Taylor Swan

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Twelve: Did I Make it?

It was odd to know I worked so hard for my singing career, and everything started to come so easily and quickly of late.

I lay in bed in the morning, wondering if "I had made it." When would I know I had made it?

"You Belong With Me" is number one on the Hot Country Songs chart, my highest-charting hit so far, and it reaches number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

When had my life become everything I hoped it would come?

On top of my singing career, I would be in a movie.

Seline had paused talking to me at the moment. I had told her what I thought of her and Zach's on-again, off-again relationship.

I told her the truth: she deserved better.

I told Zach the truth the day he came to my bus looking for sympathy or a shoulder to cry on. When Seline knew, she would come back to me. Everything would work itself out.

Abigail, my only true friend from high school, flew out to see me.

I picked her up at the airport, and instead of letting my driver get her, I walked inside the airport, not caring who saw me or photographed me.

I ran to her and hugged her when she walked down the walkway. It had been too many months.

"Hi, Taylor," She giggled when I let go.

"Hey, bestie," I said. We walked to the baggage claim together. Abigail had been photographed with me on the times she had flown out to see me. She also appeared in my music video for a song called Fifteen. Instead of this song being about my love life, it had been more about Abigail's. With her approval.

"I missed you," I said when we got in the car and headed toward my place.

"I know you did. So what is new?"

I rolled my eyes at her. She had a google alert set up for me, and she knew everything that went on in my life, sometimes more than before.

"I'm going to be an actress."

"Interesting. Anything good?"

"No, I"ll be in it. So it'll be horrible." I said. This was what I needed. Normalcy.

"Why did you call me out?" She asked.

She knew me too well.

"I was feeling off. I don't know. Everything seems so easy."

She swatted my leg. "So you needed me to come and make your life hard?"

"Yes, exactly why I called you out here."

Abigail had gone to Kansas University after graduating high school. She then started a career helping World War Two Vets get compensation for what they were owed. She cared about her career, and we understood each other with how obsessed we were with our occupation.

Abigail stayed for three days, a mini vacation, before flying back home. I had the movie filming starting today.

"I hope it helped to have me come out," she said before getting in her cab to go back to the airport.

It did help, but I still felt in a funk.

Filming a movie was similar to filming a music video, just longer.

I was shockingly going to be playing a high school-age female again. Some guy that's breakaway role was playing a werewolf in a vampire novel turned movie was going to be my love interest in it.

His name was Taylor too.

He was ripped and gorgeous.

"You are ripped" was the first thing I breathed out; it was more like holy hell.

"I'm supposed to be a werewolf." He said.

I was tempted to touch his tanned arms but knew that could be seen as assault. I wouldn't want a man to do that to me, so I refrained from doing it to him.

He saw it in my eyes and held his arms out to me.

"You can touch them if you want."

I looked at him, and he nodded.

"Thanks," I said. "Probably the weirdest meeting I have ever had with a guy."

"I heard you were pretty quirky."

"Oh yeah?" I asked, putting my hands back at my sides. He did have nice biceps, and it was easy to tell he could make a great werewolf.

"It is ok. I'm pretty quirky too."

We had a couple of scenes to shoot. We would be two high schoolers in love with each other. There were too many celebrities in this movie, which meant one thing: it would pan.

When I read the words to the script, I cringed.

No girl would carry her white teddy bear around all day, and if she did, it would be dirty by the time she got home. Why couldn't we have filmed a movie similar to real love lives?

Maybe there were two airheads out there that would act like how Taylor and I were soon about to act, but I doubted it.

"This is horrible, right?" I asked Taylor when we were done with our first scene.

"I can tell you it is not great. But I can tell you we will have fun cringing together when the movie is done."

He had a point, and he felt like something old Taylor, the Taylor before I became famous, would have approached the situation.

"You are right," I said to him.

"I know. Now go out there and act horribly and let them film you doing it."

That was part of the script. I would say I am a professional dancer, but the news anchor would ask me to show them my moves, and I would be a horrible dancer. This movie had to be a spoof.

But I did it. Because I was getting paid to do it, and normally, I would make a fool of myself, they were paying me to do it this time.

When Taylor and I got to our making-out scene in the movie, we would be in front of the news anchor talking about Valentine's Day and making out hardcore together. It was not believable.

But when Taylor grabbed me and devoured my mouth with his, I got hot.

It was one of the best make-out sessions I had in my life and will now be in a movie.

Also, when did I become ok with casual making out with guys? I was letting my career decide who got to kiss me—Lucas, and now Taylor.

Of course, I started dating Taylor.

We would be known as T Square or Taylor Square.

It was cringe, but I liked him a lot.

My love life was flourishing, and my music career was heading in the correct direction.

There was some brief drama along the way.