Your eyes whispered have we met? -Chapter 2
Pairing: Taylor Swift x Fem!OC (again can work as Taylor x Reader if you simply replace the OC’s name with yours)
Words: 5k
Summary: Things changes, for the better that is still up for debate (you’re certainly not complaining). Did no one ever tell you 13 is a magic number?
Warnings: Taylor teasing the heck out of poor Charlie (you), top!Taylor, bottom!OC (nothing graphic just putting this out here), Taylor’s love language being gift giving (I know it, you know it, we all know it 😌)…i don’t think I forgot anything, but if I did please remind me 😭
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You’re the lucky one
The next few days went by in a blur. You went through life like you were on autopilot. Sleeping, showering, eating and working felt like an out of body experience. The only moment you felt attached to this reality, and not the one you created inside your head, was when you saw the innocent smiles upon the children’s faces at work.
One day, precisely two weeks after you met your soulmate and proceeded to get your heart crushed into pieces by her boyfriend’s existence, you sat in the staff room on your phone and decided that today would be the day that you listened to some of Taylor’s music.
Hypnotized, you were completely hypnotized by her songs, her voice. Your were through her debut album and halfway done with her second before Sam came to shake you out of your Taylor induced daze and reminded you that you were at work and children depended on you. The look on her face told you that you were not quick enough to hide what you were doing on your phone, and you felt like a child as you turned it off and went back to work.
If you were at home or on your break, you listened to her music. Your first taste of it was not enough for you. You were done listening to her entire discography by the end of the week, and when you felt like you hadn’t seen or heard enough of her you watched countless of her interviews, as well as her Reputation Stadium Tour movie on Netflix. She was amazing on stage, her singing of this particular album quickly becoming your favorite.
Why did you even refuse to listen to her work before now?
Her ‘Dress’ performance was a daily watch for you, the song making you feel things that you never felt before. You fell under her spell more and more everyday, and yet…
‘’Did you hear about Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift? They said on the news that he proposed to her this weekend!’’
‘’Really? And what did she say?’’
‘’Apparently she said yes! Oh my gosh I’m so happy for her!’’
‘’But…didn’t she find her soulmate not long ago? I feel bad for the poor woman…’’
‘’Who cares? Joe’s definitely it for her, people marry someone who’s not their soulmate all the time!’’
Yeah, that.
It was nice to think for a moment, however small it was, that you could be with her, with Taylor. You two were soulmates, but maybe the universe made a mistake and you weren’t meant to be. To make you wait all these years without finding the one person you were destined to be with, to then finally finding the right person just for them to be taken away the moment you meet them was just so unfair.
Every single time you saw a picture of Joe and Taylor pop up on the internet, a piece of your heart went out with her, yet you couldn’t help but rejoice at her visible happiness. And hey, maybe she led you on a little with the kiss you two shared a while ago, and she did say that she would fix it, whatever that meant, but at least she was with a good man.
That you felt physically sick each time you saw his arms around her on a picture was irrelevant.
Sam was worried about you. When you were at work, physically you were there but mentally it seemed like you checked out a while ago. All you could think about was Taylor.
She looked happy on the pictures and video, but was she really?
Was he treating her right, even away from the public eye?
And Taylor, was she even thinking about you?
Were you even worth thinking about?
You rolled over in your bed, checking the time. It was nine am on a Saturday morning and you did not want to get out of bed. Someone knocked on your door and you jolted up in bed. Who could it be?
You were not expecting anyone to visit, and even then Sam would have told you if she wanted to come to your apartment.
Your cat, this incredibly moody and skittish tortie cat you affectionately named Bailey when you found her in the trash two years ago, was hissing and clawing at the door by the time you got there. You bent down to scratch her on the head, rolling your eyes as she fled the scene immediately after.
“I should’ve called her Moody”, you grumbled under your breath, stopping in your tracks as you opened your door. There, on your doormat, was a bouquet of about thirteen roses with a note attached to them. The number of them should’ve been enough of a clue to tell you the sender’s identity. “What in the world?”
