Cornelia Street - Jaylor one-shots

the truth always come out

March 2020

-Taylors Pov-

I'm in the laundry room folding towels that has just been taken out of the dryer when joe comes in with my phone in hand "your phone has been going off nonstop Tay, it's tree" he says and hand it to me "I will finish up here if you want to deal with it" he says and I kiss him on the cheek and do what he says.

Walking into the kitchen I sit down on a barstool and pick up when she calls again and put it on speaker. "hi tree, what's up" I say, and I just hope it's not bad. Most of the time it's something bad or a narrative about me being twisted out of context.

"hi Taylor. hope you two are doing okay" she says, and I smile, she has always really cared about me for years "we are doing good. how about you?" I ask. I too genuinely care about my employees. "I'm doing good"

"so, what's going on? Another twisted story?" I say and sigh.

"well, it's slightly complicated. You know *that call* form 2016? Yeah, it's been dragged up again" she says, and I lay my head in my hands. "for fucks sake don't people have better things to do than cancel me?" the frustration builds In me. that fucking phone call that I know I never should have picked up, the phone call that has made my life hell for years.

"well, it's not totally bad this time. you see the full 25min conversation has been leaked and it's in your favor. There are so many headlines now clearly saying that people need to apologize to you because you were telling the truth the whole time. #kanyewestisoverparty is trending on twitter" she says, and I let out a hollow laugh.

"for once there is good news about that whole saga. Now people will know that I wasn't the one lying. Karma once again proves to be real" I say and smirk.

I can hear tree laugh through the phone "it sure is. We all knew that you weren't lying but now the world knows too. the question is if you want to say something about it or are we just ignoring it and letting it speak for itself"

The world is in a bad space right now so it's hard to say something about it when the world has bigger problems. But at the same time these people put me and my loved once through hell and never got payback. I'm not really a vengeful person in real life but I feel like it's appropriate in this case.

"I think I want to say something. but I want to end it with turning the focus to what's actually important right now." I say and she agrees.

"one sec I'm going to grab a pen and paper" I say and do just that. "I think I want to release something simple on insta story to just acknowledge the whole thing without giving it its own post"

I brainstorm in my head for a minute before starting to write and tell her about what I want to say. "Instead of answering those who are asking how I feel about the video footage that was leaked, proving that I was telling the truth the whole time about *that call* (you know, the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody edited and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for 4 years) ... SWIPE UP to see what really matters" I tell her as I write.

"that sounds respectful and still addressing the issue. Hopefully this will mean that you can put it behind you completely" she says, and I agree.

This issue has taken root inside of my brain and I don't think people really thought through the fact that they were trying to cancel an actual human being. It's so easy for people to attack the person behind the songs and just completely make it about something else that my work. Constructive criticism about my work is a part of the job but I shouldn't have to take death threats on a daily basis because of a manipulated video.

"the only other thing is that Kim is putting out stories claiming it's you doing this and such and that you're still lying. But I say to not address her at all, it's not about that. and the video tells everyone what they need to know. You never agreed to that specific lyric, and you never got sent the song like he promised. And she is using the pandemic to say that it's selfish of you to bring this up when something so horrible is going on" she goes on and tells me everything Kim posted on her story, and I just roll my eyes.