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Day 6

💡 Christmas Light Show

“Aaliyah, your father, and I wanted to go to the Night of Lights down in Toronto. We’re wondering if you wanted to come.”

The Night of Lights was a Christmas tradition that the Mendes family went to every year. Shawn vividly remembers that being one of his favorite things to do around Christmas time. Shawn hadn’t gone to it last year because he was so busy with tour, but he was excited to be able to go this year. He couldn’t wait to sit on top of Manny’s car as they drove through the colorful light displays, Y/N sitting next to him, her head on his shoulder.

“Can Y/N come?” He shyly questioned. He knew his family loved her, but he didn’t know how they felt about her joining in on all their Christmas traditions. Y/N’s family lived in the States, so she couldn’t see them or do anything with them for Christmas. He could tell how much she wanted to see her family because she would talk about it every day. He always felt bad going over to his family’s house to watch a Christmas movie and not inviting her. He was just worried about making either party feel uncomfortable.

Karen chuckled on the other side of the line. “I think Aaliyah would kill me if I said she wasn’t joining us this year. She adores her, we all do. She’s always welcome to all our family things, I hope you know that, and she knows that.” Shawn smiled softly. That was all he wanted for Christmas; his girlfriend and his family to be together.

“Thanks, mom, love you.”

“Bye sweetie.”

He heard the phone line hang up and Brian shoved him lightly. “You’re so smitten bro, it’s insane. You’ve only known her for like a month and you’ve got it really bad. I mean, just listening to you write this song about her, the devotion. Gosh, I hope I find someone like her.”

Shawn glanced around the studio at all the other people nodding their heads at Brian’s statement. Shawn felt his cheeks turning red. “I don’t know how I got this lucky.” He paused thinking about Y/N and everything he loved about her. “Let’s finish this song, yeah?”

***

Shawn took Y/N out to dinner later that night because they hadn’t been on a date in a week, and they were craving some alone time together. They held hands on top of the table and Shawn stroked his thumb along the back of her hand.

“And then, my boss was like, ‘Y/N, this is one of the best written articles I have ever seen. You’re promoted. I want you to write all the front-page articles for our company!’ And I wanted to scream and shout and jump for joy, but I was still in the office, so I asked for a bathroom break, then I went outside, and I probably looked like a maniac to the people walking down the street, but it was one of the happiest moments of my life.”

Shawn was grinning from ear to ear, listening to his girl talk about her achievements in the work force. “Baby, I am so incredibly proud of you, that’s amazing! You’ve worked so hard for this, and I know you are the best fit person for the job!”

Y/N curled into herself, embarrassed that her boyfriend was giving her so much praise. She didn’t like to be in the spotlight all that much. “You really think so,” she cringed at how insecure she sounded.

He nodded his head, bringing her hand up to his mouth and kissing it, “I know so.”

***

The big, fluffy snow in the Toronto sky made Aaliyah jump up and down in her seat. She loved the snow, and she also loved the Night of Lights, especially because Y/N was sitting in the back of the car, next to her brother, as they waited in line. They had brought Manny’s truck because Shawn and Aaliyah’s weight had bent the roof of the car the last time they had come.

As soon as they had the go ahead from the workers, Shawn, Aaliyah, and Y/N jumped out of the car and into the bed of Manny’s truck. Shawn sat down in the far-left corner of the truck and beckoned Y/N to come sit in his lap. She slowly sat down, trying to be careful not to crush Shawn. She had never sat in his lap before, and she was a little nervous. She laid her head against his chest and shudder as she felt his breath on her neck.

“You cold babe?” He whispered.

“You two are gross,” Aaliyah said, as she sat down next to Shawn and was sticking her tongue out at him. He lightly pushed her, before giving Y/N a kiss on the cheek.

He wrapped a fluffy blanket around the three of them as they drove through the colorful lights. Sleigh Ride was the first song to come up and the lights danced around them to the song. Shawn patted Y/N’s thigh to the beat. She shot him a look before intertwining her hands with his.

“What?” He sounded so innocent, but he knew that it bugged the crap out of her when he patted her thigh to the beat of a song.

“Wow, Mendes. Very sneaky way to get me to hold your hand.”

He turned a light red before pointing at the light up reindeer above them. “Look, it’s Rudolph!”

“Shawn, we all have eyes that can see!” Aaliyah chuckled at her brother’s antics.

“You know, whenever you go outside, you’re nose looks as red as Rudolph’s. It’s adorable honestly,” Shawn whispered in her ear.

“Hmm, I’m glad that I’m being compared to a Reindeer,” she laughed along with him as he bopped her nose with his finger and then rubbed his nose against hers.

“You’re way cuter, I love you,” he gushed to her.

“I love you too.” She lay her head back down on his chest and in that moment, he had never felt more at home. Not with his parents, not with his sister, not in his condo, not even in his childhood home. Because Y/N felt like home to him, and the realization of that, stunned him for the rest of the light show. He watched the brilliant colors fly by, but he didn’t pay much attention to them, choosing to stare at the girl, his girl, sitting in his lap.

“You okay babe?” Y/N questioned when they had finally made it through the entire maze of lights.

His eyes were watery, and he could feel a tear about to fall, but he nodded his head. “I’ve never been better.” And that statement was the truest sentence he had ever told.

A/N: Thanks for reading this, sorry if it was kinda short. Day 7 comes out tomorrow!

