Consequences

I Missed You

05/01/2016

I took advantage of these two weeks of vacations to see Austin between the musical's rehearsals. He was... A good guy. He was maybe slightly sexist but I could deal with that right? He spent most of his time in my apartment and I practically had to beg him to make him help me with the dishes and the cleaning. Thank god Shawn wasn't like that, otherwise, it would have been hell to live with him, although he was messy and left his clothes on the couch, I just had to tell him to help me to make him clean and he took the habits to do the dishes. Well, right now we didn't share anything, but at least he cleaned without me telling him. The rehearsals turned out to be the most fun but also extremely exhausting. Mr. Collins, the director, was really nice and helped me a lot to become more professional. Shawn came back one week ago and we still didn't talk. I wasn't sure if I was still mad at him, but I knew I missed him and that I could do nothing about it because of my ego. So we kept cooking individually and eating alone. But he was most of the time at Hailey's so it wasn't that hard to ignore him. She briefly told me that she enjoyed the time they spent in Miami with his family. She even met my mom.

I just came back from my classes and was supposed to go to the musical rehearsal but there was a massive public transports strike and I had no idea how to make it. When I opened the front door, I was met with Shawn on the couch with his guitar. He barely glanced at me. I stared at him while slowly closing the door. I only had one possibility, not the one that pleased me the most but I had no choice. There was no way I would risk pissing Mr. Collins off and lose my job.

"Hi."

He looked up at me and frowned.

"Hey?"

"Listen can you do me a favor?"

He gave a sour laugh.

"Really?  How cheeky of you. What on earth makes you think I wanna do you a favor?"

I sighed and looked away.

"I know we're not exactly on good terms but-"

"In good terms? Camila it's been almost a month and a half you're ignoring me and I don't even know why?"

I had absolutely no excuses.

"Shawn I'm begging you... I have to go to this rehearsal and there's no bus or subway I can take because of the strike. You know how important this job is to me."

He stared at me for a whole minute before getting up from the couch.

"Fine but you owe me one!"

I eagerly nodded and followed him outside. The ride was pretty silent. I put the address on my phone and told him where to go from time to time. When we were in front of the building, he pulled off and probably waited for me to get out of the car.

" Hum... Do you maybe want to come with me?"

He glanced at me and sighed.

" You need a ride back home right?"

"Well... Yeah." I said uncomfortable.

" Okay." He simply answered.

He walked with me and shyly nodded to everyone who was greeting him after I introduced him as my roommate. He sat on one of the seats reserved for the audience and took his phone. At some point, we had to rehearse the scene when I was carried by two men on their shoulders but one of them wasn't here since he hadn't that big of a part to be here every rehearsal. Peter looked around him hazardly and he stared at Shawn.

"You, you're tall, would you mind replacing Joshua."

His eyes widened but he nodded and joined the other guy. Shawn was slightly taller than Ben so there was a small difference that I could notice when they lifted me, and when they had to walk while I was singing, Shawn walked faster than Ben and I lost balance. I barely fell on the floor but he caught me on time.