Emilie P.o.V:

Taylor and I had flown back from our vacation two days ago, but we flew to Newport in Rhode Island, from where we drove sixty minutes to Taylor's House. It was really, really big and pretty. 

Yesterday Selena and Karlie had come over and stayed with us, cause today apparently we had a party. 

"Good morning Emilie." I heard a voice and turned my head to the door. Selena was standing there, giving me a warm smile. 

"Morning Selly. Where's Mo… Taylor?" I immediately corrected myself, but she seemed to notice. It looked like she wanted to open her mouth, but she just closed her mouth again.

"She's downstairs making breakfast." I nodded and got up following Selena downstairs. The other two women were downstairs, sitting at the table waiting for us. "Morning." I mumbled still way too tired for conversation. "Hey Baby." Taylor picked me up and set me on her lap, kissed me on my hair and gave me some cuddles. She cuddled into her. 

"Tired?" "Mhm." She smiled and pulled me closer to her. "Breakfast?" I nodded, but stayed in her arms. "You wanna stay here, on my lap?" "Yeah." She laughed a little and pulled the plate meant for me closer, handing me a fork. 

The three grownups were talking while I finished my food and cuddled back into Taylor. "So who wants to help me bake some things?" She asked, I looked up at her and nodded tiredly. 

"You sure? If you want you can take a nap honey." I shook my head. "Wanna bake." I noticed that my speech was slightly more babyish since I was so sleepy and tired.

"Alright but once you're getting tired and wanna sleep tell me." I nodded and Taylor picked me up to carry me over to the kitchen.

"Can we make cookies?" I asked her sleepily and she nodded while putting me down on the counter. 

Taylor pulled the stuff out and while Taylor and I made Cookies, Selena and Karlie were making Lemon Bars. We put the Cookies in the oven and watched as they started to bake. 

Twenty minutes later the baking was finished and we put everything on the tables, including the drinks. 

"When is everybody coming?" I asked, leaning against Taylor. "In about two hours. Maybe you should take a little nap." 

"Kay." She got up from the couch, to leave me on the couch to take a nap. While she and the others continued to prepare for the party and the guests, I was getting cold and kinda wanted Taylor to come back to the couch to cuddle.

"Hey Hunny. You okay?" Selena took a seat next to me. " 'm cold." I mumbled looking up at her, moving closer to her. 
"Want some cuddles?" "Yeah." She opened her arms, so I moved myself into her lap. 

She put her arms around me, I put my head on her shoulder and she started to comb her hands through my hair. Her left hand started to draw circles on my back. 

My eyelids got heavy and they closed very fast, as she brushed her hand through my hair. "Sweet dreams, baby." I heard her whisper, as I started to drift off.

"Hey Baby, you gotta wake up, our guests are coming soon and you still gotta change." I heard someone whisper as I was shaken, as I opened my eyes I saw Selena shaking me and giving me a warm smile.
 
"Let's get you dressed sweet girl." I heard Taylor say and I turned my head towards her voice, she was sitting on the couch next to me. I nodded and she picked me up, carrying me to my room upstairs. 

"What do you want to wear?" She asked, setting me down on my bed and opening the closet. "This one?" I asked, pointing at white and pink striped dress. She nodded, handing me the dress and silver sandals. "Can we put my hair in buns?" "Of course we can." She smiled as she helped me putting my dress on. 

"You look very beautiful." I smiled at her. Taylor gently started to brush my hair back and put it into two buns before securing them with hair ties. "All finished." "Thank you." I was about to say Mom but stopped myself in the last moment. 

We heard the doorbell ring and Taylor looked at me. "Are you ready? Our guests are here."I nodded and she took my hand. One of the others had apparently opened the door, as tons of people were starting to come in. 

I quickly let go of Taylor's hand and ran to Cara, who was talking to Selena and some others. 

