, arrived. We began to eat when Shawn got a text. He shrugged his shoulders and ignored it.
"It's fine, I'll check it later." He said.
"Are you sure? I don't mind if you want to check it. What if it's Aaliyah or your mum or dad?" I asked. He nodded and looked at his phone before a smile spread across his face.
"It's Teddy. She knows it's your birthday and she wants to post something but since you guys have never met and only ever talked on the phone she doesn't have any pictures of you. She has a picture of me holding up the phone while I Face Time you, but none of just you. Would you mind if I sent her some pictures and videos of you that she can post?" Shawn asked me. I shook my head.
"No, that's fine." I said. Shawn took a break from eating to respond to one of his best friends.
"I'm going to send her ten pictures and videos of you since Instagram has that limit of ten. I think that today is just going to be a not care type of day." Shawn said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Like, I know we're not public, but you can hear my voice in a couple of the videos and I don't mind if she writes in the caption that I sent them to her. Brian and Cez and Josiah want to post stuff. I'm not saying let's not care like let's post pictures of us hugging and kissing, but I mean when people post about you today, I want to comment on the posts saying how beautiful you are, things like that. It's your birthday baby, let's just not give a shit about anything but each other." Shawn said. I smiled and nodded.
"Okay baby. I trust you and I trust what you want to do. I also trust whatever you sent to Teddy." I said. Shawn chuckled and nodded.
"Thank you for trusting me." He said. I nodded.
"I love you." I said, causing his smile to widen.
"I love you too, birthday girl." He said. I giggled and then we got back to our food. When we were done, Shawn paid the bill, and we got in the car. As I put the address to the museum into the GPS on Shawn's phone, I leaned on the center console a little bit. I felt butterflies in my tummy as Shawn kissed my temple repeatedly and when I was done putting the address in, before I hit start, I closed my eyes and leaned into his touch.
"Shawn." I whispered, simply saying his name because it always feels so wonderful to say, so wonderful to remember that I'm his and he's mine. I felt him place his hand in mine.
"Y/n. Did you put the address in the GPS?" He asked as he placed a few more kisses on my temple.
"Yup. We just have to hit start." I said before turning my face to look at him. He immediately placed his lips on mine and it was like heaven. We kissed for a bit and when we finally pulled away, he grazed his lips against mine a bit, placed a full kiss on my lips, and then turned himself so he was facing the steering wheel. "Fuck." I whispered as I buckled in.
"Are you good over there darling?" Shawn asked with a smirk as he turned on the car and began driving.
"You don't get it. You're such an incredible kisser, and every single time you kiss me, it's like you kiss me stupid. You kiss me and I lose my speech, I lose my mind, and all I want is to just kiss you all the time forever. Your kisses turn me to mush and they give me butterflies and all of these crazy feelings. Please kiss me stupid for the rest of our lives." I said as I looked at his side profile. Shawn laughed at what I had said.
"Darling, I will kiss you whenever you want me to kiss you, and that's a promise." He said.
"What about if you're in another country? What if you're in Australia and I'm here in Boston but I need you to kiss me stupid? Your kisses aren't a want, they're a need." I told him. He chuckled again.
"Well, if I can fly to you and spend time with you, I will. If I can't fly to you, I'll send you a picture of me or a little video of me blowing you a kiss. How does that sound?" Shawn asked. I thought about it for a moment before nodding.
"Okay, deal." I said, Shawn smiled.
"Good." He said. I turned the radio on and music began to play. I checked my phone as Shawn drove. Teddy had made her post, and she had tagged me in it. My Instagram was private, so I was probably going to be getting a lot of requests from Shawn's fans.
"Teddy made her post." I said with a smile.
"Really? Do you like what I sent her?" Shawn asked. I turned off the radio, turned up the volume on my phone, and looked at the post. The first video was of me laughing hysterically while trying to explain to Shawn a video that I had just watched. I had been sitting on the hotel bed next to Shawn, but he wasn't seen in the video.
"The dog, he's, oh my GOSH this is so funny." I said as I watched the video over and over and laughed hysterically.
"Oh my God." Shawn said before laughing a little.
"He can't, oh my gosh I'm crying, the dog looks so BETRAYED!" I said before laying back on the bed and kicking my feet in the air as I laughed hysterically.
"And there goes her feet." Shawn said before filming me accidentally falling off the bed which only made me laugh harder. "Are you okay?" Shawn asked before I nodded and then continued to laugh hysterically. "Oh my gosh." Shawn said again with a chuckle before ending the video.
The next part of the post was a picture that Shawn had taken when we went out to dinner in Toronto the month before. I was wearing a navy blue dress with matching earrings, a golden moon necklace, a diamond bracelet that Shawn had gotten me, and another necklace that spelt Shawn's name in diamonds, but it was hard to see that necklace in this picture because of the size. The picture was taken before we had gotten our dinner and before we had walked out of the restaurant to find out that someone had called the paparazzi on us. There were only two of them out there, but it was my first encounter with them.
The third part of the post was a video that Shawn had taken during our first ever Valentine's Day weekend. We had gone to the local sheep pasture where they also had some chickens and I got some food so I could feed the chickens.
"We are here at the sheep pasture, and we're going to feed the weird looking chickens." I said before picking some of the food up from the palm of my hand.
"Why are they weird looking?" Shawn asked as he filmed me. I got closer to the pen that had the chickens.
"Their feathers look weird. Come here chickens, I'm going to feed you. Spread out, and I'll get all of you. I'm going to name you Fred, and I'm going to name you Charlie. You, I'm going to name you Don Rickles because you look a bit mean. You guys need to chill the hell out because I'll get all of you. Shush! I'm feeding you guys. Fred! Be nice! I told you guys to chill out!" I scolded.
"Are they chilling out?" Shawn asked. I stopped feeding the chickens for a moment to look at him.
"No, which I don't think is very nice of them because I think I asked them quite nicely." I said, causing Shawn to laugh before I smiled and he ended the video.
