Pitch Perfect Harmony

You're Beautiful

"What are we going to do with the rest of the day?", Travis whispered into Taylor's ear. They were still in bed, naked, cuddled up under a blanket. Taylor still felt what they had been doing a while ago but in the best way possible. "We could eat something", she smiled. "Oh, I actually set the table and forgot about it", Travis remembered making her laugh. "How could you forget?", she grinned. "Oh, you know a very beautiful and kind wizard woman pulled me back to bed and enchanted me so I couldn't think of anything else", he said. Taylor now laughed even louder. "Wizard woman? And enchanted? Really?", she couldn't contain herself. "Witch sounds so evil. Also... enchanted is a good song", he shrugged laughing with her. "Thanks", she smiled proud of herself. She still liked the song too. "But now your wizard woman has to go to the bathroom", she added kissing him one more time before leaving him alone. Travis' eyes lay on her until she closed the door behind her. She really was beautiful. In every way.

When they finally made it to the kitchen to eat, they continued to joke and laugh together. "But what do we do with our time now?", he asked again. "You are like a hyperactive child", Taylor laughed. "I honestly was hoping to just get back to bed or the couch", she added. Travis smiled at her remark. She was kinda right. And he could also totally understand her for not wanting to do much. She was basically running a marathon every couple of days at the moment. "I'd be fine with that", he agreed. "Oh, you know what? I have something we could watch. But it's a surprise", she remembered something very specific. Travis instantly looked curious. "I'll clean up the table and you prepare a day in bed?", he suggested. "You clean up my kitchen and table way too often as a guest", she sighed. "I don't mind. Especially, if I'll be back with you faster", he winked playfully. Taylor blushed but agreed to let him do the cleaning again. It wasn't much anyway.

Travis hurried to get back to bed quickly but she had everything prepared already and the screen showed only a black start screen mirroring her MacBook. He was even more curious now that she made it such a secret and also seemed a little nervous. What would she be nervous about? He thought about watching her documentary with her someday if she would like the idea. But he wouldn't expect her to come up with it herself. In fact, he wasn't even sure if she would want him to see it at all. "C'mere", he said, sitting down and leaning against the wall. Taylor happily leaned against him, took his hand, and pulled a blanket over them. A little excitement-scream left her lips making him laugh. But then she hit play and it only took him a few seconds to recognize her tour. "Isn't this supposed to come out soon?", he asked surprised. "It's the final cut. I have to watch it, so I thought... we could watch it together", she explained. "I feel honored", he smiled kissing her.

They had a lot of fun watching the movie. Travis started singing her lyrics with her every couple of songs. Taylor laughed about it but he was so cute doing that, that her only reaction was singing too. Not the whole time though. She had to give her voice some rest at least. "You look like you have so much fun throughout the whole thing. Even the sad songs", he noticed looking at the screen dreamily. "It is fun! Seeing everyone in their outfits, screaming the songs back at me just dancing and having fun. I feel grateful for it every day. There have been harder and better days but it's never been not fun at all", she said honestly. "I guess, it's been harder in the beginning? Because... I mean, it's a lot of love songs and you've just been through a hard time", he carefully mentioned the breakup. They hadn't talked about Joe up to this point. He didn't want to cut into just healed wounds but it's been more than six years of her life. "Yeah... It's been... a lot. Especially, when it hit the news. I knew that it would get out eventually but it still hurt", Taylor answered.

They stopped talking because the transition they used for the conversation was over but they both knew this was something they had to talk about. And it would be better to do that soon than to avoid the topic for too long and then don't like each other's opinion. "You look so gorgeous", he told her still staring at the screen. Taylor smiled. He said that or something similar often, especially today. "I hope so after all that makeup, dressing, and choreography learning", she said. Travis looked at her making her look up at him too by gently caressing her cheek. "You look gorgeous right now, I hope you know that this doesn't depend on all that stuff", he smiled kissing her softly. Taylor blushed: "I... I mean, it's still nice to hear... also, I'm not doing all that because I feel like I have to. At least not anymore. I'm doing it because I'm having fun doing it", she explained honestly. "Good", he said: "I'll still tell you that you look gorgeous now and over there."

When "Vigilante Shit" started playing, Travis choked and coughed briefly. Taylor laughed watching him blush but still stare at the screen. "Seeing it in close-up is even hotter", he whispered into her ear smirking a little. Taylor giggled. "I'm sure my parents won't like that", she said honestly but also not really caring about it. "Oh, so if they knew what we did this morning, they'd be mad?", he wanted to know in an unserious way. "Well, I'd like to not let them know", Taylor just said laughing. "But you know that a lot of people will think more like you do, don't you?", she wanted to know trying to carefully find out if he was a jealous person. It didn't feel like it before but she couldn't be sure. "Ahm... I guess? Are you asking me, if I care about you giving a little bit of a soft striptease on your tour?", he picked up on her intention immediately making her a little insecure. She didn't necessarily want to ask him that directly. "Kinda", she admitted.

"Well... That's your tour. If I ever start complaining about something like that, I hope you tell me that I don't have anything to say about what you decide to do on your tour with your body", he said. "Why would I even? You're not doing that for another person specifically that I needed to worry about. I feel like you're just having fun on stage for yourself", Travis added. He wasn't mad at her for asking, just a little confused. Did he ever come off as jealous? Or was it some old story she'd been through with someone else before? "I really just wanted to try it out and when it worked out this way, I felt like it should be on tour because it's honestly so fun", Taylor explained. "It shows! I doubt it would look that good if you wouldn't have fun", he said. "Yeah. It gives... I don't know... I talked to the other dancers about it actually. We all feel so confident, especially together", Taylor now felt comfortable talking more openly about it. "I think that's absolutely visible", he agreed even giving her a feeling of being proud of her. She was happy to have talked about it. Taylor also noted that he liked the outfit a lot. Maybe she could give him a little bit more of that when he would visit her on tour. In private, of course.