Circumstance (Kaylor)

I Wish You Would

Over the past month Karlie has been seeing Taylor every day after school. It isn't compulsory now but neither of them really mind... Taylor has been teaching Karlie guitar when Karlie hasn't got any homework.

The two have gotten close and as neither went home for the half term they find themselves hanging out in the deserted courtyard. The vast majority of the school have gone home with Karlie and Cara being the only students along with a handful of staff that had stayed.

By now only a few strangled leaves remain on the trees and there is a noticeable chill in the air that orders for coats. Schools in the half term have always seemed eerie for Taylor so the girl is grateful for Karlie's almost constant company. Silent school corridors feel wrong, almost as if reality is slightly altered there. It's the same feeling you get in a concrete stairwell or your bedroom at 5AM, even hospital waiting rooms and airports at night. Inside a dark cabinet, rest stops on highways, deep in the mountains, deep in the countryside, abandoned bowling alleys. That feeling. The silence is only filled by the two talking and laughing.

Without a doubt Cara would be joining them if she wasn't deeply engrossed in her new game but that isn't really an issue for the two.

Taylor can't deny that she has feelings for Karlie but she has long since accepted the fact that she can't act on them and as a result she feels suffocated. She feels as though the air she is gasping for just won't reach her lungs but it's the right thing to do... or rather not do. The blonde is fully aware that a teacher/student relationship will only go down in flames and she hopes that Karlie also knows that. 

However, whilst Karlie does know that the girl is far from ok with remaining friends. The connection is undeniable and in Karlie's mind, it could work. After all, she graduates in just over half a year and then Taylor is no longer her teacher.

"So Taylor, tell me about the most embarrassing thing you have ever done whilst drunk".

"Oh god... um. Right well you can't repeat these words ever".

"My lips are sealed", Karlie makes a zipping motion over her lips with her hand.

"Well, back in the states I was out clubbing with some friends and drunk Taylor was like, hey do you know what would be a good idea? Let's get up on the bar and dance like they do in the movies!".

Karlie shuffles closer to Taylor with wide eyes, "You, Taylor Swift, did not dance on a bar", the girl is holding back laughter as she gently knocks Taylor's shoulder.

"Oh it gets worse".

"I'm sure it does", Karlie says giving Taylor her favourite 'sunshine smile' as Taylor labelled it.

"As the bar tender starts yelling at me to get down, I bend down to hear him. Too far. Long story short I just went down. Like face first down with a massive thud and a crack. Turns out I broke my leg; my mum still thinks I fell down the stairs. I didn't have the heart to tell her the truth". As Taylor finishes her story Karlie is already doubling over in fits of laughter but instead of feeling embarrassed, Taylor starts laughing too.

As the laughing dies down, like magnets, blue eyes connect with green. As a side effect from the laughing, both girls still wear smiles as they stare at each other for what feels like the whole half-term. Taylor certainly thinks she could look at Karlie's eyes for the whole half term.

The blonde notices every shade in the brunettes eyes that range from dark and rich moss green to pale, almost translucent like glass green. Taylor notices a couple of brown streaks of colour that run like lightning-bolts around the edge of Karlie's iris all the way to her pupil. There aren't enough to alter the overall dominant green colour but they are certainly there.