The fourth part of the post was a picture of me holding the beautiful two dozen pink peony flowers that Shawn had gotten me and gave to me on our first Valentine's Day. The fifth part of the post was a picture that Shawn had taken of me sitting on his couch reading The Romanov's by Simon Sebag Montefiore. The fifth part of the post was a picture that Shawn had taken of me holding my camera. I was in the middle of taking a picture of him when he had taken his phone out and took a picture of me taking a picture of him.
The next part of the post was a video that Shawn had taken of me when we had gone to Subway after my first day of school during the spring semester. I didn't know Shawn had started to take that video of me, instead, as you could see in the video, I picked up my sub, took my first bite of it, and was so happy that the food was so delicious that I started doing a little dance as I chewed. I then looked around the Subway as a few people walked in and went to the counter to order. I then looked at Shawn, noticed that he was filming and shook my head as I blushed.
"No!" I said causing Shawn to chuckle and he stopped the video.
The next part of the post was a picture of me holding a poster that I had gotten at Shawn's concert in one hand, and the white flower that I had gotten at his concert in my other hand, a huge smile on my face. The poster read "SHAWN MENDES THE TOUR. AUG 15 & 16. BOSTON, MASS. TD GARDEN". I swiped again and saw that the next photo in the post was me looking at my laptop, watching Bobby Kennedy for President, a docuseries on Netflix. The last picture was from the night we had been caught by the paparazzi. At some point during the night, Shawn had borrowed my camera which had been on the coffee table. I was standing in front of him on his balcony, but turned my body a bit more towards him when I saw him and reached my hand out towards him, wanting to hold his hand. I was still in the navy blue dress - or, as Shawn always said, his beautiful girl in her beautiful blue dress - and my smile for my man was huge. I liked the post and read the caption out loud.
"Happy twenty-first birthday to the girl whose first words to me, ever, were 'Teddy, you're a genius, I love you.' Guess what girl? I know for a fact that you're smart as hell (you know who texts me whenever you get a good grade... so all of the time) and I love you toooo! I promise that I'll let you press as many buttons as you want whenever you come into the studio even though we don't have that applause button that you asked about. Anyways, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Have a wonderful day!!!! P. S. thank you to mister @shawnmendes for sending me all of these since I didn't have any pictures or videos of Y/n LOL." Teddy wrote. I smiled and commented on it.
"Ahhhh I love this and you sooooo much! Thank you for this!!!" I commented.
"That's great, I love that." Shawn said with a smile. I nodded.
"Me too." I said. We were on the highway by now. Shawn handed me his phone.
"Will you go on my Instagram and comment on Teddy's post for me?" He asked.
"What do you want me to write?" I asked. Shawn told me and I went to the post and commented as him.
"She's a damn goddess! My girl is so beautiful, inside and out." Shawn's comment read, along with some heart emojis. I went back to my phone and saw that Cez had posted a picture of him and I. Cez and I had our arms around each our as we smiled at the camera. He had always been one of my favorites when it came to Shawn's crew, and for some reason I had nicknamed him Papa. I liked the post and read the caption out loud to Shawn.
"Happy birthday to this beautiful, wonderful, sweet soul! I'm so happy that you have wandered into our lives. You are a treasure and your strength amazes me - the world has not always been kind to you, but you have always been kind to the world, and no matter what is thrown your way, you make it through. I remember when we talked last month, I was surprised that you were so open about your struggles since it was only the third time we had met and when I mentioned this to you, you shrugged and said 'I don't want my struggles to define me. They're part of me, part of my story, I deal with them every single day, but they're not me. And I don't mind talking about it because if I talk about it to someone and they can relate to me or it helps them, then I've done something good.' When I heard such wise words coming out of a twenty (now twenty one!) year old mouth, I was amazed. Happy birthday to the girl who I know will make a difference in the world! I hope your day is as wonderful as you are!" Cez wrote. I was in tears by the end of the post. I commented on the post.
"Hello Papa, I'm CRYING because of this. I love you. You're wonderful. THANK YOU FOR THIS!" I commented. I then went to his Instagram story and saw that he had posted our first picture and Instagram had put the date it was taken "AUG 17, 2019" it read, after mine and Shawn's second date.
"First pic with this lovely lady right after we met!" Cez wrote above the photo. The next photo was of us sitting on the couch at Shawn's apartment.
"MAR 16, 2020" The date read. "I don't know if this was during our deep talk or when we were talking about animals. Photo credit to @josiahvandien" Cez wrote. He then posted a video on his Instagram story of him and I lip syncing to Frank Sinatra's famous song, My Way. I had gotten really into it, so the video was mainly Cez looking at me and smiling and laughing while I used a water bottle as a microphone and lip synced the lyrics that I knew so well.
"She did it much better than I did!" Cez wrote.
"Will you comment from my account on Cez's post for me please?" Shawn asked.
"Yeah of course baby." I said before he told me what he wanted me to write.
"Your caption describes her perfectly. I'm the luckiest man alive just to be around such a strong, smart, incredible, wonderful woman, let alone be able to spend forever with her. I'm so grateful that you, along with everyone else, welcomed her into our family with open arms." Shawn's comment read. Of course it made me smile.
"I love you Shawn." I said as I looked at his side profile. We were still on the highway, there was some traffic on the way to the museum.
"I love you too Y/n." Shawn said before kissing my hand.
"How much longer until the museum?" I asked as I checked the GPS.
"I don't know. What's the GPS saying?" Shawn asked. I checked.
"Another half hour." I said before getting a notification on my phone that my friend since, well, forever, Liz, had made a post. "Liz made a post for my birthday." I said with a smile.
"Yeah? What did she post?" Shawn asked. Traffic was so bad that we weren't moving, so I leaned over to show him the pictures. The first picture was of Liz and I when she was two and I was a baby. The next picture was when we were a little bit older. She had a picture we had taken in her bedroom mirror when the duck face and peace signs were very popular.
"Oh God." I said, cringing at the photo as Shawn laughed. There were more cringey photos, but I smiled at the picture of her and I smiling at each other, her in her wedding dress, me in my bridesmaid dress. The last picture was from when she had come home for a visit the month before. My hand was on her shoulder as our heads rested together. I soon realized that my ring said Shawn's name, and pointed it out to Shawn. He shrugged.
