shane filan one-shot
𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓮 - i see the way you look at him
𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 - sad shane, break-up, fighting, a little bit of crying but a happy ending overall
𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 - you (gianna) walk in on your best friend shane and his girlfriend arguing, and he breaks up with her only to find out that the sad shane was in love with you the entire time, not his ex-girl izabella.
𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓻'𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓮 - i could never imagine breaking up with shane, how sad would that be. i'd love him for the rest of my life and, i do! also, i am picturing this one-shot with a young shane like, early westlife days shane so, basically, '99-'00s shane where social media was literally not the social media we know and love today. and it'll be in lowercase and the audio will be in italicised bold.
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"i see the way you look at him,"
you hear your childhood best friend and now popstar, shane filan, question his girlfriend izabella and it worries you. looking towards shane's bandmates and best friends, they couldn't help but be just as confused as you. as they shrug their shoulders, you turn back around, walking further out to the lounge room where shane and izabella were arguing.
"i know...because...you used to look at me that way,"
you see, shane was normally soft-spoken, whilst intelligent and thoughtful almost always, this time, he wasn't at all. this slightly worried you because, throughout your entire friendship from basically babies, you'd never seen nor heard shane speak with such anger and distaste for someone else in his voice.
"the fact is, i'm still just a stranger,"
that, that just broke your heart. that hurt. you could tell that shane's heart was breaking because he really loved this girl, however, he was now starting to realise that, she never loved him back the same way. especially because he was now a big star with his boyband, westlife, he was no longer just shane to her, he was her famous breadwinner to just show off like a trophy. well, not anymore that is as, when the relationship first started and westlife was a couple of weeks old, she was absolutely head over heels for him, she adored him. now, not even an "i love you" would come out of her mouth towards him.
gianna's pov
"i'm not trying to hurt you, i just..."
that girl... that thing finally spoke up, yet, she said she wasn't trying to hurt shane, trying to redeem herself as if there was something to be redeemed. umm, yes, she was making him hurt! how blind was she that she couldn't see how devastated and emotionally exhausted this poor boy is about even having this conversation?
at this point, i crossed my arms to stop myself from smacking izabella. how is she so stupid and like this? now i know why i didn't like her from the very beginning when shane first introduced me to her and the rest of his bandmates and their partners. which, in all honesty, makes me feel bad now knowing that i could have tried to get shane away from izabella earlier but, i didn't and now this situation was happening.
"...i'm so tired of disappointing you..."
she said, her voice starting to become shaky and lord have mercy, don't even try with the elephant tears miss bitch. nah uh, not on my dead parents' grave is she about to start crying? was she not seeing the genuine heartbreak and real tears welling in shane's eyes and how devastated he is? shane slowly nods his head as my cheeks burn with anger. please don't fucking agree with her
"...i know,"
he agreed with her...he fucking agreed with her.
shane responds with a tearful whisper as i see his tears start to stream down his cheeks as he fights against them but fails. shaking my head slowly, i'm riled up in anger at izabella with my heart shattered for shane. my anger moments from exploding, along with my arms crossed, i bite my lip to stop myself from lashing out profanities at izabella. i then watched the way shane's facial expressions and body language changed.
"i'm so sorry..."
pff, she has the audacity to apologise? now? nah-uh, no thank you miss bitch! especially when she isn't actually sorry at all, i can't stand for this anymore. kian and nicky both realise, trying to hold me back, grabbing my shoulder as i push them both off and away, marching forward, towards the girl that claimed she was "irish", irish my arse, she's not a true irishwomen.
