#kayla taylor

[hopeinthebox]

What if I told you I'm a mastermind?

[fuckingyrs]

The sound of a body throwing itself onto one of the infirmary cots echoed through the mostly empty room, followed closely behind with a dramatic, but melodic sigh. “Can I say something mean?” 

“Probably not in front of the baby.”

Will groaned, looking up from his pile of patient reports he had been sorting for the past… year. “I hardly think eleven still counts as being a baby.”

Lee, who had been refilling first aid kits for the past two hours, contemplated this for a moment. “Maybe, but that’s besides the point. I’m six years older than you. You’ll always be a baby.”

“I’m going to say something mean. Will, cover your ears.”

“I’m not covering my ears, Taylor. Unlike you, I’m working right now and I need my hands.”

“Oh,” Taylor dragged, a taunt evident in her voice, "someone's grumpy.”

“He’s mad I put him on infirmary duty during arts and crafts.”

“Will, you aren’t good at arts and crafts.” Lee slapped her arm. “And you like working in the infirmary, you are constantly taking my shifts. It’s why I love you.”

Lee slapped her arm again. “Taylor, what the heck.”

Taylor groaned, “Fuck. Just say fuck. I’m begging you.”

“That’s besides the point. I had it with Cecil. We were going to finish our board game.” Will turned to Lee, pointing an accusing finger at him, “You knew this.”

Lee let out a long-suffering sigh and Will almost felt bad for causing a fuss, but really, Lee brought this upon himself. “Taylor, stop pawning off your shifts to Will. Will, stop letting Taylor’s pawn off her shifts to you. Also: I’m sorry about arts and crafts. The last few days have been hectic and I needed your help. I’ll make sure to not schedule you over arts and crafts next week.”

“I’m going to be home next week! Mama is picking me up, remember?”

Lee had the decency to look ashamed when he said, “Heck. I forgot. I’m sorry, Will.”

Taylor got up from her self-designated cot and walked over to Will, ruffling his hair once she was close enough. “I’ll take over the rest of your shift, buddy. You go have fun.”

Will shook his head, “No, it’s okay. I’m already here. Arts and crafts is half-way done anyway. We wouldn’t be able to finish.”

“If you’re sure,” Taylor sighed as she pressed a kiss to his forehead and Will let out a cry of protest because he could feel the lipstick stain there. He tried rubbing it away with his fingers but by the look on Lee’s face and the snickers Taylor was making behind him, he only made it worse.

Lee graciously handed Will a wipe before glaring at their sister. “Taylor, what are you even doing here?”

“I think I made that pretty obvious when I threw myself onto a bed and stated I was gonna say something mean. I came to gossip.”

“You should be at archery right now.”

“Mike was being a piss-baby. He wouldn’t let Josh and I try to hit one another. What’s the point of being in advanced archery if you can’t shoot at your brother? Moving targets!”

“So you left?”

“Yep. I found Silena and she offered to do my nails before I came by.”

Lee pinched the bridge of his nose in a way that resembled an old man at the end of his rope. Will suppressed a giggle at his brother’s anguish as Lee said, “You can’t do that.”

“Do what? My nails?”

“Leave Michael like that.”

“Why? He’s not in charge of me.”

“But I am. And he’s my second in command, so yes he is.”

Taylor groaned, flopping back onto her cot. “One, he’s like three weeks older than me, unfair. And two, none of that is important right now. What is important is that our father was here and didn’t say hi to any of us. Who does that?”

“Our father, apparently.”

Taylor flipped Lee off, showing off her new manicure. It was baby pink, like her lipstick, with a little sun in the center. “He gives those kids a ride, none of them his, and has the audacity to leave before saying hi? Hell, Will over here has never met him. He has time to bring a group of kids to camp, but can’t spare a lousy minute to check in on us? And I can’t say this to Michael or he’ll claim I’m “on the other side”.” Taylor sighed, a faraway look in her eyes. Will had only seen this look on her face a few times before: every time Luke was mentioned. “I’m just tired of feeling abandoned and I’m sick of feeling like it’s bad to think that.”

Lee stepped towards her, a soft, “Tay–” passing through his lips, before she sat up and shook herself out of her stupor.

“Instead of saying hi, he just causes chaos and disappears! He brings Percy back, which is never a good sign. Thalia is driving the sun chariot, and crashes it! Oh, and he brought that new weird kid that keeps bombarding everyone with questions.”

Will saw through the change of topic, and Lee clearly had to as well, but he allowed it to happen. He slapped her on the arm for the third time, “He’s not weird. He’s, like, eight. The kid is just excited. You were excited about camp once upon a time.”