"Oh well." He said as traffic began to move again. I read the caption out loud to him.
"Happy birthday to my extra little sister, Y/n! Girlie, we have gone through alllll the phases together and there is no one else that I would love to have right down the street from me growing up, and now you're just one phone call or text away. We have screamed Taylor Swift lyrics together, danced to Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas and It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls together (if only we could find the videos!), we have faced tragedy together and we have faced good times together - like when you were a bridesmaid at my wedding - along with everything in between, including the time I stepped on glass by accident and now there will forever be a bloodstain on the stairs and a scar on my foot and you witnessed it all! I remember when you used to ask me all the time 'But how do you KNOW Tommy's the one? What do you mean you just looked at him and knew? How can you look at someone and know you're going to marry them?' and then, last summer, you told me that you finally understood. You had met someone, and with just one look, you knew right away that they would be the one for you. Y/n you have come SO FAR in the past twenty one years and I've been lucky enough to witness all of it! I can't wait to see how much farther you'll go! Happy birthday girl! I love you!" She wrote as the caption. I commented on it.
"The duck face photo is making me cringe oh my gosh WHY? Anyways I LOVE YOU thank you so much for this!!" I commented. Shawn wanted me to comment hearts on it from his account, and like the post, so I did. I saw that Josiah posted a picture and looked at it. It was a picture of me from the date night that Shawn and I had had the month before when I wore the long navy blue dress. Josiah had taken pictures of Shawn and I, together and separately, before we had gone out on the date. The picture Josiah had posted was a close up of me smiling and you could clearly see the two necklaces I was wearing - one was Shawn's name in diamonds, and the other was a golden moon, Shawn had bought it for me but I knew that it was very expensive. I was happy that my makeup in the photo made my eye color pop. I liked the post and read the caption.
"Happy birthday Y/n! I hope you smile and laugh as much as you did the day I took this photo!" Josiah captioned it. I saw that Josiah had limited who could comment on the post, and I was one of the people, so I commented on it.
"Thank you so much!!!" I wrote. When Shawn finally pulled into a parking space at the museum, he turned off the GPS and went to Instagram to look at Josiah's post. I watched as his eyes widened as he looked at the photo of me. He instantly double tapped it and looked at me, his eyes still wide.
"You're so beautiful. Did you know that? I'm the luckiest man alive." He said to me.
"Oh my goodness. Thank you baby." I said with a blush. He smiled and then commented on the post. I had no clue what he was writing but when he was done, he showed it to me and I blushed even harder.
"My gorgeous queen! I love that beautiful girl!" He commented. I gave him a kiss before his phone went off.
"Brian made a post too." He said as he looked at the text.
"Oh, what is it?" I asked as I watched him go to Brian's Instagram. It was a picture that Brian had taken of me at the club. I was wearing a gold metallic tank top and black skinny jeans. My mouth was open like I was in the middle of yelling.
"Happy birthday Y/n! I almost sent you a real birthday card but then my internet connection came back. Can't wait to hear you threaten to fight me again!!! NOT! Anyways, have fun today or whatever." Brian wrote as the caption, causing me to laugh. Before Shawn and I got out of the car, I took out my own phone, went to the post, and commented.
"LMAO thank you for this! FIGHT ME!" I commented. Shawn commented on it as well, and I was blushing hard again at what he was writing.
"OH MY GOD." His first comment said.
"HOLY SHIT." His second comment said.
"SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!" His third comment said.
"Oh my GOSH I love her so much!!! I can't wait to spend forever with her!!! THAT'S MY BABY!!" Shawn's fourth comment said. I looked at him.
"You're crazy." I said with a giggle. He laughed.
"Yup, crazy in love with you." He said. I smiled and then saw that I had a lot of people requesting to follow me.
"Do you think it would be okay if I made my Instagram public? I won't post anything about you until we're public, but I'm getting a lot of requests and messages." I said. Shawn nodded.
"Yeah, whatever you want to do baby." He said. I nodded and changed my Instagram from private to public. The only picture I had posted of Shawn was from when I met him and posted that I had met my favorite singer.
"Okay, are we ready to go in?" I asked. Shawn nodded.
"Yup." He said and we got out of the car. He immediately came around as I was getting out and we interlaced our fingers together. After going to the front desk where Shawn paid for the admissions because he wasn't letting me pay for anything since it was my birthday. We walked through the lobby and the beautiful courtyard - that only employees were allowed to enter - was right in front of us. I stared around, already amazed by the artwork that was around us, when I felt Shawn gently tap my hand against his side. I looked at him, and he was already looking at me with a smile.
"Hm?" I asked. He nodded his head at the benches in front of the courtyard.
"Go sit over there so I can take a picture of you baby." He said. I smiled and did as he wanted me to do. I continued to smile at him as he took out his phone and took a picture of me and then put his phone in his pocket and waved his hand for me to come back to him. I went to him and held his hand again. "Where would you like to go, my darling?" Shawn asked me. I looked around.
"This way." I said as I led him down the hall and into the blue room to look at more artwork. The room was filled with letters to the founder of the museum along with paintings by John Singer Sargent among other pieces of artwork. Shawn never let go of my hand as we walked around the room and then out of the room, through some other rooms, and up the stairs to the second floor. The Dutch Room was the one I really wanted to show Shawn, and when we walked in, I heard him gasp.
"The frames." He said, and I nodded as I saw his wide eyes. In 1990, two robbers dressed as policemen entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole thirteen works of art, valued at five hundred million dollars. The case had never been solved, and when the robbers cut the artwork out of the frames, the museum left the frames up. It was an eerie, spooky feeling to see just a frame and the wall behind it - no artwork.
"It's eerie." I said as I looked at the two empty frames in the room - a frame with the artwork in it was in between the two empty ones. Shawn and I wandered around the room, looking at the beautiful painting of Mary I, Queen of England by Antonis Mor, Shawn and I giggled at the painting of Sir William Butts done by Hans Holbein the Younger, and I took a picture of it to post on my Instagram story later. Shawn and I walked through the rooms, our interlaced fingers never leaving each other, and I could tell that Shawn, like me, was amazed by all of the beautiful artwork.
