𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔 ¬ 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘵

•part 51 | real life | new years day•

it's been a few days since kaya went to dans house, millie left to go back to atlanta to start to film stranger things again, which meant they wouldn't see each other for a while. yes kaya was sad but she was also excited to have her house back to herself

"it's called one step forward three steps back " kaya said to conan. she invited him over for a bit before he had to go to the studio to work on his music

"can you sing it for me?" conan asked in response. "i would. but the melody doesn't sound right. i want to find something better. cause if it doesn't sound good it isn't going on the album." kaya replied. the two filled each other in on their music stuff until conan had to leave. kaya went over to her speaker and started playing taylor swift.  after a few songs in, her song "new year's day"started to play

"You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi
I can tell that it's going to be a long road
I'll be there if you're the toast of the town babe
Or if you strike out and you're crawling home"

yes kaya was listening to the song, but she wasn't listening to the words, she was listening to the music, she went over to her piano and tried to play the same piano melody the best she could and started sing her new song

"cause it's always one step toward and three steps back, i'm the love of your life until i make you mad. it's always one step toward and three steps back. do you love me, want me, hate me? boy i don't understand. no i don't understand"

she picked up her phone and called dan. she knew it would be a one in a one hundredth chance that taylor swift would let her of all people use her piano part.

phone call
dan and kaya

"hello"

"hey dan, i've got a melody that i really like for one step forward three steps back"

"really? awesome. can you play it?"

"i will, but there's a problem, it's a melody from a song that has already been written. by taylor swift."

"go on.."

"it's the piano part to new year's day from her reputation album. i hope we can use it but it would be like really hard to get taylor to let us"

"i'll see what i can pull out of my ass, we've got till like february though don't we?"

"i'm pretty sure"

"as long as we have it by like january we should be good. which gives us like 3 or 4 months. i'm sure we can pull some strings to get it"

"really? im so excited oh my gosh. okay. i'll get to work on a few other things so i'll have things by next week"

"alrighty then, have a good night kaya"

"thanks dan, you too!"

end of phone call

kaya hung up the phone, she didn't really know what to do. she found herself wishing her and timothee ended off on good terms, so they could talk. but she knew better. instead she just put on her comfy cloths and laid down in her bed. got out her laptop and began watching netflix. after a while she got tired and decided to go to sleep.

she laid in the dark, her thoughts keeping her awake. mostly think about her past, she thought of a few people that she wished she could get ahold of. including her childhood best friends. she missed them dearly and she was positive she could probably find them even though it would probably be very hard. all she kept think was

"i hope they're okay."

and with that, she drifted to sleep. timothee far from her mind.