Taylor turned to Will, jerking her head at Lee, “I think he’s finally lost it. When have I ever been excited by anything ever?”

Will grinned, “Yesterday, you beat Madi at Josh’s song quiz and you danced around the cabin for ten minutes.”

Taylor gasped loud and dramatic, clutching at her chest as she fell back onto her cot, chestnut hair falling all over her face in her fall. “William! How dare you accuse me of such things!”

[zot3-flopped]

This is grim. They should be able to say hello without madness ensuing.

[joesalw]

I absolutely feel for both Joe and Kayla (Travis’s ex). Joe isn’t a social media person, but Kayla is. That’s her job. You know she sees those comments Swifties make. (Even media in general. When all this was starting, there was a Chiefs fan being interviewed about TnT and he said “Well, I’m just glad he finally found a nice girl.” What wasn’t nice about Kayla? Huh? Say what you actually mean, dude!) She even made a post before TTPD dropped literally begging to be left alone. And, honestly, this whole situation reminds me of Meghan and Harry almost, expect Kayla doesn’t have Travis by her side to defend her against the harassment and “give up his place in line for the crown.” She’s literally on her own. It breaks my heart. I don’t want to wake up one morning to see it’s gone too far.

Yes omg I feel so bad for Kayla Nicole. Swifties have been so racist and disgusting towards her. You know for Joe it's better because he doesn’t read what people say about him, his ig comments are off. But kayla is a very online person and so she's reading the bunch of weird stuff these swifties are saying about her clothes, body, face and skin color like it genuinely makes me feel nauseous how horrible it is! And Joe also has his own separate fans like us who can clap back for the harassment, but idk if Kayla has her own and that makes it more unfair about the power imbalance. It’s so sick. She genuinely wants to be excluded from this drama but swifties are always under her comments showing their abnormal obsession.

[loserdudes]

A dream come true.

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

Sincerely fuck every swiftie who went out of their way to harass, be racist and ignorant to an ex because your favorite is with him now. Kayla hasn't done anything, all she's doing is minding her business yet y'all attack her for what? Y'all will be the same people screaming about empowering and respecting women and then turn around and harass someone because you're in a parasocial friendship with someone who doesn't know about your existence and you believe you owe her loyalty. You don't

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[sparks9793]

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[innytoes]

Eff this, I should be at Build-a-Bear / Kayla and anyone

Okay but I was coming up for the plot of this and my brain rolled in your other prompt of 'I don't think pancakes are going to fix this. I think I need ice cream too. / Flynn ship of choice, romantic or platonic'

"Come join us at our summer job, Kayla, it will be fun, Kayla!" Kayla mocked as she flopped down on the too-hard mattress of her tiny bed in the Counselor's Cabin. "I just spent half an hour holding back a girl's hair while she puked because she ate two bags of sour gummy worms on a dare."

"Flynn had to break up a fight about who would be allowed to date Harry Styles once they made it big and they did not take it well when Flynn pointed out he was a thirty year old man and they were twelve," Julie said. She was equally flopped on her bed, but in the opposite direction, staring at the ceiling like she was regretting her life choices. "And a fourteen year old just nearly made me cry after I confiscated her vape."

"Fourteen year olds are vicious," Kayla agreed.

Sure, this 'pop star' camp was a pretty sweet gig. The environment was beautiful, they got to do what they loved, and they had copious amounts of free time when they handed the kids off to the boys - Willie and Reggie for more traditional camp stuff like horseback riding and archery, Alex for ballet where Kayla taught modern and hiphop dance, and Luke for songwriting.

Even though half the time Kayla stuck around at dance, Julie joined the songwriting workshops, and Flynn was always down to judge whatever weird games Willie or Reggie came up with for the kids.

And the kids were usually okay. Except for tonight. Maybe it was a full moon or something.

"Reggie just texted me that he and Luke had to put out a fire in one of the boys' cabins," Flynn reported. "And Willie heard something about them wanting to sneak out tonight and try and raid the girl's cabin, so he and Alex are driving into town to get some werewolf masks and gloves to patrol tonight."

"That'll be fun," Kayla said sagely. It would be a disaster, but that was a Willie and Alex problem.

"Why did we think this was a good idea again?" Flynn complained.

"The money," Kayla said.

"Looks good on college applications," Julie pointed out.

"Eff that, I should be at the club," Flynn whined.

"I should be at Build-A-Bear," Kayla sighed. Not as a summer job, mind you. She lasted like three days into her trial period before she accidentally exploded one of the bears by overfilling it and made a small child cry.

"Build-a-bear?" Julie asked, intrigued.