"I can see why you love it here so much. It's all so beautiful." Shawn said as we walked into the Early Italian Room where there were a lot of religious pieces.
"Yeah. Baby, look at the detail just in this cabinet." I said as I pointed out a beautifully painted cabinet. Shawn looked at it and nodded.
"Mmm hmm. And look at the details on this chair." Shawn said. I looked at what he was pointing at and nodded.
"Wow. I love this place." I said as Shawn let go of my hand and wrapped his arm around my waist and I wrapped my arm around his torso and let myself lean into him a bit. I smiled and closed my eyes for a moment as I felt him kiss the top of my head and gently squeeze my waist. I picked my head up and, not caring if anyone was nearby or if anyone would judge, only caring about my man, placed my chapped lips on his soft ones for a moment.
"I love you." He said, brushing some of my hair back, when we pulled away. I smiled at him and interlaced my fingers with his again.
"I love you too." I said before we began to walk out of the room and up the stairs to the third floor. We walked around before heading to the gift shop.
"Pick anything you want and I'll get it for you baby." He said.
"Are you sure?" I asked him. He smiled and nodded.
"Of course." He said. I kissed his hand - I would've kissed his cheek but I couldn't reach it - and then held his hand as we browsed the gift shop. I picked out a key chain that said "bibliophile", a puzzle of the courtyard that Shawn and I agreed to do together, a pen with a crown on the top that cost way too much but Shawn didn't care, a bookmark set with quotes from Isabella Stewart Gardner, the founder of the museum, and a journal that, on the cover, said "Jittery scribblings of an overly caffeinated introvert". Shawn and I left and got in the car. As soon as we shut the car door, my stomach rumbled.
"Sorry." I said as my face turned red. Shawn smiled.
"It's fine. Where do you want to go to eat, baby?" Shawn asked me. I thought for a moment.
"Can we go to Tasty Burger? They have burgers." I said. Shawn laughed.
"Well I didn't think they would be serving hot dogs. Sure, we can go wherever you want sweetheart, it's your day." He said to me before looking up the address and putting it into his GPS. As he began to drive, he put his hand on my leg and I took my phone out and took a picture of his bird tattoo. I wasn't going to post it - not until we went public - but I loved how affectionate we've always been with each other, almost always touching each other in some way. We soon arrived at Tasty Burger and went to the window to order. Shawn let me go first as he looked at the menu.
"Can I have a cheeseburger with ketchup and fries and some lemonade please?" I asked.
"And a Sam Adams Tasty Ale." Shawn said. What? Shawn ordered his food and when we got it we sat down in their outdoor seating area.
"Why did you order a Sam Adams?" I asked, knowing it was a beer. Shawn took my phone, which I had put on the table, and then looked at me.
"Because I want you, my now twenty one year old girlfriend, to take your first legal sip of beer. I don't think I've ever seen you take a sip of beer. I'm going to videotape it." Shawn said.
"But I've taken a sip of beer before and I didn't like it." I said as Shawn got my camera on my phone ready.
"Yeah but you've never tried this. Maybe you'll like it." He said. I looked at the beer wearily. I finally looked at Shawn and nodded. He smiled and got the video ready. I picked up the beer and took a sip and was immediately disgusted. Shawn smiled as I made a face to show my distaste and shook my head.
"That was gross." I said to him. He stopped filming me and handed me my phone back.
"Yeah, but at least you tried it, and I'm proud of you for that baby girl." Shawn said with a smile that made butterflies erupt in my stomach.
"I love you." I said before I took a sip of my lemonade.
"I love you too Y/n." He said before taking a sip of his drink. Once we finished eating, I looked at the map of where we were, and the areas near us.
"Would you like to go to the bench that we had our second date at?" I asked Shawn. He instantly smiled and nodded.
"Of course. Is it within walking distance?" Shawn asked. I looked it up.
"Well, it's a five minute drive or an eighteen minute walk, and I'm wearing boots instead of sneakers so I don't think we should walk there." I said. Shawn nodded in agreement and we got in the car and drove there. I held Shawn's hand as we walked across the street to the park, but let go of his hand when I saw the bench Shawn and I were sitting on when we had our first kiss - the same bench that's dedicated in memory of my uncle. I ran to it and sat down on the bench before looking at Shawn and smiling. He sat down next to me and put his arm on the back of the bench. I leaned on him and looked out at the river.
"It's beautiful here." He said. I nodded my head against his chest and then closed my eyes, letting myself take in the moment as I wrapped my arm around his waist and he wrapped his arm around my shoulders. I felt his thumb rub back and forth, and I relaxed even more, a content sigh escaping my lips. I opened my eyes and looked up at my handsome man. He was looking out at the river. I kissed his jaw and he looked at me with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Today has been wonderful." I said as he moved his hand from my shoulders to my back. He knows how much I love his magical back rubs.
"It really has been my love, and to see you so happy makes me so happy. I also love seeing all of my friends sending you love on your birthday." He said with a big smile. I nodded.
"Yeah, that means a lot to me." I said. He kissed my nose and then chuckled when I scrunched it up.
"I was just thinking, and if you want, I'll do a cover of whatever song you want, and post some of it on my Instagram story." Shawn said. I thought for a moment as I sat up and mentally thought about my favorite songs.
"Well, you know I love your songs, and Frank Sinatra songs. Oh! What about That's Amore by Dean Martin? Or what about Make You Feel My Love by Adele?" I asked. Shawn chuckled at my excitement.
"Which one do you want? Or do you want me to do both?" He asked. My eyes widened.
"You would do both?" I asked. He put his index finger underneath my chin.
"For you my love, I would do anything." He said. I couldn't help myself, I put my lips on his, and of course he kissed back.
"Do you know That's Amore by Dean Martin?" I asked. Shawn nodded and took out his phone. I scooted away a bit as he began to sing the song.
