Keeping Secrets

Chapter two

Ed and I walk up to the front door of Calvin Harris' house. I ring the door bell, my hand shaking. Ed grabs my other hand to comfort me.

"Who is it?!" A voice, I assume Calvin's, hollers.

"People!" Ed hollers back.

"Babe." I whisper scold Ed for being obnoxious to a stranger. He rolls his eyes as the door swings open.

"So your the people at my door." Calvin says with unpleasantness in his voice, sarcastic smile on his face. Oh god, this is gonna be awful. I share a short glance with Ed and I can tell he's thinking the same as I.

"Hi, I'm Taylor," I say, extending my hand to him, "and this is Ed." I say gesturing towards my boyfriend.

"Sup," Calvin nods, "come on in." He wanders in his large home and we follow, glancing around the room. In the living room, there are various awards and pictures hanging on the wall and stacked on shelves. Two leather couches face the large flat screen tv mounted on the wall, as well as a reclining chair.

"Would you like the grand tour of the place?" Calvin asks us.

"Sure," I shrug.

"There's not much to see in here. A couple of awards, as you can see. Lets see, um, some billboards, mvas, mmvas, teen choice, my favorite will always be the Grammy, though. Ed, do you wanna hold it? See what it's like?" My grip on Ed's hand immediately tightens after that and I try my hardest to not pounce on that man and beat the shit out of him.

"Oh! Ed, we have to get to that thing- uh your meeting? I'm so sorry Calvin, we are going to have to visit again another time. I completely forgot! See you later!" I lie after a few deep breaths.

"Okay, I'll walk you out."

"No that's ok, thanks though. Good bye!" We quickly walk to the door, once out side, we dash into our vehicle.

"Ed, oh my god, are you ok?" I ask.

"Yeah,yeah I'm fine," he looks down at the floor.

"I'm gonna tell Tree this is not going to work out. he can not talk to you like that," I say, angrily starting the car.

"Really, Taylor, I'm fine," He gives me a weak smile, "this is going to have to work."

Suddenly, as if on cue, Tree calls me. I answer on the car phone.

"Tree! Glad you called," I say flatly.

"How'd the meet with Calvin go?" She asks, sounding like a high school girl asking her best friend about a date.

"That's what I wanted to talk about. This whole arrangement, yeah, that's not happening!"

"Taylor, it's okay." Ed whispers.

"Is Ed with you? You guys aren't supposed to be seen together anymore!"

"Tree, Calvin is AWFUL! He's rude, he's immature, he's sloppy, and frankly he's just a douche."

"What happened, Tay? Maybe we can fix it." I explain the whole thing to Tree on the way home. By the time I'm inside my house she says, "so he said one kinda rude thing to Ed? Nothing happened to you?" She asks.

"Yeah. That's not the-" she cuts me off, sometimes she can be so rude!

"Big deal! Why did you leave so soon? Ed was fine!"

"I left so I wouldn't be arrested for murder of Calvin Harris. I don't care what you think, the man is trouble." I say sternly, hoping that maybe she would see it my way.

"You know what, Tay? I'll talk to him. See his side of the story? Okay? We'll go from there."

"Whatever. talk to you soon." I sigh.

------------------later on------------------

Ed and I had just finished dinner and were sitting on the couch trying to find something to watch on the tv when I got a phone call. It was a number that I didn't know, but it was local. I answered it even though it scared me a bit. Lots of my friends have to change their number all the time, it was probably one of them.

"Hello?" I answered shyly.

"Taylor? This is Calvin.... Harris." he spoke slowly, unsure of his own words, almost.

"Oh. Hi. How are you?" I try to be polite, but it's hard, considering the events of today.

"I'm calling to apologize for my behavior this afternoon. I was a bit nervous about meeting you two and I guess I just thought acting like a dick would cover my nervousness,"He chuckles, "I'd really like this whole arrangement to work. Not because I want to get a relationship out of it, actually I think you and Ed are great together, but I really need the publicity right now. Would you give it a chance?"

"Well I'm going to do an interview in a few days to announce the quote-on-quote break-up," I say.

"I assume you mean between sweeran?" He asks, sounding very serious.

"Yes, between sweeran," I laugh and so does Ed, presumably because he figured out the conversation I was having.

"Ok. Will you announce... uh..."

"Talvin?" I ask, laughing again.

"Yes!" Calvin laughs too, "Talvin! I like it! So will you announce Talvin on the same interview?"

"No," I say, "I prefer to just go public with a relationship. Let the public announce it and have the fans ship it."

"Sounds good to me," Calvin says, "talk to you soon. Bye!" He hangs up the phone.

"Sorry about that, did you find something to watch?" I smile, turning my attention back to Ed.

"No," he sighs, "look, Taylor, I don't know how I feel about this."

"Ed, it'll be ok! You said so yourself!"

"You already have a ship name..." He whispers, because he knows how ridiculous he sounds.

"Oh, stop. I will only ship you and I," I kiss his cheek and stand to get ready for bed, "I promise."

"Oh, whatever," he scoffs, following me. "Tay?" He asks after a short pause, stopping in the middle of the hall.

"Yeah?" I turn to face him. He suddenly gets a dirty, sly grin on his face.

"Let me remind you why you should ship sweeran." He states, running towards me and slinging me over his shoulder.

"PUT ME DOWN!" I yell as he runs, "ooh," I say and suddenly he stops.

"What? Why the "ooh?""

"Dat ass." I laugh.

"Shut up," he says and keeps running.

(Lol hey guys! So this one (as you might already tell) is gonna be a lot different from my previous stories. kinda a bit more "mature" in a way. I promise to keep any 'details' (if ya know what I mean) to a minimum and have references (I guess that's what I'll call em) just kinda like in this last part of this chapter. Nothing too crazy. Love you guys! Thanks for reading!)