I Look In People's Windows

Chapter 1

TW/ mentions of eating disorder

1989

I was sitting in my room looking at a bunch of polaroids I stuck on the wall. Right in the centre was the one with Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, Rep, Lover and me. And pretty soon we were gonna have someone new which meant a new picture for me to take.

I slumped out of my bed and took a long look in the mirror. I should probably skip dinner I thought and then I went downstairs. Lover has been driving us crazy trying to make the house perfect for the new album. The two of us have been up since 5:30 trying to make everything look spotless. The new album was supposed to be here at 6pm which is plenty of time but Lover was having one of her 'everything needs to be perfect' days'.

The new albums name was Folklore. Mother said that she was quite different from us. I didn't really know what to think about that. I mean, I was pretty different from debut and fearless but I still fit in fine. Right?

"1989, did you blow up the balloons yet?"

"Yes Lover. They're right there" I pointed to the living room where a heap of GRAY balloons were tied up. I mean, who gets gray balloons!? Gray correlates with sad so I wasn't sure what to think about this.

Lover was definitely overexcited and maybe a bit overwhelmed with all the preparations. Rep usually calmed her down more often that not but she was busy icing a cake.

"Hey, calm down. Deep breaths okay?" I said looking at the rainbow coloured girl.

"I'm fine."

"Deep breaths Lover. Now."

"Fine."

After a couple rounds of deep breaths, she looked a bit calmer. I turned to Rep

"Keep an eye on her okay?"

Rep looked up from her task of icing a cake with gray icing (of course it was gray) to stare into my soul before nodding in acknowledgement.
I looked at Lover again and all her pink glitter fairy vibes and wondered how that was going to correspond with our new gray themed room mate. What an odd colour Mother picked for her.

But maybe I was being too judgy. It's just that it was weird to get another album so soon. I mean, Lover got here not that long ago. It was usually a two year wait, well three in Reps case but she was, uh, special.

I still remember my first day meeting everyone else. The others had just moved in here and that's when I showed up. After that, it was quite the wait before Rep joined us. I remember her scaring Debut which caused the younger girl to have nightmares about Rep dangling her off a cliff for weeks. It was pretty funny.

We'd all gotten used to Reps 'sparkling' personality until Lover showed up and we saw a part of Rep we never knew existed. Deep down, she's a big softie but she'll never admit it.

We had a few hours left before Folklore and Taylor would be here. Most of the stuff was ready. Fearless and Debut were putting up some last minute decorations and I didn't have a clue where Speak Now and Red were but that was fine since they did their tasks already.

Lover and I were the ones in charge around here. Debut and Fearless were still obviously quite young. Speak was, uh, I don't really know. I didn't talk much with her. Red was always partying like she was 22. And Reputation either looked like she was going to kill you or flat out ignored you. Except for Lover of course. Rep was like putty around Lover. They did make quite the cute couple. I wished I had something like them. They were always so happy together.

Time flew by and the clock struck 6pm. And almost immediately, there was a knock on the door. Talk about punctuality. Debut opened the door and in came Mother and her.

Folklore

I was really nervous about meeting everyone else. Mother had told me that I was quite different from everyone else. A departure from her normal style. I hoped that wasn't a bad thing. I felt lonely already since I had to leave Eve and come here but hopefully the others would be nice. I walked in behind Mother and saw everyone else. The curly haired girl who opened the door must have been Debut. My guess was confirmed when she introduced herself.

"Hiyaa! I'm Debut. This is my bestie Fearless!" She pointed to the girl closest to her. "That's Speak Now." A girl in a very elegant purple dress looked back at me. "This is Red. She really likes the colour red. That's reputation."

She pointed at the girl dressed in black. She looked kind of scary and like she might kill me but she sort of gave me good vibes. Never judge a book by it's cover, right. I felt like we might have something in common.

"That's Lover, Reps girlfriend and the owner of the color pink."

"And I'm 1989!" said the girl standing furthest away from Debut. She smiled at me and I smiled back.

Shit, they must think I'm stupid or something, I just stood there staring at all of them. I should introduce myself.

"Hi everyone. I'm Folklore. It's a pleasure to meet all of you."

They all gave me hugs except for Reputation who gave me a half hearted high five after Lover forced her to. I didn't mind it though. Not everyone was social. I wasn't but I guess that's because most people didn't really want to talk to me.

Taylor spoke once the hugs finished.
"Well I'm glad that we're all acquainted. Now let's take a seat and catch up a bit. I haven't seen you guys in person in soo long."

"It's been a week?" Reputation said half amused

"Rep, that's exactly my point."

We had dinner and then cake. They made a lot of stuff which made me feel a bit better about everything. They cared enough to do all of this so maybe they'd end up liking me. I noticed that 1989 didn't eat much. Actually, I'm not sure if she ate at all. She didn't really stay at the table the whole time. That was odd but I didn't question it. I didn't really know anyone here yet so I didn't want to say anything out loud. But she seemed nice. Her fashion was so good and she seemed very lively. Maybe if I was more outgoing, people would have liked me more. I guess our personalities were quite different but I felt drawn to her in a way.

After my welcoming party and bidding Mother a farewell for the night, Speak Now gave me a tour of the house. My room was across from 1989 and had quite the view outside. I could probably do stargazing from here. After my tour around the place, I took a seat on the edge of my bed and opened up my journal. I made a list of things that I could talk about tomorrow. I don't think that was normal but I didn't know what else to do.

See, I loved talking about my interests to other people but I guess that sometimes I yapped too much. Then people would get annoyed with me and stop talking to me. So I didn't talk a lot anymore and when I did, I didn't know whether I should keep talking or just stop. Eve was the only person I could talk to without worrying about anything. She was my best friend in the whole world.

It hurt a lot every time someone ignored me or insulted me and over time I learnt that it was best to just not say anything sometimes. I laid in bed thinking about what I was planning on doing the next day. I was going to try and make some friends and maybe it would actually work for once.

A/N: Please let me know your thoughts so far, I know it's only been one chapter but I'd love to hear feedback. Storyline wise, I know there's quite a bit of time to cover before certain albums arrive but there'll be time skips and stuff so it won't take too long. There will probably be a lot of turmoil between friendships and relationships. Anyways hope you enjoyed it! <3