"When the stars make you drool just like a pasta e fasul / That's amore / When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet / You're in love / When you walk in a dream but you know you're not dreaming signore / Scusami, but you see, back in old Napoli / That's amore" He sang.
"This was a special request from a special person." He wrote on his Instagram story before posting it.
"That was wonderful! Didn't you sing about birthdays in Ballin Flossin?" I asked Shawn. His whole face lit up with excitement before he recorded on his phone again. When he got to the part about it starting at his apartment, he changed the lyrics a little and looked right at me even though the fans still couldn't see me.
"Tonight it's your birthday / Let's blow out all the candles / Yeah, we could get romantic / As long as I'm with you, babe / Let's throw a party / Just us in my apartment / Yeah, back to where it started even though that's not where it started / As long as I'm with you babe." Shawn sang before he ended the video. I laughed.
"Oh my goodness." I said as I shook my head.
"Little change of lyrics but this is fitting for today!" Shawn wrote on his Instagram story before posting it.
"You don't have to do Make You Feel My Love if you don't want to." I said to Shawn, feeling bad that he had already posted two covers for me. He looked at me like I had two heads.
"Are you crazy? That's the one I'm looking forward to the most." He said as he got ready to record again. I smiled, remembering that this was the first song we had ever danced to together.
"Thank you." I said. He nodded at me and then hit record. He sang for a bit and ended up posting my favorite part of the song.
"I know you / Haven't made / Your mind up yet / But I would never / Do you wrong / I've known it / From the moment / That we met / No doubt in my mind / Where you belong." Shawn sang as he had a huge smile on his face. I smiled, so grateful for this man that I'm lucky enough to call mine. Shawn ended the video when he was done singing.
"The most special request from the most special person." Shawn wrote with a few hearts. He didn't tag me - we weren't about to go public, but I knew that some people were going to make the connection between him and I because of his comments on the posts about me.
"Shawn?" I asked as he put his phone in his pocket after making the post. He put his arm on the back of the bench - his signal for me to cuddle up to him, which I gladly did. Once I was within reach, he wrapped his arm around my shoulders and began to move his thumb back and forth in a soothing rubbing motion. His loving brown eyes looked into mine and I couldn't look away from them - not that I would want to.
"Yes, my lovely, beautiful, wonderful, birthday girl?" He asked, causing me to smile.
"I just, um, I wanted to tell you that I always feel my love for you, but then there are times when you do something like post a beautiful cover, or three, for me, or you get me flowers just because you wanted to, or you do something and it's like, I'm not sure of how to explain it. It's just this overwhelming amount of love for you. I don't think I could ever put it into words, but I love you so much and I appreciate you so much. I appreciate every single thing you do for me and I want you to know that. I don't ever want you to feel unloved or unappreciated because trust, I have enough love and appreciation for you to fill the world a million times over.
"I love you and I love how affectionate we are with each other. I love that we're always touching in some way, and I hope when we're eighty or ninety, we're still holding hands and we're still just as in love as we are now. I love it when you hug me from behind and when you kiss my forehead and when you kiss my temple and when you put your forehead against mine. I love being with you and just your presence alone makes me happy. I could sit next to you on the couch every single day for the rest of my life and I would be the happiest woman alive, or I could travel the world with you forever and I would still be the happiest woman alive. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I want you to know that. I love you Shawn Peter Raul Mendes. I love you so fucking much." I said. Shawn placed a beautiful, passionate, loving kiss on my lips. When he pulled away, he rested his forehead against mine and kept it there as he spoke to me. We were a cheesy couple, and I loved every moment of it.
"I love you too Y/n Y/m/n Y/l/n. Everything you said, I feel the same way about you. You're my forever darling, I promise. I want to kiss you all of the time. I want to kiss you good morning and I promise you that you will never fall asleep without a good night kiss. You're my girl and I truly am the luckiest man alive to be able to wake up everyday knowing you're mine and I'm yours. You are kind, caring, smart, loving, beautiful, gorgeous, you have a heart of gold, and you really are my dream woman. I can't wait to be your husband and the father to your children. I love you." Shawn said before picking my hand up and kissing my fingers.
"I love you too." I said. Shawn kissed my forehead and I closed my eyes at the feeling of his lips. He then pulled away, took his phone out of his pocket, turned his camera on selfie mode, and we took a picture together, our heads resting together, our smiles huge.
"That looks nice." Shawn said. I nodded.
"Mmm hmm. I really liked the selfie we took at the museum. Could you send it to me please?" I asked. Before Shawn and I had left the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, we had taken a selfie with the courtyard behind us. Shawn and I had our heads resting together, our smiles huge, and one of the things that I really loved about the photo was that because I had placed my hand on Shawn's shoulder, without meaning to show it off, the name "Shawn" was obvious on my bracelet.
"Yeah of course." Shawn said and then sent me the photo. At the same time that I got the text from Shawn, I also got a text from my next door neighbor, Johnny.
Johnny: I just posted for ya bday kiddo.
Me: Thank you! I'll check it out now.
"Johnny posted for my birthday." I said as I went to Shawn's text, saved the photo, and then went to Instagram.
"What did he post?" Shawn asked as he leaned over my shoulder to see it and then went to his phone to check out the post since he also follows Johnny.
The first picture was of Johnny holding me when he was seven and I was a baby. The next picture was Johnny was a senior in high school and I was in about sixth grade. He was in his football uniform after helping our town beat our rivals at the annual Thanksgiving football game. The next picture was a selfie we took, then the picture after was a picture of us at a soccer tournament in memory of his brother. I swiped for the next photo and and saw a photo of me, Johnny, Liz, and Johnny's sister Catherine holding up a picture of Jake, their brother. The sixth part of the post was a video of Johnny and I yelling at each other because we're so teasing with each other.
"I hate you so much! I hate hearing your voice!" Johnny yelled at me.
"Yeah? Well you sound like Charlie Brown's teacher. Wa wa wa wa." I said.
"You know what? I take that as a compliment! Charlie Brown's teacher was very smart." Johnny said.
