Shadows Lurking | Taylor Swift Fanfic

40: N e v e r G r o w U p

Oh, darlin', don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up
Just stay this little

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March 2013

Taylor was currently on her Red tour, she was sat in her dressing room feeding an almost 4 year old Amerie cheese and crackers.

"Is Uncle Ed here today?" Amerie asked, she was always well spoken as a child, her language was much far progressed then most 3 year olds, but nobody barely heard her speak only her Mom and trusted friends, she was a rather shy and anxious kid.

"He is, and he told me he's very excited to see you!" Taylor said cupping Amerie's cheeks.

"Yay!" Amerie cheered.

"Finish up your cheese and crackers, then we can see Ed" Taylor said pointing to the unfinished food.

"Yum yum" Amerie said taking bites of her crackers.

Ed knocked on the dressing room clearly so the two Swifts could hear.

"That's Ed" Amerie said with a mouthful of food.

"How do you know that? And don't speak with your mouth full" Taylor reminded.

Amerie swallowed her food and sighed.

"Because that's his knock, he always knocks like that. Everyone has different knocks, so it's him" Amerie said.

Taylor opened the door and saw Ed standing there.

"Told you so" Amerie giggled.

"How do you do that.. you're incredibly smart Amerie" Taylor praised.

It was true, Amerie was smart for her age. She taught herself how to read and write at two years old, and not those picture books, but actual chapter books, her writing was also very developed it was neat and readable, she could spell perfectly.

Amerie struggled a lot with math though, numbers and counting confused her, but her ability was higher than most children her age.

She hit all her milestones as a baby earlier than most babies, she was a very clever girl.

All these little things in Amerie's childhood lead to her future autism diagnosis.

Present

The Swift household was quiet, it was early. All you could hear was the light padding of cats, their paws gently walked across the floors of the Nashville house.

Amerie yawned, 5am. Why does her brain always wake her up at the most ridiculous times.

Amerie slipped into her black cat slippers and walked down to the kitchen.

Amerie grabbed three bowls, some oats, plain yogurt and a selection of varied fruits.

She filled 1 side of each bowl with plain yogurt, she then placed the rest of the yogurt in the blender placing in some strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and a banana into the blender.