Taylor's swifts little sister| someone's daughter

17.2

Jo woke up the next morning , she saw her sister crying on her bed and of course she knew what had happened but she didn't realize Taylor already knew. Tree must have told her.

She knew she should leave Taylor alone , she wouldn't be able to help Taylor. A plate of breakfast laid untouched infront of Taylor and Jo knew that sooner or later Tree would force Taylor to eat something.

Jo slipped on a white skirt and a blue crop top and her favourite converse which had friendship bracelet beads on its laces and her friends had also drawn on it before.

While she was in the bathroom doing her make up she heard Tree yelling on a phone call and it sounded like she didn't want Taylor to perform. The temperatures were even higher at
this point and yesterday Taylor told Jo she couldn't go to the vip tent she would have to stay in the dressing room.

In the dressing room Taylor was sitting very knees pulled up to her chest , she was in her lover bodysuit exhausted from rehersing and she didn't even feel like performing.

The bodysuit was clinging tightly to her skin and Tree was still on the phone yelling and at this point trying to find someone who actually understood enough english to understand why Taylor couldn't possibly perform today.

Jo sat down besides Taylor , usually she would have hugged her but Taylor was all sweaty. Taylor ruffled Jo's hair and kissed the top of Jo's head. Taylor was like usually before a show on strict vocal rest and Jo found it hilarious that Taylor couldn't talk and often times she would make fun of Taylor.

But today Jo could see that Taylor was genuinely scared to perform, it wasn't stage fright it was fear of performing and not making it through the performance , fear of what might happen to her and she is scared that something might happen to her fans or dancers or team.

Taylor already felt as if it was her fault what happened with the fan who died and Jo didn't understand why Taylor would ever feel this way , the fan died before the show. It wasn't Taylor's fault.

"Taylor honey , I can't get them to delay the show , I'm really trying but maybe you could cut some songs? Or replace them with calmer songs so there wouldn't be much dancing."
Tree suggested carefully knowing well that Taylor would not be thrilled with that idea.

"That wouldn't be fair." Taylor protested , despite not being allowed tp talk and Tree gave her a stern look

"No talking." Jo whispered in Taylor's ear and Taylor weakly hit her against the arm.

The show kept coming closer and the fear in Taylor was now visible and Jo wanted to cancel the show. Tree rushed in and she wore , for the first time in a while, a smile
"I moved the show , you won't have to perform today."

Jo jumped up excited and Taylor rushed into Trees arms. For a quick second Jo saw tears in Taylor's eyes. Taylor buried her face in Trees shoulder.

Jo picked up Taylor's phone and saw that Travis had called. Jo's breath was stuck in her throat and she looked up at Taylor. Taylor was overwhelmed and anxious and she felt guilty and she was in no state to talk to him. With a sigh she quickly deleted the notification and handed Taylor her phone

"You almost forgot it Taylor." Jo said as she handed Taylor the phone and Tree shot her a warning glance and Jo had a slight suspicion that Tree knew what Jo had just done.

She was scared of what might happen. Travis was a good guy , maybe , that's what she was told but she couldn't see her sisters heart get broken again. She saw two bad heartbreaks of Taylor. Just two.
But those two were burned into Jo's mind. She remembers Taylor crying in her bed and writing countless of songs she wouldn't ever release.

She remembers Blake coming over and Selena and Gigi and even Abigale. When she was only 8 or 9 Jo watched all these people come in and out and try to cheer Taylor up. They tried setting her up on dates. Jo remembers Blake yelling at Taylor that if she can't take care of herself she could never take care of a kid. And that she wouldn't approve Jo living here anymore. It was the only fight Blake and Taylor ever had. Back then Jo never understood why love had to be so complicated and why it wasn't okay that Taylor was together with a woman.
And she never understood why they broke up.

Now she understands but that doesn't mean she wants to see her sister go through all of that again.

She felt Taylor gently drag her along and somehow there was much more security around them than usual and not just around Taylor , more security was surrounding Jo as well. Usually there were only one or two security guards assigned to Jo but today there were more.

Infront of the hotel there were more paparazzi and as they made their way in through the back entrance and to the room , Tree immediately turned on the tv on full volume and closed the curtains.

"You two can't go on social media , okay? There are some nasty things but it doesn't matter what exactly but don't even think about going on social media." Tree snapped and turned around on her heel.

"She deserves a raise." Jo joked as she sat down on the bed and focussed on the tv. She heard , what she thought were paparazzi outside. Only later she learned that it weren't paparazzi but she wished she would have just kept believing it were paparazzi.

Taylor had tears running down her cheeks , she claimed it was because of Greys Anatomy but Jo knew that wasn't the case.

Taylor was on her phone and whenever Jo peaked to get a glimpse Taylor quickly covered her eyes. Jo knew she was on social media again.

As Jo excused herself to go to the bathroom she made sure that Taylor was focussed on the tv before she grabbed her phone. She just had to open her Instagram to see it.

The things people were commenting over Taylor and threatening her , they were talking about how much they hated her.

One glimpse to TikTok revealed to her how the paparazzi infront of the hotel weren't even paparazzi. It scared her. She always knew Taylor's fans could sometimes go a little far but this , this genuinely scared her.

All the people on social media talking about how they want to hurt her because she's Taylor's sister because apparently they want to hurt Taylor as badly as she hurt them and god she is scared. How can Taylor deal with this every day.

Jo felt tears in  her eyes and she quickly got up and unlocked the bathroom. Taylor sat on her bed , crying as well and Jo without another word climbed besides Taylor and his her face in her shoulder, she could still hear the yelling outside even over the loud noise of the musical episode. She felt Taylor gently cover her ears and it didn't help one bit. Jo closed her eyes and Taylor kissed the top of her head and whispered
"Just ignore them , there is more security around here than you can imagine. No one can harm any of us."