"So she must've been the opposite of you. When I hear you it sounds like nothing, okay? It sounds like static." I said. Johnny leaned forward.
"Static is something!" Johnny yelled. There was something about the way he yelled it that made me dissolve into laughter.
The next part of the post was a video of a screen recording of a voicemail I had left for Johnny randomly. My phone number wasn't shown, instead it was my contact name, which said "Broke College Girl Next Door I've Always Known" which made me laugh.
"Hi Johnny it's me. I just wanted to remind you that I hate you, I've hated you since I was in the womb, and although I do love you, it's very deep down. Like, really deep. Probably in my toes or some shit. Anyways, you're cool and I love you. I'm always going to bully you because that's what you and I do to each other. Bye BITCH." I said in the voicemail.
The last part of the post was a picture of Johnny and I with our arms around each as we smiled. I read his caption, which was filled with sarcasm.
"When I found out my next door neighbor's were pregnant, I was so happy. Then I found out that it was Y/n Y/m/n Y/l/n in the womb and I was pissed. I've hated you for the first twenty one years of your life, and personally, I can't wait to hate you for the rest of it. The only good thing you ever did was bring Shawn into the crew. Hate you, mean it. Happy birthday loser." Johnny wrote. I laughed as I liked the post and then commented on it.
"Screw you. You're an ass. I can't wait to show this post to your father because I really do love Dave more than I love you. Anyways, I love you very very much." I commented. Shawn laughed before liking the post and commenting on it as well.
"LMAO. You guys are crazy." Shawn commented. I looked at him as he smiled at me.
"Are we still going to Barnes and Noble?" I asked.
"Do you want to?" Shawn asked. I nodded.
"Yes please." I said. Shawn nodded.
"Okay. Let me just take a picture of you baby. You're so pretty." He said, causing me to blush. He took a picture of me on my phone and, before we left, I took a picture of the plaque next to the bench saying that it was in memory of my uncle.
"Do you think it would be okay to post some pictures from today on Instagram? I won't post any pictures with you in it." I reassured him.
"Yeah, you can post whatever you want darling." Shawn said. I nodded and went on Instagram. I posted some of the pictures that I had taken at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, including the one Shawn took of me sitting near the courtyard, a picture that I had taken of Fenway Park which was near Tasty Burger, a picture of the view of the river at my Uncle Scottie's bench, and the last picture was the one Shawn took of me sitting on the bench. I told Shawn what I was posting before I posted it and he nodded, liking it.
"Alexa play Dirty Water by The Standells." I wrote as the caption. The song, Dirty Water, was a famous song around Boston. I made the post and then went to my Spotify, putting Taylor Swift's music on. Shawn and I smiled when the remix of Lover started playing, and I took a video of him singing his part - I didn't post it, just saved it for later. After a bit of driving, and lots of singing along to Taylor Swift, we arrived at my favorite bookstore.
"Get as many books as you want baby. You have, let's see, $250 in gift cards, but if you go over that I'll cover it." Shawn said when we got to the bookstore. My eyes widened.
"Are you serious?" I asked. He nodded.
"Yeah, of course." He said. I leaned over the center console and planted a kiss on his lips before looking at him as I continued to lean over the console.
"This is exactly what I need in life, a man who will indulge in my book habits." I said, causing Shawn to laugh before giving me another kiss.
"Stay just like that darling, and keep looking at me." Shawn said as he took his phone out. I quickly realized that he was about to take a selfie of us. My smile widened as I looked at him and then kissed him before resting my forehead against his.
"I love you." I said as Shawn put his phone down.
"I love you too baby. Come on, let's go inside." Shawn said. I nodded and we got out of the car. I interlaced my fingers with Shawn and we headed into the bookstore.
"So I can really get as many books as I want?" I asked Shawn. He chuckled and nodded.
"Yup. As many as your big, beautiful, heart desires." Shawn said. I smiled and we walked in. Shawn and I got a basket to carry the books and walked around. Whenever I found a book that I liked, I would put it in the basket, which Shawn insisted on carrying. I browsed the shelves in the store, looking for more books. I then looked at my watch before looking at Shawn.
"Am I taking too long?" I asked him. He shook his head immediately.
"Nope. Take as much time as you need. We have dinner reservations at six thirty but we still have plenty of time before then." He said, reassuring me. I smiled and nodded.
"Thank you. Usually people don't like going shopping with me because I take so long." I said.
"Well I love spending time with you sweetheart." He said. I smiled at him, which he returned warmly before I went back to looking at the books. The store had music playing and when one of Shawn's own songs started playing, he recorded a little video of himself.
"Shoutout to the bookstore for playing Lost In Japan." He wrote and then posted it on his Instagram story. I ended up getting so many books that even though it was early April, I probably would be all set for the rest of the year and then some.
"Thank you for that Shawn." I said as we walked to the car.
"Of course baby. Which one are you going to read first?" He asked me. I thought about the books that I had just gotten. When we put the bags in the trunk of Shawn's rental car, I took a picture of them.
"Little Lovely Things by Maureen Joyce Connolly looks really good." I said.
"I loved the look on your face when you read the back of it and instantly realized that you wanted it." Shawn said with a smile. I giggled and nodded.
"Books are like my other soulmate. When you know, you know." I said. Shawn laughed.
"That's like me with guitars. I look at them and just know. That's also what it was like when I looked at you for the first time." Shawn said as we drove back to my house.
"Awwww baby." I said. Shawn chuckled before reaching over and gently grabbing my hand to kiss it. I went on Instagram and posted on my story the video Shawn took of me trying beer. Now that my Instagram was public, I had gained a lot of followers which was weird for me.
"Tried my first (legal) sip of beer. It didn't go too well." I wrote before posting it. I then posted a picture that I took of Uncle Scottie's plaque from the bench.
"Best way to end a day in Boston - stopping at my Uncle Scottie's bench." I wrote with a blue heart emoji and an angel emoji. I also put his favorite song, I Touch Roses by Book of Love. I then posted the picture I had taken of the three Barnes and Noble bags full of books. I told Shawn what I wanted to write and he nodded, fine with it.
