Then You Came in Wearing a Football Helmet

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Taylor's POV

Every time I saw him my heart exploded, I loved this man. Seeing how my big strong man let Inez pull him through the yard would never not be hot and I let my mind stray to how amazing of a father he would be. I shook it of and ran into his arms, "I can't believe your my person, beautiful" I  giggled and pressed my nose to him before Inez pulled me out of my thoughts and we ran around for the next hour. 

Walking into the kitchen I saw Blake and Ryan whispering and I went to glare at them but Betty squirmed in Travis's  arms and he set her down so she could run to Ryan, "Auntie's new boyfriend is so much better than the last one."  I blanched while Ryan kneeled over trying not to laugh, Blake turned and almost spit out her wine, and Travis let out a chuckle and I slapped him "your all dead to me" I went to storm away but I felt strong arms wrap around me and pull me back, "come on sunshine, you can't keep that pretty smile all to yourself" of course this made me smile and cuddle into his chest letting me glare daggers at Ryan, who oooed. 

We sat at the table for dinner, I of course sat next to Travis and Blake, who was at the end, Ryan at the other end was next to Travis and James and Inez were across from us. Betty and Daisy had already been fed and were in bed.

"This is great, where did you learn to cook like this?" Ryan lit up at Travis words "I've been taking lessons since the little ones came about. I have so many memories of my dads cooking and I wanted to make sure they have the same ones" Ryan glanced at the kids making sure they weren't listening "Plus it's sexy as hell, as I've been told" Trav and Ryan started cackling while I was mainly just laughing at Blakes stern expression trying to hold in a smile. "First impressions Ryan" this made the boys laugh harder. I decided to take this moment to snag some food off Travis's plate but he noticed as I raised the bit to my mouth "what's that?" Like a dolt I followed his finger and turned back to see him eating the bit I stole right off my fork. "Dam it" I lightly punched the table everyone else laughed and he jokingly tapped my nose. It took 20 minutes for someone to tell me he had smeared sauce on my nose.

Dinner flew by fast, Travis and Ryan were the same person, much to Blake and my  annoyance they shared an  on slot of bad jokes, anything to make the kids laugh. But now they were in bed and we were sitting around the fireplace with alcohol. "Well Travis, you've made it this far I think it's time for a long standing tradition in this house." "No" the words left my mouth before I even realized "do we have to do this?" Travis gave me a strange look "We really do" I slumped at Blake's words as Ryan stood up and held out his hand to Travis "Arm wrestle" Travis smirked "Are you sure, I wouldn't want to hurt you" All three of us realized the same thing at his cocky words, I was dating a football player. He gets payed millions to be muscular. Nevertheless Ryan didn't hesitate "Are you chicken?" Ryan started blocking and moved his arms like chicken wings, Travis laughed and jumped up and stood a good 3 inches taller than Ryan and held out his hand "Your on" before they could shake hands Ryan pulled his hand back "Loser jumps in the pool." This made my guy smile and shake Ryan's hand "Sounds great" As they sat down by the table I remembered all my old boyfriends who had to go through this, they all lost and therefore disliked Ryan from there on, all dramatic assholes, but Travis was different. 

When at last they started neither arm moved, I could tell Ryan was trying by the way his eyes widened "Aww, shit" laughing at Ryan's words Travis moved and slammed his arm into the table and I got up and cheered, it felt so good to finally be on the winning side of this game. Trav and Ryan bro hugged, again, I felt a wave of heat coursed through my body at his humility. "Well babe it finally caught up to you, do you need your floaters?" "Har har har, I'm going"

We were walking to the pool when Ryan took off flipping into the pool, we cheered when he came up. I then noticed how close Travis was standing to the water and I subtly walked next to him and pushed him. I was successful and he fell, then I felt the hand around my waist "Fuck" We splashed in, one after the other and as I fell I replayed how when I had walked up to him he had sweetly pulled we towards him, probably making my shove work even better. And we broke the surface both laughing. We could stand so he pulled my towards him and kissed me gently "What am I gonna do with you, can't take you anywhere." I just smiled wider and ran my hand through his buzz kissing him again. Before I could respond I heard a splash and saw Ryan had pulled Blake in with a shriek. 

Drying off was a pain because the boys started having a wet towel fight and kept hiding behind Blake or I. Alas we finally were all dry and retook our seats around the fire. I chose to sit in Travis lap and we socialized like the oldest of friends. We stayed there till 1 am when Travis noticed my nodding of in his lap "you ready" he stratigically whispered to me while Blake and Ryan were distracted in an argument. I nodded and squeezed his hand. He kissed my cheek right as the baby started to cry making our hosts groan. Travis chuckled "And that ladies and gentlemen is our que to slip out" I smiled and we all stood up "Sure all laughs now, wait till you can't leave the screaming babies" Again, the visions of Travis and I as a family flashed in my mind. 

We said our goodbyes Travis hugged both Blake and Ryan goodbye, I didn't want to constantly compare Travis to my past boyfriends but I did. None of them were ever as sweet to Ryan Blake or their kids as he was, to them it was a chore, to him it was a treat. We walked towards my car and I couldn't help myself "I love you". He stopped walking for a moment pulling me close to him kissing me "I love you too Tay".

I fell asleep on the ride home...

The sun streamed through my open window and I blinked as I felt the bed move with the impact of a body. I groaned and rolled over as I heard a voice, it was faint as I made out words "Mommy, Daddy it's morning wake up wake up wake up!" I opened my eyes in time to see my guy bolt up and grab the little boy and throw him gently against our mattress pushing him under the covers. "Shuuush, snooze"the covers shook with laughter and I joined in as cries emerged from the depth on my house. Travis immediately got up tossing the blonde child to me kissing my forehead "I'm so gonna get this kid back when she wants to start dating" he started leaving but I could still here him "Oh Dad meet my new boyfriend, nice to meet you, do you know how stinky  this goofballs shits are" I laughed and hugged the boy to my chest. 

I woke with a start and saw Travis sleeping beside me and I smiled, one day, not yet, but one day.

Hope you liked, trying to write more but I am super busy. The Tortured Poets Society, so excited 😆  Mother is mothering.

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