You bent down to retrieve the roses, noticing that one of them didn’t look like the others. You still believed that these were not for you, however the note proved you wrong as before you even had the chance to open it you saw your name written with black ink followed by a heart on the front.
“I swear to gods if this is another one of Sam’s attempt to cheer me up I will kick her sorry ass into next week,” you closed the door and cursed your best friend all the way into your kitchen. “Who even does that? And what did she even say in this I mean-Oh.Oh.”
“All the words known to me would never be enough for me to tell you how sorry I am. Meeting my soulmate was a dream of mine, as I’m sure it is for a lot of people.
I’m sorry that I broke you this way, and I regret not telling you that I was in a relationship before something happened between us. And no, don’t you go and overthink it in that pretty head of yours again. Do not even think for a second that I do not want you. I do want you, darling. So much. I do not regret kissing you, nor will I ever regret meeting you.
Words of my supposed engagement to Joe must have reached you by now, as it did the world I’m sure, but I beg you not to believe what they’re all saying. I did not, and will never get married to that man. He was good at first, and we once bonded over the fact that neither of us had found our soulmate. We were good to each other, and we made a deal that if we ever found our soulmate we would part ways without feeling any regret or hate towards the other.
I don’t know why Joe decided to mess with me like that, but I can assure you that he trapped me into this proposal, at a family dinner no less. He had the audacity to propose to me in front of my entire friends and family. Even my mother knows I’ve found you. Dare I say the whole world knows I found you. They just don’t know your name, not like I do. I never even said yes, just made it seem like I would think on it and come back to him later.
Tree, my publicist, thinks I should just let the news die out for a few more months before I break it up with him. It’s been a long time coming anyway, but the mere thought of waiting even just a single day to be with you is pure torture. She wants me to act like you don’t even exist when all I want is to explore this connection, this bond born from just one single glance across the room.
I want you every second of every hour of everyday. When all at once I saw you and realized you were the one I’ve been waiting for, I knew you would put your mark on me and leave me wanting for more.
I promised you that I would fix everything, and I will. These roses are a promise to you, a promise that as long as they’re standing I will do everything in my power to get to you. One of them, number thirteen, is an eternal rose. To symbolize my growing love for you, in the hope that one day we’ll be able to start a life together and that I’ll forever be wonderstruck by you.
I’m coming for you Charlie, I promise.
T.A.Swift
PS: please don’t kill your best friend, she gave me your address.’’
‘’Sam, you cheeky little shit…’’
The sound of an Instagram notification coming from your phone dragged you back to your bedroom, roses and note in hand. Your phone screen was lit up, and with a shaky hand you brought it up to your face.
@ taylorswift : 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
@ taylorswift: I hope you liked the roses. More is yet to come 💜
The next day you woke up to yet again another Instagram notification.
@ taylorswift : 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
@ taylorswift: Check your front door.
@ taylorswift: I’m sorry, that was creepy.
@ taylorswift: Please? 🥺
You rolled your eyes fondly, charmed by her antics. You still had yet to get the words from her note, dare you say her letter, out of your head. The roses were proudly displayed on your dining room table and not even your destructive little devil child Bailey dared to approach them.
‘’What has she done now, huh?’’ You turned to your left, looking your cat in the eye. She was lounging on the pillow next to your face with a ‘’Really mom? You’re asking me?’’ look in her eyes. ‘’Maybe it’s roses again?’’
You grabbed Bailey, taking advantage of her rare good morning mood to get in some kitty cuddles, and walked to your front door. You opened it, eyes already looking downward only to stop dead in your tracks like the day before. But not for the same reason.
Bags upon bags from the pet store clogged your vision. You counted at least thirteen of them, and really what was up with Taylor and the number thirteen?
