isn't it? [taylor swift]

chapter 65

"So... I have something I want to speak to you about."

Leia hated that the first words to leave Taylor's mouth as soon as she entered their apartment gave her a shiver of fear down her spine. 

She looked up, putting her book down as Taylor started to take her jacket off at the door, having just returned from a meeting that she'd been a little bit on edge about all week. Leia hadn't pushed to know why, knowing that if it was something Taylor wanted her to know about, she'd know.

Seems like Taylor had decided that moment was now.

"Everything okay? How was your meeting?"

"I'm going on a World Tour."

Leia blinked, taken aback by the suddenness of that.

For a second, she wasn't sure she'd heard right. She tilted her head slightly, studying Taylor's face the way someone might study a painting with a crack running through it. There was no mistaking the words—but there was something in the way she said them. Not quite hesitance, but not the kind of breathless joy that usually accompanied news like this either.

"A world tour?" Leia repeated, standing slowly from the couch. "Like... an actual, full tour?"

Taylor nodded, setting her bag down on the small entryway bench and toying with the zipper like it was buying her time. "Yeah. Proper stadium tour. They just gave me the first draft of the schedule."

Leia's eyes lit up as she crossed the room, slipping her arms loosely around Taylor's waist. 

"Tay, that's incredible. The fans are going to lose it. Especially with Midnights—they're already counting down days to the album, and now a tour after covid stopped loverfest? You know they've been begging for it."

Taylor smiled, but it didn't quite reach her eyes. She let her forehead fall against Leia's for a moment, drawing in a breath that felt too heavy for the room.

"It's not just Midnights," she said quietly. "We're calling it the Eras Tour. It's... everything. All of it. From the very beginning. I'm going to take them through every album I've ever made."

Leia pulled back just enough to look her in the eyes. "All of them?"

"All of them," Taylor said again, voice soft. "Well, mostly. It's going to be... huge. Bigger than anything I've done."

Leia blinked, trying to imagine it. She could already see it... the visuals, the transitions, the fan signs and light-up bracelets, the sheer emotion of all those songs woven into one show. It would be a celebration of not just Taylor's music, but her entire musical life.

And yet-

Leia could feel it now. That same unease that had lingered around Taylor's shoulders all week like an invisible weight.

"You don't seem excited," she said gently.

Taylor leaned back against the wall, rubbing a hand over her face. 

"I am excited. So, so excited. I've wanted to do something like this for years. The concept, getting to choose the setlist myself, the proposed visuals - I'm obsessed with all of it. It's going to be like... three hours long and so fun and so freeing and-"

She paused, letting out a long breath.

"But when they showed me the tour map... the timeline... It's not just a summer thing. It's not even just a year. If everything goes ahead - stadium availability, rehearsals, reruns, international legs - it's going to be nearly two years. Maybe more."