"Cara." I yelled and jumped into her already opened arms. "My favourite little munchkin." She twirled me in her arms, before setting me back down. Bella and Gigi, who were also standing in the group, were the next people I greeted, but other than them, Ed and Abigail, I didn't really greet anyone, since I didn't see anyone who I knew.
 
The party was pretty fun. A lot of people were dancing, listening to music, eating and playing in the pool outside. I was staying with Selena currently, as she was the only one talking to people I knew. Taylor was showing people around the house, giving them a full tour of the house. 

"Selly I'm gonna get myself some food." I told her before skipping towards the table with the food. I looked at the different food options before choosing a lemon bar. 

"Did you see the kid?" I heard a female voice. "The one that Taylor adopted?" "Hmm." I stopped and started to eat my food, while listening into the conversation. 

"Why did she do that? Like I get that her reputation is bad and everything, but like what the hell. Why did she adopt a kid. She's gonna have to take care of that kid forever." 

I flinched a little and looked down, was I really a burden? I felt a knot that formed in my stomach and my breath was getting a lot heavier. 

"Yeah I mean why the fuck would she want that. A kid like that is just a burden and will stop her from getting her reputation better." The first woman scoffed and nodded. "I mean yeah a kid is probably nice for some short term media stuff, but like she doesn't even show her face in the media or puts her name out there. She tries to act like she's this perfect caring mother, who wants a poor orphan child to have a good and private life, but seriously it just seems like a charity case." 

I took another deep breath, while I felt my eyes start to burn, while I started to go back to Selena, my lemon bar long forgotten in my hand, I took a few deep breaths to calm myself down and stop myself from crying.

"Hey Emily. You found some food?" I heard Bella ask, I looked down to the lemon bar in my hand, before nodding. "Mhm." I felt a hand on my back, someone pulled me closer to them. "You okay?" I looked up at the person talking, Gigi. "Yeah." I gave her a big, fake smile and she nodded, smiling back down at me. So while the grown ups continued talking I ate my lemon bar. After I finished I looked up at Selena. "Selly, can I play on your phone?" She laughed and nodded, as it wasn't unusual for me to play on her phone.

"Which game?" "Uhm, the one with the flowers." I answered and took her phone from her, before sitting down on the floor. 

With the position I was in it was hard for them to see what I really did on the phone. So I opened the browser and entered 'Taylor Swift Daughter'. A second later the page showed hundreds of results. Including news articles and a page called Instagram. 

I opened the first article and started reading. It basically stated Taylor had a bad reputation, cause she lied and someone else had proof of that and now she was lying more cause she said she didn't. The last part of the article was about me. 

'As a result of becoming irrelevant Swift tried gaining popularity through adopting a child. This seems to be just another charity case for the gain of reputation and fame, for the singer.' I felt the tears coming back up, as I closed the page and opened the Instagram one.

It was apparently a picture someone took of us while we were out, cause you saw both of us, me hiding my face in her chest, as she carried me. Probably bugmen I thought to myself.

There was a short caption. 'Look how cute. Mother and Daughter.' But in the comments hundreds of people were mean. They were saying the same mean things as the article and the two women.

I closed the browser and handed Selena her phone back. "Thanks for letting me play. I'm gonna look for Taylor." I somehow brought out before the first tears made their way down my cheek, before any of the women could react I was walking away towards my room.

I could feel the tears stinging in my eyes and it felt like the streaks they left behind, burned their way into my cheeks. 

"Emilie. Where are you going?" I heard a males voice. I looked to the side, already halfway up the stairs, to see Ed. He looked confused and concerned. 

"Hey woah. Why are you crying? Come here I'll take you to Taylor." He tried but I ran up the stairs and locked my door behind me. As soon as the door was locked I sank to the floor crying and sobbing.

Taylor's P.o.V.

I was talking to Abby and some other people when I saw Ed and Selena coming outside looking for someone, before running over to me. "Something is wrong with Emilie. She locked herself in her room " "And she's crying." Ed added. Selena nodded, grabbed my arm and pulled me upstairs with her, not that she needed to, cause as soon as I heard what they said, I was rushing towards the stairs. 