A quick glance into one of them made you look from your cat to the bags and back again. Freeze dried raw food, cat treats, wet food, kibbles, even toys, there was more than your cat could eat or play with for an entire year. There was so much of it that you didn’t even know where you would stock them. And it was not the cheap stuff nor was it the better quality ones yet still affordable cat treats that you usually splurged on when you could, no. Of course not. Multiple bags of Bailey’s favorite treats at thirty dollars for five ounces (the price being the only reason you were reluctant to even look at it, let alone buy it) were scattered trough all the bags, and even the exact brand of expensive kibbles that you usually gave her was there. Those had been out of stock for weeks, and poor Bailey had to survive with the store brand cat food and an upset stomach ever since.
@charlie_TortieB: Taylor that’s too much.
@ taylorswift: It’s still not enough for my girl and her little lady in my eye 💜
@charlie_TortieB: How do you even know about Bailey?
@ taylorswift: A lady never tells.
@charlie_TortieB:…It’s Sam isn’t it?
You had time to bring all thirteen bags of cat related items inside your apartment before you got another notification.
@ taylorswift: Yes it is.
@charlie_TortieB: Well thank you. But please don’t spend that much money on me or my cat again, it really is too much.
@ taylorswift:…🤭…
@charlie_TortieB:Taylor? Taylor Alison Swift what have you done?
@ taylorswift: You’ll see darling 💜
Your face turned red at the pet name, and for the rest of the day you had on this dazed smile that lasted well into your workday on Monday. You were on your break, eating leftover pasta while the children were taking their nap, when ‘Maroon’ started blasting from your phone. Sam stared at you with her eyebrows raised, smirking when you went to turn the sound off as if it was any secret to her that you had become obsessed with your own soulmate.
‘’Who is it?’’ Sam asked as she stood behind you. You quickly hid your phone, but your best friend was still able to take a peek at your phone screen. ‘’Who’s messaging you on Instagram?’’
‘’Like you don’t know,’’ you said, narrowing your eyes on your best friend as she went back to her seat while whistling innocently. ‘’You told her my address you little shit.’’
‘’Instagram is such a wonderful way to interact with people, isn’t it?’’
‘Maroon’ started again and you looked down on your phone. Another message.
@ taylorswift : 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
@ taylorswift : Hello darling, I hope you’re having a wonderful day at work 💜
@charlie_TortieB: What did you do now Taylor?
@ taylorswift :…you might want to check out front…
You couldn’t help it. You started running to the nursery’s front door like your head was on fire, anxious to see the damage this time. Thankfully the entire front of the nursery was nearly entirely made of giant see-through windows, so you were able to watch with your eyes wide open as a team of three workers deposited boxes upon boxes out front.
‘’Did the big boss order a delivery for us?’’ Your coworker Maria asked as she stopped next to you. Her big brown eyes got wider the more the men brought more boxes out. ‘’Damn, did we win the lottery or something?’’
‘’I-I-I don’t think the direction had anything to do with this,’’ you glanced down to your phone, noticing with anticipation that Taylor was typing another message. ‘’Someone else did it.’’
‘’Who is it?’’
You didn’t answer, captivated by the message that was just sent to you.
@ taylorswift : I know what you’re gonna say ‘Don’t spend so much Taylor’ but please, before you say anything, know that I did the same thing with all the other nurseries in the city.
@ taylorswift : Yeah okay, maybe that wasn’t the right thing to say, I’m sorry. But the small humans deserve to feel loved too, and someone told me how you’ve been begging the higher ups for new books and toys, and new highchairs for the babies because the ones you had up until now are stained beyond saving. So I thought, why not?
@charlie_TortieB: Goddamnit Taylor I can’t be mad at you for that! That is so generous of you!
@ taylorswift :You’re welcome darling 💜
@ taylorswift : I can’t wait for you to see your surprise tomorrow 🏹🤭
@charlie_TortieB: TAYLOR!
@charlie_TortieB: TAYLOR NO!
@ taylorswift : TAYLOR YES!
You could almost imagine the singer laughing with a big grin on her face in front of her own phone, and that brought an even bigger smile to your face.
‘’What’s got you smiling like that?’’ Maria asked as she opened the front door, retrieving one of the smaller boxes. ‘’You never smile that much.’’
