A/N: Random Question Time! Okay, so what appears as the cover for you when you see this story? Is it Olaf in an Elsa dress? Is it red and black letters? Is it the empty profile picture? If you are reading this please tell me. :) Okay, well here's the A/N for the chapter: Hi! This is How You Get the Girl, and is Tratie galore. :D
Stand there like a ghost,
Shaking from the rain-ain.
Katie sat inside her small house, remembering. What was she remembering? How Travis Stoll had gone too far when he pranked her that one time. She told him not to, and he still did. She sighed and put down her Gardener's Weekly magazine, then jumped as she heard the doorbell ring.
"Travis?" she asked, trying to make out the dark figure shrouded in gloom, shaking slightly from the heavy downpour. She flicked a switch up and the porch light turned on, revealing the annoying-yet-endearing smile of her ex.
She'll open up the door,
And say "Are you insane-ane?!"
Quickly, Katie yanked open the door and stepped out onto the porch, hugging herself for warmth. "Are you insane?" she asked. Travis smiled.
"Of course I'm insane. You've met me, right?"
Say "It's been a long six months."
And you were too afraid to tell what you want-ant.
"Why are you even here?" she asked, taking the rain soaked jacket Travis had handed her.
"Well, it's been a long six months." Katie rolled his eyes. "And yes, I may or may not be quoting a Taylor Swift song. Don't judge me."
And that's how it works.
That's how you get the girl.
"You're such an idiot," Katie said. Travis rolled his eyes and wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her in. She leaned up, and he leaned down, and they were kissing with no sound other than the beat of the rain on the metal roof.
And then you say
"I want you for worse or for better,
"I would wait forever and ever,
"Broke your heart, I'll put it back together,
"I would wait forever and ever."
They pulled away, each with a smile on his or her face. Travis uncharacteristically was quiet.
"I want you for worse or for better," he whispered, causing Katie to go into a fit of giggles at the song that was playing through her mind. "I would wait forever and ever. I broke your heart, so I'll put it back together. I would wait forever and ever."
And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl-irl.
And that's how it works, that how you get the girl-irl.
Katie grabbed his hand and pulled him inside, where a fire was blazing in the fireplace. Boom. They were back together.
Remind her how it used,
To, be-e. Yeah.
It was as if nothing had ever changed, and Travis had never left her. Sure, they had fights before, but he never just left after her yelling at him until then. But it was like all of that memory was washed away with the flood slowly forming outside. Katie moved to sit by the fireplace to warm up.
With pictures in frames of
Kisses on cheeks, cheeks.
"So, are we going to put the pictures up again?" Travis asked, coming back from the attic with a box. Katie nodded and the two set hard at work into the late night, nailing pictures up on the walls.
"Remember this?" Katie asked, turning around to show Travis a picture of them kissing in front of a fountain.
Tell her how you must've lost your mind.
When you left her all alone, and never told her why-y.
"Yeah. It was right before I left." Silence pounded upon them. "I must've lost my mind. I'm sorry I left, Katie. I really am. I never told you why, and that was a huge mistake. I'm sorry." For once, Travis wasn't joking about something. His face showed all seriousness, something that was usually a foreign concept to him.
"It's okay."
And that's how it works.
That's how you lost the girl-irl.
"There's a reason I wasn't picking up your calls, you know," Katie told him.
"And I deserved it. I did."
But then you say
"I want you for worse or for better
"I would wait forever and ever
"Broke your heart, I'll put it back together,
"I want you forever and ever!"
"But I want you for worse or for better," Katie began. "I would wait forever and ever."
"Broke your heart, but I've put it back together," Travis continued. "I want you forever and ever."
And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl-irl.
And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl-irl.
How sweet. They were telling each other Taylor Swift lyrics. Aww! Cue the fangirls!
And you know, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
That I don't want you, to go oh oh.
"It's getting late, I better go," Travis told her finally, at around midnight. Katie frowned.
"Oh. Okay. See you tomorrow?" Travis nodded, then left out the door. He wouldn't take one of Katie's flower covered umbrellas.
Remind me how it used to be.
With pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks.
And say you want me.
That night Katie couldn't fall asleep because she was smiling so much. He was back. He regretted everything. It was wonderful.
And then you say
"I want you for worse or for better
"I could wait forever and ever
"Broke your heart, I'll put it back together
"I want you forever and ever!"
That morning she got a text. "Be there in a few," it read. "Don't forget that I want you for worse or for better." Katie immediately responded.
"I could wait forever and ever…but I don't want to. Hurry up!"
And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl, girl.
That's how it works!
And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl, girl.
That's how it works!
And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl, girl.
When she heard the door open, Katie jumped up from the couch, leaped over the back of it, and ran to meet Travis. It was a good thing it was him, too. If it was someone else they would've found themselves being viciously hugged to death.
That's how it works.
That's how you get the girl.
"Never leave me again," Katie whispered, finally calming down.
"I won't. I promise," Travis whispered back.