"...i'm sorry to interrupt but, i do not think you are sorry at all, izabella!" i growl in anger, walking away from the spot where me and the other four lads were watching at the door frame that we were all leaning on minutes ago - izabella making eye contact with me, her eyes rolling
"what do you mean? how dare you say that i'm not sorry, gianna. i really am sorry, am i not allowed to apologise to my boyfriend?" izabella responds, her anger matching mine as i bite my lip, inches from having the shot at smacking her fake irish face all the way back to the furthest point of the country as i go to shut her up
the boys, shane included watch me in horror as i start, "i don't think you have the audacity to call shane your boyfriend anymore, izabella. i mean, you did agree with him when he said that he knows how he sees the way you look at this other guy that you're now so head-over-heels in love with. you agree that you're no longer in love with shane. so, i think that means that you can no longer call shane "yours" anymore. i mean, not that you had ownership over him in the first place since he's his own person but, now it's, how i say it, official, that you don't own him now that you two aren't together anymore! and before you say otherwise, i'm his best friend, i've known him longer, way longer than you have so, stay away from shane, you have no place in being here anymore, now go away. before i shove you back to where you belong, izabella o'connell!" i speak, anger spilling from my mouth as i intimidate her, lunging forward before she huffs, rolls her eyes and then storms out of the house, not before commenting another snarky comment though
"oh, and i hope the door hits you on the way out as well!" i chuckle as she slams the door loudly behind her, making me chuckle as well as the other lads, trying to hold it back before i remember my best friend, wasting no more time in checking if he was okay
looking towards his bandmates, i'm suddenly unsure where shane went, "where'd he go, mark?" i ask after realising that he wasn't where he was beforehand as mark tells me since he had seen the older lad storm out
"he's gone upstairs, he's absolutely devastated gianna, he did love her. i think he needs his best friend to comfort him and give him a hug or three," mark's worried look was then joined by another three from nicky, kian and bryan as i nodded my head, knowing what i needed to do straight away as i dashed up the stairs
not going to lie though, going up to shane's room, alone, scares me as honestly, i have the biggest crush on shane like it was a secret! but, the moment, ever since he fell in love with izabella, i, of course, had to hide it away from him because i was his best friend. however, i think i was coming towards the stage of not being able to hide it like i used to. especially considering it was technically my fault as to why izabella and shane broke up, at this point though, i just had to shove my fear up my arse and take care of my best friend - take care of shane.
"knock knock, hello? is there a shane steven filan behind this door?" i knocked softly, trying to give myself some comedic flare and make him laugh
hearing some shuffling, sniffling and moving around, i hear shane unlock his bedroom door. i smiled softly at the fact that my little greeting had worked. however, it still gave me some worry as i slowly opened his door, allowing myself to walk into his room. and, as soon as i saw the boy, he looked awful. he was the saddest i'd ever seen him, exactly how mark had described it. his normally well-styled or fluffy hair was messy, his face was red, blotchy and puffy, his eyes even more puffy and red and, it looked as if he'd been physically forcing himself to hold back tears before he no longer could and just completely lost it.
i know it was a stupid question to ask but, sometimes, it needs to be asked, "you alright?" i whispered softly as i sat next to shane, resting my hand on his thigh as he breathes heavily before responding
"how do you look at the girl you love and tell yourself it's time to walk away?"
fuck, that made my heart shatter. as, technically speaking, his and izabella's break up was to some degree my fault entirely. all i found myself able to do was shake my head, not really sure how to answer his seemingly unanswerable question unless it was asked rhetorically.
"i...i don't know shane i--"
"--i hope one day i can love the way that you love me,"
cutting me off, shane and i hear the voice of the one girl that we thought i had told specifically to leave. she was outside the bedroom door. it was izabella, of course, it was, i mean, who else would say that? it certainly wouldn't be any of the westlife lads, even though mark has a high voice, none of them even sound like a girl, even if they tried.
"i--"
"--it's okay shane, i'll deal with her, just, stay here," i whispered, giving him a small, comforting kiss as i stood up from the bed where we were sitting as i walked over to the door
i opened the door and close it again quickly. izabella then looked up, a smile on her face thinking it was shane, haha, sike bitch. at the realisation that it was me instead of shane, her smile went away as her breathing suddenly became quicker and as though she was fearful.
"you figured it out once. you'll do it again,"
i respond to izabella's oh-so-important question as he rolls her eyes and bites her lip as she becomes somewhat agitated. i cross my arms over my chest as izabella opens her mouth again.
"can i please just talk to shane and explain myself, please gianna?" izabella asks, almost in a beg as i roll my eyes, moving even closer towards his bedroom door, preventing izabella from going near it
"no, you can't izabella. you've said what you've said and now it's time for you to leave, again. there is no you and shane anymore. you've broken his heart into tiny little pieces, izabella. i think it's time you leave before you break it into even more pieces if that's even possible after what you've already broke..." i trail off as izabella then grunts in frustration like a toddler, finally making her give up as she walks down the stairs, escorting herself out of the house with the other lads keeping a close eye on her
"...fine then, gianna, i'll leave..." izabella whispers, anger evident in her voice as i watch her walk down the stairs and out of the house, not once removing eye contact just in case she dare try again
i breathe a sigh of relief as i watch from the landing of the stairs as kian locks the door so she couldn't come in again, nicky and bryan making sure she walked away from the house. i then rest for a quick minute against the door before opening it back up and walking back inside. just hoping and praying that shane didn't hear any of that and that he was somewhat okay again.