‘’It’s her soulmate.’’
‘’SAM!’’
‘’REALLY? No way! Congratulations Charlie!’’
The nursery’s sizable storage room came in handy when it was time to put away everything. You switched out the old toys for the new ones, same with the books, although you didn’t have time to unpack all of it, at least half of the boxes left unopened for the next day. The three brand new highchairs were put in the lunch corner, and when your boss came by to check on you in the afternoon they were as shocked as you were at noon to discover everything.
‘’What’s all this? Where does it come from?’’
‘’A generous donator,’’ Sam answered in your place, her hands holding a black and white baby book in front of the nursery’s newest six months old child. ‘’The kids love it.’’
‘’Do we know their identity?’’
‘’They wished to remain anonymous.’’
And anonymous Taylor didn’t remain for long, because as soon as you got home that night and turned on the news, the singer’s face popped up on screen followed by a very specific headline:
‘’Taylor Swift, New York’s nurseries’ savior?’’
The news went on to say that several of the city’s nurseries had contacted them to say that the very generous donations they received was a literal godsend. A phone call where a worker was literally crying from happiness made you realize how much more your soulmate did for others. Brand new changing tables were sent to numerous facilities, bigger and better fridges going along with some of them. So many more was listed, but the tears of happiness at your soulmate’s generosity made you blind to them.
@charlie_TortieB: You make it very hard for me not to fall in love with you ❤️
@ taylorswift : It’s the End Game darling 💜
@charlie_TortieB: …Are you trying to seduce me with your songs?
@ taylorswift : It depends…is it working?
@charlie_TortieB:…maybe…
@ taylorswift : Then yes. The answer is and always will be yes 💜
That night you fell asleep with your phone in hand and the biggest smile on your face, heart slowly but surely mending back together. Maybe, just maybe, you could have it all.
On Tuesday morning you started to piece together what the deal was with the purple hearts that Taylor kept sending you as the first thing you saw when you woke up was the little emojis on your phone, except there was one less heart than yesterday.
@ taylorswift : 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
@charlie_TortieB: What will happen when there’s only one of them 💜 left?
@ taylorswift : For that you will have to wait my lady 😏
@charlie_TortieB: Nooo I don’t want to wait 😩
@ taylorswift : Oh how I just love to see you pining in anticipation
@ taylorswift : But for now, please check your front door.
@charlie_TortieB: What have you done now?
Taylor didn’t answer you, and after waiting five more minutes you decided to get up. You gave Bailey her wet food and only then did you go and open the door.
‘’No! Oh my fucking god she did not!’’
You see, one of your hobby was doing archery. You’ve had your setup for a few years now, and although you wished to change it up a little for a better quality one you never got around to it. You just never really had the time, nor the money to spare.
Somehow Taylor knew about it, Sam clearly must’ve told her, as before you was an entire bow setup that you knew must’ve cost a fortune. You just knew it, one look at the brand of the riser and limbs told you the entire thing must’ve cost way more than two thousand dollars. Holy shit.
“She’s insane. That woman is insane,” you swore under your breath, grabbing the bow and putting it in your living room. One closer look at the purple metallic riser and you could see them, two tiny letters engraved just above the arrow rest: T.S. “ Oh my god why does this make me blush? Why am I blushing?”
Overtaken by the sudden urge to get back at Taylor for making you feel so many things at once, you ran back to your bedroom to grab your phone and took a close up picture of your new bow. Taylor’s initials were in clear view.
Before you could talk yourself out of it and chicken out you created an Instagram post, tagged Taylor on it and wrote the following as caption:
“It’s not her initials on a chain around my neck, but does it still mean she owns me? @ taylorswift “
You promptly turned off your phone and threw it across the room. Praise to the people who invented protective phone cases.
A minute or two passed, your phone vibrating every other second from all the notifications you were getting but you ignored them all in favor of getting ready to go to work.
