The Start Of An Age - Taylor Swift

chapter 1: saved by the bell

~reputation~

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" Debut screamed as she ran into my room and jumped up on my bed. I groaned and rubbed my eyes sheepishly.

"What's going on, Debbie?" I asked, half asleep, as I attempted to sit up while Debut was jumping up and down on my grey duvet. The sun blinded me when I tried to look at the young girl at the foot of my bed. She was fully dressed in a short white dress with puffy long sleeves.

"Poets is arriving today!" she yelled happily, bouncing up and down. Oh yeah, she was right. We were getting a new roommate today. A new album was moving into the house. I didn't like her very much, she had everyone drooling over her in less than the 1 month we'd known her. We barely even knew her and I didn't like the idea of a stranger living with us, but it wasn't up to me and I guess it didn't turn out too bad the last few times a new album came..

"Who?" I said mockingly. Debut stopped jumping and sat down by my feet, an annoyed look on her face. She sighed and rolled her eyes, giving me an annoyed look but smiling while doing so.

"I'm so excited!" she jumped up again and started spinning around on my large bed, "She's so nice and she's gonna live with us, how cool is that?"

"I don't know.." I started slowly. Debut stopped spinning and looked at me while I continued, "We barely know her, I mean what if she's like a serial killer or something?" Debut started giggling, covering her mouth with her hands.

"You think mother would let her live here if she was a serial killer?" she said, her giggle turning into a loud laughter. I couldn't help but smile at that. "She may be mad, but shes not that mad rep."

"True, but I still don't trust this new girl," I stated in a serious tone.

"You don't trust anyone," answered Debut jokingly. I shrugged, she wasn't wrong. "Now get ready while I go wake everyone else," she continued as she got off my bed and started walking out of my room.

"Wait what, you woke me up first? Why?" I yelled after her and she replied with a low chuckle.

With a low groan I got out of bed and started walking toward my closet, dragging my feet on the soft carpet as I went. I started looking through all the clothes hung in rows in the small room. Most of it was black or grey, with a few specks of dark blue, green and purple, here and there. I quickly looked down at myself and the black bra and underwear I had on. The straps of my bra were thick meaning I'd have to change if I wanted to wear the tight dress I'd been planning on. I couldn't really be bothered to change but today I was in a good mood for once and I really wanted to turn some heads, so I quickly undid my bra and slipped it off. Instead I found a lace one at the bottom of a drawer and casually put it on. Then I put on the tight black dress, making sure the holes on the front didn't show off too much. I took a quick look in the mirror and inspected the dress and my hair. I hadn't looked this good in a hot minute, this dress really showed off the shape of my body perfectly, but something was missing.."lipstick duh" I thought to myself quietly and ran over to my makeup. My red lipstick was almost out but I managed to get just enough onto my lips before it got down to the edge of the plastic. Quickly I looked myself up and down in the mirror once more and smiled. "If she sees me like this there is no way she doesn't ask me out," I thought. After deciding my hair looked good and I didn't need to change anything about my clothes or accessories I walked toward the door to go downstairs.

On my way down the hallway I bumped into 1989 who was just coming out of her room. "Hey, watch it," I said coldly. She just stared at me. Her blond bob was a mess and the circles under her eyes were almost pitch black. "Um...you good?" I asked her slowly. She rubbed her eyes and nodded lazily. "Alright then..." I said and turned around to continue walking. Behind me I saw 1989 waddle into the bathroom, Midnights close behind her, before the door shut loudly. "What the hell are they on," I joked before stepping onto the stairs.

~folklore~

"And then he fucking threatened me!" Red whispered loudly. "Like who the fuck does he think he is? Ugh," she rolled her eyes. For the past hour Red had been complaining to me non stop about some dumb guy she met at a bar the other day.

"I mean if you told him whatever it was you told him-" I started in a calm tone but was interrupted by Red mumbling "I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and shit out a smarter sentence than that," she looked at me and smiled.

"How the fuck did she think of that?" I thought to myself.

"Right, that... If you told him that, then it's understandable that he would get a bit upset, isn't it?" I continued slowly, trying to make her see my point.

"Well yeah, maybe, but he was talking shit about some poor lady on the other side of the bar, I couldn't just let him do that!" she said and shrugged. "He literally asked for it."

"Did he ask for the punch in the face too?" I said, trying to keep calm and serious, even if I was about to laugh for some reason.

"Well...I mean..." she started, waving her arms around, "He touched my ass and then he said 'bite me' so like...almost!" she started smiling and laughing as she said that and I couldn't help but join in. For a moment we just sat there laughing before evermore walked up behind me and put her hand on my shoulder.

"Hey, sister," I said quietly turning around to face her. She smiled at me and gave my shoulder a soft squeeze. I put my hand on hers.

"Red, you busy?" she asked politely. Red looked up at her and smiled before quickly shaking her head. "Can I borrow you for a moment then?" evermore continued. Red stood up in silence and walked over to evermore. My sister slowly slid her hand off my shoulder and started walking away, Red close behind her.

"They're so awkward, why can't they just admit they like each other already?" I spun around on my chair. It was reputation speaking. She had a disgusted look on her face as she was staring at evermore and Red with a cup of coffee in her hand. She ran her fingers through her wavy hair and sighed before taking a sip from her cup.

I wasn't attracted to reputation but even I had to admit she looked insanely hot in the dress she was wearing. She had a black dress on that was perfectly molded to her body. It was short, probably too short for her to be able to bend over at all without showing off her underwear. On her chest there was a large hole in the black fabric that exposed just enough of the area inbetween her boobs. I eyed her up and down for a bit too long to the point where I was staring. I looked away when I realised but reputation was already staring at me, a wide smirk across her face.

"What, like you are admitting you like Lover?" I finally said, giggling. She looked at me, shocked, and then turned around and stared at Lover on the couch a few meters away. Lover looked up at the mention of her name and smiled before asking, "What's up?"

Reputation just stood there frozen. Her mouth opened as she attempted to say something but no words escaped her mouth. "Nothing, sorry Love," I answered with a kind smile.

"Oh, okay," she said awkwardly before looking back at the big tv on the wall. She looked so adorable in the pastel blue dress she was wearing and I really wanted to tell her but I couldn't say things like that around reputation, no matter how clear I make it that I am only saying that as a friend. She would get furious and she was already staring at me with murder on her mind, plus, an angry reputation when our new roommate was arriving probably wasn't the best idea... So instead of complimenting her I simply smiled at her.

"Are you okay, rep?" Lover asked all of a sudden and looked over at reputation who was stood completely still, mouth wide open by the kitchen table. Reputation was just stood there in shock. A small crease appeared between Lover's eyebrows as she started looking more and more worried.

"Um-" reputation began but was quickly interrupted by the sound of the doorbell ringing.

"Saved by the bell," I whispered as I walked past reputation to get the door.

A/N: Heyyyyy welcomeee I'm so excited to actually have a published story bc i write so much but i never rly like it..enjoy my preppy little cupcakes 😗🌷