"Emilie. Can you open up? It's me Taylor." I tried while knocking. I could hear her heartbreaking sobs behind the door and all I wanted was to wrap her up in my arms, but she didn't open the door. "Sweet Girl, please let me in. I'll help with whatever happened, but I can't do that if you don't let me in." 
I heard some sniffles. "Go away." "Emilie. I won't go. Please love, let me in." I tried again, but this time she almost yelled. 

"No. I don't want you, I'm just a charity case for you." I choked on some of my own tears as I heard her say this. Of course I was aware that a lot of people thought this way and the internet was basically just talking about this, but it was so different. Emilie was the reason I was still here. After everything that had happened I was losing myself, but finding her and having to take care of her, helped me to realize that I can also take care of myself and that I'm worth it to love myself and take care of myself. If anything I was like a charity case to her, cause she had saved me from drowning, with her big blue eyes and infectious laughter. 

"No Emilie you're not. I love you so much. You're not a charity case. You're the reason I have so much fun everyday. The only reason I decided to continue to make music. The reason why I'm still here." I tried but between my own sobs and her loud crying I didn't think she heard me.

"You're lying." She gasped out and I could feel myself panicking, her breathing clearly got worse, what if she passed out and I wouldn't be there in time to help her. Why couldn't I help my baby? The tears that were now streaming down my face started to drop onto the floor, as Selena gave me a warm hug and Karlie took over to talk to Emilie.

"Emilie, honey. It's me, Karlie. I heard that you don't wanna talk to Taylor, but do you think I can come in? You sound like you really need a hug." She knocked again after she didn't get an answer, before we heard someone sniffles. 

"Only you?" I heard my baby's voice and Karlie quickly agreed, then I heard the door unlock. Emilie only pulled the door wide enough open, for Karlie to slip in and me to see her face. Cheeks red from all the emotions, tear streaks on both cheeks and her eyes red. Then as quickly as it was open it was locked again.

Emilie P.o.V.

"Emilie, honey. It's me, Karlie. I heard that you don't wanna talk to Taylor, but do you think I can come in? You sound like you really need a hug." I heard Karlie's voice through the door. I tried to calm myself down, but it didn't work. I really wanted a hug from Taylor, but that would make everything worse, cause I had to detach myself from her.

Otherwise I would get hurt even worse when she left me again. Someone knocked again and I let out a sob before I bit my lower lip, making the sobs turn into sniffles. 

"Only you?" I asked and tried to hold the sniffles and sobs in. "Yeah, baby just me." I bit my lower lip and rubbed my forehead trying to think about opening the door. Really slowly I got up and scooted towards the door.

I bit my lip and could taste the blood. My right hand went to the key and unlocked the door. I didn't look up as I pulled the door open, but as soon as Karlie stepped into my room, I closed the door and locked it again. 

"Oh sweetheart." She said as she moved closer to me. "Can you stop biting your lip please?" Her hand gently stroked over my cheek, making me let go of my lip. "Oh honey you're bleeding." One of her fingers gently stroked over my lip to wipe the blood. "Can I give you a hug?" I wanted to bite down on my lip again to stop my sobs, but didn't do it.

"Mhm." She moved forward and gently wrapped me in her arms. I couldn't hold the sobs in any longer. Hot tears were streaming over my face and Karlie just gently picked me up.

"You're okay baby. Everything is alright. You're so loved." I shook my head, gasping for air. "Hey look at me honey. Can you take a deep breath in for me?" I shook my head again. Now panicking cause I really couldn't breathe. "Yes you can. Can you imagine a rainbow for me? We paint red and take a deep breath in."

I could feel her draw the bow on my back as I tried to take a deep breath in. "Now we go back to the beginning and let it out. And now we paint the orange." As she continued to draw the bow on my back and tell me when to breathe, I started to calm down.