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Day 5

❄️ Snowball Fight

Shawn held Y/N’s hand as he backed his car into the snow-covered parking lot. “So babe, this is the last time I can be seen associating with you till after the fight. It gets pretty serious in our family. If they even think that I’m telling you any strategy or revealing our secrets from past years, we will both be eliminated, got that?”

Y/N nodded, chuckling at her boyfriend’s seriousness. He placed his lips on hers for a quick kiss then said, “Alright, I love you! Good luck, but you’re so going down.”

“I don’t think so Mendes. Have you seen your mom and your sister? They are feisty!” He laughed at her then opened his car door, running to the other side to help Y/N out onto the icy parking lot.

When they both reached the park, Shawn walked towards the large group of boys congregating around the playground. Y/N walked towards the girls. Out of nowhere, she tumbled to the ground as Aaliyah jumped on top of her.

“Sorry Y/N, I’m just so excited that you’re here. The boys have one the past two years, and I’m confident that with you here, we can finally take back our winning streak. Before the boys won two years ago, we had one five straight years in a row. We have to win this year; we just have to.”

Y/N slowly sat up, a little dazed, but she laughed at Aaliyah’s antics. She glanced across the field to Shawn who mouthed an ‘Are you okay?’ to which she sent a thumbs up at him. He winked and went back into the heated discussion that the men were having.

Every year, the Mendes family got together for their annual Christmas Snowball Fight. Apparently, it was a huge deal, and the boys and girls had a huge rivalry that had been going on for nearly a decade. Y/N felt honored to have been invited, and she was even more excited to get to spend some time with Shawn’s family.

Y/N stood up, brushing the snow off her butt. Aaliyah grabbed her hand, tugging her towards Karen. “Hey Y/N. We were just discussing our strategy. Shawn explained the rules, right? You get hit two times and you’re out. It’s essentially dodgeball, but with snow.” Y/N nodded her head. “K, each team gets five minutes to prepare for the fight and the timer is about to start, you ready?”

“Ready as I’ll ever be. Let’s go kick some Mendes men’s asses.”

“I like you’re thinking.”

***

Y/N lay in the snow behind a tiny mound her and Aaliyah had made. They had a go stock of 15 snowballs each, but Y/N didn’t know how long that would last.

“On your mark, get set, go!” Someone shouted.

The men, with handfuls of snowballs came charging towards the women, being careful not to step over the invisible boundary line. Y/N peeked her head over their fortress only to see one of Shawn’s cousins with a mischievous look on his face. He stepped one of his feet over the boundary line, then two. He was now three feet over the stated line. He threw a few snowballs towards Y/N’s direction, but all of them missed.

“Hey! He can’t do that! He’s over the line!” Y/N shouted.

The kid rolled his eyes and went to stand on the side to observe the game.

Y/N gathered three snowballs in her hand and threw them at some of the people who were distracted on the other side. One missed, but the other two hit the men dead on in the chest. One of the guys walked off to the side and the other prepared to throw a snowball at Y/N. It must’ve only been his first hit.

Y/N didn’t have any other snowballs handy, and she started to stress when she saw another snowball hit the guy. It was Karen. She smiled fondly at Y/N. “You’re doing magnificent!”

Y/N blushed at her words before getting more snowballs and throwing them across the line.

After a while of this, it came down to the last ten people on each side. Y/N had been hit one time, once more and she would be out of the game. Shawn was also a part of the other ten people on his team.

“I’m so going to get you Y/N!” Shawn shouted, raising his hand to throw the snowball. Y/N ducked out of its trajectile just in time and threw a few snowballs towards Shawn’s team. Two guys got out. Karen was still in the game, and she eliminated three of the guys, before Shawn hit her in the stomach with a snowball.

Pretty soon, it came down to just Y/N and Shawn. They were both equally good at dodging and throwing snowballs so Y/N thought of the only tactic she could. “Hey Shawn, you look really sexy right now. I love you so much and I…I’m pregnant!” Y/N mustered up some fake tears as she slyly looked at Shawn.

The look on his face, and his family’s face was of pure shock. He dropped the snowball in his hand and Y/N took the opportunity to throw it at him. “Gotcha!”

Shawn looked down at the spot where white snow painted his coat. A contemplating look came over his face. “Wait a minute, there is absolutely no way that you could be pregnant. I hate you!” He jokingly yelled to her.

“Love you too!” The entire family started to laugh at that. They caught on pretty quickly because they remembered Shawn telling them he was waiting for marriage, and they assumed Y/N either thought the same way or respected him.

“That was not fair!”

“Nope, we won fair and square, Shawn. You were just stupid enough to fall for that,” Aaliyah said grabbing Y/N’s hand.

***

After the girls rubbed it in the boys’ faces that they lost, the Mendes family pulled out two giant coolers full of hot apple cider. Y/N chugged her cup extremely fast, then plopped her butt into the snow and lay down.

“What are you doing babe?” Shawn sat down next to her, grabbing her hand in his.

“I’m about to make a snow angel, want to join in?”

“Duh.”

And so, they lay there in the snow, making snow angels of two who are in love, holding hands.

A/N: This one is a really weird and bit of a shorter one, but I hope you enjoyed it. Feedback would be very helpful. Thank you so much for reading, I appreciate it! Stay tuned for Day 6 tomorrow!

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