"It's my happy place," Kayla said. "You get to pick out something cute and soft and then see it come to life and dress it up in cute outfits and then you have something to hug." She stopped, realizing how uncool she sounded.

"Aw, now I want to go to Build-a-Bear," Julie whined.

"As soon as we have a day off, we're going, all three of us," Flynn declared. "But until then, let's raid the kitchen."

"Late night pancakes?" Kayla perked up. Julie's chocolate chip pancakes were legendary.

"I don't think pancakes are going to fix this," Flynn said. "I think I need ice cream too."

They were still halfway through a pint of the Good Stuff, hidden away behind some bags of peas in the big freezer, when the shrieks from near the boy's cabin started.

"We're going to need more ice cream," Julie groaned, as she looked out the window and saw lights coming on in all the cabins.

[throne-for-queens]

Kayla asking Swifties to stop spamming her with racism and hate, because she just wants peace.

Swifties: YOu DeseRve it Because you liked a mean meme about TayLor!!!

[wouldvecouldveshouldve]

i just thought about like the most epic thing ever and i wish this would happen. LIKE I HOPE THIS HAPPENS SO MUCH (sorry to all the 1989 tv truthers for this one) OKAY THEORY TIME!!!

btw disclaimer this is not a completely original thought i saw it on a pinterest comment thing but their theory is that all of the hints recently have been leading to 1989 tv right??? well what if she announces rep instead - and just like the album, its so unexpected

AND I THOUGHT OF A SCENARIO TO GO ALONG WITH IT!!!

like imagine on the 8/9 show date, and shes sending hints for 1989 tv the whole concert, along with the hints shes dropped recently with 5 hearts on her insta and blue stuff OH AND THE POLAROIDS, but this show just like the speak now tv show shes making the bracelets blue, shes being direct about it

and then surprise song time comes along! she starts to talk about all the rerecordings and the lights on the bracelets are all flashing blue, and then all of a sudden after a slightly long ramble about the rerecordings, she talks about the date which is 8/9 and referencing 1989

and EVERYONE is losing their mind (for example in her speech when she said speak now before announcing speak now tv) and everyone started screaming and like Losing Their Shit.

she keeps talking and then she pauses, and everything just goes black. the lights go out and the bracelets go dark and everything goes silent and we cant see taylor and everyone begins to freak out… but Then.

we hear a hiss. We see a snake slivering along the black, empty screen. And then we hear the opening notes of ready for it you know the BAMN BAMN BAMN BAMN, and the snake transitions into the letter R and there, right there on the screen, is “reputation tv coming out blah blah” and the spotlight goes back on taylor and shes smirking and announces it and then she sings her silly surprise song to go along with it

THIS IS SO LONG IM SO SORRY BUT JUST LIKE. IMAGINE!!!

[zot3-flopped]

I mean are we surprised? Taylor has always been jealous even for situations she makes up in her own head. Lover‘s lyrics say that she fears whoever sees her boyfriend, wants him. She is deeply insecure and clearly turns into some sort of bridezilla whenever she has a boyfriend and that guy is around a single woman. She even is jealous over hee ex boyfriends getting into relationships or kissing another woman when they are broken up. Her for a short time disliking kendall jenner just to later get her into the squad. Her still being upset with honestly every ex she has ever had that is in a rs is weird af. The only one that she doesn‘t seem to be after is tom. Tho with rep tv i won‘t say much about it yet because we never know this psycho of a „songwriter“

Yes, there could easily be Vault tracks bashing Tom on there. Getaway Car is such a mean, ugly song. Imagine if someone wrote that song about Taylor!

The first verse is arrogant and cruel. Tayheartless brags 'I blew your mind' and then laughs about her own insincerity and how she deliberately misled Tom: 'but I didn't mean it and you didn't see it.'

In the second verse she seems like a sadist, delighting in the hurt she caused: "It hit you like a shotgun shot to the heart.'

Also of note are the usual references to drinking alcohol. Sounds like she was drunk every day.

[joesalw]

https://www.tumblr.com/joesalw/748439694497480704/i-absolutely-feel-for-both-joe-and-kayla-traviss

I’m so glad that we’ve all seen this it’s disgusting. A lot of those so called chiefs fans just hated that Kayla was a black women with their “Godly “ white man, so they berated and attacked her. Of course they are happy he’s with Taylor now it’s so wild bro . She’ll post anything and they will see that as an opening to attack her bro. Having Travis on her side doesn’t do anything anon he let her get treated this way when they were together lol she dodged a bullet

They call Travis a real man, but if he was anywhere near close he'd have told these people to leave Kayla alone and not harass her. But it seems like he's enjoying this as much as Taylor! A perfect match really

[permanentreverie]

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