"Good job baby. You did so good." She said as she gently caressed my hair and rocked me back and forth. "Are you feeling a little better?" I nodded, even though there were still tears in my eyes, and a knot in my stomach making me feel really bad.

"What made you so sad, baby?" She gently asked me, pushing my head up to face her. "Taylor doesn't want me. I'm just a charity case. She only has me for her reputation." I mumbled and the tears were already gathering in my eyes again.

"Baby, that's not true. She loves you so much. Yes her reputation is currently really bad, but she didn't adopt you because of that. How about you open the door and talk to her?" I shook my head, clinging to her head. 

"Don't wanna she's gonna send me away to the Orphanage." I cried a little, while she shook her head. "She's never going to send you back. She loves you so much. I can promise you that. Giving you away would hurt her so much." I shook my head again."No." 

She just smiled sadly. "Baby it's true. She is outside of your door crying, because she is so sad, that you were sad and she couldn't help you." 

"Really?" I asked her looking into her eyes and she nodded, giving me a soft smile. "Yeah baby. She loves you so much and she's really worried." I nodded, before I leaned my head back against her shoulder.

"She's not mad?" I heard her love a little. "No she's not." There was a long silence where Karlie just continued to draw patterns on my back and I tried to figure out what to do. 

"I should talk to her?" Karlie smiled a little. "I think you should, but I won't force you to talk to her."

I hesitated for a bit before slipping out of her arms and going to the door. My hand found the key, but I turned around once again to look at her, just to make sure, but she was still smiling encouraging.

So I unlocked the door and pulled it open. Outside were Ed, standing next to Selena, who had both her arms wrapped around Taylor, who was still crying. I stepped from one foot to the other unsure of what to do or say, but Taylor was faster.

As soon as she saw me she wrapped me in her arms and set me on her hip. Kissing my hair, my forehead and rocking me back and forth. "My sweet, little, baby girl." She whispered while holding me close to her. Just like always my arms wrapped around her neck and I nuzzled closer to her. 

She carried me into my room before sitting down on my bed, with me on her lap. Karlie left the room and closed the door behind her so we could have a private conversation. 

I was all snuggled up in her arms and even though I was extremely sad and mad at her, the knot in my stomach was still there and making me feel sick. Her hands were stroking my back, playing with some loose strands of hair.

She kissed my forehead and put two fingers under my chin, she gently pushed my head up to look up at her. Her electric blue eyes with the dark on the outer part were scanning my face, to check if I really was okay and not hurt. She noticed my lip, still bleeding a little, but not a lot. Taylor frowned and gently stroked my face, taking a tissue to wipe over my lip. 

"Okay my little love. Do you think we can have a little talk?" I hesitated and nodded, looking at her worried, like she was maybe mad, not wanting me anymore and giving me away. 

"You have nothing to worry about, baby. I just want to tell you something and explain a few things okay? I love you so much and nothing, ever, will ever make me stop loving you or give you back to the Orphanage." The knot was still there and even though she tried to calm me, not that it helped a lot. 

She brushed her hand through her blonde hair before putting it on my back. "Okay baby. We gotta talk about why you think I would ever think of you as a charity case." I hesitated looking down and moving closer to her to hide from her curious and worried eyes. "Please love, talk to me." 

"Uhm there was someone downstairs saying that I'm a burden and you shouldn't have gotten me, just to get your reputation better." I mumbled, my eyes filling up with tears again, but Taylor was holding me and rocking me back and forth to calm me down. 

"Baby that's not true. You're the best thing that ever happened to me." I didn't dare to look at her but she once again forced me to look at her. "I'm gonna tell you a story okay?" I nodded.
 
"A little over a year ago, a man, who I thought was my friend, called me to ask if he could use my name in a song. We talked for a bit and I told him that I didn't want to be called a…" She hesitated for a second.

"Bad word that I'm not repeating, because I don't want you to learn it. Anyways he promised he wouldn't use bad words, but then he did it anyway. So I tried to tell people I didn't like this and didn't agree with him, but he recorded the call and cut some parts so now it sounds like agreed to be called a bad word. So now a lot of people think I'm a liar and are mad at me and there's nothing I can do." 

