You Belong To Me (Kaylor)

13.

"I cheated on you," kept playing over and over in Karlie's head as she stormed into the bedroom and threw herself on the bed. Her body was shaking as the tears poured from her eyes. She laid in the fetal position, squeezing her eyes shut, wishing this was all a bad dream. But she knew it wasn't. She could feel her heart break into a million pieces. She loved Taylor more than anything in the world.

Taylor stood motionless in the living room. She didn't know what to say and couldn't bring herself to go to Karlie. She heard her sobbing from where she was and knew she broke her heart. As she lowered herself onto the couch, she rested her head in her hands and rocked back and forth wishing this was just a dream, but she knew it wasn't.

"Why," came out faintly from the model who now appeared in the doorway. As the silence grew longer she said, "Taylor? Why?"

The singer looked up and shook her head, "I don't know. I was lonely. You were never here. You'd get back late and just go to bed. I never saw you." The singer went back to looking at the floor as tears dripped off of her face.

"The girl with all of the failed relationships because why? Oh that's right, because her boyfriends didn't support her. They didn't hold her hand or tell her she was beautiful. They didn't show up to her birthday party or romance her. Instead they tried to force themselves on her or use her to make them more relevant." Karlie  shook her head in disgust. "Yet here I am, busting my ass 15 hours a day, to make a name for myself in this business. I've asked you for nothing. I wanted to do it on my own. I wanted to make you proud. I wanted to be a success so I could give you everything I could because I love you."

Taylor looked up, "I'm so sor-" just stop Karlie said, not wanting to hear the apology. "Tell me what happened? I want details. Tell me every fucking thing that happened."

The singer shook her head and quietly let out," No. I can't."

Karlie knelt in front of her, grabbing her wrists and with a look of emptiness in her in eyes she said, "You will answer my questions. You owe me that much." The singer offered no response.

"Who was it?"

"Karlie please..."

"WHO WAS IT?"

"Dianna.

"YOUR EX?

With a slow nod of her head and as the tears continued to stream down her face the singer parted her lips to offer another apology.

Karlie didn't want to hear it and without hesitation she shoved the blue eyed girl back against the couch as she let go of her wrists.

"Was it just a kiss?" Karlie's tone was angry and cold.

"ANSWER ME. WAS-IT-JUST-A-KISS?"

Jumping from the angry tone in Karlie's voice Taylor's responds, "No."

"YOU FUCKED HER?"

The singer remains quiet.

"ANSWER ME," Karlie screamed.

In an almost inaudible tone Taylor turned to her and said  "Yes."

Karlie stormed to the bedroom and grabbed all of her clothes as quickly as she could, filling her suitcase.  Her eyes were blurred due to all of the tears that she tried to keep from falling.

Taylor looked up as she heard Karlie rolling her suitcase as she walked towards the door.

"I'm leaving Taylor."

"Please Karlie, please don't leave me."

"Go call your whore," was the last words Taylor heard as Karlie walked out slamming the door.

Karlie was gone.

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As morning came, Taylor laid still on the couch not having moved since Karlie left. She could feel something vibrating and realized it was her phone, looking at the screen she saw it was her mom calling.

"Hello?"

"Hey sweetheart. How's London."

"Ohhh mom," Taylor let out before letting every bit of raw emotion take over her body.

"Taylor, what's wrong?"

"I messed everything up mom. I ruined everything." Taylor was uncontrollably sobbing. There was no comforting her or telling her everything would be fine, she knew that it wouldn't be.

"Come home baby and we'll get through it together."

Taylor didn't want to leave, she wanted to find Karlie and tell her she loved her. She wanted to feel her arms wrap around her and feel the warmth of her breath on her neck as Karlie told her how pretty she was. But she knew Karlie didn't want her anymore, she knew it would never be the same. Just another failed relationship. "Ok mom, I'm coming home."

Later that evening Taylor arrived in Nashville. Feeling the effects of jet lag, she crept into her old bedroom and fell asleep.

Andrea and Scott were talking in the kitchen. "I don't know what happened. She was in no condition to answer any of my questions, but I think this may have to do with Karlie," Andrea said as Scott rotated a guitar pick between his fingers. "I'm just going to let her rest and when she gets up, I'll talk to her," Andrea said as she was walking out of the room.

Please don't leave me Karlie, please don't leave me.
"Shhh, it's ok baby, you're just having a bad dream." Andrea stroked her head as Taylor began to cry. "What happened Taylor?"

Taylor shook in her mom's arms as she began to tell her everything that happened.

"How do you feel about Dianna?" Andrea asked.

"I don't know. I loved her so much unt-.."

"Go on Taylor. Until what?"

Looking into her mothers eyes, Taylor felt a sense of anger coming over her. "Until you forced me to leave her. If everyone just left us alone we'd still be together and I would have never met Karlie and I wouldn't be sitting her now all fucked up in the head."

"Taylor, I'm sorry. I thought it was the best decision at the time but I was wrong. I should have trusted you enough to allow you to follow your heart but I was afraid. I didn't want people to make your sexuality the main focus. You worked too hard and you were hitting a peak that you never imagined for yourself. I just didn't want you to lose what you rightfully earned." The tears streamed down Andrea's face as she continued to apologize.

Taylor's body melted into her mothers arms once again. "I just don't know what to do mom."

"Give yourself some time," Andrea said as she rubbed her daughters back. "Just give yourself some time."