it's you and me, that's my whole world<3

nightmares

so ive kinda based this on my own personal experiences, but tried to make keep it as enjoyable as possible-<3

y/n's age: 12-16 maybe?<3
tw: not really much, just uh, well, nightmares??🧍‍♀️
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Taylor laid restlessly in her bed beside her boyfriend Joe who was asleep on his back. She was laying next to his bare chest, his slow, steady breathing somewhat soothing her.
"Joe," Taylor whispered, shaking him softly to wake him. "Babe..." she shook his shoulder a little more firmly this time. Something had obviously caught her attention. "Baby..." She forced herself up with her elbows, then pushed herself up so that she had a knee either side of Joe's body, crouched inches from his lips. He snaked his arms around her torso and pulled her onto his chest.
"shh," he whispered, kissing her lips, lovingly. She indulged him, but pulled away sooner than usual, sparking Joe's attention.

"Everything okay, Tay?" He whispered, sleepily, caressing her cheek with the back of his hand, softly, his brows slightly furrowed.

Taylor shook her head, looking over both her shoulders, then swinging her knee over to one side of Joe's body so she was knelt beside him.
"Something, doesn't feel right..." she said slowly, a slight panic in her voice. "I just..." she hesitated.

"Okay Tay, slow down," Joe reached for her arm but Taylor quickly pulled away.

"No." she said quite firmly, and Joe was taken aback. Something was clearly wrong.
Taylor got to her feet and pulled her
"How To Be A Cat" sweater over her head, hastily, before opening the door, closing it behind her and setting off down the hall.

[third person]

Something was drawing her on towards
y/n's room. "y/n...?" she called, a tint of worry in her worry in her voice.
Her pace increased and she almost broke out into an olympic sprint as your stifled crying came into earshot. She reached your bedroom door with a fire of desperation blazing in her gut. Her hands gripped the cold door handle and pushed open your door to see you hugging your knees on the floor beside your bed, holding back an aggressive flood of tears.

"y/n, my baby..." Taylor rushed to your side leaving the door ajar and coming over to cradle you. "baby, baby girl..." She held you with the soft warmth of her hands gripping your arms, that were shielding your face from view and stroking them, gently.

"hey, I've got you, y/n/n..." She felt as though she were on a beach, and a wave of guilt for not having realised sooner had hit her, sending her lying on the cold, hard ground.

[back to first person.]

"mom..?" I whispered with a shaky voice, gazing up at her with watery eyes that threatened to pour tears down my cheeks.

"hey, baby...it's okay, it's alright..." Taylor hummed softly to you and kissed my soft skin. "I've got you, hm?" She said as soothingly as she could, rocking you softly in her arms. "another nightmare?" she whispered softly in my ear, to which I replied between sobs:
"I want them to go away!"

"oh, I know baby, I know..." Taylor sighed, sympathetically, kissing my cheeks and cradling me in her arms. "I'm sorry, honey..." She apologised as if it were her fault, it wasn't.

"mom...it's not your fault.." I said guiltily with in a hoarse whisper, trying to wipe away my tears, before they fell from my cheeks.

"I know honey, but I just..." She took a shaky breath and didn't finish her sentence. Instead she pressed a kiss to my forehead, and caressed my hair. She glanced over to my dressing table, a small clock read: 2am..

"hey, y/n, you need to get some sleep... I'll stay by your side, hm? How does that sound...?" Taylor whispered gently, interlocking her hand with mine, leaving a kiss on my knuckles. I nodded, sleepily, wiping a few stray tears from my face with a shaky sigh. Taylor, as sleepy and drowsy as she was, lifted me off of the ground and tucked me into my bed, under the covers.

She hummed 'Never Grow Up (tv)' to me softly, and before i knew it, i was fast asleep, Taylor laid on top of the covers, her arm around my waist, beside me, she didn't leave my side. </3
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no cus i literally forgot about joe halfway through the book, so my bad, joe <3 🤗💘