"Thank you to my mom and boyfriend for knowing the way to my heart and getting me Barnes and Noble gift cards! I should be set for books for the rest of the year, if not longer, so someone please stop me if you see my trying to buy books." I wrote. I didn't tag Shawn in it.
We soon got back to my house and my mom's eyes widened at the amount of bags Shawn and I were carrying in.
"What's all of that?" She asked.
"Well, these three bags are from Barnes and Noble, and this bag is from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." I explained. I showed her the pictures I took and she loved them. My mom had ordered pizza, so we ate our pizza and then did presents.
My brother, not surprisingly, got me a Barnes and Noble gift card. Johnny, Johnny's girlfriend Kristen, and Liz came over for presents, cake, and pizza. Johnny and Liz got me Barnes and Noble gift cards, Kristen got me a framed picture of Jackie Kennedy, my queen. Liz then filmed while I opened her other gift. I couldn't help but let out a scream when I saw the beautiful, heart shaped chandelier earrings that I had been dying for since a few months before. I had wanted to get them, but then they were out of stock, and by the time they were back in stock, my mom was telling me to save my money.
"Oh my gosh! I've been dying for these earrings forever! Thank you!" I said as everyone laughed a bit at my very enthusiastic reaction.
Next, I opened Shawn's other presents for me. He had gotten me two sets of Kate Spade earrings, a diamond shaped ring from Priscilla Ma that I had been dying for, and immediately asked Shawn to put on me, a cushion salt and pepper ring, a diamond cluster bracelet, a beautiful eighteen karat yellow gold crossover ring with diamonds that Shawn put on me right away, and lastly, a framed picture of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin with my favorite Dean Martin quote at the bottom: "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
"Oh my goodness. Thank you so much Shawn." I said before giving him a kiss.
"You're welcome darling." He said. Everyone sang happy birthday to me, we all had a slice of cake, and then Shawn and I got ready for our dinner date. As Shawn got ready in the other room, I put on a beautiful pink maxi dress with little rhinestones around the waist, matching blush colored heels with an ankle strap, I kept the beautiful crossover ring that Shawn had just given me on, along with my necklace of a crescent moon, and the earrings that Liz had given me. I also put on the diamond cluster bracelet that Shawn had just given me. My best friend, Grace, who was out of town, texted me wishing me happy birthday and telling me how much she loves me. I texted her back as my mom put my hair in a beautiful updo.
"Don't check Instagram." Johnny said to me as my mom worked on my hair, making it perfect.
"Why?" I asked.
"I just posted a picture of Shawn in his suit, all dressed up but don't look at it! He wants your first look at each other to be in person." Johnny said. I nodded.
"Okay, got it." I said. After a little bit, my mom was done with my hair. I put my makeup on and looked in the mirror. I smiled, feeling like a princess.
"Are you ready to come downstairs?" Liz asked. I nodded. She went to the bottom of the stairs and started filming - it was like prom or something. I smiled when I heard Shawn playing Frank Sinatra's song I've Got A Crush On You on the piano - we got ready at Johnny's house. The timing was perfect as Liz filmed. When I got to the bottom of the steps I put my finger up, pointed at my ear, and then pointed towards the direction Shawn was in.
"I want to listen to him." I whispered. Liz nodded and kept filming me listening to my man, a smile spread across my face.
"I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie / All the day and nighttime hear me, sigh / I never had the least notion that / I could fall with so much emotion / Could you coo, could you care / For a cunning cottage we could share / The world will pardon my mush / 'Cause I have got a crush on you" Shawn sang. Liz stopped filming and then I walked into the room that Shawn was in - I didn't know Johnny was filming, waiting for our reactions to seeing each other so dressed up.
"Hi." I said as Shawn looked at the piano. When he heard my voice, he looked up, and his eyes went wide. He stood up from his seat at the piano and came over to me.
"Oh my gosh. Wow! You look like a princess!" He said, a huge smile on his face as his eyes twinkled. He held both of my hands in his. He was wearing gray dress pants, a white dress shirt that I had gotten him that had red roses on it, the necklace that I had gotten him that had my first initial on it, and a nice gray jacket.
"You look so handsome! Oh my goodness baby, you look so good." I said before Shawn wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me in for a hug. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders, let myself bury my face in his neck, and closed my eyes, drowning out everyone but him. He held me tight as he gently rubbed my back and I tangled some of my fingers in his hair.
"You look so gorgeous darling. Stunning. You never fail to take my breath away. I love you so much." He whispered in my ear. I picked my head up and rested my forehead against his as I rested my hands on his chest.
"I love you so much too. Today has been magical and I can't thank you enough for everything. I'm never going to forget today." I whispered back, not realizing that everyone had stepped out of the room.
"I'm not going to forget it either. I can't get over how gorgeous you look baby, and I love your hair like this." Shawn said as he pulled away from the hug a bit to look at my hair again. I blushed.
"My mom did my hair. You like it?" I asked as I showed him the back of it.
"Love it. So beautiful." Shawn said.
"Guys, we should take pictures before you have to leave." Someone yelled in. Shawn and I looked at each other as we nodded.
"Okay, you guys can come back in!" I yelled back, never taking my eyes off of Shawn until our loved ones came back in. Liz used my camera to take some pictures of us. We did a few group pictures as well. Johnny took pictures of just Shawn, and then a couple pictures of just me, and Liz did the same.
"Okay, we have reservations, time to go." Shawn finally said. I put on my chic suede trench coat since it was a little chilly out and Shawn and I stepped out. Liz stepped outside before us and kept taking pictures of us, and then of just me, as we walked to the car.
"Liz, you're acting like the paparazzi right now." I said.
"Shush, you look like a princess so I have to capture every moment." Liz said. Shawn suddenly stopped walking, wrapped his arm around my waist and he smiled at Liz while I laughed.
"Get lots of beautiful pictures of my princess!" Shawn said before kissing my cheek, making me giggle some more. I then turned my head and kissed him on the lips for a brief moment before we pulled away and walked to the car again. We waved goodbye to my friends, brother, and mom, and they waved back. Shawn backed out of the driveway and began to drive to the restaurant. Like always, Shawn put his hand on my leg. I looked at his hand and gasped.