I wrapped my arms around and gave her a big hug to make sure she knew I loved her. She smiled sadly before pulling me closer to her. "That's why my reputation is bad right now and you know last year was really hard. Hundreds of people were being mean to me on the internet and I couldn't go out with bugmen coming and yelling rude things, so I got really sad. It was really bad and I had a lot of problems taking care of myself and was never really happy, my mom and dad were really worried."

She took some deep breaths to calm herself down, before she smiled down at me and continued. 

"But then last December I walked home from a meeting and on Brooklyn Bridge I stumbled into the most adorable, smartest and prettiest little girl I've ever met." She tickled my side, to make me giggle. "Me?" I asked her, smiling up at her. 

"Yeah. You, my lovely baby."  The smile on my face got a lot bigger and I saw Taylor smiling back at me with a smile that matched mine.

"After the first day I was really happy for the first time in a long time and the more time we spent together, the more I realized how happy I was with you." She smiled and kissed my forehead. "And then I got to adopt you and make you my little girl. The most important thing in my life. The longer you lived with me the better and happier I felt. You know I had forgotten how to take care of me, but then I started to take care of you and as a result of me. Sweet girl I might have gotten you out of that awful place and saved you in that sense, but you also saved me."

I nuzzled myself into her chest and felt the kisses she pressed in my hair. "Baby you are the most important thing in my life and not just a charity case. It doesn't matter what anyone else says, I love you so much." 

"I love you too, Taylor. I'm sorry that I got mad." She shook her head, kissing me and cuddling me to keep me calm and make me feel loved. 

"That is completely fine. Your emotions are completely okay. Whatever you feel is okay, but I want you to know that whatever you feel I love you and that won't ever change." I nodded and kissed her cheek. "And I love you." I whispered into her ear, making her smile as big as me. 

"Now baby girl. You think we can go back downstairs to the party? You can stay on my arm the entire time. I promise." "Yeah." She got up, looked into the mirror and touched up her makeup, before picking me up again.
Back downstairs Taylor carried me towards the food table. "What do you want?" "Lemon bar." I told her and she handed me one, taking one for herself. "Taylor, hi." A small woman came towards us, me recognizing her voice as one of the mean ones. 

"Hey Sara." Taylor said. "How are you? Is this your adopted daughter?" I could feel Taylor pull me closer. "Yes, this my daughter." 

I gave her a small smile. "Hey Honey, I'm Sara. Aren't you a cutie?" Taylor looked at me but I didn't say anything, except cuddling closer into her chest. 
"Don't you wanna say something?" She asked and I just shook my head, hiding my face in Taylor's neck, who seemed to realize that something was off. Sara huffed and went away.

"Honey, why didn't you say something?" "She's a meanie." I mumbled into her ear. "What do you mean?" "She said mean things, like the meanies on the internet." Taylor seemed to understand what was going on and she looked furious. "You mean she said something about the things we talked about upstairs?" I nodded and her grip tightened, as she carried me towards the group of our friends. They were standing together close by the pool, talking quietly. But as soon as they saw us, me clinging to Taylor, while she was absolutely furious. 

"What happened?" Selena asked, probably Taylor, because she was looking at her. "Someone said something very mean to Emilie, which was also the reason why she was crying before." Gigi and Bella looked at me worried, while the others seemed to understand a little more of
what's going on.

"What did they say?" "That she's a charity case and basically all the stuff you can read on the internet." Selena looked at me, scrunching up her face, trying to figure something out. 

"Did you use my phone to read the news?" I blushed a little and nodded. "Cheeky girl. You're really too smart for your own good." Karlie said, shaking her head with a small smile.

"Emi I'm gonna go talk to the people that were mean now, okay?" I nodded and she gave me another kiss. 

