Castles crumbling (Taylor Swift's little sister)

Stay Stay Stay (separation anxiety) (part 1) (Throwback 3)

After a scary situation in which Taylor got severely stalked by a random man who really believed they were married, Taylor was coming for an extended period of time to stay at home. He even grabbed her foot when she was performing at the last concert of the tour and practically jumped onto the stage, but Taylor was able to run before security tackled him. Then that night, who knows how, he managed to get into her hotel room. She had just jumped out of the bath and found him standing there on her room. Thankfully, Tree decided to check on Taylor after her bath to see how she was feeling after the last show and what happened. That's when she knocked on the door and was able to listen through the door to Taylor begging the man to not do anything to her. The redhead called security and a minute later they forced the door and arrested him. Taylor couldn't stop crying for hours after that.

You were still little, but not enough to not understand what was happening. You were playing and making bracelets with your Rainbow Loom while your mom watched TV -or searched for something to watch- when you turned around and saw Taylor on the screen.

- "Mom! Wait! That's Tay! Let's watch" you said pointing to the TV.

Andrea knew about the stalking man since Taylor had told her that there was a man who showed up to multiple concerts and to the outside of the hotels but had no idea of those last news. They were careful with the kind of content they let you watch and consume about Taylor, never hiding anything but not wanting you to feel overwhelmed by it either. Your mom saw the program was showing a video of Taylor performing, so she decided to watch it. Suddenly, the video showed the man grabbing Taylor's foot and security tucking him down. The news presenter started explaining that according to witnesses, the man was escorted outside of Taylor's hotel and taken away by the police. You turned terrified to your mom.

- "MOM, IS SHE OKAY?"

Your mom was evidently worried, but didn't want to give her concern away. - "They said he was taken away by the authorities, I'll call Taylor right now" your mom said and stood up to call her.

After a single ring, Tree picked up Taylor's phone: - "She's fine. Emotionally she's a wreck, but I have her and she's safe"

- "What happened? Tell me everything!" Andrea said across the phone.

The redhead proceeded to explain everything they knew, but it didn't calm your mom down.        - "How did he get in? How did no one see him? We need to discuss increasing her security"

- "Yes. We're checking cameras now to see how this happened, but yes, I agree that we need to increase and strengthen security. For now, do you want to talk to her?" Tree claimed.

- "Yes please" Andrea said.

She talked on the phone with Taylor for over 30 minutes in which the younger blonde cried and Andrea calmed her down and listened to her, when she was already feeling better and Andrea was trying to make her laugh, you showed up:

- "Mom, is Tay okay?" You asked.

Your mom nodded - "Yes darling, she's better now, she was very scared but now she's better"

- "Can I say hi?"

- "Lizzie wants to say hi" your mom said, and Taylor quickly agreed.

Your mom handed you the phone and you spoke with her, telling her how much you loved her and how glad you were that she was fine. Taylor told you she was coming home in a couple of days.

The blonde had a couple of commitments after the tour ended and was planning on going on vacation with some friends, but she decided to cancel the trip and arrange the commitments to be filmed from home. She needed to be close to you, to her family. There was a rule at home that prohibited you from googling stuff related to Taylor or your family, plus it wasn't actually something that intrigued you, whatever you wanted to know about her, you could just ask her. But this time was different, you wanted to know what happened, why she had canceled on her plans, why your mom was arranging something with security. As you investigated you felt more and more terrified, why were people like that? You even read an article where the whole show-up-in-her-hotel-room was disclosed (courtesy of another guest from the hotel that managed to get all the info from workers and gave it to this site). That was the first time you realized that your sister's work was something even bigger than you thought -the first time you acknowledged that she could be in danger because what she did was special and different to other jobs. Anything could've happened if they didn't arrest that man, he could've done anything to Taylor, now you understood why she was coming home.

A couple of days later Taylor arrived and you hugged her tightly as soon as you saw her, you were SO lucky to have her back. Taylor looked exhausted, she had been having nightmares, and she was overwhelmed. Ever since she was back you wanted to spend all the time you could with her, terrified something might happen to her. The first few weeks it was pretty easy; she had no energy to do anything things and wanted to rest as much as she could. But then, she tried to get back to working a bit, she had to film the interviews.

Tree was recovering from the flu, so they agreed on recording at hers instead of at Taylor's that way Tree could be home to take it easy and she was not exposing you all at your house to the virus. That Wednesday afternoon Taylor left before lunch time and said she was going to be back probably at 6pm. As soon as she left you started to panic, what if something happened on the way there? What if paparazzi followed her on her car, distracted her and made her have a terrible accident? What if someone had kidnapped Tree and was waiting for her at her house?

A while after she left you asked your mom if she knew if Taylor had arrived safely to Tree's. Your mom answered she probably did, but when you finished lunch, you asked her again and to put your mind to rest she offered to text her and ask her. Taylor replied she was at Tree's about to start getting ready for the interview. You relaxed a bit and went to play with your dolls for about an hour, then you started to panic again about Taylor. You went to your mom, who was doing some gardening.

- "Mom?"

- "Yes sweetie?" Your mom asks turning around. - "Would you hand me that, please?" She says pointing to a shovel.

You do it and then sit beside her. - "Do you think that Tay's going to be back soon?"

- "She said she was going to be here for dinner, around 6pm, so probably she'll be in an hour or so. Why?" Your mom asks concentrated on her plant.

- "I was... just wondering if she's okay" you say.

- "She's with Tree, she's fine sweetie" your mom replied.

- "But what if something happens in there? What if someone breaks into Tree's house? Like it happened at the hotel"

Your mom turned to you: - "How do you know that?"

- "I...I looked it up online. I'm sorry I know I shouldn't have but I wanted to know why Tay canceled her trip, why she was so sad...I'm scared, what if the stalker comes back" you said with tears welling in your eyes.

Andrea's expression softened. - "Oh sweetie. That's why we don't like you searching things online, sometimes they exaggerate and distort information"

- "So, no one broke into her hotel room?" You asked sniffing.

Andrea hesitated but ended up telling the truth. - "Yes, someone broke into her hotel room but it's all under control. We increased security, it's all okay"

- "Can we call her? Just to check she's fine" you suggested.

- "We can call her but just for this time, I promise you she's fine" your mom said and finished her gardening, then you went inside and called Taylor. The blonde was in the interview, so Tree picked up the phone, but assured you that she was safe and working.

At around 6:15 pm, Andrea's phone rang, and she put it on speaker -big mistake- because she was mixing the salad for dinner while you colored in the kitchen.

- "Mom?"

- "Yes, Tay, I'm here"

- "Ran into some paparazzi on the way home, so we just decided to drive for a bit longer to lose them. I might be a bit late. Can you check the security cameras, please? See if everything looks normal?" Taylor said across the phone, but she seemed pretty calm.

Andrea beat herself up internally as she looked at your eyes widening when you heard what Taylor said. - "Sure darling, are you okay?"

- "Yes, I'm okay. I just wanted to check that everything at home is okay too" Taylor replied.

Andrea quickly checked the cameras and confirmed Taylor that everything looked normal, so she hung up and sat by your side.

- "She's fine, Lizzie. Relax. Nothing bad is going to happen, okay?" Your mom said rubbing your shoulder.

You nodded but your chin was wobbling, you were terrified. Thankfully about 30 minutes later Taylor arrived and you ran to hug her, being thankful that she was safe. You didn't want to let her go.