By the time you were ready your phone still hadn’t stopped vibrating, and as you picked it up one out of the many notifications displayed on your phone picked your interest.
Taylor had commented on your post. Thousands of people had already liked it and were loosing their shit over it.
taylorswift: Yes she does.
Your heart skipped a beat, and it seemed like your face would be permanently stuck in a blushing state from now on.
The icon for the instagram dms turned red and you immediately clicked on it.
It was Taylor again, and her message to you made your entire body shiver.
@ taylorswift : Baby that was incredibly cheeky of you. You just wait until I can get my hands on you, see how confident you get when I put my marks on you. How I’ll wrap my hands around your neck, see your eyes roll back inside your head as I call you whatever I want. I vow that I’m going to take my time with you, exploring your body until it holds no more secrets for me. No one has to know that in the middle of the night you’re in my dreams. You’re mine darling, don’t you forget it.
As soon as you got to work, you showed Taylor’s message to Sam. But not before she clapped you on the back for the courage you had in publicly posting what you did.
By the end of the message your best friend was full on blushing with you.
‘’Charlie I-Good gods, I didn’t know Taylor was like that,’’ Sam handed you back your phone, fanning herself with her left hand. ‘’You’re one lucky bastard. If I wasn’t already married I would tap that.’’
‘’Hey! She’s my soulmate, not yours!’’
At around half passed one in the afternoon, just as you were putting the last child to sleep and right before you started cleaning up from lunch as it was your turn today, your phone started blasting out ‘Call It What You Want’ from your pocket, and in your haste to flee from the babies’ dormitory you almost made a spectacular fall as you hit the corner of the wall. Once out of the children’s hearing range you answered the phone without checking the caller id.
‘’Yes who is it?’’
‘’Hi baby, it’s me.’’
Fuck.
‘’Hi…Taylor. How did you get my number?’’
‘’I think you already know the answer to that darling.’’
‘’Then why are you calling me?’’
‘’I just wanted to hear your voice love, is that too much to ask?’’
‘’I suppose not, but with you and your mastermind of a soul, I can never be too sure.’’
‘’Huh, so you do listen to some of my music.’’
‘’Out with it Taylor, please. It’s my turn to clean the mess that was lunchtime today, so if you could just hurry up and-‘’
‘’No need to be so grumpy darling. Just write my name on google and you’ll know.’’
‘’What is it?’’
‘’It’s not a surprise if I tell you now, is it?’’
And the woman disconnects the call. You blink in confusion but do as she told you. You go in to type Taylor’s name in the google search bar, but before you press enter and see what she wanted you to see, Sam comes barreling into the room with her own phone in hand. She looks shocked.
‘’GIRL! Look look look! I can’t believe she finally did it! What even took her this long?!’’ Sam shoved her phone into your face, and your eyes zeroed in on a picture of Taylor and Joe together, the two of them being separated on the screen by a broken heart. ‘’It came out literally minutes ago! Taylor called off their engagement and they’re not together anymore!’’
You crossed your arms over your chest, mumbling to yourself.
‘’What was that Charlie?’’
‘’I was saying that they weren’t even engaged,’’ you said louder, unaware of the curious look on Sam’s face. ‘’Joe trapped her at a family dinner and asked her to marry him in front of everyone. How was she supposed to say no with so many people in attendance? She’s not a monster.’’
‘’Well now I don’t even feel sorry for him.’’ Sam then looked at you with narrowed eyes. ‘’How do you even know that anyway?’’
‘’She sent me flowers. With a note.’’
‘’I- bestie what? The Taylor Swift sends you flowers and you don’t tell me?’’
‘’Well you didn’t tell me you gave her my address and phone number but you don’t see me yelling your ears off!’’
‘’She’s your soulmate! What was I supposed to do?’’
When night came, you were in bed with Bailey curled up against you when you yet again received a notification from Instagram. It had become a habit at this point.
@ taylorswift : Tree has been yelling my ear off for hours just because I didn’t follow her orders. Usually I do, follow them I mean, but not this time. Never could she make me stay away from you for months, when all I want is to wrap my hands around you and never let go.