"Do you know who the other person was?" I hesitated but nodded. I pointed towards a woman, who was talking with Sara, this was the girl I could see, while I couldn't see Sara. 

"Those two?" She asked and I nodded again. Taylor was about to set me down, but I shook my head and held onto her.
"I'm coming with you." Selena said and the others quickly followed Taylor towards the meanies. 

"Hey you guys, it's so nice to meet you." The other woman said. Taylor took a deep breath, to calm herself down. "I talked with my daughter and from what I heard is that you're talking badly about her and me." She told them.

Sara seemed a little surprised, but the other woman immediately started talking. "Well how couldn't we? It's not like nobody else isn't thinking how weird that is. Like you get hated in the media, so you adopt a kid."

Taylor's grip on me tightened and sheooked at me, before looking at them. 

"I want you to leave. You're now longer welcome here. I won't tolerate this kind of behavior towards me or my child in my own house." She was talking rather loudly and glaring at the two women, like she wanted to rip them apart. "You can't do that. You invited us." Taylor scoffed."Well now you're uninvited. So leave before I ask security to throw you out." Sara started to leave but the other woman stayed exactly where she was. 
"Leave now." Selena said looking as mad as Taylor. "Otherwise we won't be as civil." 

The woman rolled her eyes at them, she scoffed. "You're throwing me out, for an orphan." Before turning around and leaving again. I curled up in Taylors arms, closing my eyes and cuddling into her chest. 

"I love you." She whispered into my ear, pressing another kiss on the side of my head. "Now let's have a nice rest of the afternoon." "Can we swim?" I asked, pointing to the pool, where some of the guests were swimming. Taylor nodded, taking me upstairs to change into my swimsuit and changing as well. 

"Let's go. You can show all the others how good you can swim now." I beamed at her, as we walked downstairs towards the pool. Taylor stayed in the pool as I swam towards Cara who was at the other end talking to someone outside of the pool. 

I wrapped my arms around her, putting my head on her shoulder. She flinched, before she turned her head and saw that it was just me. "Woah did you swim all the way here?" I nodded smiling.

"Yeah Taylor showed me how to swim, while we were in Hawaii." I smiled at her and she smiled back. "You were in Hawaii?" I nodded beaming at her. "That must've been fun, wasn't it?" I nodded again. 

"Yeah. We went swimming in the ocean and we saw a lot of pretty animals. We had ice cream everyday." I told her, smiling. "Really?" I nodded again.

Taylor picked me from Caras back, placing me on her hip as she listened to our conversation. "You probably took lots of pretty pictures?" Selena who sat down on a chair close by, I shrugged and looked at Taylor. 

"Yeah we did. She is so pretty and we took so many nice pictures." Selena smiled at me, while Cara nodded in agreement. 

"Can we see them later?" Taylor nodded, while I wriggled out of her arm and started swimming towards the other end of the pool. 

For a lot of the afternoon I swam back and forth in the pool, having water wars with Taylor and Cara, eating nice food and having a lots of fun. It was almost 6pm when Taylor decided I should take a shower and get changed, because around 7pm the food for dinner should be delivered.

The food was nice. Different kinds of pizza, pastas and some finger food. 
"Think you can show me those pictures now?" Selena asked, while I ate a piece of pizza, sitting on Taylors lap. 

Taylor nodded and pulled out her phone showing Selena, Karlie and some of the others pictures of our vacation. 

"You're so pretty." Selena gushed over me and I smiled at her. "Thanks for saying that." Taylor smiled down at me and I smiled up at her. "It's getting late, maybe we should go outside for the fireworks." Ed said and the other grown ups agreed. He was right, the sky was turning orange, clouds wandering over the sky. It looked really pretty, but not as pretty as in Hawaii. 

The music was playing and some people were dancing while I was just sitting on Taylors lap, giggling and laughing at the silly stories everyone was telling us.

I watched as the sky slowly turned grey and it got darker and darker. Stars started to appear and then suddenly one exploded. I stared at the sky in a mix of shock and awe. Someone else had also started to point at the sky and yelled something.