"...shane, i'm sorry that you had to hear that i--"
"--shane? shay? where are you?" after walking back from the staircase and into shane's room, shane was no longer sitting on his bed, where i told him to stay, cutting myself off as i started to call out for shane
he could not have gone far, as there was no way i could have missed out on feeling, hearing and seeing him walk out of the bedroom door whilst izabella and i was talking.
so where did he go? i mean, maybe the bathroom or the balcony... the balcony! that's it!
i was right. shane was on the balcony, overlooking the city below us whilst the wind messed up his already grief-styled hair. it was where he always went when something suddenly had become too overwhelming and hard for him to deal with. so he'd always go out there to see if he could clear his head and get some fresh air. of course, how could i ever forget that? i rush through his moderately large bedroom to where the doors to his balcony were and, as suspected, the curtains that covered the doors were wide open, as were the doors themselves.
i breathed another breath of relief in knowing that he was okay and that the boys and i didn't need to file a missing persons report and send out a search party! i then walked out onto the balcony to check on him. i mean, who knows how this poor boy was feeling as i certainly didn't. for, i was only able to assume due to how he was acting and responding to everything. just because i've been his best friend since infancy, doesn't mean i always know his emotions and what he's feeling at every moment of every day.
"you okay, shane?" i ask softly as i hear a soft sniffle before shane turns around, he looked like more of a mess, his face was covered in tears, trying to obviously hide the fact that his hands were violently trembling
my face softened as i straight away felt sympathetic and heartbroken for my best friend as he then broke my heart even more.
"no..." he whispered as he sniffles again, a small tear gliding his cheek as i reached up to wipe it away, making him softly shudder at my touch, immediately making me remove my hand
"...i am so sorry shane, i shouldn't have said anything. i should have just let you guys talk it out in a mature conversation, it's all my--"
"--no, gianna, don't put the blame on yourself, please. i actually wanted to thank you for stepping in. i...i don't think i could have done it on my own. i had invited izabella over so i could end it with her, because, i realised that she was no longer in love with me and, the guy she's been fawning over recently is the better one for her because he's already told her that if she wants him, she can't flaunt him and only be with him for his "money" and she agreed, which was something i didn't do because i didn't think i'd have to. i just wish it wasn't this painful..." shane trailed off as more tears streamed down his cheeks as he closed his eyes, countless more tears taking their escape routes down his cheeks as i looked at him in shock, i couldn't believe that this is what izabella had done to him
"...of course you wish it wasn't this painful shane, you loved her. but, she lost that ages ago and whilst it's normal and i shouldn't be mad at her, i am so mad at her because she kept you along for the ride for way too long and because i do think she only dated you because of the fact you're in westlife and you're famous now. you were her little trophy, shane and i hated that i let you go through all of that when i could have very clearly stopped it the first time i noticed what was going on. she should have done it sooner rather than later than holding on to you whilst she made love with that horny bastard who, whilst applause for immediately setting boundaries, in my opinion, isn't as attractive as you are anyway..." i trailed off as shane tearfully giggled at my comment which then made me giggle too
forgetting about the tissue box in my hand until i looked down, i then held it in front of him so he could grab a couple of them and clean up his face. smiling down at it with slight embarrassment, he grabbed a couple of them and cleaned himself up. after that, he grabbed a third one as tears continued to steadily stream down his cheeks as he then spoke up.
"...it's okay, i guess it taught me a lesson," shane spoke softly as he wiped away the next couple of tears with the tissue in his hand as i furrowed my eyebrows in confusion
"what do you mean? what lesson could it have taught you other than to never trust pretend irish girls that don't treat you right but, also don't laugh at your obviously funny jokes?" i question as once again, i make shane genuinely laugh as i once again, start to laugh at my own comment
"whilst she was very funny, kind and maybe you're right, it did make me realise that, i don't think i was in love with her either. i mean, i loved the idea but, i think the girl i was in love with the entire time wasn't her but, it was you," shane spoke softly, just like he always did as i looked at him in shock
did my childhood best friend, westlife popstar, shane steven filan just say out loud that he's in love with me?
"shane, i...i am flattered, really i am, but are you sure you were in love with me the entire time?" i questioned as shane nodded his head as he moved a little closer as i followed his lead, moving closer to him
"yes, i just did all those lovey-dovey things with izabella because, i stupidly thought she'd love those things back when really, i don't think she even knows how to love someone other than herself..." shane trails off as he now makes me giggle with his comment
"...shane, i...i don't know what to say i'm--"
"--then don't say anything at all, and kiss me, i love you gianna,"
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awe this was cute and it kind of ended with a little sweet moment of shane and gianna kissing! also, this was a lot shorter than the other one-shots recently but, i just thought this was way too cute not to write and i didn't want to do another completely depressing one-shot so i did this one. however, in saying that though, i have another sweet/sad one for nicky next so, look out for that!
ok ily bye xx
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