❤️ King of my heart 💛

With my Soulmate

Taylor's POV

I've spent what feels like forever trying to fall asleep, I'd be tossing and turning if I wasn't wrapped in Travis's embrace.

I open my eyes in a state of annoyance and glance over at the clock.

2:56 am

I roll out of Travis's arms as I don't wanna wake sleeping beauty over here.

I decide to get up and go downstairs. As I'm about to reach for the door handle I hear a familiar voice behind me. "Where you going darling?" Travis says in a very awake voice.

He must have been awake and noticed I wasn't just leaving to go to the bathroom.

I turn around and walk back over to the bed. I look down at him and tuck a piece of hair behind my ear that fell and smiled. "Your awake?" I say grabbing his hand.

He sits up and reaches over to turn on the lamp. "I was never asleep, I just couldn't fall into it."

I step back pulling his hand as he climbs out of bed. I drop his hand and reach over to hand him his shirt since he was just wearing sweats.

He comes back over to me after putting it on and we begin to walk down the hallway holding each others waist. "Did you get late night a song idea?" He spoke lightly. He probably thought we were going to the music room.

"No" I laugh "even though that probably would have been a better use of my time, I couldn't sleep so I figured I would come down and make something. Makes me happier that you were awake so I don't have to be lonely down here."

"Like what?" He says as he begin to descend the staircase. " I don't know, whatever we got" I say with a laugh.

We walk into the kitchen and he sits down at one of the bar stools as I walk over and open the pantry door.

An idea sparks me. Soft pretzels. I think I can make them? Yeah, I got this.

I pull out my phone and begin searching for a recipe on Pinterest as I sit down next to trav. Leaning my head on his shoulder, Hey don't judge me I just want to be touching him all the time.

I find a pin that looks good. I was gonna turn my phone and show trav but decided to keep him guessing.

Buttery Soft Pretzels Without Baking Soda Bath
1 Egg
1/2 tsp 1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp Active dry yeast
4 cup Flour
1 Kosher salt
2 1/2 tsp Salt
3 tbsp Butter
1 Butter
1 9/16 cup Water

I make sure we have everything and start getting out utensils we might need.

I look up at Travis and he's watching my hands. "So what's on the menu tonight?" He says looking up at me.

"I'm gonna try to make homemade pretzels.." I say weary. I am scared it's gonna be a big fail.

"Ooo, that's fancy." He says with a cheerful smile. "Anything I can do to help?"

"You can sit there and look all pretty to motivate me?" I say with a girlish giggle. He stands up and walks over to me kissing my cheek then brushing past me and hooking his phone into the speaker, he starts playing a 2014 playlist because he knows that's my favorite. I smile at him and continue mixing the dough.

After some struggles I get them into the oven and toss a spatula a little too hard in the direction of the oven. One of the knobs pop off and I just kinda stare at it. Travis turns around from the sink, he's been cleaning the dishes as I finish using them so I don't have to do it when I'm done. Gosh I love him.