Another star exploded and I couldn't help but squeal in excitement and clap. 
"Look mommy. The stars are exploding." I was shaking her with one hand, the other pointing towards the sky. I heard mommy choking and I looked towards her. She had tears in her eyes and stared at me like I had done something wrong. 

Then I noticed that everyone else was also staring at me. I was really getting scared now, like why were they staring at me like this. 

"Did I do something wrong?" I was really scared that mommy was mad at me and that I had done something really bad. 

"Oh no sweet girl. You didn't. Everything's fine. It really looks like exploding stars doesn't it?" I nodded, smiling at her, she whipped her tears and smiled back at me. 

"Yeah. Look, it's pink now." Mommy smiled down at me. "And it's so pretty on the water, it's the same colors as the sky."

"Yeah. That's because the water acts like a mirror and reflects the colors." I gave her a really big smile and wrapped my arms around her. The colors of the sky changed every few seconds and I just stared at the pretty colors until it stopped. 

"Let's get you to bed. It's getting really late and you gotta go to bed." I nodded since I was getting really tired and wanted to sleep. "Good night." I waved to the others, as Mommy started to carry me upstairs, where I changed into my Pj's. 

"Mommy can you stay till I'm asleep?" I saw the tears in her eyes again. "Why are you sad?" She shook her head and gave me a kiss on the forehead. "I'm not
sad, I'm so very happy." 

I cocked my head to the side and looked at her with question marks in my eyes. "Well the most amazing little girl I know, who I love like more than anything on this entire planet, called me her mommy today." My eyes widened in shock, internally starting to panic as I really didn't mean to call her mommy.

"I'm sorry." She shook her head and kissed my forehead. "Why do you say you're sorry? There's nothing to be sorry about. I love being your mommy and I'm so happy that you see me as your mommy." She placed some kisses on my face and tickled my tummy. "I love you mommy." I told her while looking into her eyes and giving her a kiss on the nose. She beamed at me and gave me a warm hug, before lifting the blanket so I could lay under it. 

"Good night my love." "Nighty mommy. Can you sing for me?" She smiled, giving me a kiss on my forehead. "I'll always sing for you. Which song?" "Whatever song you want. I just wanna hear you sing."

I watched as she seemed to think very concentrated before nodding.
"Alright, get comfortable my love. I'm gonna sing a song that I originally wrote for something else, but no everytime I hear it I think of you sweet girl." I giggled a little before nodding at her and giving her a smile. 

"Your little hands wrapped around my finger
And it's so quiet in the world tonight
Your little eyelids flutter cause you're dreaming
So I tuck you in, turn on your favorite night light
To you everything's funny, you got nothing to regret
I'd give all I have, honey
If you could stay like that
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple
I won't let nobody hurt you, won't let no one break your heart
And no one will desert you
Just try to never grow up, never grow up
You're in the car on the way to the movies
And you're mortified your mom's dropping you off
At fourteen, there's just so much you can't do
And you can't wait to move out someday and call your own shots
But don't make her drop you off around the block
Remember that she's getting older too
And don't lose the way that you dance around in your pj's getting ready for school
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple
No one's ever burned you, nothing's ever left you scarred
And even though you want to, just try to never grow up
Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room
Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home
Remember the footsteps, remember the words said
And all your little brother's favorite songs
I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone
So here I am in my new apartment
In a big city, they just dropped me off
It's so much colder than I thought it would be
So I tuck myself in and turn my night light on
Wish I'd never grown up
I wish I'd never grown up
Oh, I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
I could still be little
Oh, I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
It could still be simple
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple
Won't let nobody hurt you
Won't let no one break your heart
And even though you want to, please try to never grow up
Oh, don't you ever grow up
Oh, never grow up, just never grow up"

She stopped singing and I smiled at her, really tired. "Goodnight baby." She pressed another kiss on my forehead. "Goodnight mommy." 

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