@charlie_TortieB: You’re a woman after my own heart Miss Swift.
@ taylorswift :It is my end game darling, but you already knew that 💜
After that there is no more message exchanged between the two of you, and you fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow.
When you get up the next morning it is with a sudden banging on your door that startles you so much that you fall to the floor next to your bed. The banging doesn’t stop until you reach your front door and open it from the inside. It’s your mother, and she looks angry.
‘’CHARLIE! Why am I the last the know about you finding your soulmate? Were you even going to tell me?!’’
‘’Hello to you too mom.’’
‘’Do not mom me miss, I’m disappointed! Also, who even is it?! Is it someone rich or something?’’ It was then that you noticed in her left hand a car key that didn’t look like the one your mother uses for her old beat up car. Your heart drops in your stomach once you understand and the keys are shoved in your face. ‘’A guy in a suit dropped a Jeep at my house and handed me the keys like it was nothing! And then the man proceeded to tell me that it was a gift from my daughter’s soulmate, and I know damn well that your sister’s husband doesn’t have that kind of money!’’
“Oh good gods Taylor did it again.”
“Taylor? Is that his name?”
“No mom, her name.”
“Oh, sweetie,” your mom visibly calms down and wraps her arms around you. “Is that why you wouldn’t tell me? You were afraid I would react badly? I don’t care if who you’re with is a man or a woman, as long as you’re happy.”
“My soulmate’s gender wasn’t the problem mom,” you said as you pushed your mom inside your apartment. You handed her Taylor’s note from Sunday and opened up the Instagram app to show her the first ever message your soulmate sent you. “Her identity was. And up until yesterday she was in a six year long relationship with a man. I couldn’t come in between that.”
You slowly watch the gobsmacked look come to your mother’s face. She’s frowning at the beginning, clearly not pleased that Taylor hurt you even if it wasn’t on purpose, and by the end your mother is full on grinning with tears in her eyes.
“Oh Charlie, I can’t believe my little baby finally found her soulmate,” your mother crushes you into another hug, letting her tears fall. “You will bring her back at home to meet your family, right?”
“Mooom! She’s really busy these days, I can’t ask that of her!”
“Well, clearly she’s not busy enough seeing as she went and bought you flowers and me a brand new car,” your mother listed off, smirking at the blush slowly covering your face. “Is she trying to butter me up already? Oh? Looks like someone messaged you.”
Never had you snatched something that fast out of your mother’s hand. You scrolled down to the bottom of your conversation with Taylor and found two new messages.
@ taylorswift : 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
@ taylorswift : Sam told me about your mother’s car needing repairs, and I thought why not buy her a new one instead? Only the best for my favorite future mother in law.
@charlie_TortieB: Taylor!
@ taylorswift: Charlie!
@charlie_TortieB: …I can’t make you change your mind, can I?
@ taylorswift: No you can’t baby girl.
Your eyes got comically wide and your mouth opened and closed like you were a fish out of the water.
@ taylorswift: Did I make your brain stop working darling?
@charlie_TortieB:…No?
@ taylorswift: Are you lying baby?
@charlie_TortieB:…Yes?
@ tayorswift:You’re such a good girl for telling me the truth Charlie 💜
@charlie_TortieB: I hate you.
@ taylorswift:No you don’t.
@charlie_TortieB: Taylor stop teasing me! My mother’s next to me and she thinks I’m going to faint!
@ taylorswift: Glad to know I have that much power over you darling 😏
@charlie_TortieB: Taylor! When I get my hands on you Taylor!
@ taylorswift: Oh please, do try. It’ll be cute watching you try to be a top.
Your body had a screenshot type moment, freezing as if it was stuck between registering or deleting something.
@charlie_TortieB:…who said I was a bottom?
@ taylorswift: No one darling, but I know you’ll look so pretty writhing under me 😏💜
Well, there was absolutely no need to call you out like that.
a/n: yeah so I lied I might post them all right now
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