"You're wearing the ring I got you!" I said, noticing the familiar gold ring with a horse carved in it. Shawn had randomly venmoed me some money, which I then used to buy him some gifts last month, including this ring.
"Of course I am, I love it. It's my favorite ring." He said with a smile.
"Really?" I asked. He nodded.
"Yup, and that's because my girl got it for me." Shawn said, making me so happy. I had gotten him a ring with a horse on it because I've always loved horses so much. After I gave Shawn the ring, I told him this while we were at his place in Toronto. A couple of days later, he surprised me by taking me to a horse farm in Canada where I was able to feed some horses and pet them and hug them, making me the happiest girl in the world. I played with the ring on Shawn's finger and then, once Shawn said yes, turned it around so it was facing me. I told Shawn what I wanted to do with my Instagram and he smiled and nodded. I turned on my camera on my phone and started recording. Shawn quietly chuckled at what I was saying but not loud enough for anyone but me to hear him.
"Hello, so, I was just thinking about the fact that last month I got to see some horses, and I just want to say that that was the best day of my life. I got to pet them, and I got to feed them some snacks, and I got to kiss their cute noses and hug them. Um, that was the best day of my life, and no day will ever top it - not even my wedding day. I mean, when I have kids, that day, or days, will be better, but until then - nope. That was the peak of my life and everything after that will just go downhill." I said before ending the video with a smile.
"Oh my God." Shawn said as he cracked up laughing. I then did another video.
"I also want to say that someone once told me that first loves never work out. So, when I met my boyfriend and fell in love, I was like crap, based off of what this person said to me, it's not going to work because I thought he was my first love. BUT THEN, I remembered that horses were my first love, which is probably why it didn't work with them and why I don't ride horses, but that's probably also why it WILL WORK with my boyfriend. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk." I said before smiling and ending the video. I waved my left hand around during the video, showing how the gorgeous crossover ring Shawn got me.
"You're so silly." Shawn said as I took a picture of the horse ring on his hand. You couldn't really tell it was Shawn's hand, the bird tattoo wasn't in view, just a tiny bit of the number 8 tattoo, but you couldn't really tell that it was the 8 tattoo, just a tattoo. With Shawn's permission, I posted it on my Instagram story.
"In case anyone was wondering what sparked all of that." I wrote on my story before posting it. I went to Liz's Instagram and saw that she had posted on her story a boomerang of me spinning in my dress before I came down the stairs, along with the video of me coming down the stairs while Shawn sang a Frank Sinatra song.
"Taking lots of pictures and videos because my best friend looks like a princess!" She wrote. She also posted the selfie she and I took, a picture of just Shawn all dressed up, and a picture of when Shawn and I were leaving Johnny's house but she zoomed in so you could tell I was holding someone's hand but you couldn't see that it was Shawn.
"My beautiful and wonderful best friend, the birthday girl!" Liz wrote. The last thing she posted on her Instagram story was a picture of her and Johnny with smiles on their faces.
"Y/n, we know you'll see this eventually. We just wanted to publicly say that we love you SO MUCH and we are so super proud of you for everything. You've been through so much and we're so proud of the wonderful woman you've become!! WE LOVE YOU and we're so lucky to be your neighbors! Happy birthday darling!!!" Liz wrote. I shared it onto my own story with hearts.
"I'm the luckiest girl in the world to be surrounded by so much love and to have the best neighbors in the world. I love you guys so much!!! Thank you for helping to make today so wonderful and for always sticking by my side no matter what!!" I wrote. Soon, Shawn and I arrived at the Chateau, a beautiful restaurant right on the lake. Before Shawn and I went in, he pointed at the bench in front of the water, and I carefully set my jacket down and then sat on it as Shawn took a picture of me, and then we took a selfie, our smiles huge.
"Come on, let's go get you that pasta you wanted so badly." Shawn said, remembering how badly I had wanted the spaghetti. I held his hand and we went inside. When the waiter brought us to our table, I was happy that it was right next to the window with a beautiful view of the lake. We ordered our drinks and food. I smiled at Shawn, my sweet man.
"You look so handsome." I said.
"You look so beautiful." Shawn said in response. I blushed, making Shawn chuckle. We had a beautiful dinner, and once we finished our dinner, we sat there and just talked.
"Have I ever told you how much I love to be in your presence?" I asked. Shawn smiled.
"Well I love to be in yours." Shawn said, causing me to have butterflies as a smile spread across my face. We eventually left the restaurant and got in the car.
"Shawn, thank you for today. This has been the best birthday ever and it's been so magical. I loved going into Boston and the presents and everything. Thank you so much, for everything." I said. Shawn hadn't started the car yet, and he leaned over to give me a beautiful, passionate kiss.
"You're welcome darling. Thank you for letting me celebrate with you." Shawn said.
"Oh my gosh of course!" I said as Shawn started the car. Johnny sent me three of the pictures of him in between Liz and I that Shawn had taken on Johnny's phone before Shawn and I left for dinner. The first one was of us taking a normal picture and smiling at the camera, the second one was of Johnny, who had previously had his arms on mine and Liz's shoulders, now had his arms thrown in the air as he made a serious face as Liz and I were being silly and throwing our arms in the air. The third picture was of Johnny and I in mid fake argument, pointing at each other while Liz just looked at her phone. I texted him and Liz asking if it was okay to post it and they said yes.
"As long as my b!tches love me (Johnny does love me, it's just very deep down)." I wrote as the caption. Shawn laughed when I told him what I wrote and when he got the chance he liked the post and commented some hearts. I knew people would get upset that I hadn't given Shawn photo credit or included him in the pictures, but we weren't public yet. Once he and I went public, I would post things about him and go back to old posts to give him photo credit. Shawn drove us back to my mom's house and he spent the rest of the week with me. I'm the luckiest girl in the world to be surrounded by such wonderful people who make my day so special.
The crossover ring Shawn got you: